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456 St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop.
823 Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France
1058 Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
1242 Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
1242 During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1254 Willen van Rubroeck, a Flemish Franciscan, meets the Mongolian Möngke Khan.
1566 Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
1603 New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
1609 Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1614 American Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John Rolfe
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1722 The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
1739 French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
1792 U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1803 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
1804 The High Possil Meteorite, The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
1814 Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1861 Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
1862 The Battle of Yorktown begins, The American Civil War.
1865 Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
1874 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
1874 Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
1879 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG)
1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House" (BG)
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
1897 The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1902 In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517
1902 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris
1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1905 James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London
1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
1911 MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie
1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
1915 French begin Woëvre-offensive
1915 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of inflatable tires.
1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
1930 England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
1930 In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1932 Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
1932 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government in Newfoundland, The Dominion of Newfoundland.
1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak, An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1941 In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1942 The Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island, World War II.
1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
1943 American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit, World War II.
1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
1944 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans, World War II.
1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
1945 Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory", The Cold War.
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
1946 Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.
1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 A fire in the 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1949 Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health, Anthony Eden succeeds him.
1956 Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
1956 In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1957 In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
1961 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1962 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in NYC
1962 Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1965 37th Academy Awards "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison & J Andrews win
1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1967 '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
1968 US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
1969 Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities against the Vietnam War.
1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1971 US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life in prison.
1971 WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1974 Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1976 In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
1976 Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1981 Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
1982 Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Islands war
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1983 NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1986 Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
1986 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
1987 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1988 Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate
1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard.
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
1991 US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
1992 "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1992 4th Seniors Golf Tradition, Lee Trevino
1992 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62
1992 Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
1992 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
1992 Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
1992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1992 Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
1992 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic on the Vrbanja Bridge.
1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
1993 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71
1993 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game lose to NY Mets 3-0
1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Florida Marlins 1st game beat LA Dodgers 6-3
1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs
1994 Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
1998 10th Seniors Golf Tradition:
1998 In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2012 77 year old pensioner's suicide outside Greece's parliament prompts further protests in Athens
2012 International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
2012 Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
2013 60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker
2013 Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
2014 Leighton Aspell aboard Pineau de Re wins the 167th Grand National
2015 Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its "Rape on Campus" story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited
2016 Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after the Panama Papers leak show a conflict of interest
2016 PayPal announces it is cancelling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation
2016 San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave
2063 Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe

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1288 Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1523 Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
1588 Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan) (d. 1679)
1595 John Wilson, composer
1598 Laurentius Erhard, composer
1604 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
1622 Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
1626 Jan van Kessel, Flemish painter
1643 Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria
