a fine mess: Happy Birthday Laura!!!

(Update: I was posting this around midnight but the links are all to September 2nd dates, which is Laura's birthday)

I hope it is fantastic and filled with wonderful moments.

Laura, I honestly cannot recall how old you are other than "timeless" and younger than myself. So let's simply run down a wee bit of month and date history:

1981	Katie Teft, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, gymnast 1996 Olympics
1980	Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA 1997
1974	Jason Lawson, NBA center, Orlando Magic
1974	Karina Wieland, Australian rower 1996 Olympics
1973	Matthew Dunn, Leeton NSW Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics
1972	James Willis, NFL linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles
1972	Katarina Studenikova, Bratislava Slovak Rep, tennis star
1971	Rich Aurilia, born in Brooklyn, New York, infielder for the San Francisco Giants
1971	Shauna Sand, born in San Diego, California, actress, Renegade
1971	Tommy Maddox, NFL quarterback for the New York Giants
1969	Mark Brettschneider, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Jason-One Life to Live
1969	Russell Freeman, NFL tackle for the Oakland Raiders
1969	Shani Waugh, born in Bunbury, Australia, LPGA golfer, Australia sub-jr champ-1986, 87
1968	Ricardo de Jongh, soccer player, Dordrecht '90
1966	Salma Hayek, born in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, actress, Mexican national, most prominent Mexican figure in Hollywood, fights discrimination against immigrants
1965	Doug Linton, born in Santa Ana California, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
1965	Lennox Lewis, born in West Ham, England, professional boxer, won World heavyweight championship three times, 1988 Olympic Games gold medalist
1964	Keanu Reeves, Beirut, actor, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed
1963	Sam Mitchell, NBA forward, Minnesota Timberwolves
1961	Jeff Russell, Cincinnatti, Ohio, pitcher for the Texas Rangers
1960	Eric Dickerson, Texas, NFL halfback, Los Angeles Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in 1984
1960	Rex Hudler, born in Tempe, Arizona, outfielder, New York Yankees, California Angels
1959	Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer, Dolly Dots
1958	Marlene Janssen, born in Rock Island, Illinois, playmate, Nov, 1982
1957	Steve Porcaro, rock keyboards/vocalist, Toto-Roseanna, Africa
1955	Linda Purl, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock
1953	Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz, Germany, astronaut
1953	John Zorn, American Composer
1952	Earl Pomeroy, born in Valley City, North Dakota, Representative-D-North Dakota 1993 -
1952	Jimmy Connors, U.S. Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82
1951	Mark Harmon, born in Burbank, California, actor, Dr. Caldwell-St. Elsewhere
1951	Michael Gray, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Ronnie-Brian Keith Show
1951	Jim DeMint, born in Greenville, South Carolina, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, representative, 4th congressional district 1999 - 2005
1949	Albert West, Dutch singer, Dumb Willie
1948	Nate Archibald, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, NBA guard
1948	Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut, STS-25
1948	Terry Bradshaw, NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers/announcer, CBS, FOX
1948	Christa McAuliffe, American Astronaut
1946	Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor, Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives
1946	Marty Grebb, Chicago, rocker, Buckinghams
1944	Claude Nicollier, born in Vevey, Switzerland, astronaut, STS-61-K, 46, 61, 75
1943	Glenn Sather, NHL coach, Edmonton Oiler
1943	Joe Simon, U.S. singer, Power of Love
1943	Rosalind Ashford, Detroit, rock vocalist, Martha Reeve and Vandellas
1941	Tommy Aycock, Edinburg, Texas, PGA golfer, 1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th
1940	Beverly Sanders, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey
1940	Jimmy Clanton, Baton Rogue, Louisiana, rock vocalist, Just a Dream
1939	Robert Lee Dickey, U.S. singer, I'm your puppet
1939	Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tennessee, rock vocalist, Impressions-Gypsy Woman
1938	Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
1937	Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics, 1984, baseball commissioner
1936	David Leonard Blake, composer
1936	Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1936	Andy Grove, Hungarian Businessman
1935	Jim Moody, born in Richlands, Virginia, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1983 - 1993
1933	Mathieu Kerekou, Statesman
1931	Alan K. Simpson, born in Denver, Colorado, Senator-R-Wyoming 1979 - 1997, minority whip
1931	Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1930	Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
1928	Miloslav Istvan, composer
1928	Peter Mansfield, writer
1927	Francis Matthews, British actor, On the Bowery, Paul Temple
1927	Leonard Katzman, TV producer
1927	Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier 1952 Olympics gold
1927	Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music
1925	Ronnie Stevens, born in London, England, actor, Rodney-Dick and Duchess
1919	Gideon William Waldrop, composer
1919	Marge Champion, born in Los Angeles, California, dancer, Marge and Gower Champion Show
1918	Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize
1918	Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist
1918	Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1917	Cleveland Amory, Nahant Massachusetts, conservationist/TV reviewer, TV Guide
1917	Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist, developed bossa nova
1916	Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles
1916	Penny Santon, Greenwich Village, New York, actress, Roll Out, Matt Houston
1915	Dai-Keong Lee, composer
1915	Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
1914	Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
1914	Tom Glazer, American Musician
1913	Bill Shankly, Scottish Athlete
1912	Johan Daisne, Herman Thiery, Belgian writer, magic realism
1911	Eileen Way, actress, Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin
1911	Rene Amengual, composer
1910	Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
1908	Barbara Jo Allen, New York City, actress, Ice Capades Revue, Rosie the Riveter
1905	Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College
1904	Set Svanholm, Vasteras Sweden, tenor, London Convent Garden 1948-57
1904	Vera Vague, Barbara Jo Allen, New York City, actress, Follow the Leader
1894	Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist and writer, Hotel Savoy
1892	Felix Wolfes, composer
1887	Willem De Merode, protestant poet
1884	Frank Laubach, born in Benton, Pennsylvania, educator, taught reading through phonetics
1878	Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
1877	Frederick Soddy, English Scientist
1870	Marie Ault, Wigan England
1869	Delfien Vanhaute, Eckart, Flem pastor/poet, Parsifal, Ark of Noe
1866	Hiram Johnson, Gov-Progressive-Cal
1856	Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion
1853	Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909
1850	Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1850	Eugene Field, author/journalist, Little Boy Blue
1847	George Robert Sims, English Journalist
1839	Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty
1838	Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii, 1891 - 1893
1837	James Harrison Wilson, Major General Union volunteers
1814	Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
1798	Thomas Holliday Hicks, Union Gov
1778	Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
1778	Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty
1763	Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author
1750	Pehr Frigel, composer
1731	Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright, Olint und Sophronia
1716	Johann Trier, composer
1705	Abraham Tucker, British Philosopher
1675	William Somerville, English Poet
1661	Georg Bohm, German organist/composer

