2004 Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving
1997 George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday
1996 William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1995 Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday
1995 Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
1993 Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
1993 Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol
1991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
1990 Martin Kessel, writer, dies on 89th birthday
1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1988 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1988 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1986 Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday
1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1984 Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland
1984 William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday
1984 Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
1983 George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1982 Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1982 Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday
1982 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday
1981 Gunnar Ek, composer, dies on 81st birthday
1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
1977 Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday
1974 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday
1974 Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday
1973 John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday
1973 Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1970 Jani Christou, composer, dies on 44th birthday
1969 Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday
1967 Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday
1966 Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident
1965 Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1963 Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday
1962 Clare Grogan, rocker, Altered Images-Happy Birthday
1961 U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1961 John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
1960 Pamelyn Ferdin, actress, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders
1959 Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday
1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday
1958 Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday
1958 Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday
1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1946 Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78
1945 Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday
1945 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
1944 Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday
1942 Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday
1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam
1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
1932 Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
1930 Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man
1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1922 Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1919 Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday
1916 Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56
1915 Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1913 Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday
1900 Helen Hayes, Washington D.C., actress, Caesar and Cleopatra, Happy Birthday
1893 John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday
1882 Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday
1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday
1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1868 Patty Smith Hill, author and songwriter, Happy Birthday To You
1859 Mildred J. Hill, composer/musician, Happy Birthday To You
1822 John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday
1807 John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday
1796 George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
1753 George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday
1742 Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Ital cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday
1739 Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1687 Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday
1642 Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
1520 Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday
1503 Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
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