On this day in history ..

• 1294 - John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
• 1342 - Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz
  (Liechtenstein)
• 1382 - Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
• 1455 - Jews flee Spain
• 1494 - Columbus discovers Jamaica
• 1494 - Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St
  Iago"
• 1512 - 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens
  in Rome
• 1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
• 1515 - Persian Gulf: Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
• 1616 - Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
• 1621 - Francis Bacon accused of bribery
• 1624 - Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
• 1629 - French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord
  with Spain
• 1640 - English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
• 1654 - Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for
  animals
• 1660 - Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace
  of Oliva
• 1661 - Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury
  ever to be seen
• 1662 - Royal charter granted Connecticut
• 1678 - French conquering fleet at Cura‡ao, 1200 die
• 1715 - Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon
  "Baily's Beads"
• 1722 - Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance,"
  premieres in Paris
• 1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
• 1765 - 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
• 1802 - Washington DC incorporates as a city
• 1808 - Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
• 1810 - Lord Byron swims Hellespont
• 1815 - Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of
  Naples
• 1822 - Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon,
  France)
• 1830 - 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
• 1845 - 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar
  (Mass)
• 1845 - Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
• 1846 - Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
• 1851 - Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
• 1855 - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
• 1861 - Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
• 1861 - Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers &
  another 18,000 seamen
• 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army
  withdraws
• 1863 - Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
• 1863 - Battle of Salem Church, VA
• 1864 - 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana:
  Confederate assault
• 1886 - M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
• 1898 - Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
• 1900 - 26th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut
  Gibson wins in 2:06¬
• 1901 - Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville,
  Florida
• 1902 - 28th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale
  wins in 2:08.75
• 1903 - AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in
  Almelo
• 1906 - British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from
  Turkey
• 1909 - 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen
  wins in 2:08.2
• 1917 - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
• 1919 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great
  Britain
• 1919 - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
• 1921 - West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
• 1922 - Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee
  Stadium
• 1922 - Salt layer find at Winterswijk
• 1923 - 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego)
  completed
• 1926 - British general strike-3 million workers support
  miners
• 1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis
  (Arrowsmith)
• 1926 - US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving),
  stay until 1933
• 1929 - Prussia bans anti-fascists
• 1932 - 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday
  (London-Basle, Switz)
• 1933 - 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes
  office
• 1934 - Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins,
  27 fours
• 1936 - French People's Front wins elections
• 1936 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut,
  gets 3 hits
• 1937 - Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With
  the Wind"
• 1938 - Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use
• 1938 - Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20
  consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May
  12 1941
• 1938 - Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
• 1941 - -4] German air raid on Liverpool
• 1941 - 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway
  wins in 2:01.4
• 1942 - Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu &
  Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
• 1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
• 1942 - Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in
  Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
• 1942 - Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
• 1943 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's
  Teeth)
• 1943 - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after
  200 killed
• 1943 - US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
• 1944 - "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
• 1944 - Meat rationing ends in US
• 1945 - 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
• 1945 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner
  Heisenberg
• 1945 - British troop join in Rangoon
• 1945 - German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800
  killed
• 1946 - International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
• 1947 - 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot
  wins in 2:06.8
• 1947 - Japan forms a constitutional democracy
• 1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener &
  Tennessee Williams
• 1949 - 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
• 1951 - Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs
  in 1 inning
• 1951 - NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an
  inning (9th)
• 1952 - "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after
  644 performances
• 1952 - 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
• 1952 - 78th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail
  wins in 2:01.6
• 1953 - WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins
  broadcasting
• 1953 - Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims
  "Freedom to Read"
• 1954 - KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins
  broadcasting
• 1954 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh &
  John Patrick
• 1954 - WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins
  broadcasting
• 1956 - "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for
  678 performances
• 1956 - A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2
  over 13,000')
• 1956 - Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella,"
  premieres in NYC