1649 Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1698 Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer
1719 Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (d. 1794)
1725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
1727 Pasquale Ankossi, composer
1732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1752 Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
1784 Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, German composer and violinist (Faust) (d. 1859)
1788 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
1795 Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
1799 Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer
1816 Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 Nadar (Félix Tournachon), French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist
1822 James Nagle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1866)
1824 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)
1825 David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army)
1827 Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery (d. 1912)
1828 Pietro Plantania, composer
1830 Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever)
1832 Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893)
1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (Atalanta in Calydon) (d. 1909)
1838 Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist
1839 Robert Smalls, Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC)
1839 Stanislaw Pilinski, composer
1845 Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador
1853 Alfonso Randano, composer
1854 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer
1856 Booker T(aliaferro) Washington, American pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp) (d. 1915)
1857 Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
1859 Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
1862 Louis Ganne, composer
1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
1868 J F "Flooi" Du Toit, cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892)
1869 Albert Roussel, French composer (Rapsodie Flamende) (d. 1937)
1869 Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1871 Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue)
1871 Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1912)
1872 Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
1872 Norman Angell, Nobel Peace prize winner in 1933 (d. 1967)
1875 Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
1876 Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer
1882 Don Blackie, cricketer (Australian off-spinner in 1928-29 yes, age 46)
1885 Dimitrie Cuclin, composer
1886 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter)
1890 Fie Carelsen, Dutch actress (Malle Gervallen)
1893 Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28) (d. 1973)
1899 Alfred Blalock, American surgeon (d. 1964)
1899 William Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
1900 Spencer Tracy, American actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib) (d. 1967)
1901 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter/graphic artist
1901 Chester Bowles, Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
1901 Melvyn Douglas (Hesselberg), American actor (Hud, Ghost Story) (d. 1981)
1903 Thomas Baron Pitfield, composer
1905 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1905 Jef Maes, composer
1906 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist
1906 Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
1907 J Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist/anatomist
1908 Bette Davis, American actress, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel) (d. 1989)
1908 George Schick, Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
1908 Grady Sutton, Chattanooga Tn, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton)
1908 Herbert von Karajan, Austrian (Nazi) conductor (Berlin Philharmonic) (d. 1989)
1908 Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
1909 Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, American film producer (James Bond) (d. 1996)
1909 Gerald Bond, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1938, 0 & 0-16)
1911 Goddard Lieberson, Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec
1911 Gordon Jones, Alden Iowa, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
1912 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army) (d. 1983)
1913 Alan Cheales, dominican priest
1914 Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist
1916 Albert Henry Ottenweller, American bishop
1916 Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
1916 Bernard Baily, comic artist
1916 Gregory Peck, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur) (d. 2003)
1917 Richard Yardumian, Philadelphia, composer (Come Creator Spirit)
1917 Robert (Albert) Bloch,  American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho) (d. 1994)
1919 Douglas Henley, British auditor-general
1920 Arthur Hailey, Anglo-Canadian author (Hotel, Airport) (d. 2004)
1920 Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier (1971-73)
1920 Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
1921 Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1921 Les Jackson, cricket bowler (England twice, 1949 & 1961)
1921 Robert Q Lewis, NYC, TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show)
1922 Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)
1922 Gale Storm, American singer and actress (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (d. 2009)
1922 Harry Freedman, composer
1922 Tom Finney, British soccer star
1923 Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher and economist
1923 Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (Cookie, Fear City) (d. 1995)
1923 Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (1965-75) (d. 2001)
1923 Stanley Orme, Chairman (British Labour Party)
1924 Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist/sculptor
1925 Oldrich Flosman, composer
1926 Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)
1926 Roger Corman, American film director (Little Shop of Horrors)
1927 John Gilbert, MP
1928 David Farquhar Andress, composer
1928 Michael Bryant, London England, actor (Sakharov, Girly)
1928 Peter Moore, Principal (London Business School)
1928 Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (d. 1992)
1928 Will Gaines, jazz dancer
1929 Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (Cool Lover, Sugar) (d. 2008)
1929 Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 Joe Meek, English record producer (d. 1967)
1929 Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II) (d. 2001)
1931 Denis Lawton, director (London University Institute of Educ)
1932 Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter
1933 Frank Gorshin, American actor (Riddler-Batman) (d. 2005)
1933 Larry Felser, American sports columnist
1934 Roman Herzog, German politician
1934 Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (Wonderland) (d. 2000)
1934 Tina Maria Stone, runner (1 year distance record of 15,472 miles)
1935 Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer
1935 Peter Grant, British music manager (d. 1995)
1936 John Albert, professor (Master of University College Oxford)
1936 John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
1936 John White, Berlin, English composer and musical performer
1936 Michael Livesay, British admiral/pres (RN College Greenwich)
1937 Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
1937 Colin Powell, U.S. Army General, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 65th Secretary of State
1937 Stuart May, senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
1938 Colin Bland, South African cricketer
