** Ben Roth ( posthumous )

** Pitcher, Ben ( 2007 ).

** Ben Ainslie, British sailor

** Ben Smith, Australian rugby league player

** Ben Bubar, American presidential candidate.

** Mordechai Ben David, American singer

** Ben Alexander, American actor ( b. 1911 )

** Ben Kingsley, British actor

** Ben Johnson, American actor ( b. 1918 )

** Ben Wallace, American basketball player

** Ben Shenkman, American television, film and stage actor

** Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete

** Ben Elton, British comedian and writer

** Ben Linder, American engineer ( d. 1987 )

** Ben Affleck, American actor

** The French paper L ' Express publishes a story of Georges Figon, who took part in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.

** French police announce that Georges Figon has committed suicide, prior to his arrest for the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka.

** Algeria proclaims independence ; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President.

** Ben Browder, American actor

** Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan politician, is kidnapped in Paris and never seen again.

** Ben Cousins, Australian rules footballer

** Ben Sheets, American baseball player

** Ben Lee, Australian singer

** Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist

** Blue Crab

** Jackson / Dearborn ( CTA station ) on the Blue Line

** Scaled Quail, ( commonly called Blue Quail ) Callipepla squamata

** Blue Quail, Coturnix adansonii

** The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.

** The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U. S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.

** Chess computer " Deep Blue " defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.

** In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Garry Kasparov beats " Deep Blue " in a second chess match.

** Monte Blue, American actor, heart attack because of complications from influenza ( b. 1887 )

** Matt Goldman, Blue Man Group founder

** Columbia Records releases Miles Davis ' groundbreaking album, Kind of Blue.

** The proposed mass-production of the Blue Streak missile is canceled.

** David Caruso, American actor ( NYPD Blue )

** Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622. 287 mph ( 1 001. 452 863 km / h ) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

** Simon Webbe, English singer ( Blue )

** Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth succeed in crossing the Blue Mountains and return home.

** Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde

** Janeros ( lived in NW Chihuahua, SE Arizona and NE Sonora in the Animas Mountains, Florida Mountains, south into the Sierra San Luis, Sierra del Tigre, Sierra de Carcay, Sierra de Boca Grande, west beyond the Aros River to Bavispe, east along the Janos River and Casas Grandes River toward the Lake Guzmán in the northern part of the Guzmán Basin and traded at the presidio of Janos, likely called Dzilthdaklizhéndé-‘ Blue Mountain People ’, northern local group )

** Xerces Blue, Glaucopsyche xerces ( extinct )

** Karner Blue, Lycaeides melissa samuelis ( endangered )

** Pachymetopon aeneum, Blue hottentot

** Way Out There in the Blue by Frances FitzGerald

** Blue Quills Band of Cree ( Historical )

** 1922 The Blue Kitten ( music Friml, lyrics and book by Harbach and William Carey Duncan )