• 1958 - 84th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim
  Tam wins in 2:05
• 1958 - WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in
  Boston, he quits
• 1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf
  Tournament
• 1959 - Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a
  doubleheader
• 1960 - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks,"
  premieres in NYC
• 1961 - Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no
  hitter
• 1962 - Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter
  train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
• 1963 - Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st
  at bat
• 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream"
  speech
• 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf
  Invitational
• 1965 - 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird
  Satellite
• 1965 - 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
• 1965 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
• 1965 - Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH
  (LA Calif)
• 1965 - KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS)
  1st broadcast
• 1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback
  Era)
• 1966 - WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC)
  begins broadcasting
• 1967 - Black students seize finance building at
  Northwestern U
• 1968 - Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio
  Veronica Intl
• 1969 - "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC
  after 7 perfs
• 1969 - 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince
  wins in 2:01.8
• 1970 - 24th NBA Championship: NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4
  games to 3
• 1970 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf
  Invitational
• 1971 - All Things Considered premieres on 112 National
  Public Radio stations
• 1971 - Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East
  German party leader
• 1971 - National Public Radio begins programming
• 1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war
  protesters in 3 days
• 1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
• 1973 - Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443
  m), topped out
• 1973 - KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league
  hit
• 1975 - 101st Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish
  Pleasure wins 2:02
• 1975 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record
  marathon (2:40:15.8)
• 1976 - Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world
  (46:26)
• 1976 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's
  Gift)
• 1978 - "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
• 1978 - Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
• 1978 - Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby
  Simpson, at Kingston
• 1978 - WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston
  till riots end game
• 1979 - 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret
  Thatcher)
• 1979 - Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs
  & 300 stolen bases)
• 1979 - Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London
• 1980 - 106th Kentucky Derby: Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine
  Risk wins in 2:02
• 1980 - Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st
  & final HR
• 1980 - Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100
  games in AL & NL
• 1981 - "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5
  performances
• 1981 - "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at
  Morosco Theater NYC
• 1981 - Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf
  International
• 1982 - ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast
  stations)
• 1982 - NY Times reports that military will get 25% of
  NASA's budget
• 1982 - Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
• 1983 - Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold
  3-1 lead
• 1983 - Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in
  Europe
• 1983 - US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
• 1985 - Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
• 1986 - 112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard
  Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
• 1986 - Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
• 1986 - Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st
  HR
• 1986 - NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
• 1986 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice
  flies in a game
• 1987 - "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46
  performances
• 1987 - Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
• 1987 - Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday &
  Saturday with Gary Hart
• 1988 - 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon
  Springs Florida
• 1988 - Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
• 1991 - Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
• 1991 - 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running
  series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
• 1992 - Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100
  saves
• 1992 - Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries
  Charles Isaacs
• 1992 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
• 1992 - NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
• 1992 - Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat
  Frankfurt 20-17
• 1992 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
  
• 1993 - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC
  for 906 perfs
• 1994 - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
  wins
• 1994 - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary
  election
• 1994 - US space probe Clementine launched
• 1995 - "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16
  performances
• 1995 - Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank
  Worrell Cricket Trophy
• 1995 - David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation
  player, Gus & Buddy)
• 1996 - Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt
  Yorks v Glam
• 1997 - 123rd Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens aboard Silver
  Charm wins in 2:02.3
• 1997 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by
  Jason Queen
• 1997 - Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM
  supercomputer Deep Blue
• 1998 - wins Titleholders Golf Championship

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1446 - Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie
• 1455 - Joƒo II, the perfect, King of Portugal
  (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
• 1469 - Niccol• Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer
  (Prince)
• 1514 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of
  Portugal
• 1535 - Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet
  designer
• 1647 - John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet
  (Bellone aen bant)
• 1649 - Johann Valentin Meder, composer
