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2006 Calendar

[edit] Births

1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence
1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
1867 - John Galsworthy, English author (d. 1933)
1882 - Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer
1911 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, founder of World Community Service Center
1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
1925 - Russell Baker, columnist
1926 - René Goscinny, comic-strip author
1926 - Lina Wertmüller, director
1930 - Earl Weaver, Baseball Hall of Fame manager
1935 - John Brodie, football player
1940 - Dash Crofts, musician
1941 - David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football player and broadcaster
1945 - Steve Martin, comedian and actor
1945 - Wim Wenders, director
1946 - Antonio Fargas, actor
1946 - Susan Saint James, actress
1947 - Danielle Steel, novelist
1950 - Gary Larson, cartoonist
1950 - Bob Backlund, professional wrestler
1952 - Carl Lumbly, actor
1952 - Debbie Meyer, swimmer
1953 - James Horner, Academy Award-winning composer
1954 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball player
1960 - Sarah Brightman, singer
1961 - Susan Olsen, actress
1964 - Brannon Braga, writer, director
1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, actress
1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress
1973 - Rana Faheem Aslam, Pakistani journalist
1976 - Alex Albrecht, co-host of The Screen Savers
1977 - Juan Pierre, baseball player
1977 - Philip Stamper, pro wrestler, actor
1983 - Mila Kunis, television actress
1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born, British tennis player

[edit] Deaths

1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
1704 - Roland Laporte, French protestant leader (b. 1675)
1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (b. 1716)
1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1943 - Joe Kelley, baseball player (b. 1871)
1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor, composer, and musician (b. 1906)
1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
1984 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool)
2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)