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2008 Calendar
January Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	February Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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[change] Births

• 1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria
• 1521 - Pope Urban VII, (d. 1590)
• 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
• 1834 - John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923)
• 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist
• 1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 (d. 1952)
• 1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
• 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
• 1901 - Louis Armstrong, jazz musician (d. 1971)
• 1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
• 1906 - Marie-José Van Sachsen Coburg-Gotha, last Queen of Italy (d. 2001)
• 1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, zoologist (d. 1973)
• 1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
• 1909 - Glenn Cunningham, athlete
• 1909 - Otto Steiger, writer
• 1910 - William Schuman, composer (d. 1992)
• 1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and a mountaineer (d. 1999)
• 1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947 presumed)
• 1913 - Robert Hayden, poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (d. 1980)
• 1921 - Maurice Richard, hockey player (d. 2000)
• 1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
• 1929 - Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (d. 2004)
• 1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
• 1930 - Götz Friedrich, opera director (d. 2000)
• 1932 - Hans Jürgen Fröhlich, writer
• 1932 - Guillermo Mordillo, graphic artist and cartoonist
• 1936 - Assia Djebar, member of the Académie française
• 1937 - David Bedford, musician
• 1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
• 1944 - Richard Belzer, actor and comedian
• 1947 - Klaus Schulze, composer, perforner
• 1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor, writer
• 1958 - Mary Decker Slaney, track star
• 1960 - Dean Malenko, professional wrestler
• 1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister
• 1961 - Barack Obama, American politician
• 1962 - Roger Clemens, baseball player
• 1967 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
• 1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, model
• 1970 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
• 1971 - Jeff Gordon, race car driver
• 1978 - Kurt Busch, race car driver

[change] Deaths

• 1060 - Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• 1113 - Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
• 1265 - Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
  • Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
  • Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
  • Peter de Montfort
  • Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
• 1306 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
• 1338 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
• 1526 - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
• 1578 - Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
• 1578 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
• 1598 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
• 1612 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
• 1639 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
• 1718 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
• 1727 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
• 1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
• 1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
• 1792 - John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
• 1795 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
• 1844 - Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
• 1873 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
• 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
• 1900 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
• 1938 - Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1957 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1958 - Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
• 1967 - Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
• 1981 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1982 - Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
• 1996 - Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
• 1997 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world's oldest ever-human (b. 1875)
• 1998 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2000 - Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
• 2001 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2002 - Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
• 2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2005 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)

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