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2007 Calendar
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[edit] Births

  • 12 - Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
  • 161 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
  • 1811 - Theophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872)
  • 1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
  • 1870 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
  • 1878 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
  • 1879 - Alma Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel (d. 1964)
  • 1880 - Queen Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
  • 1885 - DuBose Heyward, playwright (d. 1940)
  • 1897 - Fredric March, actor (d. 1975)
  • 1903 - Arthur Godfrey, television host (d. 1983)
  • 1907 - William Shawn, editor
  • 1907 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
  • 1908 - William Saroyan, novelist and playwright (d. 1981)
  • 1914 - Richard Basehart, actor (d. 1984)
  • 1916 - Daniel Schorr, journalist
  • 1918 - Alan Jay Lerner, composer
  • 1924 - Buddy Hackett, actor, comedian
  • 1928 - James Coburn, actor (d. 2002)
  • 1931 - Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
  • 1935 - Frank Robinson, baseball player and manager
  • 1935 - Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
  • 1938 - Martin Bell, British journalist and politician
  • 1945 - Van Morrison, musician
  • 1945 - Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
  • 1948 - Lowell Ganz, screenwriter
  • 1949 - Richard Gere, actor
  • 1949 - H. David Politzer, physicist
  • 1956 - Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
  • 1958 - Edwin Moses, athlete
  • 1968 - Todd Carty, British actor
  • 1970 - Debbie Gibson, singer
  • 1972 - Chris Tucker, actor
  • 1977 - Craig Nicholls, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Vines)
  • 1977 - Jeff Hardy, professional wrestler

[edit] Deaths

  • 651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
  • 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora (b. 981)
  • 1422 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
  • 1688 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
  • 1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
  • 1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
  • 1814 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
  • 1867 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
  • 1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
  • 1963 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
  • 1969 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
  • 1973 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
  • 1979 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
  • 1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist (b. 1899)
  • 1986 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
  • 1986 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
  • 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales (car accident) (b. 1961)
  • 1997 - Dodi Fayed, Egyptian-born film producer (car accident) (b. 1955)
  • 2002 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
  • 2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)

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