Calendar Date February 9th:
February 9th - Deaths:
1011 – Bernard I - Duke of Saxony
1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo - Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
1450 – Agnès Sorel - mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 – Rowland Taylor - English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
1619 – Lucilio Vanini - Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
1675 – Gerhard Douw - Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 – François Louis - Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau - Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
1752 – Fredric Hasselquist - Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
1777 – Seth Pomeroy - American gunsmith & soldier (b. 1706)
1782 – Joseph Aloysius Assemani - Lebanese orientalist (b. 1710)
1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert - French poet (b. 1716)
1857 – Dionysios Solomos - Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
1874 – Jules Michelet - French historian (b. 1798)
1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Russian novelist (b. 1821)
1891 – Johan Jongkind - Dutch painter (b. 1819)
1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar - American poet (b. 1872)
1930 – Richard With - Norwegian businessman, politician & captain, founder of Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
1940 – Eugene Bleuler - Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
1951 – Eddy Duchin - American musician (b. 1910)
1957 – Miklós Horthy - Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
1960 – Alexandre Benois - Russian artist (b. 1870)
1960 – Ernő Dohnányi - Hungarian pianist, conductor & composer (b. 1877)
1966 – Sophie Tucker - Russian-born actress (b. 1884)
1969 – Gabby Hayes - American actor (b. 1885)
1973 – Vasiliki Maliaros - Greek actress (b. 1883)
1973 – Max Yasgur - American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
1976 – Percy Faith - Canadian musician (b. 1908)
1977 – Sergey Ilyushin - Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
1978 – Costante Girardengo - Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
1978 – Julio Jaramillo - Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
1979 – Dennis Gabor - Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1980 – Tom Macdonald - Welsh journalist & novelist (b. 1900)
1981 – Bill Haley - American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
1984 – Yuri Andropov - Soviet politician (b. 1914)
1989 – Osamu Tezuka - Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1991 – James Cleveland - American gospel singer (b. 1931)
1994 – Howard Martin Temin - American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1995 – J. William Fulbright - American politician (b. 1905)
1995 – David Wayne - American actor (b. 1914)
1997 – Brian Connolly - Scottish singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)
1999 – Bryan Mosley - British actor (b. 1931)
2001 – Herbert Simon - American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2002 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
2002 – Vicente Sardinero - Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 – Claude Ryan - Canadian newspaper director & politician (b. 1925)
2005 – Tyrone Davis - American soul singer (b. 1938)
2005 – Robert Kearns - Inventor of the intermittent wiper (b. 1927)
2006 – Freddie Laker - British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 – Nadira - Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 – Hank Bauer - American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007 – Ian Richardson - Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2008 – Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher & Author. (b. 1943)
2008 – Jazeh Tabatabai - Iranian avant-garde painter, poet & sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 – Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal - the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 – Scot Halpin - American musician, temporary drummer for (The Who) (b. 1954)
2009 – Eluana Englaro - an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
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February 9 - Births
Calendar Date February 9th:
February 9th - Births:
1533 – Shimazu Yoshihisa - Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1645 – Johann Aegidius Bach - German violist (d. 1716)
1666 – George Hamilton - 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
1748 – Luther Martin - American patriot (d. 1826)
1756 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva - Czech composer (d. 1785)
1763 – Ludwig I - Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
1769 – Susette Gontard - the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
1773 – William Henry Harrison - 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
1775 – Farkas Bolyai - Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)
1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix - German scientist (d. 1826)
1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky - Russian poet (d. 1852)
1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger - German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1800 – Hyrum Smith - American religious leader (d. 1844)
1814 – Samuel Jones Tilden - 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
1830 – Abd-ul-Aziz - Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
1834 – Felix Dahn - German author (d. 1912)
1839 – Silas Adams - American lawyer & politician (d. 1896)
1846 – Wilhelm Maybach - German automotive designer (d. 1929)
1846 – Whitaker Wright - English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
1865 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell - British actress (d. 1940)
1865 – Erich von Drygalski - German geographer, geophysicist, & polar scientist (d. 1949)
1867 – Natsume Sōseki - Japanese novelist. (d. 1916)
1874 – Amy Lowell - American poet (d. 1925)
1880 – Lipót Fejér - Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
1885 – Alban Berg - Austrian composer (d. 1935)
1891 – Ronald Colman - English actor (d. 1958)
1892 – Peggy Wood - American actress (d. 1978)
1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas - Greek lawyer, politician & Prime Minister (d. 1987)
1895 – Hermann Brill - German politician (d. 1959)
1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith - Australian pilot (d. 1935)
1901 – Brian Donlevy - Irish actor (d. 1972)
1901 – James Murray - American actor (d. 1936)
1902 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink - German women's leader (d. 1999)
1906 – André Kostolany - stock market expert & speculator (d. 1999)
1909 – Heather Angel - British actress (d. 1986)
1909 – Harald Genzmer - German composer (d. 2007)
1909 – Carmen Miranda - Brazilian actress (d. 1955)
1909 – Dean Rusk - 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
1910 – Jacques Monod - French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1911 – William Darby - American World War II Army officer (d. 1945)
1914 – Ernest Tubb - American singer (d. 1984)
1914 – Bill Veeck - American baseball executive (d. 1986)
1914 – Bill Justice - American Disney animator
1915 – Lennard Pearce - English actor (d. 1984)
1916 – Tex Hughson - American baseball player (d. 1993)
1922 – Kathryn Grayson - American actress
1922 – Jim Laker - English cricketer (d. 1986)
1923 – Brendan Behan - Irish author (d. 1964)
1925 – Burkhard Heim - German physicist (d. 2001)
1926 – Garret FitzGerald - 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1928 – Frank Frazetta - American illustrator
1928 – Rinus Michels - Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
1928 – Roger Mudd - American journalist
1929 – Clement Meadmore - Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
1930 – Garner Ted Armstrong - American evangelist (d. 2003)
1931 – Thomas Bernhard - Austrian playwright & novelist (d. 1989)
1931 – Josef Masopust - Czech footballer
1932 – Tatsuro Hirooka - Japanese baseball player
1932 – Gerhard Richter - German painter
1933 – Loris Azzaro - French fashion designer (d. 2003)
1934 – John Ziegler - former NHL Commissioner
1936 – Stompin' Tom Connors - Canadian country singer
1936 – Clive Swift - British actor
1937 – Clete Boyer - American baseball player (d. 2007)
1939 – Barry Mann - American singer
1939 – Janet Suzman - South African actress
1940 – Brian Bennett - British musician (The Shadows)
1940 – J. M. Coetzee - South African author, Nobel laureate
1941 – Sheila Kuehl - American actress
1942 – Carole King - American singer
1943 – Barbara Lewis - American singer & songwriter
1943 – Jonny Nilsson - Swedish speedskater
1943 – Joe Pesci - American actor
1943 – Joseph E. Stiglitz - American economist, Nobel laureate
1944 – Derryn Hinch - Australian media personality
1944 – Alice Walker - American writer
1945 – Mia Farrow - American actress
1945 – Gérard Lenorman - French singer
1946 – Séan Neeson - Northern Irish politician
1946 – Vince Papale - American football player
1946 – Jim Webb - United States Senator from Virginia
1947 – Carla Del Ponte - Swiss UN prosecutor
1947 – Joe Ely - American musician
1947 – Major Harris - American singer
1947 – Michel Lamarche - Canadian professional wrestler
1949 – Judith Light - American actress
1950 – Richard F. Colburn - American politician
1952 – Danny White - American football player
1952 – Mookie Wilson - American baseball player
1953 – Ciarán Hinds - Northern Irish actor
1953 – Gabriel Rotello - American television documentary producer
1954 – Mary Jo Duffy - American comic book writer & editor
1954 – Christopher Gardner - American entrepreneur
1954 – Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Scientist
1955 – Jim J. Bullock - American actor
1955 – Charles Shaughnessy - British actor
1957 – Gordon Strachan - Scottish football player & manager
1958 – Chris Nilan - National Hockey League player
1958 – Cyrille Regis - English former footballer
1960 – Holly Johnson - British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1960 – Peggy Whitson - NASA astronaut
1961 – John Kruk - American baseball player
1961 – Jussi Lampi - Finnish musician & actor
1962 – Anik Bissonnette - Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
1963 – Brian Greene - American physicist
1963 – Travis Tritt - American singer
1965 – Igor Malkov - Russian speedskater
1965 – Julie Warner - American actress
1966 – Harald Eia - Norwegian TV – comedian
1966 – Ellen van Langen - Dutch athlete
1967 – Todd Pratt - American baseball player
1968 – Alejandra Guzmán - Mexican singer
1968 – Rahul Roy - Indian actor
1969 – Ian Eagle - American sportscaster
1969 – Jimmy Smith - American football player
1970 – Glenn McGrath - Australian cricketer
1971 – Sharon Case - American actress
1971 – Johan Mjällby - Swedish footballer
1972 – Darren Ferguson - Scottish footballer
1972 – Crispin Freeman - American voice actor
1972 – Jason Winston George - American actor
1972 – Norbert Rozsa - Hungarian swimmer
1973 – Svetlana Boginskaya - Soviet gymnast
1973 – Colin Egglesfield - American actor
1974 – Brad Maynard - National Football League punter
1974 – Amber Valletta - American model
1974 – Erra Fazira - Malaysian actress & Beauty Queen
1974 – John Wallace - American basketball player
1975 – Viktor Chistiakov - Russian-born Australian athlete
1975 – Clinton Grybas - Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)
1976 – Charlie Day - American actor
1976 – Vladimir Guerrero - Dominican baseball player
1976 – Georgios Korakakis - Greek footballer
1978 – Airton Daré - Brazilian racing driver
1979 – David Gray - English snooker player
1979 – Akinori Iwamura - Japanese baseball player
1979 – Irina Slutskaya - Russian figure skater
1979 – Zhang Ziyi - Chinese actress
1980 – Angelos Charisteas - Greek footballer
1980 – Shelly Martinez - American wrestler
1981 – Joël Camathias - Swiss racing driver
1981 – John Walker Lindh - American Taliban fighter
1981 – The Rev - American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)
1982 – Jameer Nelson - American basketball player
1982 – Ami Suzuki - Japanese singer
1983 – Mikel Arruabarrena - Spanish footballer
1984 – Han Kyung - Korean singer Super Junior
1984 – Dioner Navarro - Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Han Geng - Chinese pop artist
1985 – David Gallagher - American actor
1985 – Rachel Melvin - American actress
1986 – Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein - of Jordan
1987 – Magdalena Neuner - German biathlete
1987 – Joe O'Cearuill - Irish footballer
1989 – Wu Chia-ching - Taiwanese pool player
1989 – Gia Farrell - American singer
1990 – Camille Winbush - American actress
1992 – Avan Jogia - Canadian actor
1996 – Jimmy Bennett - American actor
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February 9th - Births:
1533 – Shimazu Yoshihisa - Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1645 – Johann Aegidius Bach - German violist (d. 1716)
1666 – George Hamilton - 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
1748 – Luther Martin - American patriot (d. 1826)
