** Roger of Cannae

** Roger Velasco, American actor

** Roger Delgado, British actor ( d. 1973 )

** Roger Troutman, American funk musician ( Roger and Zapp ) ( d. 1999 )

** Roger Meddows-Taylor, English rock musician ( Queen )

** Roger Steffens, Reggae archivist, actor, author, Bob Marley biographer

** Roger Ebert, American film critic and television personality

** Roger McGuinn, American musician ( The Byrds )

** Roger Waters, English musician ( Pink Floyd )

** Roger Bowen, American actor ( b. 1932 )

** Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer ( b. 1942 )

** Roger Maxwell, English actor ( d. 1971 )

** Roger Wessels, South African golfer

** A chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper and pilot Roger Peterson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all 4 occupants on board.

** Roger Peterson, pilot ( b. 1937 )

** Roger Mudd, American journalist

** Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

** Roger Penske, American race car driver

** Roger Zelazny, American writer ( d. 1995 )

** Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

** Vietnam War: In New York City, 22-year-old Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the war.

** Roger Williamson, British race car driver ( b. 1948 )

** Roger Bowen, American actor ( d. 1996 )

** Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and composer, leukemia ( b. 1919 )

** Barbara Nichols, American actress ( b. 1929 )

** Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter ( b. 1895 )

** Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer ( Star Trek )

** District 7: Mary Nichols

** Al Schmitt, Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for Aja performed by Steely Dan

** Elaine May & Mike Nichols for An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May

** Al Schmitt & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for " FM ( No Static At All )" performed by Steely Dan

** Dave Russell, Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan

** The original cast with Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley, Leonard Stone, Doris Rich, Cynthia Latham, Joy Nichols, Bob Dixon & Pat Ferrier for Redhead

** Elaine May & Mike Nichols for An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May

** Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner, Jerry Garszva & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for Gaucho performed by Steely Dan

** A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols

** The National Health by Peter Nichols

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

** Mary Ann Nichols ( 1845 – 1888 ), resided at a common lodging house at 18 Thrawl Street.

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

** Dave Russell, Elliot Scheiner, Phil Burnett & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for Two Against Nature performed by Steely Dan

** Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner, Jerry Garszva & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for Gaucho performed by Steely Dan

** Al Schmitt & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for " FM ( No Static At All )" performed by Steely Dan

** Al Schmitt, Bill Schnee, Elliot Scheiner & Roger Nichols ( engineers ) for Aja performed by Steely Dan

** Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols