B
02--1935
Roy Jensen, Calgary Alberta, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
02--1959
Claudia Marsani, Nairobi Kenya, Miss Teenage Italy (1973)
02011552
Edward Coke, England, jurist/politician (defended common law)
02011757
John P Kemble, English actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
02011763
Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
02011801
Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
02011805
Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
02011807
William Bowen Campbell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
02011810
Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black
02011819
Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
02011827
Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
02011829
John Potts Slough, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
02011833
Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
02011839
James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
02011841
William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
02011844
Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
02011848
Adhémar Esmein, French lawyer
02011859
Victor Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
02011874
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
02011882
Louis St Laurent, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
02011884
Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
02011885
Camille Chautemps, premier France
02011887
Dirk Roosenburg, architect
02011889
Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
02011892
K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
02011895
John Ford, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
02011897
Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
020119--
Bill Leydon, Chicago Ill, TV host (Musical Chairs)
Brandis Kemp, Palo Alto Calif, comedienne (Fridays)
Don Amendolia, Glassboro NJ, actor (Dino-Mama Malone)
Leo Burmester, Luoisville Ky, actor (Randy-Flo, Chiefs)
Randy Josselyn, actor (Rodney-Family Matters)
02011901
Clark Gable, actor, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara
02011902
Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues)
02011903
Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (Of the Bienenroman
Georg Rendl, Austrian miner/beekeeper/writer (Of the Bienenroman)
02011904
S J Perelman, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
02011906
Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club singer (I'll Be Seeing You)
02011907
Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
Günter Eich, German literary (Unnderground Highway)
John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
Sándor Veress, Hungarian pianist/composer
02011908
Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
02011914
Hans Zülig, Swiss dancer
02011915
Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
02011918
Muriel Spark, Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
02011920
Pierre Jonquéres d'Oriola, France, equest jumper (Oly-gold-1952, 64)
02011922
Renata Tebaldi, Italy, opera singer (Lo Bohéme)
02011926
Stuart Whitman, SF Calif, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
02011927
Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
02011928
Tom Lantos, (Rep-D-CA, 1981-  )
02011931
Barrel, [ABM] Frinking, teacher/member of Dutch 2nd chamber (CVP)
Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
02011932
John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
02011933
Reynolds Price, US writer
02011934
Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
02011935
Vladimir V Aksyonov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
02011937
Don Everly, Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Ray Sawyer, [Dr Hook], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
02011938
Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of Year 1961)
Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
02011939
Paul E Gillmor, (Rep-R-Ohio)
02011940
Herve Filion, sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
02011941
Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
02011942
Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, Beast Within)
02011943
Terry Jones, Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
02011946
Bert Braverman, LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
02011952
Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
02011954
Billy Mumy, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
02011957
Donna Adamek, Duarte Calif, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
02011964
Jani Lane, heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
02011965
Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
Stephane Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
02011966
Donna Edmondson, Greensboro NC, playmate of year (Nov, 1986)
02011967
Langston Hughes, poet/author
02011968
Lisa Marie Presley Keough, (Elvis' daughter)
02011970
Pauly Shore, comedian (Encino Man)
02021502
Damiao de Góis, Portuguese humanist scholar
02021600
Gabriel Naudé, France, librarian (Mazarin Library)
02021641
Claude de la Colombire, French jesuiet/writer/royal chaplain
Claude the la Colombire, French jezuïet/writer/royal chaplain/zalige
02021649
Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30)
02021650
Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, English actress/mistress of King Charles II
02021754
Charles de Talleyrand, French statesman
02021780
Johannes van den Bosch, gov-gen (Neth East Indies)
02021802
Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
02021803
Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1862
02021815
Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
02021817
John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid)
02021820
Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
02021827
Abner Monroe Perrin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
02021835
Luigi Manzotti, Milano, ballet choreographer
02021850
Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker
02021852
Hâmid Abdülhak, Istanbul, Turkish romantic poet/playwright
02021857
John Six, art historian/art collector
02021859
Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
02021861
Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22)
Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC)
02021873
Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, operatta composer (Dollar Princess)
02021875
Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist/composer
02021878
Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake)
02021881
Karl Frederick, pistol champ (Olympic-gold-1920)
02021882
James Joyce, Ire, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake)
James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold)
02021884
Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army
S Z Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
02021885
Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (NY Met)
02021890
Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China)
02021891
Antonio Segni, premier Italy
Frank Foyston, NHL Hall of Famer (Seattle)
02021895
George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
02021899
Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
020219--
Greg Antonacci, NYC, actor (Vinnie-Busting Loose)
Michael Weiss, Chicago, actor (Michael Horton-Days of our Lives)
Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
02021900
Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Springfield Ohio, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65)
02021901
Connie Gilchrist, Bkln NY, actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives)
Jascha Heifetz, Vilna Lithuania, US violin virtuoso
02021903
Frank McGrath, Mound City Mo, actor (Wagon Train)
02021905
Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead)
02021907
Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
02021908
Cal Tinney, Okla, comedian (Stop Me If You Heard This One)
Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, swimmer/actor (Olympic-gold-1932)
Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
02021909
Franc Albertson, US, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
02021911
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
Johan J "Jussi" Björling, Swedish tenor
02021912
Burton Lane, broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
Stefan Schnabel, German actor?
02021919
Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07))
Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss singer
02021920
An Wang, founder (Wang Labs, Wang Computers)
02021923
Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
Bonita Granville, NYC, actress (Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger)
James Dickey, author/actor (Deliverance)
Liz Smith, Ft Worth Tx, gossip columnist (NY Daily News, NBC-TV)
Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News)
02021926
Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, pres of France (1974-81)
Valéry Giscard d'estaing, president France
Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
02021927
Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist
Richard Ray, (Rep-D-GA, 1983-  )
Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
02021928
Howard Caine, Nashville Tn, actor (Californians)
Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, PM of Italy (1988-  )
02021931
Andreas van Agt, Dutch premier (CDA)
02021932
Robert Mandan, Clever Mo, actor (Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd)
02021937
Martina Arroyo, NYC, opera soprano (NY Met)
Tom Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)
02021940
Alan "Tea" Caddy, rock guitarist (Tornados-Globetrotter)
Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
02021942
Bo Hopkins, Greenville SC, actor (Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files)
Graham Nash, rocker (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross)
02021944
Andrew Davis, Ashbridge, England, conductor (New Phil Orch-London)
Katherine Crawford, LA Calif, actress (Gemini Man, Captains & Kings)
Ursula Oppens, NYC, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC)
02021946
Farrah Fawcett-Major, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
02021947
Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
02021948
Alan McKay, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland)
Tony DeMeur, rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge)
02021949
Jetty Weels, Surinamese/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
Ross Valory, rock bassist (Journey-Who's Crying Now, Open Arms)
Tom Tripplehorn, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
02021951
Kim Zimmer, Mich, actress (Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live)
02021954
Christie Brinkley, [Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress (SI, Vacation)
02021955
Brent Spiner, actor (Data-Star Trek the Next Generation)
Michael Talbott, Waverly Iowa, actor (Stan-Miami Vice)
02021958
Dexter Manley, NFLer (Wash Redskins)
Holly Hunter, Conyers Ga, actress (Broadcast News, Once Around)
02021973
Sergio Gonzalez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
02031368
Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)
02031763
Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
02031805
Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
02031807
Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
02031809
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
02031811
Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
02031820
Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
02031821
Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
02031824
George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
02031826
Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
02031830
Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
02031831
Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
02031842
Sidney Lanier, US, musician/poet (Hall of Fame)
02031851
Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
02031874
Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
02031878
Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
02031879
Charles Follis, 1st black US football player (Shelby, Ohio)
02031882
Trÿntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland)
02031883
Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
02031887
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Herbst of Einsamen)
02031889
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'arc)
Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
02031890
Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & Colonel)
Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Problem of Bösen)
02031891
Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
02031894
Juan Negrín, PM of Spanish Republic (1936-39)
Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
02031895
Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (found APRA party in Peru)
02031898
Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
02031899
Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
020319--
Brenda Dickson, Long Beach Ca, actress (Young & Restless, Deathmaster)
Joel Bartlett, KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman
Mariclare Costello, actress (Rosemary-Waltons)
Nathan Lane, Jersey NJ, actor (One of the Boys)
Stephen McHattie, Nova Scotia, actor (Call Me, Death Valley)
Thomas Calabro, Bkln NY, actor (Michael Mancini-Melrose Place)
Trisha Noble, Sydney Australia, actress (Executive Suite)
02031900
Mabel Mercer, English cabaret singer (Fly Me to the Moon)
02031902
Ramón (J) Sender (Garcés), Spanish writer (El Lugar del Hombre)
02031904
Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal
Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
02031907
James A Mitchner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
02031908
Oddbjörn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
02031909
Simone Weil, Paris, mystic/social philosopher/Resistance fighter
02031910
Blas Galindo, San Gabriel México, composer (A la Patria)
Nelson Case, Long Beach Calif, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
02031912
Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information
02031918
Joey Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show)
02031920
Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist
02031922
Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969-  )
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flutist (Italian Flute Concertos)
02031925
John Fiedler, Platville Wisc, actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart)
02031926
Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
J Roy Rowland, (Rep-D-GA, 1983-  )
Shelley Berman, Chicago, actor (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
02031928
Mr "Fred" Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood)
02031929
Russell Arms, Berkeley Calif, singer (Your Hit Parade)
02031932
Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon)
02031933
Paul S Sarbanes, (Sen-D-MD, 1977-  )
02031934
Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War)
02031935
Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rocker guitarist
02031938
Victor C Buono, US, actor (Untouchables)
02031939
Deszö Nowak, Hungary, soccer play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
02031940
Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minn Vikings)
Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations)
02031941
Angelo D'Aleo, tenor vocalist (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
02031943
Blythe Danner, Philadelphia, actress (Butterflies are Free)
Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
02031945
Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year)
Willeke Alberti, [Verbruggen], singer/actress (Small Truth)
02031947
Chose Alberts, [Krommenhoek], singer (Yet Many Years)
Dave Davies, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Lola, You Really Got Me)
Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], singer (Nog vele jaren)
Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, singer/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
02031949
Oscar Benton, [Ferdinand van Eis], blues singer/guitarist
02031950
Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest)
02031951
Felipe Munoz, México, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
02031952
Fred Lynn, Chicago, baseball outfielder (Boston, Calif, Baltimore)
Jack Fields, (Rep-R-TX, 1981-  )
02031956
Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
02031958
Lee Crystal, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind)
02031959
Loi Tolhurst, rocker (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)
Molly Killingbeck, Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
02031960
B.J. Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World)
02031961
Keith Gordon, NYC, actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean)
02031962
Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
02031990
Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford
02041575
Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal
02041646
Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, poet
02041688
Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne)
02041693
George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist (London Merchant)
02041698
Heinrich A Fouqué, Prussian general
02041747
Tadeusz Kosciusko, Poland, patriot, (NY Bridge)
02041768
Maurits C van Hall, Minister of Heicop & Boeicop, lawyer/politician
02041802
Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
02041819
Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA
02041826
Halbert Eleazer Paine, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
02041841
Clément Ader, French inventor (1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft)
02041842
Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic
02041849
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Les Chansons de Gueux)
02041875
Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
02041881
Fernand Léger, France, painter/ceramist/cubist (City)
Kliment J Worosjilow, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
02041884
Julius Callewaert, Flemish dominican/bringing up children
02041885
Cairine Ray Wilson, Montréal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)
02041889
Walter Catlett, US actor (Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities)
02041893
Bernard Rogers, NYC, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
02041895
Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, historian (Erflaters)
Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth
02041897
Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany (CDU)
020419--
Gil Rogers, Lexington Ky, actor (Hawk-Guiding Light, Doctors)
Jeannie Wilson, Memphis Tenn, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy)
Marie Masters, Cincinatti Oh, actress (Susan-As the World Turns)
Stephanie Williams, actress (Young & Restless, Simone-Gen Hospital)
02041900
Jacques Prévert, France, poet/screenwriter (Paroles)
02041902
Charles A Lindbergh, Detroit, pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic)
02041903
Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
Frank Howley, Hampton NY, Brig General (Answers for Americans)
02041904
MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist (Andersonville)
02041905
Eddie Foy Jr, New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
02041906
Clyde W Tombaugh, US, astronomer (discovered Pluto)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Friend Kirche)
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champ-1933)
02041908
Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News)
02041909
Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
02041910
Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
02041912
Byron Nelson, Fort Worth Tx, PGA golfer (won 19 tournaments in 1945)
Erich Leinsdorf, Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
02041913
Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist
Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of yr)
02041914
Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)
Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
02041915
William Talman, Detroit Mich, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason)
02041918
Norman Wisdom, London England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
02041919
Frank van Klingeren, architect (Mooring Post, Dronten)
02041921
Betty Friedan, Peoria Ill, feminist writer (Feminine Mystique)
02041923
Conrad Bain, Alberta Canada, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)
02041931
Isabel Perón, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
02041932
Ivan Davis, Electra Tx, pianist
02041935
Martti Talvela, Hiitola Karelia Finland, operatic basso
02041936
Daan van Golden, sculptor
Gary Conway, Boston Mass, actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants)
02041937
Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
02041938
Donald W Riegle Jr, (Sen-D-MI, 1976-  )
02041939
Jacques Charlier, Belgian sculptor
John Schuck, Boston Mass, comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yoyo)
Stan Lundine, (Rep-D-NY, 1976-86)
02041941
John Steel, rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
02041943
Cheryl Miller, Sherman Oaks Calif, actress (Paula-Daktari, Born Free)
02041944
Daniel A Mica, (Rep-D-FL, 1979-  )
Florence LaRue Gordon, Penn, rocker (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
02041945
David Brenner, Philadelphia, comedian/TV talk show host
02041946
Mary Meyer, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-silver-1968)
02041947
Sanford Bishop, (Rep-D-Georgia)
02041948
Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker (School's Out)
Robert Coover, novelist (Pricksongs & Descants)
Rod Grams, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
02041949
Michael Beck, Memphis Tn, actor (Hans Helms-Holocaust)
02041950
Pamela Franklin, Tokyo Japan, actress (Satan's School for Girls)
02041952
Jerry Shirley, rock drummer (Humble Pie-Hot N Nasty, Eat It)
Lisa Eichhorn, Reading, Pa, actress (Cutter's Way, Yanks)
02041958
Mary Ann Pascal, actress (Samantha-Brothers)
02041959
Lawrence Taylor, [LT], NFL's greatest line backer (NY Giants)
Zenani Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
02041960
Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders)
02041961
Vern Fleming, LIC NY, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
02041962
Clint Black, country singer/husband of Lisa Hartman
02041963
Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
Tracie Ruiz, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
02041966
Marissa Laakso, Boston Mass, Miss Mass-America (1991)
02041973
Oscar De La Hoya, Los Angeles Calif, US boxer (Olympic-gold-92)
02051626
Marie de Sévigné, Paris, letter-writer (Portrait in Letters)
02051723
John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
02051744
John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
02051770
Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, minerologist/geologist (Tertiary)
02051778
Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46), founded Tories
02051804
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland, poet
02051833
John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
02051837
Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
02051840
Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)
John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer (pneumatic rubber tire)
02051848
Belle Starr, outlaw (wild west)
Joris-Karl Huysmans, France, writer (Against the Grain)
02051860
Jackson Showalter, 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-0?)
02051866
Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, comic
02051871
Jovan Ducic, Swedish poet (Blauwe Legend)
02051878
André-Gustave Citroën, France, auto maker
02051891
Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim Calif, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbeld)
02051897
Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO
020519--
Duff McKagan, rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
Jason Bieler, rock guitarist (Saigon Kick-New World)
Tommy Skeoch, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)=
02051900
Adlai E Stevenson, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate (D) (1952, 1956)
02051903
Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist
Joan Whitney Payson, owner (NY Mets & horse stables)
Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis, architect (Oak Ridge, TN; Sears)
02051906
John Carradine, Greenwich Village NY, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling)
02051907
Jan Klaasesz, governor Suriname (1949-56)
Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)
Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
02051912
Willard Parker, NYC, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
02051914
Alan Hodgkin, British physicist
William S Burroughs, St Louis, novelist (Naked Lunch)
02051915
Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist
02051917
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
02051919
Melina Mercuri, actress (Never on a Sunday)
Red Buttons, [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx NYC, comedian/actor (Sayonara)
02051921
John M Pritchard, London England, conductor
02051922
Bernard Kalb, State Dept spokesman
02051926
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
02051927
Fall Dufour, US, (actor?)
Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Comes the Brides, Primus)
02051929
Fred Sinowatz (SPÖ), Neufeld an der Leitha, chancellor of Austria
02051933
Jörn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director (Anna, Tenderness)
Nick Georgiade, NYC, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run)
02051934
Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)
02051937
Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], dancer (Sylphides)
Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion
Stuart Damon, Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)
02051938
Dick of Niehoff, singer (Fouryo)
John Guare, US writer
02051939
Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
02051941
Barrett Strong, Detroit, singer (Money, That's What I Want)
David Selby, Morgantown WV, actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files)
02051942
Cory Wells, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
02051943
Charles Winfield, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)
Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)
Larry Tamblyn, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
02051944
Al Kooper, rock keyboards/vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
02051946
Charlotte Rampling, England, actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)
02051947
Mary L Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61B, STS-30)
02051948
Barbara Hershey, Atlanta Ga, (Stuntman, Shy People, World Apart)
Christopher Guest, actor (SNL, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride)
David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
Elco [LC] Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA)
02051951
Elizabeth Swados, US, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)
02051955
Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)
02051957
Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olym-silver-84, 88)
02051965
Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
02051969
Bobby Brown, singer (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel)
02051971
Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)
02061461
Dzore Drzic, Croatian poet
02061564
Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus)
02061608
Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher
02061612
Antoine Arnauld, [Grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theologist
02061637
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
02061665
Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14)
02061724
Paul-Louis Cyfflé, Flemish sculptor (Terre de Lorraine)
02061756
Aaron Burr, Newark, NJ (D-R), 3rd US VP (1801-05), dueler
02061778
Ugo Foscolo, Italy, writer (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)
02061788
Károly Kisfaludy, Hungary, romantic poet (Tartars in Hungary-1819)
02061818
William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), died in 1901
02061830
Marcellus Monroe Crocker, Brig gen (Union volunteers), died in 1865)
02061832
John Brown Gordon, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1904
02061833
James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General (Confederate Army)
José M de Pereda y Sánchez the Porrúa, Spanish writer (Sotileza)
02061834
William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
02061838
Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
02061860
Johan, [Eliza J] de Meester, journalist/writer (Geertje)
02061874
Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
02061886
Louis Piérard, Belgian journalist/writer (Gross Germany)
02061893
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
02061895
George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, baseball great (Yankees)
02061897
Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby)
02061899
Ramon Novarro, [José RG Samaniegos], Mexican/US actor (Ben Hur)
020619--
Axl Rose, rocker (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
John Sanderford, actor (Ryan's Hope)
02061902
Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
02061904
Claudio Arrau, Chile, pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
02061905
Wladislaw Gomulka, premier Poland
02061908
Amintore Fanfani, premier Italy
Gen Edward Lansdale, model for "Quiet American" & "Ugly American"
02061910
Irmgard Keun, West German writer (Das kunstseidene Mädchen)
02061911
Ronald Reagan, IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)/40th pres (R) (1981-89)
02061912
Eva Braun, mistress of Adolph Hitler
02061913
John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
02061915
Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Soc-Dem)
02061917
Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
02061919
Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
02061920
James H Scheuer, (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75-  )
02061922
Patrick MacNee, London England, actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
02061924
Billy Wright, English soccer player
Paolo Volponi, Italian poet
02061929
Keith Waterhouse, writer (Billy Liar, Say Who Are You?)
Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skiier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64)
02061931
Rip Torn, Tx, actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
02061932
François Truffaut, France, director (Jules & Jim, Fahrenheit 451)
02061933
Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) (or 0202)
Walter E Fauntroy, (Rep-D-DC, 1971-  )
02061939
Mike Farrell, St Paul Minn, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
02061940
Tom Brokaw, Yankton SD, news anchor (NBC Nightly News 1982-  )
02061941
Gigi Perreau, LA Calif, actress (Journey to Center of Time)
02061943
Fabian Forte, Phila Pa, singer (Turn Me Loose, Tiger)
Gayle Hunnicutt, Ft Worth Tx, actress (Legend of Hell House, Dallas)
02061944
Michael Tucker, Balt MD, actor (Stuart Markowitz-LA Law)
02061945
Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae singer (& Wailers-Roots Rock Reggae)
02061947
Charles Hickcox, US, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1968)
02061949
Frank Rich, US politician (?)
