Births & Deaths

Births:

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January

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1 January 766 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam
1 January 1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French initiator of the modern Olympic Games
1 January 1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1 January 1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentinean tennis player
3 January 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher
3 January 1883 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
3 January 1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
3 January 1907 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor
3 January 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director
3 January 1942 - John Thaw, British actor
3 January 1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor and director
3 January 1969 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
4 January 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher
4 January 1809 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind, the inventor of Braille
5 January 1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India
5 January 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
5 January 1928 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani statesman
5 January 1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor
5 January 1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
5 January 1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
6 January 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France
6 January 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
6 January 1880 - Tom Mix, American actor
6 January 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer and painter
6 January 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician
6 January 1931 - Capucine, French actress
6 January 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
7 January 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States
7 January 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
7 January 1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress
7 January 1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor
8 January 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist
8 January 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
9 January 1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer
9 January 1898 - Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress
9 January 1904 - George Balanchine, Russian dancer, choreographer, and ballet producer
9 January 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author
9 January 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
9 January 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor
10 January 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk
11 January 1911 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan
11 January 1972 - Amanda Peet, American actress
12 January 1876 - Jack London, American author
12 January 1893 - Hermann Göring, Nazi official
12 January 1893 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi official
12 January 1910 - Luise Rainer, German actress
12 January 1944 - Joe Frazier, American boxer
12 January 1951 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
14 January 1850 - Pierre Loti, French writer
14 January 1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, missionary, and musician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
14 January 1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director
15 January 1622 - Molière, French playwright
15 January 1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician

February

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1 February 1894 - John Ford, American director and producer
1 February 1901 - Clark Gable, American actor
1 February 1931 - Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia
1 February 1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
2 February 1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician
2 February 1882 - James Joyce, Irish author
2 February 1915 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat
2 February 1977 - Shakira, Colombian singer
3 February 1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect
4 February 1897 - Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany
4 February 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American pilot
4 February 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer
4 February 1915 - Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian
4 February 1918 - Ida Lupino, English film actress and director
4 February 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
4 February 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
5 February 1788 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
5 February 1919 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician
5 February 1943 - Michael Mann, American film director, writer, and producer
5 February 1948 - Barbara Hershey, American actress
5 February 1962 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
5 February 1976 - Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
5 February 1985 - Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
5 February 1989 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
6 February 1664 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan
6 February 1905 - Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader
6 February 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
6 February 1912 - Eva Braun, German mistress of Adolf Hitler
6 February 1932 - François Truffaut, French film director

March

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1 March 1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
3 March 1953 - Zico, Brazilian footballer
3 March 1982 - Jessica Biel, American actress

April

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1 April 1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer
1 April 1815 - Otto von Bismarck, German politician
1 April 1885 - Wallace Beery, American actor
1 April 1920 - Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor
1 April 1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech writer
1 April 1938 - Ali MacGraw, American actress
5 April 1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru
5 April 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
5 April 1827 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon
5 April 1908 - Bette Davis, American actress
5 April 1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor
21 April 1915 - Anthony Quinn, actor

May

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5 May 1818 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher
6 May 1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary
6 May 1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist
6 May 1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author
6 May 1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
6 May 1895 - Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor
6 May 1915 - Orson Welles, American director
6 May 1961 - George Clooney, American actor

June

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4 June 1975 - Angelina Jolie, actress
5 June 1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher
5 June 1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary
5 June 1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist
5 June 1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium

July

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1 July 1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher
1 July 1804 - George Sand, French writer
1 July 1899 - Charles Laughton, English actor
1 July 1902 - William Wyler, French-born film director
1 July 1916 - Olivia de Havilland, British actress
1 July 1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director, producer, and actor
1 July 1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales
1 July 1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model and actress
1 July 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1 July 1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress
2 July 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2 July 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and musician
3 July 1962 - Tom Cruise, actor
5 July 1911 - Georges Pompidou, President of France
5 July 1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
5 July 1975 - Hernan Crespo, Argentinean footballer
6 July 1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
6 July 1921 - Nancy Reagan, actress and First Lady of the United States
6 July 1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
6 July 1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
6 July 1975 - 50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson III), American rapper
7 July 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
7 July 1915 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor
7 July 1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer

August

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1 August 10 BC - Claudius, Roman Emperor
1 August 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist
1 August 1819 - Herman Melville, American writer
1 August 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan

September

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5 September 1638 - Louis XIV of France
5 September 1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress
5 September 1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
6 September 1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman
6 September 1766 - John Dalton, British chemist and physicist

October

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3 October 1858 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress
3 October 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer
3 October 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer
3 October 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
3 October 1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer

November

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1 November 1973 - Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
2 November 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
2 November 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States
2 November 1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultn
2 November 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
2 November 1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor

December

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18 December 1963 - Brad Pitt, actor
28 December 1856 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
28 December 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director
28 December 1924 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda
28 December 1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
29 December 1721 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France
29 December 1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States
29 December 1809 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
31 December 1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter and graphic artist
31 December 1880 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State
31 December 1894 - Pola Negri, Polish actress
31 December 1937 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
31 December 1941 - Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
31 December 1943 - Ben Kingsley, English actor

Deaths:

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January

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3 January 1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor and encyclopedist
3 January 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress
3 January 2001 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer
4 January 1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
5 January 842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph
5 January 1589 - Catherine de Medici, queen of Henry II of France
5 January 1990 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor
6 January 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Muslim general
6 January 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind
6 January 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist
6 January 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
6 January 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director
6 January 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian leader
7 January 1536 - Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII of England
7 January 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer
7 January 1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
8 January 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer
8 January 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist
8 January 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet
8 January 1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France

February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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3 June 2001 - Anthony Quinn, actor

July

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1 July 868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam
1 July 1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt
1 July 1974 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina
1 July 1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor
1 July 2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor
1 July 2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor
2 July 1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
2 July 1937 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator
2 July 1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
6 July 1535 - Sir Thomas More, English writer and philosopher
6 July 1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author
6 July 1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
6 July 1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician
6 July 1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician
6 July 1998 - Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer
6 July 2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director
6 July 2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate

August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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