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310 St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
387 Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus
1025 Boleslaw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Maarten Luther
1552 Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
1599 Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain
1663 Osman declares war on Austria
1666 Peace of Kleef, Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster
1676 Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1775 The British advancement by sea begins, Paul Revere, William Dawes and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements ("British are coming!"), The American Revolution. Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington
1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1797 France & Austria signs cease fire
1797 The Battle of Neuwied French victory against the Austrians.
1809 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
1831 The University of Alabama is founded.
1834 Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1835 William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British government
1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1848 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1856 Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1857 Released "The Spirits Book", which marked the birth of Spiritualism in France, by Allan Kardec.
1861 Battle of Harpers Ferry, VA
1861 Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1862 Battle of Ft Jackson, Ft St Philip & New Orlean's, LA
1864 Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition)
1865 Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to Gen Sherman in North Carolina
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1869 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins
1880 A F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1881 Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
1890 NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1899 John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
1899 The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1902 Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake.
1904 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1906 8.25 earthquake shakes SF Calif
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht
1906 The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 destroys much (75%) of San Francisco, California.
1906 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1907 Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in NYC
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1918 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colo
1921 Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy," premieres in NYC
1922 Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1923 Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens, 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand.
1924 Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword puzzle book.
1925 World's fair opens in Chicago
1926 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
1927 Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China
1929 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1930 BBC Radio infamously announce that there is no news on that day.
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx)
1934 Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament
1935 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1935 Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1936 Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1939 Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939 Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1942 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1942 The World War II Doolittle Raid on Japan, James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya.
1943 Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island during World War II.
1944 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4
1944 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in NYC
1945 1 armed outfielder, St L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established.
1945 Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1946 Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
1946 Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals
1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts)
1946 US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1949 The aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, the United States is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
1950 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
1950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1950 Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1950 Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves
1950 Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
1951 "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
1951 Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1951 France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
1951 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
1953 "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
1954 Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
1954 Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1955 "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1955 1st Bandoeng Conference Afro-Asian conference opens
1955 Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
1956 Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1958 Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
1958 NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in LA
1959 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1960 The Matrimony of Juan E. Paladines and Delia M. Torres in Guayaquil Ecuador.
1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1962 16th NBA Championship, Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1963 "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
1963 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1963 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1964 "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
1964 "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1964 Artisans strike in Belgium ends
1964 Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
1964 Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane"
1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1968 1st ABA basketball championship began
1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1968 Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," premieres in NYC
1968 Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," premieres in London
1968 SF's Old Hall of Justice demolished
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
1971 Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning v WI after 124 in 1st
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1972 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi
1974 The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port.
1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
1976 30th Tony Awards, Travesties & Chorus Line win
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA KarstenPing Golf Open
1977 "Side by Side" by Stephen Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 perfs
1977 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33
1977 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46
1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 Eddie Murray hits his 1st HR
1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President.
1981 Pawtucket & Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game. The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game was suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
1982 Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros)
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare
1983 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43
1983 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00
1983 A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1983 KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)
1983 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"
1983 Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2
1984 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1984 Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
1985 Flyers 3-Isles 0-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1986 Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA
1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1987 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
