How old are you? (The eternal one, with birthdates!)

[JonathanStrange]

6/24/81 on a stormy day.

 

[azzaman333]

6/24/81 on a stormy day.

What's your birthdate on a day with nice weather?

 

[Flying Pig]

I pity those who were born on 6/6/'6 (there may even be one or two here!)

 

[W|M]

Niteroí, RJ (Rio de Janeiro state), Brazil. Thursday 13th June 1996, 21:00 local time: I was born

Holidays and Observances held on the same day:

* Roman Empire – Quinquatrus Minusculae held in honor of Minerva
* Roman Empire – seventh day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
* Day of Saint Anthony of Padua, priest, confessor, Doctor of the Church
* Day of Saint Agricius, bishop of Sens, confessor
* Day of Saint Cetteus, bishop, martyr
* Day of Saint Leo III, pope
* Day of Saint Onuphrius, hermit, confessor
* Day of Blessed Thomas Woodhouse, martyr

 

[BARBEERIAN]

July 8th 1978

 

[Flying Pig]

I have a great birthday, on the 4th of February:

• Sri Lanka got its independance in 1948
• The Yalta conference began
• Facebook was founded
• The Royal Navy took Guadeloupe (1810)
• George Washington became president

 

[W|M]

I have a great birthday, on the 4th of February:

• Sri Lanka got its independance in 1948
• The Yalta conference began
• Facebook was founded
• The Royal Navy took Guadeloupe (1810)
• George Washington became president

Yeah well:

June 13 is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 201 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

* 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
* 1625 – King Charles I marries French princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon
* 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
* 1798 – Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
* 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
* 1871 – In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
* 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
* 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
* 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
* 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
* 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
* 1917 – World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
* 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
* 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
* 1935 – In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
* 1942 – The United States opens its Office of War Information.
* 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.
* 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
* 1952 – Catalina affair: a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
* 1953 – Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
* 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
* 1956 – Real Madrid wins the inaugural European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating Stade de Reims 4-3 at the Parc des Princes, Paris.
* 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
* 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
* 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
* 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
* 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
* 1978 – Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
* 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
* 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
* 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
* 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
* 1995 – French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
* 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
* 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
* 1997 – Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
* 1997 – American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
* 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
* 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
* 2002 – The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
* 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
* 2007 – The Al Askari Mosque is bombed again.

Births

* 823 – Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of the West Franks (d. 877)
* 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
* 1752 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (d. 1840)
* 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman (d. 1838)
* 1773 – Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
* 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (d. 1833)
* 1786 – Winfield Scott, U.S. general (d. 1866)
* 1822 – Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
* 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
* 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
* 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
* 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
* 1863 – Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
* 1865 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
* 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
* 1876 – William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
* 1884 – Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
* 1884 – Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
* 1884 – Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
* 1887 – Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
* 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
* 1892 – Basil Rathbone, English actor (d. 1967)
* 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (d. 1957)
* 1894 – Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
* 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
* 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
* 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)
* 1901 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
* 1903 – Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
* 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
* 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
* 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
* 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
* 1911 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
* 1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
* 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
* 1913 – Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
* 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
* 1917 – Teddy Turner, comedian (d. 1992)
* 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
* 1918 – Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
* 1924 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (d. 2007)
* 1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor (d. 1982)
* 1928 – John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
* 1929 – Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
* 1929 – Robert Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
* 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
* 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, psychotherapist,Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
* 1933 – Tom King, British politician
* 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian artist
* 1935 – Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
* 1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (former)
* 1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German football player/manager
* 1939 – Tom Cheek, American baseball player (d. 2005)
* 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American soul singer
* 1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
* 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
* 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
* 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, the current U.N. Secretary General
* 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
* 1947 – A. G. Lafley, American executive director
* 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
* 1948 – Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
* 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
* 1950 – Michael Stark, Australian actor
* 1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer
* 1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor
* 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
* 1952 – Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
* 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian politician and former judoka
* 1953 – Tim Allen, American comedian and actor
* 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
* 1954 – Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
* 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
* 1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
* 1959 – Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
* 1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
* 1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress
* 1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian professional tennis player
* 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
* 1962 – Hannah Storm, American television personality
* 1963 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
* 1963 – Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
* 1964 – Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke, English actress
* 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
* 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
* 1965 – Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
* 1965 – Lisa Vidal, American actress
* 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
* 1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
* 1968 – David Gray, British musician
* 1968 – Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
* 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italyan cyclist
* 1968 – Spike Breakwell, British comedian
* 1968 – Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster
* 1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
* 1969 – Søren Nystrøm Rasted
* 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
* 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
* 1970 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
* 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
* 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
* 1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
* 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
* 1973 – Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
* 1974 – Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
* 1974 – Steve-O, American television personality
* 1974 – Brande Roderick, American actress
* 1974 – Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
* 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player
* 1975 – Ante Covic, Australian footballer
* 1975 – Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
* 1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
* 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer, actress, & T.V. presenter
* 1976 – Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
* 1977 – Alaura Eden, American porn actress
* 1978 – Ethan Embry, American actor
* 1978 – Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
* 1978 – Jason Michael Carroll, Country musician
* 1978 – Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
* 1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
* 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
* 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
* 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
* 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer
* 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor
* 1981 – David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
* 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
* 1983 – Matt Allison, British racing driver
* 1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
* 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
* 1985 – Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
* 1985 – Lela Star, American Pornstar
* 1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
* 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress
* 1986 – Ashley Olsen, American actress
* 1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress
* 1988 – Reece Noi, British actor
* 1989 – Lisa Tucker, American singer
* 1989 – Tommy Searle, professional motocross racer
* 1990 – Aaron Johnson, British actor

