Born

1564 - Christopher Marlowe

1665 - Queen Anne of England (Female)

1756 - Aaron Burr

1802 - Sir Charles Wheatstone

1807 - Hiram Sibley

1820 - Thomas Clark Durant

1838 - Sir Henry Irving

1845 - Isidor Straus (Jewish)

1857 - Ernest Flagg

1887 - Joseph Richard Frings (Jewish)

1892 - William Parry Murphy (Medicine)

1893 - Vsevolod Pudovkin

1895 - Babe Ruth (Sports)

1902 - Louis Nizer

1903 - Claudio Arrau

1905 - Wladyslaw Gomulka

1908 - Amintore Fanfani

1911 - Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the U.S.(Presidents)

1912 - Eva Braun

1912 - Adrian Scott

1913 - Mary Douglas Leakey

1914 - Forest Towns (Sports)

1919 - Zsa Zsa Gabor

1920 - William Ilye Jovanovich

1922 - Patrick Macnee

1926 - Dale Long (Sports)

1927 - Forrest Harrill (Smoky) Burgess (Sports)

1927 - Hugh Haynie

1931 - Elmore (Rip) Torn (Jr.)

1932 - Francois Truffaut

1933 - Walter E. Fauntroy (Black)

1933 - Mamie Van Doren

1939 - Mike Farrell

1940 - Tom Brokaw

1941 - Stephen Joel Albert

1943 - Fabian

1944 - Michael Tucker

1949 - Manuel Orantes (Latino)(Sports)

1950 - Natalie Cole (Black)

1966 - The Tukutese Quintuplets

1968 - Molly Ringwald

Died

1685 - Charles II

1804 - Joseph Priestly

1897 - Louis "Lepke" Buchalter

1918 - Gustav Klimt

1926 - Princess Obolensky murdered

1937 - Elihu Root

1952 - King George VI

1989 - Barbara Tuchman (Female)

1991 - Danny Thomas

2002 - Max Perutz (Molecular Biologist - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1962)

2007 - Frankie Laine (Francesco Paolo LoVecchio) (Latino)

Events

1778 - France became the 1st nation to recognize the independence of the U.S.

1788 - Massachusetts became the 6th state to join the Union.(Union)

1840 - Treaty of Waitangi signed between the native Maori and the Europeans, providing for the development of New Zealand under the British Crown.

1900 - U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish American War.

1927 - Yehudi Menuhin debut in Paris at age 10.(Jewish)

1928 - Mme Anastasia Chikovsky arrived in the U.S. claiming to be the youngest daughter of Nicholas II.

1933 - The 20th Ammendment to the Constitution was adopted, changing the Presidential inauguration date from March 4, to January 20.

1952 - Elizabeth II's accession to the throne of England.(Female)

1973 - Dixie Lee Ray became the 1st woman chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.(Female)