And more from Wikipedea, God Bless and Happy Birthday Laura, I will find more!!

Events

44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
44 BC – The first of Cicero’s Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1833 – Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1856 – Tianjing Incident in Nanjing, China.
1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1885 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1925 – The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 – Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President.
1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1967 – The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1991 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people
1996 – A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

[edit] Births

1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1753 – Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
1778 – Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846)
1805 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
1838 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1839 – Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
1847 – Roger Wolcott, 39^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 – Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
1852 – Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1857 – Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1862 – Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943)
1877 – Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)
1878 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1879 – An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, "The Red Archduchess" (d. 1963)
1884 – Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
1894 – Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975)
1901 – Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977)
1911 – Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1912 – Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
1913 – Bill Shankly, Scotish Football Manager (d. 1981)
1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
1914 – Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, actor, notable as Munchkin Coroner on The Wizard of Oz (d. 2010)
1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1998)
1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995)
1923 – Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 – Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1925 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1928 – Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
1929 – Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1931 – Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
1933 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
1934 – Grady Nutt, American humorist
1935 – D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
1936 – Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1937 – Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
1937 – Derek Fowlds, British actor
1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
1938 – Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
1938 – Clarence Felder, American actor
1938 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor
1939 – Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
1940 – Jimmy Clanton, American singer
1941 – David Bale, South African–born activist (d. 2003)
1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1941 – John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach
1943 – Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 – Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1943 – Joe Simon, American singer
1946 – Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
1946 – Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
1946 – Luis Avalos, Cuban actor
1946 – Walt Simonson, American comic book artist & writer
1947 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player
1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
1948 – Nate Archibald, American basketball player
1950 – Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1950 – Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster)
1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman
1951 – Jim DeMint, American politician
1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor
1951 – Michael Gray, American actor
1951 – Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
1953 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander (d. 2001)
1953 – John Zorn, American musician
1956 – Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach
1956 – Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1957 – Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1958 – Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
1959 – Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
1960 – Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
1960 – Rex Hudler, baseball player
1960 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
1960 – John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1960 – Hideo Yoshizawa, General Manager at Namco Bandai
1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1962 – Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director
1962 – Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor
1962 – Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
1963 – Sam Mitchell, basketball player and coach
1964 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
1965 – Lennox Lewis, British-born boxer
1965 – Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker
1966 – Dino Cazares, American musician
1966 – Marcello Cuttitta, Italian rugby player
1966 – Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby player and coach
1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
1966 – Olivier Panis, French race car driver
1966 – Tuc Watkins, American actor
1967 – Andreas Möller, German footballer
1968 – Cynthia Watros, American actress
1968 – Kristen Cloke, American actress
1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1969 – Stéphane Matteau, French Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
1971 – Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
1971 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
1971 – César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1971 – Shauna Sand, American actress and Playboy Playmate
1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player
1971 – Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
1972 – Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
1972 – Robert Coles, professional golfer
1973 – Katt Williams, American comedian,actor,and rapper
1973 – Jason Blake, American hockey player
1973 – Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 – Inari Vachs, American adult film actress
1974 – Steven Johnson, Australian racing driver
1975 – MC Chris, American rapper
1976 – Phil Lipscomb, American musician (Taproot)
1976 – Erin Hershey, American actress
1976 – Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres
1977 – Amanda Marcotte, American author
1977 – Ramiro Muñoz, Colombian musician
1977 – Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
1979 – Alex Chu, Canadian-born Korean singer
1979 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
1979 – Brian Westbrook, American football player
1980 – Dany Sabourin, French Canadian Goaltender in the National Hockey League
1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver
1981 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director/producer
1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
1982 – Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
1982 – Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1983 – Mark Foster, English rugby player
1983 – Aimee Osbourne, English singer, actress and columnist
1984 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
1984 – Jack Peñate, English singer
1984 – Udita Goswami, Indian model and actress
1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
1987 – Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
1988 – Ishant Sharma, Indian Cricketer
1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
1989 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (d. 2008)
1990 – Marcus Ericsson, Swedish racing driver

[edit] Deaths

490 BC – Pheidippides, Greek hero
421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor
1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary
1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer
1540 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
1680 – Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 – Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
1690 – Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
1765 – Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719)
1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
1790 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1763)
1820 – Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
1832 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1754)
1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
1872 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
1877 – Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
1896 – Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
1898 – Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (b. 1840)
1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer (b. 1855)
1927 – Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20^th Yokozuna (b. 1878)
1934 – Alcide Nunez, American musician (b. 1884)
1934 – Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black (b. 1860)
1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
1941 – Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
1942 – Tom Williams, Irish republican (b. 1924)
1944 – Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-born subject of many of Marc Chagall paintings (b. 1895)
1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (b. 1883)
1962 – William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro's (b. 1890)
1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13^th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1964 – Alvin York, American soldier (b. 1887)
1965 – Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (b. 1917)
1969 – Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
1973 – Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
1978 – Fred G. Meyer, American founder Fred Meyer Inc. (b. 1886)
1979 – Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (b. 1903)
1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
1985 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1985 – Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler
1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1994 – Roy Castle, British entertainer (b. 1932)
1996 – Paddy Clift, Leicestershire cricketer (b. 1953)
1997 – Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (b. 1902)
1997 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
1998 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (b. 1933)
1998 – Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
2000 – Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907)
2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
2002 – Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2004 – Joan Oró, Catalan scientist (b. 1923)
2004 – Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
2005 – Bob Denver, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 – Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
2006 – Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 – Max McNab, National Hockey League executive (b. 1924)
2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007 – Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
2008 – Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (b. 1949)