Deaths

* 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
* 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
* 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
* 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
* 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
* 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
* 1760 – Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
* 1784 – Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
* 1881 – Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
* 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
* 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
* 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
* 1918 – Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov (b. 1878)
* 1930 – Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
* 1931 – Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
* 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
* 1951 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
* 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
* 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
* 1965 – David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
* 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American musician (b. 1932)
* 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
* 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
* 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
* 1977 – Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
* 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
* 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
* 1982 – King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
* 1982 – Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
* 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
* 1986 – Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
* 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
* 1989 – Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
* 1993 – Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
* 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
* 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
* 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
* 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
* 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
* 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
* 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
* 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
* 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
* 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
* 2006 – Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
* 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
* 2008 – Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
* 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)

 

[Flying Pig]

With a bit of help from Wikipedia:

February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of the year (331 in leap years).

Spoiler :

Events
211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1792 – George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America.
1899 – The Philippine-American War begins.
1932 – World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
1936 – Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1941 – World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference begins.
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1957 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
1966 – All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1992 – A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-32.2°C)
1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
1999 – The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
2000 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2006 – A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.

Births
1524 – Luis de Camões, Portuguese poet (d. 1580)
1575 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
1620 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
1646 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
1688 – Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763)
1725 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
1746 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian, and American national hero (d. 1817)
1778 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
1799 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
1808 – Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
1831 – Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1846 – Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
1848 – Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921)
1849 – Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)
1859 – Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
1871 – Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
1872 – Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (d. 1903)
1873 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
1877 – Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)
1881 – Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
1891 – Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978).
1892 – Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
1892 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
1895 – Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
1896 – Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)
1896 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
1897 – Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977)
1900 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)
1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (d. 1974)
1902 – Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1904 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977)
1905 – Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
1906 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945)
1906 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997)
1908 – Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937)
1912 – Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
1912 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
1912 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
1912 – Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
1913 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
1914 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
1915 – Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
1915 – William Talman, American actor (d. 1968)
1915 – Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian
1917 – Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
1918 – Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)
1918 – Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
1918 – Janet Waldo, American actress
1921 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
1922 – Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
1923 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor
1925 – Russell Hoban, American writer
1929 – Jerry Adler, American actor
1931 – Isabel Martínez de Perón, third wife of Argentine president Juan Perón
1935 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
1936 – David Brenner, American comedian
1936 – Gary Conway, American actor
1937 – David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1940 – George Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer
1940 – John Schuck, American actor
1941 – John Steel, British musician (The Animals)
1943 – Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira
1943 – Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
1944 – Florence LaRue, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1947 – Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
1948 – Alice Cooper, American musician
1949 – Michael Beck, American actor
1950 – Pamela Franklin, British actress
1951 – Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
1951 – Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)
1951 – Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician
1951 – Stan Papi, American baseball player
1952 – Lisa Eichhorn, American actress
1952 – Jerry Shirley, drummer of rock band Humble Pie.
1952 – Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist
1953 – Kitaro, Japanese composer
1955 – Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister
1957 – Don Davis, American composer
1957 – Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
1958 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer
1959 – Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
1959 – Lawrence Taylor, American football player.
1960 – Tim Booth, British singer (James)
1960 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
1960 – Jenette Goldstein, American actress
1960 – Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996)
1961 – Stewart O'Nan, American author
1961 – Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Clint Black, American musician
1962 – Michael Riley, Canadian actor
1962 – Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
1963 – Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
1964 – Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
1965 – Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 – Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
1966 – Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
1967 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)
1968 – Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
1969 – Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)
1969 – Dallas Drake, ice hockey player
1969 – Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
1970 – Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
1971 – Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
1971 – Michael A. Goorjian, American actor
1972 – Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-born boxer
1973 – Manny Legacé, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1974 – Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer
1974 – Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international
1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
1975 – Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1976 – Cam'ron, American rapper
1977 – Gavin DeGraw, American musician
1977 – Mitra Hajjar, Iranian actress
1978 – Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
1979 – Andrei Arlovski, Belarussian mixed martial artist
1979 – Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
1981 – Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player
1981 – Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player
1981 – Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
1981 – Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist
1982 – Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler
1982 – Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
1982 – Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1983 – Jarrad Waite, Australian rules footballer
1984 – Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
1985 – Bug Hall, American actor
1986 – Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 – Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
1988 – Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
1988 – Carly Patterson, American gymnast
1990 – Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū

Deaths
211 – Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
708 – Pope Sisinnius
856 – Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (b. c. 780)
869 – Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
1508 – Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
1590 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
1615 – Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1615 – Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
1617 – Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (b. 1546)
1694 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1713 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1799 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1781 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
1894 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)
1912 – Franz Reichelt,Austrian Tailor/Inventor (b. 1800's)
1905 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
1928 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)
1933 – Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1940 – Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1943 – Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
1944 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1944 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1958 – Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
1959 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
1966 – Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
1967 – Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
1968 – Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1975 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1975 – Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1977 – Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
1982 – Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1982 – Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1983 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
1987 – Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan feminist and founder of RAWA (b. 1956)
1987 – Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)
1987 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
1990 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
1992 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
1994 – Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
1995 – Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)
1995 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
2000 – Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2000 – Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2000 – Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
2001 – J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 – Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (b. 1928)
2001 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2002 – George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2003 – Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2003 – André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2005 – Ossie Davis, American actor, activist (b. 1917)
2006 – Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2006 – Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2007 – Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2007 – José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007 – Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2008 – Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)
2009 – Lux Interior, Frontman of the garage rock band The Cramps (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia – Biezputras Diena observed.
Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948).
Angolan Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism.
World Cancer Day
Across the Universe Day
In the Roman Catholic Church:

Andrew Corsini
Saint Gilbert (d. 1189)
Saint John de Britto
Saint Rembert of Torhout
Saint Veronica
February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

If you are going to post long blocks of text from Wikipedia, you should probably put them in spoilers.

 

[_random_]

1993 Why, what was I saying in the voting rights thread?

I can't find the thread, but I remember that you made some broad statements about youth that were not very nice. Perhaps I'm thinking of somebody else. And kudos on putting the Catharsis quote in your sig. When I first saw it there, I thought you were just being an ass.

 

[CCRunner]

I can't find the thread, but I remember that you made some broad statements about youth that were not very nice. Perhaps I'm thinking of somebody else. And kudos on putting the Catharsis quote in your sig. When I first saw it there, I thought you were just being an ass.

No, it was probably me. Most of us aren't that smart Definitely not smart enough to be voting but I guess that applies to most adults too. And I sigged this because I thought it was funny and I was in need of a new sig. In fact, I think I like it more than my current one, I'm switching back soon

 

[pianoman1242]

born on 5/6/96

 

[Civfan333]

January 11th, 1989.......first official lottery held then! well..........in 1569, but on Jan. 11!

 

[W|M]

Yeah well, I have the same birthday as the current UN Secretary-General!

 

[eastsidebagel]

Pointless poll is pointless!
And my birthday is coming up next week: 18th of April!

 

[LucyDuke]

Pointless poll is pointless!
And my birthday is coming up next week: 18th of April!

I dunno, it's pretty useful to be able to identify who's probably in high school and who probably remembers the Vietnam war.

 

[Flying Pig]

It intrests me how young some people here are.

 

[eastsidebagel]

I dunno, it's pretty useful to be able to identify who's probably in high school and who probably remembers the Vietnam war.

What about those options beyond even '09 then?

 

[sourboy]

1977

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[LucyDuke]

What about those options beyond even '09 then?

We know who we can't trust in polls!