1938 Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer
1939 Andrew Buxton, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1939 Crispian St. Peters, British singer
1939 David Winters, London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1939 Lonnie White, vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
1939 Ronald White, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
1940 Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1941 Dave Swarbrick, British folk musician (Fairport Convention)
1941 Jon Kyl, American politician
1941 Michael Moriarty, American actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
1941 Roman Balayan, Nerke Azerbaijan, director (Filer, Biryuk)
1942 Allan Clarke, rock vocalist (Hollies-Air That I Breathe)
1942 Arthur Barrett, cricketer (WI leggie early 70's)
1942 Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1943 Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, actor (Danny-Doctor in the House)
1943 Max Gail, American actor (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People)
1944 Ann (Elizabeth) Maxwell, American sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
1944 Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1944 James Buckley, CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1944 Lord Rockley
1944 Nicholas Caldwell, rocker (Whispers)
1944 Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
1944 Peter T King, (Rep-R-New York)
1944 Willeke van Ammelrooy, Amsterdam, actress (Cidke de Rat, Antonia)
1945 Tommy Smith, English footballer
1946 Björn Granath, Swedish actor
1946 Jane Asher, British actress (Deep End), Paul McCartney's girlfriend
1946 Jennifer Penney, ballerina
1946 Larry Frederick Wendt, composer
1946 Robert E McKee, CEO/managing director (Conoco-UK)
1947 Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
1948 Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest)
1948 Les Binks, British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest
1949 John Berg (actor), American actor (d. 2007)
1949 Judith Arlene Resnik, American astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster) (d. 1986)
1950 Agnetha Fältskog (Anna Ulvaeus), Swedish singer (ABBA)
1950 Franklin R Chang-Diaz, Costa Rica, astro (STS 61C, 34,46,60,75, sk:91)
1950 Miki Manojlovic, Serbian actor
1950 Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
1951 Dean Kamen, American inventor
1951 Everett Morton, rocker (English Beat)
1951 Roosevel Ferguson, Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 Mitch Pileggi, American actor
1953 John Buchanan, cricketer (Qld batsman 78-79, Shield coach 1995)
1954 Christopher S Nelson, New Orleans LA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1954 Michael W Butler, computer programmer (created TODAY program)
1954 Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo)
1955 Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1955 Janice Long, British radio host (Crash FM)
1955 Renate Bruemmer, astronaut/cosmonaut
1956 Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
1957 Vince Gill, American country singer (When I Call Your Name)
1958 Cammie Lusko, LA California, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1958 Johan Kriek, South African born tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
1961 Jim LeRoy, Airshow Pilot
1961 Lisa Zane, American actress
1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
1964 Martha Faulconer, Indianapolis IN, golfer (1993 ShopRite LPGA-5th)
1964 Princess Erika, French singer
1964 Robert "Bob" Kaehler, Burlingame California, rower (Olympics-5th-1992, 96)
1964 Steve Beaton, English darts player
1965 Cris Carpenter, American baseball player
1966 Brent Hughes, New Westminster Ca, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1966 Larry Norman, Toronto Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-19-92, 96)
1966 Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1966 Scott Dill, NFL tackle/guard (Tampa Bay Bucs, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player
1968 Gianna Amore, Warwick RI, playmate (August, 1989)
1968 Paula Cole, American musician
1968 Tasia Valenza, NYC, actress (All My Children)
1970 Erlan Sagymbayev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)
1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1970 Tim Jacobs, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins)
1971 Bob Kuberski, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Dong Abay, Filipino musician, singer-songwriter
1971 Finidi George, soccer player (Ajax)
1971 Stuart Peele, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Krista Allen, American actress
1972 Pat Green, American singer and songwriter
1972 Paul Okon, Australian soccer player
1972 Shigemasa Ito, WLAF offensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1972 Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver
1973 Ed Hobbs, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1973 Emile Palmer, WLAF DT (London Monarchs)
1973 Estefania Knuth, Barcelona Spain, LPGA golfer (1992 French Intl)
1973 Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)
1973 Spencer Folau, NFL/WLAF offensive tackle (Balt Ravens, Rhein Fire)
1973 Tony Banks, American football player, quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1973 Yutaka Kawaguchi, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 Élodie Bouchez, French actress
1974 Mike DuHaney, New Haven Ct, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 Rick Terry, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1974 Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra)
1974 Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
1975 John Hartson, Welsh footballer
1975 Nikki Dryden, Calgary Alberta, 800m swimmer (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1975 Shammond Williams, American basketball player
1976 Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1976 Ike Hilliard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1976 Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter
1976 Ross Gload, American baseball player
1976 Ryan Drese, American baseball player, pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1977 JoAnn Sevin, Dubois PA, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1977 Sevilay Ozturk, Miss Universe-Turkey (1996)
1978 Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1978 Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1979 Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
1980 John McLaughlin, American television reporter
1980 Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
1980 Matt Bonner, American basketball player
1980 Matt Bonner, American basketball player
1981 Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player
1981 Michael A. Monsoor, United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (d. 2006)
1982 Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver
1982 Kelly Pavlik, American boxer
1982 Matt Pickens, American soccer player
1982 Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1990 Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor
2173 Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd, New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)

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582 Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 512)
828 Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15)
1168 Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
1258 Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1270 Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden)
1419 Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1531 Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1605 Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (b. c. 1513)
