January Birthdays Through History

JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

1/1/1484 :Ulrich Zwingli, Swiss humanist, author, preacher, politician.

1/1/1735 :Paul Revere, US patriot.

1/1/1745 :”Mad” Anthony Wayne, American Revolutionary War general.

1/1/1752 :Elizabeth “Betsy” Ross (Griscom), maker of first US flag.

1/1/1778 :Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, zoologist.

1/1/1854 :James Fraser.

1/1/1879 :Edward Morgan Forster, English novelist (“A Room With a View”).

1/1/1895 :J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director.

1/1/1900 :Xavier Cugat, bandleader.

1/1/1908 :Barry Goldwater.

1/1/1912 :Harold “Kim” Philby, Soviet master spy.

1/1/1913 :Elliot Janeway, economist and author.

1/1/1919 :J.D. Salinger, novelist.

1/1/1922 :Ernest F. Hollings, South Carolina Senator.

1/1/1923 :Milt Jackson, musician.

1/1/1933 :Joe Orton, playwright (“Loot”).

1/1/1940 :Frank Langella, actor.

1/1/1940 :Helmut Jahn, architect.

1/1/1942 :Country Joe McDonald.

1/1/1943 :Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello), actor and comedian.

1/1/1955 :LaMarr Hoyt (Dewey LaMarr Hoyt), baseball player.

1/1/1958 :Ellen DeGeneres, comedienne.

1/2/1647 :Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia patriot.

1/2/1727 :James Wolfe, British General and hero of the battle of Quebec.

1/2/1861 :Helen Herron Taft, wife of William Howard Taft.

1/2/1905 :Michael Tippett, composer.

1/2/1920 :Isaac Asimov, author.

1/2/1922 :Renata Tebaldi, opera singer.

1/2/1930 :Julius LaRosa, singer.

1/2/1936 :Roger Miller, singer-songwriter.

1/2/1939 :Jim Bakker (James Orsen), TV evangelist.

1/2/1939 :Kay A. Orr, former Nebraska Governor.

1/2/1949 :Christopher Durang, playwright and actor.

1/2/1952 :Wendy Phillips, actress.

1/2/1968 :Cuba Gooding Jr.

1/3/-106 :Cicero, orator.

1/3/1793 :Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, feminist and abolitionist.

1/3/1822 :William Nylander, lichenologist.

1/3/1879 :Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, wife of Calvin Coolidge.

1/3/1883 :Clement Richard Attlee, former British Prime Minister.

1/3/1885 :Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina. (1/31/1882?)

1/3/1892 :John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author (“Lord of the Rings”).

1/3/1893 :Rufus King, mystery author (“Murder by the Clock”).

1/3/1908 :Ray Milland (Reginald Truscott-Jones), actor.

1/3/1909 :Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum), comedian.

1/3/1916 :Betty Furness, actress and consumer advisor.

1/3/1917 :Vernon A. Walters, former US Ambassador.

1/3/1918 :Maxene Andrews, singer (“The Andrews Sisters”).

1/3/1919 :Jesse White, actor.

1/3/1923 :Hank Stram, sportscaster.

1/3/1926 :George Martin, record producer.

1/3/1926 :Joan Walsh Anglund, author and illustrator of children’s books.

1/3/1930 :Eddie Egan, actor.

1/3/1930 :Robert Loggia, actor.

1/3/1932 :Dabney Coleman, actor.

1/3/1934 :Carla Anderson Hills, US Trade Representative.

1/3/1936 :Betty Rollin, journalist-author.

1/3/1939 :Bobby Hull, hockey player.

1/3/1945 :Stephen Stills, musician and songwriter.

1/3/1950 :Victoria Principal, actress.

1/3/1956 :Mel Gibson, actor (“Mad Max”).

1/3/1963 :Jim (James Samuel) Everett III, football player.

1/3/1975 :Danica McKellar, actress.

1/4/1785 :Jacob Grimm, folklore and fairy tale collector.

1/4/1797 :Wilhelm Beer, first astronomer to map Mars.

1/4/1809 :Louis Braille, teacher of the blind.

1/4/1813 :Isaac Pitman, shorthand writing system inventor.

1/4/1838 :Charles Sherwood Stratton (a.k.a. General Tom Thumb).

1/4/1864 :George Washington Carver. inventor.

1/4/1896 :Everett McKinley Dirksen, Illinois Senator.

1/4/1905 :Sterling Holloway, actor.

1/4/1914 :Jane Wyman, actress and first wife of Ronald Wilson Reagan.

1/4/1916 :Robert Parrish, film director.

1/4/1920 :William E. Colby, former CIA director.

1/4/1927 :Lauro F. Cavazos, US Secretary of Education.

1/4/1930 :Don Shula, football coach.

1/4/1930 :Sorrell Brooke, actor.

1/4/1933 :Norman H. Bangerter, Utah Governor.