1756 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva - Czech composer (d. 1785)
1763 – Ludwig I - Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
1769 – Susette Gontard - the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
1773 – William Henry Harrison - 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
1775 – Farkas Bolyai - Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)
1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix - German scientist (d. 1826)
1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky - Russian poet (d. 1852)
1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger - German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1800 – Hyrum Smith - American religious leader (d. 1844)
1814 – Samuel Jones Tilden - 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
1830 – Abd-ul-Aziz - Ottoman Sultan (d. 1876)
1834 – Felix Dahn - German author (d. 1912)
1839 – Silas Adams - American lawyer & politician (d. 1896)
1846 – Wilhelm Maybach - German automotive designer (d. 1929)
1846 – Whitaker Wright - English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
1865 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell - British actress (d. 1940)
1865 – Erich von Drygalski - German geographer, geophysicist, & polar scientist (d. 1949)
1867 – Natsume Sōseki - Japanese novelist. (d. 1916)
1874 – Amy Lowell - American poet (d. 1925)
1880 – Lipót Fejér - Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
1885 – Alban Berg - Austrian composer (d. 1935)
1891 – Ronald Colman - English actor (d. 1958)
1892 – Peggy Wood - American actress (d. 1978)
1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas - Greek lawyer, politician & Prime Minister (d. 1987)
1895 – Hermann Brill - German politician (d. 1959)
1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith - Australian pilot (d. 1935)
1901 – Brian Donlevy - Irish actor (d. 1972)
1901 – James Murray - American actor (d. 1936)
1902 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink - German women's leader (d. 1999)
1906 – André Kostolany - stock market expert & speculator (d. 1999)
1909 – Heather Angel - British actress (d. 1986)
1909 – Harald Genzmer - German composer (d. 2007)
1909 – Carmen Miranda - Brazilian actress (d. 1955)
1909 – Dean Rusk - 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
1910 – Jacques Monod - French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1911 – William Darby - American World War II Army officer (d. 1945)
1914 – Ernest Tubb - American singer (d. 1984)
1914 – Bill Veeck - American baseball executive (d. 1986)
1914 – Bill Justice - American Disney animator
1915 – Lennard Pearce - English actor (d. 1984)
1916 – Tex Hughson - American baseball player (d. 1993)
1922 – Kathryn Grayson - American actress
1922 – Jim Laker - English cricketer (d. 1986)
1923 – Brendan Behan - Irish author (d. 1964)
1925 – Burkhard Heim - German physicist (d. 2001)
1926 – Garret FitzGerald - 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1928 – Frank Frazetta - American illustrator
1928 – Rinus Michels - Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
1928 – Roger Mudd - American journalist
1929 – Clement Meadmore - Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
1930 – Garner Ted Armstrong - American evangelist (d. 2003)
1931 – Thomas Bernhard - Austrian playwright & novelist (d. 1989)
1931 – Josef Masopust - Czech footballer
1932 – Tatsuro Hirooka - Japanese baseball player
1932 – Gerhard Richter - German painter
1933 – Loris Azzaro - French fashion designer (d. 2003)
1934 – John Ziegler - former NHL Commissioner
1936 – Stompin' Tom Connors - Canadian country singer
1936 – Clive Swift - British actor
1937 – Clete Boyer - American baseball player (d. 2007)
1939 – Barry Mann - American singer
1939 – Janet Suzman - South African actress
1940 – Brian Bennett - British musician (The Shadows)
1940 – J. M. Coetzee - South African author, Nobel laureate
1941 – Sheila Kuehl - American actress
1942 – Carole King - American singer
1943 – Barbara Lewis - American singer & songwriter
1943 – Jonny Nilsson - Swedish speedskater
1943 – Joe Pesci - American actor
1943 – Joseph E. Stiglitz - American economist, Nobel laureate
1944 – Derryn Hinch - Australian media personality
1944 – Alice Walker - American writer
1945 – Mia Farrow - American actress
1945 – Gérard Lenorman - French singer
1946 – Séan Neeson - Northern Irish politician
1946 – Vince Papale - American football player
1946 – Jim Webb - United States Senator from Virginia
1947 – Carla Del Ponte - Swiss UN prosecutor
1947 – Joe Ely - American musician
1947 – Major Harris - American singer
1947 – Michel Lamarche - Canadian professional wrestler
1949 – Judith Light - American actress
1950 – Richard F. Colburn - American politician
1952 – Danny White - American football player
1952 – Mookie Wilson - American baseball player
1953 – Ciarán Hinds - Northern Irish actor
1953 – Gabriel Rotello - American television documentary producer
1954 – Mary Jo Duffy - American comic book writer & editor
1954 – Christopher Gardner - American entrepreneur
1954 – Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Scientist
1955 – Jim J. Bullock - American actor
1955 – Charles Shaughnessy - British actor
1957 – Gordon Strachan - Scottish football player & manager
1958 – Chris Nilan - National Hockey League player
1958 – Cyrille Regis - English former footballer
1960 – Holly Johnson - British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1960 – Peggy Whitson - NASA astronaut
1961 – John Kruk - American baseball player
1961 – Jussi Lampi - Finnish musician & actor
1962 – Anik Bissonnette - Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
1963 – Brian Greene - American physicist
1963 – Travis Tritt - American singer
1965 – Igor Malkov - Russian speedskater
1965 – Julie Warner - American actress
1966 – Harald Eia - Norwegian TV – comedian
1966 – Ellen van Langen - Dutch athlete
1967 – Todd Pratt - American baseball player
1968 – Alejandra Guzmán - Mexican singer
1968 – Rahul Roy - Indian actor
1969 – Ian Eagle - American sportscaster
1969 – Jimmy Smith - American football player
1970 – Glenn McGrath - Australian cricketer
1971 – Sharon Case - American actress
1971 – Johan Mjällby - Swedish footballer
1972 – Darren Ferguson - Scottish footballer
1972 – Crispin Freeman - American voice actor
1972 – Jason Winston George - American actor
1972 – Norbert Rozsa - Hungarian swimmer
1973 – Svetlana Boginskaya - Soviet gymnast
1973 – Colin Egglesfield - American actor
1974 – Brad Maynard - National Football League punter
1974 – Amber Valletta - American model
1974 – Erra Fazira - Malaysian actress & Beauty Queen
1974 – John Wallace - American basketball player
1975 – Viktor Chistiakov - Russian-born Australian athlete
1975 – Clinton Grybas - Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)
1976 – Charlie Day - American actor
1976 – Vladimir Guerrero - Dominican baseball player
1976 – Georgios Korakakis - Greek footballer
1978 – Airton Daré - Brazilian racing driver
1979 – David Gray - English snooker player
1979 – Akinori Iwamura - Japanese baseball player
1979 – Irina Slutskaya - Russian figure skater
1979 – Zhang Ziyi - Chinese actress
1980 – Angelos Charisteas - Greek footballer
1980 – Shelly Martinez - American wrestler
1981 – Joël Camathias - Swiss racing driver
1981 – John Walker Lindh - American Taliban fighter
1981 – The Rev - American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)
1982 – Jameer Nelson - American basketball player
1982 – Ami Suzuki - Japanese singer
1983 – Mikel Arruabarrena - Spanish footballer
1984 – Han Kyung - Korean singer Super Junior
1984 – Dioner Navarro - Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Han Geng - Chinese pop artist
1985 – David Gallagher - American actor
1985 – Rachel Melvin - American actress
1986 – Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein - of Jordan
1987 – Magdalena Neuner - German biathlete
1987 – Joe O'Cearuill - Irish footballer
1989 – Wu Chia-ching - Taiwanese pool player
1989 – Gia Farrell - American singer
1990 – Camille Winbush - American actress
1992 – Avan Jogia - Canadian actor
1996 – Jimmy Bennett - American actor
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February 9 - General (Calendar Date)
February 9th - Basic Facts:
February 9th Deaths (Here)
February 9 Events:
474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1775 – The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion (American Revolutionary War).
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 – United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States - after no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824.
1849 – New Roman Republic established
1861 – American Civil War - Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.
1885 – The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
1889 – The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette - later referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup tennis competition is established.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur (Russo–Japanese War).
1920 – Spitsbergen Treaty - international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, & designates it as demilitarized.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 – Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war (World War II).
1943 – End of the Battle of Guadalcanal - allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island (World War II).
1945 – The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway (World War II).
1950 – Second Red Scare - Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1960 – Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 – Jamaica becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1965 – The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 – Sylmar earthquake (6.4 on the Richter Scale) hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 – Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1975 – Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1991 – Vote for independence in Lithuania.
1994 – Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia & Herzegovina is announced.
1995 – First African American & first Briton, to perform spacewalks - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. & Michael Foale.
1996 – The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by the explosion of a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes & sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese Uwajima Fishery High School training vessel.
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- February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- There are 325 days remaining until the end of the year (326 in leap years).
- The preceding day is February 8
- Next day is February 10.
February 9th Deaths (Here)
February 9 Events:
474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1775 – The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion (American Revolutionary War).
1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 – United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States - after no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824.
1849 – New Roman Republic established
1861 – American Civil War - Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.
1885 – The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
1889 – The United States Department of Agriculture is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette - later referred to as volleyball.
1900 – The Davis Cup tennis competition is established.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur (Russo–Japanese War).
1920 – Spitsbergen Treaty - international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, & designates it as demilitarized.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 – Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war (World War II).
1943 – End of the Battle of Guadalcanal - allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island (World War II).
1945 – The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway (World War II).
1950 – Second Red Scare - Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1960 – Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 – Jamaica becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1965 – The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 – Sylmar earthquake (6.4 on the Richter Scale) hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 – Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1975 – Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1991 – Vote for independence in Lithuania.
1994 – Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia & Herzegovina is announced.
1995 – First African American & first Briton, to perform spacewalks - Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. & Michael Foale.
1996 – The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by the explosion of a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes & sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese Uwajima Fishery High School training vessel.
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Monday
February 8 - Deaths
Calendar Date February 8th:
February 8th - Deaths:
1204 – Alexius IV Angelus - deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. c. 1182)
1250 – Robert I of Artois - French crusader (b. 1216)
1250 – Sir William II Longespee (b. 1212)
1265 – Hulagu Khan - Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
1529 – Baldassare Castiglione - Italian writer & diplomat (b. 1478)
1587 – Mary - Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
1599 – Robert Rollock - Scottish educator (b. 1555)
1623 – Thomas Cecil - 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
1709 – Giuseppe Torelli - Italian composer (b. 1658)
1725 – Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
1749 – Jan van Huysum - Dutch painter (b. 1682)
1750 – Aaron Hill - English writer (b. 1685)
1768 – George Dance the Elder - English architect (b. 1695)
1772 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha - Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
1849 – France Prešeren - Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
1849 – François Antoine Habeneck - French violinist (b. 1781)
1856 – Agostino Bassi - Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom - Dutch chemist (b. 1854)
1910 – Hans Jæger - Norwegian writer & political activist (b. 1854)
1921 – Peter Kropotkin - Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
1921 – George Formby - Sr., English entertainer (b. 1876)
1921 – Barrett Wendell - American academic & author (b. 1855)
1924 – Gee Jon First man in U.S. to be executed by lethal gas. (b. 1895)
1929 – Maria Christina - Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1932 – Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll - New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908)
1936 – Charles Curtis - 1st American-Indian Vice-President USA (b. 1860)
1956 – Connie Mack - American baseball manager & executive (b. 1862)
1957 – Walther Bothe - German physicist & inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1957 – John von Neumann - Hungarian-born mathematician & physicist (b. 1903)
1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott - British architect (b. 1880)
1960 – John Langshaw Austin - British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1963 – George Dolenz - American actor, father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908)
1964 – Ernst Kretschmer - German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1972 – Markos Vamvakaris - Greek musician & songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 – Robert Robinson - British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1977 – Eivind Groven - Norwegian composer & ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1980 – Nikos Xilouris - Greek singer (b. 1936)
1982 – John Hay Whitney - American financier (b. 1904)
1984 – Karel Miljon - Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 – William Lyons - British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)
1987 – Harriet E. MacGibbon - American actress (b. 1905)
1990 – Del Shannon - American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
1992 – Denny Wright - British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
1993 – N. Shanmugathasan - Sri Lankan communist leader (b. 1920)
1994 – Raymond Scott - American composer (b. 1908)
1996 – Del Ennis - American baseball player (b. 1925)
1998 – Halldór Laxness - Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1998 – Julian Lincoln Simon - American economist & author (b. 1932)
1998 – Enoch Powell - British Conservative MP & shadow cabinet member (b. 1912)
1999 – Iris Murdoch - Irish author (b. 1919)
2000 – Sid Abel - Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2000 – Bob Collins - American radio broadcaster (b. 1942)
2000 – Derrick Thomas - American football player (b. 1967)
2001 – Ivo Caprino - Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
2002 – Joachim Hoffmann - German historian (b. 1930)
2002 – Ong Teng Cheong - President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2004 – Julius Schwartz - American comic book & science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2005 – Jimmy Smith - American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005 – Keith Knudsen - American drummer, vocalist & songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2006 – Elton Dean - English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006 – Akira Ifukube - Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 – Anna Nicole Smith - American model, actress, & entertainer (b. 1967)
2007 – Ian Stevenson - Canadian-American professor & reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2008 – Chua Ek Kay - Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2009 – Marian Cozma - Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 – John Murtha - U.S. Representative (D-Pa) (b.1932)
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February 8th - Deaths:
1204 – Alexius IV Angelus - deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. c. 1182)
1250 – Robert I of Artois - French crusader (b. 1216)
1250 – Sir William II Longespee (b. 1212)
1265 – Hulagu Khan - Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 – King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
1529 – Baldassare Castiglione - Italian writer & diplomat (b. 1478)
1587 – Mary - Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
1599 – Robert Rollock - Scottish educator (b. 1555)
1623 – Thomas Cecil - 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
1709 – Giuseppe Torelli - Italian composer (b. 1658)
1725 – Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
1749 – Jan van Huysum - Dutch painter (b. 1682)
1750 – Aaron Hill - English writer (b. 1685)
1768 – George Dance the Elder - English architect (b. 1695)
1772 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha - Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
1849 – France Prešeren - Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
1849 – François Antoine Habeneck - French violinist (b. 1781)
1856 – Agostino Bassi - Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom - Dutch chemist (b. 1854)
1910 – Hans Jæger - Norwegian writer & political activist (b. 1854)
1921 – Peter Kropotkin - Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
1921 – George Formby - Sr., English entertainer (b. 1876)
1921 – Barrett Wendell - American academic & author (b. 1855)
1924 – Gee Jon First man in U.S. to be executed by lethal gas. (b. 1895)
1929 – Maria Christina - Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1932 – Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll - New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908)
1936 – Charles Curtis - 1st American-Indian Vice-President USA (b. 1860)
1956 – Connie Mack - American baseball manager & executive (b. 1862)
1957 – Walther Bothe - German physicist & inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1957 – John von Neumann - Hungarian-born mathematician & physicist (b. 1903)
1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott - British architect (b. 1880)
1960 – John Langshaw Austin - British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1963 – George Dolenz - American actor, father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908)
1964 – Ernst Kretschmer - German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1972 – Markos Vamvakaris - Greek musician & songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 – Robert Robinson - British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1977 – Eivind Groven - Norwegian composer & ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1980 – Nikos Xilouris - Greek singer (b. 1936)
1982 – John Hay Whitney - American financier (b. 1904)
1984 – Karel Miljon - Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 – William Lyons - British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)
1987 – Harriet E. MacGibbon - American actress (b. 1905)
1990 – Del Shannon - American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
1992 – Denny Wright - British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
1993 – N. Shanmugathasan - Sri Lankan communist leader (b. 1920)
1994 – Raymond Scott - American composer (b. 1908)
1996 – Del Ennis - American baseball player (b. 1925)
1998 – Halldór Laxness - Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1998 – Julian Lincoln Simon - American economist & author (b. 1932)
1998 – Enoch Powell - British Conservative MP & shadow cabinet member (b. 1912)
1999 – Iris Murdoch - Irish author (b. 1919)
2000 – Sid Abel - Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2000 – Bob Collins - American radio broadcaster (b. 1942)
2000 – Derrick Thomas - American football player (b. 1967)
2001 – Ivo Caprino - Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
2002 – Joachim Hoffmann - German historian (b. 1930)
2002 – Ong Teng Cheong - President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2004 – Julius Schwartz - American comic book & science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2005 – Jimmy Smith - American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005 – Keith Knudsen - American drummer, vocalist & songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2006 – Elton Dean - English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006 – Akira Ifukube - Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 – Anna Nicole Smith - American model, actress, & entertainer (b. 1967)
2007 – Ian Stevenson - Canadian-American professor & reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2008 – Chua Ek Kay - Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2009 – Marian Cozma - Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 – John Murtha - U.S. Representative (D-Pa) (b.1932)
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February 8 - Births
Calendar Date February 8th:
February 8th - Births:
412 – Proclus - Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1191 – Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos - the last reigning Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
1487 – Ulrich - Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1552 – Agrippa d'Aubigné - French poet & soldier (d. 1630)
1577 – Robert Burton - English cleric & writer (d. 1640)
1586 – Jacob Praetorius - German composer (d. 1651)
1612 – Samuel Butler - English poet (d. 1680)
1649 – Gabriel Daniel - French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
1677 – Jacques Cassini - French astronomer (d. 1756)
1685 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault - French historian (d. 1770)
1700 – Daniel Bernoulli - Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1792 – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria - queen of Hungary & Bohemia (d. 1873)
1798 – Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia - Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849)
1804 – Richard Lemon Lander - British explorer (d. 1834)
1807 – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins - English sculptor & naturalist (d. 1889)
1819 – John Ruskin - English author (d. 1900)
1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman - American Union general (d. 1891)
1822 – Maxime Du Camp - French photographer & journalist (d. 1894)
1828 – Jules Verne - French author (d. 1905)
1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev - Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1847 – Hugh Price Hughes - English social reformer (d. 1902)
1850 – Kate Chopin - American author (d. 1904)
1878 – Martin Buber - German philosopher (d. 1965)
1880 – Franz Marc - German painter (d. 1916)
1882 – Thomas Selfridge - First person to die in an airplane crash (d. 1908).
1883 – Joseph Alois Schumpeter - Austrian economist (d. 1950)
1884 – Reginald Baker - Australian athlete & actor (d. 1953)
1886 – Charles Ruggles - American actor (d. 1970)
1888 – Dame Edith Evans - British actress (d. 1976)
1890 – Claro M. Recto - Filipino nationalist (d. 1960)
1893 – Ba Maw - Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1894 – Ludwig Marcuse - German author & philosopher (d. 1971)
1894 – King Vidor - American film director (d. 1982)
1900 – Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator & Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1902 – Demchugdongrub - Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1903 – Greta Keller - Austrian-born cabaret singer & actress (d. 1977)
1906 – Chester Carlson - American physicist & inventor (d. 1968)
1911 – Elizabeth Bishop - American poet (d. 1979)
1913 – Betty Field - American actress (d. 1973)
1918 – Fred Blassie - American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1921 – Lana Turner - American actress (d. 1995)
1922 – Audrey Meadows - American actress (d. 1996)
1925 – Jack Lemmon - American actor & film director (d. 2001)
1926 – Neal Cassady - American writer (d. 1968)
1928 – Gene Lees - Canadian biographer & lyricist
1930 – James Deetz - American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1930 – Alejandro Rey - Argentine actor (d. 1987)
1931 – James Dean - American actor (d. 1955)
1932 – Cliff Allison - British racing driver (d. 2005)
1932 – John Williams - American composer & conductor
1933 – Elly Ameling - Dutch soprano
1933 – Jack Larson - American actor
1936 – Larry Verne - American singer
1937 – Manfred Krug - German actor
1937 – Joe Raposo - American composer (d. 1989)
1939 – José Maria Sison - Filipino communist
1940 – Ted Koppel - American journalist
1941 – Nick Nolte - American actor
1941 – Tom Rush - American singer & songwriter
1942 – Robert Klein - American comedian
1942 – Terry Melcher - American musician & record producer (d. 2004)
1942 – Bob Munden - American shooting competitor
1943 – Creed Bratton - American actor & musician
1943 – Pirzada Qasim - Pakistani poet & Vice Chancellor of Karachi University
1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack - English actor
1944 – Sebastião Salgado - Brazilian documentary photographer
1948 – Lynda Lyon Block - American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1948 – Dan Seals - American singer (d. 2009)
1948 – Ron Tyson - American singer (The Temptations)
1949 – Brooke Adams - American actress
1950 – Cristina Ferrare - American former supermodel & actress
1951 – Z'EV - American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
1953 – Roger Clavet - Québécois politician
1953 – Mary Steenburgen - American actress
1955 – John Grisham - American writer
1955 – Nancy Oliver - American playwright & television writer
1956 – Dave Meros - American bassist (Spock's Beard)
1958 – Sherri Martel - American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1960 – Dino Ciccarelli - Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Vince Neil - American singer (Mötley Crüe)
1961 – Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1963 – Mohammad Azharuddin - Indian cricketer
1963 – Joshua Kadison - American pianist & songwriter
1964 – Trinny Woodall - British fashion guru
1964 – Robert Nebřenský - Czech actor & musician
1966 – Kirk Muller - Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Hristo Stoichkov - Bulgarian footballer
1968 – Gary Coleman - American actor
1968 – Claudette Pace - Maltese singer
1968 – Nasos Thanopoulos - Greek businessman
1969 – Mary McCormack - American actress
1969 – Shiva Rose - American actress
1970 – John Filan - Australian footballer
1970 – Alonzo Mourning - American basketball player
1971 – Mika Karppinen - Finnish drummer (HIM)
1971 – Andrus Veerpalu - Estonian cross-country skier
1972 – Paul Wight - American professional wrestler
1973 – Keith McDonald - American baseball player
1974 – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo - French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
1974 – Ulises de la Cruz - Ecuadorian footballer
1974 – Seth Green - American actor
1974 – Kimbo Slice - American mixed martial artist
1976 – Abi Titmuss - British glamour model
1976 – Khaled Mashud - Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 – Adam Piatt - American baseball player
1976 – Nicolas Vouilloz - French rally driver
1977 – Barry Hall - Australian rules footballer
1977 – Dave "Phoenix" Farrell - Linkin Park Bassist
1977 – Bridgette Kerkove - American actress
1977 – Yucef Merhi - Venezuelan artist
1977 – Mathieu Turcotte - Canadian short-track speed skater
1979 – Aaron Cook - American baseball player
1979 – Josh Keaton - American actor & singer
1980 – Ralf Little - English actor/comedian
1980 – Cameron Muncey - Australian guitarist (Jet)
1980 – Stephen Wright - English footballer
1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz - Mexican singer
1982 – Satomi Kōrogi - Japanese voice actress
1982 – Sousuke Takaoka - Japanese actor
1982 – Danny Tamberelli - American actor
1983 – Jim Verraros - American singer
1984 – Panagiotis Vasilopoulos - Greek basketball player
1987 – Carolina Kostner - Italian European champion figure skater
1988 – Keegan Meth - Zimbabwean cricketer
1988 – Ryan Pinkston - American actor
1997 – Rebecca Schneider
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February 8th - Births:
412 – Proclus - Greek philosopher (d. 487)
1191 – Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos - the last reigning Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
1487 – Ulrich - Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1552 – Agrippa d'Aubigné - French poet & soldier (d. 1630)
1577 – Robert Burton - English cleric & writer (d. 1640)
1586 – Jacob Praetorius - German composer (d. 1651)
1612 – Samuel Butler - English poet (d. 1680)
1649 – Gabriel Daniel - French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
1677 – Jacques Cassini - French astronomer (d. 1756)
1685 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault - French historian (d. 1770)
1700 – Daniel Bernoulli - Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1792 – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria - queen of Hungary & Bohemia (d. 1873)
1798 – Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia - Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849)
1804 – Richard Lemon Lander - British explorer (d. 1834)
1807 – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins - English sculptor & naturalist (d. 1889)
1819 – John Ruskin - English author (d. 1900)
1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman - American Union general (d. 1891)
1822 – Maxime Du Camp - French photographer & journalist (d. 1894)
1828 – Jules Verne - French author (d. 1905)
1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev - Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1847 – Hugh Price Hughes - English social reformer (d. 1902)
1850 – Kate Chopin - American author (d. 1904)
1878 – Martin Buber - German philosopher (d. 1965)
1880 – Franz Marc - German painter (d. 1916)
1882 – Thomas Selfridge - First person to die in an airplane crash (d. 1908).