1987 Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs Robinson-Pirates)
1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
1988 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30
1988 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43
1988 Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"
1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
1989 Zimbabwe gains independence
1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
1990 Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1991 Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
1991 John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136
1992 General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
1992 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
1992 Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden
1993 "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1993 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo
1993 Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
1993 David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10
1993 Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
1994 "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
1994 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
1994 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15
1994 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994
1994 Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record
1994 Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record)
1994 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later
1994 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1994 Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands
1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years
1995 Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1996 "Funny Thing Happened," opens at St James Theater NYC for 715 perfs
1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
2007 A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision
2012 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
2013 Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62
2013 27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest
2015 Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Green Day, Bill Withers, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the 5 Royales are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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1480 Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI, murderess (poison) (d. 1519)
1521 Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)
1580 Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess) (d. 1627)
1590 Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17) (d. 1617)
1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
1729 Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer
1732 George Colman, "the Elder
1740 Francis Baring, banker/merchant
1744 Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot
1759 Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
1764 Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer
1771 Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
1777 Ignac Ruzitska, composer
1786 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
1797 Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France (d. 1877)
1803 Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61)
1806 Ludwig Schuberth, composer
1813 James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1817 George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
1819 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
1838 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
1839 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer
1839 Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
1842 Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)
1845 Wilhelm Gericke, composer
1852 George Clausen, painter
1855 Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
1855 Josef Gruber, composer
1857 Clarence S Darrow, American attorney, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial (d. 1938)
1859 Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
1863 Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1863 Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)
1864 Richard Harding Davis, American author (In The Fig) (d. 1916)
1868 Didericus G van Epen, genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
1871 Henry Stephenson, Brit WI, actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky)
1873 Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
1874 Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
1874 Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
1875 Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
1877 Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
1880 Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
1881 Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1881 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
1882 Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (Cincinnati Symphony) (d. 1977)
1884 Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
1888 Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, skier
1888 Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and womans/aborigine rights activist (d. 1970)
1889 John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
1890 James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
1893 Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
1896 C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse)
1897 Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1897 Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour)
1898 Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer
1900 Louise Tazewell (Louise Skiller Tazewell), entertainer
1901 Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1902 Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1902 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
1903 Leonid Kinskey, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
1903 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer
1904 Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
1905 George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1906 Clara Eggink (Ebbele), Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
1906 Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
1907 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora) (d. 1995)
1907 Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing)
1908 Edward Roberts, bishop (Ely)
1908 Henry Guinness, missionary
1908 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele)
1910 Jamie L Whitten, (Rep-D-MS, 1941)
1910 Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
1911 Francis Frederick Johnson, architect
1911 George Huntington Hartford II, NYC, heir (A&P)
1911 Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born American physicist
1912 John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer
1912 Wendy Barrie, Hong Kong, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show)
1913 Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video)
1913 Kent Wheeler Kennan, composer
1913 Milos Sokola, composer
1913 Susan Bosence, textile designer
1914 C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
1914 Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
1915 Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
1917 Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
1917 Louise Frederika, Queen of Greece
1917 Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
1918 Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
1918 Gabriel Axel, Danish film director
1918 Robert Zimonyi, Hungary, cox (Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
1918 Roger de Grey, president (Royal Academy)
1918 Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter
1918 Tony Mottola, American guitarist (Melody Street) (d. 2004)
1919 Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1920 Walter Clegg, MP
1921 Barbara Hale, Dekalb Ill, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1921 Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
1922 Avril Angers, actress (Brass Monkey)
1922 Barbara Hale, American actress
1923 Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO (Equal Opportunities Comm)
1923 Leif Panduro, Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions)
1924 Buxton Daeblite Orr, composer
1924 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (Mary is Fine) (d. 2005)
1924 Henry J Hyde, American politician (Rep-R-IL) (d. 2007)
1924 Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