1/4/1935 :Floyd Patterson, heavyweight boxing champion.

1/4/1937 :Dyan Cannon, actress.

1/4/1937 :Grace Bumbry, opera singer.

1/4/1941 :Maureen Reagan.

1/4/1957 :Patty Loveless.

1/4/1959 :Matt Frewer, actor (“Max Headroom”).

1/4/1961 :Clifford Eugene Levingston, basketball player.

1/4/1965 :Guy Forget, tennis player.

1/4/1971 :Jeremy Licht, actor (“Hogan Family”).

1/5/1779 :Stephen Decatur, Navy Captain.

1/5/1779 :Zebulon Montgomery Pike, discoverer of Pike’s Peak (Colorado).

1/5/1794 :Edmund Ruffin, US agriculturalist.

1/5/1855 :King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.

1/5/1859 :DeWitt B. Brace, inventor of spectrophotometer.

1/5/1876 :Konrad Adenauer, West German statesman.

1/5/1895 :Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, first US woman free balloon pilot.

1/5/1909 :Harry Kurnitz (a.k.a. Marco Page), author (“How to Steal a Million”).

1/5/1909 :Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor.

1/5/1918 :Jean Dixon, clairvoyant and astrologer.

1/5/1921 :Friedrich Durrenmatt, novelist and dramatist (“The Visit”).

1/5/1923 :Robert Bernstein, president of Random House.

1/5/1926 :W.D. Snodgrass, poet.

1/5/1928 :Walter Frederick “Fritz” Mondale, former US vice president.

1/5/1931 :Alvin Ailey, dancer and choreographer.

1/5/1931 :Robert Duvall, actor.

1/5/1932 :Chuck Noll, football coach.

1/5/1932 :Raisa Gorbachev, wife of Soviet statesman Mikhail Gorbachev.

1/5/1938 :Juan Carlos, King of Spain.

1/5/1942 :Charlie Rose, talk-show host.

1/5/1945 :Sam Wyche.

1/5/1946 :Arthur Lyons, author (“Other People’s Money”).

1/5/1946 :Diane Keaton (Diane Hall), actress.

1/5/1948 :Charles Oliver Hough, baseball player.

1/5/1948 :Ted Lange, actor and director.

1/5/1954 :Pamela Sue Martin, actress. (1953?)

1/5/1954 :Alex English, basketball player.

1/5/1958 :Ron Kittle, baseball player.

1/6/1736 :Friedrich Casimir Medicus, German botanist.

1/6/1822 :Heinrich Schliemann, discoverer of the remains of ancient Troy.

1/6/1854 :Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective.

1/6/1878 :Carl Sandburg, poet.

1/6/1880 :Tom Mix, silent movie star.

1/6/1882 :Sam Rayburn, Texas Congressman.

1/6/1883 :Kahlil Gibran, poet-philosopher. (4/10?) [12/6?]

1/6/1911 :Joey Adams, comedian.

1/6/1913 :Loretta Young, actress.

1/6/1914 :Danny Thomas (Amos Jacobs), entertainer.

1/6/1921 :Louis Harris, public opinion analyst and author.

1/6/1924 :Earl Scruggs, musician.

1/6/1925 :John Z. DeLorean, former automaker.

1/6/1931 :E.L. Doctorow, author.

1/6/1935 :Sylvia Syms, singer.

1/6/1937 :Lou Holtz, Notre Dame football coach.

1/6/1944 :Bonnie Franklin, actress.

1/6/1946 :Syd Barrett (Roger Keith Barrett).

1/6/1957 :Nancy Lopez, golfer.

1/6/1960 :Howie Long, football player.

1/6/1964 :Charles Lewis Haley, football player.

1/6/1968 :John Singleton.

1/6/1976 :Danny Pintauro, actor.

1/7/1745 :Johann Christian Fabricius.

1/7/1745 :Jacques Montgolfier, hot air balloon inventor.

1/7/1800 :Millard Fillmore, 13th US president.

1/7/1844 :St. Bernadette (Bernadette Soubirous).

1/7/1873 :Adolph Zukor, film executive.

1/7/1873 :Charles Peguy.

1/7/1903 :Zora Neale Hurston.

1/7/1912 :Charles Addams, cartoonist.

1/7/1922 :Vincent Gardenia (Vincent Scognamiglio), actor.

1/7/1925 :Gerald Durrell, zoologist and writer (“My Family and Other Animals”).

1/7/1928 :William Peter Blatty, author.

1/7/1930 :Douglas Kiker, NBC journalist.

1/7/1943 :Leona Williams, singer and songwriter.

1/7/1947 :Jann Wenner, journalist and publisher.

1/7/1948 :Kenny Loggins, singer.

1/7/1952 :Erin Gray, actress.

1/7/1957 :Katie Couric, co-host of the Today show.

1/7/1958 :Donna Rice, Gary Hart’s friend.