• 1691 - Carolus van der Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author
  (Introduction … l'amour)
• 1692 - Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname
  (1742-51)
• 1708 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music
  theroist/composer
• 1729 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
• 1737 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer
• 1742 - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer
• 1744 - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
• 1752 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
• 1764 - Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis
  XVI
• 1773 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature
  investigator/diplomat
• 1815 - Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist
• 1816 - Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union
  Army), died in 1892
• 1819 - Nicola De Giosa, composer
• 1826 - Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway
  (1859-72)/poet
• 1844 - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
• 1844 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario
  (Ivanhoe)
• 1849 - Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY
  Evening Sun)
• 1859 - Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
• 1867 - Jack Hearne, cricketer (cousin of George & Alec
  12 Tests for Eng)
• 1867 - ValŠre-Gille, Belgian playwright (La Corbeille
  d'Octobre)
• 1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of
  ballets, songs [OS]
• 1873 - [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author
  (Kvinnen og Den)
• 1874 - Fran‡ois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume
  maker
• 1876 - Bert Hopkins, cricketer (Australian pace bowler of
  the 1900's)
• 1876 - John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer,
  cricketer (Sussex)
• 1886 - Marcel Dupr‚, French organist/composer
• 1890 - B Traven, writer
• 1892 - Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful
  Life)
• 1892 - George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction
  (Nobel 1937)
• 1893 - Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
• 1895 - Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes
  regiae)
• 1895 - Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (Le petit
  g‚n‚ral)
• 1895 - Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle
  Book, 4 Feathers)
• 1897 - V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
• 1898 - Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM
  (1969-74)
• 1898 - Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights
  activist/educator
• 1899 - Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to
  Heaven)
• 1901 - Gino Cervi, Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables,
  Naked Maja)
• 1902 - Hugo Friedhofer, composer
• 1902 - Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My
  Favorite Brunette)
• 1902 - Seton I Miller, Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon,
  Istanbul)
• 1902 - Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo,
  Inspector General)
• 1903 - Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas,
  Going My Way)
• 1904 - Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter
  (1930-46)
• 1904 - John Breeden, SF CA, actor (Salute, Madame
  Racketeer, Joy Street)
• 1905 - Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach,
  duke of Bavaria
• 1905 - Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of
  Spades, Caste)
• 1906 - Mary Astor, Quincy IL, actress (Maltese Falcon,
  Dinky)
• 1907 - Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight
  Earl)
• 1910 - Alceo Galliera, composer
• 1911 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
• 1913 - Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity
  Register)
• 1913 - William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
  
• 1915 - Evencio Castellanos, composer
• 1916 - Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx,
  1961- )
• 1916 - Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
• 1917 - James Penberthy, composer
• 1919 - Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden &
  Green-Bells are Ringing)
• 1919 - Pete Seeger, NYC, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight
  Irene)
• 1920 - Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith],
  middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
• 1921 - Vasco dos Santos Gon‡alves, Portuguese leftist
  colonel
• 1922 - Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer (Ballet
  Russe de Monte Carlo)
• 1923 - Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981- )
• 1924 - Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon &
  Simon)
• 1925 - Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space
  Patrol)
• 1928 - James Brown, Augusta Ga, singer/jail bird, soul
  brother #1 (Hot Pants)
• 1928 - Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love
  & Marriage)
• 1929 - Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
• 1929 - Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
• 1930 - David Evatt Tunley, composer
• 1931 - Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer
• 1933 - Collie Smith, cricketer (exciting WI all-rounder all
  too briefly)
• 1934 - Georg Kroll, composer
• 1935 - Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secretary of
  Interior (1985-89)
• 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnolde Dorsey], India,
  singer (EH Show)
• 1937 - Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer
  (Four Seasons-Sherry)
• 1939 - Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti,
  Music of Stockhausen)
• 1939 - Jos‚ Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
• 1939 - Samantha Eggar, London England, actress (Collector)
• 1941 - Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ
  (1962-78)
• 1942 - Lynn Farleigh, Bristol England, actress (Lovers of
  Their Time)
• 1942 - Vera C…slavsk…-Odlozilova, Czech, gymnast
  (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
• 1943 - John Costello, historian
• 1944 - Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist
• 1944 - Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
• 1945 - Sadiq Mohammad, cricketer (attacking Pakistan
  opening batsman 1969-81)
• 1946 - Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
• 1947 - Doug Henning, Ft Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway
  play-Magic)
• 1949 - Albert Sacco Jr, Boston Mass, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
  
• 1949 - Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981- )
• 1950 - Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the
  Days)
• 1951 - Christopher Cross, [Geppert], Texas, singer
  (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
• 1952 - Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
• 1953 - Bruce Hall, Champaign Ill, rock bassist (Reo
  Speedwagon)
• 1953 - Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
• 1955 - David Hookes, cricketer (dashing Australian LHB, S
  Aussie stalwart)
• 1955 - Steve Jones, English pop guitarist (Sex
  Pistols-Mercy)
