| 1449-01-01 |
Lorenzo deMedici |
The Magnificent of Florence |
| 1481-01-01 |
Huldrych Zwingli |
Swiss Protestant reformer |
| 1735-01-01 |
Paul Revere |
US patriot and The British are coming |
| 1745-01-01 |
General Anthony Wayne |
military leader “Mad Anthony” |
| 1752-01-01 |
Elizabeth Griscom |
Betsy Ross–flag maker |
| 1819-01-01 |
Arthur Hugh Clough |
poet and friend of Matthew Arnold |
| 1854-01-01 |
Sir James Frazer |
British anthropologist and author The Golden Bough |
| 1864-01-01 |
Alfred Stieglitz |
father of modern photography |
| 1867-01-01 |
Lew Fields |
comedian of Weber & Fields |
| 1873-01-01 |
Mariano Azuela |
Mexican novelist The Flies and The Bosses |
| 1879-01-01 |
E.M. Forster |
English novelist Howards End and A Passage to India |
| 1895-01-01 |
J Edgar Hoover |
Mr FBI |
| 1/1/1900 |
Xavier Cugat |
Bandleader |
| 1/1/1909 |
Barry Goldwater R |
former US senator from Arizona |
| 1/1/1909 |
Dana Andrews |
Actor Battle of the Bulge and Laura |
| 1/1/1909 |
John Glenn |
astronaut |
| 1/1/1911 |
Hank Greenberg |
Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer |
| 1/1/1919 |
Carole Landis |
|
| 1/1/1919 |
J D Salinger |
author ofCatcher in the Rye |
| 1/1/1922 |
Ernest Hollings D |
US senator from SC |
| 1/1/1925 |
George Conner |
NFL tackle and linebacker Chicago Bears |
| 1/1/1927 |
Yuri Grigorovich |
Russian choreographer |
| 1/1/1932 |
Terry Moore |
in Los Angeles Calif |
| 1/1/1942 |
Country Joe McDonald |
|
| 1/1/1942 |
Gennadi V. Sarafanov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 15 |
| 1647-01-02 |
Nathaniel Bacon |
leader of Bacons Rebellion of Va. 1676 |
| 1727-01-02 |
James Wolfe |
commander of British Army at capture of Quebec |
| 1861-01-02 |
Helen Herron Taft |
1st lady |
| 1863-01-02 |
Lucia Zarate |
became lightest known adult human 2.1 kg at 17 |
| 1/2/1920 |
Isaac Asimov |
scientist-writer |
| 1/2/1922 |
Renata Tebaldi |
lyric soprano |
| 1/2/1927 |
Gino Marchetti |
NFL defensive end Dallas Texans and Baltimore Colts |
| 1/2/1927 |
Richard Belmont Ray |
Democrat-Georgia |
| 1/2/1936 |
Roger Miller |
singer King of the Road |
| 0106-01-03 |
Cicero |
Roman statesman |
| 1543-01-03 |
Juan Cabrillo |
discoverer of California |
| 1793-01-03 |
Lucretia Coffin Mott |
Womans right leader |
| 1840-01-03 |
Father Damien |
helped lepers in Hawaii |
| 1870-01-03 |
Henry Handel Richardson |
Australian novelist Richard Mahoney |
| 1879-01-03 |
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge |
1st lady |
| 1883-01-03 |
Clement R. Attlee Labour |
British prime minister 1945-51 |
| 1892-01-03 |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
REAL Lord of the Rings |
| 1/3/1905 |
Ray Milland |
Actor Dial M for Murder and The Lost Weekend |
| 1/3/1909 |
Victor Borge |
pianist and comedian–Denmark |
| 1/3/1916 |
Betty Furness |
in NYC |
| 1/3/1918 |
Maxine Andrews |
of singing Andrew Sister |
| 1/3/1928 |
Jeanne Moreau |
in Paris France |
| 1/3/1930 |
Robert Loggia |
Actor 1st Love and An Officer & a Gentleman |
| 1/3/1939 |
Bobby Hull |
hockey player |
| 1/3/1945 |
Stephen Stills |
singer and songwriter |
| 1/3/1947 |
Melanie Safka |
in Astoria Queens |
| 1/3/1950 |
Victoria Principal |
Actress Earthquake and Dallas in Japan |
| 1581-01-04 |
Bishop James Ussher |
calculated that earth began Nov. 23-4004 BC |
| 1643-01-04 |
Sir Issac Newton |
scientist Whatever goes up |
| 1785-01-04 |
Jacob Grimm |
German librarian and philologist and fairy tale collector |
| 1789-01-04 |
Benjamin Lundy |
philanthropist and abolitionist |
| 1797-01-04 |
Wilhelm Beer |
German amateur who helps to construct 1st moon map |
| 1809-01-04 |
Louis Braille |
developed reading system for blind |
| 1813-01-04 |
Sir Issac Pitman |
shorthand inventor |