1883 – Joseph Alois Schumpeter - Austrian economist (d. 1950)
1884 – Reginald Baker - Australian athlete & actor (d. 1953)
1886 – Charles Ruggles - American actor (d. 1970)
1888 – Dame Edith Evans - British actress (d. 1976)
1890 – Claro M. Recto - Filipino nationalist (d. 1960)
1893 – Ba Maw - Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1894 – Ludwig Marcuse - German author & philosopher (d. 1971)
1894 – King Vidor - American film director (d. 1982)
1900 – Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator & Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1902 – Demchugdongrub - Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1903 – Greta Keller - Austrian-born cabaret singer & actress (d. 1977)
1906 – Chester Carlson - American physicist & inventor (d. 1968)
1911 – Elizabeth Bishop - American poet (d. 1979)
1913 – Betty Field - American actress (d. 1973)
1918 – Fred Blassie - American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1921 – Lana Turner - American actress (d. 1995)
1922 – Audrey Meadows - American actress (d. 1996)
1925 – Jack Lemmon - American actor & film director (d. 2001)
1926 – Neal Cassady - American writer (d. 1968)
1928 – Gene Lees - Canadian biographer & lyricist
1930 – James Deetz - American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1930 – Alejandro Rey - Argentine actor (d. 1987)
1931 – James Dean - American actor (d. 1955)
1932 – Cliff Allison - British racing driver (d. 2005)
1932 – John Williams - American composer & conductor
1933 – Elly Ameling - Dutch soprano
1933 – Jack Larson - American actor
1936 – Larry Verne - American singer
1937 – Manfred Krug - German actor
1937 – Joe Raposo - American composer (d. 1989)
1939 – José Maria Sison - Filipino communist
1940 – Ted Koppel - American journalist
1941 – Nick Nolte - American actor
1941 – Tom Rush - American singer & songwriter
1942 – Robert Klein - American comedian
1942 – Terry Melcher - American musician & record producer (d. 2004)
1942 – Bob Munden - American shooting competitor
1943 – Creed Bratton - American actor & musician
1943 – Pirzada Qasim - Pakistani poet & Vice Chancellor of Karachi University
1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack - English actor
1944 – Sebastião Salgado - Brazilian documentary photographer
1948 – Lynda Lyon Block - American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1948 – Dan Seals - American singer (d. 2009)
1948 – Ron Tyson - American singer (The Temptations)
1949 – Brooke Adams - American actress
1950 – Cristina Ferrare - American former supermodel & actress
1951 – Z'EV - American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
1953 – Roger Clavet - Québécois politician
1953 – Mary Steenburgen - American actress
1955 – John Grisham - American writer
1955 – Nancy Oliver - American playwright & television writer
1956 – Dave Meros - American bassist (Spock's Beard)
1958 – Sherri Martel - American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1960 – Dino Ciccarelli - Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Vince Neil - American singer (Mötley Crüe)
1961 – Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1963 – Mohammad Azharuddin - Indian cricketer
1963 – Joshua Kadison - American pianist & songwriter
1964 – Trinny Woodall - British fashion guru
1964 – Robert Nebřenský - Czech actor & musician
1966 – Kirk Muller - Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Hristo Stoichkov - Bulgarian footballer
1968 – Gary Coleman - American actor
1968 – Claudette Pace - Maltese singer
1968 – Nasos Thanopoulos - Greek businessman
1969 – Mary McCormack - American actress
1969 – Shiva Rose - American actress
1970 – John Filan - Australian footballer
1970 – Alonzo Mourning - American basketball player
1971 – Mika Karppinen - Finnish drummer (HIM)
1971 – Andrus Veerpalu - Estonian cross-country skier
1972 – Paul Wight - American professional wrestler
1973 – Keith McDonald - American baseball player
1974 – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo - French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
1974 – Ulises de la Cruz - Ecuadorian footballer
1974 – Seth Green - American actor
1974 – Kimbo Slice - American mixed martial artist
1976 – Abi Titmuss - British glamour model
1976 – Khaled Mashud - Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 – Adam Piatt - American baseball player
1976 – Nicolas Vouilloz - French rally driver
1977 – Barry Hall - Australian rules footballer
1977 – Dave "Phoenix" Farrell - Linkin Park Bassist
1977 – Bridgette Kerkove - American actress
1977 – Yucef Merhi - Venezuelan artist
1977 – Mathieu Turcotte - Canadian short-track speed skater
1979 – Aaron Cook - American baseball player
1979 – Josh Keaton - American actor & singer
1980 – Ralf Little - English actor/comedian
1980 – Cameron Muncey - Australian guitarist (Jet)
1980 – Stephen Wright - English footballer
1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz - Mexican singer
1982 – Satomi Kōrogi - Japanese voice actress
1982 – Sousuke Takaoka - Japanese actor
1982 – Danny Tamberelli - American actor
1983 – Jim Verraros - American singer
1984 – Panagiotis Vasilopoulos - Greek basketball player
1987 – Carolina Kostner - Italian European champion figure skater
1988 – Keegan Meth - Zimbabwean cricketer
1988 – Ryan Pinkston - American actor
1997 – Rebecca Schneider
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February 8 - General (Calendar Date)
February 8th - Basic Facts:
February 8th Deaths (Here)
February 8 Events:
421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1575 – Founding of Universiteit Leiden - with the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed - following suspicion of being 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.
1622 – King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
1692 – Salem witch trials - doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that 2 girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment.
1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III & 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 Martín & liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 – Richard Johnson - 1st Vice President of the United States chosen by the US Senate.
1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1867 – The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1879 – Universal Standard Time adoption is 1st proposed by Sandford Fleming at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1887 – The Dawes Act - authorizes the US President to survey Native American tribal land & divide it into individual allotments.
1900 – British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur - surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 – The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith's controversial film premieres in Los Angeles.
1918 – The Stars & Stripes newspaper is published for the 1st time.
1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 – The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
1955 – Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province.
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council - stating that she & her family would be known as the House of Windsor, with her descendants taking the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1962 – Charonne massacre - 9 trade unionists are killed by French police, instigated by Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police, & Nazi collaborator.
1963 – John F. Kennedy administration makes travel, financial & commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba illegal.
1968 – The Orangeburg massacre, an attack that left 3 or 4 dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley (American civil rights movement).
1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 – NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1974 – First American space station Skylab crew returns to Earth after 84 days in space.
1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
1979 – Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the 1st time.
1983 – The Melbourne dust storm follows the worst drought on record & a day of severe weather conditions - a 320 metres (1,000 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city.
1989 – Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, 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.
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- February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- There are 326 days remaining until the end of the year (327 in leap years).
- The preceding day is February 7
- Next day is February 9.
February 8th Deaths (Here)
February 8 Events:
421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1575 – Founding of Universiteit Leiden - with the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots is executed - following suspicion of being 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.
1622 – King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
1692 – Salem witch trials - doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that 2 girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment.
1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III & 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 Martín & liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 – Richard Johnson - 1st Vice President of the United States chosen by the US Senate.
1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1867 – The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1879 – Universal Standard Time adoption is 1st proposed by Sandford Fleming at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1887 – The Dawes Act - authorizes the US President to survey Native American tribal land & divide it into individual allotments.
1900 – British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
1904 – Battle of Port Arthur - surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 – Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 – The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith's controversial film premieres in Los Angeles.
1918 – The Stars & Stripes newspaper is published for the 1st time.
1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 – The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
1955 – Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province.
1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council - stating that she & her family would be known as the House of Windsor, with her descendants taking the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1962 – Charonne massacre - 9 trade unionists are killed by French police, instigated by Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police, & Nazi collaborator.
1963 – John F. Kennedy administration makes travel, financial & commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba illegal.
1968 – The Orangeburg massacre, an attack that left 3 or 4 dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley (American civil rights movement).
1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 – NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1974 – First American space station Skylab crew returns to Earth after 84 days in space.
1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
1979 – Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the 1st time.
1983 – The Melbourne dust storm follows the worst drought on record & a day of severe weather conditions - a 320 metres (1,000 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city.
1989 – Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, 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.
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February 7 - Deaths
Calendar Date February 7th:
February 7th - Deaths:
999 – Boleslaus II of Bohemia
1045 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 – Robert - Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1560 – Bartolomeo Bandinelli - Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
1626 – William V - Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 – William Bedell - English clergyman (b. 1571)
1652 – Gregorio Allegri - Italian composer (b. 1582)
1690 – William Morice - English royalist statesman
1693 – Paul Pellisson - French writer (b. 1624)
1736 – Stephen Gray - English astronomer & scientist (b. 1666)
1779 – William Boyce - English composer (b. 1711)
1799 – Qianlong - Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 – Daniel Chodowiecki - Polish painter (b. 1726)
1823 – Ann Radcliffe - English novelist (b. 1764)
1837 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 – Karl August Nicander - Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1862 – Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa - Spanish statesman & dramatist (b. 1787)
1871 – Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg - piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 – Sheridan Le Fanu - Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 – Blessed Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
1897 – Galileo Ferraris - Italian physicist (b. 1847)
1919 – William Halford - American naval officer & Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak - Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1937 – Elihu Root - American statesman & diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1938 – Harvey Firestone - American manufacturer (b. 1868)
1939 – Boris Grigoriev - Russian painter (b. 1886)
1942 – Ivan Bilibin - Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 – Lina Cavalieri - Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1952 – Pete Henry - American professional American Football player & coach (b. 1897)
1959 – Nap Lajoie - American baseball player (b. 1874)
1959 – D.F. Malan - South African Prime Minister, father of Apartheid policy (b. 1874)
1959 – Guitar Slim - American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
1960 – Igor Kurchatov - Russian physicist (b. 1903)
1962 – Clara Nordström - German writer & translator (b. 1886)
1963 – Learco Guerra - Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 – Sophoklis Venizelos - Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
1968 – Nick Adams - American actor (b. 1931)
1979 – Dr. Josef Mengele - German, accused Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
1980 – Secondo Campini - Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1985 – Matt Monro - English singer (b. 1932)
1986 – Cheikh Anta Diop - Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1990 – Alfredo M. Santos - First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1990 – Jimmy Van Heusen - American songwriter (b. 1913)
1991 – Amos Yarkoni - Israeli soldier, Medal of Distinguished Service recipient (b. 1920)
1991 – Jean-Paul Mousseau - Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 – Buzz Sawyer - wrestler (b. 1959)
1994 – Witold Lutosławski - Polish composer (b. 1913)
1994 – Stephen Milligan - British journalist & politician (b. 1948)
1994 – Arnold Smith - Canadian diplomat (b. 1915)
1996 – Phillip Davidson - US Army general (b. 1915)
1998 – Lawrence Sanders - American author (b. 1920)
1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 – José Silva - author of Silva Method & the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
1999 – Bobby Troup - American musician & actor (b. 1918)
2000 – Shiho Niiyama - Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
