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[mr smiler]

29th june.

* 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
* 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
* 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
* 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
* 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
* 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
* 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
* 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
* 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
* 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
* 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
* 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
* 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
* 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
* 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
* 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
* 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
* 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
* 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
* 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
* 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
* 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
* 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
* 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
* 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
* 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
* 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
* 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
* 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
* 1996 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
* 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
* 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.
* 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
* 2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
* 2007 - iPhone is relased to the public by Apple.
* 2007 - Japanese supergroup S.K.I.N. have their highly successful debut concert in Long Beach, California before an audience of 15,000.

Births

* 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
* 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
* 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
* 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
* 1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
* 1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
* 1858 - George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
* 1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
* 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
* 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
* 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
* 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
* 1881 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (d. 1929)
* 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
* 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d.1961)
* 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
* 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
* 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
* 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
* 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
* 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
* 1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
* 1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1993)
* 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
* 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
* 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
* 1912 - Emile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
* 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
* 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
* 1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
* 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
* 1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
* 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
* 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
* 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
* 1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
* 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
* 1925 - Hale Smith, American composer and editor
* 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
* 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
* 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
* 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
* 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
* 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
* 1930 - Robert Evans - American film producer
* 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
* 1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
* 1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
* 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
* 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
* 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
* 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
* 1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther member (d. 1998)
* 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
* 1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
* 1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
* 1944 - Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston
* 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
* 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
* 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
* 1947 - Richard Lewis, American comedian
* 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
* 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
* 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
* 1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
* 1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator of Duck Donald.
* 1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
* 1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer
* 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, baseball player
* 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program
* 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
* 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
* 1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
* 1957 - Robert Forster, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
* 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
* 1958 - Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
* 1960 - Evelyn King, American singer
* 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, actress
* 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
* 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, American actress
* 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
* 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut
* 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
* 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
* 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
* 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
* 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
* 1967 - Jeff Burton, American racing driver
* 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
* 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
* 1969 - Claude Béchard, Quebec politician
* 1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
* 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress
* 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
* 1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
* 1972 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl (d. 1985)
* 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
* 1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist
* 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet
* 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
* 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
* 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
* 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
* 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules Football player
* 1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish Singer and Actor (d. 2007)
* 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
* 1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
* 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
* 1980 - James Courtney, Australian racing driver
* 1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
* 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
* 1982 - Andrea Butjko, Hungarian porn star
* 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
* 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
* 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
* 1986 - Austin Drage, English singer.
* 1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina Acress
* 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor

Deaths

* 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
* 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
* 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
* 1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
* 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
* 1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
* 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
* 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
* 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
* 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
* 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
* 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
* 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
* 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
* 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
* 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
* 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
* 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
* 1934 - Zaro Aga, 157 years ago.(b.1777)
* 1935 - Jack O'Neill, baseball player (b. 1873)
* 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
* 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
* 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
* 1960 - Frank Patrick, professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
* 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
* 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
* 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
* 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
* 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
* 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
* 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
* 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
* 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
* 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
* 1982 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
* 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
* 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)
* 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
* 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
* 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
* 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
* 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
* 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
* 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
* 2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
* 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
* 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
* 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
* 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
* 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
* 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)

and another wee post.

[captainjack15]

They are all boring on my Birthday

[shorty]

19th March

to many to bother putting so ill put the most well known one

Tommy Cooper in 1921

Just like that

indeed just like that
the legend he is

and he died in 1984 on april 15th so you have his birth, and i have his death

yeh i did notice that unlucky mate =[
atleast we can all still appreciate his work

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

April 15th;

Events
1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.
1892 - The General Electric Company is formed.
1906 - The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
1912 - The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics.
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1940 - The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 - In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.
1942 - George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1943 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1957 - White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1967 - Scotland defeats rival England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships.
1979 - A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
1986 - The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans.
1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
1992 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1994 - Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