1/7/1964 :Nicolas Cage, actor.

1/8/1786 :Nicholas Biddle, financier.

1/8/1792 :Lowell Mason, educator and hymn writer (“Nearer My God to Thee”).

1/8/1821 :James Longstreet, Confederate general.

1/8/1823 :Alfred Russel Wallace, natural collector.

1/8/1824 :William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (“The Moonstone”).

1/8/1862 :Frank Doubleday, publisher.

1/8/1897 :Dennis Wheatley, “Crime Dossier” creator.

1/8/1911 :Butterfly McQueen, actress.

1/8/1912 :Jose Ferrer, actor-director.

1/8/1914 :Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM chief executive.

1/8/1923 :Larry Storch, comic actor.

1/8/1924 :Ron Moody, actor.

1/8/1926 :Soupy Sales (Morton Supman), comedian. (1930?)

1/8/1928 :Sander Vanocur, ABC newsman.

1/8/1928 :Slade Gorton, Washington Senator (politician, not ballplayer).

1/8/1931 :Bill Graham (Wolfgang Grajonca), concert promoter.

1/8/1933 :Charles Osgood Wood, CBS newsman.

1/8/1935 :Elvis Presley, rock ‘n’ roll singer.

1/8/1937 :Shirley Bassey, singer.

1/8/1939 :Yvette Mimieux, actress.

1/8/1947 :David Bowie (David Robert Jones), singer-actor.

1/8/1952 :Vladmir Feltsman, Russian pianist.

1/9/1859 :Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women’s suffrage leader.

1/9/1878 :John Watson, pioneer psychologist.

1/9/1902 :Rudolph Bing, Austrian conductor and Metropolitan Opera manager.

1/9/1904 :George Balanchine (Georgi Militonovitch Balanchivadze), ballet choreographer.

1/9/1908 :Simone de Beauvoir, novelist.

1/9/1913 :Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th US president.

1/9/1925 :Lee Van Cleef, actor.

1/9/1928 :Judith Krantz (Judith Tarcher), author.

1/9/1932 :Robert P. Casey, Pennsylvania Governor.

1/9/1934 :Bart Starr, football player.

1/9/1935 :Bob Denver, actor.

1/9/1935 :Dick Enberg, sportscaster.

1/9/1941 :Joan Baez, folksinger.

1/9/1941 :Susannah York, actress.

1/9/1945 :James Patrick “Jimmy” Page, guitarist.

1/9/1951 :Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gayle Webb), singer.

1/9/1965 :Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues, basketball player.

1/10/1738:Ethan Allen, American patriot.

1/10/1835:Harry Wright, baseball pioneer.

1/10/1883:Francis X. Bushman, silent screen actor.

1/10/1887:Robinson Jeffers, US poet and playwright.

1/10/1896:Frances Lockridge, mystery author.

1/10/1904:Ray Bolger, actor.

1/10/1908:Bernard Lee, actor.

1/10/1910:Galina Ulanova, Soviet prima ballerina.

1/10/1927:Gisele MacKenzie, singer.

1/10/1927:Johnnie Ray, composer and singer.

1/10/1935:Sherrill Milnes, opera singer.

1/10/1938:Willie McCovey, baseball player.

1/10/1939:Sal Mineo, actor.

1/10/1943:Jim Croce, singer.

1/10/1944:Frank Sinatra Jr, singer.

1/10/1945:Rod Stewart, singer.

1/10/1949:George Foreman, boxer.

1/10/1953:Pat Benatar (Patricia Andrejewski), singer.

1/11/1757:Alexander Hamilton, first US Secretary of the Treasury (or 1755).

1/11/1807:Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University and Western Union.

1/11/1815:Sir John Alexander MacDonald, first prime minister of Canada.

1/11/1839:Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican patriot.

1/11/1842:William James, psychologist and philosopher.

1/11/1885:Alice Paul, women’s rights leader.

1/11/1899:Eva Le Gallienne, actress and director.

1/11/1903:Alan Paton, South African novelist (“Cry the Beloved Country”).

1/11/1905:Manfred B. Lee, author (Ellery Queen books).

1/11/1921:Juanita Kreps, university administrator.

1/11/1926:Grant Tinker, TV executive.

1/11/1928:David L. Wolper, TV producer.

1/11/1930:Rod Taylor, actor.

1/11/1934:Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada.

1/11/1942:Clarence Clemmons, musician and singer.

1/11/1946:Naomi Judd, country singer.

1/11/1952:Ben Crenshaw, golfer.

1/11/1957:Darryl Dawkins, basketball player.

1/11/1963:Tracy Caulkins.

1/12/1588:John Winthrop, governor Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1/12/1729:Edmund Burke, British statesman.

1/12/1778:William Herbert, English botanist.

1/12/1856:John Singer Sargent, painter.

1/12/1876:Jack London, novelist.