1617 Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1649 John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61
1673 François Caron, French explorer and governor (Formosa) (b. 1600)
1676 John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1684 William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st pres of Royal Society
1693 Anne M L of Orleans (Grande Mademoiselle), French writer, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627)
1695 George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633)
1697 Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97) (b. 1655)
1712 John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company)
1717 Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1723 J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna)
1732 Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer
1735 Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1735 William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
1765 Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame) (b. 1683)
1794 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
1794 Georges-Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader, guillotined (b. 1759)
1811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools
1820 Henrik C Cras, lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii)
1864 Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (b. 1797)
1871 Georg Andreas Henkel, composer
1878 Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1884 John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player)
1896 John Rogers Thomas, composer
1900 Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle
1900 Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1907 Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth)
1908 Gaetano Coronaro, composer
1918 Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer
1921 Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa)
1922 Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
1923 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
1928 Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist
1928 Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
1932 Phar Lap, Australian Racehorse (b. 1926)
1934 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1935 Emil Mlynarski, composer
1939 William Cooper, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1882-84)
1941 Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
1943 Aleš Hrdlicka, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1944 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1944 Willy Derby (Dieben), singer (Hello Bandoeng)
1945 Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (b. 1903)
1945 Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
1946 Vincent Millie Youmans, American songwriter (Tea For Two) (b. 1898)
1951 Edward Rigby
1952 Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
1952 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie)
1954 Claude Delvincourt, composer
1958 Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark
1960 Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other)
1963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style)
1963 Julius Harrison, composer
1964 Douglas MacArthur, American general (Pacific theater-WW II) (b. 1880)
1966 Sven Fleuron, writer
1967 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1967 Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
1968 Lois Andrews
1969 Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)
1969 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur)
1969 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48)
1969 Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1970 Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1970 Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor
1972 Brian Donlevy, American actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment) (b. 1901)
1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1974 A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
1974 William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives)
1975 Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
1975 Inez Courtney
1975 Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
1976 Howard Hughes, American Billionaire aviator (b. 1905)
1976 Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1977 John Marriott
1979 Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1981 Bob "Bear" Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
1981 Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder
1982 Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
1983 Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
1984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
1984 Theo Koomen, Dutch sportscaster, auto-accident
1985 Tyrell Johnson, cricketer (WI left-arm quickie, one Test 1939)
1986 Colin McCool, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia, 36 wkts)
1986 Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet)
1987 Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer (b. 1932)
1988 Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor/director (Juggler)
1989 María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
1990 Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet
1991 John Tower, American politician (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash (b. 1925)
1991 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, USN/astro (STS 33)
1991 Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
1992 Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader
1992 Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
1992 Sam Walton, American retailer, Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart) (b. 1918)
1992 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster
1993 Divya Bharti, Indian Bollywood actress (b. 1974)
1994 Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker
1994 Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop
1994 Kurt Cobain, American Icon musician (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun (b. 1967)
1994 Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions)
1994 Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist
1995 Christian Pineau, French politician
1996 Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian
1997 Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet (b. 1926)
1997 Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP)
1998 Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1999 Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
2000 Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2001 Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
2002 Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2004 Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004 Slawomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2005 Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
2005 Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
2005 John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
2005 Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2006 Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007 Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2007 Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)(b. 1956)
2007 Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
2008 Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
2008 Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman (b. 1946)
2012 Ferdinand A. Porsche, German car designer
2014 John Pinette, American comedian and actor (The Punisher, Junior)
2015 Richard Dysart, American actor (Leland MacKenzie - LA Law)

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