| 1838-01-04 |
Charles Stratton |
alias General Tom Thumb and famous short person |
| 1/4/1914 |
Jane Wyman |
in St Joseph Missouri 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan |
| 1/4/1930 |
Barbara Rush |
in Denver Colorodo Hombre and When Worlds Collide |
| 1/4/1930 |
Don Shula |
NFL coach Miami Dolphins |
| 1/4/1930 |
Sorrell Brooke |
Actor |
| 1/4/1935 |
Floyd Patterson |
world heavyweight champ 1956-59 and 1960-62 |
| 1/4/1937 |
Dyan Cannon |
Former Mrs Cary Grant and Actress in Tacoma Wash |
| 1/4/1943 |
Tom Wilkinson |
CFL quarterback Edmonton Eskimos |
| 1592-01-05 |
Shah Jahan |
Mughal emperor of India 1628-58 and builder of Taj Mahal |
| 1779-01-05 |
Stephen Decatur |
early American Naval hero |
| 1846-01-05 |
Rudolf Eucken |
German Idealist philosopher Nobel 1908 |
| 1855-01-05 |
King Camp Gillette |
inventor of safety razor |
| 1876-01-05 |
Konrad Adenauer |
German Chancellor |
| 1895-01-05 |
Jeannette Piccard |
balloonist and Episcopal priest |
| 1/5/1911 |
Jean-Pierre Aumont |
Actor Cat & Mouse and Happy Hooker |
| 1/5/1921 |
Jean |
grand duke of Luxembourg 1964- |
| 1/5/1925 |
Nellie Tayloe Ross |
1st woman governor of Wyoming |
| 1/5/1926 |
Claude Buddy Young |
NFL running back Yankees and Texans and Colts |
| 1/5/1928 |
Walter Mondale D |
42nd US vp 1977-81 |
| 1/5/1938 |
Jim Otto |
NFL center Oakland Raiders |
| 1/5/1938 |
Juan Carlos I |
king of Spain 1975- |
| 1/5/1940 |
Dany Saval |
|
| 1/5/1946 |
Diane Keaton |
Actress Annie Hall and Little Drummer Girl LA |
| 1/5/1954 |
Pamela Sue Martin |
|
| 1412-01-06 |
Joan of Arc |
martyr |
| 1799-01-06 |
Jedediah Smith |
fur trader and explorer |
| 1811-01-06 |
Charles Sumner |
leading Reconstruction Senator |
| 1823-01-06 |
Gustave Dore |
illustrator Inferno and Rime of Ancient Mariner |
| 1838-01-06 |
Max Bruch |
German composer |
| 1842-01-06 |
Clarence King |
geologist and mining engineer |
| 1854-01-06 |
Sherlock Holmes |
according to Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1871-01-06 |
Aleksandr Scriabin |
Russian composer |
| 1878-01-06 |
Carl Sandburg |
poet and biographer of Lincoln The People and Yes |
| 1880-01-06 |
Tom Mix |
silent screen cowboy Actor Dick Turpin |
| 1882-01-06 |
Samuel Rayburn D |
speaker of House 1940-57 |
| 1883-01-06 |
Khalil Gibran |
Lebanese mystic poet The Prophet and Broken Wings |
| 1/6/1911 |
Joey Adams |
comedian |
| 1/6/1913 |
Loretta Young |
Farmers Daughter and Stranger in Salt Lake City |
| 1/6/1914 |
Danny Thomas |
comedian and Actor |
| 1/6/1915 |
Don Edwards D |
US representative from California |
| 1/6/1920 |
Sun Myung Moon |
evangelist Unification Church |
| 1/6/1924 |
Earl Scruggs |
bluegrass musician |
| 1/6/1934 |
Sylvia Sims |
|
| 1/6/1945 |
Bonnie Franklin |
TV Actress One Day at a Time in Santa Monica |
| 1/6/1957 |
Nancy Lopez |
Golf pro |
| 1800-01-07 |
Millard Fillmore |
Whig 13th US pres 1850-53 |
| 1845-01-07 |
Louis III |
last king of Bavaria 1913-18 |
| 1/7/1911 |
Butterfly McQueen |
Actress Gone with the Wind |
| 1/7/1925 |
Gerald Durrell |
British zoologist and writer and broadcaster |
| 1/7/1935 |
Valeri N. Kubasov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 6 and 36 and Apollo-Soyuz |
| 1/7/1942 |
Vasili Alexeyev |
world champion weight-lifter |
| 1/7/1948 |
Kenny Loggins |
singer |
| 1587-01-08 |
Johannes Fabricius |
Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots |
| 1786-01-08 |
Nicholas Biddle |
made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank |
| 1823-01-08 |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
codiscoverer of evolution |
| 1862-01-08 |
Frank Nelson Doubleday |
publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co |
| 1864-01-08 |
William Wilkie Collins |
English novelist The Moonstone |