1/12/1893:Hermann Goering, WWII Nazi leader.

1/12/1905:Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter), Western singer and actor.

1/12/1910:Luise Rainer, actress.

1/12/1915:Martin Agronsky, journalist.

1/12/1916:P.W. Botha, former South African President.

1/12/1920:James Farmer, civil rights leader.

1/12/1922:Ira Hamilton, one of the Marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

1/12/1926:Ray Price, country singer.

1/12/1935:George Kresge Jr (a.k.a. The Amazing Kreskin), mentalist.

1/12/1941:Jaime B. Fuster, US Resident Commissioner (Puerto Rico).

1/12/1941:”Long” John Baldry.

1/12/1942:Patsy Kelly, actress.

1/12/1944:Joe Frazier, former heavyweight boxing champion.

1/12/1945:Rodney Whittaker (a.k.a. Trevanian), author (“The Eiger Sanction”).

1/12/1948:Anthony Andrews, actor.

1/12/1951:Rush Limbaugh.

1/12/1954:Howard Stern.

1/12/1955:Kirstie Alley, actress (“Cheers”).

1/12/1960:Dominique (Jacques) Wilkins, basketball player.

1/12/1961:Tommy Puett, actor.

1/13/1628:Charles Perrault, author of Mother Goose stories.

1/13/1794:Prosper Garnot.

1/13/1808:Salmon Portland Chase, American statesman.

1/13/1834:Horatio Alger Jr, author of rags-to-riches stories.

1/13/1864:Wilhelm Wien, Nobel prize winner for blackbody radiation laws.

1/13/1884:Sophie Tucker, singer.

1/13/1885:Alfred Carl Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Co.

1/13/1904:Cecil Beaton, English photographer.

1/13/1913:Ralph Edwards. (6/13?)

1/13/1919:Robert Stack, actor.

1/13/1922:Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist.

1/13/1925:Gwen Verdon, actress and dancer.

1/13/1926:Carolyn G. Heilbrun (a.k.a. Amanda Cross), author.

1/13/1927:Brock Adams, Washington Senator (politician not ballplayer).

1/13/1930:Frances Sternhagen, actress.

1/13/1931:Charles Nelson Reilly, actor-director.

1/13/1933:Frank Gallo, artist.

1/13/1943:Richard Moll.

1/13/1949:Brandon Tartikoff, broadcast executive.

1/13/1955:Jay McInerney, writer.

1/13/1961:Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.

1/13/1964:Penelope Ann Miller.

1/14/1730:William Whipple, American patriot.

1/14/1741:General Benedict Arnold, US turncoat.

1/14/1874:Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (“Peter Rabbit”).

1/14/1875:Dr. Albert Schweitzer, philosopher and missionary.

1/14/1886:Hugh Lofting, English writer (Doctor Doolittle stories).

1/14/1892:Hal Roach, film director.

1/14/1896:John Dos Passos, novelist.

1/14/1898:Hilary Aidan St. George Saunders, writer.

1/14/1913:Tillie Olsen.

1/14/1919:Andy Rooney, writer and columnist.

1/14/1920:George Herman, former CBS newsman.

1/14/1925:Yukio Mishima.

1/14/1926:Tom Tyron, actor-author.

1/14/1928:Lauch Faircloth, North Carolina Senator.

1/14/1940:Julian Bond, legislator and civil rights leader.

1/14/1941:Faye Dunaway, actress (“Mommie Dearest”).

1/14/1945:Marjoe Gortner, ex-evangelist, actor, and singer.

1/14/1949:Lawrence Kasdan, director and screenwriter.

1/14/1963:Stephen Soderbergh.

1/14/1968:LL Cool J.

1/14/1969:Jason Bateman, actor.

1/15/1622:Jean Baptiste Poquelin (a.k.a. Moliere), French author and dramatist.

1/15/1716:Philip Livingston, merchant and signer of US Declaration of Independence.

1/15/1823:Mathew Brady, US Civil War photographer.

1/15/1844:Cole Younger, outlaw.

1/15/1891:Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet.

1/15/1899:Goodman Ace, TV writer, actor, columnist, and humorist.

1/15/1906:Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate.

1/15/1908:Edward Teller, nuclear physicist.

1/15/1909:Gene Krupa, drummer.

1/15/1913:Lloyd Bridges, actor.

1/15/1915:Alan Lomax, folk music scholar.

1/15/1918:Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian President.

1/15/1920:Cardinal John J. O’Connor, Archbishop of New York.

1/15/1926:Rod MacLeish, journalist.

1/15/1929:Martin Luther King Jr, civil rights leader.

1/15/1937:Margaret O’Brien, actress.

1/15/1941:Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), singer.

1/15/1951:Charo (Maria Martinez), actress.

1/15/1953:Randy White.

1/15/1958:Mario Van Peebles.

1/15/1968:Chad Lowe.

