1798 - Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849)
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1961 - Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1819 - John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900)
1552 - Agrippa d'Aubign, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
1963 - Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter
1923 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
1612 - Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
1965 - Carmen Savy, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Brisbane & District)
1685 - Charles-Jean-Franois Hnault, French historian (d. 1770)
1708 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
1925 - Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
1741 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
1927 - John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )
1789 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
1927 - Zdenek Zouhar, composer
1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 - Yvon Corriveau, Ontario, NHL left wing (Wash Caps)
1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
1968 - Ron Goetz, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer
1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1811 - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
1932 - Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
1970 - Alonzo Mourning, NBA center (Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets)
1818 - Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
1933 - Jack Larson, LA Calif, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1822 - Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
1972 - Marcus Pollard, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1828 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer
1828 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1973 - Eric Kresser, quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1851 - Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist
1973 - Tom King, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1938 - Ray Sharpe, singer
1939 - Barry Mann, vocalist (Who Put the Bump)
1878 - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
1939 - Jos Maria Sison, Filipino communist
1975 - Damon Denson, guard (New England Patriots)
1975 - Joshua Morrow. Juneau Alaska, actor (Nicholas Newman-Young & Restless)
1976 - Holly Manthei, Edina Minn, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1941 - Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
1942 - Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1976 - Adam Piatt, American baseball player
1977 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
1943 - Bob Oliver, baseball player
1977 - Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
1892 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1944 - Jim Capaldi, rocker (Traffic)
1944 - Sebastio Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
1896 - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
1946 - Paul Wheatbread, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1947 - Sam Gannon, cricketer (Austr lefty quick, 3 Tests v India 1977-78)
1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1981 - Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
1949 - Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
1902 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1982 - Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
1950 - Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut
1904 - Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1987 - Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
1906 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
1989 - Danielle Harmer, English actress
1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
1952 - Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
1908 - Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
1953 - Roger Clavet, Qubcois politician
1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1405 - Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Wrttemberg (d. 1550)
1912 - Simon Jurovsky, composer
1955 - Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
1913 - John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal
1914 - Bert Haas, baseball player
1914 - Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
1918 - John Intoxication, resistance fighter
1960 - Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1918 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1792 - Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 - The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 - Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1575 - Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I - the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 - Barbu Dimitrie Stirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 - In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 - The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1887 - The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 - Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 - World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 - The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1948 - The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 - The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1960 - The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 - Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 - The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 - After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 - American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1969 - Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 - The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 - South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try and cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
1981 - Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
1983 - The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144.
1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2010 - A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers.
1191 - Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1961 - Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1819 - John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900)
1552 - Agrippa d'Aubign, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
1963 - Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter
1923 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
1612 - Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist (Hudibras) (baptized)
1965 - Carmen Savy, Brisbane QLD, golfer (1990 Brisbane & District)
1685 - Charles-Jean-Franois Hnault, French historian (d. 1770)
1708 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
1925 - Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
1741 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
1927 - John T Myers, (Rep-R-IN, 1967- )
1789 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
1927 - Zdenek Zouhar, composer
1966 - Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967 - Yvon Corriveau, Ontario, NHL left wing (Wash Caps)
1804 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
1968 - Ron Goetz, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Claudette Pace, Maltese singer
1930 - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1811 - Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
1932 - Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
1970 - Alonzo Mourning, NBA center (Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets)
1818 - Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
1933 - Jack Larson, LA Calif, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1822 - Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
1972 - Marcus Pollard, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1828 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer
1828 - Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
1973 - Eric Kresser, quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1851 - Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist
1973 - Tom King, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1938 - Ray Sharpe, singer
1939 - Barry Mann, vocalist (Who Put the Bump)
1878 - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
1939 - Jos Maria Sison, Filipino communist
1975 - Damon Denson, guard (New England Patriots)
1975 - Joshua Morrow. Juneau Alaska, actor (Nicholas Newman-Young & Restless)
1976 - Holly Manthei, Edina Minn, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1941 - Tom Rush, NH, rock guitarist/vocalist (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
1942 - Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1976 - Adam Piatt, American baseball player
1977 - Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
1943 - Bob Oliver, baseball player
1977 - Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
1977 - Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
1892 - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
1893 - Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1944 - Jim Capaldi, rocker (Traffic)
1944 - Sebastio Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
1896 - Orville Caldwell, Ca, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
1946 - Paul Wheatbread, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1947 - Sam Gannon, cricketer (Austr lefty quick, 3 Tests v India 1977-78)
1900 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1981 - Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
1949 - Brooke Adams, NYC, actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
1902 - Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1982 - Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
1950 - Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut
1904 - Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
1984 - Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1987 - Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
1906 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopy)
1989 - Danielle Harmer, English actress
1995 - Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress
1952 - Nancy Lord, Libertarian VP candidate (1992)
1908 - Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
1953 - Roger Clavet, Qubcois politician
1291 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1405 - Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
1487 - Ulrich, Duke of Wrttemberg (d. 1550)
1912 - Simon Jurovsky, composer
1955 - Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
1913 - John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal
1914 - Bert Haas, baseball player
1914 - Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
1677 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
1918 - John Intoxication, resistance fighter
1960 - Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1918 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1792 - Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
421 - Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 - The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 - Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1575 - Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I - the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 - The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1726 - The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
1817 - Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 - Barbu Dimitrie Stirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 - In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1879 - Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 - The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1887 - The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 - Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 - President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 - Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 - World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 - The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1948 - The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
1949 - Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1952 - Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 - The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1960 - The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 - Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 - The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 - After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 - American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1969 - Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 - The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 - South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try and cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 - After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 - Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 - Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1979 - Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
1981 - Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
1983 - The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1989 - An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144.
1993 - General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 - The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2010 - A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers.
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