| 1867-01-08 |
Emily Balch |
US sociologist and feminist and pacifist Nobel 1946 |
| 1868-01-08 |
Sir Frank Dyson |
proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity |
| 1891-01-08 |
Walther Bothe |
German subatomic particle physicist Nobel 1954 |
| 1/8/1902 |
Carl R. Rogers |
psychologist |
| 1/8/1904 |
Peter Arno |
Cartoonist |
| 1/8/1912 |
Jose Ferrer |
Actor and director Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 1/8/1923 |
Joseph Wiezenbaum |
artificial intelligence pioneer |
| 1/8/1926 |
Milton Hines |
AKA Soupy Sales |
| 1/8/1934 |
Jacques Anquetil |
5-time winner of Tour de France bicycle race |
| 1/8/1935 |
Elvis Presley |
singer Blue Suede Shoes and Hounddog |
| 1/8/1937 |
Shirley Bassey |
in Wales |
| 1/8/1942 |
Vyacheslav D. Zudov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 23 |
| 1/8/1942 |
Yvette Mimieux |
in Hollywood Cal Time Machine and Where the Boys Are |
| 1/8/1946 |
Tod Brannan |
|
| 1/8/1947 |
David Bowie |
singer and Actor |
| 1728-01-09 |
Thomas Warton |
poet laureate of England Pleasures of Melancholy |
| 1859-01-09 |
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt |
founder of League of Women Voters |
| 1870-01-09 |
Joseph B Strauss |
civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge |
| 1898-01-09 |
Gracie Fields |
|
| 1/9/1901 |
Chic Young |
creator of “Blondie” comic strip |
| 1/9/1902 |
Rudolph Bing |
opera manager |
| 1/9/1904 |
George Balanchine |
dancer-choreographer |
| 1/9/1908 |
Simone de Beauvoir |
French author The Mandarins and The Second Sex |
| 1/9/1913 |
Richard Milhous Nixon |
R and 36th pres 1968-74 I am not a crook! |
| 1/9/1914 |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
burlesque entertainer and Actress |
| 1/9/1925 |
Lee Van Cleef |
Actor For a Few Dollars More and Escape from NY |
| 1/9/1934 |
Bart Starr |
NFL quarterback and coach Green Bay |
| 1/9/1941 |
Joan Baez |
folk singer and human rights advocate in Staten Island |
| 1/9/1941 |
Susannah York |
Actress A Man for All Seasons and Tom Jones in London |
| 1/9/1951 |
Crystal Gale |
in Kentucky |
| 1/9/1951 |
Rosalyn Kind |
singer in Bkln |
| 1738-01-10 |
Ethan Allen |
Revolutionary War fighter lead the Green Mtn Boys |
| 1877-01-10 |
Frederick Gardner Cottrell |
invented elecrostatic precipitator |
| 1880-01-10 |
Manuel Azasa y Diaz |
P.M. and president of 2nd Spanish republic |
| 1883-01-10 |
Florence Reed |
silent film Actress The Dancing Girl |
| 1883-01-10 |
Francis X. Bushman |
silent film Actor The Spys Defeat |
| 1887-01-10 |
Robinson Jeffers |
American poet and playwright Tamar & Other Poems |
| 1888-01-10 |
Grock |
Swiss clown |
| 1/10/1904 |
Ray Bolger |
dancer and Actor Once in Love with Amy and Wizard of Oz |
| 1/10/1910 |
Galina Ulanova |
Russian ballerina |
| 1/10/1926 |
June Haver |
|
| 1/10/1927 |
Gisele MacKenzie |
in Winnipeg Manitoba |
| 1/10/1927 |
Johnnie Ray |
pop singer |
| 1/10/1938 |
Willie McCovey |
baseball player |
| 1/10/1945 |
Rod Stewart |
singer |
| 1/10/1949 |
George Foreman |
world heavyweight boxing champ 1973-74 |
| 1/10/1953 |
Pat Benatar |
in Brooklyn–Hell is for Children |
| 1755-01-11 |
Alexander Hamilton |
1st Sec of US Treasury |
| 1807-01-11 |
Ezra Cornell |
founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University |
| 1815-01-11 |
Sir John A. MacDonald |
C–1st prime minister of Canada 1867-73 |
| 1839-01-11 |
Eugenio Maria de Hostos |
Puerto Rican patriot and scholar |
| 1842-01-11 |
William James |
American psychologist and philosopher |
| 1850-01-11 |
Philipp la Renotiere von Ferrary |
famous philatelist |
| 1885-01-11 |
Alice Paul |
founder of National Womans Party and ERA advocate |
| 1896-01-11 |
Eva Le Gallienne |
Actress |
| 1896-01-11 |
Paddy Driscoll |