1/16/1838:Franz Brentano, German philosopher.

1/16/1853:Andre Michelin, first mass produced auto tires.

1/16/1874:Robert William Service, Canadian poet (“The Shooting of Dan McGrew”).

1/16/1909:Ethel Merman (Ethel Agnes Zimmermann), singer. (1912?) (changed as she got older)

1/16/1911:Hanna “Dizzy” Dean, baseball player.

1/16/1928:William Kennedy, author.

1/16/1929:Francesco Scavullo, photographer.

1/16/1930:Norman Podhoretz, author and editor.

1/16/1930:Ricou Browning, underwater director.

1/16/1934:Marilyn Horne, opera singer.

1/16/1935:A.J. Foyt, auto racer.

1/16/1944:Ronnie Milsap, singer.

1/16/1948:John Carpenter, movie director.

1/16/1950:Debbie Allen, dancer.

1/16/1960:Sade (Helen Folasade Adu).

1/16/1966:Jack Burns McDowell, baseball player.

1/17/1706:Benjamin Franklin, US statesman, scientist, and author.

1/17/1771:Charles Brockden Brown, writer.

1/17/1806:James Madison Randolph, first baby born in White House (grandson of Thomas Jefferson).

1/17/1820:Anne Bronte.

1/17/1863:David Lloyd George, British statesman.

1/17/1863:Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director.

1/17/1880:Mack Sennett, slapstick film director-producer.

1/17/1899:Al Capone, gangster.

1/17/1899:Nevil Shute, English novelist.

1/17/1899:Robert Maynard Hutchins, US educator.

1/17/1913:Francis De Wolff, actor.

1/17/1922:Betty Marion White, actress. (1924?)

1/17/1926:Moira Shearer, ballerina and actress.

1/17/1926:Newton Minow, former head of FCC.

1/17/1928:Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist.

1/17/1931:Don Zimmer, baseball player and manager.

1/17/1931:L. Douglas Wilder, former Virginia Governor.

1/17/1931:James Earl Jones, actor.

1/17/1933:Sheree North (Dawn Bethel), actress.

1/17/1934:Shari Lewis (Shari Hurwitz), puppeteer.

1/17/1939:Maury Povich.

1/17/1942:Muhammed Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr), boxer.

1/17/1949:Andy Kaufman, entertainer.

1/17/1954:Robert Kennedy Jr.

1/17/1956:Paul Young, singer.

1/17/1962:James Carrey, actor and comedian.

1/18/1689:Montesquieu.

1/18/1779:Peter Mark Roget, English physician and author of the thesaurus.

1/18/1782:Daniel Webster, US orator and statesman.

1/18/1867:Ruben Dario.

1/18/1882:Alan Alexander Milne, English author (“Winnie the Pooh”).

1/18/1892:Oliver Hardy, actor.

1/18/1904:Cary Grant, actor.

1/18/1913:Danny Kaye, actor.

1/18/1918:John H. Johnson, founder of “Ebony.”

1/18/1931:Evelyn Lear, opera singer.

1/18/1933:John Boorman, movie director.

1/18/1933:Ray Dolby, inventor.

1/18/1938:Curt Flood, baseball player.

1/18/1938:Paul Kirk, former chairman of Democratic National Committee.

1/18/1941:Bobby Goldsboro, country singer-songwriter.

1/18/1953:Brett Hudson, comedian, singer, and musician.

1/18/1954:Steven L. DeBerg, football player.

1/18/1955:Kevin Costner, actor.

1/18/1961:Mark Messier, hockey player.

1/19/1736:James Watt, Scottish engineer and developer of the steam engine.

1/19/1749:Isaiah Thomas, American printer, editor, etc.

1.19/1761:Pierre August Marie Broussonet, ichthyologist.

1/19/1807:Robert Edward Lee, Confederate General.

1/19/1809:Edgar Allen Poe, US author-poet.

1/19/1813:Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist.

1/19/1839:Paul Cezanne.

1/19/1887:Alexander Woollcott, American critic.

1/19/1920:Bruce G. Sundlun, Rhode Island Governor.

1/19/1920:Javier Perez de Cuellar, Peruvian diplomat and UN Secretary General.

1/19/1921:Patricia Highsmith, author (“Strangers on a Train”).

1/19/1922:Ken Hughes, film director.

1/19/1923:Jean Stapleton (Jeanne Murray), actress (“All in the Family”).

1/19/1926:Fritz Weaver, actor.

1/19/1931:Robert MacNeil, PBS newsman.

1/19/1932:Richard Lester, movie director.

1/19/1935:Tippi Hedren, actress (“The Birds.”)

1/19/1939:Phil Everly, singer.

1/19/1942:Michael Crawford, actor and singer.

1/19/1943:Janis Joplin.

1/19/1944:Shelley Fabares, actress.

1/19/1946:Dolly Parton, Country and Western singer.