Births
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (d. 1539)
1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653)
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1646 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1721 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
1741 - Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 - James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)
1809 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1841 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 - Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
1858 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1874 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
1875 - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1878 - Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1886 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
1889 - A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
1892 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1907 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995)
1908 - Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1912 - Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 - Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
1917 - James Kee, American politician (d. 1989)
1920 - Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany
1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor
1922 - Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987)
1924 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor
1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1933 - Roy Clark, American musician
1933 - David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
1936 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1937 - Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
1938 - Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
1939 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1939 - Marty Wilde, British singer
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, British author
1940 - Willie Davis, American baseball player
1940 - Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
1940 - Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
1940 - Robert Walker Jr., American actor
1941 - Howard Berman, American politician
1942 - Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1942 - Walt Hazzard, American basketball player
1942 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician
1947 - Lois Chiles, American actress
1947 - Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
1947 - Mike Chapman, British songwriter
1947 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer
1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 - Tonio K, American singer
1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1949 - Craig Zadan, American film producer
1950 - Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter
1950 - Amy Wright, American actress
1951 - Heloise, American newspaper columnist
1952 - Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
1952 - Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian
1952 - Sam McMurray, American actor
1954 - Seka, American pornographic actress
1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1956 - Michael Cooper, American basketball player
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, American athlete
1958 - Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 - Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer
1958 - Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress
1958 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer
1959 - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
1959 - Emma Thompson, English actress
1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1959 - Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager
1960 - Tony Jones (snooker), English snooker player
1960 - Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1960 - HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne
1962 - Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1962 - Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 - Bobby Pepper, American journalist
1965 - Linda Perry, American musician
1966 - Samantha Fox, English singer
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1967 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
1967 - Alt, Brazilian comic creator
1968 - Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)
1968 - Stacey Williams, American model
1969 - Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
1969 - Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor
1971 - Katy Hill, British television presenter
1971 - Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress
1971 - Jason Sehorn, American football player
1972 - Lou Romano, American voice actor
1972 - Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer
1974 - Mike Quinn, American football player
1974 - Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster (Keith and The Girl)
1974 - Danny Pino, American actor
1974 - Douglas Spain, American actor
1974 - Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1975 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1976 - Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Susan Ward, American actress
1977 - Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
1978 - Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 - Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 - Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1980 - Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 - James Foster, English cricketer
1980 - Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 - Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 - Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
1980 - Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1981 - Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 - Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1982 - Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 - Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 - Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1984 - Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1984 - Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1984 - Ben Kasica, Guitarist of rock band Skillet
1985 - John Danks, American baseball player
1985 - Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1987 - Daniel John Harle Esq.
1990 - Emma Watson, English actress
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American television actress

Deaths
1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
1610 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
1704 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1764 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)
1765 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
1788 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1938 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1945 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1962 - Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1969 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (b. 1887)
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)
1988 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1989 - Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
1990 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1993 - Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
1995 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903)
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2008 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
2008 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian movie director (b. 1945)

just a small post

Some-Bodys Busy .

Silly Me, Forgot to post my own up lol!

[cap'n crunch]

30th November

Alan Hutton - Spurs Footballer
Elisha Cuthbert -
Chris Atkinson - WRC Driver
Josh Lewsey - England Rugby
Mika Salo - Ex F1 Driver
Ben Stiller - Actor
Gary Lineker - Legend
Lorraine Kelly....
Ridley Scott - Film Producer

And Finally

Sir Winston Churchill

[*Raz*]

Robbie williams's birthday is the day after mine and the day before my sisters birthday (13th Feb)

[sazal]

March the 6th!

Its the 65th day of the year! (66th if its a leap year)

Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957)

Loads of births and deaths, but Ive not heard of anyone exept for:

Michaelangelo (the painter not the turtle, although it would have better if it was the turtle! )

[mk3 Cooper S]

ok my birthday : 8th january!

1947
David Bowie, British pop star.
1942
English physicist Stephen Hawking.
1941
Comedian Graham Chapman - a member of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
1937
British singer Shirley Bassey in Cardiff, Wales.
1935
Elvis Presley, US singer. His twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, dies at birth.
1924
British actor Ron Moody.
1908
English actor William Hartnell. Becomes the first 'Dr Who' on British TV during 1960s.



wooo mines pretty good lol alot of good singers

Same day as me!! Thanks for doing the list.

How's your singing??

[Jimmy Hat]

Nice thread!! This is for September 29th:

1979: Pope speaks in Ireland

In his first visit to Ireland, Pope John Paul II addresses a crowd of more than one million in Dublin and makes an impassioned plea for an end to violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. In 1978, Pope John Paul II, born as Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland became the first Polish Pope in history and the first non-Italian pope in 456 years. Fluent in seven modern languages and Latin, the pope fully embraced his role as ambassador of the Roman Catholic Church, and travelled more extensively than any other pope in history. Known for his staunch anti-communism, the Pope was an outspoken supporter of democratic movements in his native Poland and elsewhere during the 1980s. He survived being shot in an assassination attempt in 1981 and died from a heart condition aged 84 in April 2005.