• 1957 - Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway
  101-Cry Cry Cry)
• 1957 - Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont
  Canadiens, Wash Caps)
• 1959 - Ben Elton, London UK, actor (Stark, Friday Night
  Live)
• 1959 - David Ball, Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
• 1962 - Anthony Gilligan, Penrith NSW, Australasia golfer
• 1963 - Jeff Hornacek, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
• 1964 - Ron Hextall, Winnipeg, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers, NY
  Islanders)
• 1966 - Paul Stevenson, Victoria Australia, badminton player
  (Olympics-96)
• 1968 - Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game
  Hunter)
• 1968 - Jay Darlington, London England, keyboardist (Kula
  Shaker)
• 1969 - Karen Kraft, San Mateo Calif, rower
  (Olympics-silver-96)
• 1970 - Alexia Dechaume-Ballert, La Rochelle France, tennis
  star (1992 Aust)
• 1970 - Ted Crowley, Concord Mass, US hockey defenseman
  (Olympics-1994)
• 1971 - James Roberson, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
• 1972 - Brett Hayman, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
• 1972 - Josh Taves, defensive end (New England Patriots)
• 1972 - Vyacheslav Kozlov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward
  (Detroit Red Wings)
• 1973 - Dominique Monami, Verviers Belgium, tennis star
• 1973 - Michel Traveller, soccer player (Ajax)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1010 - Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint,
  dies at about 69
• 1294 - Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
• 1410 - Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope
  (1409-10), dies
• 1442 - Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
• 1481 - Mohammed II, [Fƒtih], sultan of Turkey (1451-81),
  dies
• 1567 - Leonhard Paminger, composer, dies at 72
• 1614 - Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar, dies
  at 66
• 1654 - Fran‡ois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of
  Brabant, dies at 77
• 1703 - Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
• 1704 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian
  violist/composer, dies at 59
• 1707 - Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet,
  dies at 53
• 1737 - Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37),
  dies at 65
• 1758 - Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope
  (1740-58), dies at 83
• 1764 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist,
  dies at 53
• 1774 - Heinrich A Fouqu‚, Prussian general (7 year war),
  dies at 76
• 1783 - Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at
  49
• 1792 - Carlo Zuccari, composer, dies at 87
• 1839 - Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67
• 1841 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of
  Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
• 1854 - William Beale, composer, dies at 70
• 1856 - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
• 1856 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic
  (Giselle), dies at 52
• 1861 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80
• 1863 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, US Confederate
  brig-gen, dies at 35
• 1868 - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68
• 1881 - Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
• 1893 - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
• 1902 - David R Capriles, Cura‡aos director of psychiatric,
  dies at 64
• 1910 - Artie Shaw, bandleader
• 1916 - P draic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by
  British firing squad
• 1917 - Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC
  innings), dies
• 1925 - Cl‚ment Ader, French engineer (steam engine
  airplane), dies at 84
• 1926 - Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the
  throne, dies at 63
• 1931 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
• 1931 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93
• 1932 - Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir
  Burgtheater, dies at 51
• 1939 - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies
  at 71
• 1942 - Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service,
  executed
• 1943 - Leslie Heward, composer, dies at 45
• 1945 - Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 66
• 1955 - Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow,
  dies
• 1958 - Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11
  Tests 1911-12), dies
• 1961 - Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French
  philosopher, dies at 53
• 1964 - Diana Wynyard, dies at 58
• 1965 - Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About
  Us), dies at 76
• 1965 - Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian
  diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
• 1966 - Wylie Watson, dies at 77
• 1968 - Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer, dies at 86
• 1969 - Imre Vincze, composer, dies at 42
• 1970 - Candelario Huizar, composer, dies at 82
• 1972 - Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at
  68
• 1972 - Dan Blocker, actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 43
• 1972 - Les Harvey, rocker, dies
• 1975 - Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross),
  dies at 78
• 1976 - David Bruce, dies at 62
• 1976 - Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies at
  72
• 1978 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF), dies
  at 71
• 1979 - Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton
  Place), dies at 76
• 1982 - Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at
  64
• 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies
  at 73
• 1983 - Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebal
  hemmorrhage at 72
• 1986 - Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at
  72
• 1987 - Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one
  run, 0-12), dies
• 1987 - Yolande Christina Dalida, dies at 54
• 1989 - Christine Jorgensen, 1st transsexual, dies at 62
• 1989 - Muriel Ostriche, dies
• 1990 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox
  church, dies at 79
• 1991 - Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
• 1991 - Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
• 1991 - Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd
  Floor), dies
• 1992 - Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart
  seizure at 98
• 1992 - George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71)/actor, dies of
  Leukemia at 89
• 1992 - Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60
• 1994 - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of
  Maarn, dies at 78
• 1994 - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
• 1994 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
• 1994 - Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's
  books, dies at 74
• 1995 - Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies
  at 83
• 1996 - Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of
  lymphoma at 71
• 1996 - Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach, dies at 45