1/19/1947:Ann Compton, ABC newswoman.

1/19/1949:Robert Palmer, singer. (1950?)

1/19/1953:Desi Arnaz Jr, singer-actor.

1/19/1955:Simon Rattle, British orchestra conductor.

1/19/1962:Christopher Andrew Sabo, baseball player.

1/19/1966:Stefan Edberg.

1/19/1982:Jodie Sweetin.

1/20/1894:Harold Gray, cartoonist (“Little Orphan Annie”).

1/20/1896:George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), comedian.

1/20/1920:DeForest Kelley, actor.

1/20/1920:Federico Fellini, Italian film director.

1/20/1922:Ray Anthony, bandleader.

1/20/1924:Otis Dewey “Slim” Whitman, singer.

1/20/1926:Patricia Neal, actress.

1/20/1930:Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, second man on the moon.

1/20/1934:Arte Johnson, comedian and actor.

1/20/1937:Dorothy Provine, actress.

1/20/1946:David Lynch, filmmaker.

1/20/1948:Anatoly Scharansky, expatriate Soviet dissident.

1/20/1958:Lorenzo Lamas, actor.

1/21/1743:John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc.

1/21/1813:John Fremont, explorer and historian.

1/21/1821:John Cabell Breckinridge, 14th US vice president.

1/21/1824:Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, Confederate general.

1/21/1855:John Browning, firearms designer.

1/21/1864:Israel Zangwill, writer (“The Big Bow Mystery”).

1/21/1884:Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of ACLU.

1/21/1905:Christian Dior, fashion designer.

1/21/1919:Jinx Falkenberg, actress.

1/21/1921:Barney C. Clark, first permanent artificial heart transplant.

1/21/1922:Paul Scofield, actor.

1/21/1924:Telly Savalas (Aristotle Savalas), actor. (1925?)

1/21/1925:Alfred Hawthorn (“Benny”) Hill, comedian.

1/21/1939:Wolfman Jack, DJ.

1/21/1940:Jack Nicklaus, golfer.

1/21/1941:Placido Domingo, Spanish opera star.

1/21/1942:Mac Davis, actor-songwriter.

1/21/1947:Jill Eikenberry, actress.

1/21/1950:Billy Ocean, musician-songwriter.

1/21/1956:Robby Benson (Robert Segal), actor.

1/21/1957:Geena Davis, actress.

1/21/1963:Akeem Aboul Olajuwon, basketball player. (1/23?)

1/21/1963:Detlef Schrempf, basketball player.

1/21/1968:Charlotte Ross, actress.

1/22/1440:Ivan “the Great” III, Russian Czar.

1/22/1561:Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman.

1/22/1775:Andre Ampere, French physicist.

1/22/1788:Lord George Gordon Byron, British poet.

1/22/1802:Richard Upjohn, US architect.

1/22/1849:August Strindberg, Swedish dramatist.

1/22/1875:David (Lewelyn) Wark Griffith, film director (“Birth of a :Nation”).

1/22/1890:Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

1/22/1907:Douglas Groce “Wrong Way” Corrigan, airplane mechanic.

1/22/1909:U Thant, UN Secretary-General.

1/22/1911:Ann Sothern (Harriet Lake), actress.

1/22/1928:Birch Bayh, former Indiana Senator.

1/22/1932:Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs), actress.

1/22/1934:Bill Bixby, actor.

1/22/1935:Pierre S. du Pont IV, former Delaware Governor.

1/22/1935:Sam Cooke.

1/22/1937:Joseph Wambaugh, author (“The Choirboys”) and ex-policeman.

1/22/1940:John Hurt, actor.

1/22/1949:Steve Perry, singer.

1/22/1957:Mike Bossy, hockey player.

1/22/1959:Linda Blair, actress.

1/22/1960:Michael Hutchence.

1/22/1965:Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey A. Townes), DJ.

1/22/1967:Olivia d’Abo, actress.

1/23/1730:Joseph Hewes, signer of US Declaration of Independence.

1/23/1737:John Hancock, American patriot.

1/23/1752:Muzio Clementi, composer.

1/23/1783:Stendhal (a.k.a. Marie Henri Beyle), French author (“The Red and :the Black”).

1/23/1785:Carl Adolph Agardh, algologist.

1/23/1832:Edouard Manet, French Impressionist painter.

1/23/1840:Ernst Abbe, formulator of diffraction theory.

1/23/1898:Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet film director.

1/23/1899:Joseph Nathan Kane, historian.

1/23/1903:Randolph Scott, actor.

1/23/1907:Dan Duryea, actor.

1/23/1907:Hideki Yukawa, Nobel physics laureate.

1/23/1915:Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of US Supreme Court.

1/23/1916:David Douglas Duncan, photojournalist and author.

1/23/1919:Ernie Kovacs, comedian.

1/23/1924:Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey Senator.

1/23/1928:Jeanne Moreau, actress.