1924 Raf de Linde (Raphael van Hecke), author (Vaarwel on Gertrude)
1925 Bob Hastings, American actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)
1925 Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician
1925 Robert Caldwell Crawford, composer
1926 Doug Insole, cricketer (England batsman of the 50's, nine Tests)
1926 Gunter Meisner, Germany, actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum)
1927 Jim De Courcy, cricketer (in Newcastle Australian batsman 1953)
1927 Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
1928 Jean-Francois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor
1929 Peter Hordern, British CEO (Fina)
1929 Peter Jeffrey, actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity)
1930 Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor (Legend of Hell House)
1931 Klas Lestander, Sweden, 20K biathlon (Olympic-gold-1960)
1932 Dominic Milroy, OSB/headmaster (Ampleforth College England)
1933 Alan Devereux, CEO (Scottish Tourist Board)
1934 George Shirley, American tenor
1934 Jaap F Scherpenhuizen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1934 James Drury, NYC, actor (Virginian)
1934 Jan Klusak, composer
1934 Mark Kingston, actor (Intimate Contact)
1935 Joel Hefley, (Rep-R-Colorado)
1935 Paul A Rothchild, record producer
1936 Brian Fuller, commandant (Fire Service College, England)
1936 Harold Innocent (HS Harrison), English actor (Tall Guy)
1936 Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator
1936 Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
1937 Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
1937 Robert Hooks, Wash DC, actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela)
1937 Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander (S Afr army)
1939 Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
1939 Glen Hardin, rocker
1939 Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
1939 Von McDaniel, baseball player
1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader (Major League Baseball Players Association)
1940 Ira von Furstenberg (Virginia Caroline) Italian Princess (Monaco)
1940 Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist (Nobel laureate 1985)
1940 Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
1940 Skip Stephenson, Omaha Neb, comedian (Real People)
1942 Dick K J Tommel, chemist/(D66) Dutch Asst Sec of State (1994)
1942 Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970)
1942 Robert Christgau, American music critic
1942 Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
1944 Irvine Shillingford, cricketer (cousin of Grayson, 4 Tests for WI)
1944 Robert Hanssen, American spy
1944 Rudy Shackelford, composer
1945 Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 Alexander "Skip" Spence, Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
1946 Anne Boyd, composer
1946 Harvey Kagan, rocker
1946 Hayley Mills, English actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
1946 Lenny Baker, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1946 Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1999)
1947 Cindy Pickett, American actress
1947 David Gee, director (Friends of the Earth)
1947 Dorothy Lyman, American actress (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family)
1947 Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
1947 James Woods, American actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
1947 Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
1947 Lori Martin, Glendale California, actress (Velvet-National Velvet)
1948 "Tiny" Nate Archibald, NBA guard (Cincinnati)
1948 Catherine Malfitano, NYC, soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
1948 Skip Stephenson, Omaha Neb, comedian (Real People)
1949 Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
1950 Bill Sudderth III, trumpeteer (Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover)
1950 Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
1950 Paul Callery, football player
1951 Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
1951 Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
1952 Jim Scholten, Midland Mich, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
1953 Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
1954 Kim Stone, bassist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1955 Amschel Rothschild, banker
1955 Anne-Marie Palli, Ciboure France, LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite)
1956 Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
1956 David Wayne Edwards, Neosho MO, PGA golfer (1980 Walt Disney)
1956 Eric Roberts, American actor (Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies)
1956 John James, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Jeff Colby-Dynasty)
1956 Melody Thomas Scott, American actress (Nikki-Young & Restless)
1956 Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
1958 Bernadette Robi, model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
1958 Lee Pattinson, rock bassist (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1958 Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1999)
1959 Jim Eisenreich, St Cloud MN, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies, Fla Marlins)
1960 Ocl Sweda, rocker (Bulletboys)
1961 Ian Doig, Seaforth Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 Florida Classic)
1961 Jane Leeves, British actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser)
1961 Jeff Cook, Muncie IN, Nike golfer (1990 Greater Ozarks Open)
1961 Kelly Hansen, heavy metal rocker (Hurricane-I'm on to You)
1961 Pamella Bordes, New Dehli India, Brit parliament prostitute
1961 Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
1962 Jeff Dunham, American comedian
1962 Mick Sweda, heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike)
1962 Shirlie Hollman, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
1962 Wilber Marshall, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1963 Conan O'Brien, American comedian, TV host (Late Night)
1963 Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor (Will and Grace)
1963 Phil Simmons, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman)
1964 Jim Ellison, musician
1964 Mark Berry, aka Bez, Dancer in Happy Mondays
1964 Niall Ferguson, British historian
1964 Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director
1965 Diana Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey
1965 Sylvia Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1965 Vicky Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
1966 Chuck Wade, Menomonee Falls Wisc, diver (Olympics-96)
1966 Michelle Chryst, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-17th-1994)
1966 Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
1966 Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Avalanche, Oly-S-98)
1967 Jayce Fincher Jr, heavy metal bassist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
1967 Kenneth Gant, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 Marcel Valk, soccer player (RKC, Go Ahead Eagles)
1967 Maria Bello, American actress
1968 Christian Slater, actor (Tucker, Wizard, Young Guns 2)
1968 David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
1968 Mary Birdsong, American actress
1969 Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author
1969 Princess Sayako of Japan
1969 Vladimir Tsyplakov, Inta Russia, NHL left wing (LA Kings, Belarus 1998)
1970 Carl Simpson, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1970 Francois Leroux, Ste-adele, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1970 Greg Eklund, American musician
1970 Heike Friedrich, East Germany swimmer (world record 200m)
1970 Peter Giles, London Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1970 Rico Brogna, American baseball player
1970 Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon
1970 Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek television host
1970 Vladimir Antipin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1970 William Roaf, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
1971 Dan Kordic, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1971 David Tennant, Scottish actor
1971 Fredro Starr, American rapper (Onyx)
1971 Kerry Lynn Kemper, Miss Nebraska USA (1996)
1971 Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 Russell Payne, English writer
1971 Tamara Braun, American actress
1972 Eli Roth, American film director
1972 Jeff Traversy, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Rosa Clemente, American activist and hip-hop artist
1973 Brady Clark, American baseball player
1973 Derrick Brooks, American football player, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