Manuel Orantes, tennis star
02061950
Mike Batt, composer/arranger
Natalie Cole, LA, singer (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy)
Punky Meadows, rocker (Angel)
02061956
Jon Walmsley, Lancashire England, actor (Jason-Waltons)
02061957
Jerry Marotta, rocker (Orleans-Love Takes Time)
Robert Townsend, actor (Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy)
02061958
Barry Miller, LA Calif, actor (Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married)
02061960
Megan Gallagher, actress (Slap Maxwell)
02061961
Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russia, major/cosmonaut
02061966
Rick Astley, rock vocalist (Never Gonna Give You Up)
02061969
April Lerman, Chicago Ill, actress (Lila-Charles in Charge)
02061976
Kim Zmeskal, Houston TX, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
02071478
Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
02071589
Jacob de Witte, mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician
02071655
Jean-François Regnard, French comedic poet (Slave in Algeria)
02071710
William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music
02071753
Rhijnvis Feith, mayor/writer (Zwolle)
02071764
Ann Radcliffe, London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho)
02071801
John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
02071803
Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasvérus)
02071804
John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
02071809
Frederik Paludan-Müller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
02071812
Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
02071817
Frederick Douglass, Maryland, 1st high ranking black in US govt
Leroy Pope Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
02071824
William Higgins, discovered nature of spiral "nebulae"
02071834
Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
02071837
James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
02071839
Nicolaas G Pierson, economist/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
02071842
Alexandre Ribit, premier France
02071862
Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
02071866
Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
02071867
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
02071869
Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
02071870
Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
02071872
Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
02071877
Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
02071883
Eubie Blake, ragtime (I'm Just Wild About Harry, Memories of You)
02071885
Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
02071896
Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
02071897
Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer
02071899
Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
020719--
Jason Adams, Calif, actor (Ryan's Hope, Nightmare on Elm St)
José José, spanish singer
Lieux Dressler, actress (General Hospital)
02071901
A den Doolard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], writer (Grape Picker)
02071902
Ethelda Blebtrey, Waterford NY, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1920)
02071904
Milton Krims, writer (Speed)
02071905
Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist
Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
02071906
Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
02071908
Buster Crabbe, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932), actor (Flash Gordon)
02071912
Derek Farr, London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
Jane Ross, Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
02071917
Dick Emery, London, comedian/actor (Case of Mukkinese Battle Horn)
02071919
Dom Hélder Câmara, Brazilian bishop
Hélder Câmara, Brazilian bishop
Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
02071920
Eddie Bracken, Astoria NYC, actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing)
Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk singer (Draw Me a Laugh)
02071923
George HH Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader Covent Garden
Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
02071924
Cathy Long, (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
Johnny Jordan, [John of Musscher], Amsterdam folk singer
02071932
Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
02071934
Piet Bukman, CDA-minister cooperative project
02071935
Herb Kohl, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
02071942
Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
02071944
Berend Nearst, [Baron van Nearst], Dutch (CDA) foreign state sect
Berry [AH] Esselink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
Michael A Andrews, (Rep-D-TX, 1983-  )
02071948
Jimmy Greenspoon, keyboardist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
02071949
Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
02071950
Marilyn Cochran, Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
02071951
Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
02071954
Miguel Ferrer, actor (Robocop)
02071955
Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/Wheel of Fortune host
02071958
Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish singer
02071959
Brian Travers, rocker (UB40-Red Wine)
02071960
James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
Steve Bronski, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
02071962
David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
Garth Brooks, Tulsa Okla, country singer (No Fences)
02071964
Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead, Riverside Calif, swimmer (Olympic-silver-84)
Dona L Speir, Norwalk Calif, playmate (March, 1984)
02071965
Jason Gedrick, actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96)
0208 412
St Proclus, patriarch of Constantinople
02081291
Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57)
02081577
Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman (Anatomy of Melancholy)
02081612
Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
02081712
L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran, French general in America
02081764
Joseph von Eybler, Austrian composer
02081795
Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
02081811
Edwin Denison Morgan Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1883
02081813
Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
02081817
Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872
02081818
Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
02081819
John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaëliet)
02081820
William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
02081822
Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
02081824
Barnard Elliot Bee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
02081828
Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
02081859
John H Been, Brielle archivist
John H Leg, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
02081883
Joseph A Schumpeter, Austrian/US economist/minister of finance
02081885
Dame Edith Evans, England, actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield)
02081886
Charlie Ruggles, LA Calif, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show)
02081888
Matthÿs Vermeulen, composer/music critic
02081890
Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist, opponent of US colonialism
02081891
Edgar Palm, Curaçaian pianist/composer
02081892
Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
02081895
King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
020819--
Alice Kramden, fictional character on Honeymooners
Julia Barr, Ft Wayne Ind, actress (Brooke-All My Children)
Louis Giambalvo, Bkln NY, actor (Robert-Oh Madeline)
02081901
Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
02081902
Lyle Talbot, [Lysle Hollywood], Pittsburgh, actor (Glen or Glenda)
02081906
Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer
02081919
Buddy Morrow, orch leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
02081920
Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
02081922
Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
02081924
Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
02081925
Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing)
Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
02081927
John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967-  )
02081930
Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
Arlan Stangeland, (Rep-R-MN, 1977-  )
Catherine Hardy, Carollton Ga, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
02081931
James Dean, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
02081932
Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
John Williams, Flushing, NY, composer/conductor (Boston Pops)
02081933
Jack Larson, LA Calif, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
02081934
Elly Ameling, Rotterdam Holland, soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo)
Nick Nolte, Omaha Nebr, actor (Teachers, 48 Hrs, Rich Man Poor Man)
02081936
Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees)
02081939
Barry Mann, singer (Who put the Bump)
02081940
Susan Clark, Ontario, actress (Katherine-Webster)
Ted Koppel, Lancashire England, news anchor (ABC Nightline)
02081941
Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
02081942
Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals)
02081943
Creed Bratton, rock guitarist (Grass Roots-Sooner or Later)
02081946
Adolfo De La Parra, rocker (Canned Heat-Hot Money)
Paul Wheatbread, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
02081949
Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
Scott Allen, USA, skater (Olympic-bronze-1964)
02081950
Dan Seals, rocker (England Dan & John Ford Coley-Tell Her Hello)
Michael Goodroe, bassist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
02081952
Hans of of the Lubbe, bassist/singer (Dike)
Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
02081958
"Sensational" Sherri Martel, New Orleans, WWF Woman's Champ
02081959
Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1980)
Pamela Jean Bryant, Indianapolis In, playmate (April, 1978)
02081960
Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps)
02081961
Vince Neil, Calif, rock vocalist (Mötley Crüe-Girls Girls Girls)
02081965
Mathilda May, Paris France, actress (Lifeforce)
02081966
Gary Coleman, Zion Ill, actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
02081967
Yvon Corriveau, Ontario, NHL left wing (Wash Caps)
02081981
Tommy Michaels, Staten Island NY, actor (Timmy Hutton-All My Children)
02091404
Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
02091772
Frans Mikael Franzén, Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo)
02091773
William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
02091775
Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)
02091814
Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
02091826
John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
02091830
Abdül Aziz, Istanbul, Ottoman sultan (1861-76)
02091846
Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes
02091853
Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
02091854
Aletta [Henriëtte] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
02091857
John T, the Fisherman, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
02091865
Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl
Mrs Patrick Campbell, England, actress (Sean O'Casey's mistress)
02091866
George Ade, US, journalist, playwright, humorist (Fables in Slang)
02091871
Franc S Finzgar, Slavic clergyman/writer (Our blood)
Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
02091874
Amy Lowell, US, critic/Imagist poet (Patterns)
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical producer/director/actor
02091876
Aloïs Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Ocean stand)
Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
02091879
Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist
02091884
Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], poet/politician)
02091885
Alban Berg, Vienna, Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
02091887
Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
02091889
Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (Dangerous Assignment, Beau Geste)
02091890
Jacobus JP Auld, architect/co-founder (Stÿl)
02091891
Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Acad Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
02091892
Peggy Wood, Bkln NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama)
02091897
Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator
02091899
Brian Donlevy, Portadown Ireland, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment)
020919--
Alejandra Guzman, spanish entertainer
Charles Shaughnessy, London, actor (Shane-Days of our Lives)
Darren Dalton, actor (Chris-Best Times)
Jm J Bullock, Casper Wyoming, actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
Ronnie Claire Edwards, Okla City Ok, actress (Corabeth-Waltons)
02091907
Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)
02091908
Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
02091909
Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
02091910
Jacques Monod, French biochemist
02091913
Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)
02091914
Bill "Rhymes with Wreck" Veeck, baseball club owner
Carmen Miranda, Brazil, singer/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper (or 0109 or 0208)
Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Circus Time)
02091922
Jim Laker, British cricket bowler
02091923
Brendan Behan, Ireland, author/poet (Hostage)
Kathryn Grayson, US, singer/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
Norman E Shumway, Mich, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
02091928
Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
02091929
Bill Barrett, (Rep-R-Nebraska)
02091934
John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe Mich, 4th NHL pres (1977-92)
02091942
Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1960)
02091943
James King, New Orleans LA, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
Joe Pesci, Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
Jonny Nilsson, Sweden, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
Squire Fridell, Oakland Calif, actor (Rosetti & Ryan)
02091944
Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
02091945
Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
02091949
Judith Light, Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
02091950
Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
Lloyd Weldon Keasor, Pumphrey Md, wrestler (Olympic-silver-1976)
02091951
Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & Gang-Celebration)
Jay Inslee, (Rep-D-Washington)
Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
02091953
Gary Franks, (Rep-R-Connecticut)
02091956
Philip Jackson Ford Jr, NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
02091960
Holly Johnson, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
02091963
Travis Tritt, country singer
02091965
Lennox Lewis, London England, Super HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1988)
02091966
James "Rachel" Bolan, Pt Pleasant NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
02091971
Leroy "Satchel" Paige elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
02101609
John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
02101670
William Congreve, England, writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
02101775
Charles Lamb, England, critic/poet/essayist
02101807
Abner Clark Harding, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
02101818
Isham Green Harris, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1897
02101821
William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brig general, died in 1864)
02101824
Samuel Plimsoll, English parliament leader
02101868
William Allen White, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
02101880
Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
02101889
Howard Jump, British author/novelist/writer/critic
02101890
Boris Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage)
02101892
Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood)
02101893
Bill [William] Tilden, US, tennis star
Jimmy Durante, NYC, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
William [Bill] Tilden, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
02101894
[Maurice] Harold MacMillan, (C) British PM (1957-63)
02101896
Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
02101897
John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
02101898
Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)
Dame Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
021019--
Elaine, [Kaufman], NYC, restauranteur (Elaine)
02101900
Rebecca Negrin
02101902
Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste)
Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor)
02101905
Walter Brown, an organizer of NBA
02101906
John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
Lon Chaney Jr, Okla City Okla, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
Walraven (Wally) van Hall, banker/poet/resisted Nazis
02101910
Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
02101914
Larry Adler, hamonica player (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
02101916
Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-  )
02101920
Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
02101922
Harold Hughes, (Gov-D-NJ)
Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
02101923
Cesare Siepi, Italy, basso (NY Metropolitan Opera)
02101924
Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, singer (Nat King Cole Show)
02101927
Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
02101928
Gene Taylor, (Rep-D-St Louis, 1973-  )
Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
02101929
Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
Henk Heidweiler, Dutch ambassador to Suriname
Jim Whittacker, 1st American to climb Mt Everest
02101930
John Gilpin, English ballet dancer (Études, Alice in Wonderland)
Robert Wagner, Detroit Mich, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
02101937
Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
02101939
Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
Boris Pickett, singer (Monster Mash)
Roberta Flack, NC, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
02101940
Mary Rand, England, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1964)
02101942
Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
02101944
Peter Allen, Australia, singer/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond)
02101945
Klas Tuinstra, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
02101946
Donovan [P Leech], Scotland, rocker (Mellow Yellow)
02101950
Mark Andrew Spitz, Modesto Calif, swimmer (Olympic-7 gold-72)
02101951
Roxanne Pulitzer, author (Prize Pulitzer)
Zeudi Araya, Asmara Ethiopia, Miss Ethiopia (1969)
02101953
John Shirley, US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)
02101955
Greg Norman, Australia, golfer "White Shark"
Lusia Mae Harris, Minter City Miss, basketball player (Oly-silver-76)
02101958
Sharon Stone, Meadville Pa, actress (Basic Instinct, Total Recall)
02101963
Lenny Dykstra, centerfielder (NY Met, Phila Phillies)
02101964
Sam Graddy, Gaffney SC, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
02101965
Marjolein Macrander, actress (Drowned)
02101966
Andrew Brimmer, 1st Black on Federal Reserve Board [born 1966?]
02101967
Laura E Dern, LA Calif, actress (Blue Velvet, Mask, Smooth Talk)
02111380
Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italy, humanist
02111506
Juliana van Stolberg, countess of Nassau
02111535
Gregory XIV, [Nicolo Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
02111568
Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (L'Astrée)
02111657
Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds)
Bernard le Bovier sieur de Fontenelle, French philosopher (Plurality)
02111764
Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (Cajus Graechus)
02111783
Jarena Lee, famous African
02111800
William Henry Fox Talbot, English physicist/chemist
02111802
Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany)
02111812
Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice Pres (Confederacy), died in 1883
Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
02111829
William Anderson Pile, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
02111833
Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
02111839
Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
02111840
Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884
02111846
William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
02111847
Thomas Alva Edison, NJ, lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
02111867
August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist
02111869
Helene ELJ Kröller-Müller, founder (Kröller-Müller Museum)
02111873
Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life)
02111874
Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
02111889
John Mills, dancer (Mills Brothers)
02111890
John PML de Vries, fairy tale writer
02111893
Johan C P Alberts, literary (Festival)
02111898
Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
021119--
Deena Freeman, Palo Alto Calif, actress (April-Too Close For Comfort)
John Fink, Detroit Mich, actor (Dr Adam Hudson-Nancy)
Stephen Gregory, NYC, actor (Chase-Young & Restless)
02111900
Thomas Hitchcock Jr, great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924,27,30,39)
02111904
Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79)
Keith Holyoake, New Zealand PM (1960-72)
02111905
Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indonesian writer (Camp diary)
02111908
Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist
Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, British geologist
02111909
Joseph L Mankiewicz, film writer/director (Sleuth)
Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
02111912
Roy Fuller, England, poet/novelist (Lost Season)
Rudolf Firkusny, Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
02111914
Matt Dennis, Seattle Wash, singer (Matt Dennis Show)
Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge of Amsterdam
02111917
Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline)
02111919
Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma Wash, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1948)
02111920
Billy Halop, NYC, actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family)
Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)
Faroek I, last King of Egypt (1936-52)
02111921
Eva Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (Lisa-Green Acres, Gigi)
Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-TX, 1971-  )/1989 Dem VP nominee)
02111922
Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
02111925
Kim Stanley, New Mexico, actress (Frances, Right Stuff)
Virginia E Johnson, doctor/sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
02111926
Paul Bocuse, France, great chef (Legion of Honor)
02111928
Conrad Janis, NYC, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino)
02111930
Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
02111932
Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
02111934
Mary Quant, Kent England, fashion designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look)
Tina Louise, NYC, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas)
02111935
Gene Vincent, rock guitarist/vocalist (Be-Bop-A-Lula)
02111936
Burt Reynolds, Waycross Ga, actor (Dan August, Gunsmoke, End)
02111937
Louis Boer, playwright
02111938
Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panamanian dictator (-1990)
Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
02111939
Gerry Goffin, Queens NY, rock lyricist (married Carole King)
Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood)
02111940
Calvin Fowler, Pitts, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1968)
02111941
Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88)
02111942
Archie, comic book character
02111944
Michael G Oxley, (Rep-R-OH, 1981-  )
02111949
Charlie Hargett, rocker (Blackfoot)
02111950
Earnest Jim Istook, (Rep-R-Oklahoma)
02111953
Philip Anglim, SF Calif, actor (Dane-Thorn Birds)
Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
02111954
Catherine Hickland, actress (Capitol, Star Trek IV)
02111956
Kathleen Beller, Queens NY, actress (Ft Apache the Bronx)
0211196-
Bianca Ferguson, actress (Felicia Jones-General Hospital)
02111961
Carey Lowell, NYC, actress (Guardian, Dangerously Close)
Mary Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92)
02111962
Scott Kolden, Torrance Calif, actor (Scott-Me & the Champ)
02111969
Shannon Long, Gladstone Australia, playmate (Oct, 1988)
02111976
Brice Beckham, Long Beach Calif, actor (Wesley-Mr Belvedare)
02111980
Matthew Lawrence, Montgomery Pa, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break)
Natasha Bobo, Watsonville Calif, actress (Sally-Together We Stand)
02121211
Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)
02121567
Thomas Campion, England, composer/poet/physician
02121585
Caspar Bartholin, Malmö, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
02121663
Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
02121665
Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant)
02121706
Josef Christian, German sculptor
02121760
Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer
02121768
Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
02121775
Louise Catherine Johnson Adams, 1st lady (1825-1829)
02121791
Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
02121809
Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th pres (1861-65)
Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of species)
02121818
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
02121828
George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat)
Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
02121831
John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
02121838
Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898
02121841
Bert van Tienhoven, mayor of Amsterdam/foreign minister
02121850
Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (Flemish Wind)
02121861
Lou [Andreas-]Salomé, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
02121865
Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland)
02121867
Hedwig Courts Mahler, German author (That Kriegsbraut)
Joe Howard, NYC, singer (Gay Nineties Revue)
02121868
Johan HA Schaper, founder SDAP/Member of Dutch 2nd Chamber
02121869
Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of OKW (VVD)
02121873
Jón Trausti, [Gudmundur Magnússon], Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid)
02121880
John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60)
02121882
Walter Vaes, Flemish painter/etcher
02121883
Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
02121884
Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist
02121885
Julius Streicher, German district leader (Stürmer)
02121893
Marcel G J Minnaert, astronomer
Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II "GI General"
02121898
Wallace Ford, Batton England, actor (Deputy)
[Le]Roy Harris, Okla, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
021219--
Andrew Cassesse, actor (Revenge of Nerds II, TV 101)
Lillian Lehman, Selma Ala, actress (Tenafly, Fay)
Pat St John, radio DJ (WPLJ-FM NYC)
Raphael Sbarge, NYC, actor (Brian-Better Days)
02121900
Ferenc Körmendy, Hungarian/US author (Budapest Kaland)
02121902
William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader
02121904
Ted Mack, Denver Colo, TV host (Original Amateur Hour)
02121905
Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt Arcaro-Naked City)
02121909
Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, singer (Your Hit Parade)
02121910
Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist, founder of Samsung Business
02121911
Charles Mathiesen, Norway, 1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
Sylvstre A Guzmán Fernández, president (Dominican Republic)
02121912
Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House)
02121913
Pedro Gastao de Orleans e Bragança II, empreror of Brazil
02121914
Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)
02121915
Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander NATO-Europe
Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica)
02121916
Joseph L Alioto, (Mayor-SF)
02121917
Thomas K Scherman, NYC, conductor (Little Orch Society 1947-75)
02121918
Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
Julian S Schwinger, US physicist
02121919
Forrest Tucker, Plainfield Ind, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail)
02121923
Franco Zeffirelli, Italy, director (Romeo & Juliet)
James Abdnor, (Sen-R-SD, 1981-87)
02121926
Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
02121927
Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men)
02121930
Arlen Specter, (Sen-R-PA, 1981-  )
02121931
Constance A Morella, (Rep-R-Maryland)
02121932
Lincoln Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (BJ-Leslie Uggams Show)
02121933
Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)
02121934
Bill Russell, US, NBA star (Olympic-gold-1956)
02121935
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist (Doors-Light My Fire)
02121936
Joe Don Baker, Groesback Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
Paul Shenar, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Carrington-Roots)
02121937
Charles Dumas, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
Charles Everett Dumas, Tulsa Ok, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
02121938
Judy Blume, author (Wifey)
02121940
Hank Brown, (Rep-R-CO, 1981-88)
02121941
Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest
02121945
Cliff DeYoung, LA Calif, actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment)
Joe Schermie, bassist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
Maud Adams, Lulea Sweden, actress (Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo)
02121946
Ever Meulen, [Eddy Vermeulen], designer (children stamps 1992)
02121947
Gus Willemse, bassist/singer (Solution)
02121949
Stanley Knight, country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog)
02121950
Steve Hackett, rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR)
02121951
Gil Moore, rocker (Triumph)
02121952
Salvador Pineda, Mexico City, doctor
02121953
Joanna Kerns, SF Calif, actress (Maggie Seaver-Growing Pains)
Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge England, actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal)
02121955
Daniele Masala, Italy, pentathelete (Olympics-1976)
02121956
Ad P Melkert, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
Arsenio Hall, comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America)
02121958
Andie MacDowell, [Rosalie Anderson], Gaffney SC, actress (Green Card)
Ruth Guerri, St Louis Mo, playmate (July, 1983)
02121959
Nancy Remy, reporter (NYC's Shadow Traffic)
Omar Hakim, drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report)
Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)
02121967
Stephen Baldwin, actor (William Cody-Young Riders)
02121968
Chynna Phillips, LA Calif, singer (Wilson Philips-Hold On)
02121969
Josh Brolin, actor (Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders)
02121970
Bryan Roy, soccer star (Ajax)
02121976
Christopher Pettiet, LA Calif, actor (Young Riders)
02121980
Christina Ricci, actress
02131440
Hartmann Skull, German physician/humanist/historian
02131599
Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
02131610
Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists
02131658
John B Wellekens, poet/painter
02131682
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
02131764
Talleyrand, France/Napolean's foreign minster
02131768
Édouard Mortier, French general, duke, prime minister (1834-35)
02131805
David Dudley Field, lawyer/law codifier
Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
02131829
Gerard Keller, writer (Netherlands Spectator)
02131831
John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
02131833
William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915
02131849
Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
02131852
Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
02131859
Franc Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist
02131861
Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
02131870
Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
02131883
Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
02131885
Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52)
02131886
Ricardo Güiraldes, Argentina, novelist/poet (Don Segundo Sombra)
02131887
Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
02131892
Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic)
Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
02131893
Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
02131902
Blair Moody, New Haven Ct, (Sen-Mich)
Karl Menger, US mathematician (theory of dimension)
02131903
Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
02131908
Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer
Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
02131910
William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
02131912
French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
Jose de Capriles, US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52)
Margaretta Scott, actress
02131914
George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino, CA, composed "Tubby the Tuba"
02131915
Lyle Betther, Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
02131916
James Griffith, LA Calif, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
02131917
Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
02131918
Helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
Patty Berg, Minn, golfer (1943, 1955 AP Sports Woman of Year)
02131919
Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling)
Joan Edwards, NYC, singer (Joan Edwards Show)
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol Tn, country singer/actor (pea picker)
02131920
Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, operatic soprano
02131921
Henk van Galen Last, journalist
Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
02131922
Lord Pym of Sandy, British foreign minister
02131923
Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
02131924
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
02131927
Harry Wich, set designer
02131929
Omar Torrÿos Herrera, president Panama
02131930
Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, singer (McGuire Sisters)
02131931
Marjorie Jackson, Austria, 100m/200m dash (Olympic-gold-1952)
02131933
Caroline Blakiston, actress
Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
Kim Novak, US actress (Bell Book & Candle)
Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982-  )
02131934
George Segal, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)
02131936
Leamon King, Tulare Calif, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1956)
02131937
Sigmund Jähn, 1st German (East) space traveler (Soyuz 31/29)
Susan Oliver, NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place)
02131938
Oliver Reed, England, actor (Big Sleep)
02131939
Valeri I Rozhdestvensky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
02131941
Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
02131942
Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
Donald E Williams, Lafayette Ind, Capt USN/astro (STS 51D, STS 34)
02131943
Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
02131944
Peter Tork, Wash DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace)
02131945
Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
02131946
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun)
02131947
Tony Butler, rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
02131950
Peter Gabriel, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Your Eyes)
02131951
David Naughton, Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Seperate Vacations)
02131952
David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
Ed Gagliardi, bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
02131953
Sharon Wyatt, Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
02131955
John de Lies, saxophonist (I've got the bullets)
Scott Smith, rocker (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
02131956
Liam Brady, British soccer player
Peter Hook, rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round, Run)
02131958
Mark Fox, congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool)
02131959
Ali Campbell, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
02131960
Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
02131961
Les Warner, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
02131962
Jackie Silva, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer (Pan Am-Bronze)
02131963
Roberta Vasquez, LA Calif, playmate (November, 1984)
02131965
Stephen Manley, LA Calif, actor (Donny-Married the 1st Year)
02131966
Freedom Williams, rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now)
02131967
Melanie Denise Bridges, Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
02141462
Edzard I the Great, earl of East-Friesland (1494-1528)
02141515
Frederick III the Vrome, monarch of Palts
02141546
Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian
02141707
Claude-Prosper J de Crébillon, French writer (Le sopha)
02141760
Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
02141766
Thomas Malthus, England, population expert (Law of Malthius)
02141806
Lajos, Count Batthyány, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
02141813
John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
02141817
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
02141819
James Green Martin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
02141824
Winfield Scott Hancock, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
02141829
Alfred Iverson Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
02141835
François Haverschmidt, writer (Snikken en grimlachjes)
02141845
Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
02141847
Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
02141853
Jan van Rÿswÿck, Flemish journalist/mayor (Antwerp)
02141856
Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life & Loves)
02141858
Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
02141859
George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
02141864
Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man)
Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology/marginale mens)
02141869
Charles Wilson, English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
02141881
Otto Selz, German psychologist
02141882
George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
02141892
Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
02141893
Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen)
02141894
Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski], Waukegan, Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
02141895
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice)
02141898
Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (super nova)
02141899
John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
021419--
Alan Hunter, MTV vee-jay
Brian Kelly, Detroit Mich, actor (Flipper, Straightaway)
Lee Chamberlain, NYC, actress (Lucy-All's Fair, Barbara-Paris)
Peg Murray, Denver Colo, actress (Me & Mrs C)
02141902
Fred Scott, Fresno Calif, singer/actor (Vincent Lopez)
Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley Calif, actor (Stu Erwin Show)
02141904
Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
02141905
Thelma Ritter, Bkln NY, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
02141907
Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer (1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
02141909
A Moses Klein, Montréal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
02141912
Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)=
02141913
Ab [Albert] Visser, poet/writer (Man Without a Head)
James Pike, Okla City, bishop (Beyond Anxiety)
Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975
Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees)
02141916
Edward Platt, Staten Island NY, actor (Chief-Get Smart)
02141917
Herbert A Hauptman, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985)
02141921
Hugh Downs, Akron Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
02141923
Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
02141924
Countess Mountbatten, of Burma
02141925
Elliot Lawrence, Phila, orch leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell)
02141927
Lois Maxwell, Kitchener Ontario, actress (Miss Moneypenny)
02141928
Ben Garrido Blaz, (Rep-R-Guam, 1985-  )
02141929
Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982-  )
02141931
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, hockey star/beer spokesman
Phyllis McGuire, Middletown Oh, singer (McGuire Sisters)
Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
02141934
Florence Henderson, Dale Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
02141935
David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
Mickey Wright, San Diego Calif, golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
02141936
Andrew Pine, Jennings Fla, actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
02141940
Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
02141941
Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass)
02141943
Eric Anderson, Pittsburgh Pa, singer (Avalanche, Be True to You)
02141944
Alan Parker, English actor (Bugsy Malone)
Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
02141945
Gregory Hines, NYC, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
Hans Adam, prince of Liechtenstein
William Hill Boner, (Rep-D-TN, 1979-  )
02141946
Tim Buckley, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
Tina Aumont, Hollywood Calif, actress (Master of Love)
02141947
Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
Judd Gregg, (Rep-R-NH, 1981-  )
Pham Tuan, 1st Vietnamese space traveler (Soyuz 37)
02141948
Pat O'Brien, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
Wally Tax, guitarist
02141949
Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
Jackie Martlin, "Jackie the Jokeman", comedian (Howard Stern Show)
Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
02141951
Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager (Newcastle United)
02141956
Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
Howard Edward Davis Jr, Glen Cove NY, lw boxer (Olympic-silver-1976)
02141958
Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children)
02141960
Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA Calif, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
02141963
Zach Galligan, actor (Gremlins)
02141967
Manuela Maleeva, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis player (1984 US Open Mixed)
02141972
Mayne One, rocker (Young Nation)
02141977
Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
02141985
Jacob Parker, actor
02151368
Sigismund, Nürnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)
02151483
Babur, founded Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30)
02151497
Philipp Melanchthon, Germany, Protestant reformer
02151519
Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, explored Florida, founded St Augustine
02151524
Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
02151564
Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
02151571
Michael Praetorius, German music theorist/composer (Syntagma music)
02151620
François Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist
02151650
Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot)
02151666
Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, voice cracked)
02151710
Louis XV the Well-Beloved, King of France (1710-74)
02151726
Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
02151748
Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarian philosopher/economist
02151764
Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske Værker)
02151774
W G Frederik, prince of Orange
02151780
Carel Asser, lawyer
02151795
Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)
02151797
Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
02151803
John Augustus Sutter, of Calif gold rush fame
John Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Calif)
02151809
Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
02151812
Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler
02151817
Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
02151820
Susan Brownell Anthony, woman's suffragette
02151826
George J Stoney, Irish physicist
02151828
Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
02151834
William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
02151835
Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911
02151845
Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
02151858
William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
02151861
Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician/philosopher
02151874
Ernest H Shackleton, Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
02151882
John Barrymore [Blythe], US actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
02151886
Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu)
02151890
Robert Ley, German chemist/parliament member (NSDAP)
02151892
James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
02151894
Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
02151897
Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
02151899
Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
Georges Auric, Lodve France, composer (It Always Rains on Sunday)
021519--
Claire Yarlett, LA Calif, actress (Rituals, Dynasty 2)
Geoff Edwards, Westfield NJ, actor (Jeff-Petticoat Junction, Jackpot)
Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
Kevin Cloud, Hartford Ct, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
Renee Props, Okla, actress (Ellie-As the World Turns)
02151901
Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
02151904
Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
02151905
Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck], US, composer (Over the Rainbow)
02151907
Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man)
02151908
Ypk fan der Fear, writer (Reade runen)
02151911
Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW)
02151912
George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
02151913
Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Suske & Wiske)
02151914
Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Howling)
02151918
Alan Arbus, NYC, actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H)
02151920
Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil sails to us, Niggers)
02151922
Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
02151923
Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
02151927
Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
02151929
Graham Hill, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
02151931
[Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
02151933
Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
02151934
Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL)
02151935
John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills)
02151937
Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama)
02151939
Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
Ollie Ellefsäter, Norway, 3K steeplechase (Olympics-1960)
02151943
Florinda Bolkan, actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)
02151944
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8)
Mick Avory, rock drummer (Kinks-Lola)
Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
02151945
Douglas R Hofstadter, NYC, author (Gödel, Escher, Bach)
02151947
John Adams, Worcester Mass, composerette (Nixon on China)
Marisa Berenson, NY, actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna)
Rusty Hamer, Tenafly NJ, actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy)
02151948
Ron "Penguin" Cey, Tacoma Wash, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
02151949
Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
02151951
Jane Seymour, [Joyce Frankenberg], England, actress (Live & Let Die)
Melissa Manchester, Bronx, NY, singer (Don't Cry Out Loud)
02151954
Matt Groening, cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
02151955
Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
02151960
Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
02151968
Kurt Robin McKinney, Louisville Ky, actor (Ned-General Hospital)
Michael Easton, actor (Tanner-Days of Our Lives)
02151991
Nicholas Garland, son of Pamela Sue Martin
02161043
Anthony Dowell, British dancer (Royal Ballet)
02161075
Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet
02161514
Rhäticus [Rheticus], Austrian astronomer/mathematician
02161519
Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral
02161620
Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia
02161684
Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer
02161740
Giambattista Bodoni, Ital's stamp cutter/book publisher (Bodoni)
Giambattista Bodoni, Italian printer/typeface designer
02161746
Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic
02161807
Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
02161812
Henry Wilson, (R) 18th VP (1873-75)
02161813
Joseph Reid Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1892
02161821
Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)
02161822
James Patton Anderson, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
02161823
John D Imboden, Brig Gen, organized 1st Virginia Partisan Rangers
John Daniel Imboden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
02161832
Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General (Confederate Army)
02161834
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Germany, naturalist (Causes of Evolution)
02161838
Henry Adams, US historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams)
02161848
Hugo de Vries, botanist (How species emerge)
02161850
Octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
02161852
Charles Taze Russell, founded Jehovah's Witnesses
William Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
02161858
Laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
02161866
Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King)
William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player
02161876
George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
02161884
Robert Flaherty, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North)
02161886
Van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain)
02161893
Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic
02161896
Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin)
02161898
Katharine Cornell, actress (Barretts of Wimpole St)
021619--
Hunt Block, Wash DC, actor (Peter-Knots Landing)
02161901
Chester Morris, NYC, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown)
Wayne King, Savannah Ill, saxophonist/bandleader (Waltz King)
02161903
Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy)
02161904
George F Kennan, US ambassador to Moscow
02161906
Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ (1927)
02161907
Anghélos Terzakis, Greece, writer (Without God)
02161909
Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties)
02161911
Hal Porter, Australia, writer (Tilted Cross, Paper Chase)
02161912
Del Sharbutt, Cleburne Tx, TV announcer (Your Hit Parade)
Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader, a creator of salsa music
02161914
Jimmy Wakely, Mineola Ark, country singer (5 Star Jubilee)
02161920
Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist
Lee Russell, Cleveland Oh, singer (Vincent Lopez)
Patty Andrews, Minneapolis Mn, singer (Andrews Sisters)
02161922
Geraint Evans, British opera singer
02161925
John Schlesinger, London England, director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling)
02161926
Vera-Ellen (Westmeyr Rohe), US actress/dancer (Miracle Man)
02161929
Peter Porter, writer/poet (Chair of Babel, Automatic Oracle)
02161930
Peggy King, Greensburg Pa, singer/actress (George Gobel Show)
Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor (Thunderball)
02161931
George E Sangmeister, (Rep-D-Illinois)
Ken Takakura, Japanese film star (A Story of the Antarctic)
02161932
Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Okla, actress (Silk Stockings)
02161934
Marlene Bauer Hagge, LPGA golfer (1950 Woman Athlete of Year)
Marlene Hagge, Eureka SD, golfer (LPGA champ 1956)
02161935
Brian Bedford, England, actor (Anthony-Coronet Blue)
Sonny Bono, Detroit, singer (Sonny & Cher, Mayor-R-Palm Springs, Ca)
02161938
Barry Primus, NYC, actor (Sgt McKenna-Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha)
John Corigliano, NYC, composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles)
0216194-
Jimmie Walker, comedian/actor (Good Times, At Ease, Bustin' Loose)
02161941
Vitali Kuznetsov, USSR, judo (Olympic-silver-1972)
02161942
Kim Chong-Il, son of President of North Korea, designated succesor
02161943
Anthony Dowell, London, dancer (Royal Ballet)
02161946
Aleksandr Shaparenko, USSR, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1972)
Ian Lavender, British actor (Stupid Boy in Dad's Army)
02161949
Dorus Peace, Suriname poet (Otobanda; the other banks)
02161950
William Katt, LA Calif, actor (Greatest American Hero, 1st Love)
02161954
Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory)
02161955
George Martin, NFL defensive back (NY Giants)
02161956
James Ingram, singer (On the Wings of Love)
02161957
LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)
02161958
Lisa Loring, actress (As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family)
02161959
John P McEnroe, tennis player (US Open 1979-81,84 Wimb 1981,83,84)
Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge NJ, NBA forward (Det Pistons, Utah Jazz)
02161962
Alexa Kenin, NYC, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever)
Andy Taylor, rock guitarist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
Tony Kiley, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
02161970
Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate (Jun, 1991)
02161974
Kim Whipkey, rocker (PC Quest)
Kimberly Dawn Whipany, Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
02161985
Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69
02171444
Rudolf Agricola, [Roelof Huysman], humanist/organist
02171490
Karel van Bourbon, military man/mayor (Lombardije)
02171519
François Guise, [Balafré], French general strategist
02171653
Arcangelo Corelli, Fusignano Italy, violinist/comp (Concerto grossi)
02171723
Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
02171774
Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
02171781
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec, inventor (stethoscope)
02171804
Samuel Read Anderson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
02171820
Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
02171824
William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903
02171837
Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister of child labor
02171844
A Montgomery Ward, founded mail-order business
02171853
Jaroslav Vrchlicky, [Emil Frída], Czech poet (1 night on Karlstein)
02171854
Friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer
02171857
Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
02171867
William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer
02171870
Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemmish People's Party)
02171874
Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM)
02171879
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club)
02171880
Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico
02171888
Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)
02171889
Haroldson L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
02171892
Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)
021719--
Christine Pickles, Yorkshire England, actress (Helen-St Elsewhere)
Clayton Prince, actor (Reuben-Another World)
Michelle Forbes, actress (Ensign Ro-Star Trek Next Gen)
02171902
Marian Anderson, Phila, operatic contralto/banned by D.A.R.