NFL quarterback and coach Chic Cardinals and Bears |
| 1/11/1903 |
Alan Paton |
South African writer Cry and the Beloved Country |
| 1/11/1906 |
Albert Hofmann |
Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD |
| 1/11/1926 |
Grant Tinker |
broadcasting executive |
| 1/11/1926 |
Lev S. Demin |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 15 |
| 1/11/1930 |
Rod Taylor |
Actor |
| 1/11/1948 |
Madeline Manning |
runner |
| 1/11/1974 |
Rosenkowitz sextuplets |
1st known to have survived infancy |
| 1588-01-12 |
John Winthrop |
1st gov of Mass Bay Colony |
| 1729-01-12 |
Edmund Burke |
famous Whig |
| 1737-01-12 |
John Hancock |
Decl of Ind signer or 0123 |
| 1856-01-12 |
John Singer Sargent |
American painter |
| 1876-01-12 |
Jack London |
writer Call of the Wild |
| 1/12/1910 |
Luise Rainer |
Actress |
| 1/12/1913 |
Edward Gurney |
senator |
| 1/12/1920 |
James Farmer |
black activist |
| 1/12/1926 |
Ray Price |
country singer |
| 1/12/1930 |
Glenn Yarborough |
singer |
| 1808-01-13 |
Salmon P. Chase R |
senator and cabinet member and 6th chief justice |
| 1832-01-13 |
Horatio Alger Jr. |
American clergyman and author of boys books |
| 1884-01-13 |
Sophie Tucker |
last red hot mamma |
| 1/13/1913 |
Ralph Edwards |
This is your life |
| 1/13/1919 |
Jesse White |
Actor Maytag repairman |
| 1/13/1919 |
Robert Stack |
TV & film Actor Elliot Ness |
| 1/13/1925 |
Gwen Verdon |
Actress and dancer Cotton Club in LA |
| 1/13/1931 |
Charles Nelson Reilly |
comedian |
| 1730-01-14 |
William Whipple |
Decl of Ind signer |
| 1741-01-14 |
Gen Benedict Arnold |
fink |
| 1791-01-14 |
Calvin Phillips |
became shortest known adult male 67 cm |
| 1861-01-14 |
Mehmed VI |
last sultan of Ottoman Empire 1918-22 |
| 1875-01-14 |
Albert Schweitzer |
doctor and humanitarian and organist Nobel 1952 |
| 1892-01-14 |
Hal Roach |
early film director & producer |
| 1896-01-14 |
John dos Passos |
novelist 1919 and Big Money and 42nd Parallel |
| 1/14/1919 |
Andy Rooney |
TV commentator 60 Minutes |
| 1/14/1926 |
Thomas Tryon |
Actor and novelist |
| 1/14/1932 |
Catarina Valenti |
singer in Paris France |
| 1/14/1940 |
Julian Bond D |
civil rights leader and Georgia legislator |
| 1/14/1941 |
Faye Dunaway |
Actress Chinatown and Bonnie & Clyde in Fla |
| 1622-01-15 |
Molire |
French dramatist baptized |
| 1809-01-15 |
Pierre Joseph Proudhon |
French libertarian socialist |
| 1850-01-15 |
Sofya Kovalevskaya |
Russian mathematician |
| 1866-01-15 |
Nathan Soderblom |
Lutheran archbishop and internationalist Nobel30 |
| 1899-01-15 |
Goodman Ace |
radio & TV writer and Actor and columnist and humorist |
| 1/15/1906 |
Aristotle Onassis |
industrialist |
| 1/15/1908 |
Edward Teller |
fathered H-bomb |
| 1/15/1913 |
Lloyd Bridges |
Actor Sea Hunt and Roots and Airplane |
| 1/15/1918 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser |
Egyptian leader |
| 1/15/1919 |
S. Kovalevskaya |
|
| 1/15/1926 |
Chuck Berry |
singer Johnny B. Goode |
| 1/15/1926 |
Maria Schell |
in Vienna Austria – Space 1999 |
| 1/15/1929 |
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
dreamer Nobel Peace Prize 1964 |
| 1/15/1937 |
Margaret OBrien |
in San Diego Calif |
| 1/15/1946 |
Janet Lennon |
in Culver City |
| 1/15/1951 |
Charo |
in Spain |
| 1853-01-16 |
Andre Michelin |
French industrialist and tire manufacturer |
| 1874-01-16 |
Robert Service |
Canadian poet Cremation of Sam McGee |
| 1894-01-16 |
Guy Chamberlin |
early NFL end and coach |
| 1/16/1909 |
Ethel Merman |
everythings coming up roses |
| 1/16/1911 |
Dizzy Dean |
baseball player St Louis Cardinals |
| 1/16/1924 |
Katy Jurado |
in Mexico |
| 1/16/1929 |
Allard Lowenstein |
Students for Democratic Action |
| 1/16/1930 |
Norman Podhoretz |
author |