1973 James "Jamie" Koven, Morristown NJ, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1974 Edgar Wright, British director
1974 Mark Tremonti, American musician
1974 Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
1976 Fayray, Japanese singer
1976 Jo Gibb, Scottish Actress
1976 Justin Ross, American politician
1976 Melissa Joan Hart, American actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
1977 Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
1979 Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
1979 Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
1979 Matthew Upson, English footballer
1979 Michael Bradley, American basketball player
1979 Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
1980 Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Brian Buscher, American baseball player
1982 Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
1982 Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
1982 Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
1982 Simone Farina, Italian footballer
1983 Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
1983 Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 America Ferrera, American actress
1985 Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
1985 Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
1985 Lukasz Fabianski, Polish footballer
1986 Billy Butler, American baseball player
1986 Maurice Edu, American soccer player
1987 Brett Deledio, Australian Rules Football player
1987 Danny Guthrie, English footballer
1987 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model
1987 Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
1989 Alia Shawkat, American actress
1989 Jessica, Korean singer
1989 Simas Buterlevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
1994 Moises Arias, American Actor
1996 Alexey Zhigalkovich, Belarusian Singer
2007 Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan

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680 Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam
1161 Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1504 Filippino Lippi, painter
1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer
1552 John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)
1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone) (b. 1495)
1558 Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
1587 John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs)
1610 Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter
1612 Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian
1636 Julius Caesar, English judge
1650 Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
1674 John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1679 Hofmannswaldau, writer
1684 Gonzales Cocx (Coques), painter, dies
1689 George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice , 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (b. 1648)
1690 Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal
1710 Pierre de La Barre, composer
1732 Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
1794 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1800 John Evangelist Schreiber, composer
1800 Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet)
1802 Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (Influence) (b. 1731)
1818 Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer
1824 Edward Jones, composer
1830 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer
1845 Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany
1853 William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration
1854 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
1855 Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter
1861 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1867 Robert Smirke, architect
1871 Omar Pasha (Michael Lats), Croatian governor
1873 Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
1874 David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey
1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum)
1883 Agnes Tyrrell, composer
1898 Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
1906 Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belg (1914-17)
1917 Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1919 Enny Vrede (Maria M Muller), Dutch actress, drowns
1921 Earnest (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering)
1925 Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers)
1928 Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer
1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
1935 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
1936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis) (b. 1879)
1936 Seaborn M Denson, composer
1938 Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist
1939 Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
1940 Florrie Forde, music hall artist
1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian
1941 Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1942 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1943 I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet
1943 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
1944 Cécile Chamindale, composer
1945 Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II
1945 Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945 John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
1945 Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
1947 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
1947 Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler
1949 Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher
1949 Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1951 António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
1955 Albert Einstein, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1955 Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29)
1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar
1958 Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French general (WW I, WW II) (b. 1872)
1958 Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies)
1959 Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz)
1960 Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor)
1963 Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1963 Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 Albe Vidakovic, composer
1964 Ben Hecht, American writer (Child of the Century) (b. 1894)
1965 Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
1967 Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1969 Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
1971 Masao Oki, composer
1974 Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net)
1974 Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (Topaz) (b. 1895)
1975 Rob Touber (Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director
1976 Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911)
1976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents
1983 Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs)
1984 John Lee Mahin, screenwriter
1986 Marcel Dassault (Bloch), French aircraft industrialist (b.1892)
1988 Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
1990 Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals)
1990 Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (b. 1969)
1992 Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass)
1992 Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (b. 1917)
1993 Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium
1993 Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead
1995 Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62) (b. 1908)
1996 Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)
1996 Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
1996 Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner
1996 Michael Leander Farr, record producer
1996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor
1996 Robert William Paine, architect
1997 Edward Barker, cartoonist
1998 Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
2002 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
2002 Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
2009 Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)
2011 Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
2012 Dick Clark, American radio and television personality
2013 Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944)
2015 Joseph Lechleider, American electrical engineer (invented DSL/high speed internet technology)
2016 Patricio Aylwin, Chilean lawyer and politician, President of Chile (1990-94)

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