02171904
Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Rond Jezus' kleed)
02171906
Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
02171907
Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
Charles B Timmer, interpreter/writer (Russia Black on White)
02171908
Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
02171909
Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
02171910
Marc Lawrence, NYC, actor (Man With Golden Gun)
02171914
Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place)
02171916
Raf Vallone, Italy, actor (El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon)
02171918
Charles A Hayes, (Rep-D-IL, 1983-  )
02171919
Jock Mahoney, Chicago Ill, actor (Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury)
Kathleen Freeman, Chicago Ill, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
02171923
Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)
02171924
Margaret Truman, Mo, pres daughter/writer (Murder at FBI)/pianist
02171925
Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain)
02171926
Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters)
02171929
Chaim Potok, novelist (Promise)
Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader
02171932
Buck Trent, Spartanburg SC, banjoist/singer (Hee Haw)
02171933
Bobby Lewis, rocker (Tossin' & Turnin')
Craig Thomas, (Rep-R-Wyoming)
02171934
Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman)
Barry Humphries, Australia TV host (Dame Edna Everage)
02171936
Jim Brown, Ga, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen)
02171939
Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959/actr (Diff'rent Strokes)
02171941
Gene Pitney, singer/songwriter (Town Without Pity)
Heidi Biebi, German Fed Rep, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1960)
02171942
Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
02171944
Bernie Grant, British politician (Labour)
02171945
Brenda Fricker, actress (My Left Foot)
Patricia Morrow, actress (Rita-Peyton Place)
Willie J L Swildens-Rozendal, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
02171946
André Dussollier, Annecy France, actor (3 Men & a Cradle)
Valdemar Bandolowski, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
Zina Bethune, NYC, actress (Gail-Nurses)
02171947
Ben Cramer, singer (clown)
Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer
Dodie Stevens, actress (Mary Hatman!)
02171949
Fred Frith, English guitarist/violinist/bassist (Skeleton Crew)
02171950
Rick Medlocke, rocker (Blackfoot)
02171952
Guillermo Vilas, tennis player (1977 US Open)
Insook Bhushan, Seoul Korea, US US table tennis player (Olympic-92)
02171953
Janice Dickinson, Bkln NY, model (Vogue)
02171958
Heidi Hagman, actress (Linda-Archie Bunker's Place)
Karen Lende, Concord Mass, US Equestrian athlete (Olympic-92)
02171959
Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, US, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
Richard Karn, actor
02171961
Michael "Air" Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
02171962
David McComb, Australia, singer/songwriter (Triffids)
Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)
02171963
Michael Jordan, Bkln NY, US basketball player (Bulls/Olympic-gold-92)
02171966
Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
02171974
Jerry O'Connell, NYC, actor (Andrew Clements-My Secret Identity)
Michael J O'Connell, actor (Andrew-My Secret Identity)
02181516
Queen Mary I, [Bloody Mary] (1553-58), 1st reigning Queen of GB
02181559
Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian
02181609
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English lord chancellor
02181677
Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn)
02181745
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor (battery)
02181775
Thomas Girtin, London, artist, watercolorist
02181795
George Peabody, US, merchant/philanthropist
02181805
Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
02181817
Lewis Addison Armistead, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Walter Page Lane, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
02181829
Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
02181833
James Deshler, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
02181836
Ramakrishna, Hindu saint; preached unity of all religions
02181838
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist
02181844
Willem Maris, painter (Hagse School)
02181848
Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker; famous for stained glass windows
02181853
August Belmont Jr, breeder of Man 'O War/founded NY Jockey Club
02181859
Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on Roof)
02181860
Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
02181877
Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora E], actress/author
02181884
Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
02181888
Gladys Cooper, England, actress (Margaret-Rogues)
02181890
Adolphe Menjou, Pittsburgh, actor (Front Page, Star is Born)
Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago)
Edward Arnold, NYC, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
02181892
Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World)
02181895
George "Gipper" Gipp, Notre Dame football star
Semjon Timosjenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
02181896
André Breton, France, surrealist poet/writer (founder of surréalism)
02181899
Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II)
021819--
Anthony Pera, actor (Miguel-Young & Restless)
Breck Jamison, actor (As the World Turns)
02181903
Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR
02181907
Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World)
02181909
Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose)
02181912
Heinz Kühn, Dutch politician (SPD-min-pres North Region-Westfalen)
02181913
Dane Clark, Bkln, actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason)
02181914
Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country singer (Pee Wee King Song)
02181916
Jean Drapeau, mayor of Montréal (1954-  )
02181917
Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey)
02181918
Betty Field, US, actress (Of Mice & Men, Bus Stop)
02181920
Bill Cullen, Pitts, TV game show host (over 20 different games)
Jack Palance, [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer Pa, actor (City Slickers)
02181922
Eric Gairy, premier (Grenada)
Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Me, author/publisher (Cosmopolitan)
02181923
Allan Melvin, KC Mo, actor (Brady Bunch, Barney-All in Family)
02181925
George Kennedy, NYC, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport, Blue Knight)
02181926
Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers)
02181927
John W Warner, (Sen-R-VA, 1979-  ), married Liz Taylor
02181928
Jim McElreath, auto racer (1970 Ontario 500)
02181929
Len Deighton, writer (Fighter)
02181930
Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
02181931
Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
02181932
Milos Forman, Czech/US director (Cuckoos Nest, Amadeus)
02181933
Bobby Robson, British soccer coach (PSV)
Kim Novak, Chicago, Ill, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
Mary Ure, England, model/actress (Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way)
Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, singer(?)
02181934
Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77)
02181938
Manny Mota, baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers)
02181941
David Blue, [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow)
Herb Santiago, vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall)
02181945
Judy Rankin, St Louis Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1976-77)
Michael Nader, St Louis Mo, actor (Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty)
02181947
Dennis De Young, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again)
Eliot L Engel, (Rep-D-NY)
Princess Maria Christina, [Marÿke], of Netherlands
02181948
Carolyn B Maloney, (Rep-D-NY)
02181949
Cybill Shepherd, Memphis Tn, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show)
Jess Walton, actress (Jill Abbott-Young & Restless)
02181950
John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller)
02181952
Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen], Virginia, singer (Angel of the Morning)
02181953
Derek Pellicci, rocker (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way)
Robin Bachman, guitarist (Bachman Turner Overdrive-You Aint Seen)
02181954
John Travolta, Englewood NJ, actor (Welcome Back Kotter, Grease)
02181957
Vanna White, Conway SC, TV game show hostess (Wheel of Fortune)
02181958
Peter Koech, Kiliburani Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-silver-1988)
02181960
Andy Moog, NHL goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988)
Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief)
02181962
Gary Reasons, NFL line backer (NY Giants)
02181963
Rob Andrew, English rugby player
02181964
Matt Dillon, actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Little Darlings, Kansas)
02181967
Colin Jackson, Cardiff England, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
02181968
Molly Ringwald, Roseville Calif, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)
02181969
Alexander Mogliny, USSR, 1st soviet hockey star to defect to NHL
0219   3
Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
02191473
Nicolaus Copernicus, Torún, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)
02191683
King Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
02191717
David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
02191743
Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
02191817
William III, King of Netherlands (1849-90)
02191819
Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer
02191821
Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
02191827
Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855
02191828
Johannes von Miquel, German politician
02191833
Élie Ducommun, Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902)
02191843
Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucia)
02191859
Svante August Arhenius, founded physical chemistry (Nobel 1903)
02191863
Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo, president of Perú (1908, 1919)
02191864
Airius S Talma, Dutch minister of building (Work Law of 1911)
02191865
Adrian van Oordt, writer (neo-romantic)
Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
02191877
Louis [F M] Aubert, French composer (Habanera)
02191881
Evert Gorter, children's art
02191889
José Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
02191893
Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
02191894
Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
02191895
Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
021919--
Clay Anthony, rocker (Junkyard-Blooze Hot Rod)
Frances Bucholz, rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
02191901
Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord)
02191902
John Bubbles, Louisville Ky, rhythm tap dancer
Nydia Westman, NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
02191903
Kay Boyle, St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
02191904
Havank, [HF of of the Kallen], detective writer (Heads on Cave)
02191906
Hendrik W C Spruit, conductor
02191911
Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
02191912
Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana)
Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
02191915
John Freeman, British Labour politician/ambassador/TV host
02191916
Eddie Arcaro, jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns)
02191917
Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
02191920
George Rose, Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust)
02191924
Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
02191925
Leslie Laing, Linstead Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952)
02191930
John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
02191932
Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
02191940
Carlin Glynn, US actor (Continental Divide)
William "Smokey" Robinson, Det, singer (& Miracles-Being With You)
02191942
Kenneth R Kramer, (Rep-R-CO, 1979-  )
02191943
"Mama" Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
Lou Christie, Penn, rock vocalist (Lightnin' Strikes)
02191946
Pierre of of the Linden, drummer (Brainbox)
02191948
Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
02191952
Rudolfo Neri-Vela, Chilpancing Mexico, astronaut (STS 23)
02191953
Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
Stephen Nichols, Cincinatti Ohio, actor (Days of our Lives)
02191955
Jeff Daniels, actor (Something Wild)
Margaux Hemingway, Portland Or, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce)
02191956
George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
02191957
Dave "Smoke" Stewart, Oakland Calif, pitcher (Oakland Athletic)
Falco, [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)
02191960
Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain
02191962
Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
02191963
Jessica Tuck, NYC, actress (Megan-1 Life to Live)
02191966
Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)
Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
02191967
Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill)
02191989
L A Baby orangutan, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
02201494
Johan Friis, chancellor of Denmark; helped establish Lutheranism
02201507
Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
02201523
Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)
02201632
Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English chief minister/founded Tories
02201790
Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies
02201791
Carl Czerny, Wien (Vienna), pianist (could he turn out études!)
02201802
Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer
02201809
Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
02201820
Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
02201827
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
02201835
Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philospher
02201838
James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
02201844
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
Mihály von Munkácsy, [Michael von Lieb], Hungarian painter
02201861
Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curaçao, folk singer
02201870
Pieter C Boutens, poet (Beatrix)
Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
02201881
Pedro Muñoz Seca, La vengeanza the don Mendo
02201883
Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
02201886
Béla Kun, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
02201887
Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
02201888
Dame Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
Marie Rambert, [Cyvia M Ramberg], Polish/England, ballerina
02201893
Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
02201896
Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
02201897
Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
02201898
Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
02201899
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
022019--
Andrew Stele, Willmington Delaware, (Billy Campbell-Melrose Place)
Claudette Wells, St Louis Mo, actress (Square Pegs)
Henry Polic II, Pitts Pa, actor (When Things Were Rotten, Webster)
Kee Marcello, rocker (Europe-Final Countdown)
Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
02201900
Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
02201901
Ali M Naguib, Egyptian general
Ali M Naguib, General of Egyptian Air Force
Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory)
Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease)
02201902
Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
02201903
Pierre Charles, Belgian boxer
02201904
Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
02201905
Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)
02201907
Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)
02201910
Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
02201911
Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
02201913
Nadine Conner, US, (actress?)
02201914
John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
Willem J H Bart, vicar (Cuentanan di Nanzi)
02201916
Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
Paul Tripp, NYC, TV host (Mr I Magination)
02201921
Amanda Blake, Buffalo, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
Joseph A Walker, X-15 pilot
02201923
Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana (1964-85)
02201924
Gloria Vanderbilt, don't my jeans look great, poor little rich girl
Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun) or 1927
02201925
Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
Robert Altman, movie director (Nashville, M*A*S*H)
02201926
Kenneth H Olsen, US, engineer/founder Digital Equipment Corp
Robert Eugene Richards, Ill, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-48, 52, 56)
02201927
Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor" for Sen Joseph McCarthy
02201928
Elroy Face, baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
02201929
Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
02201933
Hannes Postma, graphic artist
02201934
Bobby Unser, auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
02201936
Larry Hovis, Wapito Wash, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
Marj Dusay, Rusell Ks, actress (Kate-Bret Maverick)
02201937
David Ackles, Illinois, singer/songwriter (American Gothic)
Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz singer (Feel Like Making Love)
Robert Huber, München, Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
02201940
Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
02201941
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
02201942
Charlie Gillett, Lancashire, rock broadcaster (Sound of the City)
Mitch McConnell, (Sen-R-KY, 1985-  )
Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
Phil Esposito, NHL player/coach/GM (Bruins, Rangers)
02201943
Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
02201946
J Geils, rock guitarist/vocalist (Freeze-Frame, Centerfold)
Mieke H A Boers-Wÿnberg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
Sandy Duncan, Henderson Tx, actress (Hogan Family)
02201947
André van Duin, [Kyvon], entertainer (Bloemkoole)
Jennifer O'Neill, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of '42)
02201949
Ivana Trump, Gottwaldov Czech, ex-wife of Donald Trump
02201950
John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
Walter Becker, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
02201951
Edward Albert, LA Ca, actor (Jeff-Falcon Crest, Butterflies are Free)
Randy California, LA, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You)
02201952
Catherine Cummins, Clintwood Va, 1st of 5 siblings born on 2/20
02201953
Carol Cummins, Clintwood Va, 2nd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
Riccardo Chailly, Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)
02201954
Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
Vasili Vasiliyevich Tsibliyev, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut
02201955
Kelsey Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Dr Fraiser Crane-Cheers)
02201956
Charles Cummins, Clintwood Va, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
02201958
Carol Ficatier, Auscene France, playmate (December, 1985)
02201960
Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
02201961
Claudia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 4th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
Imogen Stubbs, Rothbury England, actress (Summer Story)
02201963
Charles Barkley, Ala, NBA forward (Phila 76ers, All Star 1987-90)
02201965
Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy (1982)
02201966
Cecilia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 5th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
Cindy Crawford, Dekalb Ill, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
02201967
Rebekka Lynn Armstrong, Bakersfield Ca, playmate (Sep, 1986)
02201968
Lorraine Olivia, Geneva Ill, playmate (Nov, 1990)
02201972
Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (Aug, 1991)
02211417
Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
02211484
Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg, Constitution)
02211728
Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine
02211730
Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
02211794
Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of México (1833-36)
02211800
John Henry Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
02211801
John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
02211802
George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
02211805
David Tod, Governor (Union), died in 1868
02211815
Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
02211817
José Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
02211821
Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
02211829
Johnson Hagood, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
02211836
Léo Delibes, Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Coppélia)
02211844
Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
02211855
Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
02211856
Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
02211867
Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
02211877
Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South Africans poet/theologist)
02211880
Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
02211881
Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
02211885
Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
02211887
Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
02211893
Andrés Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
022119--
Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Barbara-Valerie)
Patricia Benoit, Ft Worth Tx, actress (Nancy-Mr Peepers)
Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)
02211902
Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
Bob [Hÿman] Scholte, singer
02211903
Anaïs Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense)
Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
02211904
Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
02211907
Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
02211908
Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer
02211909
George G F van Renesse, pianist/music director
Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
02211912
Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist
02211913
Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969-  )
02211914
Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
02211915
Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Good Sam)
Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
02211922
Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
02211923
Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
02211925
Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
Sam Peckinpah, film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
02211927
Erma Bombeck, Ohio, humorist (Grass Is Always Greener...)
Hubert Givenchy, fashion designer
Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
02211931
Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
02211932
Harold V, King of Norway (1990-  )
02211933
Nina Simone, Tyron NC, singer/pianist (I Love You Porgy)
02211934
Rue McClanahan, Healdton Okla, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
02211936
Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx)
02211937
Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
02211938
Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979-  )
02211939
Richard Beymer, Iowa, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
02211940
John Lewis, (Rep-D-Georgia)
Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
02211942
Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, actress/director (Marianne)
02211943
David Geffin, Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffin, Asylum)
02211944
Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
02211946
Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
Tyne Daly, Madison Wisc, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained)
02211947
Jill Eikenberry, actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law)
Olympia J Snowe, (Rep-R-ME, 1979-  )
02211948
Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
02211949
Jerry Harrison, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads-& She Was)
02211952
J J Brunel, rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
02211958
Jack Coleman, Easton Pa, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
Mary-Chapin Carpenter, singer (Shooting Straight in the Dark)
02211961
Christopher Atkins, Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
02211963
Michael Gostigian, Phila Pa, US pentathlete (Olympic-92)
02211964
Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
02211966
Wendy James, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
02211968
Todd Ferich, computer language expert
Wendy James, West London England, singer (Revolution Baby)
02211975
Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
02221403
Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out English
02221440
Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
02221732
George Washington, Virginia, 1st pres (1789-97)
02221749
Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach
02221778
Rembrandt Peale, portrait & historical painter (Court of Death)
02221788
Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
02221796
Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
02221798
Charles Mynn Thruston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
02221810
Frédéric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer
02221819
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
02221822
Adolf Kuszmaul, German artist (magpomp/ziekte of )
Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
02221827
James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
02221828
Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
02221838
Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
02221840
F August Bebel, German social-democrat
02221843
Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
02221850
Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
02221852
Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
02221857
Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
Robert Baden-Powell, founded Boy Scouts, Girl Guides
02221862
Connie Mack, baseball manager (Pirates, Phila A's 1900-1950)
02221864
Jules Renard, France, writer (Carrots)
02221868
Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
02221873
Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
02221877
Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist
02221879
Johannes BrÝnsted, Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions)
02221882
Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
02221884
Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
02221887
Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
02221889
Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Novel Britain)
02221891
Jan Wils, Holland, architect (designed Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
02221892
David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
02221895
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peruvian Aprista Party
02221896
Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
022219--
Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, SNL)
Geoffrey Scott, Hollywood Calif, actor (Secret Empire, Dynasty)
James Wick, actor (Linc-As The World Turns)
02221900
Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
Luis Bruñel, Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty)
Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
02221901
Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
02221903
Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
02221904
Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of José Herrera)
02221906
Gale Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
02221907
Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
02221908
John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
Rómulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
02221915
Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
02221918
Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
02221925
Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
02221926
Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
02221927
Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
02221928
Bruce Forsyth, British comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
02221929
Ryne Duren, NY Yankee near-sighted pitcher
02221930
Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
02221932
Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962-  ), (Don't let him drive)
Piper Laurie, Detroit Mich, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Carrie)
02221933
Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
02221934
George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
02221935
Ineke [R M] Has-Berger, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
02221937
Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
Tommy Aaron, golfer (1969 Canadian Open)
02221938
Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
02221939
Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
02221940
Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
02221943
David ESkaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinatti, KC-Omaha, Phil)
02221945
Oliver, singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
02221947
John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983-  )
02221948
Dennis Awtrey, NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
02221949
Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
02221950
Julie Walters, actress (Buster, Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
02221951
Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983-  )
02221952
James P Bagian, Philadelphia Pa, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
02221955
Tim Young, athlete
02221956
Amy Alcott, KC Mo, LPGA golfer (Vare Trophy 1980, 83)
02221958
Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
02221959
Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
02221961
Debbie Linden, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, singer/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
02221964
Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rico, tennis player (1988 US Open Doubles)
Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
02221965
Pat LaFontaine, St Louis Mo, NHL center (Olym-1984, NY Islanders)
02221966
Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
02221972
Michael Chang, US tennis star
02221975
Drew Barrymore, LA Calif, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
02231417
Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italy, Pope (1464-71)
02231614
Jacob Colÿn(s), coat of arms painter
02231633
Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary, Memoirs)
02231649
John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus & Adonis) (baptized)
02231685
Georg Friedrich Händel, English/German organist/composer (De Messias)
02231744
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founded House of Rothschild
02231776
John Walter II, manager of Times (London)
02231787
Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
02231792
Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
02231818
Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
02231824
Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
02231831
Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Knife)
02231838
Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
02231840
Carl Menger, Austrian economist
02231859
Theodor Batthyányi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
02231865
Barney Dreyfuss, baseball owner (Pitts Pirates)
02231868
William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)
02231874
Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
02231875
Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (SDAP)
02231881
Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, philosopher
02231883
Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/existentialist philosopher
Victor Fleming, Pasadena Cal, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)
02231889
Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations)
022319--
Catherine Larson, actress (Ryan's Hope)
Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrÿche-Warning)
Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Beth-Double Trouble)
02231904
Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
William L Shirer, historian (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich)
02231908
William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
02231911
G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60)
02231913
Charles Leonard, US, pentathelete (Olympic-1936)
02231916
George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972)
02231917
Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds)
02231920
Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
02231925
Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969-  )
02231926
Regine Crespin, French (actress?)
02231928
Vasili G Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18-1)
02231929
Elston Howard, Yankee catcher (1st black NY Yankee/1963 AL MVP)
02231930
Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976)
Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
02231933
Lee Quencey Calhoun, Laurel MS, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
02231938
Diane Varsi, San Mateo Calif, actress (Peyton Place)
Sylvia Chase, St Paul Minn, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
02231939
Josef Feistmantl, Austria, lugeist (Olympic-gold-1964)
Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
02231940
Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)
02231941
William Hjörtsberg, NYC, writer (Gray Matters, Fallen Angel)
02231942
Beau Boulter, (Rep-R-TX, 1985-  )
02231943
Fred Biletnikoff, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders, Montral)
Jada Rowland, NYC, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm)
02231944
Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Miss, guitarist (Silver Train)
02231946
Rusty Young, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night)
02231947
Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967)
02231949
Anna-Maria Müller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
Marc Garneau, Canada, astronaut (STS 13)
02231951
Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
02231952
Brad Whitford, Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun)
02231955
Howard Jones, rock vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
02231956
Maren Jensen, Glendale Cal, actress (Battlestar Galactica)
02231958
David Sylvian, vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex)
Ria Brieffies, singer (Dolly Dots)
02231960
Gloria von Thurm und Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
02231962
Melinda Mays, Augusta Ga, playmate (Feb, 1983)
02231965
Helena Sukova, Czech, tennis player (1985 US Open's Double)
02231966
Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
02231971
Jason Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue)
Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
02241304
Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
02241463
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
02241500
Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)
02241536
Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
02241545
Don John, of Austria the elder, Austrian general
02241547
Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
02241557
Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
02241619
Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer (Chancellor Séguier)
02241697
Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
02241766
Samuel Wesley, Bristol, England, composer, organist (Exultate Deo)
02241786
Wilhelm Karl Grimm, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
02241809
Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
02241811
Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
02241824
John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
02241827
Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
02241833
Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
02241836
Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
02241838
Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
02241843
Thephilo Braga, Portugese poet/writer/politician
02241848
C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
02241852
George Moore, Ireland, novelist (Esther Waters)
02241860
Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
02241872
John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
02241874
Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop for Pittsburgh Pirates (1900-17)
02241879
Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
02241885
Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
02241890
Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
02241898
Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
02241899
Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Under Gang)
022419--
Dorothy Parke, Toronto Canada, actress (Amanda-Hot Shots)
James Sloyan, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Oh Madeline)
Jenny O'Hara, Sonora Calif, actress (Facts of Life, My Sister Sam)
Joan Diener, Cleve Oh, actress (54th Street Revue)
Melinda Naud, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat)
02241909
August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
Max Zwart, British/Americans philosopher (analytical philosophy)
02241914
Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
02241917
William Fairbank, Minneapolis, superconductivity physicist
02241921
Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
02241922
Steven Hill, Seattle Wash, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl)
02241924
Douglass Watson, Jackson Ga, actor (Another World)
02241928
Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
Paul B Elvström, Denmark, yachter (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56, 60)
02241929
Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
02241930
Barbara Lawrence, actress (Joe Dakota)
02241932
Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75-  )
John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
Michel Legrand, musician (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
02241934
Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st Socialist premier
Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
02241938
James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
02241940
Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
02241942
Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
Paul Jones, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
02241944
Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
Nicky Hopkins, rocker (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Jeff Beck, Quicksilver)
Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
02241945
Alain Prost, formula-1 racer (1985, 86 champ)
02241947
Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
Rubert Holmes, Tenafly NJ, singer (Piña Colda song)
02241948
Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
02241951
Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
02241952
Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
02241955
Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
02241956
Eddie Murray, 1st baseman (Balt Orioles)
Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
02241957
Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
02241958
Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
02241962
Teri Weigel, Ft Lauderdale Fla, porn star/playmate (Apr, 1986)
02241970
Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
02241973
James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
02241977
Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
02251635
Walraad the Old, earl of Nassau-Usingen
02251707
Carlo Goldoni, Italy, dramatist (Love of 3 Oranges)
02251725
Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, composer/organist (Notre Dame)
02251778
José Francisco de San Martín, liberated Argentina, Chile & Perú
02251807
George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
02251808
James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
02251809
George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
02251814
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS)
02251815
Robert Hall Chilton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
02251833
Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
02251841
Pierre Auguste Renoir, France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
02251842
Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou)
02251847
John Watson, Canada, philospher (Objective Idealism)
02251856
Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
02251866
Beneditto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
02251871
Oliver Samuel Campbell, tennis champ (US singles 1890)
02251873
Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
02251876
Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery
02251881
William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
02251882
Bruno? Traven, German? writer (Sierra Madre)
Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philogicist (Language boundary)
Ludvig Nordström, Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
02251888
John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
02251894
Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
02251895
DeBenneville "Bert" Bell, PA, NFL owner/commissioner/HOF (Eagles)
02251896
John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
02251899
Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
022519--
Jean Bruce Scott, Monterey Calif, actress (Magnum PI, Airwolf)
Louise Williams, Scranton Pa, actress (Busting Loose)
02251900
Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
02251901
[Herbert] Zeppo Marx, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
02251904
Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
02251906
Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
02251908
Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
02251909
Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
02251910
Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
02251913
Gert Frobe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
02251916
Ralph Baldwin, harness driver (set 11 major world records)
02251917
Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
02251918
Bobby Riggs, tennis star (1939 US Open)
Henry Norwood Ewell, Harrisburg Pa, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1948)
02251919
F de Jong Edz, historian
Monty Irvin, baseball hall of famer (NY Giants)
02251921
Nancy Kelly, US, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
02251925
Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
02251927
Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
Jane Nigh, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
02251928
Richard Stern, US writer
02251929
Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
02251937
Basia Johnson, maid who inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune
Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser)
02251938
Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
Herb Elliott, Australia, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
02251939
Marisa Mell, Vienna Austria, actress (Masuerade, Casanova)
02251940
Billy Packer, US, actor(?)
Jesús Lopez-Cobos, Toro Spain, conductor (Intl Conductor Competition)
Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
Ron Santo, Chicago Cub (1st baseball player to veto his trade)
02251941
David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
02251943
George Harrison, Beatle/Travelling Willberries (My Sweet Lord)
Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
02251944
Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
02251945
Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
02251947
Lee Edward Evans, Madera Calif, 400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-1968)
02251950
Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
02251952
James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
02251953
Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondant (Entertainment Tonight)
02251955
Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty)
02251957
Stuart "Woody" Wood, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
02251958
Kurt Rambis, NBA forward (Lakers, Hornets)/Clark Kent look-a-like
02251959
Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
02251962
Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980)
02251971
Jennifer LaVoie, playmate (Aug, 1993)
Sean Astin, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers, Like Father Like Son)
02251976
Chris Pitman
02261361
Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400)
02261675
Guillaume Delisle, Paris France, geographer (Atlas géographique)
02261686
Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat
02261707
Carlo Goldoni, Ital's lawyer/playwright (Belisario)
02261802
Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
02261808
Honoré Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist
02261824
Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
02261832
John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
02261837
Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
02261842
Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy
02261845
Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
02261846
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
02261852
John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
02261857
Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
02261861
Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
02261866
Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
02261867
Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
02261869
Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
02261873
Ewoud van Everdingen, meteorologist
02261876
Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2" (58.9 cm))
02261877
Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism)
02261883
Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek)
02261884
Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor
02261885
Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer
02261887
Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
02261893
Ivor Richards, English critic
William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
02261898
Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer
022619--
Barbara Meek, Detroit Mich, actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Melba)
Christopher Templeton, Lake Forest Ill, actor (Carol-Young & Restless)
Damita Jo Freeman, Palestine Tx, actress (Jackie Simms-Pvt Benjamin)
Jonathan Schmock, La Jolla Calif, actor (Billy-Double Trouble)
Kevin Best, NYC, actor (Harrison-General Hospital)
02261902
Menno ter Brak, writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
Rudolf Moralt, German conductor
Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le silence de la mer)
02261906
Madeleine Carroll, English actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
02261913
Jon Hall, Fresno Calif, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
02261914
Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
02261915
Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That woman & other Verses)
02261917
Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
02261918
Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers)
Otis R Bowen, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89)
Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar)
02261919
Hendrika Mastenbroek, Netherlands, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1936)
Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
02261920
A W [Rie] Kuiper-Mastenbroek, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1936)
Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
02261921
Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
02261922
Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
02261924
Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts & Letters Award)
Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
02261925
James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
02261926
Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
02261927
Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone
Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
02261928
Anatoli V Filipchenko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
Antione "Fats" Domino, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
02261930
Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
02261931
Robert Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
02261932
Johnny Cash, Kingsland Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
02261933
Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem)
James Goldsmith, Paris France, fiancier/corporate raider
02261938
Jack Knight, Somerville Miss, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
02261942
Joop van den Ende, director (Alsmeer Studio)
02261943
Bob "Bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect
02261945
Mitch Ryder, rocker (& Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
02261946
Bobby "Bingo" Smith, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile)
02261947
Sandi Shaw, [Sandra Goodrich], Essex, rocker (Girl Don't Come)
02261948
Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
02261950
Jonathan Cain, keyboardist (Journey-Don't Stop Believing)
02261953
Michael Bolton, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
02261957
Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Madison Wisc, 79k cyclist (Oly-gold-1984)
Keena Rothhammer, US, 800 m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
02261958
Jeff Fithian, actor (Trevor Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Joe Fithian, actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
Susan J Helms, Charlotte NC, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 54)
02261965
Brittany York, London England, playmate (Oct, 1990)
02261970
Katie O'Neill, LA Calif, actress (Together We Stand)
Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
0227 289
Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37), adopted Christianity
02271539
Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch book publisher
02271792
Don Joaquin BF Espartero, Spanish adventurer/field marshal
02271807
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
02271823
Fredinand Van Derveer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
William Buel Franklin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
02271827
Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
02271832
Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872
02271847
Dame Ellen Alice Terry, England, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)
02271850
Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
02271861
Rudolf Steiner, Austria, philosopher (founded anthroposophy movement)
02271881
Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, mathematician
Sveinn Björnsson, 1st president of Republic of Iceland (1944-52)
02271886
Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
02271887
James D Innes, English painter
02271888
Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
02271891
David Sarnoff, US, radio/tv pioneer/CEO (RCA)
Georges E Migot, French composer
02271892
William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
02271897
Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter)
G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)
02271898
Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
02271899
Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
022719--
Danny Rivera, spanish entertainer
Michael Fox, actor (Saul-Bold & Beautiful, Young Frankenstein)
Stephen Yates, actor (Another World)
Tim Topper, Balt Md, actor (Evan-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
02271901
Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
02271902
Gene Sarazen, Harrison NY, PGA golfer (Masters 1935, US Open 1922, 32)
John Steinbeck, Salinas Calif, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
02271903
Reginald Gardiner, Wimbeldon England, actor (Great Dictator)
02271904
James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
Renaat Verheÿen, Flemish actor/director
02271905
Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
02271909
Elisabeth Welsh, singer
02271910
Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)
02271912
Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
02271913
Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
02271920
Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)
02271922
Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
02271923
Dexter Gordon, US tenor saxophonist
02271925
Guy Mitchell, Detroit Mich, singer/actor (Guy Mitchell Show)
02271926
Peter Emery, British MP
02271930
Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
02271932
Dolf Rover, painter
Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables & Wireless)
02271933
Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977-  )
Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
02271934
Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan/consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
02271935
Alberto Remedious, opera singer
Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
02271936
Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985-  )
02271937
Barbara Babcock, actress (Liz-Dallas, Grace-Hill St Blues)
L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)
02271939
Antoinette Sibley, ballerina
Kenzo Takada, fashion designer
Peter Revson, auto racer (1971 Indianapolis pole winner)
02271940
Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
02271941
Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP leader (Soc/Lib Democrat)
02271942
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
02271943
Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live)
02271944
Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
02271947
Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
Marian G Fix, mime/actress (Dig up Cabbage)
02271948
Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
02271951
Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
02271952
Dwight Elmo Jones, Houston Tx, basketball player (Olymp-silver-1972)
Henk Westbroek, singer (Good Goal)
02271954
Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
02271955
Garry Christian, rocker
02271957
Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
02271960
Andres Gomez, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
Paul Humphreys, rock synthersizers (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
02271961
Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
James Worthy, NBA forward (LA Lakers, 1988 Playoff MVP)
02271962
Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
Grant Show, Detroit Mich, actor (Jack Hanson-Melrose Place)
02271966
Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-Young Riders)
02271969
Victoria Fair, Jackson Michigan, Miss Michigan-America (1991)
02271971
Ivan Robinson, Phila Pa, US boxer (Olympic-92)
02271973
"Pooh" Clark, rocker (High-5)
02271975
Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World)
02271980
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton
02281533
Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher
02281552
Jobst Bürgi, [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician
02281573
Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
02281683
René-Antoine de Réaumur, France, biologist/engineer
02281712
Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran, France, general
02281750
Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister
02281786
D François J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
02281797
Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)
02281799
Johann von Döllinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian
02281817
James Craig, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
02281820
John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
02281822
Matthew Duncan Ector, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
02281823
Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
02281824
Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
John Creed Moore, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
02281825
Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
02281833
Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general/field marshal
02281865
Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
02281866
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russia, Symbolist poet (Pilot Stars)
02281876
John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
02281882
Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
José Vasconcelos, Oaxaca México, politician/essayist/philosopher
02281887
William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
02281890
Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
02281893
Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
02281895
Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
Marcel Pagnol, French playwright
02281896
Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
02281898
Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
022819--
Billie Bird, Pocatello Idaho, actress (Mrs Cassidy-Benson)
Richard Romanus, Barre Vt, actor (Foul Play, Strike Force)
Rick Lohman, Cleve Oh, actor (Phyl & Mikhy)
02281901
Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
02281907
Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, cartoonist (Terry & Pirates)
02281909
Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
Stephen Spender, England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
02281910
Vincente Minnelli, movie director (American in Paris)
02281914
Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
02281915
Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
Zero Mostel, actor, if I were a rich man (Fiddler on the Roof)
02281917
Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
02281920
Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983-  )
02281923
Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
02281924
Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969-  )
02281925
Harry Corbett, British actor (Steptoe & Son/Jabberwacky)
02281926
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin, author (My Life)
02281928
Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey)
02281929
Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Okla City)
02281930
Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
02281931
Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
02281932
Brian Moore, British commentator (Big Match)
Don Francks, Vancouver, actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow)
02281934
Willie Bobo, NYC, jazz drummer (Cos)
02281938
Martin Olav Sabo, (Rep-D-MN, 1979-  )
02281939
Charles Brown, Cin Oh, featherweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
John Fahey, singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls Tx, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend)
02281940
Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play)
Mario Andretti, race-car driver (1969 Indianapolis 500)
02281942
Brian Jones, rocker (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
02281943
Barbara Acklin, Chicago, R&B singer (Love Makes a Woman)
Hans F Dÿkstal, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
02281944
Bernadette Peters, [Lazzaro], Queens NY, actress (Jerk, Song & Dance)
02281945
Charles "Bubba" Smith, Tx, NFLer (Balt Colts)/actor (Police Academy)
Mimsy Farmer, Chicago Ill, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina)
Ronnie Rosman, rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
02281947
Stephanie Beacham, England, (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys)
02281948
Frank Bonner, Little Rock Ark, actor (Herb-WKRP, Sidekicks)
02281950
Ilene Graff, Bkln NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
02281951
Gustavo Thoeni, Italy, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1972)
02281952
Cristina Raines, [Tina Herazo], Manila Phil, actress (Sentinel)
Jennie Lynn, San Diego Calif, actress (Love & Marriage)
Melissa Babish, SC, swimmer (Olympic)
02281955
Adrian Dantley, Wash DC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
Randy Jackson, rocker (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
02281956
Adrian Dantley, NBA forward (Utah Jazz, 1981, 84 top scorer)
02281957
Cindy Wilson, vocals/percussion (B-52's-Love Shack, Rock Lobster)
Phil Gould, rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water)
02281960
Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina)
02281962
Angela Bailey, England, Canadian 4X100m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
Rae Dawn Chong, Edmonton Alberta, actress (Quest for Fire)
02281965
Mikko Makela, Tampere Finland, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
02281967
Marcus Lillington, rocker (Breathe-All I Need)
02281969
Elisa Fiorillo, singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming)
02291468
Paul III, last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
02291692
Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
02291728
Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
02291736
Anna Lee, Manchester, England, founded Shaker movement in America
02291792
Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
02291828
Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela
02291840
John Philip Holland, pioneer in submarine building
02291860
Herman Hollerith, inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)
02291896
Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer
William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born)
022919--
John Roarke, Providence RI, comedian (Fridays)
02291900
Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
Yórgos Seféris, [Seferiádis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
02291920
Arthur Franz, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Invaders From Mars, Young Lions)
James Mitchell, Sacramento Calif, actor (Palmer-All My Children)
Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72)
Michele Morgan, [Simone Roussel], France, actress (Joan of Paris)
02291936
Alex Rocco, actor (Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man)
Alwin Schockemohle, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
Henri "Rocket" Richard, NHL center (Montréal Canadiens)
Jack R Lousma, Grand Rapids Mich, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-3)
02291944
Dennis Farina, actor (Mike Torello-Crime Story)
02291948
Nikolai Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976)
Patricia [Anne] McKillip, US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run)
Yuri Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976)
02291952
Bart Stupak, (Rep-D-Michigan)
Raisa Smetanina, USSR, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
Tim[othy] Powers, US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves)
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Hendrik II, duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies
02011294
Louis II, the Strong, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies
02011328
Charles IV, the Schone, King of France (1322-28), dies
02011666
Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
02011691
Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
George Ethereyou, English songwriter (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
02011733
August II, the strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
02011747
Jacobus E J Capitein, slave/vicar/merchant, dies
02011832
Ecco Epkema, classic linguist (Fries/Oudfries), dies at 71
02011851
Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley, writer (Frankenstein), dies at 53
George G Stokes, British/naturalist/pres Royal Society, dies
Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), killed by mob
Luis Phillip, Crown Prince of Portugal, killed by mob
02011910
Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
02011944
Piet Mondriaan, painter, dies
02011945
Johan Huizinga, culture historian (Homo ludens), dies
Julius P Hoste, Belg minister/daily newspaper publisher, dies at 69
Friedrich von Paul, German field marshall (Nederl./Stalingrad (66)
Friedrich von Paul, German field marshall, dies at 66
Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (general), dies
Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US & Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
02011974
Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
02011975
Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
02011976
Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
Werner C Heisenberg, German physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies
02011977
Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
02011979
Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
02011980
Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
02011983
Tullio Campagnolo, Itallian fiat manufacturer, dies
02011986
Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
02011987
Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
02011988
Heather O'Rourke, "Poltergeist" star, dies at 12 of intestinal ailment
02011991
H J van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN), dies
Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
02021435
Johanna II, lawless Queen of Naples (1414-35), dies at 61
02021594
Giovanni P da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68
02021660
Govert Flinck, painter (Isaac blessed Jacob), dies
02021685
Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies
02021723
Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66
02021769
Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at 75
02021836
M Laetitia Bonaparte-Ramolino ("Madame Mre"), dies at 85
Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies
Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
02021918
John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59
02021929
Albert Steinrück, German actor, dies
Theodor Batthyányi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
02021945
Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60
02021957
Valéry Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75
02021965
Richard P Blackmur, US, critic/publisher (Good European), dies
02021969
Boris Karloff, [William H Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies
Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83
02021970
Bertrand Russell, philosopher, MP, dies at 99 in Merioneth
02021978
Wendy Barrie, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
02021979
Sid Vicious, musician (Sex Pistols), dies of a heroin overdose
02021980
William H Stein, US biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies
02021981
Donald W Douglas, US aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88
02021982
Stringfellow Barr, US theorist (100 Great Books), dies at 85
02021987
Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
02021988
Clive Epstein, brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit
02021989
John Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies
02021992
Bert Parks, [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies
02021993
François Reichenbach, French director (L'Amérique Isolate), dies
0203 474
Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies
02031399
Jan of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castilië & León, dies
02031451
Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies
02031468
Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies
02031536
García de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies
02031558
Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies
02031846
Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Tie Waisenhaus), dies
02031853
August Kopisch, German writer (Mäuseturm), dies at 53
02031875
Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies
Isaac Frenchn van der Putten, premier 1866/minister of Cologne, dies
02031924
Woodrow Wilson, 28th pres (1913-21), dies at his home in Wash at 68
Jap Eden, World champion bicyclist & skater, dies
Roland Freisler, German judge (July 20th plotter), dies
Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies
Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42
John F Buziau, cabaret performer, dies at 81
Big Bopper, rocker, dies in a plane crash
Buddy Holly, rocker (Tghat'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash
Ritchie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), dies in a plane crash
Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54
Viscount Dunrossil, Gov-Gen of Australia, dies at 67
02031969
Eduardo C Mondlane, president Frelimo, Mozambique, murdered
02031971
Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72
02031975
John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55
02031984
Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies
Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England
02031991
Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
02031993
Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies
0204 708
Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope 708 (20 days), dies
02041189
Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies
02041503
Queen Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII of England, dies
02041505
Johanna van Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40
02041640
Hendrick C Devout, seascape painter, dies
02041746
Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
02041869
Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60
02041928
Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist: L transformation/Nobel 1902), dies
Edward Sapir, US linguist/cultural antropologist (indian), dies
Henri WA Deterding, oil magnate (Royal Oil/Shell), dies
Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies
02041957
Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46
02041965
U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
Gilbert H Grosvenor, president Natl Geographic Society, dies at 90
02041978
Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
02041982
Sue Carol, actress, dies at 73 of a heart attack
02041983
Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68
Karen Carpenter, drummer/singer (Carpenters), dies at 32
02041987
Liberace, pianist, dies at 67
0205  45
-BC- Cato, Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide
02051578
Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies
02051591
Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies
02051679
Joost van den Vondel, poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel), dies
02051822
Ali pasja van Janina, (Napoleon/Lord Byron), dies
02051881
Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
02051888
Anton Mauve, painter/cousin of Vincent of Gogh, dies at 49
Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884, dies at 42
02051911
Petrus A Cronjé, Transvaal Boer general, dies
Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer, dies at 62
Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
Lou [Andreas-]Salomé, Russian/German author (That Eroticism), dies
H Seyffardt, Lt-Gen/NSB-"minister", killed by resistance
Wim Gertenbach, printer of opposition newspaper [Slogan], dies
Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal men), dies at 79
Johann Blaskowitz, German gen (surrendered to Wageningen), dies
02051956
Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74
02051958
Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies
02051961
Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
02051967
Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God), dies at 87
02051968
Nick Adams, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel), dies at 36
Thelma Ritter, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 63
02051972
Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84
02051973
L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
02051978
Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, historical (Omzien), dies at 83
French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies
02051981
Barend Barendse, sportscaster, dies
Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), dies at 75
02051982
Dolores Maran, actress, dies at 56
Neil Aggett, South african worker's union leader, commits suicide
Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens, Flemish writer/nazi (doodvonnis), dies
02051983
Derk Roemers, union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67
02051991
Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak. Rawhide, Oscar), dies
Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies
02051993
Joseph L Mankiewicz, US writer/director (All about Eve)
0206 743
Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52
0206 891
Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies
02061140
Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies
Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
02061695
Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies
02061793
Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85
Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, dies
02061914
J Albert Neuhuys, painter (Hague school), dies
02061916
Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies
Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies
02061918
Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies
Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies
02061923
Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (discovered 5th moon Jupiter), dies
02061942
Wobbe de Vries, linguist, dies at 78
02061952
George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies, succeeded by Elizabeth II
7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich
02061964
Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies
02061970
Roscoe Karns, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78
02061973
Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar), dies
02061982
Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies
02061985
Charles Briggs, actor, dies at 53
Dandy Nichols, actress, dies at 78
02061989
Barbara Tuchman, US historian (Guns of August, Pulitzer Prize), dies
02061991
Danny Thomas, comedian/actor, dies at 76 of a heart attack
Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
02061993
Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies from Aids at 49
0207 590
Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies
02071609
Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
02071823
Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poetess/author of horror novels, dies
02071830
Marcos A [da Fonseca] Portugal, opera composer, dies
02071857
Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
Prosper Ménire, French doctor (Ménire Syndrome), dies at 62
02071878
Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
02071881
Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies
Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You) dies at 100
Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian conter-revolutionary, dies
02071921
Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolutionary anarchist, dies
02071937
Elihu Root, US minister of War/Foreign affairs, dies at 91
Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
Igor V Koertsjatov, Russian nuclear physics, dies at 57
Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies
02071967
Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies
02071968
Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
02071984
Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
02071987
David Savoy Jr, rock manager (Hüsker Du), commits suicide at 24
02071988
Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
02071990
Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
02071993
W Sybout A Colenbrander, historian/journalist, dies
02081124
Stefanus van Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies
02081245
Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist, dies
02081513
Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curaçao & Bonaire), dies
02081587
Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded
02081611
John H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
02081725
Peter I Aleksejevitsj, the Great, Russian tsar (Zaandam), dies at 52
02081740
Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italian Pope (1730-40), dies at 87
Rhijnvis Feith, mayor/writer (Zwolle), dies at 71
02081874
David F Strauss, German theologist, dies
02081878
Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum), dies
02081921
Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
Gee John, US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber (Nevada), dies
02081935
Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies
02081937
Scato Gocko de Vries, paleographer/librarian, dies
Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50
02081954
Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan), dies at 73
William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services, dies at 76
02081963
Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (1958-63), assassinate in Baghdad at 48
George Dolenz, actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55
Kassem, premier of Iraq, killed by military coup
02081968
J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies
02081974
Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (supernova), dies at 75
02081982
John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76
02081985
Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire) dies at 71
Tom Greenway, actor dies of a heart attack at 75
02081987
Harriet MacGibbon, actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies
02081989
Mauritius Mok, writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies
02081990
Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 55
02081993
Casper Van Der Berg, poet (Fashionable inconvenience), dies
Douglas Heyes Sr, [Matthew Howard], US playwright, dies
Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies
02091555
John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
02091640
Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad
02091670
Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
02091811
Nevill Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England dies
Jules Michelet, French historian (Lesson of Révolution), dies
02091906
Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio
02091932
Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
02091936
Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
George J L Maduro, Antillean poet (Dachau, Madurodam), dies
02091948
Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies
02091957
Miklós Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian regent (1920-44), dies
Earnest von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82
02091961
Grigory Levenfish, Intl chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70
02091964
Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies
02091968
Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78
02091973
Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53
02091975
Constantly Burniaux, Belg writer/art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies
02091977
Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
02091978
Kimberly Leach, 12, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City, Fla
02091981
Billy Haley, 1st rocker, dies at 55
02091984
Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
Yuri Andropov, Soviet pres, in power only 15 months, dies at 69
02091993
David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
02101134
Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies
02101162
Boudewijn III, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora, dies
02101164
Hugo van Fosses/Prémontré, abbott of Prémontré, dies
02101482
Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies
02101495
William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
02101567
Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots' husband, murdered
02101772
Louis Tocqué, French painter, dies at 75
02101829
Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
02101879
Honoré V Daumier, French painter/lithographer, dies at 70
02101887
Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
02101915
Albert J-BJ Thÿs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies
Wilhelm C Röntgen, physicist (radiation, Nobel 1901), dies at 77
02101932
R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies
Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
02101948
Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
02101957
Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90
Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42
02101962
Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
Billy Rose, US theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
02101983
Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80
02101989
Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
02101992
Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies
Mau Kopuit, editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
Thomas Graftdÿk, writer (Dr Faustus), dies
Wim Ramaker, director/writer (On Death Track), dies
02101993
John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
0211 731
Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies
0211 821
Benedict van Aniane, saint, dies
0211 824
Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies
0211 867
Theodora, the saint, Emperoress of Byzantine, dies
02111141
Hugo van St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies
02111554
Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule
02111650
René Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
02111685
David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46
02111841
J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies
02111868
Jean B L Foucault, French physicist (sway proof), dies
Léon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
02111879
Willem J Van Zeggelen, author/novelist/writer, dies at 67
02111911
Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies
Gerardus J P J Bolland, philospher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
02111931
Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies
Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/Min of Finance (SPD), suicide
Eduard R Verkade, actor/director, dies at 82
Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered
02111963
Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself, in London at 30
02111968
Howard Lindsay, US playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78
02111971
Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria
02111972
John Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80
Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64
02111978
James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84
02111982
Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer
Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies
Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79
02111985
Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83
Henry Hathaway, director/actor, dies of a heart attack at 86
02111986
Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65
02111991
Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies
02111993
Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident
02121128
Toghtekin, slave of Damascus, dies
02121242
Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
02121590
François Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat, dies at 65
02121594
Giovanni/Gianetto P da Palestrina, Italian bandmaster/composer, dies
02121787
Ruggiero Boscovich, Italy, physicist/astronomer/philospher, dies at 75
02121804
Immanuel Kant, philosopher, dies at 79 in Königsberg, Prussia
02121896
C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies
Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%) dies at 35
J W Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies
02121929
Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies
02121942
Grant Wood, US painter (American Gothic), dies at 49
Walraven [Wally] van Hall, banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39
Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at 71
02121965
Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley), dies at 53
02121971
George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 86
James Cash Penney, US founder (JC Penney, dies at 95
Clifton Williams, band master (Sinfonians), dies at 52
02121982
Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer (Owing), dies at 87
02121984
Anna Anderson Manahan [Grand Duchess Anastasia?], dies in Virginia
02121985
Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach-Cheers), dies at 61
02121986
Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 82
02121987
Lang Jeffries, actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55
02121989
Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83
Thomas Bernhard, Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies
02121991
Robert Wagner, mayor of NYC (1954-65), dies
02121992
Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928), dies
Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV), dies
02131130
Honorius II, [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies
02131199
Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies
02131315
Jan I van Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchâtel, dies
02131332
Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies
02131542
Katherine Howard, 5th wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded
02131602
Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
02131635
Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies
02131798
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies
02131882
Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies at 66 in Monrovia, Liberia
Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walküre), dies at 69 in Venice
02131891
David D Porter, US Admiral (Civil War), dies at 77
02131907
Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies
William Walraven, journalist/writer (Miskende Grumbler), dies
Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies
Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86
Delmar G Roos, designer of jeep, dies at 79
Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies
Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
02131975
Henry P Van Dusen, US protestant theologist, dies at 77
02131976
General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup
Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
02131980
David Janssen, [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
02131982
Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman) dies at 17
02131983
Marian Nixon, actress, dies of cancer at 78
02131992
Bob den Uyl, journalist/writer (Restless Travel), dies
02131993
Agatha Seger, author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91
02141400
Richard II, king of England (1377-99), murdered at 33
02141528
Edzard I the Great, count of Austria-Friesland (1494-1528), dies
02141571
Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/author (Autobiography), dies at 70
Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop/count of Beauvais, dies
02141779
James Cook, Scottish explorer, killed in fracas with Hawaiian
02141780
William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies
02141820
Karel F, Duke of Berry, murdered
02141831
Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero dies
02141891
William Tecumseh Sherman, Union Civil War general, dies at 71
Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36
David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space), dies at 81
02141950
Karl G Jansky, Czech discoverer of cosmic radio sources, dies
Sig Ruman, actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), dies at 82
02141969
Vito Genovese, US mafia chief, dies at 71
02141975
Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93
02141979
Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered
02141982
Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor, dies at 79
02141987
Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
02141988
Frederick Loewe, US composer, dies at 86
02141991
Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Republic), dies
John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies
02141992
Roepie Kruize, hockey player (Olympic-bronze-48/silver-52), dies
02151145
Lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies
02151152
Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies
02151580
Cunerus Petri, theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies
02151637
Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungarian/German Emperor (1619-37), dies
02151682
Claude de la Colombire, French jesuit/writer/royal chaplain, dies
02151686
Mathias Rauchmüller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies
02151818
Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies
02151849
Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistics curve), dies
Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies
02151919
Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66
Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchists/feminist, dies
02151928
Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies
Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-Chic), assassinated in Miami
Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies
Thomas "Fats" Waller, US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies
S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
02151959
Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
02151961
Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
02151965
Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 65
02151967
William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies
02151972
Jef [Josephus CF] Last, poet/Indonesian politician, dies
02151973
Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
02151981
Mike Bloomfield, guitarist/singer (Electric Flag), dies at 37
02151982
Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 85
02151984
Avon Long, dancer/actor, dies of cancer at 73
Ethel Merman, [Zimmerman], singer/actress, dies in her sleep at 76
Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
02151988
Gardiner Means, US economist, dies at 91
Neil R[onald] Jones, sf writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
Richard P Feynman, physicist/author (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies
Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
02151992
William H Schuman, US composer (2x Pulitzer)/Pres of Julliard, dies
02151993
George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies
0216 923
Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies
02161247
Hendrik Raspe, [Papenking], count of Thüringen, dies
02161279
Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies
02161391
Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies
02161779
William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies
02161799
Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern), dies at 74
02161829
François-J Gossec, Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies
02161857
Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
Giosu Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906), dies
02161915
Emil Waldteufel, [Charles Levy], French composer (Estudiantina), dies
02161916
[Gerard] John Ligthart, theorist (Ot & Sien), dies
Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzjoebin], Russ poet/journalist, dies
02161951
Henri Velge, 1st chair of Belgian Council of State, dies at 65
02161952
Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norse writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies
Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Lord Halifax], Brit minister of Transport, dies
02161966
Hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies
02161967
Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55
02161979
Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58
William Gargan, actor (New Adventures of Martin Kane), dies at 73
02161984
Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69
02161986
Howard Da Silva, Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76
02161991
Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies
02161992
Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies at 51 of cancer
George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A war quartet), dies
Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amsterdam (hackers), dies
02171600
Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake
02171612
Ernst van Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Keulen, dies at 57
02171673
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author/dramatist (Learned Lady), dies
Molire, French playwright, dies in Paris at 51
02171688
Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
02171803
Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guémené, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68
02171827
Johann H Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies
Hugues F R de Lamennais, [the la Mennais], French priest/writer, dies
02171856
Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris
02171905
Serge Alexandrovitsj, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist United), dies at 74
Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about 79
02171912
Count von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies
Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian politician, dies
Henri[cus A] Viotta, conductor/composer (Handbook of Music), dies
Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34), dies
Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies
02171954
Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72
02171955
Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist, dies
Tim Mara, co-founder of NFL's NY Giants, dies
Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85
Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55
Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85
02171970
Agnon, [SJ Czaczkes], Hebrews writer (Guest Comes Overnight), dies
02171977
Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76
02171980
Jerry Fielding, orch leader (Lively Ones), dies at 57
02171982
Lee Strasberg, father of method acting, dies of a heart attack at 80
Theolonious S Monk, US, jazz pianist/composer (Blue Monk), dies at 64
02171984
Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies), dies at 69
02171985
Wanda Perry, actress, dies at 67
02171989
Lefty Gomez, NY Yankee pitching great, dies at 80
02171990
French Kellendonk, writer (Good for Nothing), dies
Keith Herring, US graffiti-artist, dies
02171993
Alfredo the Leon, leader (Phillipines Red Scorpio Gang), dies
0218 999
Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies
02181217
Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59
02181397
Enguerrand VII, French mister of Coucy, dies at 56
02181478
Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel
02181535
Agrippa von Nettesheim , royal astrologer, dies
02181546
Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62
02181564
Michelangelo, Italian painter/sculptor/architect/poet, dies
Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies
02181830
Charles GG, Earl of Merode, mayor of Brussels, dies at 67
02181905
Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International), dies at 75
Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible), dies
Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66
Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage), dies
02181943
Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74
Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36), dies at 71
02181951
Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at 85
Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies
Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56
Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies
Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas över Svensk Folkkultur), dies at 79
02181973
Franc Costello, US gangster, dies at 82
02181975
Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88
02181976
Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81
02181977
Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), dies at 71
02181978
Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami), dies at 84
02181982
Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ detective writer/producer, dies at 82
Tina Carver, actress, dies at 58
02181985
Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbruggen], singer, dies
02181990
Hulk, fictional character dies in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC
02181993
Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82
Michael David Morrison, actor (As The World Turns), dies at 33
02191260
Boniface, of Lausanne, Belgian bishop/saint, dies
02191401
William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London
02191414
Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury/chancellor of England, dies
02191553
Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
02191875
Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
02191878
Charles F Daubigny, French restaurateur/painter, dies
02191897
Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
02191927
Georg Brandes, [Morris Cohen], Danish literary-historian/critic, dies
02191945
Wim Speelman, resistance fighter, executed at 26
02191950
Edyth Walker, US singer, dies
02191951
André Gide, French writer (Les Faux-Monnzyeurs), dies in Paris at 81
Gustave Charpentier, French composer (La Vie du Pote), dies at 95
02191965
Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81
Wilmer King, 1st casuality on Tappan Zee Bridge NY, dies
02191968
Ralph Dunn, actor (Mr Rudge-Norby), dies at 65
02191970
Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT), dies at 89
02191983
Alice White, leading lady, dies at 78 of a stroke
02191984
Ina Ray Hutton, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66
02191985
Elizabeth Julesberg, author of "Dick & Jane" books, dies
George Holmes, actor, dies at 66
02191986
Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
James O Eastland, (Sen-D-Miss), dies at 81
Paul Stewart, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline), dies at 77
Merwe, journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies
02201054
Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies
02201194
Tancredo van Lecce, King of Sicily, dies
02201431
Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies
02201595
Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41
02201656
James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies
02201773
Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardina/Duke of Savoy (KE III), dies
02201860
Henry Drummond, English banker, dies
A Eugne Scribe, French playwright (Fra Diavoli), dies
02201892
Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies
02201895
Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 78
Henry Moissan, French chemist (Nobel 1906), dies
Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician, Nobel winner, dies
02201920
Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies
John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75
Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 90
02201975
Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
02201980
Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96
02201983
James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident
Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33
02201985
Clarence Nash, voice of Donald Duck, dies at 80 of leukemia, in Calif
02201986
Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies
02201992
Andrew Schenck, conducter, dies of melanoma at 51
Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies at 63 of emphysema
02201993
Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies
0221 556
Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (basilica S Stefano), dies
02211513
Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies
02211554
Hieronymus Bock, German doctor, founder of modern botany, dies
02211677
[Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies
02211689
Isaacus Vossius, [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies
Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
02211803
Edward Despard, last drawn & quartered in England
Jean C F Demolombe, [prince l'exégse], French lawyer, dies at 82
02211919
Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies
Kurt Eisner, soc premier Bayern, murdered
02211926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, physicist (Nobel 1913), dies
George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies
02211951
Anton Roemer, actor, dies at 63
Blaise Cendrars, [Frédéric Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73
02211965
Malcolm X, [Little], black muslim leader, assassinated at 39 in NYC
Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies
02211969
José de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer, dies
02211976
Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies
Frieda Inescort, actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
02211984
Michail A Sjolochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
02211985
Ina Claire, comedienne, dies following a stroke at 92
Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
02211991
Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballerina, dies of cancer at 71
02211992
Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83
Kate A ter Horst-Arriëns, nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies
0222 606
Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies
02221071
Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Henegouwen (Arnulf I), dies
02221078
Johannes van Fécamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
02221213
Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies
02221371
David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46
02221478
Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies
02221512
Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 61
02221690
Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70
02221695
Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
02221731
Frederik Ruysch, anatomy, dies
02221770
Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
02221816
Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies
Jules Renard, French writer (Poil the Carotte), dies
02221875
Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
02221913
Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican pres, assassinated in milt coup
Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies
02221936
Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies
Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), dies
Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
Russell Porter, dies
Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami), dies
02221957
Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36
02221967
Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies
Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70
02221968
Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71
Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65
02221973
Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 72
Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), dies at 60
02221978
Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74
Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
02221980
Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66
02221982
Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60
02221983
Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist, dies
02221985
Alexander Scourby, actor, dies at 71
Efrem Zimbalist, Russian/Us composer/violinist, dies at 94
02221987
Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies at 58 of a heart attack
David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 56
Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
02221993
Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72
Pieter A H Forest, lawyer/procureur-general on Aruba, dies at 63
02231447
Eugene IV, [Gabriele Condulmer], Italian Pope (1431-47), dies
02231554
Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, is executed
Joshua Reynolds, painter, dies
02231821
John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies
02231828
Mihály Fazekar, Hungarian botanicus/literary (Book of Spices), dies
02231848
John Quincy Adams, 6th US pres (1825-1829), dies of a stroke at 80
02231915
Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC
02231922
Henri Landru, executed for having 11 wives, in France
Horst Wessel, German nazi writer (Die Fahne hoch), dies
02231931
Lady Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
02231934
Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard
Edward W Elgar, English composer/conductor (Coronation Ode), dies
02231935
Jan Duiker, architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies
Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies
Paul Claudel, French poet/song writer (L'otage), dies at 86
Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies in Calif
02231968
Edna Ferber, US author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80
Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78
02231969
Abd al-Aziz,ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saoed/King Saudia, dies
02231990
Annelien Kappeyne Van de Coppello, Dutch politician (Liberal), dies
James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
José Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador, dies
02241563
François Guise, French general strategist/duke, dies in battle at 44
02241624
Vicente Espinel, Spanish writer (Escudero Marcos de Obrégon), dies
Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon, dies
02241704
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
02241785
Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
02241829
Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
Dániel Berzsenyi, Hungarians poet, dies
Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
Jacobus van Looy, writer/painter, dies
Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
02241953
Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-field marshal (Ardennen), dies
02241964
Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/water colors painter, dies
Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
02241976
H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 68
02241982
Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 72
02241983
Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a hot tin roof), dies at 71
02241990
Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies at 70 of a heart attack
Sandro Pertini, president Italy, dies
Tony Conigliaro, Red Sox, dies in Salem, Mass, at 45 of kidney failure
02241991
George Gobels, comedian, dies
Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye bye love), dies
02241993
Bobby Moore, captain English soccer team (World champs 1966), dies
0225 779
Walburgis, English speaking abbess/saint (Walpurgisnacht), dies
02251247
Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies
02251495
Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35
02251601
Earl of Essex, executed for treason in revolt against Queen Elizabeth
02251634
Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, [Waldstein], German duke, murdered
02251713
Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
02251723
Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies
02251826
Piotr A von de Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
02251865
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
02251914
John Tenniel, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
02251922
Henri-Désiré Landru, French sex murderer: guillotined at 52
Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies
Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81
02251967
John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57
02251969
Jan Zajic, Czech student, self incinerates
02251970
Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66
02251975
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies at 77 in Chicago
02251978
Daniel "Chappie" James Jr, retired Air Force general, dies at 58
02251983
John Cowles Sr., Us publisher, dies at 84
02251987
James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
02251993
Eddie Constantine, [Edward Constantinewski], US/French actor, dies
John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies
Sjeng, [Jean GH] Tans, Dutch social dem chairmans (1965-69), dies
Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
02261076
Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Neth-Lutherians, murdered
02261154
Rogier II, King of Sicily, dies
02261266
Manfred, bastard son of Emperor Frederik II/king of Sicily, dies
02261324
Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies
02261577
Erik XIV Wasa, King of Sweden (1560-69), dies at 43
02261726
Maximilian II M Emanuel, ruler of Bayern, dies
02261770
Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer/violinist, dies
02261813
Robert R Livingston, US diplomat (Decl of Independence), dies at 66
02261823
John P Kemble, English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies
02261870
Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in NC, lynched
02261871
Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76
Carl Menger, Austrian economist, dies at 81
Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies
Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies
Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74
02261939
E Fernández Arbós, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, dies at 75
Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling), dies
02261960
Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83
02261961
Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, sultan/King of Morocco, dies
02261963
Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/politician (Prophet), dies
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries
02261966
Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71
02261967
Harry McNaughton, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 70
02261969
Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist/philosopher, dies at 86
Levi Esjkol, [Sjkolnik], premier (Israel), dies
02261971
Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor, dies
02261972
Tom Manders, cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 51
02261973
Mary Finney, actress (Honestly Celeste), dies at 68
02261981
Howard Hanson, US composer/conductor (Nordic), dies at 84
02261982
Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
02261992
Gerrit Schulte, [Le fou pedalant], 6 days bicyclist, dies
Jean R Yawkey, owner (Boston Red Sox), dies at 83 of a stroke
S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-Calif), dies at 85 of a stroke
02261993
Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64
Mark Kolthoff, painter/photographer, dies at 92
02271167
Robert van Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies
02271844
Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer, diplomat, statesman, & financier, dies
Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72
Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies
Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies
Karel WFM Doorman, spy (Java sea), dies
Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66
02271956
Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54
02271958
Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack
Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58
Platt Adams, 1912 Olympic high jump gold winner, dies
Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45
02271974
Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59
George Tobias, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 78
02271982
Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39
02271985
Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82
Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83
02271989
Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies
02271991
Artie Mitchell, porn producer (Behind the Green Door), shot at 45
H J of Royen, director Concert worker, dies
Robert-John Akkerman, diplomat to Tunis, murdered
02271992
Marinus Ruppert, Dutch political president (CNV), dies
02271993
Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 99
Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street), dies of cancer at 83
02281261
Hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies
02281618
Philip Willem, Prince of Orange, dies
02281626
Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51
02281638
Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier, Huguenot leader, dies
02281665
Lodewÿk van Nassau, Bavarian diplomat, dies
02281784
Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies
02281818
Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer, dies at 56
02281844
Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
02281905
Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
02281913
Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)
02281916
Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies
Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (Reaction of P), dies
02281936
Pedro Muñoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
Alfonso XIII the Borbón, corrupt king of Spain (1902-31), dies
Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist, dies
02281941
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1902-31), dies at 54
02281959
Maxwell Anderson, US dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies
02281961
Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies
Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), dies at 70
02281964
Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergense School), dies at 78
02281966
Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet
Elliot M See Jr, astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash
02281968
Frankie Lymon, singer, dies at 25
Juanita Hall, actress (Capt Billy), dies at 66
02281972
Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies
02281977
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71
02281978
Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73
Philip Ahn, LA Calif, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66
02281979
Jane Hylton, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
Mr Ed, talking horse, dies
02281985
Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in NYC
02281986
Sven Olof Palme, Swedish PM, assassinated in Stockholm
02281987
Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67
02281992
Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49
Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies
La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack at 53 in the Bronx
02281993
Fer A Olthoff, resistance fighter (Slogan), dies
Ishiro Honda, Japans director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
Joyce Carey, [Lawrence], English actress, dies
0229 468
Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
02291604
John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at about 74
02291852
John Landseer, printer & engraver for Royal Academy, dies
02291868
[Charles] Louis I [Augustus], King of Bayern (Lola Montez), dies
02291928
Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies
02291932
"Big Ed" Morris, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies
02291980
Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61
02291984
Roland Culver, actor (Thunderball), dies of heart problems at 83
02291992
Earl Scheib, CEO (Earl Scheib Auto Paint), dies at 85
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[Malaysia] Federal Territory Holiday (1974)
[Nicaragua] Air Force Day
[US] National Freedom Day
[Switzerland] Homstrom-celebrates end of winter
[Australia] Australia Day
02011995
[China] New Years-Year of the Pig (4693) End of Sexageney
0202
[US] Groundhog Day (To ski or not to ski)
0203
[Japan] Bean throwing Festival/Setsubun (last day of lunar cal winter)
[Paraguay] Patron's Day/San Blas, patrón
[Puerto Rico] Fiesta de San Blas, protector of harvest (316)
[US] 4 Chaplains Memorial Day
0204
[Angola] Outbreak of Fighting Against Portuguese
[Sri Lanka] Independence Day (1948)
[US] Kosciuszko Day
0205
[Finland] Runeberg Day (1804)
[Japan] Japanese Martyrs Day (26 martyrs-1597)
[México] Constitution Day (1857 & 1917)
[Roman calendar] Nonae Februarius
[San Marino] Liberation Day
[Tanzania] Birth of Afro Shirazi Party
[World] Boy Scouts Day (1910)
0206
[Massachusetts] Ratification Day (1788)
[New Zealand] Waitangi Day-New Zealand Day (1840)
02062000
[China] New Years-Year of Dragon (4698)
0207
[Grenada] Independence Day (1974)
0208
[Iraq] Ramadan Revolution
[Norway] Narvik Sun Pageant Day
02081997
[China] New Years-Year of Ox (4695)
0209
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0211
[Bangladesh] Shaheed Day
[Cameroon] Youth Day
[Flint Mich] White Shirt Day-end of blue collar sit down strike (1907)
[Florida] Gasparilla Carnival-rememberance of pirates
[Ft Myers, Florida] Pageant of Light (1884)
[Italy] Giorno della Conciliazione Day (1929)
[Japan] Empire Day
[Japan] Foundation Day (660 BC)-accession of Emperor Jimmu
[Liberia] Armed Forces Day
[Mauritius] Chinese Spring Festival
[US] National Inventors Day
0212
[Booneville Indiana] Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
[Burma] Union Day (1947)
[Georgia] Georgia Day/Oglethorope Day (1733)
[US] Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (Traditional)
02121994
[China] New Years-Year of Dog (4692)
0213
[St Augustine, Florida] Fiesta de Menendez
02132002
[China] New Years-Year of Horse (4700)
0214
[Arizona 1912, Oregon, 1859] Admission Day
[Bulgaria] Viticulturists' Day/Trifon Zarezan, cult of Dionysus
[Denmark] Gaekkebrev/Fjörtende Februar-gift exchanges by school kids
[Mexico] Day of National Mourning (Vincent Guerrero-1831)
[World] St Valentine's Day (269)
0215
[Massachusetts] Spanish-American War Memorial Day (1898)
[US] Battleship Day, Remember the Maine (1898)
[US] President's Day (formerly Washington's Birthday)-legal holiday
0216
[Lithuana] Independence Day (1918)
02161999
[China] New Years-Year of Hare/Rabbit (4697)
0217
[Sri Lanka] Maha Shivaratree
0218
[Gambia] Independence Day (1965)
[Iceland] National Bun Day
[Iran] Mohammed's Death
[Israel] Mother's Day
[Nepál] Constitutional Day (1951)
0219
[Ethiopia] Martyr's Day (1930s)
[Gabon] Constitution Day (1959)
[World] Brotherhood Day (1934)
0220
[US] John Glenn Day (1962)
0221
[Bangladesh] Bangladesh Martyrs Day/National Mourning Day (1952)
0222
[British Commonwealth] Girl Guides Thinking Day (1857)
[Central African Republic] President's Birthday
[Egypt, Syria] Unity Day (1958)
[India] Mothers Day
[México] National Mourning Day (Francisco I Madero-1913)
[Qatar] Amir's Assumption of Amirship (1972)
[St Lucia] Independence Day (1979)
[Virgin Island] Donkey Races Day
0223
[Brunei] National Day (1984)
[Guyana] Republic Day (1970)
[US] Iwo Jima Day (1945)
0224
[Cuba] Baire Uprising
[Estonia] National Day (1920)
[Ghana] Liberation Day (1966)
[Indiana] Vincennes Day-George Clark's defeat of British (1779)
[México] Independence Day
0225
[Kuwait] National Day
[México] Coronado Day (1540)
[Suriname] Revolution day
0227
[Dominican Republic] Independence Day (1844)
[St Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla] Statehood Day (1967)
[St Kitts & Antigua] Independence Day (1967)
[Zambia] Nelson Mandela Day (1990)
0228
[Egypt] Independence Day (1922)
[Finland] Kalevala Day (1835)
[Luxembourg] Burgsonndeg-celebrates end of winter
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[old RC] Commemoration of St Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr
0201 525
[RC] Commemoration of St Brigid of Kildar, Irish nun
[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân, 1415 AH; fast begins
02011999
[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5759 AM)
02019963
[Christian] Shrove Tuesday
[Ang, RC, Luth, Cong] Candlemas (Presentation or Purification)
[Christian] Feast of St Cornelius
[Liechtenstein, Vatican] Candlemas/Feast of Presentation of Jesus
[Witch] Imbolg sabbat
02021640
[RC] Commemoration of St Jeanne de Lestonnac, French foundress
0203 316
[RC] Memorial of St Blase, bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, martyr (opt)
0203 619
[Christian] Feast of St Laurentius, 2nd abp of Canterbury (604-619)
0203 865
[RC, Ang, Luth] Memorial of Anskar, Hamburg archbsp, msny Denmk/Swed
Feast of St Gilbert of Sempringham
[Ang] Commemoration of Cornelius the Centurion
02041373
[RC] Commem of St Andrew Corsini, bishop of Fiesole/confessor
[RC] Commemoration of St John of Britto, Portuguese Jesuit
[Baptist] Roger Williams Day
0205 251
[RC] Memorial of St Agatha, virgin/martyr
02051550
[RC] Commemoration of St Jeanne de Valois, French foundress
02051597
[Ang, Luth] Commemoration of 26 martyrs of Japan killed by Tagosama
[old RC] Feast of St Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
02051996
[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5756 AM)
02051997
[Moslem] Night of Power (Ramadân 27, 1417 AH)
[Christian] Commemoration of St Vedastus
[Christian] Feast of St Vaast (St Gaston)
0206  96
[old RC] Commemoration of St Titus, bishop of Crete, confessor
0206 300
[RC] Commemoration of St Dorothea, virgin/martyr
0206 676
[Ang, RC] Commemoration of Ss Amandus [Apostle of Belgium] & Vedastus
02061597
[RC] Commem of St Philip of Jesus, 1st Christian martyr in Japan
[RC] Memorial of St Paul Miki & his companions, martyrs
[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat (Arbor Day) (Shevat 15, 5753 AM)
[Christian] Feast of St Theodore
02071027
[Old RC] Feast of St Romuald, abbot
[Moslem] Night of Remembrance (Sha'bân 14, 1413 AH)
[Christian] Feast of Bl Jacoba (Bl Jacqueline)
[Methodist] Race Relations Sunday (2nd Sunday in February)
02081213
[RC] Comm of St John of Matha, confessor/ransomer of captives
02081537
[RC] Memorial of St Jerome Emiliani (opt)
02082001
[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat-Arbor Day (Shevat 15, 5760 AM)
[Lebanon] St Maron Day
0209 249
[RC] Commemoration of St Apollonia, deaconess/martyr
0209 444
[Old RC] Commem of St Cyril of Alexandria, bp/confessor/doctor
[RC] Commemoration of St Miguel Febres Cordero, Ecuadoran monk
02091997
[Christian] Shrove (Quinquagesima) Sunday
[Moslem] 'Id al-Fitr-end of Ramadân fast (Shawwâl 1, 1417 AH)
[Malta] St Paul's Shipwreck
0210 547
[RC] Memorial of St Scholastica, virgin
02101997
[Christian] Shrove Monday
[Christian] Feast of St Adolph
[Phil] Our Lady's Miraculous Apparitians of St Bernadette Soubirous
[Unification Church] True parents' birthday
[RC] Feast of St Gregory II, 89th Roman Catholic pope (715-31)
[Christian] Commemoration of St Theodora, Byzantine empress
02111858
[RC] Memorial of Apparition of Virgin at Lourdes (opt)
02111997
[Christian] Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
02111998
[Jewish] Tu B'Shevat-Arbor Day (Shevat 15, 5758 AM)
[Christian] Feast of St Eulalia
0212 896
[Orth?] Commem of St Anthony of Cauleas, patriarch of Constantinople
02121233
[old RC] Feast of 7 Founders of Servite Order
[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1414 AH)
02121997
[Christian] Ash Wednesday
[Christian] Feast of St Martinian
02131589
[Christian] Commemoration of St Catherine de Ricci, virgin/mystic
02131818
[Ang] Commemoration of Absalom Jones, priest,
02131994
0214 269
[RC] Commemoration of St Valentine, physician/martyr/patron of lovers
0214 869
[Luth, Ang, RC] Memorial of Cyril, monk/missionary to Slavs
0214 885
[Luth, Ang, RC] Mem of St Methodius, bishop/missionary to Slavs
02141994
[Christian] Feast of St Georgia (St Georgette)
[Orth] Meeting of Lord/Purification of Virgin (2/2 OS)
0215 117
[RC] Commemoration of Ss Faustinus & Jovita, martyrs
02151730
[Ang] Commemoration of Thomas Bray, priest/missionary
02151994
02151999
[Christian] Feast of St Elias
[Christian] Feast of St Juliana of Nocomedia
02161276
[RC] Commemoration of St Gregory X, pope (1271-76) (1/10?)
