Births (150 years ago today): 1867 - Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (d. 1939)
Births (50 years ago today): 1967 - Jim Abbott, American baseball player
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
Commemorations:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day