Events
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960 - Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1963 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter
1964 - Will Clark, American baseball player
1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1972 - Common, American rapper
1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1973 - Bobby Jackson, American basketballer
1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1977 - Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer
1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 - Caron Butler, American basketballer
1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyū
1984 - Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
1985 - Emile Hirsch, American actor
1985 - Austin Scott, American football player
1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)
1989 - Harry Melling, British actor
1999 - Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress
Deaths
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
1988 - John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1995 - Odette, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayao, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Henry Lee Lucas of heart failure major serial killer, 63 years old
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
- 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- 1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.
- 1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
- 1845 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
- 1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees 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 (ends on January 26, 1885).
- 1897 - San Diego State University founded.
- 1900 - Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 1900 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
- 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 was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- 1933 - Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday".
- 1940 - Russo-Finnish Winter War ended.
- 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 Kraków.
- 1954 - Battle of Điện Biên Phủ: 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 in the USA, proposes a document, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks in Guantanamo Bay, to Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
- 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.
- 1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
- 1989 - A geomagnetic storm caused the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours.
- 1991 - The United States Justice Department 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 - The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide.
- 1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
- 1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona, & were seen by hundreds of people, & millions on television. And are now, hotly debated in controversy.
- 2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints 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.
- 2007 - The Bank of England launched a new £20 note, featuring the Scottish economist Adam Smith. It was the first note in the new Series F banknotes
1960 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960 - Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
1960 - Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1963 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter
1964 - Will Clark, American baseball player
1967 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1968 - Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Tim Story, American film director
1971 - Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 - Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1972 - Common, American rapper
1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1973 - Bobby Jackson, American basketballer
1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
1974 - Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1976 - Danny Masterson, American actor
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1977 - Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1977 - Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer
1978 - Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1979 - Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 - Caron Butler, American basketballer
1981 - Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1983 - Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 - Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
1984 - Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyū
1984 - Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
1985 - Emile Hirsch, American actor
1985 - Austin Scott, American football player
1986 - Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987 - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)
1989 - Harry Melling, British actor
1999 - Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress
Deaths
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
1988 - John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1995 - Odette, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayao, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Henry Lee Lucas of heart failure major serial killer, 63 years old
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