2004
The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within 1 million miles of Earth.

1997
British scientists establish link between Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, a brain disorder which humans, and a brain disease found in cows, which produces BSE infected meat.

1991
The first freely-elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is removed from office in a military coup.

1988
Stacy Allison becomes the first American women to successfully climb Mount Everest.

1988
NASA successfully launches the space shuttle, Discovery, the first launch since the Challenger disaster two and a half years before.

1972
Japan and China re-establish diplomatic relations.

1960
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev voices his disapproval of the UN handling of the troubles in the Congo making several interruptions during the course of a UN debate on the issue in New York.

1957
A passenger train collides with an oil-tanker train in the Gambar province of western Pakistan, killing 300 people.

1952
British and world water speed record holder John Cobb is killed on Loch Ness in Scotland when his craft Crusader breaks up after hitting waves at 240 mph.

1941
The Second World War: The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children carried out the SS begins on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

1938
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, Italian leader Benito Mussolini and German leader Adolf Hitler sign the Munich Agreement, ceding the Sudetenland to Germany.

1918
The First World War: After a 56-hour-long bombardment, Allied forces breach the Hindenburg Line, the last line of German defence on the Western Front.

1829
The first professionally organised police service in Britain, instigated by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel, is founded.

1364
An English army defeats the French at the Battle of the Battle of Auray in France ending the Breton War of Succession.

855
Benedict III is elected Pope.

Also kind of reminds me of these certificate things which told you what happened on the day you were born, my dad used to sell em down the market, dunno why lol. They were really nice actually but he stopped doing them for some reason I cannot fathom...

Edited by Jimmy Hat, 20 October 2008 - 09:19 PM.

[oli8925]

Only doing birthdays because i really cant be bothered with the rest. These are some i remember from bored days at school

25th October

1881 - Pablo Picasso
1921 - King Michael 1 of Romania
1962 - Chad Smith (off of the chili's)
1971 - Simon Charlton (Footballer)
1976 - Steve Jones (Footballer)
1977 - Birgit Prinz (Footballer)
1978 - Russel Anderson (Footballer)
1979 - Rob Hulse (Footballer)
1981 - Shaun Wright-Phillips (Footballer)
1984 - Katy Perry (...i kissed a girl...)
1987 - Darron Gibson (Footballer)

[mighty mini jack]

Events
1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 - Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 - Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 - Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
1801 - Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. See District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801
1812 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1844 - The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 - A crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.
1864 - American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 - The British Labour Party is founded.
1921 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 - Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1939 - American Civil Rights Movement: Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
1942 - World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied (ABDA) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
1945 - Lebanon declares Independence.
1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1961 - The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1963 - The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1967 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 - Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform aborti provocati.
1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.
1976 - The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1989 - Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo.
1991 - Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
1999 - Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
2002 - Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 - Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 - Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.
2007 - The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends.
2007 - The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.


