1372 – Louis of Valois, Duke of Orlans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)

1914 – Tessie O’Shea, entertainer

1959 – Dirk Wellham, cricketer (century on NSW debut & Australian debut )

1959 – Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T’Pau-Heart & Soul)

1959 – Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nikki Hilton and Paris Hilton

1696 – Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal

1917 – Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)

1917 – Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author

1961 – Cor Lems, soccer player (ADO The Hague/Dordrecht ’90)

1962 – Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)

1720 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)

1733 – Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)

1964 – Will Clark, New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)

1921 – Cyril Poole, cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)

1966 – Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)

1966 – Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star

1752 – Josef Reicha, composer

1763 – Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)

1925 – Bertha Tickey, Dinuba Calif, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)

1925 – Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)

1968 – Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler

1969 – Chris Zorich, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)

1779 – Oliver Shaw, composer

1927 – Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)

1929 – J D Slater, writer

1971 – Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)

1818 – Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897

1820 – Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901

1971 – Robert Samuels, cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman v NZ 1996)

1832 – Alberto Randegger, composer

1931 – Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect

1855 – Percival “Percy” Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)

1931 – Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)

1859 – Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)

1972 – Avrom Smith, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)

1972 – Brian Saxton, NFL tight end (NY Giants)

1972 – Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)

1935 – Joseph Mascolo, American actor

1935 – Leslie Parrish, American actress

1875 – Maria E G “Lizzy” Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)

1881 – Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer

1973 – Bobby Jackson, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)

1973 – Dan Wilkinson, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)

1973 – Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, AC Milan)

1884 – Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)

1973 – David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)

1974 – Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)

1887 – Carlos Isamitt, composer

1974 – Vampeta, Brazilian footballer

1890 – Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)

1892 – Alec Rowley, composer

1945 – Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician

1946 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)

1897 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)

1897 – William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)

1947 – Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist

1899 – Pancho Vladigerov, composer

1949 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)

1979 – Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)

1950 – Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70′s)

1980 – Caron Butler, American basketballer

1907 – Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian

1950 – Robert S Woods, Calif, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)

1950 – Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)

1950 – William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)

1950 – Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator

1908 – Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)

1908 – Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB

1953 – Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)

1910 – Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)

1910 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)

1984 – Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyu

1984 – Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player

1955 – Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)

1912 – Igor Youskevitch, dancer

1912 – James Friell, political cartoonist

1913 – Sammy Kaye, saxophonist (Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye)

1987 – Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)

1990 – Alec Medlock, American actor

1958 – Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-NY)

1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.

1639 – Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.

1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.

1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d’tat.

1845 – Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its premire performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.

1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.

1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)

1884 – The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.

1897 – San Diego State University is founded.

1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.

1921 – Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.

1925 – Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.

1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.

1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”.

1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.

1938 – Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich.

1940 – The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.

1943 – World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.

1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakw.

1954 – Battle of i?n Bin Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French.

1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.

1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantnamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.

1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.

1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d’etat in Grenada.

1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.

1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

1996 – Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 Primary School children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.

1997 – India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.

1997 – The Phoenix lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.

2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.

2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

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