2000 – Big Pun - Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
2000 – Doug Henning - Canadian magician (b. 1947)
2000 – Dave Peverett - English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
2001 – Dale Evans - American actress & singer (b. 1912)
2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh - American author & aviator (b. 1906)
2002 – Jack Fairman - British racing driver (b. 1913)
2003 – Augusto Monterroso - Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003 – John Reading - Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2005 – Bob Turner - Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2006 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2008 – Tamara Desni - German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2009 – Brian Naylor - Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2009 – Molly Bee - American Country-Western Star (b. 1939)
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February 7th - Deaths:
999 – Boleslaus II of Bohemia
1045 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 – Robert - Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1560 – Bartolomeo Bandinelli - Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
1626 – William V - Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 – William Bedell - English clergyman (b. 1571)
1652 – Gregorio Allegri - Italian composer (b. 1582)
1690 – William Morice - English royalist statesman
1693 – Paul Pellisson - French writer (b. 1624)
1736 – Stephen Gray - English astronomer & scientist (b. 1666)
1779 – William Boyce - English composer (b. 1711)
1799 – Qianlong - Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 – Daniel Chodowiecki - Polish painter (b. 1726)
1823 – Ann Radcliffe - English novelist (b. 1764)
1837 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 – Karl August Nicander - Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1862 – Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa - Spanish statesman & dramatist (b. 1787)
1871 – Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg - piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 – Sheridan Le Fanu - Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 – Blessed Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
1897 – Galileo Ferraris - Italian physicist (b. 1847)
1919 – William Halford - American naval officer & Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak - Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1937 – Elihu Root - American statesman & diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1938 – Harvey Firestone - American manufacturer (b. 1868)
1939 – Boris Grigoriev - Russian painter (b. 1886)
1942 – Ivan Bilibin - Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 – Lina Cavalieri - Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1952 – Pete Henry - American professional American Football player & coach (b. 1897)
1959 – Nap Lajoie - American baseball player (b. 1874)
1959 – D.F. Malan - South African Prime Minister, father of Apartheid policy (b. 1874)
1959 – Guitar Slim - American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
1960 – Igor Kurchatov - Russian physicist (b. 1903)
1962 – Clara Nordström - German writer & translator (b. 1886)
1963 – Learco Guerra - Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 – Sophoklis Venizelos - Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
1968 – Nick Adams - American actor (b. 1931)
1979 – Dr. Josef Mengele - German, accused Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
1980 – Secondo Campini - Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1985 – Matt Monro - English singer (b. 1932)
1986 – Cheikh Anta Diop - Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1990 – Alfredo M. Santos - First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1990 – Jimmy Van Heusen - American songwriter (b. 1913)
1991 – Amos Yarkoni - Israeli soldier, Medal of Distinguished Service recipient (b. 1920)
1991 – Jean-Paul Mousseau - Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 – Buzz Sawyer - wrestler (b. 1959)
1994 – Witold Lutosławski - Polish composer (b. 1913)
1994 – Stephen Milligan - British journalist & politician (b. 1948)
1994 – Arnold Smith - Canadian diplomat (b. 1915)
1996 – Phillip Davidson - US Army general (b. 1915)
1998 – Lawrence Sanders - American author (b. 1920)
1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 – José Silva - author of Silva Method & the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
1999 – Bobby Troup - American musician & actor (b. 1918)
2000 – Shiho Niiyama - Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
2000 – Big Pun - Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
2000 – Doug Henning - Canadian magician (b. 1947)
2000 – Dave Peverett - English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
2001 – Dale Evans - American actress & singer (b. 1912)
2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh - American author & aviator (b. 1906)
2002 – Jack Fairman - British racing driver (b. 1913)
2003 – Augusto Monterroso - Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2003 – John Reading - Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2005 – Bob Turner - Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2006 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2008 – Tamara Desni - German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2009 – Brian Naylor - Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2009 – Molly Bee - American Country-Western Star (b. 1939)
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February 7 - Births
Calendar Date February 7th:
February 7th - Births:
1102 – Empress Matilda - Princess of England & wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1478 – Sir Thomas More - English statesman, humanist, & author (d. 1535)
1612 – Thomas Killigrew - English dramatist (d. 1683)
1693 – Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
1804 – John Deere - American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
1812 – Charles Dickens - English novelist (d. 1870)
1842 – Alexandre Ribot - French statesman (d. 1923)
1837 – Sir James Murray - Scottish lexicographer & philologist (d. 1915)
1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder - American author (d. 1957)
1870 – Alfred Adler - Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)
1877 – Godfrey Harold Hardy - English mathematician (d. 1947)
1885 – Sinclair Lewis - American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
1885 – Hugo Sperrle - German field marshal (d. 1953)
1886 – Yehezkel Abramsky - Russian-born rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years (d. 1976)
1887 – Eubie Blake - American musician & composer (d. 1983)
1889 – Harry Nyquist - important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
1891 – Ann Little - American actress (d. 1984)
1895 – Anita Stewart - American film actress (d. 1961)
1898 – Dock Boggs - American musician (d. 1971)
1901 – Arnold Nordmeyer - New Zealand politician (d. 1989)
1905 – Ulf von Euler - Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1983)
1905 – Paul Nizan - French author (d. 1940)
1906 – Oleg Antonov - Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
1906 – Puyi - Emperor of China (d. 1967)
1907 – Yevgeniy Abalakov - Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
1908 – Buster Crabbe - American swimmer & actor (d. 1983)
1909 – Hélder Câmara - Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
1909 – Wilhelm Freddie - Danish painter (d. 1995)
1909 – Amedeo Guillet - former officer of the Italian Army
1909 – Silvio Zavala - Mexican historian
1912 – Russell Drysdale - Australian Artist (d. 1981)
1912 – Roberta McCain - mother of John McCain
1914 – Ramón Mercader - Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)
1915 – Eddie Bracken - American actor (d. 2002)
1915 – Teoctist - Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 2007)
1918 – Markey Robinson - Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
1920 – An Wang - Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
1920 – Oscar Brand - Canadian folk musicologist
1922 – Hattie Jacques - English actress (d. 1980)
1923 – Martha Holmes - American photographer (d. 2006)
1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov - cosmonaut (d. 2009)
1926 – John Frank Davidson - British chemical engineer & Royal Medal holder
1927 – Juliette Gréco - French singer & actor
1927 – Vladimir Kuts - Russian runner (d. 1975)
1932 – Gay Talese - American author
1932 – Al Worden - American astronaut
1933 – John Anderton - English soccer player
1934 – Earl King - American musician (d. 2003)
1934 – Eddie Fenech Adami - President of Malta
1934 – King Curtis - American saxophonist (d. 1971)
1935 – Herbert Kohl - American politician
1937 – Juan Pizarro - Major League Baseball pitcher
1938 – S. Ramachandran Pillai - Indian communist leader
1939 – Ray Taliaferro - American radio talkshow host
1941 – Peter Foxhall - Australian evangelist
1943 – Gareth Hunt - English actor (d. 2007)
1945 – Gerald Davies - Welsh rugby player
1945 – Pete Postlethwaite - English actor
1945 – Ian Jack - Scottish journalist
1946 – Hector Babenco - Brazilian film director
1947 – Wayne Allwine - American voice artist (d. 2009)
1949 – Joe English - American drummer
1949 – Paulo César Carpegiani - Brazilian footballer & coach
1951 – Benny Ayala - baseball player
1952 – Vasco Rossi - Italian singer
1953 – Dan Quisenberry - baseball player (d. 1998)
1954 – Dieter Bohlen German composer
1954 – Brian Morton - Scottish writer
1955 – Rolf Benirschke - American football player
1955 – Mario Coutinho - Brazilian physician
1955 – Miguel Ferrer - American actor
1956 – Emo Philips - American comedian
1956 – Mark St. John - American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007)
1957 – Carney Lansford - American baseball player
1957 – Richard Cook - British jazz writer (d. 2007)
1958 – Matt Ridley - British science writer
1960 – James Spader - American actor
1962 – Garth Brooks - American singer
1962 – Eddie Izzard - British actor & comedian
1962 – David Bryan - American musician (Bon Jovi)
1964 – Ray Mears - British survival expert & TV presenter
1965 – Jason Gedrick - American actor
1965 – Chris Rock - American comedian & actor
1966 – Kristin Otto - German swimmer
1967 – Richie Burnett - Welsh darts player
1967 – Cheung Man - Hong Kong actress
1968 – Peter Bondra - Slovak ice hockey player
1968 – Sully Erna - American singer (Godsmack)
1968 – Mark Tewksbury - Canadian swimmer
1969 – Yves Racine - Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Stanley Roberts - American basketball player
1972 – Essence Atkins - American actress
1972 – Alex Bassi - American race car driver
1972 – Robyn Lively - American actress
1972 – Amon Tobin - Canadian/Brazilian musician
1973 – Irina Björklund - Finnish actress
1973 – Juwan Howard - American basketball player
1974 – Steve Nash - Canadian basketball player
1974 – J Dilla - American record producer (d. 2006)
1974 – Danny Goffey - British musician (Supergrass)
1975 – Wes Borland - American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
1975 – Alexandre Daigle - American ice hockey player
1976 – Sreto Ristić - German soccer player
1976 – Kelly Choi - Korean-American tv hostess of Top Chef Masters
1977 – Georgios Alexopoulos - Greek soccer player
1977 – Paul Comrie - Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Dimitris Papanikolaou - Greek basketball player
1977 – Mariusz Pudzianowski - Polish strongman competitor
1978 – Ashton Kutcher - American actor
1978 – Daniel Van Buyten - Belgian soccer player
1978 – Endy Chávez - baseball player
1978 – David Aebischer - Swiss ice hockey player
1979 – Cerina Vincent - American actress
1979 – Jon Leicester - American baseball player
1982 – Osamu Mukai - Japanese actor
1982 – Mickael Pietrus - French-born basketball player
1983 – Christian Klien - Austrian racing driver
1983 – Teshome Getu - Ethiopian soccer player
1983 – Georgios Gougoulias - Greek footballer
1985 – Tina Majorino - American actress
1986 – Michael Orozco - American soccer player
1987 – Kerli - Estonian singer
1988 – Ai Kago - Japanese singer
1988 – Matthew Stafford - American NFL football player
1989 – Nick Calathes - Greek basketball player
1989 – Louisa Lytton – British actress
1990 – Steven Stamkos - Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Anna Abreu - Finnish singer
1992 – Maimi Yajima - Japanese singer
1993 – David Dorfman - American actor
1993 – Philip Wiegratz - German actor
1996 – Mai Hagiwara - Japanese singer
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February 7th - Births:
1102 – Empress Matilda - Princess of England & wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)
1478 – Sir Thomas More - English statesman, humanist, & author (d. 1535)
1612 – Thomas Killigrew - English dramatist (d. 1683)
1693 – Empress Anna of Russia (d. 1740)
1804 – John Deere - American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)
1812 – Charles Dickens - English novelist (d. 1870)
1842 – Alexandre Ribot - French statesman (d. 1923)
1837 – Sir James Murray - Scottish lexicographer & philologist (d. 1915)
1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder - American author (d. 1957)
1870 – Alfred Adler - Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)
1877 – Godfrey Harold Hardy - English mathematician (d. 1947)
1885 – Sinclair Lewis - American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)
1885 – Hugo Sperrle - German field marshal (d. 1953)
1886 – Yehezkel Abramsky - Russian-born rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years (d. 1976)
1887 – Eubie Blake - American musician & composer (d. 1983)
1889 – Harry Nyquist - important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)
1891 – Ann Little - American actress (d. 1984)
1895 – Anita Stewart - American film actress (d. 1961)
1898 – Dock Boggs - American musician (d. 1971)
1901 – Arnold Nordmeyer - New Zealand politician (d. 1989)
1905 – Ulf von Euler - Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1983)
1905 – Paul Nizan - French author (d. 1940)
1906 – Oleg Antonov - Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984)
1906 – Puyi - Emperor of China (d. 1967)
1907 – Yevgeniy Abalakov - Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
1908 – Buster Crabbe - American swimmer & actor (d. 1983)
1909 – Hélder Câmara - Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
1909 – Wilhelm Freddie - Danish painter (d. 1995)
1909 – Amedeo Guillet - former officer of the Italian Army
1909 – Silvio Zavala - Mexican historian
1912 – Russell Drysdale - Australian Artist (d. 1981)
1912 – Roberta McCain - mother of John McCain
1914 – Ramón Mercader - Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (d. 1978)
1915 – Eddie Bracken - American actor (d. 2002)
1915 – Teoctist - Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 2007)
1918 – Markey Robinson - Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
1920 – An Wang - Chinese-born computer pioneer (d. 1990)
1920 – Oscar Brand - Canadian folk musicologist
1922 – Hattie Jacques - English actress (d. 1980)
1923 – Martha Holmes - American photographer (d. 2006)
1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov - cosmonaut (d. 2009)
1926 – John Frank Davidson - British chemical engineer & Royal Medal holder
1927 – Juliette Gréco - French singer & actor
1927 – Vladimir Kuts - Russian runner (d. 1975)
1932 – Gay Talese - American author
1932 – Al Worden - American astronaut