1/23/1930:Derek Walcott.

1/23/1933:Chita Rivera (Conchita del Rivero), actress-singer (“West Side :Story”).

1/23/1942:Willy Bogner Jr, German filmmaker.

1/23/1943:Gil Gerard, actor.

1/23/1944:Rutger Hauer, actor.

1/23/1950:Richard Dean Anderson, actor.

1/23/1953:Pat Haden, football player.

1/23/1957:Princess Caroline of Monaco.

1/23/1963:Hakeem Olajuwon. (1/21?)

1/23/1975:Balthazar Getty.

1/24/76 :Hadrian, Roman emperor.

1/24/1670:William Congreve, English dramatist.

1/24/1712:Frederick the Great of Prussia.

1/24/1732:Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French writer.

1/24/1800:Sir Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer.

1/24/1821:Angus Reach, Scotish author (“Clement Lorimer”).

1/24/1862:Edith Wharton, US author.

1/24/1880:Elisabeth Achelis, proposed each year begin Sunday, etc.

1/24/1909:Jean Remington Hollander Yawkey, former owner of Red Sox.

1/24/1915:Mark Goodson, TV producer.

1/24/1915:Robert Motherwell, abstract painter.

1/24/1916:Jack Brickhouse, radio and TV announcer.

1/24/1917:Ernest Borgnine, actor. (1918?)

1/24/1918:Oral Roberts, evangelist.

1/24/1925:Maria Tallchief Paschen, ballet dancer.

1/24/1927:Paula Hawkins, former Florida Senator.

1/24/1941:Neil Diamond, singer.

1/24/1941:Ray Stevens, singer and songwriter.

1/24/1947:Warren Zevon.

1/24/1948:Elliot Abrams, former US State Department official.

1/24/1949:John Belushi, comedian.

1/24/1951:Yakov Smirnoff, comedian.

1/24/1960:Nastassja Kinski, actress.

1/24/1964:Robert Keith (“Ron”) Dibble, baseball player.

1/24/1968:Mary Lou Retton, Olympic gymnast.

1/24/1979:Tatyana M. Ali, actress.

1/25/1627:Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, and author.

1/25/1759:Robert Burns, Scottish poet.

1/25/1783:William Colgate, soapmaker and philanthropist.

1/25/1860:Charles Curtis, 21st US vice president.

1/25/1874:W. Somerset Maugham, English author (“Of Human Bondage”).

1/25/1882:Virginia Woolf, English novelist (“To the Lighthouse”).

1/25/1904:Mildred Dunnock, actress.

1/25/1918:Ernie Harwell, baseball broadcaster.

1/25/1919:Edwin Newman, journalist and author.

1/25/1927:Gregg Palmer, actor.

1/25/1928:Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze, leader of nation of Georgia.

1/25/1931:Dean Jones, actor.

1/25/1933:”Cory” Corazon (Maria) Aquino, Philippine political leader.

1/25/1934:Elizabeth Allen, actress-singer.

1/25/1935:Conrad Burns, Montana Senator.

1/25/1944:Leigh Taylor-Young, actress.

1/25/1959:Mark Duper, football player.

1/26/1715:Claude Helvetius, French philosopher.

1/26/1826:Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses Simpson Grant.

1/26/1831:Mary Mapes Dodge.

1/26/1880:General Douglas MacArthur, WWII Allied forces commander.

1/26/1917:C. William Verity, former Secretary of Commerce.

1/26/1918:Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction writer.

1/26/1925:Paul Newman, actor.

1/26/1928:Eartha Kitt, singer.

1/26/1928:Roger Vadim, movie director.

1/26/1929:Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and playwright.

1/26/1932:Father George Harold Clements, civil rights leader.

1/26/1935:Bob Uecker, sports personality.

1/26/1944:Angela Davis, activist.

1/26/1946:Gene Siskel, film critic.

1/26/1957:Eddie Van Halen, singer and musician.

1/26/1958:Anita Baker, singer.

1/26/1961:Wayne Gretzky, hockey player.

1/26/1963:Andrew Ridgeley, musician.

1/27/1756:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer.

1/27/1832:Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll Dodgson), author.

1/27/1850:Samuel Gompers, labor leader.

1/27/1885:Jerome Kern, Broadway composer.

1/27/1900:Admiral Hyman George Rickover, “father of the nuclear navy.”

1/27/1918:Skitch Henderson, bandleader.

1/27/1921:Donna Reed, actress.

1/27/1930:Bobby “Blue” Bland (Robert Calvin Bland).

1/27/1931:Mordecai Richler, Canadian novelist (“The Apprenticeship of Duddy :Kravitz”).

1/27/1936:Troy Donahue, actor. (1937?)

1/27/1944:Mairead Corrigan, pacifist.

1/27/1945:Nick Mason.

1/27/1948:Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer.

1/27/1956:Mimi Rogers, actress.

