HEADS OF STATES |
1387 | Charles The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87) |
1467 | Sigismund I the Old, king of Poland |
1930 | Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry Premier/President (Sudan) |
POLITICAL FIGURES |
1449 | Lorenzo de' Medici [The Magnificent], ruler of Florence |
1481 | Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer |
1504 | Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer |
1887 | Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence |
1892 | Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st President of Philippines |
1895 | J Edgar Hoover, Washington DC, Director of US Fedreal Bureau of Investigation |
1909 | Barry Goldwater (Senator-R-AZ, 1953-65, 69- /Presidential candidate (R) 1964) |
1922 | Fritz Hollings, (Senator-D-South Carolina, USA) |
1942 | Marty Frost, (Congressman, 24 district of Texas, USA) |
1948 | Pavel Grachev, Defence Minister of Russian Federation (1992 - 1996) |
1954 | Bob Menendez, (Congressman, 13 district of New Jersey, USA) |
1961 | Sergey Glazyev, Russian politician |
SCIENTISTS |
1817 | Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist |
1875 | Charles Rist, French economist |
1879 | Emile Argand, Swiss geologist |
1879 | Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst |
1894 | Shatiendranat Bose, Indian physicist |
1923 | Samuil Kormer, USSR physisist |
1927 | Yuri Michailov, USSR physicist |
1935 | Bengamin Lee, US physicist |
COSMONAUTS AND ASTRONAUTS |
1933 | James A Abrahamson, USAF/astronaut |
1935 | Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut |
1942 | Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov, USSR, cosmonaut |
1947 | Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut |
1947 | Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Russia, cosmonaut |
1949 | Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko, Russia, cosmonaut |
1950 | Svetlana Georgievna Beregovkina, Russia, cosmonaut |
1950 | Yevgeni Vladimirovich Saley, Russia, cosmonaut |
1956 | Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russia, cosmonaut |
1956 | Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russia, cosmonaut |
1959 | Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan, cosmonaut |
1962 | Ravshanbek Aliyev, Kirgizia, cosmonaut |
WRITERS |
1792 | Henrik A Bjerregaard Norwegian writer/poet (Sonner af Norge) |
1809 | John Pieter Heije Dutch physician/writer/poet (Silver Fleet) |
1819 | Arthur Hugh Clough poet, friend of Matthew Arnold |
1880 | Shalom Asch Poland, yiddish writer (Motke Ganev) |
1883 | Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/journalist (La Torre, Tre Croci) |
1919 | Daneel Granin, Russian writer |
1919 | Jerome David Salinger New York City, NY, novelist (Catcher in the Rye) |
1928 | Ernest R Tidyman Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection) |
SPORT FIGURES |
1863 | Baron Pierre de Coubertin France, revived Olympic games |
1906 | Frank Stack Canada, speed skater (Olympics-bronze-1932) |
1908 | Kinue Hitoma Japan, 800m runner (Olympics-silver-1928) |
1936 | Willye B White US long jumper (Olympics-silver-1956) |
1946 | Manfred Stengl Austria, 2 man lugist (Olympics-gold-1960) |
1965 | Andrew O Valmon Brooklyn NY, 400m runner |
1965 | Mark Dewey US baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) |
1966 | Mika Nieminen Tampere Finland, hockey forward (Team Finland, Olympics-bronze-1998) |
1968 | Sandy Beasley Richmond BC, softball outfielder (Olympics-96) |
1969 | Reemt Pyka Bremerhaven Germany, hockey forward (Team Germany) |
1970 | Brian Morton Wollongong Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96) |
1970 | Vadim Glovatskiy hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998) |
1973 | Fang Li Hunan China, tennis star (1991 Futures-Bilbao-ESP) |
1975 | Becky Kellar ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Olympics-98) |