| 1/16/1933 |
Oleg G Makarov |
cosmonaut Soyuz 12 & 18-1 & 27 & T-3 |
| 1/16/1934 |
Marilyn Horne |
in Pennsylvania |
| 1/16/1935 |
A.J. Foyt |
auto race driver |
| 1706-01-17 |
Benjamin Franklin |
Boston and kite flyer and statesman and wit |
| 1732-01-17 |
Stanislaw II |
last king of Poland 1764-95 |
| 1771-01-17 |
Charles Brockden Brown |
father of American novel |
| 1818-01-17 |
Sir Antoine Dorion L |
joint premier of Canada 1858 and 1863-64 |
| 1857-01-17 |
Eugene Augustin Lauste |
developed 1st sound-on-film recording |
| 1863-01-17 |
David Lloyd George Liberal |
prime minister of Britain 1916-22 |
| 1863-01-17 |
Konstantin Stanislavsky |
Actor and director and producer and methodist |
| 1880-01-17 |
Mack Sennett |
created Keystone Kops |
| 1899-01-17 |
Robert Maynard Hutchins |
American educator and civil libertarian |
| 1/17/1919 |
A Chekhov |
|
| 1/17/1924 |
Betty White |
Actress Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls in Oak Pk |
| 1/17/1926 |
Moira Shearer |
Scottish ballerina |
| 1/17/1931 |
James Earl Jones |
Actor Darth Vader |
| 1/17/1933 |
Sheree North |
in Los Angeles |
| 1/17/1934 |
Shari Lewis |
puppeteer in Bronx NY |
| 1/17/1944 |
Joe Frazier |
heavyweight champion boxer 1968-73 |
| 1/17/1949 |
Debbie Watson |
in Culver City California |
| 1779-01-18 |
Peter Roget |
of Thesaurus fame–invented Slide Rule and pocket chessboard |
| 1782-01-18 |
Daniel Webster |
early American orator & politician |
| 1813-01-18 |
Joseph Farwell Glidden |
invented 1st coml useable barbed wire |
| 1849-01-18 |
Sir Edmund Barton |
1st prime minister of Australia 1900-03 |
| 1854-01-18 |
Thomas A Watson |
needed by Bell |
| 1867-01-18 |
Ruben Dario |
national poet of Nicaragua |
| 1882-01-18 |
A.A. Milne |
author of Winnie-the-Pooh |
| 1892-01-18 |
Oliver Hardy |
of comedy team Laurel & Hardy |
| 1/18/1904 |
Cary Grant |
Actor Arsenic & Old Lace and North by Northwest |
| 1/18/1913 |
Danny Kaye |
comedian and Actor and UNICEF |
| 1/18/1922 |
Constance Moore |
in Sioux City Iowa |
| 1/18/1942 |
Muhammad Ali |
aka Cassius Clay — boxer |
| 1095-01-19 |
St Wulfstan |
bishop of Worcester–ended sale of slaves at Bristol |
| 1736-01-19 |
James Watt |
made steam engine workable or 1753 |
| 1749-01-19 |
Isaiah Thomas |
American printer and editor and publisher and historian |
| 1798-01-19 |
Auguste Comte |
philosopher and founder of sociology & Positivism |
| 1807-01-19 |
Robert E Lee |
Confederate gen |
| 1809-01-19 |
Edgar Allen Poe |
author The Pit & the Pendulum |
| 1813-01-19 |
Sir Henry Bessemer |
engineer-inventor |
| 1839-01-19 |
Paul Cezanne |
painter |
| 1859-01-19 |
Alice Eastwood |
|
| 1/19/1906 |
Lanny Ross |
singer |
| 1/19/1917 |
John Raitt |
singer |
| 1/19/1922 |
Guy Madison |
Actor Computer Wizard and Jet over the Atlantic |
| 1/19/1923 |
Jean Stapleton |
Actress Damn Yankees and Klute in NYC |
| 1/19/1926 |
Fritz Weaver |
Actor Day of the Dolphin and Demon Seed |
| 1/19/1932 |
Joe Schmidt |
NFL linebacker Detroit |
| 1/19/1935 |
Tippi Hedren |
in Minnesota The Birds |
| 1/19/1943 |
Janis Joplin |
in Port Arthur Texas |
| 1/19/1944 |
Shelly Fabraes |
in Santa Monica |
| 1/19/1946 |
Dolly Parton |
country singer and bra buster in Tennessee |
| 1/19/1947 |
Ann Compton |
TV news reporter |
| 1/19/1951 |
Linda Hayden |
|
| 1/19/1953 |
Desi Arnez Jr |
Actor |
| 1760-01-20 |
Charles III |
king of Spain 1759-88 |
| 1775-01-20 |
Andre-Marie Ampre |
founder of science of electromagnetism |
| 1891-01-20 |
Mischa Elman Violinist |
|
| 1896-01-20 |
Nathan Birnbaum |
better known as George Burns |
| 1/20/1903 |
Leon Ames |
Actor |
| 1/20/1920 |
Federico Fellini |
director 8« and Satyricon |
| 1/20/1926 |
Patricia Neal |
Actress Hud and The Subject Was Roses in Packard Ky |