Births
272 - Constantine I, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1691 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (d. 1754)
1711 - Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (d. 1769)
1779 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1842)
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
1831 - Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company (d. 1913)
1862 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (d. 1937)
1877 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
1878 - Alvan T. Fuller, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1886 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
1888 - Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (d. 1974)
1888 - Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)
1888 - Lotte Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976)
1890 - Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
1891 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
1891 - Anne Samson, oldest-ever nun documented (d. 2004)
1892 - William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)
1897 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d. 1993)
1899 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
1902 - Gene Sarazen, American golfer (d. 1999)
1902 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1903 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
1904 - James T. Farrell, American writer (d. 1979)
1904 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist (d. 1996)
1904 - André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1904 - Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1905 - Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
1910 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 - Peter De Vries, American writer (d. 1993)
1910 - Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
1910 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; d. 1990)
1912 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
1912 - Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1913 - Irwin Shaw, American writer (d. 1984)
1913 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (d. 1989)
1917 - John Connally, American politician (d. 1993)
1922 - Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
1923 - Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
1925 - Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (d. 2004)
1926 - David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
1928 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1929 - Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer
1929 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1930 - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1930 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
1930 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1933 - Raymond Berry, American football player
1934 - Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 - N. Scott Momaday, American writer
1934 - Ralph Nader, American consumer activist
1934 - Van Williams, American actor
1935 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
1936 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
1936 - Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
1937 - David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
1937 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
1939 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (d. 1974)
1940 - Howard Hesseman, American actor
1940 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor
1941 - Paddy Ashdown, British politician
1942 - Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
1942 - Michel Forget, French Canadian actor
1943 - Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
1943 - Morten Lauridsen, American composer
1944 - Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
1944 - Roger Scruton, British philosopher
1945 - Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
1947 - Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
1951 - Steve Harley, British rock musician (Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel)
1952 - Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
1953 - Gabriela Svobodová, Czech cross country skier
1954 - Neal Schon, American musician (Journey)
1955 - Peter Christopherson, English musician and video director
1957 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
1957 - Timothy Spall, English actor
1957 - Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator
1957 - Adrian Smith, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1958 - Naas Botha, South African rugby union footballer
1958 - Nancy Spungen, American murder victim of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
1959 - Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1960 - Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
1961 - James Worthy, American basketball player
1962 - Adam Baldwin, American actor
1962 - Grant Show, American actor
1963 - Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
1964 - Todd Bodine, American race car driver
1965 - Noah Emmerich, American actor
1965 - Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist
1965 - Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound editor and sound designer
1966 - Donal Logue, Canadian actor
1968 - Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player
1969 - Brad Vander Ark, American musician
1970 - Michael A. Burstein, American writer
1970 - Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
1970 - Matthias Lechner, German art director
1970 - Patricia Petibon, French opera singer
1971 - Derren Brown, British psychological illusionist
1971 - Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
1973 - Ali Tabatabaee, American Iranian rapper (Zebrahead)
1973 - Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby union footballer
1973 - Peter André, Australian singer - Husband to Katie Price, Glamour model
1975 - Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
1975 - Shelby Walker, American mixed martial artist (d. 2006)
1976 - Tony Gonzalez, American football player
1977 - Lance Hoyt, American professional wrestler
1977 - Ji Sung, South Korean actor
1977 - James Wan, Australian film director
1978 - James Beattie, English footballer
1980 - Bobby Valentino, American singer
1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
1981 - Josh Groban, American singer
1981 - Elodie Ouédraogo, Belgian athlete
1983 - Kate Mara, American actress
1983 - Hayley Angel Wardle, English actress
1983 - Devin Harris, American basketball player
1984 - David Noel, American basketball player
1984 - Antti Tuisku, Finnish singer
1984 - Lotta Schelin, Swedish female footballer
1985 - Juliana Imai, Brazilian model
1985 - Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian Footballer
1989 - Kelly Breeding, American singer from B5
1991 - Azeem Rafiq, Yorkshire CCC & English U15 captain
1992 - Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
1994 - Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player


Deaths
1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
1902 - Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
1902 - Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances
1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
1980 - George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
1992 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
2004 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2008 - Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925)
2008 - Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)

Boyd!

[Git]

Judy Garland was found dead on the actual day I was born.... 22 june 69... bet that cheered up my Mums day... she always liked her!

Lots of media types were born and died on my birthday

My Brother was born on the same date as Elvis too (8th Jan)

My ex wife and my Mum share the same birthday aswell... 11 March...oh well,

[abskie]

ok my birthday : 8th january!

1947
David Bowie, British pop star.
1942
English physicist Stephen Hawking.
1941
Comedian Graham Chapman - a member of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
1937
British singer Shirley Bassey in Cardiff, Wales.
1935
Elvis Presley, US singer. His twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, dies at birth.
1924
British actor Ron Moody.
1908
English actor William Hartnell. Becomes the first 'Dr Who' on British TV during 1960s.



wooo mines pretty good lol alot of good singers

Same day as me!! Thanks for doing the list.

How's your singing??

haha cooooool!!!

my singing ermmm.............. meh cant complain!!! lol yours???????
maybe the same day but were we born in the same year??? wots yours?? lol

[mk3 Cooper S]

ok my birthday : 8th january!

1947
David Bowie, British pop star.
1942
English physicist Stephen Hawking.
1941
Comedian Graham Chapman - a member of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
1937
British singer Shirley Bassey in Cardiff, Wales.
1935
Elvis Presley, US singer. His twin brother, Jesse Garon Presley, dies at birth.
1924
British actor Ron Moody.
1908
English actor William Hartnell. Becomes the first 'Dr Who' on British TV during 1960s.



wooo mines pretty good lol alot of good singers

Same day as me!! Thanks for doing the list.

How's your singing??

haha cooooool!!!

my singing ermmm.............. meh cant complain!!! lol yours???????
maybe the same day but were we born in the same year??? wots yours?? lol

My singing is dreadfull so can't pretend to follow on with the musical theme.
I am a 21 year old trapped in a 38 year olds body!! I was born in 1970

[Guess-Works.com]

Well apparently my birthday is

International Dance Day

well obviously, everyone should celebrate that it's my birthday !