1933 – John Anderton - English soccer player
1934 – Earl King - American musician (d. 2003)
1934 – Eddie Fenech Adami - President of Malta
1934 – King Curtis - American saxophonist (d. 1971)
1935 – Herbert Kohl - American politician
1937 – Juan Pizarro - Major League Baseball pitcher
1938 – S. Ramachandran Pillai - Indian communist leader
1939 – Ray Taliaferro - American radio talkshow host
1941 – Peter Foxhall - Australian evangelist
1943 – Gareth Hunt - English actor (d. 2007)
1945 – Gerald Davies - Welsh rugby player
1945 – Pete Postlethwaite - English actor
1945 – Ian Jack - Scottish journalist
1946 – Hector Babenco - Brazilian film director
1947 – Wayne Allwine - American voice artist (d. 2009)
1949 – Joe English - American drummer
1949 – Paulo César Carpegiani - Brazilian footballer & coach
1951 – Benny Ayala - baseball player
1952 – Vasco Rossi - Italian singer
1953 – Dan Quisenberry - baseball player (d. 1998)
1954 – Dieter Bohlen German composer
1954 – Brian Morton - Scottish writer
1955 – Rolf Benirschke - American football player
1955 – Mario Coutinho - Brazilian physician
1955 – Miguel Ferrer - American actor
1956 – Emo Philips - American comedian
1956 – Mark St. John - American musician (Kiss) (d. 2007)
1957 – Carney Lansford - American baseball player
1957 – Richard Cook - British jazz writer (d. 2007)
1958 – Matt Ridley - British science writer
1960 – James Spader - American actor
1962 – Garth Brooks - American singer
1962 – Eddie Izzard - British actor & comedian
1962 – David Bryan - American musician (Bon Jovi)
1964 – Ray Mears - British survival expert & TV presenter
1965 – Jason Gedrick - American actor
1965 – Chris Rock - American comedian & actor
1966 – Kristin Otto - German swimmer
1967 – Richie Burnett - Welsh darts player
1967 – Cheung Man - Hong Kong actress
1968 – Peter Bondra - Slovak ice hockey player
1968 – Sully Erna - American singer (Godsmack)
1968 – Mark Tewksbury - Canadian swimmer
1969 – Yves Racine - Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Stanley Roberts - American basketball player
1972 – Essence Atkins - American actress
1972 – Alex Bassi - American race car driver
1972 – Robyn Lively - American actress
1972 – Amon Tobin - Canadian/Brazilian musician
1973 – Irina Björklund - Finnish actress
1973 – Juwan Howard - American basketball player
1974 – Steve Nash - Canadian basketball player
1974 – J Dilla - American record producer (d. 2006)
1974 – Danny Goffey - British musician (Supergrass)
1975 – Wes Borland - American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
1975 – Alexandre Daigle - American ice hockey player
1976 – Sreto Ristić - German soccer player
1976 – Kelly Choi - Korean-American tv hostess of Top Chef Masters
1977 – Georgios Alexopoulos - Greek soccer player
1977 – Paul Comrie - Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Dimitris Papanikolaou - Greek basketball player
1977 – Mariusz Pudzianowski - Polish strongman competitor
1978 – Ashton Kutcher - American actor
1978 – Daniel Van Buyten - Belgian soccer player
1978 – Endy Chávez - baseball player
1978 – David Aebischer - Swiss ice hockey player
1979 – Cerina Vincent - American actress
1979 – Jon Leicester - American baseball player
1982 – Osamu Mukai - Japanese actor
1982 – Mickael Pietrus - French-born basketball player
1983 – Christian Klien - Austrian racing driver
1983 – Teshome Getu - Ethiopian soccer player
1983 – Georgios Gougoulias - Greek footballer
1985 – Tina Majorino - American actress
1986 – Michael Orozco - American soccer player
1987 – Kerli - Estonian singer
1988 – Ai Kago - Japanese singer
1988 – Matthew Stafford - American NFL football player
1989 – Nick Calathes - Greek basketball player
1989 – Louisa Lytton – British actress
1990 – Steven Stamkos - Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Anna Abreu - Finnish singer
1992 – Maimi Yajima - Japanese singer
1993 – David Dorfman - American actor
1993 – Philip Wiegratz - German actor
1996 – Mai Hagiwara - Japanese singer
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February 7 - General (Calendar Date)
February 7th - Basic Facts:
February 7th Deaths (Here)
February 7 Events:
457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed at the Battle of Montesarchio fighting the invading Normans.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn 1000s of objects like cosmetics, art, & books in Florence, Italy.
1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 – Battle of Eylau (in Napoleonic Wars) – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian & Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1812 – New Madrid, Missouri - strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over - he leaves it in the capable hands of William Farquhar.
1842 – Battle of Debre Tabor - Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company after a peaceful abdication of Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh.
1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1882 – Last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike - led by the Western Federation of Miners - begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1898 – Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1904 – Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 – The Mud March i- 1st large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 – Board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 – Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 – Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle (World War II).
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports & exports.
1967 – Severe bushfires in southern Tasmania (Australia) claim 62 lives & destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres of land.
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit - 1st time since either was discovered.
1984 – Space Shuttle program - STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II & Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 – President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti.
1990 – Collapse of the Soviet Union - The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's first democratically-elected president.
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed - leads to the creation of the European Union.
1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 – Bushfires in Victoria - the worst natural disaster in Australia's history, leave 173 dead.
2010 – Large explosion at Kleen Power Plant in Middletown, Connecticut.
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- February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- There are 327 days remaining until the end of the year (328 in leap years).
- The preceding day is February 6
- Next day is February 8.
February 7th Deaths (Here)
February 7 Events:
457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed at the Battle of Montesarchio fighting the invading Normans.
1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn 1000s of objects like cosmetics, art, & books in Florence, Italy.
1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 – Battle of Eylau (in Napoleonic Wars) – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian & Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1812 – New Madrid, Missouri - strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over - he leaves it in the capable hands of William Farquhar.
1842 – Battle of Debre Tabor - Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company after a peaceful abdication of Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh.
1856 – The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1882 – Last heavyweight boxing championship bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City, Mississippi.
1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike - led by the Western Federation of Miners - begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1898 – Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1904 – Fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 – The Mud March i- 1st large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 – Board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 – Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 – Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle (World War II).
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports & exports.
1967 – Severe bushfires in southern Tasmania (Australia) claim 62 lives & destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres of land.
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit - 1st time since either was discovered.
1984 – Space Shuttle program - STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II & Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 – President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti.
1990 – Collapse of the Soviet Union - The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is sworn in as Haiti's first democratically-elected president.
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed - leads to the creation of the European Union.
1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 – Bushfires in Victoria - the worst natural disaster in Australia's history, leave 173 dead.
2010 – Large explosion at Kleen Power Plant in Middletown, Connecticut.
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February 6 - Deaths
Calendar Date February 6th:
February 6th - Deaths:
891 – St. Photius I the Great - Patriarch of Constantinople
1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon - wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 – Johannes Ockeghem - Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
1515 – Aldus Manutius - Italian printer
1585 – Edmund Plowden - English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 – Jacques Amyot - French writer (b. 1513)
1593 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1617 – Prospero Alpini - Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 – King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 – William Dowdeswell - English politician (b. 1721)
1783 – Capability Brown - English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1793 – Carlo Goldoni - Italian playwright (b. 1707)
1807 – John Reid - British army general & composer (b. 1721)
1816 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska - Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 – Pierre André Latreille - French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander - British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 – Josef Munzinger - Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1899 – Leo von Caprivi - Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 – Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest & founder (b. 1839)
1916 – Rubén Darío - Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1918 – Gustav Klimt - Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1927 – Sam Maguire - Irish Republican & Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1938 – Marianne von Werefkin - Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1950 – Georges Imbert - Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1951 – Gabby Street - former MLB player (b. 1882)
1952 – George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 – David Pegg - English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 – Tommy Taylor - English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 – Geoff Bent - English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 – Roger Byrne - English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 – Eddie Colman - English footballer (b. 1936)
1958 – Mark Jones - English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 – Frank Swift - English footballer & journalist (b. 1913)
1958 – Walter Crickmer - English football club secretary & manager
1963 – Abd el-Krim - Moroccan politician
1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo - Filipino general & President (b. 1869)
1966 – Narcisa de Leon - Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 – Martine Carol - French film actress (b. 1920)
1976 – Vince Guaraldi - American musician (b. 1928)
1976 – Ritwik Ghatak - Bengali Indian film maker & scriptwriter (b. 1925)
1981 – Hugo Montenegro - American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 – Frederika of Hanover - Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 – James Hadley Chase - English writer (b. 1906)
1986 – Frederick Coutts - Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 – Minoru Yamasaki - American architect (b. 1912)
1986 – Dandy Nichols - English actress (b. 1907)
1988 – Nuno Oliveira - Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 – André Cayatte - French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 – Barbara Tuchman - American historian (b. 1912)
1989 – Chris Gueffroy - East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 – Osbourne Ruddock - Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1991 – Salvador Luria - Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Danny Thomas - American singer, comedian, & actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Arthur Ashe - American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 – Joseph Cotten - American actor (b. 1905)
1994 – Jack Kirby - American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1995 – James Merrill - American poet (b. 1926)
1996 – Guy Madison - American actor (b. 1922)
1997 – Roger Laurent - Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 – Falco - Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 – Carl Wilson - American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
1998 – Haroun Tazieff - French vulcanologist & geologist (b. 1914)
2001 – Filemon Lagman - Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 – Fulgence Charpentier - Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 – Max Perutz - Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 – Lazar Berman - Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 – Karl Haas - American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 – Lew Burdette - American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 – Lee Hoffman - American author (b. 1932)
2007 – Len Hopkins - Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 – Frankie Laine - American singer (b. 1913)
2007 – Willye White - American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 – John McWethy - American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 – Tony Rolt - English racing driver (b. 1918)
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February 6th - Deaths:
891 – St. Photius I the Great - Patriarch of Constantinople
1378 – Jeanne de Bourbon - wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 – Johannes Ockeghem - Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
1515 – Aldus Manutius - Italian printer
1585 – Edmund Plowden - English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 – Jacques Amyot - French writer (b. 1513)
1593 – Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1617 – Prospero Alpini - Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 – King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 – William Dowdeswell - English politician (b. 1721)
1783 – Capability Brown - English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1793 – Carlo Goldoni - Italian playwright (b. 1707)
1807 – John Reid - British army general & composer (b. 1721)
