* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1946 – Lee Bollinger, American lawyer and educator

* 1984 – Lee Roache, English footballer

* 1908 – Will Lee, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1962 – Lee Mavers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The La's )

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer

* 1941 – Beverly Lee, American singer ( The Shirelles )

* 1961 – Lee Rocker, American bassist ( Stray Cats )

* 2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Love ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1967 – Lee Unkrich, American director and editor

* 1973 – Shane Lee, Australian cricketer

* 1976 – Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player

* 1932 – Lee Hoffman, American author ( d. 2007 )

* 1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer, and actress

* 1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet ( d. 1929 )

* 1957 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet

* 1966 – Lee Ann Womack, American singer-songwriter

* 1978 – Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player

* 1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer

* 1868 – Edgar Lee Masters, American author ( d. 1950 )

* 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer ( d. 2001 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

Lee Jackson and Ken Smith, both of Houston, and Alfred Neumann of Beaumont seated guests.

The Buckaroos ( Buck Owens ' band ) initially served as the house band on the show and consisted of members Don Rich, Jim Shaw, Jerry Brightman, Jerry Wiggins, Rick Taylor, Doyle Singer ( Doyle Curtsinger ), Don Lee, Ronnie Jackson, Terry Christoffersen, Doyle Holly and later Victoria Hallman ( aka Jesse Rose McQueen ).

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee, now commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel Thomas J. Jackson at Harper's Ferry.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee ( born March 20, 1957 ) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

* May 1 – 4 – American Civil War – The Battle of Chancellorsville: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13, 000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson ( lost to friendly fire ), and 17, 500 Union casualties.

* March 3 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain in the U. S. state of Georgia.

" Stonewall " Jackson to friendly fire, a loss that Lee likened to " losing my right arm.

Postwar criticism of Longstreet claimed that he marched his men too slowly, leaving Jackson to bear the brunt of the fighting for two days, but they covered roughly in a little over 24 hours and Gen. Lee did not attempt to get his army concentrated any faster.

When Longstreet's men arrived around midday on August 29, Lee planned a flanking attack on the Union Army, which was concentrating its attention on Jackson.

On the next day, Longstreet's preparations paid dividends, as his artillery was a major factor in helping Jackson resist the V Corps attack, and he capitalized on Federal confusion by launching an attack of his own, anticipating an order from Lee that had not yet arrived.

Following Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson, Longstreet and Lee met in mid-May to discuss options for the army's summer campaign.

Demonstrations also brought out white violence, and Jimmie Lee Jackson, James Reeb, and Viola Liuzzo were murdered.

* North Carolina: Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Cleveland ( except for the city of Kings Mountain ), Craven, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Jackson, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Robeson, Rockingham, Scotland, Union, Vance, Washington, Wayne, Wilson

Artists represented include Josef Albers, Donald Baechler, Thomas Hart Benton, Lucile Blanch, Louise Bourgeois, Charles Burchfield, Alexander Calder, Greg Colson, Dan Christensen, Ronald Davis, Stuart Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, William Eggleston, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Keith Haring, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Eva Hesse, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Ronnie Landfield, John Marin, Knox Martin, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Maurice Prendergast, Kenneth Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Morgan Russell, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Cindy Sherman, John Sloan, Paul Pfeiffer, Andy Warhol, and hundreds of others.

The Perry County town of Marion was the site of a 1965 killing of an unarmed black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson, by a white state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, which sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches.

Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried here.

Places of interest in Lexington include the Stonewall Jackson House, Lee Chapel, George C. Marshall Museum, Virginia Military Institute Museum, Museum of Military Memorabilia and the downtown historic district.

The practice of strategy was advanced by generals such as Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, all of whom had been influenced by the feats of Napoleon ( Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson was said to have carried a book of Napoleon's maxims with him.

Parts of Owsley County were used to form Jackson County in 1858 and Lee County in 1870.

* Roy Lee Jackson – former Major League baseball player

During a peaceful march on 18 February 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot and killed by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler.

* Charles Burr Todd, The History of Redding, Connecticut: From its First Settlement to the Present Time: With Notes on the Adams, Banks, Barlow, Bartlett, Bartram, Bates, Beach, Benedict, Batts, Burr, Burritt, Burton, Chatfield, Couch, Darling, Fairchild, Foster, Gold, Gorham, Gray, Griffin, Hall, Hawley, Heron, Hill, Hull, Jackson, Lee, Lyon, Lord, Mallory, Meade, Meeker, Merchant, Morehouse, Perry, Platt, Read, Rogers, Rumsey, Sanford, Smith, Stow, and Strong Families.

Beattyville is served by Kentucky Utilities, while much of Lee County is served by Jackson Energy, based in McKee, Kentucky that serves south-central Kentucky.

" The Shiprock Chapter is under the spot light by the Navajo Department of Justice because of a complaint filed on Jan. 23, alleges chapter President William Lee, Vice President Donald Benally and Secretary Lula Jackson wrote checks to each other and offered pay outs to employees and relatives.