| 1/20/1930 |
Edwin E Buzz Aldrin Jr |
US astronaut Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 |
| 1/20/1937 |
Dorothy Provine |
in Deadwood SD |
| 1/20/1956 |
John Naber |
swimmer |
| 1338-01-21 |
Charles V |
The Wise King of France 1364-80 |
| 1743-01-21 |
John Fitch |
had a working steamboat years before Fulton |
| 1813-01-21 |
John C Fremont |
map maker & explorer of western US |
| 1815-01-21 |
Horace Wells |
dentist and pioneer in use of medical anethesia |
| 1821-01-21 |
John Cabell Breckinridge |
D 14th US vice-president 1857-61 |
| 1824-01-21 |
Thomas Stonewall Jackson |
Confederate gen |
| 1884-01-21 |
Roger Nash Baldwin |
founder of American Civil Liberties Union |
| 1887-01-21 |
Wolfgang Kohler |
Gestalt psychologist The Mentality of Apes |
| 1/21/1921 |
Barney Clark |
1st person to receive a permanent artificial heart |
| 1/21/1922 |
Paul Scofield |
author |
| 1/21/1924 |
Benny Hill |
British comedian |
| 1/21/1924 |
Telly Savalas |
Actor “Who Loves Ya Baby?” |
| 1/21/1932 |
Boris Shakhlin |
Soviet Olympic gymnast |
| 1/21/1940 |
Jack Nicklaus |
golfer |
| 1/21/1941 |
Placido Domingo |
operatic tenor |
| 1/21/1955 |
Robby Bensen |
Actor One on One and Running Brave |
| 1440-01-22 |
Ivan III The Great |
grand prince of Russia |
| 1561-01-22 |
Francis Bacon |
English statesman and essayist Novum Organum |
| 1729-01-22 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
German critic and dramatist |
| 1788-01-22 |
George Gordon |
Lord Byron and English Romantic poet |
| 1802-01-22 |
Richard Upjohn |
American Gothic architect Trinity Chapel NY |
| 1849-01-22 |
August Strindberg |
Swedish dramatist and novelist |
| 1875-01-22 |
D.W. Griffith |
movie producer Birth of a Nation |
| 1/22/1909 |
U Thant |
3rd secretary-general of UN 1962-72 Burma |
| 1/22/1912 |
Ann Sothern |
voice of my mother the car |
| 1/22/1920 |
William Warfield |
singer Show Boat |
| 1/22/1928 |
Birch Bayh |
D former US senator from Indiana |
| 1/22/1932 |
Piper Laurie |
in Detroit Michigan |
| 1/22/1934 |
Bill Bixby |
Actor Incredible Hulk and My Favorite Martian |
| 1/22/1937 |
Joseph Wambaugh |
police writer The Onionfields |
| 1/22/1959 |
Linda Blair |
Actress The Exorcist in St Louis Mo |
| 1730-01-23 |
Joseph Hewes |
Decl of Ind signer |
| 1756-01-23 |
Wolfgang A Mozart |
musical prodigy |
| 1783-01-23 |
Marie-Henri Beyle |
aka Stendhal and French novelist |
| 1832-01-23 |
Edouard Manet |
French Impressionist painter |
| 1857-01-23 |
Andrija Mohorovicic |
Croatian geologist Moho discontinuity |
| 1862-01-23 |
David Hilbert |
mathematician |
| 1898-01-23 |
Sergei Eisenstein |
Russian film maker Battleship Potemkin |
| 1899-01-23 |
Humphrey Bogart |
Actor |
| 1/23/1903 |
Randolph Scott |
Actor |
| 1/23/1915 |
Potter Stewart |
US Supreme Court justice |
| 1/23/1919 |
Eisenstein |
|
| 1/23/1930 |
William R Pogue |
US astronaut Skylab 4 |
| 1/23/1933 |
Arlene Golonka |
|
| 1/23/1933 |
Chita Rivera |
Actress West Side Story in Washington DC |
| 1/23/1936 |
Jerry Kramer |
Green Bay Packer and author |
| 1/23/1943 |
Gil Gerard |
|
| 1/23/1958 |
Princess Caroline of Monaco |
| 1712-01-24 |
Frederick I The Great |
King of Prussia 1740-86 |
| 1746-01-24 |
Gustav III |
king during Swedish Enlightenment 1771-92 |
| 1862-01-24 |
Edith Wharton |
Novelist US |
| 1880-01-24 |
Elisabeth Achelis |
inventor of World Calendar |
| 1888-01-24 |
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel |
built 1st rocket-powered aircraft |
| 1/24/1917 |
Ernest Borgnine |
Actor Ice Station Zebra and Young Warriors |
| 1/24/1918 |
Oral Roberts |
Evangelist |
| 1/24/1922 |
Ava Gardner |
|
| 1/24/1925 |
Maria Tallchief |
ballerina in Fairfax Ok |
| 1/24/1927 |
Paula Hawkins |
R-sen-Fla |
| 1/24/1941 |
Neil Diamond |