1816 – Maria Ludwika Rzewuska - Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 – Pierre André Latreille - French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander - British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 – Josef Munzinger - Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1899 – Leo von Caprivi - Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 – Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 – Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest & founder (b. 1839)
1916 – Rubén Darío - Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1918 – Gustav Klimt - Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1927 – Sam Maguire - Irish Republican & Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1938 – Marianne von Werefkin - Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1950 – Georges Imbert - Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1951 – Gabby Street - former MLB player (b. 1882)
1952 – George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 – David Pegg - English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 – Tommy Taylor - English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 – Geoff Bent - English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 – Roger Byrne - English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 – Eddie Colman - English footballer (b. 1936)
1958 – Mark Jones - English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 – Frank Swift - English footballer & journalist (b. 1913)
1958 – Walter Crickmer - English football club secretary & manager
1963 – Abd el-Krim - Moroccan politician
1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo - Filipino general & President (b. 1869)
1966 – Narcisa de Leon - Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 – Martine Carol - French film actress (b. 1920)
1976 – Vince Guaraldi - American musician (b. 1928)
1976 – Ritwik Ghatak - Bengali Indian film maker & scriptwriter (b. 1925)
1981 – Hugo Montenegro - American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 – Frederika of Hanover - Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 – James Hadley Chase - English writer (b. 1906)
1986 – Frederick Coutts - Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 – Minoru Yamasaki - American architect (b. 1912)
1986 – Dandy Nichols - English actress (b. 1907)
1988 – Nuno Oliveira - Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 – André Cayatte - French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 – Barbara Tuchman - American historian (b. 1912)
1989 – Chris Gueffroy - East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 – Osbourne Ruddock - Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1991 – Salvador Luria - Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Danny Thomas - American singer, comedian, & actor (b. 1914)
1993 – Arthur Ashe - American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 – Joseph Cotten - American actor (b. 1905)
1994 – Jack Kirby - American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1995 – James Merrill - American poet (b. 1926)
1996 – Guy Madison - American actor (b. 1922)
1997 – Roger Laurent - Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 – Falco - Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 – Carl Wilson - American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
1998 – Haroun Tazieff - French vulcanologist & geologist (b. 1914)
2001 – Filemon Lagman - Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 – Fulgence Charpentier - Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 – Max Perutz - Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 – Lazar Berman - Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 – Karl Haas - American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 – Lew Burdette - American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 – Lee Hoffman - American author (b. 1932)
2007 – Len Hopkins - Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 – Frankie Laine - American singer (b. 1913)
2007 – Willye White - American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 – John McWethy - American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 – Tony Rolt - English racing driver (b. 1918)
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February 6 - Births
Calendar Date February 6th:
February 6th - Births:
1347 – Dorothea of Montau - Catholic saint (d. 1394)
1461 – Džore Držić - Croatian poet & playwright (d. 1501)
1465 – Scipione del Ferro - Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
1577 – Beatrice Cenci - Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1582 – Mario Bettinus - Italian philosopher, mathematician & astronomer (d. 1657)
1605 – Bernard of Corleone - Catholic saint (d. 1667)
1608 – Antonio Vieira - Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
1611 – Chongzhen Emperor - Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 – Antoine Arnauld - French theologian, philosopher & mathematician (d. 1694)
1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof - German writer & scholar (d. 1691)
1664 – Mustafa II - Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
1665 – Anne of Great Britain - Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland (d. 1714)
1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli - Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken - "the Infant of Lübeck" (d. 1725)
1726 – Patrick Russell - Scottish surgeon & naturalist (d. 1805)
1732 – Charles Lee - General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault - French anatomist & surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt - German philosopher, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
1753 – Évariste de Parny - French poet (d. 1814)
1756 – Aaron Burr - 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz - Polish scholar & statesman. (d. 1841)
1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn - Austrian general. (d. 1862)
1772 – Karl von Kügelgen - German landscape & history painter (d. 1832)
1778 – Ugo Foscolo - Italian writer, revolutionary & poet (d. 1827)
1796 – John Stevens Henslow - English botanist & geologist (d. 1861)
1797 – Joseph von Radowitz - Prussian statesman & general (d. 1853)
1799 – Imre Frivaldszky - Hungarian botanist & entomologist (d. 1870)
1800 – Achille Devéria - French painter & lithographer (d. 1857)
1802 – Charles Wheatstone - English scientist & inventor (d. 1875)
1811 – Henry George Liddell - father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
1818 – William M. Evarts - American lawyer & statesman (d. 1901)
1818 – Henry Charles Litolff - keyboard virtuoso & composer (d. 1891)
1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer - French architect (d. 1914)
1830 – Daniel Oliver - British botanist (d. 1916)
1832 – John Brown Gordon - general, U.S. Senator from Georgia, & 53rd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
1833 – James Ewell Brown Stuart - American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
1833 – José María de Pereda - Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
1834 – Edwin Klebs - German-Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
1834 – Ema Puksec - Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff - German general & military writer (d. 1911)
1838 – Sir Henry Irving - British actor (d. 1905)
1838 – Yisrael Meir Kagan - Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1839 – Eduard Hitzig - German neurologist & neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
1842 – Mary Rudge - English female chess master (d. 1919)
1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers - English poet, essayist & psychical researcher (d. 1901)
1843 – Inoue Kowashi - Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
1847 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh - American architect (d. 1918)
1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan - British zoologist & psychologist (d. 1936)
1852 – Vasily Safonov - Russian pianist, teacher, conductor & composer (d. 1918)
1853 – Ignacij Klemenčič - Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1859 – Wilhelm Cohn - German chess master (d. 1913)
1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky - Russian chemist (d. 1953)
1864 – John Henry Mackay - Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker & writer (d. 1933)
1866 – Karl Sapper - German traveller, explorer, antiquarian & linguist (d. 1945)
1872 – Robert Maillart - Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
1875 – Leonid Gobyato - Russian general (d. 1915)
1878 – Walter B. Pitkin - American lecturer in philosophy & psychology (d. 1953)
1879 – Othon Friesz French artist of the Fauvist movement (d. 1949)
1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson - Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
1879 – Carl Ramsauer - German physicist (d. 1955)
1883 – Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich - Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
1887 – Josef Frings - German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1892 – William Parry Murphy - American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 – Muhammad Zafrulla Khan - Pakistani diplomat, (d. 1985)
1894 – Eric Partridge - New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1894 – Kirpal Singh - spiritual teacher ("Sant") (d. 1974)
1895 – Babe Ruth - American baseball player (d. 1948)
1897 – Louis Buchalter - Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899 – Ramón Novarro - Mexican actor (d. 1968)
1901 – Ben Lyon - American actor (d. 1979)
1902 – George Brunies - American musician (d. 1974)
1903 – Claudio Arrau - Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
1905 – Władysław Gomułka - Polish leader (d. 1982)
1908 – Amintore Fanfani - Italian politician (d. 1999)
1910 – Irmgard Keun - German author (d. 1982)
1910 – Carlos Marcello - Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1911 – Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun - German mistress & wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
1912 – Christopher Hill - English Marxist historian (d. 2003)
1913 – Mary Leakey - British anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft - American voice actor (d. 2005)
1916 – John Crank - British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gábor - Hungarian-born actress
1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim - German author (d. 2007)
1922 – Bill Johnston - Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
1922 – Patrick Macnee - British actor
1922 – Denis Norden - British television personality
1922 – Haskell Wexler - American cinematographer
1923 – Gyula Lóránt - Hungarian football player & manager (d. 1981)
1924 – Billy Wright - English footballer (d. 1994)
1924 – Jin Yong - Chinese-language novelist
1925 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer - Indonesian author (d. 2006)
1926 – Walker Edmiston - American actor (d. 2007)
1927 – Gerard K. O'Neill - American physicist (d. 1992)
1929 – Pierre Brice - French actor
1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta - Venezuelan writer
1929 – Valentin Yanin - Russian historian
1930 – Jun Kondo - Japanese theoretical physicist
1931 – Rip Torn - American actor
1931 – Mamie Van Doren - American actress
1931 – Ricardo Vidal - Filipino Cardinal Priest & Archbishop of Cebu
1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos - Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
1932 – François Truffaut - French film director (d. 1984)
1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger - German music critic & theorist (d. 2009)
1933 – Leslie Crowther - British comedian (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Erhard - American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 – Kent Douglas - Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
1936 – J. Howard Marshall III - American businessman
1939 – Mike Farrell - American actor
1939 – Orlando Parga - Puerto Rican politician
1940 – Tom Brokaw - American news anchorman
1940 – Jimmy Tarbuck - British comedian
1940 – Petr Hájek - Czech mathematician
1941 – Gigi Perreau - American actress
1941 – Spencer Silver - American chemist, co-creator of the Post-it note
1942 – Sarah Brady - American gun-control activist
1942 – James Loewen - American sociologist & historian
1943 – Fabian Forte - American singer
1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt - American actress
1944 – Christine Boutin - French politician
1944 – Willie Tee - American singer & songwriter (d. 2007))
1944 – Michael Tucker - American actor
1945 – Bob Marley - Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
1946 – Jim Turner - American politician
1946 – Kate McGarrigle - Canadian singer & songwriter (d. 2010)
1947 – Bill Staines - American singer & songwroter
1949 – Jim Sheridan - Irish film director
1949 – Mike Batt - British composer
1950 – Natalie Cole - American singer
1951 – Marco Antônio - Brazilian footballer
1951 – Margo O'Donnell - Irish singer
1951 – Jacques Villeret - French film actor (d. 2005)
1952 – Ricardo Lavolpe - Argentine football coach
1952 – Viktor Giacobbo - Swiss writer, comedian, moderator & actor
1955 – Michael Pollan - American journalist
1957 – Kathy Najimy - American actress & comedienne
1957 – Simon Phillips. Drummer of Toto
1957 – Robert Townsend - American actor
1958 – Cecily Adams - American actress (d. 2004)
1958 – Barry Miller - American actor
1959 – Ken Nelson - English record producer
1960 – Megan Gallagher - American actress
1961 – Bill Lester - American racecar driver
1962 – Stavros Lambrinidis - Greek politician
1962 – W. Axl Rose - American singer (Guns N' Roses)
1963 – Kevin Trudeau - American entrepreneur
1964 – Gordon Downie - Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip)
1964 – Andrey Zvyagintsev - Russian film director & actor
1965 – Jan Svěrák - Czech film director
1966 – Rick Astley - British singer
1967 – Anita Cochran - American singer
1967 – Izumi Sakai - Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 – Adolfo Valencia - Colombian footballer
1968 – Akira Yamaoka - Japanese composer
1968 – Warren Augenstein - American Businessman
1969 – David Hayter - American voice actor
1969 – Masaharu Fukuyama - Japanese singer
1969 – Tim Sherwood - English footballer
1970 – Per Frandsen - Danish footballer
1971 – Dana Eskelson - American actress
1971 – Brad Hogg - Australian cricket player
1971 – Brian Stepanek - American actor
1972 – David Binn - American football player
1975 – Orkut Büyükkökten - Turkish software engineer, developed the social networking service Orkut.
1975 – Brett Hawke - Australian swimmer
1975 – Tomoko Kawase - Japanese singer
1975 – Svend-Allan Sørensen - Danish artist
1976 – Tanja Frieden - Swiss snowboarder
1976 – Colin Teo - Singaporean Grand Prix driver
1976 – Kim Zmeskal - American gymnast
1976 – Kasper Hvidt - Danish handball goalkeeper
1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
1977 – Jason Euell - English-born footballer
1977 – Josh Stewart - American actor
1979 – Dan Bălan - Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1980 – Mamiko Noto - Japanese seiyu
1980 – Kim Poirier - Canadian actress
1980 – Luke Ravenstahl - American politician
1981 – Calum Best - American model
1981 – Jens Lekman - Swedish musician
1981 – Ty Warren - American football player
1981 – Alison Haislip - Attack of the Show! correspondent
1981 – Shim Eun Jin - former leader of Baby V.O.X.
