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2006 Calendar

[edit] Births

1745 - William Jessop, canal engineer (d. 1814)
1752 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
1857 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
1862 - David Hilbert, mathematician (d. 1943)
1872 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
1872 - Joze Plečnik, architect (d. 1957)
1878 - Oton Župančič, Slovenian poet (d. 1949)
1884 - Ralph DePalma, race car driver (d. 1956)
1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect (d. 2000)
1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose
1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1907 - Dan Duryea, actor (d. 1968)
1907 - Hideki Yukawa, physicist (d. 1981)
1910 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)
1915 - Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1985)
1919 - Hans Hass, zoologist and underwater scientist
1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
1920 - Ray Abrams, saxophonist
1920 - Gottfried Böhm, architect
1923 - Walter M. Miller Jr., science fiction writer (d. 1996)
1928 - Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star Game (d. 2005)
1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
1930 - Derek Walcott, author
1933 - Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football star
1938 - Shohei Baba, professional wrestler, founder of All-Japan Pro Wrestling (d. 1999)
1938 - Georg Baselitz, painter and sculptor
1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
1943 - Gil Gerard, actor
1944 - Rutger Hauer, actor
1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, President of Indonesia
1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer
1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, actor
1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band)
1954 - Franco De Vita, singer/songwriter
1957 - Earl Falconer, bassist
1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
1963 - Gail O'Grady, actress
1964 - Mariska Hargitay, actress
1967 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, actress
1978 - Tommy <T-Bone> Huntington III- Political Activist,Renaissance Man
1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer

[edit] Deaths

1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1199 - Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (b. 1160)
1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland
1789 - John Cleland, novelist (b. 1709)
1800 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1837 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, United States Supreme Court (b. 1825)
1923 - Max Nordau, author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
1937 - Marie Prevost, French actress (b. 1898)
1943 - Alexander Woollcott, actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
1973 - Kid Ory, jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1976 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer, social activist (b. 1898)
1978 - Jack Oakie, actor (b. 1903)
1978 - Terry Kath, musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 - Allen Collins, American musician
1991 - Northrop Frye, literary critic (b. 1912)
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (b. 1924)
1993 - Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer (b. 1899)
1994 - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal
1997 - Richard Berry, American composer, musician
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, musician
2001 - Francisco "Curro" Rivera, Mexican bullfighter
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 - Robert Nozick, philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 - Nell Carter, singer, actress (b. 1948)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Helmut Newton, photographer (b. 1920)
2005 - Johnny Carson, television personality (b. 1925)
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005 - Douglas Knight, university president
2005 - Charles Martin, American football player
2005 - Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), Japanese actress