02161994
02161997
[Christian] 1st Sunday in Lent
[Ancient Rome] Quirinalia-Feast of Quirinus (a d xiij Kal Mar)
[Christian]  Feast of St Silvinus
[Christian] Commemoration of Flight into Egypt
02171233
[RC] Memorial of 7 Holy Founders of Servite Order (opt)
02171996
[Moslem] Night of Power (Ramadân 27, 1416 AH)
02171997
[Cyprus, Greece] Green (or Clean) Monday (1st Mon of Lent-moveable)
02171999
[Christian] Commemoration of St Bernadette
[Christian] Feast of St Angilbert
[Christian] Feast of St Constantia (St Constance)
0218 110
[RC] Commemoration of St Simeon, bishop of Jerusalem, martyr
0218 461
[Orth] Feast of St Leo I, the Great
02181455
[RC] Commemoration of Bl Fra Angelico, Florentine painter
[Luth] Commemoration of Martin Luther, renewer of Church
02181996
[Christian] Feast of St Conrad
02191996
02191997
[Ang, RC] Ember Day
[Christian] Feast of Chair of St Peter at Antioch
0220 743
[RC] Feast of St Eucherius
02201620
[Luth] Commemoration of Rasmus Jensen, pastor
02201994
02201996
[Christian] Feast of Bl Noel
02211072
[RC] Commem of St Peter Damian, bishop of Ostia, confessor/doctor
02211595
[RC] Commemoration of St Robert Southwell, English Jesuit, martyr
02211993
02211994
02211996
[Moslem] 'Id al-Fitr; end of Ramadân fast (Shawwâl 1, 1416 AH)
02211997
02211999
[Christian] Feast of Blessed Isabel
[Moslem-Qatar] Amir's Assumption of Amirship
0222 354
[RC] Commemoration of Chair of St Peter at Antioch
02221297
[RC] Commemoration of St Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan tertiary
02221997
02221998
02221999
[Ancient Rome] Terminalia; festival of Terminus, god of boundaries
0223 166
[Ang, Luth, RC] Memorial of St Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr
02231072
[old RC] Feast of St Peter Damian, bp of Ostia/confessor/doctor (2/2)
02231719
[Luth] Commemoration of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, missionary
02231993
[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadân (1413 AH)
02231994
02231998
[Ang, Luth, RC] Comm of St Matthias the Apostle (nonleap years)
02241994
[Jewish] Fast of Esther (Adar 13, 5754 AM)
02241998
02241999
[Christian] Feast of St Avertanus & Bl Romeo
[RC] Commemoration of St Matthias the Apostle (leap years)
[RC] Commemoration of St Walburga, abbess
0225 806
[Orth?] Commemoration of St Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople
[Luth] Commemoration of Elizabeth Fedde, deaconess,
02251994
[Jewish] Purim-Feast of Lot (Adar 14, 5754 AM)
02251996
02251998
02252002
[Jewish] Fast of Esther (Adar 13, 5762 AM)
0226
[Christian] Feast of St Nestor
0226 616
[Christ] Commem of St Ethelbert, king of Kent; baptized by Augustine
02261994
02261995
02261999
02262002
[Jewish] Purim-Feast of Lot (Adar 14, 5762 AM)
[Christian] Feast of St Leander
02271633
[Ang] Commemoration of George Herbert, priest
02271862
[RC] Commemoration of St Gabriel Possenti [Non leap years]
02271995
[Moslem] Night of Power (Ramadân 27, 1415 AH)
02271999
[Christian] Feast of St Romanus
0228 468
[RC] Comm of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), cal reformer (non leap years)
02281862
[RC] Commemoration of St Gabriel Possenti (leap years)
02281995
02281996
[RC] Commemoration of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), calendar reformer
0229 992
[Christian] Commemoration of St Oswald, archbishop of York
S
0200
Biorhythm Health Month-National Meat Month
Flowers-violet & primrose           Gem-amethyst
National Cherry-American Heart-TV Sweeps & Black History Month
[Ancient Rome] Kalendæ Februarius; Kalend Feb
[Plains Indians] Hunger Moon month
National Freedom Day
People's Day
[Hawaii]  Pepeluali
NFL Pro Ball (Aloha Bowl, Honolulu Hawaii)
02010219
Astrological sign:  Aquarius
[Ancient Rome] Caput Nonarum in Roman calendar (a d iv Non Feb)
[Scotland] Term Day (quarterly rents due today)
[Ancient Rome] a d iij Non Feb
[Ancient Rome] Prid Non Feb
Italian & French dates are Old Style to 1582, New Style thereafter
[Ancient Rome] Nonæ Februarius; Nonæ Feb
02050210
Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant near ¯ Aurigae
[Ancient Rome] Caput Iduum (a d viij Id Feb)
02060214
Theta Centaurid meteor shower, radiant in Lupus near Centaurus
02060318
Delta Leonid meteor shower, radiant between þ & Ù Leonis
[Ancient Rome] a d vij Id Feb
[US] National Hangover Day
[Ancient Rome] a d vj Id Feb
[Ancient Rome] a d v Id Feb
[Ancient Rome] a d iv Id Feb
[Ancient Rome] a d iij Id Feb
[Ancient Rome] Prid Id Feb
Lego National Build-off
[Ancient Rome] Idus Februarius
Friday the 13th!  Beware!
[Ancient Rome] Caput Kalendarum (a d xvj Kal Mar)
[Ancient Rome] Lupercalia, fertility festival (a d xv Kal Mar) (1583)
Daytona 500 (3rd Sunday in February)
[Ancient Rome] a d xiv Kal Mar
Annular eclipse visible over Indian Ocean & Australia
Annular solar eclipse can be seen in Indian Ocean, Australia
World Day of Prayer
[Ancient Rome] a d xij Kal Mar
[Ancient Rome] a d xj Kal Mar
[Ancient Rome] a d x Kal Mar
02200320
Astrological sign:  Pisces
[Ancient Rome] Feralia, honoring the dead; a d ix Kal Mar
[Ancient Rome] a d viij Kal Mar
[Ancient Rome] a d vij Kal Mar
Bis-sexto calendas Martius, in leap years; a d vj Kal Mar
[?] Bis-sexto calendas Martius (in leap years)
[Ancient Rome] Regifugium; a d vj Kal Mar
[Ancient Rome] a d v Kal Mar (common years)
[Ancient Rome] a d iv Kal Mar (common years)
02261998
Total eclipse visible over Central & South America & Caribbean
[Ancient Rome] Equirria (common years)
[Ancient Rome] a d iij Kal Mar (common years)
[Ancient Rome] Prid Kal Mar (common years)
[Sweden] Maria name day (most popular woman's name in Sweden)
0229
[Ancient Rome] Prid Kal Mar
[World] Leap Day/Bachelor Day
02-- 499
[Lawrence] ends his reign as Catholic Pope
02-- 824
Eugene II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
02--1851
University of Minnesota chartered
02--1958
WSUR TV channel 9 in Ponce, PR begins broadcasting
02--1965
1st computer dating service begins, Cambridge Mass
02--1966
NBC commits to Star Trek for fall schedule
02--1981
Paterson releases IBM's 86-DOS
0201 772
Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
02011709
Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
02011783
William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
02011788
1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
02011790
Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
02011793
Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
Seville, Spain surrenders to French
US Population: 7,239,881,  Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
02011814
Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
Volcano Mayon on Luzon Phillipines erupts killing 1,200
02011840
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
02011846
Théphile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
02011860
1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
02011861
Texas becomes 7th state to secede
02011862
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
02011864
-Feb 8th) Battle of Yazoo River, MS
02011865
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
02011867
Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
02011881
US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
02011893
Opera "Manon Lescaut" is produced (Turin)
Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
02011896
Opera "La Boheme" is produced (Turin)
02011898
1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
China's emperorin Tzoe-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
02011909
US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
Tanganyika Railway opens
02011916
H Thiele discovers asteroid #1847 Stobbe
Russia adopts Gregorians calender (becomes Feb 14)
1st commercial armored car introduced, St Paul, Minn
02011923
Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
Fascists Free Will Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
02011924
Amsterdam's Netherland Press Museum opens
New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR
02011925
1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
02011929
1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
Colonial govt arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss desolves all political parties but his
James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
Russia begins new offensive against Finland
Gen von Paulus (Stalingrad) surrenders to Russian troops)
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
Mussert directs NSB-shadow cabinet
US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
Upper state Soviet enlarges autonomist soviet republic
US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
Hungary proclaims Zoltán Tildy as communist president
Republic Hungary proclaims Zoltán Tildy as communist president
Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
republic Hungary proclaimed/forms (Zoltán Tildy as president chosen
02011947
Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian cabinet of christian-democrats
Aleide the Gasperi forms Italian cabinet of christian-democrats/commun
02011948
Federation Malaysia formed/shaped out 9 sultanate
Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
02011949
200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used
02011950
USSR asks condemnation emperor Hirohito because of war crimes
USSR condemns Emperor Hirohito of war crimes
Urko Kekkonen  to president of Finland chosen
Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
02011951
-50° F (-46° C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1st telecast of atomic explosion
Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
UN condemns People's Republic of China as agressor in Korea
General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
02011953
"General Electric Theater" premiers on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
"You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premiers on CBS television
Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
Soap opera "Secret Storm" premiers
02011956
WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
Gÿsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
02011958
1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
02011959
Lowell Observatory discovers asteroid #2847
Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
Texas Instruments gets patent on IC, Integrated Circuit
WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
02011960
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
Black college students sit-in at segregated lunch counter in NC
Extremely-rightward rebellion in Algeria
02011961
1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
02011963
Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing
Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
Suriname River dammed
Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
02011969
WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
02011972
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
"Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premiers on CBS TV
1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
"Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premiers on ABC TV
Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
02011981
11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
02011982
Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
02011984
Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
02011985
-61° F (-52°C) at Maybell, Colorado: state record
-69° F (-56° C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
Singer Diana Ross marries Arne Naess in Switzerland
163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
02011989
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
Princess Diane of England visits NYC
Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
US Air & commuter jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
02011992
Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders
0202 506
king Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
02021119
Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
02021461
2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrians defeat Yorkists
02021536
Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
02021653
New Amsterdam becomes a city (later NYC)
02021798
Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25ø)
02021811
Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
02021823
Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premiers in Venice
02021829
Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage
02021843
US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose govtal committee
02021848
1st shipload of Chinese arrive in SF
02021854
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians"
02021863
Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
02021864
-Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
02021869
James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
02021870
Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, NY
Cottenot discovers asteroid #181 Eucharis
02021880
SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
02021892
Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter, Baltimore
02021893
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
02021894
US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
Opera "Louise" is produced (Paris)
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
02021906
Pope encyclical against seperation of church & state
Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
02021910
M Wolf discovers asteroid #330 Adalberta
Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
02021913
NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
02021916
M Wolf discovers asteroid #815 Coppelia
M Wolf discovers asteroid #888 Parysatis
Monarchy ends in Portugal
Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
France occupies (German) Memel territory
02021922
James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
US signs friendships treaty with Central American countries
02021924
International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
02021925
Belgian episcopal rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
3 men dance Charleston for 22½ hours
1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)
Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
02021933
2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler disolves Parliament
Ucicky's "Rotten Morning" premiers in Berlin
02021934
Bishops warn against fascism/nazism
02021935
Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage Wisc
LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
02021943
German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II
4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands
Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
-35° F (-37° C), Greenburg, Indiana (state record)
Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
Snow falls on Gibraltar
1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
02021959
Buddy Holly's last performance
Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
02021960
Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
02021961
Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building
02021962
1st pole vault over 16' (4.88 m) (John Uelses-16¼', Milrose Games)
8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
John Uelses pole vaults 488 cm
02021963
Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
02021964
Sjoukje Dÿkstra wins Olympic gold for speed skating
02021967
Bolivia adopts its constitution
Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
02021971
Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become leader of Uganda
James R Schlesinger becomes director of CIA (until July)
02021974
Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
02021975
Harvard College discovers asteroid #1940 Whipple
02021977
Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
"Late Night with David Letterman" premiers on NBC
San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
02021986
Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
Philippines adopts constitution
0° F (-18° C) or below in 15 US states
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's Nationalist Party leader
NL announces Yanks' broacaster Bill White will be 1st black president
02021991
US postage is raised from 25ø to 29ø
NFC beats AFC 21-15 in pro bowl
02031377
Cardinal Robert of Genve (anti-pope Clemens VII) begins term
Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
02031576
Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
02031690
1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
02031743
Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
02031781
Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
02031783
Spain recognizes US independence
Territory of Illinois organized
02031815
World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
02031823
Opera "Semiramide" is produced (Venice)
02031836
Whig Party holds its 1st national convention, Albany NY
02031855
Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
02031860
Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
02031864
Sherman's march through Mississippi
02031865
Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
02031869
Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
02031870
15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
-16° F (-27° C), Minden Louisiana (state record)
Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
02031911
J Helffrich discovers asteroids #708 Raphaela & #709 Fringilla
02031913
16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
02031915
Turks attack on Suez Canal, fails
02031916
Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
02031917
US broke diplomatic relations with Germany
Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
02031919
Socialist conference in Berne Switzerland
02031921
J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #945 Barcelona
Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
02031927
Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1145 Robelmonte
02031930
William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
Johnny Guitar Watson, guitarist
S Arend discovers asteroids #1352 Wawel, #1969 Alain & #2689 Bruxelles
4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
Air attack on Berlin (3000 ton bombs)
Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
-81° F (-63° C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
02031948
Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
02031953
J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on Today Show
02031954
Jeen Van de Bergen wins Dutch Elfstedentocht skate
Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
02031964
"Meet the Beatles," goes gold
Black & Puerto Rican students boycot NYC public schools
02031965
Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
02031966
1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
02031972
11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
02031979
Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
02031980
Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
02031982
Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
10th Space Shuttle Mission  (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1st baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach, Calif
02031986
Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
02031989
Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
NY Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
02031992
Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
Sisinnius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0204 900
Louis III, crowned king of Germany
02041508
Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
02041600
Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
02041783
Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
02041787
1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
02041789
1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as Pres & VP
02041794
French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
02041797
Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000
02041824
J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
02041846
Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
02041847
1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
02041854
Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc
02041855
Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
02041858
H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #52 Europa
02041864
24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
02041865
Hawaiian Board of Education formed
Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
02041866
Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
02041887
Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
02041888
A Charlois discovers asteroid #272 Antonia
1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
02041899
Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 & 1 tie for Stanley Cup
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #1345 Potomac
Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
US Congres approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
02041920
1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (1½ months)
02041922
WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
02041924
1st winter Olympics close at Charmonix France
B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1017 Jacqueline
02041926
Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join with Germany
02041927
KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
02041929
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1664 Felix
02041930
1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
National League adopts a deader baseball
3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1239 Queteleta
Japanese troop attack Harbin, Manchuria
L Volta discovers asteroid #1238 Predappia
02041933
Crew  of "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts (ends Feb 10th)
02041934
Reinmuth disc asteroids 2824 Franke, 3219 Komaki, 3370 Kohsai & 3404
1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
British Panzer division occupies Maus, Libië
Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
United Service Organization (USO) founded
02041942
Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
FDR, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
02041964
Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax
FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Okla City
All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
02041967
US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
02041968
Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
02041969
41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders
02041971
Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
Govt exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
02041972
Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
02041974
Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
02041976
12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
02041977
11 die in a elevated train crash in Chicago Ill
Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"
Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3324
02041984
"Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
02041985
20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons
Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers;
02041988
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
02041990
10 Israeli tourists murdered in Cairo
Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
02041991
US postage raises from 25ø to 29ø
02041993
Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
02051428
King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversive sermons
02051488
Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught
02051576
Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours
02051631
Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England
02051644
1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
02051663
Earthquake in Canada
02051736
Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
02051777
Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
02051782
Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English
02051783
Sweden recognizes US independence
02051816
Opera "Barber of Seville" is presented (Rome)
02051817
1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
02051825
Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable collar
02051846
1st US newspaper published on Pacific Coast, Oregon Spectator
02051850
Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
Push key adding machine patented
02051861
Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
Peep show machine patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
02051864
Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
02051865
Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
02051870
1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
02051873
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #129 Antigone
02051877
A Borrelly discovers asteroid #172 Baucis
Phoenix, Az incorporates
02051887
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
Opera "Otello" is produced (Milan)
Snow falls on SF
Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
02051901
Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration
Present Mexican constitution adopted
02051918
1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson
Seperation of church & state begins in USSR
Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium
02051923
General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1106 Cydonia, #1109 Tata & #1346 Gotha
02051931
Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
02051932
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2897 Ole Romer, #3263 & #3426 Seki
R Schorr discovers asteroid #1240 Centenaria
Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2346 Lilio, #2444 Lederle, #2957 & #3707
FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed
02051940
Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
02051945
Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s)
Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland
"Nature of Things" science show premiers on NBC prime time
Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion
Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion
02051949
Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic
02051953
Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
02051954
WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Pierre Mends France ends term as premier of France
Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic
Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
02051962
French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racical segregated" schools, filed
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16°
02051963
Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
Soviet lunar probe failure
02051966
BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premiers on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
US population reaches 200 million
Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins
02051970
WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
02051974
Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
02051977
General Mills Adventure Theater premiers on CBS radio
Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
02051979
Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
Sears Radio Theater premiers on CBS
Milt jury in NC convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
Laker Airways collapes owing £270M ($351M)
Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
02051984
E Bowell disc asteroid #3486 Fulchignoni, #3526 Jeffbell & #3590 Holst
02051986
Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
02051987
Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
02051988
1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grant jury for drugs
02051989
Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
0206 337
St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
02061508
Maximilian I becomes emperor of Roman Empire
02061626
Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle
02061693
Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
England declares war on France
France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty
Mass becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
02061815
NJ issues 1st US railroad charter
02061820
1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
86 free black colonists sail from NYC to Sierra Leone, Africa
US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
02061840
Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand
02061854
Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
02061861
1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
02061862
General Grant initiates a campaign in Mississippi Valley
Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
02061865
Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
02061867
Peabody Fund established to promote Black education in South
02061880
J Palisa discovers asteroid #212 Medea
02061885
N R Pogson discovers asteroid #245 Vera
02061891
1st great train robber by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
Young Women's Hebrew Association organized in NYC
Great fire in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
M Wolf discovers asteroid #817 Annika
Britain grants women (30 & over) vote
1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
Saarland administrated by League of Nations
Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
Fascist coup in the Memel territory
M Wolf discovers asteroid #1219 Britta
-90° F (-68° C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
112' ocean wave observed near Manila
Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane
02061935
1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for 1st time
02061936
4th Winter Olympic games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
02061938
A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #2350 von Lude
Spanish govt flees to France
Auke Adema wins 7th Dutch Elfstedentocht skate
Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2479 Sodankyla
02061948
KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
02061951
"Broker Special" train crashs in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
U of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
02061959
Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
US 1st successful Titan intercontinental ballistic missile
"Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
02061962
Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
02061967
Cultural Revolution in Albania
Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston
P Wild discovers asteroid #1803 Zwicky & #3021
02061968
10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
L Chernykh discovers asteroids #1772 Gagarin & #1890 Konoshenkova
02061971
1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm
P Wild discovers asteroid #2033 Basilea
02061974
3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
02061977
4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris
02061978
Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office
Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3301
Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54" (137cm))
02061981
N Thomas discovers asteroids #2779 Mary, #2999 Dante & #3352 McAuliffe
Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5000 m indoor (13:20.4)
02061983
13th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 20-19
02061984
E Bowell discovers asteroids #3316 Herzberg & #3506 French
Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
02061986
NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
02061987
No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish govt
02061990
Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights
Wales Conference beats Campbell 16-6, in NHL All Star Game
Freedman's Aid Society, fotms to promote education among Blacks
Pelagius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
02071550
Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
02071639
Académie Française begins Dictionary of French Language
Last of Midwest quakes (see 12/16) strikes New Madrid, Missouri
Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
02071818
1st successful US educational magazine, Academician, begins, NYC
02071827
Ballet (The Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theatre (NYC)
02071831
Belgium adopts it's Constitution
02071836
"Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
Alcorn A & M College opens
02071876
Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
J Palisa discovers asteroid #182 Elsa
02071882
Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
02071889
Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
02071891
Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
M Wolf discovers asteroid #415 Palatia
02071900
Labour Party forms in England
Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Baltimore catches fire (1500 builings destroyed in 80 blocks)
Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
2nd Dutch Elfstedentocht skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
02071913
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #739 Mandeville
02071914
Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #909 Ulla
Mussolini govt exchanges diplomats with USSR
02071927
O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1584 Fuji
02071928
1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
02071933
Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1720 Niels
S Arend discovers asteroid #2084 Okayama
02071936
A flag is authorized for Vice President
02071938
K Reinmuth disc asteroid #1481 Tubingia, #1674 Neveld & #2022 West
02071940
British railroads nationalized
Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released
1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
02071943
Shoes are rationed in US
Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
02071945
General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
Pres Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
02071946
Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
02071947
Britain proposes partitioning Palestine between Arabs & Jews
Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
Georges Bidault forms French govt
Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
02071956
Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
1st showing of DAF 600 auto
Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
Mine cave in near Völklingen West Germany, kills 298
President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
Cassius Clay becomes a black muslim
George Harrison has his tonsils removed
Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
02071966
KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
02071969
1st US pari-mutual female jockey; Diane Crump rides at Hialeah, Fla
Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack
George Harrison of Beatles, has his tonsils removed
02071970
LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
02071971
Women win right to vote in Switzerland
02071973
1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
02071974
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
02071975
NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
02071976
Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Bkln NY)
World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
02071977
Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
02071979
Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
02071985
Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5¼"
NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
02071989
Tennis superstar Björn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
Karachi police kill 22 anti-miltary demonstrators
02081672
Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
02081690
French troops set indian settlement in Schenectady NY on fire
02081735
1st US opera performance in Charleston SC (Colley Cibbers "Flora")
02081750
Minor earthquake in London
02081807
Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
02081837
1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
02081856
J Chacornac discovers asteroid #39 Laetitia
02081861
Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Ala
02081862
Battle of Roanoke Island, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
Opera "Lily of Killarney" is produced (London)
02081865
1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
Martin R Delany becomes 1st black major in US army
J Palisa discovers asteroid #183 Istria
Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen
02081887