1982 – Alice Eve - English actress
1982 – Tank Lu - Mandopop singer
1983 – Brodie Croyle - American football player
1983 – Dimas Delgado - Spanish footballer
1983 – S. Sreesanth - Indian cricketer
1983 – Jamie Whincup - Australian racing driver
1983 – Myron Wolf Child - Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1983 – Melrose Bickerstaff - American fashion model
1984 – Darren Bent - English footballer
1984 – Piret Järvis - Estonian singer
1984 – Antoine Wright - American basketball player
1985 – Kris Humphries - American basketball player
1985 – Yang Yu - Chinese swimmer
1985 – Joji Kato - Japanese speedskater
1986 – Alice Greczyn - American actress
1986 – Brendan Taylor - Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 – U-Know - leader of Korean group TVXQ
1988 – Allison Holker - American dancer
1988 – Bailey Hanks - American actress
1989 – Craig Cathcart - Irish footballer
1992 – Víctor Mañon - Mexican u-17s footballer
2004 – Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Princess of Belgium
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February 6th - Births:
1347 – Dorothea of Montau - Catholic saint (d. 1394)
1461 – Džore Držić - Croatian poet & playwright (d. 1501)
1465 – Scipione del Ferro - Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
1577 – Beatrice Cenci - Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1582 – Mario Bettinus - Italian philosopher, mathematician & astronomer (d. 1657)
1605 – Bernard of Corleone - Catholic saint (d. 1667)
1608 – Antonio Vieira - Portuguese writer (d. 1697)
1611 – Chongzhen Emperor - Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 – Antoine Arnauld - French theologian, philosopher & mathematician (d. 1694)
1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof - German writer & scholar (d. 1691)
1664 – Mustafa II - Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
1665 – Anne of Great Britain - Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland (d. 1714)
1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli - Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken - "the Infant of Lübeck" (d. 1725)
1726 – Patrick Russell - Scottish surgeon & naturalist (d. 1805)
1732 – Charles Lee - General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt - German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault - French anatomist & surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt - German philosopher, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
1753 – Évariste de Parny - French poet (d. 1814)
1756 – Aaron Burr - 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz - Polish scholar & statesman. (d. 1841)
1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn - Austrian general. (d. 1862)
1772 – Karl von Kügelgen - German landscape & history painter (d. 1832)
1778 – Ugo Foscolo - Italian writer, revolutionary & poet (d. 1827)
1796 – John Stevens Henslow - English botanist & geologist (d. 1861)
1797 – Joseph von Radowitz - Prussian statesman & general (d. 1853)
1799 – Imre Frivaldszky - Hungarian botanist & entomologist (d. 1870)
1800 – Achille Devéria - French painter & lithographer (d. 1857)
1802 – Charles Wheatstone - English scientist & inventor (d. 1875)
1811 – Henry George Liddell - father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
1818 – William M. Evarts - American lawyer & statesman (d. 1901)
1818 – Henry Charles Litolff - keyboard virtuoso & composer (d. 1891)
1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer - French architect (d. 1914)
1830 – Daniel Oliver - British botanist (d. 1916)
1832 – John Brown Gordon - general, U.S. Senator from Georgia, & 53rd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
1833 – James Ewell Brown Stuart - American Confederate cavalry general (d. 1864)
1833 – José María de Pereda - Spanish novelist (d. 1906)
1834 – Edwin Klebs - German-Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
1834 – Ema Puksec - Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff - German general & military writer (d. 1911)
1838 – Sir Henry Irving - British actor (d. 1905)
1838 – Yisrael Meir Kagan - Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1839 – Eduard Hitzig - German neurologist & neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
1842 – Mary Rudge - English female chess master (d. 1919)
1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers - English poet, essayist & psychical researcher (d. 1901)
1843 – Inoue Kowashi - Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
1847 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh - American architect (d. 1918)
1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan - British zoologist & psychologist (d. 1936)
1852 – Vasily Safonov - Russian pianist, teacher, conductor & composer (d. 1918)
1853 – Ignacij Klemenčič - Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1859 – Wilhelm Cohn - German chess master (d. 1913)
1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky - Russian chemist (d. 1953)
1864 – John Henry Mackay - Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker & writer (d. 1933)
1866 – Karl Sapper - German traveller, explorer, antiquarian & linguist (d. 1945)
1872 – Robert Maillart - Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
1875 – Leonid Gobyato - Russian general (d. 1915)
1878 – Walter B. Pitkin - American lecturer in philosophy & psychology (d. 1953)
1879 – Othon Friesz French artist of the Fauvist movement (d. 1949)
1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson - Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
1879 – Carl Ramsauer - German physicist (d. 1955)
1883 – Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich - Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
1887 – Josef Frings - German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1892 – William Parry Murphy - American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 – Muhammad Zafrulla Khan - Pakistani diplomat, (d. 1985)
1894 – Eric Partridge - New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1894 – Kirpal Singh - spiritual teacher ("Sant") (d. 1974)
1895 – Babe Ruth - American baseball player (d. 1948)
1897 – Louis Buchalter - Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899 – Ramón Novarro - Mexican actor (d. 1968)
1901 – Ben Lyon - American actor (d. 1979)
1902 – George Brunies - American musician (d. 1974)
1903 – Claudio Arrau - Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
1905 – Władysław Gomułka - Polish leader (d. 1982)
1908 – Amintore Fanfani - Italian politician (d. 1999)
1910 – Irmgard Keun - German author (d. 1982)
1910 – Carlos Marcello - Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1911 – Ronald Reagan - 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun - German mistress & wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
1912 – Christopher Hill - English Marxist historian (d. 2003)
1913 – Mary Leakey - British anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft - American voice actor (d. 2005)
1916 – John Crank - British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gábor - Hungarian-born actress
1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim - German author (d. 2007)
1922 – Bill Johnston - Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
1922 – Patrick Macnee - British actor
1922 – Denis Norden - British television personality
1922 – Haskell Wexler - American cinematographer
1923 – Gyula Lóránt - Hungarian football player & manager (d. 1981)
1924 – Billy Wright - English footballer (d. 1994)
1924 – Jin Yong - Chinese-language novelist
1925 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer - Indonesian author (d. 2006)
1926 – Walker Edmiston - American actor (d. 2007)
1927 – Gerard K. O'Neill - American physicist (d. 1992)
1929 – Pierre Brice - French actor
1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta - Venezuelan writer
1929 – Valentin Yanin - Russian historian
1930 – Jun Kondo - Japanese theoretical physicist
1931 – Rip Torn - American actor
1931 – Mamie Van Doren - American actress
1931 – Ricardo Vidal - Filipino Cardinal Priest & Archbishop of Cebu
1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos - Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
1932 – François Truffaut - French film director (d. 1984)
1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger - German music critic & theorist (d. 2009)
1933 – Leslie Crowther - British comedian (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Erhard - American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 – Kent Douglas - Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
1936 – J. Howard Marshall III - American businessman
1939 – Mike Farrell - American actor
1939 – Orlando Parga - Puerto Rican politician
1940 – Tom Brokaw - American news anchorman
1940 – Jimmy Tarbuck - British comedian
1940 – Petr Hájek - Czech mathematician
1941 – Gigi Perreau - American actress
1941 – Spencer Silver - American chemist, co-creator of the Post-it note
1942 – Sarah Brady - American gun-control activist
1942 – James Loewen - American sociologist & historian
1943 – Fabian Forte - American singer
1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt - American actress
1944 – Christine Boutin - French politician
1944 – Willie Tee - American singer & songwriter (d. 2007))
1944 – Michael Tucker - American actor
1945 – Bob Marley - Jamaican musician (d. 1981)
1946 – Jim Turner - American politician
1946 – Kate McGarrigle - Canadian singer & songwriter (d. 2010)
1947 – Bill Staines - American singer & songwroter
1949 – Jim Sheridan - Irish film director
1949 – Mike Batt - British composer
1950 – Natalie Cole - American singer
1951 – Marco Antônio - Brazilian footballer
1951 – Margo O'Donnell - Irish singer
1951 – Jacques Villeret - French film actor (d. 2005)
1952 – Ricardo Lavolpe - Argentine football coach
1952 – Viktor Giacobbo - Swiss writer, comedian, moderator & actor
1955 – Michael Pollan - American journalist
1957 – Kathy Najimy - American actress & comedienne
1957 – Simon Phillips. Drummer of Toto
1957 – Robert Townsend - American actor
1958 – Cecily Adams - American actress (d. 2004)
1958 – Barry Miller - American actor
1959 – Ken Nelson - English record producer
1960 – Megan Gallagher - American actress
1961 – Bill Lester - American racecar driver
1962 – Stavros Lambrinidis - Greek politician
1962 – W. Axl Rose - American singer (Guns N' Roses)
1963 – Kevin Trudeau - American entrepreneur
1964 – Gordon Downie - Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip)
1964 – Andrey Zvyagintsev - Russian film director & actor
1965 – Jan Svěrák - Czech film director
1966 – Rick Astley - British singer
1967 – Anita Cochran - American singer
1967 – Izumi Sakai - Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 – Adolfo Valencia - Colombian footballer
1968 – Akira Yamaoka - Japanese composer
1968 – Warren Augenstein - American Businessman
1969 – David Hayter - American voice actor
1969 – Masaharu Fukuyama - Japanese singer
1969 – Tim Sherwood - English footballer
1970 – Per Frandsen - Danish footballer
1971 – Dana Eskelson - American actress
1971 – Brad Hogg - Australian cricket player
1971 – Brian Stepanek - American actor
1972 – David Binn - American football player
1975 – Orkut Büyükkökten - Turkish software engineer, developed the social networking service Orkut.
1975 – Brett Hawke - Australian swimmer
1975 – Tomoko Kawase - Japanese singer
1975 – Svend-Allan Sørensen - Danish artist
1976 – Tanja Frieden - Swiss snowboarder
1976 – Colin Teo - Singaporean Grand Prix driver
1976 – Kim Zmeskal - American gymnast
1976 – Kasper Hvidt - Danish handball goalkeeper
1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
1977 – Jason Euell - English-born footballer
1977 – Josh Stewart - American actor
1979 – Dan Bălan - Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1980 – Mamiko Noto - Japanese seiyu
1980 – Kim Poirier - Canadian actress
1980 – Luke Ravenstahl - American politician
1981 – Calum Best - American model
1981 – Jens Lekman - Swedish musician
1981 – Ty Warren - American football player
1981 – Alison Haislip - Attack of the Show! correspondent
1981 – Shim Eun Jin - former leader of Baby V.O.X.
1982 – Alice Eve - English actress
1982 – Tank Lu - Mandopop singer
1983 – Brodie Croyle - American football player
1983 – Dimas Delgado - Spanish footballer
1983 – S. Sreesanth - Indian cricketer
1983 – Jamie Whincup - Australian racing driver
1983 – Myron Wolf Child - Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1983 – Melrose Bickerstaff - American fashion model
1984 – Darren Bent - English footballer
1984 – Piret Järvis - Estonian singer
1984 – Antoine Wright - American basketball player
1985 – Kris Humphries - American basketball player
1985 – Yang Yu - Chinese swimmer
1985 – Joji Kato - Japanese speedskater
1986 – Alice Greczyn - American actress
1986 – Brendan Taylor - Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 – U-Know - leader of Korean group TVXQ
1988 – Allison Holker - American dancer
1988 – Bailey Hanks - American actress
1989 – Craig Cathcart - Irish footballer
1992 – Víctor Mañon - Mexican u-17s footballer
2004 – Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Princess of Belgium
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February 6 - General (Calendar Date)
February 6th - Basic Facts:
February 6th Deaths (Here)
February 6 Events:
1685 – James II of England (& VII of Scotland) becomes King following the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – In Paris the Treaty of Alliance & the Treaty of Amity & Commerce are signed by the United States & France signaling official recognition of the new republic (American Revolutionary War).
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the 6th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1815 – New Jersey grants the 1st American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1817 – San Martín (Argentinian man) crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1840 – Treaty of Waitangi signing - establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States - The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1862 – Battle of Fort Henry - Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee (American Civil War).
1899 – Spanish-American War - The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States & Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1922 – Washington Naval Treaty - signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, & Italy.
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning & ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
1934 – Political crisis in France - as far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
1958 – 8 Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby (of Texas Instruments) files the 1st patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – First successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia - the first woman to be appointed to this post.
1989 – Roundtable talks start in Poland - marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 – The prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, Corsica - presumably by Yvan Colonna.
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- February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
- There are 328 days remaining until the end of the year (329 in leap years).
- The preceding day is February 5
- Next day is February 7.
February 6th Deaths (Here)
February 6 Events:
1685 – James II of England (& VII of Scotland) becomes King following the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – In Paris the Treaty of Alliance & the Treaty of Amity & Commerce are signed by the United States & France signaling official recognition of the new republic (American Revolutionary War).
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the 6th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1815 – New Jersey grants the 1st American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1817 – San Martín (Argentinian man) crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1840 – Treaty of Waitangi signing - establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States - The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1862 – Battle of Fort Henry - Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee (American Civil War).
1899 – Spanish-American War - The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States & Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1922 – Washington Naval Treaty - signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, & Italy.
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning & ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect.
1934 – Political crisis in France - as far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI.
1958 – 8 Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby (of Texas Instruments) files the 1st patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – First successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia - the first woman to be appointed to this post.
1989 – Roundtable talks start in Poland - marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 – The prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, Corsica - presumably by Yvan Colonna.
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