January 14

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2006 Calendar

[edit] Births

1741 - Benedict Arnold (General in United States' Revolutionary War, turncoat) (d. 1801)
1798 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1872)
1800 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian researcher on music (d. 1877)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter (d. 1904)
1841 - Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter (d. 1895)
1850 - Pierre Loti, writer (d. 1923)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (d. 1926)
1866?- G. I. Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian mystic and teacher of dancing. He stated that he was born at the stroke of midnight at the beginning of New Year's Day, Julian calendar (d. 1949)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Christian missionary, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 (d. 1965)
1886 - Hugh Lofting, author (d. 1947)
1889 - Ema Puksec, AKA Ilma de Murska, Croat opera singer (b. 1834)
1892 - Hal Roach, film producer (d. 1992)
1896 - Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pacifist (d. 1984)
1896 - John Dos Passos, author (d. 1970)
1904 - Emily Hahn, novelist, travel author, bon vivant (d. 1997)
1905 - Cecil Beaton, photographer (d. 1980)
1906 - William Bendix, actor (d. 1964)
1908 - Rus Columbo, singer, bandleader, composer
1912 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
1914 - Harold Russell, actor (d. 2002)
1915 - Mark Goodson, game show producer (d. 1992)
1919 - Andy Rooney, television journalist
1919 - Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician
1924 - Guy Williams, actor (d. 2002)
1925 - Yukio Mishima, writer (d. 1970)
1926 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist (d. 1991)
1928 - Gerald Arpino, choreographer
1932 - Don Garlits, drag racer
1933 - Stan Brakhage, filmmaker (d. 2003)
1934 - Richard Briers, actor
1937 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer (71 wickets in 15 Tests)
1938 - Jack Jones, singer, actor
1938 - Allen Toussaint, singer
1940 - Julian Bond, civil rights activist (cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, chairman of NAACP board of directors)
1941 - Faye Dunaway, actress
1941 - Milan Kučan, Slovene politician, statesman
1942 - Stig Engström, actor
1943 - Shannon Lucid, astronaut
1943 - Holland Taylor, actress
1944 - Peter Fechter, Berlin Wall (d. 1962)
1944 - Nina Totenberg, journalist
1944 - Marjoe Gortner, evangelist, actor
1946 - Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
1947 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
1948 - Carl Weathers, actor
1948 - T-Bone Burnett, producer, musician
1949 - Lawrence Kasdan, director, screenwriter
1952 - Sydney Biddle Barrow, madam, author
1956 - Ben Heppner, Canadian tenor
1957 - Suzanne Danielle, English actress
1962 - Michael McCaul, American politician
1963 - Steven Soderbergh, director
1965 - Mark Addy, actor
1967 - Emily Watson, actress
1968 - LL Cool J, rapper, actor
1969 - Jason Bateman, actor
1969 - David Grohl, drummer, composer
1972 - Predrag Gosta, conductor, musicologist, harpsichordist
1973 - Giancarlo Fisichella, Formula One Racing driver.
1980 - Cory Gibbs, American soccer player
1981 - Rosa, Spanish singer

[edit] Deaths

1301 - Andrew III of Hungary
1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1825 - George Dance the Younger, architect (b. 1741)
1876 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer
1966 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (b. 1888)
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete
1966 - Sergei Korolev, rocket scientist
1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1977 - Peter Finch, actor (b. 1916)
1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1978 - Kurt Gödel, mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Blossom Rock, actress
1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1980 - Robert Ardrey, author
1984 - Ray Kroc, McDonald's founder (b. 1902)
1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
1999 - Bryn Jones (a.k.a. Muslimgauze), musician (b. 1961)
2004- Terje "Valfar" Bakken, musician
2004 - Ron O'Neal, actor
2004 - Uta Hagen, actress
2005 - Dennis Flanagan, long time editor of Scientific American
2005 - Ofelia Guilmain, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico
2005 - Alfred Hause, German composer and conductor
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, United States mystery writer
2005 - Conroy Maddox, British surrealist painter
2005 - Carl Mohner, German artist and actor
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 - Georges Piroué, French writer (b. 1920)
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2004- Terje "Valfar" Bakken, musician