Congress passes Dawes Act, a homestead act for Indians
Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
02081889
A Charlois discovers asteroid #283 Emma
02081894
Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
02081904
Outbreak of hostilities in Russo-Japanese war
02081907
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #636 Erika
02081910
Boy Scouts of America incorporated
02081911
US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Dávila of Honduras
02081912
1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
02081914
General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
02081915
"Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA
02081916
M Wolf discovers asteroid #816 Juliana
Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #947 Monterosa
Radio arrives at the White House
02081923
Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
Germany: NSDAP Völkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
02081926
Germany questions its membership in League of Nations
Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theatre Dublin
Walt Disney Studios formed
Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1154 Astronomia
02081928
1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
02081929
KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
-23° F (-31° C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn
1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
Red army recaptures Koersk
02081944
1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
02081945
Allies air attack Goch/Kleef/Kalkar
Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
02081947
KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty gets lifelong sentence
02081953
WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
02081955
Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
02081957
SF Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
Edgar Whitehead follows Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
Congress begins looking into payola
02081962
KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
French Diadme D-1C satellite launches into Earth orbit
Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg)
02081969
Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México
Ringo releases "You're 16"
Skylab 4's astronauts land
Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
02081975
1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
02081976
Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
02081977
Earthquake in SF, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced due to
02081978
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
N G Thomas discovers asteroids #2556 Louise & #2764 Moeller
02081983
Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot
02081986
5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
02081988
NASA launches DOD-2
5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
02081991
Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
02081992
16th Olympic Winter games opens in Albertville, France
Ulysses spacecreft passes Jupiter
Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
02091267
Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
02091621
Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)
02091674
English reconquer NY from Netherlands
02091799
USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, W I
02091822
American Indian Society organizes
02091825
House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
02091849
Roman Republic declared
02091861
Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
Tennessee votes against secession
02091867
Nebraska becomes 37th US state
02091870
Grant signs bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service
US Army establishes US National Weather Service
Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
02091877
US weather service established
02091882
J Palisa discovers asteroid #222 Lucia
1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1st shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
02091893
Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
02091895
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)
Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
02091904
Japan declares war on Russia
02091905
M Wolf discovers asteroid #558 Carmen
1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
02091912
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #729 Watsonia
S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #849 Ara
US Tennis Assn ammends rule taking bye away from defending champion
-18) 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
02091916
Britains miltary service act enforced (conscription)
02091917
M Wolf discovers asteroid #863 Benkoela
02091918
Army chaplain school organized at Ft Monroe, Va
02091920
International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
Italian cabinet of Bonomi forms
Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
02091924
Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
02091925
German Minister Stresemann signs security treaty with France
Haifa Techion (Israel), opens
02091926
Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
02091933
-63° F (-53° C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
-14.3° F (-25.8° C), coldest day in New York City
-51° F (-46° C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
02091939
Belgian Spaak govt falls
02091940
Joe Louis defends heavyweight boxing title beating Arturo Godov
02091941
British troops conquer El Agheila
Nazis provoke 1st anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam
Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
Japanese troop land near Makassar, South-Celebes
Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
-Feb 10th, Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with communists
"Adventures of Superman" TV series premiers in syndication
WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
02091954
Mario Scelba forms new govt in Italy
02091955
US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
-5° F (15° C) in Sicily
KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
R Lacoste follows Catroux on as premier of Algeria
AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
02091962
Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
GI Joe character created
NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
02091969
KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
Apollo 14 returns to Earth
Earthquake shook Los Angeles, 64 die
Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 26 & causes over $½B damage
Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF
L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #1963 Bezovec
Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City, Fla; later executed
02091979
ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
Nigeria amends constitution
02091980
Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game
L Brozek discovers asteroid #2622 Bolzano & #3423
T Seki discovers asteroid #2396 Kochi & #2621 Goto
02091985
Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
02091986
Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
02091987
Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
02091988
Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference 6-5 in NHL All Star Game
02091989
Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
Michael Manleys Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
02091990
"Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
Doina Melinte runs world record 1500m (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
Galileo flies by Venus
Namibia's constitution ratified
02091991
Johan Koss skatesr world record 5k (6:41:73)
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
Voters in Lithuania vote for independence
02091992
NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
0210  60
St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
02101098
Crusaders slay Army Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
02101635
Académie Française is founded in Paris
02101676
Attack on Wampanoag indians in Lancaster Mass
02101720
Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
02101749
10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
02101763
Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrenders Canada to England
US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
Bolívar named dictator by Congress of Perú
02101840
British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
02101846
Beginning of Mormon march to west US
British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
02101859
Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
02101861
A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #63 Ausonia
Asteroid 63, Ausonia, discovered (named after Auson, son of Odysseus)
02101863
1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren
Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
02101870
City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) founded (NYC)
1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
02101881
Opera "Contes D'Hoffmann" is produced (Paris)
NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
02101899
-39° F (-39° C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest temperature record)
Britains 1st modern battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
02101907
A Kopff discovers asteroid #624 Hektor
02101913
J H Metcalf discovers asteroids #740 Cantabia & #741 Botolphia
Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball
SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
02101925
1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
02101926
Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #933 Susi
Pres Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
02101931
G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #3211
02101933
-54° F (-48° C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
Delivery of 1st singing telegram
Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
02101934
Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1698 Christophe
G Reiss discovers asteroid #1300 Marcelle
Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress
02101935
1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
Ragnhild Hveger swims world record 400m (5:14.2)
02101938
King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1528 Conrada
02101941
"Illegale Het Parool" [Slogan] begins publishing in Netherlands
1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" goes gold
02101943
"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
Van der Veen begins fire in Amsterdam works bureau
1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
02101947
Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
Netherlands Radio Union forms
Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
Greek Gen Markos' guerilla army bombs Saloniki
02101949
Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens on Broadway
Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
02101954
Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
02101956
"My Friend Flicka" premiers on CBS (later NBC) TV
Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
02101961
AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego
Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
02101970
26.4 cm percipitation falls on Mount Washington NH
02101971
American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY
Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
02101972
BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates
02101973
2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
World's largest storage tank explodes (Staten Island NY), crushing 40
02101974
Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
02101981
8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
02101982
28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Québec
Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
02101985
-61° F (-52° C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
02101986
"John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released
02101987
Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
Ron Brown (D) chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party
02101990
Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to become heavyweight boxing champ
Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
S Afr Pres de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
02101991
Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
"Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
Mike Tyson found guilty of rape in Indiana
0211 385
Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona
0211 660
-BC- Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno
St Gregory II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
02111531
Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
02111573
Francis Drake sees the Pacific
02111575
King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
02111794
1st session of US Senate open to the public
02111808
Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa
02111809
Robert Fulton patents steamboat
Mass Gov Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander
02111837
American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
Opera "La Fille du Regiment" is produced (Paris)
02111843
Opera "I Lombardi" is produced (Milan)
02111854
Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes
02111861
President-elect Lincoln takes train to Washington
Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
02111878
1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1st weekly Weather report published
Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
A Charlois discovers asteroid #357 Ninina
02111894
F Courty discovers asteroid #384 Burdigala
Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia
02111899
-15° F (-26° C), Washington, DC (district record)
-61° F, Montana
02111902
Demonstration for human rights in Brussel
James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299½-last pin breaks but stands
02111907
A Kopff discovers asteroids #625 Xenia & #626 Notburga
Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322
A Massinger discovers asteroid #727 Nipponia
02111916
Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
German republican govt takes power
M Wolf discovers asteroid #946 Poesia
US intervention army leaves Honduras
Tokelau (Union) islands in south Pacific transferres to New Zealand
02111927
B Jekhovsky discovers asteroid #1181 Lilith
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1111 Reinmuthia
2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
02111929
Mussolini ends treaties of Lateranen Concord with Pope Pius
Vatican City (world's smallest country) made an enclave of Rome
L Volta discovers asteroid #1191 Alfaterna
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1220 Crocus
-11° F (-24° C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay
44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich ends
Lt-Gen Erwin Garbage arrives in Tripoli
"Archie" comic book debuts
L Oterma discovers asteroid #2827 Vellamo
02111945
1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, CA
02111948
John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland
Willie Pep is 1st 126lb to regain boxing championship
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1598 Paloque
02111951
Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
Pres Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg
02111957
KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
NHL Players Association forms (NYC)
02111958
1st flight with black stewardess, RC Taylor, Ithaca NY
Marshal Tsjen Ji succeeds Tsjoe En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs
WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
02111960
Jack Paar walks off his TV show
Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!)
02111964
Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum
Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus
Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France
02111965
Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox
Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY
Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens
Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
Montreal Candien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal
US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons
02111973
1st sub 17-min 1,500m female freestyle swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)
Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row
02111974
Titan-Centaur test launch fails
02111975
Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
Clifford Alexander Jr confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army
02111977
20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean)
Clifford Alexander Jr is 1st Black Secretary of State, confirmed
Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3578
16 Unification church couples wed in NYC
25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, & Dickens
02111979
"They are Playing our Song" opens on Broadway
43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
E Bowell discovers asteroid #2542 Calpurnia
02111983
4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
E Bowell disc asteroid 2875 Lagerkvist, 3116 Goodricke & 3594 Scotti
N G Thomas discovers asteroid #3117 Niepce
T Seki discovers asteroid #3150 Tosa
02111984
10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
Wayne Gretsky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11
Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
02111987
Philippines constitution goes into effect
02111988
Anthony M Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court
02111989
Barbara Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcoplian)
02111990
40th NBA All-Star Game in Miami, East beats West 130-113
James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown
Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth
02111992
F-16 jet crashes at Hengelose (No casualities)
Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs)
02121049
Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
02121528
Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
02121541
Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
02121733
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
02121772
Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
02121793
1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
02121797
Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" 1st performed, Vienna
Chile gains independence from Spain
02121821
Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
02121839
Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick leads to Aroostook
02121840
Housatonic Railroad opens
02121848
Ballet "Faust" premiers, Milan
Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK
Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
02121877
1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass
US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
02121878
Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
02121879
1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
02121891
E Millosevich discovers asteroid #303 Josephina
02121899
-47° F (-44° C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, MSG, NYC
L Carnera discovers asteroid #481 Emita
02121908
Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
Around the World Autombile Race begins in NYC
National Association for Advancement of Colored People forms
Netherland's SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wine)
China adopts Gregorian calendar
Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates
Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC
02121921
Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
Winston Churchill becomes England, minister of Colonization
02121924
Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
02121925
1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
Estonia forbids communist Party
S Belyavskij discovers asteroids #1084 Tamariwa & #1094 Siberia
British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
Karst Leemburg wins Dutch Elfstedentocht skate (11:30)
P Bourgeois discovers asteroid #1547 Nele
Communistic Party Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committee
Export-Import Bank incorporates
France hit by a general strike against fascist & royalists
Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
E Delporte discovers asteroid #2101 Adonis
Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
L Boyer discovers asteroids #1413 Roucarie & #1414 Jerome
02121939
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1541 Estonia
Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
L Oterma discovers asteroids #1680 Per Brahe & #2846 Ylppo
SF selected for site of UN Conference
Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
02121948
1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist govt employees
USSR breaks relations with Israel
McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
02121960
Chinese army honarary 12 Indies soldiers
02121961
USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
02121962
Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
02121963
Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
02121964
Beatles 1st NYC conert (Carnegie Hall)
KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
02121973
1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine
02121977
Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
02121979
Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
2nd Islander scoreless tie-Jets at Nassau
NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
02121981
Cape Verde ammends its constitution
Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m
Wayne Gretsky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record
Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
17th Olympic Winter games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II
02131349
Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Swizerland
02131601
John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
02131668
Spain recognizes Portugal
02131678
Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
02131689
British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
02131692
MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King Willem III
02131741
Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine)
02131777
de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
02131795
1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina
02131799
1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
02131809
French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
02131832
1st appearance of cholera at London
02131837
Riot in NY over high price of flour
02131858
Sir Richard Burton & John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
02131862
-Feb 16th) Seige of Ft Donelson TN
02131864
Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek & Wyatt, Mississippi
02131866
Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)
02131867
"Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna
02131895
Moving picture projector patented
02131899
-16°F (-27°C) at Minden, Louisiana (state record)
-1° F (-18° C) New Orleans, La
-2° F (-19° C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)
02131901
M Wolf discovers asteroids #473 Nolli & #474 Prudentia
02131905
-29° F (-34° C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)
-40° F (-40° C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)
-40° F (-40° C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-ASCAP forms in NYC
National Negro Baseball League organized
1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes
02131925
US Congress curtails role of Supreme Court
Portugese Gen Carmona uprises against his regime
Austrian Dollfuss govt bans socialistic party
02131935
1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1342 Brabantia, #1353 Maartje & #2378
"Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington
A Wachmann discovers asteroid #1586 Thiele
Operation Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled
Fire-bombing of Dresden begins; c 50,000 die
USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany
02131948
Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
02131954
Furman basketball star Frank Selvy scores 100 pts in a game v Newb
Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives cals to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland
02131957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
Barbie doll goes on sale
Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
France explodes its 1st atomic bomb, in Algerian desert
02131969
Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
02131970
Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi
02131971
Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2
02131974
Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes
02131977
Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship
S J Bus discovers asteroid #2791 Paradise
02131979
Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
Apollo Computer Inc incorporated
Harvard College discovers asteroids #2482 Perkin & #2658 Gingerich
02131981
Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week
Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers
World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds
02131984
6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
02131985
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3365
02131988
Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)
02131990
50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in  Natal, South Africa
Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
02131991
Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game
Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84)
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec)
Sergei Boebka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m)
02141130
Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
02141349
2,000 Jews burned at stake in Strasbourg Germany
02141540
Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
02141630
Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
02141711
1st performance Händels opera Rinaldo
02141778
"Stars & Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
02141794
1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
02141803
Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
02141848
James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
Oregon admitted as 33rd state
02141862
Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
02141867
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
Morehouse College organizes in Augusta, Georgia
02141872
1st state bird refuge authorized, Lake Merritt, CA
02141883
1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
02141889
1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east
J Palisa discovers asteroid #304 Olga
Venus is both a morning star & evening star
Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
02141896
Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias 2-0 for Stanley Cup
US Congress begins using voice machines
02141900
Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
02141903
US Dept of Commerce & Labor established
1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
02141910
J Helffrich discovers asteroid #697 Galilea
1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
Arizona becomes 48th state
02141914
High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
02141918
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
Emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP rises again
St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed
Spanish Govt of General Damasco Berenguer falls
02141932
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #2290, #2560 & #2879 Shimizu
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1377 Roberbauxa
National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
British merchant vessel fleet is armed
Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
02141942
Japanese parachutists land in Palembang Sumatra
Soviets recapture Rostov
Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
Perú, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
Bank of England nationalized
1st session of Knesset opens in Jerusalem
USSR & China sign peace treaty
Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
02141952
6th Winter Olympic games opens in Oslo
Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
02141954
Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
02141955
WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
Indonesia resigns from out Neth-Indonesian Union
Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference
Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch Elfstedentocht skate
Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
02141959
$3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
02141961
Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
02141962
1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
02141966
Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps
Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
02141968
WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
02141971
Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & softland on moon
USSR launches Luna 20; unmanned probe soft-lands on Moon, returns
02141974
Harvard College discovers asteroid #2039 Payne-Gaposchkin
02141978
In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
02141980
13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
"Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
L Brozek discovers asteroid #3424
Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
02141989
Boxer Mike Tyson & actress Robin Given divorce
Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie
Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep
Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
Ceasefire in Somalia begins
Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
02141993
Fire in Linxi Warehouse in Tangshan, China, kills 79
Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
St Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
02151768
1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
Battle of Cape St Vincent
02151799
1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
02151804
New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
02151842
1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
02151848
Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
02151851
Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
02151862
Grant's major assault on Ft Donelson, Tennessee
02151869
Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
02151870
Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
02151876
Historic Elm at Boston blown down
02151879
Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct
02151895
23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
02151898
USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die
M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #442 Eichsfeldia
02151902
Autobahn opens in Berlin
02151903
1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
02151906
British Labour Party organizes
Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
02151917
M Wolf discovers asteroid #865 Zubaida
SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1st WW I US army troopship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
American Legion organizes in Paris
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #926 Imhilde
02151926
Contract air mail service begins in US
02151930
Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
02151936
-60° F (-51° C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
Hitler orders building of Volkswagens
Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
02151941
Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1561 Fricke & #1785 Wurm
02151942
German U-Boat shoots at Antillian oil refinery
Japanese troop march into Palembang, South-Sumatra
Singapore surrenders to Japanese
Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Netherlands, begins
Mao Tse Tung's army occupies Jenan
02151950
KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
02151956
Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
02151957
Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
02151958
Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-govt of Middle Sumatra
Antonio Segni forms Italian cabinet
Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
02151963
1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
02151964
Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2417 McVittie & #3717
Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
John Lennon passes his driving test
1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
French Diadme 1-D satellite launches into Earth orbit
Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
02151970
KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
02151971
After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal
Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander GM
Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
02151977
W Sebok discovers asteroid #2491
02151978
Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali for world heavyweight crown
Zaire revises constitution
02151979
Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
02151980
Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3592
Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland-84 die
02151983
N Thomas discovers asteroid 3367 Alex, 3413 Andriana, 3525 Paul & 3580
02151985
STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
02151986
44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
02151987
ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
02151989
Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
Soviet military occupation of Afghánistán ends
02151990
Baseball owners lock out players
Airship with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox network
Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
Bomb strike on mafia drug lords in Bogotá, Colombia; kills 14
0216 374
9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
02161349
Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
02161486
Republic day of Frankfurt
02161559
Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
02161659
1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
02161741
Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine begins publication
02161751
1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
02161771
Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
02161777
Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
02161804
Lt Stephen Decatur attacks Tripoli pirates who burned USS Philadelphia
02161840
American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
02161862
Ft Donelson captured by Gen Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
02161864
Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
02161868
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks founded in NY
02161880
American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, NYC
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #213 Lilaea
02161883
Ladies Home Journal begins publication
02161891
A Charlois discovers asteroid #305 Gordonia
02161892
Opera "Werther" is produced (Vienna)
02161900
1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes 1st issue, SF
Montréal Shamrocks beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
-59° F (-51° C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record)
02161905
1st US Esperanto club organize1s in Boston
A Kopff discovers asteroid #585 Bilkis
Metcalf discover asteroid #602 Marianna, #603 Timandra & #604 Tekmessa
1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
J Palisa discovers asteroid #728 Leonisis
02161913
President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico
1st airplane flight to LA from SF
02161918
Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
M Wolf discovers asteroid #927 Ratisbona
02161923
Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
Allies accept Lithuania occupation of Memel
Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
02161927
US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland
1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
02161936
4th Winter Olympics in Germany closes
Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins victory
02161937
DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
German submarine overthrows Aruba
-32° F (-36° C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)
Red army conquers Kharkov
Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Live with freedom!"