1/27/1959:Cris Collinsworth, football player.

1/27/1963:Bridget Fonda, actress.

1/28/1694:Peter Collinson, gardener of exotic plants.

1/28/1822:Alexander MacKenzie, Canadian prime minister and statesman.

1/28/1841:Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist.

1/28/1847:George Wright, baseball pioneer.

1/28/1853:Jose Julian Marti, Cuban revolutionary and poet.

1/28/1873:Colette, French novelist.

1/28/1884:Auguste Piccard, Swiss deep sea explorer and balloonist.

1/28/1884:Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss balloonist and cosmic-ray researcher.

1/28/1889:Arthur Rubinstein, concert pianist.

1/28/1912:Jackson Pollock, expressionist painter.

1/28/1929:Claes Oldenburg, Swedish artist.

1/28/1933:Susan Sontag, author.

1/28/1936:Alan Alda (Alphonso D’Abruzzo), actor.

1/28/1941:Richard Hoyt, writer (“Trotsky’s Run”).

1/28/1943:Susan Howard (Jeri Lynn Mooney), actress.

1/28/1951:Barbi Benton, actress and singer. (1950?)

1/28/1981:Elijah Wood.

1/29/1688:Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher.

1/29/1737:Thomas Paine, American Revolutionary leader and corset-maker.

1/29/1756:General Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee.

1/29/1843:William McKinley, 25th US president.

1/29/1860:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian dramatist.

1/29/1862:Frederick Delius, composer.

1/29/1912:Martha Wright Griffiths, political leader.

1/29/1912:”Professor” Irwin Corey, comedian.

1/29/1916:Victor Mature, actor.

1/29/1918:John Forsythe (John Freund), actor.

1/29/1923:Paddy Chayevsky, dramatist.

1/29/1939:Germaine Greer, author.

1/29/1942:Claudine Longet, actress.

1/29/1943:Katharine Ross, actress.

1/29/1945:Tom Selleck, actor.

1/29/1951:Ann Jillian, actress.

1/29/1954:Oprah Winfrey, TV personality.

1/29/1960:Greg Louganis, Olympic diver.

1/29/1960:Steve Sax, baseball player.

1/29/1967:Stacey (Ronald) King, basketball player.

1/29/1975:Sara Gilbert, actress.

1/29/1985:Athina Onassis.

1/30/1707:Georg Dionysius Ehret, botanical illustrator.

1/30/1866:Gelett Burgess, author (“The Purple Cow”).

1/30/1882:Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US president.

1/30/1911:Roy Eldridge, jazz trumpeter.

1/30/1912:Barbara W. Tuchman, historian.

1/30/1914:John Ireland, actor.

1/30/1923:Dick Martin, comedian.

1/30/1924:Margaret Beda Nicholson (nee Margaret Yorke), author (“No Medals :for the Major”).

1/30/1925:Dorothy Malone, actress.

1/30/1927:Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister.

1/30/1928:Harold Prince, producer and director.

1/30/1931:Gene Hackman, actor.

1/30/1931:Shirley Hazzard.

1/30/1933:Louis Rukeyser, host of “Wall $treet Week.”

1/30/1934:Tammy Grimes, actress.

1/30/1935:Richard Brautigan.

1/30/1937:Boris Spassky, chess player.

1/30/1937:Vanessa Redgrave, actress.

1/30/1941:Richard B. Cheney, former US Defense Secretary.

1/30/1955:Curtis Strange, golfer.

1/30/1961:Jody Watley, singer.

1/31/1797:Franz Schubert, Austrian composer.

1/31/1872:Zane Grey, dentist and author (“Riders of the Purple Sage”). :(1875?)

1/31/1881:Irving Langmuir, inventor of tungsten filament lamp.

1/31/1882:Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina. (1/3/1885?)

1/31/1892:Eddie Cantor, singer.

1/31/1893:Freya Stark.

1/31/1903:Tallulah Bankhead, actress.

1/31/1905:John O’Hara.

1/31/1915:Garry Moore, TV personality.

1/31/1915:Thomas Merton.

1/31/1919:Jack Roosevelt (“Jackie”) Robinson, baseball player.

1/31/1921:Mario Lanza, singer.

1/31/1923:Carol Channing, actress.

1/31/1923:Norman Mailer, novelist.

1/31/1925:Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader.

1/31/1929:Jean Simmons, actress.

1/31/1931:Ernie “Mr. Cub” Banks, baseball executive.

1/31/1934:James Franciscus, actor.

1/31/1937:Philip Glass, composer.

1/31/1937:Suzanne Pleshette, actress.

1/31/1941:George S. Mickelson, South Dakota Governor.

1/31/1941:Richard Gephardt, politician.

1/31/1944:Jessica Walter, actress.

1/31/1947:Nolan Ryan, baseball player.

1/31/1951:Phil Collins, singer. (1/30?)