Jazz-Singer |
| 1/24/1946 |
Barry Bostwick |
Actor |
| 1/24/1947 |
Giorgio Chinaglia |
soccer star Lazio of Italy and NY Cosmos |
| 1/24/1949 |
John Belushi |
commedian and Actor Sat Night Live and Blues Brothers |
| 1/24/1960 |
Nastassia Kinski |
in Berlin Germany |
| 0749-01-25 |
Leo IV the Khazar |
Byzantine emperor 775-80 |
| 1627-01-25 |
Robert Boyle |
Irish physicist and chemist and author |
| 1736-01-25 |
Joseph-Louis |
comte de Lagrange and mathematician |
| 1759-01-25 |
Robert Burns |
Scottish poet |
| 1860-01-25 |
Charles Curtis |
R 31st US vice-president 1929-33 |
| 1874-01-25 |
Somerset Maugham |
novelist and poet Of Human Bondage and Cakes & Ale |
| 1882-01-25 |
Virginia Woolf |
author Jacobs Room and To the Lighthouse |
| 1899-01-25 |
Paul-Henri Spaak |
Belgian statesman and leader in European integration |
| 1/25/1919 |
Edwin Newman |
newscaster |
| 1/25/1924 |
Lou the Toe Groza |
AAFC and NFL tackle and kicker Cleveland Browns |
| 1/25/1933 |
Corazon Aquino |
president of Philippines 1986- |
| 1/25/1934 |
Elizabeth Allen |
in New Jersey |
| 1/25/1935 |
Dean Jones |
Actor Love Bug and That Darn Cat |
| 1/25/1945 |
Leigh Taylor Young |
in Washington DC |
| 1715-01-26 |
Claude Helvetius |
French philosopher |
| 1763-01-26 |
Charles XIV |
French marshall and king of Sweden & Norway 1818-44 |
| 1826-01-26 |
Julia Dent Grant |
1st lady |
| 1831-01-26 |
Writer Mary Dodge |
Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates |
| 1880-01-26 |
Gen Douglas MacArthur |
he did return! |
| 1/26/1904 |
Sean MacBride |
Irish statesman and minister Nobel Peace Prize 1974 |
| 1/26/1913 |
Jimmy Van Heusen |
songwriter |
| 1/26/1918 |
Nicolae Ceausescu |
Rumanian president |
| 1/26/1923 |
Anne Jeffereys |
in North Carolina |
| 1/26/1925 |
Joan Leslie |
Actress |
| 1/26/1925 |
Paul Newman |
Actor Hud – Hombre – Hustler and racer & popcorn mogul |
| 1/26/1928 |
Eartha Kitt |
in South Carolina |
| 1/26/1928 |
Roger Vadim |
Director |
| 1/26/1929 |
Jules Feiffer |
cartoonist Passionella |
| 1/26/1931 |
Mary Murphy |
|
| 1/26/1935 |
Bob Uecker |
Sports personality |
| 1/26/1944 |
Angela Davis |
black activist |
| 1/26/1961 |
Wayne Gretzky |
Edmonton Oiler |
| 1756-01-27 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
musical prodigy and Salzburg Austria |
| 1823-01-27 |
Edouard Lalo |
French composer Symphonie espagnole |
| 1832-01-27 |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson |
you know him as Lewis Carroll |
| 1834-01-27 |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
discoverer of periodic table or 1919 |
| 1850-01-27 |
Samuel Gompers |
1st pres of AFL |
| 1885-01-27 |
Jerome Kern |
Broadway composer |
| 1891-01-27 |
Ilya Ehrenburg |
Soviet writer |
| 1894-01-27 |
Fritz Pollard |
early black NFL star 1920-26 |
| 1/27/1900 |
Admiral Hyman G Rickover |
father of modern nuclear navy |
| 1/27/1901 |
Art Rooney |
NFL team owner Pittsburgh |
| 1/27/1911 |
Benay Venuta |
Actress |
| 1/27/1918 |
Skitch Henderson |
Bandleader |
| 1/27/1921 |
Donna Reed |
in Denison Iowa |
| 1/27/1927 |
Joe Perry |
AAFC and NFL fullback SF 49ers and Baltimore Colts |
| 1/27/1929 |
Ingrid Thulin |
in Sweden |
| 1/27/1936 |
Troy Donahue |
Actor Cockfighter and Grandview USA |
| 1457-01-28 |
Henry VII |
king of England 1485-1509 |
| 1611-01-28 |
Johannes Hevelius |
Danzig star cataloguer |
| 1822-01-28 |
Alexander MacKenzie |
L |
| 1841-01-28 |
Henry Stanley |
explorer who found Livingstone |
| 1853-01-28 |
Jose Marti |
Cuban poet and essayist and politician |
| 1855-01-28 |
William Seward Burroughs |
inventor of recording adding machine |
| 1869-01-28 |
Ozaki Koyo |
Japanese novelist and essayist and haiku poet The Heart |
| 1884-01-28 |
Auguste & Jean Felix Piccard |