02161945
US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany
1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct
02161948
Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
SF City Hall dome fire
WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Britain abolishes death penality
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba
02161961
1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
02161963
1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
02161964
Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
02161965
Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown
02161972
1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
02161975
Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2548 Leloir
Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
02161978
1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
02161980
Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
02161982
Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta
Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
M Mahrova discovers asteroid #3492
NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
Mário Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
S Inoda & T Urata discovers asteroid #3394
02161988
1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
02161989
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden seperate after 16 years of marriage
Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs record $7.5M-3 year contract
PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue
LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
02161993
Sandra Völker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec)
02171568
Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay annual tribute to Sultan for peace
02171634
William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
02171691
Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
02171772
1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
02171776
1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
02171791
Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
02171795
Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
02171801
House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
02171817
1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
02171859
Opera "Ballo in Maschera" is produced (Rome)
Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premiers in Napoli
02171864
CSS "HL Hunley" becomes 1st submarine to sink an enemy ship
02171865
-Feb 18th) Battle of Charleston SC
Columbia SC burns down during civil war
1st ship passes through Suez Canal
02171868
E W Tempel discovers asteroid #97 Klotho
J Coggia discovers asteroid #96 Aegle
Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
02171873
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #130 Elektra
02171876
Sardines 1st canned (Eastport, Maine)
02171878
1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
J Palisa discovers asteroid #192 Nausikaa
Murder attempt on tsar Alexander in St Petersburg, fails
02171896
London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
02171897
Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers organizes (Wash DC)
02171899
M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #443 Photographica
02171903
R S Dugan discovers asteroid #506 Marion
Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
02171911
1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego
02171913
1st minimum wage law in US takes effect, in Oregon
NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
02171915
Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1330 Spiridonia
75 buried in Sap Gulch, Bingham, Utah avalanche, 40 die
Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
02171931
1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game
Blondie marries Dagwood; Dagwood's father promptly disinherits him
US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition
1st high school auto driving course offered, State College, Penn
"Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
-58° F (-50° C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2535 Hameenlinna
02171940
British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
Joe Louis retains heavyweight boxing crown, KOing Gus Dorazio
L Oterma discovers asteroid #2857
Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22
Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam
Bishops begin fast against "godless communism"
Voice of America begins broadcasting to USSR
Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
02171957
Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72
Suez Canal reopens
Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
02171964
101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
US Supreme court rules - 1 man 1 vote
WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
02171965
US Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures
French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
02171967
Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit
02171968
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens
02171969
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
02171972
President Nixon leaves Washingto DC for China
49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
02171976
Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
Organic statute makes Macao autonomous
02171978
H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2608 Seneca
02171979
China invades Vietnam
Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
02171981
Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
02171983
Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
Netherlands adopts constitution
1st class postage rises from 20ø to 22ø
3rd person to recieve an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
02171986
1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
02171987
Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
02171988
Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
Haïtian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
Mark Foster swims world record 50m freestyle (21.60 sec)
02181129
Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
02181503
Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
02181574
Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
02181678
John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
02181688
1st formal protest of slavery in US-Friends in Germantown, Penn
02181713
French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao
02181735
1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
02181804
1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, chartered
02181815
Treaty of peace with Great Britain proclaimed
02181828
More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
02181834
1st US labor newspaper, The Man, published, NYC
02181839
Detroit Boat Club forms (still exists today)
02181849
1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
02181850
Calif Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
02181856
American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
02181857
Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
02181861
King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia becomes king of Italy
President Jefferson Davis is inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama
02181865
Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
Evacuation of Charleston, SC; Sherman's troops burn city
Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
02181874
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #135 Hertha
Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
02181885
Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
80° F, San Fransisco
Montréal Shamrocks sweep Winnipeg Victorias in 2 for Stanley Cup
SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
02181902
Opera "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" is produced (Monte Carlo)
02181908
1st US postage stamps in coils issued
02181915
Germany begins a blockade of England
02181921
British troops occupy Dublin
Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
02181924
US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
US astronomer Clyde Tombaug discovers Pluto
Japan declares Manchuria Independence
02181936
NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1480 Aunus
02181939
Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
02181942
Japanese troop land on Bali
L Oterma discovers asteroids #1758 Naantali, #2828 Iku-Turso & #2912
1st edition opposition newspaper Loyal, publishes
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
Munich opposition group "That Weisse Rose" disbands
Poetry newspaper Trouw begins publishing
24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
S Arend discovers asteroid #2277 Moreau
3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
Nepál becomes a constitutional monarchy
Netherland Radio School forms
KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
Premier of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
02181955
Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California
France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
Cabinet-Papandreou takes power in Greece
02181965
27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC
Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
02181966
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2753 Duncan
Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
British adopt year-round daylight savings time
David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
PLO-attack El-Al office in Zurich Switzerland
02181970
Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot
02181972
Calif Supreme Court strikes down it's death penalty
John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
Belgian Emile Puttemans runs 3000m in record 7:39.2
02181974
NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
George Harrison releases "True Love"
H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroids #2330 Ontake, #2960 Ohtaki,
1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
02181979
-52° F (-47° C), Old Forge, New York (state record)
Miniseries "Roots:  Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV
NASA launches space vehicle S-202
Snow falls in Sahara
02181980
Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
Harvard College discovers asteroid #3085
C Shoemaker & S J Bus discovers asteroid #3270 Dudley
02181983
NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
02181984
Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
02181988
Anthony M Kennedy becomes a Supreme Court Justice
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
02183102
-BC- Origin of Kali Era (India)
0219 607
Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
02191700
Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark
02191797
1/3 of papal domain ceded to France
02191803
Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
02191807
British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent
02191831
1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
02191846
Texas state govt formally installed in Austin
02191856
Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio, obtains US patent on tin-type camera
Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
02191861
Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom (3/3 NS)
Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington, DC
02191869
US Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized
Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
R S Dugan discovers asteroid #507 Laodica
02191910
English premier of Richard Strauss' "Electricity"
02191913
Mexican General V Huerta gets support of US authorities
02191919
Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois
Netherlands joins League of Nations
General staking against British occupiers in Shanghai
02191928
Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal
02191929
Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, NY
William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
02191933
F L Whipple discovers asteroid #1252 Celestia
02191934
Bob & Dolores Hope marry
US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 mos
02191936
Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier
02191938
A Bohrmann discovers asteroid #1733 Silke
E Delporte discovers asteroid #2713 Luxembourg
Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #3212
02191941
Police surprise attack on Koco ice cream parlor in Amsterdam
FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
Japanese fleet under vice-adm Nagumo bomb Darwin, Australia
Japanese troop land on Timor
900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated
US Marines land on Iwo Jima
02191949
1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3282
Mass arrests of communists in India
French offensive at Hanoi
02191954
WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
02191959
British/Turkish/Greek accord over Cyprus' independence
Gabon adopts its constitution
USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), NM
protest strike in Poznan Poland
02191961
Angolia agrees with Chinese "revisionism"
Henk Van de Grift becomes world champ all-round skater
USSR informs JFK it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
02191964
UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US
NFL adds 6th official
02191969
1st test flight of Boeing 747 Jumbo jet
AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
USSR launches Sputnik 52 & Molniya 1-13 communications satellite
02191971
Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game
02191974
L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #2055 Dvorak, #2073 Janacek & #3109
02191977
H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3111 Misuzu
President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino [Tokyo Rose]
Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st test flight atop a 747 jetliner
02191978
Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8)
02191980
A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2747, #3313 & #3715
Harvard College discovers asteroid #3243
Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2315 Czechoslovakia & #2321 Luznice
02191982
Sharie Langford, Calif, sets women's bowling series record of 853
Xinglong Station discovers asteroid #3481
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3414 Champollion
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m freestyle swimming record
150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain
US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later
USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit
02191987
Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3m) "Legs Diamond" closes
02191990
Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
02191992
Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie
02201673
1st recorded wine auction held (London)
02201725
10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100/scalp bounty
02201768
1st American chartered fire insurance company receives charter, Pa
02201792
US postal service created; postage 6ø-12½ø, depending on distance
Supreme Court rules federal govt power greater than any state
02201816
Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premiers in Rome
02201823
English Capt James Weddell reaches 74° 15' S, 1520 km from S pole
02201831
Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
02201839
Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
02201846
British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
02201856
John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg-many die
Dept of Navy of Confederacy is established
02201864
Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
02201865
M I T establishes 1st US collegiate architectural school
02201869
Tenn Gov WC Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
02201872
Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
Toothpick manufacturing machine patented in US
02201873
U of Calif gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
02201876
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #160 Una
02201877
1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
International Association (minor baseball league) organized
1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh
02201890
R Luther discovers asteroid #288 Glauke
Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes
L Carnera discovers asteroid #469 Argentina
Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
02201915
Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
02201917
Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
02201919
French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
02201922
Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to join Poland
WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
independence day of Vilnus Lithuania, votes for to seperate of Poland
Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
O Oikawa discovers asteroid #1090 Sumida
American Samoa organized as a territory of US
02201931
Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
Curom, Curaçaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
O Bancilhon discovers asteroid #1333 Cevenola
Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
02201935
Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
02201938
K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1482 Sebastiana & #3569
UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1449 Virtanen, #1450 Raimonda & #2898
1st transport of Jews to concentration camp (Plotsk Poland)
Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
Romania breaks relations with Netherland
Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México)
02201944
Batman & Robin comic strip premiers in newspapers
US landing on Eniwetok atol
Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42² blocks in LA
Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
02201948
Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
General Zahedi wins election in Persia
WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
02201962
John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data
State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1st time Cleve Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
02201973
10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
02201974
Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1 M from Houston Aeros, WHA
02201976
Muhammad Ali KOs Jean-Pierre Coopman
02201978
Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski
02201981
Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
02201982
E Bowell discovers asteroids #2636 Lassell & #3193 Elliot
NY Islanders win record 15th straight NHL game
Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany
02201988
500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for #37.6 million
Rob Druppers runs world record 1000m indoor (2:16.2)
Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
02211431
England begins trial against Joan of Ark
02211613
Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
02211782
US congress resolves establishment of a US mint
02211797
Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
02211804
1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
02211828
1st Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia
02211842
1st known sewing machine patent in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
02211846
1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
02211853
US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
02211857
US issues flying eagle cents
02211858
1st electric burglar alarm installed (Boston, Mass)
02211861
Navaho indians elects Herrero Grande as chief
02211862
Battle of Valverde, NM Terr - CS victory
Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
02211864
1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
02211866
Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
02211874
Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
02211878
1st telephone directory (with 50 names) issued, New Haven, Conn
02211882
NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
Washington Monument dedicated (Washington, DC)
1st US bacteriology laboratory opens, in Brooklyn
Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
02211895
NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
National Ski Association formed, Ishpeming, Mich
02211906
A Kopff discovers asteroid #596 Scheila
M Wolf discovers asteroid #586 Thekla
Hoek van Holland & passenger ship SS Berlin collide (142 dead)
White Wolf troops attack Shanghai China
20th Russian Army corps surrenders
World's Fair in SF opens
02211916
Battle of Verdun begins (1 million casualties)
M Wolf discovers asteroid #818 Kapteynia
02211917
British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
02211918
Austrians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Palestine
Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
Great Britain give Egypt independence
WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
1st issue of New Yorker magazine published
Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Was
Premire of Franz Lehárs opera, Zarewitsch
André Tardieu becomes premier of France
Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
F Rigaux discovers asteroid #1378 Leonce
Belgian cabinet of Pierlot forms
Secret Police evacuate Apeld'se Forest, North Auschwitz
"War As It Happens" news show premiers on NBC (NYC only)
02211945
British Army captures Goch
Anti-British demonstrates in Egypt
1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
02211950
WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
02211953
F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
Gabon adopts constitution
Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
02211962
Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth
UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #3406
02211971
Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
02211972
Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
02211973
Chicago Black Hawks, NHL record 262nd game without being shut-out
02211974
Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
Yugoslavia adopts constitution
John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
02211980
Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3508 Pasternak
02211981
"Yorkshire ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
NASA launches Comstar D-4
02211982
Bowell disc asteroid 2634 James Bradley, 2635 Huggins & 2939 Coconino
02211983
Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
02211986
Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
02211988
Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
02211989
US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
0222  57
-BC- Origin of Vikrama Samvat Era (India)
Sabinian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
Battle of Cassel-Robrecht I de Fries vs Arnulf III/I
02221281
Simon the Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
02221288
Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolaas IV
02221349
Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
02221495
French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
02221630
Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
02221774
English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
02221775
1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10
02221784
1st US ship trading with China, Empress of China, sails from NY
Empress of China sets sail on 1st NY to China route
Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
02221821
Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
02221825
Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
02221847
Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
02221854
1st meeting of Republican Party, Michigan
02221856
1st national meeting of Republican Party, Pittsburgh
02221860
Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
02221861
On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
Battle of Okolona, MS
02221865
Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
Tennesee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
02221872
1st national convention of Prohibition Party, Columbus, Ohio
Labor Reform Party forms at Columbus, Ohio
02221878
Greenback Labor Party forms at Toledo, Ohio
1st 5ø & 10ø store opened by FW Woolworth in Utica, NY
With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
02221888
John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans, Yonkers, NY
Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to union
"Lady Windermere's Fan" byy Oscar Wile premiers at St James Theater
02221898
Black postmater lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
A Charlois discovers asteroid #453 Tea
M Wolf discovers asteroids #587 Hypsipyle & #588 Achilles
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #661 Cloelia
02221909
Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
02221912
J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
Germany begins "restricted" submarine war
Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
02221920
1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track, Emeryville, Calif
02221922
Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
02221923
1st successful chinchilla farm in US, Los Angeles
Transcontinental airmail service begins
02221924
1st presidential radio address Calvin Coolidge)
Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1156 Kira
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1183 Jutta
Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
A Patry discovers asteroid #1510 Charlois
Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
02221941
Secret police begin rounding up Jews in Amsterdam
02221944
US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen
British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins
02221962
Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
02221963
Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
USSR launches Kosmos 57 to earth orbit (Voskhod test)
Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
02221969
1st female US thoroughbred pari-mutuel jockey win (Barbara Jo Rubin)
Barbara Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
02221971
Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan coml airliner (106 die)
02221977
Harvard College discovers asteroid #2923 Schuyler
2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
02221979
Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
St Lucia gains independence from Britain
Afghanistan declares martial law
USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m freestyle swimming record
02221984
Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Québec
Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
02221989
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" wins Grammy as song of year
1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
UK physiciast Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
02221991
Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
02221992
Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
0223 303
Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians
02231455
Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date)
02231574
5th War of Religion breaks out in France
02231778
Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge
02231804
Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII
02231813
1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
02231822
Boston is incorporated as a city
02231836
Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed
02231846
Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated
02231847
Battle of Buena Vista México; Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans
02231852
"H M S Birkenhead" sinks off South Africa killing 420 troops
02231861
By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
02231869
Louisiana governor signs public accommodations law
02231870
Mississippi is readmitted to US
J Palisa discovers asteroid #143 Adria
Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
American Anti-Vivisection Society organized at Philadelphia
02231887
Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
02231892
1st college student govt established, Bryn Mawr, Penn
02231895
M Wolf discovers asteroid #399 Persephone
William Heard, AME minister & educator, named minister to Liberia
02231900
Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in SF Bay
02231903
Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA
Control of Panama Canal Zone acquired by US for $10 million
02231905
Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago
02231906
Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart for HW boxing champ in 20 rounds
02231909
Russian tsar Nicolas II disolves Finland
02231910
1st radio contest held, Philadelphia
F Kaiser discovers asteroid #742 Edisona
Nevada enforces convenient divorce law
Congress authorizes McKinley Memorial $1 gold coin
02231919
Mussolini finds Facist party of Italy
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #928 Hildrun
02231921
1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from SF
02231923
German Republic day with laws against worker
Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
02231927
US Radio Commission created (FCC predecessor)
Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
02231936
1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2067 Aksnes
E Delporte discovers asteroids #1491 Balduinus & #1722 Goffin
Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann
Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
02231945
Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army attacks Ruhr
US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue
02231954
1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
Edgar Faure forms French government
Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
02231959
KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
02231967
25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBA to score 25,000 points
WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
02231970
Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina
02231973
Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
02231974
Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
02231976
Harvard College discovers asteroid #2079 Jacchia
02231979
Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
02231980
Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill
02231981
Attempted military coup in Spain
People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
02231983
USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
02231984
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3519
02231985
Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
US Senated confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
02231986
Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 6 m indoor (7.00 sec)
02231987
Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
02231988
15th Winter Olympic games opens in Calgary, Alberta
02231991
Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
US insists Iraq publically announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
02231992
16th Olympic Winter games closes in Albertville, France
02241296
Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
02241496
England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
02241525
Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia
02241528
John Zápolya, Hungarian king, recognizes Sultan Suleiman's suzerai
02241530
1st imperial coronation by a pope-Charles V crowned by Clement V
02241541
Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
02241552
Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
02241581
Pope Gregory approves results of his calendar reform commission
02241711
Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premiers, London
Opera "Rinaldo" is produced (London)
02241779
George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
02241803
Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
02241821
Mexico gains independence from Spain
3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
02241839
Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
02241855
US Court of Claims established for cases against govt
02241857
1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to govt
LA Vineyard Society organized
02241863
Arizona Territory created
Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
02241864
-Feb 25th) Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
02241868
1st US parade with floats, Mobile, Alabama
House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
02241881
De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
02241888
Louisville, Ky becomes 1st gov't in US to adopt Australian ballot
02241894
Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
02241895
Cuban war of independence begins
02241905
Simplon tunnel in Switzerland opens
German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
02241918
Estonia declares independence from Russia
02241920
NSDAP begins at Hofbräuhaus Münich
Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
02241923
Mass arrests in US of mafia
Greek parliament proclaims republic
Mahatma Gandhi let out of jail
02241925
Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3227 Hasegawa
02241933
League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
02241937
1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
A Bohrmann discovers asteroids #1998 Titius & #2665
Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
Manila freed from Japanese
02241946
Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
02241949
V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
02241950
Labour wins British parliamentary election
Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
02241960
Italian cabinet-Segni falls
02241961
Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston for heavyweight championship
02241965
Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
02241966
Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
02241968
Discovery of first pulsar announced
Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
02241969
Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
02241974
Pakistan offically recognizes Bangladesh
Cuba adopts its constitution
Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
02241978
Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
02241979
Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
War between North & South Yemen begins
02241980
Rangers scored 5 power-play goals against Islanders
USA Olympic hockey team beats Finland (4-2) & wins gold medal
02241981
Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
John Lennon & Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" wins Grammy
Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
02241984
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3679
02241985
Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
02241986
Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
02241987
Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
02241988
Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
02241989
Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
US Boeing 747 lost opver Ocean, 9 die
End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
02251540
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México
02251570
Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegience
02251751
1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1ø)
02251791
1st Bank of US chartered
02251793
1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)
02251799
1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
02251804
Jefferson nominated for president at Democratic-Republican caucus
02251828
John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House
02251830
Victor Hugo's "Hernani" premieres
02251836
Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
02251837
1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
02251838
London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
02251839
Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
State University of Iowa is approved
02251859
First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence
02251862
Congress establishes US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
02251863
Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
02251868
Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of Tenure of Office act
02251870
Hiram Revels, Ms, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen)
02251875
Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) turn self in at Ft Sill
02251887
J Palisa discovers asteroid #265 Anna
02251892
J Palisa discovers asteroid #324 Bamberga
US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
J M Synge's "Riders to the Sea" opens at Irish Natl Theatre Society
Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 for Stanley Cup
02251905
Neth Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
02251907
US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
02251911
Opera "Natoma" is produced (Philadelphia)
16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
F Kaiser discovers asteroid #743 Eugenisis
J Palisa discovers asteroid #867 Kovacia
M Wolf discovers asteroid #866 Fatme
League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1ø per gallon)
Georgian SSR proclaimed
02251923
Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
02251924
Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
02251926
Kwo-less-shrew (Guomindang) declares war on govt/warlords
Gdanks & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
02251930
Check photographing device patented
02251932
Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
02251933
1st aircraft carrier "USS Ranger" launched
1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
February strike against spread of Judaism
Vietminh forms Indo-chinese Democratic Front
US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
02251948
Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
02251949
WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
02251951
1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
02251954
Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
02251956
Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
02251961
Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
Indies Congress Party wins elections
Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
02251963
Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
02251964
Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
02251968
430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
L Chernykh discovers asteroid #2279 Barto
Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
02251972
Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
02251973
Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
02251977
New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
02251979
Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
02251980
Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
02251981
Calgary Flames score 11 goals against Islanders
NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalites (392 mins)
NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
02251982
Record speed for a snowmobile-239 kph
02251984
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3389
Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
02251986
Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines
Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos flees in defeat
Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
02251988
Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
South Korea adopts constitution
02251989
1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary formed
Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 rounds
02251990
Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
02251991
US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28
Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy"
0226 747
-BC- Origin of Era of Nabonassar
Battle of Benevento
02261531
Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000
02261564
Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), baptized
02261616
Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo
02261732
1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
02261773
Construction authorized for Walnut St jail (Phila) (1st solitary)
02261815
Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France
Russian czar declares realm  of Poland-Russia
02261834
1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified
02261848
Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
British troop ship Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die
02261859
Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins
02261862
Battle of Woodburn, KY
02261863
Lincoln signs National Currency Act
New York Legislature establishes NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states
1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered)
Geheim compromise Dem-Rep over pres election result
02261881
SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
Conference of Berlin, gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to England
02261891
1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park
2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Mich
02261895
Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio patents a glass-blowing machine
02261907
Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
02261912
Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
J Rheden discovers asteroid #744 Aguntina
New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated
Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) fire attack)
1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette N P), Maine
Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
US Congress opens Grand Canyon National Park
02261923
Italian nationalist & fascists merge
Trial against Hitler in Munich begins
Jihad-Saint war against Turkish govt
Dark Street in the Bronx renamed Lustre Street
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1091 Spiraea
"Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
02261935
Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
NY Yankees release Babe Ruth
02261936
Military coup in Japan
1st passenger ship equipped with radar
G Kulin discovers asteroid #1452 Hunnia
Rie Van Peat swims world record 200 m freestyle (2:24.6)
02261940
US Air Defense Command established at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
02261941
2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declears double KO
Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (Calif)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1632 Siebohme
German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
Radio Orange calls for March 1 holiday in Dutch Indies
WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
L Oterma discovers asteroid #2841 Puijo
02261944
1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
Sue Dauser becomes 1st woman captain of US marine
Very heavy bombing on Berlin
2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
02261949
USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
02261951
22nd admendment to Constitution is ratified
Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
02261952
PM Winston Churchill announced that Britain had its own atomic bomb
02261954
1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass
02261955
1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
02261956
Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
02261962
US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
02261968
Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
Dam break in WV kills 107
Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
02261974
Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
02261975
1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
02261979
Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
02261980
Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
84 penalties (406 mins) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minn & Bost
Boston & Minnesota play most penalty-filled NHL game-406 min total
French Train à Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3268 De Sanctis
02261983
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
02261984
N Chernykh discovers asteroids #3575 & #3576
Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
02261986
Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat
02261987
1st release of Beatles compact discs
NASA launches GEOS-H
NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
02261989
Lowest rated pressure in Netherlands (955 hpa)
NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
02261990
Moscow begins pulling 73,000 troops out of Czechoslovakia
02261991
Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion
2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die
Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)
0227 837
15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
02271526
Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
02271563
William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
02271670
Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
02271700
Pacific island of New Britain discovered
02271713
French troops bomb Willemstadt Curaçao
02271801
Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
02271803
Great fire in Bombay, India
02271813
1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
02271814
Beethoven's 8th symphony premiers
1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
02271864
Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
02271865
Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri
02271869
John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
02271871
Meeting of Alabama claims commission
02271872
Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
02271874
Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
02271877
US Electorial College declares R Hayes winner presidential election
02271883
Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
02271890
D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw
02271900
Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
Conference in London calls for creation of a British labor party
02271906
France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
02271919
1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"
American Association for Hard of Hearing formed, NYC
Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
02271924
Belgian's Theunis cabinet falls
Hitler's forms NSDAP political party in Munich
02271927
For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
02271929
Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1665 Gaby
Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2248 Kanda
Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists
Willy de Supervise swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.6)
02271938
Britain & France recognize Franco govt in Spain
Belgian cabinet of Pierlot falls
France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain
Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
-Feb 28th; battle in Java Sea (Cruisers Java & De Ruyter sink)
Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
02271949
Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president
02271950
General Chang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1649 Fabre
Female suffrage in Egypt
oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied in use
South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diems palace bombed
02271967
Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
Dominica gains independence from England
Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria
02271970
NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
02271972
Pres Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
L Kohoutek discovers asteroids 1999 Hirayama, 2407, 2472, 2541 & 2901
House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
02271976
P Wild discovers asteroids #2080 Jihlava, #2081 Sazava & #2088 Sahlia
R M West discovers asteroid #3004
02271977
Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
Grammy Awards feature a Barbra Striesand-Neil Diamond duet
Israel & Egypt exchange ambassadors
02271981
Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta
02271983
Eamonn Coghlan set mile record of 3:49.78
02271984
Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)
WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
US dollar is worth ƒ39355 (Netherland)
02271987
Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
02271988
Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speedskating in record 39.1
Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
German war criminals Aus Van de Fünten/Fischer, freed
Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
Singer James Brown is released from prison
US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
02271994
17th Olympic Winter games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
02281066
Westminster Abbey opens
02281610
Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia
Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
02281692
Salem witch hunt begins
02281704
Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in NYC
Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
02281708
Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
02281749
1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
02281778
Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
02281794
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
02281810
1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
02281819
1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
02281826
M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
02281827
1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
02281835
Dr Elias Lönnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
02281847
US defeats México in battle of Sacramento
02281849
1st boatload of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
02281854
Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc
02281859
Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
02281861
Territory of Colorado created
The opera "La Reine de Saba" is produced (Paris)
02281864
-Mar 4th) Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
02281871
2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
02281878
J Palisa discovers asteroid #184 Dejopeja
US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
02281879
"Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
J Coggia discovers asteroid #193 Ambrosia
1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard
02281883
1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
02281888
Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
02281906
Ottawa Silver 7 beat Queen's Univ (Kingston Ont) for Stanley Cup
02281908
Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
02281911
J Palisa discovers asteroid #710 Gertrud
6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
AP reports México & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
02281922
Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
US begins intervention in Honduras
Acting museum of Amsterdam established
Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #1310 Villigera
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1724 Vladimir
02281933
Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's MSG)
Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
US population at 131,669,275  (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
British-Italian dogfight above Albania
1st weapon drop on Netherland
Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
"Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
French cabinet of Pleven disolves
Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
L Boyer discovers asteroids #1629 Pecker & #1630 Milet
02281953
Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Chroestsjov & Malenkov
13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass
Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1793 Zoya
02281970
Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
02281971
Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam
WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, KY (IND) begins broadcasting
George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
02281973
L Kohoutek discovers asteroids #3407 & #3627
02281974
US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years
02281975
41 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop
02281976
Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2612 Kathryn
P Wild discovers asteroid #2521
02281980
"The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premiers (takes 4 h 12 m)
02281981
Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2958
S J Bus discovers asteroids #2780 Monnig, #3287, #3307 & #3602
02281982
AT & T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #3288 Seleucus
02281983
Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
02281988
Pat Verbeek beomces 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
02281989
Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
02281990
Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
02281991
Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16)
US & allied forces grant Iraq a sieze fire
Iolanda Chen jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
St Hilary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
02291504
Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
02291704
French & Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 50, abduct 100
02291784
Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
02291796
Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
02291836
Rossini's opera "Les Huguenots" premiers in Paris
02291848
Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
02291856
Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
02291880
Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
J Palisa discovers asteroid #214 Aschera
02291892
Britian & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
02291904
Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua-motion in Finland
US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title
02291956
Islamic Republic established in Pakistan
Pres Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
02291960
1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
Earthquake devastates Agadir Morocco, about 12,000 die
Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue
KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
02291964
Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m
LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
NC high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime
02291968
1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
02291976
H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2105 Gudy
Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England
Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
02291988
KWK-FM in St Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations
The Professional Spring Football League begins
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