Swiss scientists and explorers |
| 1887-01-28 |
Artur Rubinstein |
pianist |
| 1/28/1922 |
Robert W Holley |
American biochemist and worked with tRNA Nobel68 |
| 1/28/1929 |
Claes Oldenburg |
sculptor |
| 1/28/1933 |
Susan Sontag |
author and film director |
| 1/28/1936 |
Alan Alda |
Actor Hawkeye Pierce |
| 1/28/1948 |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
ballet dancer |
| 1688-01-29 |
Emanuel Swedenborg |
Swedish religious leader |
| 1737-01-29 |
Thomas Paine |
political essayist Common Sense and Age of Reason |
| 1756-01-29 |
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee |
cavalryman |
| 1843-01-29 |
William McKinley |
R 24th US pres 1897-1901 |
| 1850-01-29 |
Lawrence Hargrave |
invented box kite |
| 1860-01-29 |
Anton Chekhov |
writer The Cherry Orchard |
| 1862-01-29 |
Frederick Delius |
English composer |
| 1866-01-29 |
Romain Rolland |
French writer Jean-Christophe Nobel 1915 |
| 1874-01-29 |
John D Rockefeller Jr |
financier |
| 1880-01-29 |
Claude William Dukenfield |
better known as WC Fields |
| 1/29/1901 |
Allen B DuMont |
perfected 1st coml practical cathode ray tube |
| 1/29/1916 |
Victor Mature |
Actor One Million BC and Robe |
| 1/29/1918 |
John Forsythe |
Actor |
| 1/29/1939 |
Germaine Greer |
in Melbourne Australia |
| 1/29/1942 |
Claudine Longet |
in France – Former Mrs Andy Williams |
| 1/29/1943 |
Katharine Ross |
in Hollywood Cal |
| 1/29/1945 |
Tom Selleck |
Actor Magnum PI |
| 1/29/1951 |
Ann Jillian |
in Cambridge Mass |
| 1/29/1953 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Actress and TV host The Color Purple |
| 1/29/1958 |
Judy Norton-Taylor |
in Santa Monica – Cal Waltons |
| 1/29/1960 |
Gregory Louganis |
champion diver |
| 1882-01-30 |
Franklin D Roosevelt |
32nd Pres 1933-1945 in New Hyde Park NY |
| 1894-01-30 |
Boris III |
tsar of Bulgaria 1918-43 |
| 1/30/1912 |
Barbara Tuchman |
historian and author The Guns of August |
| 1/30/1914 |
David Wayne |
Actor |
| 1/30/1922 |
Barbara Hale |
in Dekalb Ill |
| 1/30/1922 |
Dick Martin |
Actor and comedian Laugh-In |
| 1/30/1925 |
Dorothy Malone |
Actress At Gunpoint! and Night & Day in Chic |
| 1/30/1928 |
Harold Prince |
stage producer |
| 1/30/1931 |
Gene Hackman |
Actor Bonnie & Clyde and Under Fire |
| 1/30/1936 |
Tammy Grimes |
in Lynn Mass |
| 1/30/1937 |
Boris Spassky |
of USSR–world chess champion 1969-72 |
| 1/30/1937 |
Vanessa Redgrave |
Actress Blow-Up and Julia and Orient Express in London |
| 1797-01-31 |
Franz Schubert |
composer Unfinished Symphony |
| 1830-01-31 |
James G Blaine |
Plumed Knight |
| 1872-01-31 |
Zane Gray |
American West novelist |
| 1881-01-31 |
Irving Langmuir |
physical chemist/colloid researcher Nobel32 |
| 1892-01-31 |
Eddie Cantor |
comedian |
| 1/31/1902 |
Alva Myrdal |
Swedish pacifist Nobel 1981 |
| 1/31/1913 |
Don Hutson |
NFL end Packers |
| 1/31/1913 |
Wayne Millner |
NFL end Boston/Washington Redskins |
| 1/31/1914 |
Jersey Joe Walcott |
heavyweight boxing champ 1951-52 |
| 1/31/1919 |
Jackie Robinson |
1st black major league baseball player |
| 1/31/1923 |
Carol Channing |
in Seattle Wash – Diamonds are her best friend |
| 1/31/1923 |
Joanne Dru |
in West Virginia |
| 1/31/1923 |
Normal Mailer |
novelist and NYC mayoral candidate Naked & the Dead |
| 1/31/1929 |
Jean Simmons |
Actress in London |
| 1/31/1929 |
Rudolf Mossbauer |
German physicist Nobel 1961 |
| 1/31/1937 |
Suzanne Pleshette |
Actress The Birds and Bob Newhart Show in NYC |
| 1/31/1938 |
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard |
queen of Netherlands 1980- |
| 1/31/1938 |
James G Watt |
former sect of interior |
| 1/31/1944 |
Jessica Walters |
in NYC |
| 1/31/1947 |
Nolan Ryan |
baseball player |
| 1/31/1957 |
Shirley Babashoff |
US Olympic swimmer |
