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(215 BC) A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
1014 In the Battle of Clontarf, Brian Boru, King of Ireland, defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1154 Damascus surrenders to sultan Nur ad-Din van Aleppo
1229 Ferdinand III of Castile conquers Cáceres.
1343 St. George's Night Uprising in Estonia.
1348 The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St George's Day.
1500 Pedro Cabral lands & annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1501 Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral & 6 ships return to Lisbon
1504 King Maximilian I routes troops to Bavaria
1521 Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1597 William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1633 Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1635 The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
1660 Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1662 Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1705 Richard Steele's "Tender Husband," premieres in London
1723 Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht
1775 Opera "Il Ré Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1789 President-elect George Washington moves into Franklin House, NY
1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1815 The Second Serbian Uprising a second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1826 Missolonghi captured by Turks
1827 William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
1838 English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in NYC
1851 Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1860 Dem convention in Charleston SC divided over slavery
1861 Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith
1861 Battle of San Antonio, TX
1864 Battle of Cane River, LA (Red River Expedition, Monett's Ferry)
1867 Queen Victoria & Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1871 Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up
1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1881 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London
1883 John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government
1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1896 Premier of motion pictures, Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated at Koster & Bial's Music Hall, NYC
1900 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Wash Senators 7-2
1904 American Academy of Arts & Letters forms
1908 Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1910 Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
1915 ACA becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA)
1916 Lord Dunsany's "Night at an Inn," premieres in NYC
1918 Battle of Zeebrugge ends
1918 Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1918 National Urban League forms
1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
1920 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is founded in Ankara.
1920 The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution.
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1921 Charles Paddock runs world record 100m (10.4 secs)
1923 Inauguration ceremonies take place of Gdynia as a temporary military port and fishers' shelter.
1924 British Empire Exhibition opens at Wembley
1925 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged
1925 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO) forms
1927 Turkey becomes the first country to celebrate Children's Day as a national holiday.
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1932 The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down.
1933 Dovo soccer team forms in Veenendaal
1935 The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1936 Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win
1938 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1939 1st performance of Béla Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin
1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR
1940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
1940 NY Yankees dedicate a plaque to Jacob Rupert
1940 The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt
1941 The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht, World War II.
1942 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 Baedeker Blitz German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck, World War II.
1943 British & US offensive directed at Tunis, Bizerta
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1945 US troops in Italy cross river Po
1946 Bkln Dodger Ed Head no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1948 Haifa, the major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1948 KSTP TV channel 5 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1949 Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing
1949 Courtesy mail boxes for motorists started in SF
1949 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1950 1st major league day game completed under lights (Phils 6, Braves 5)
1950 4th NBA Championship, Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 2
1950 Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island
1950 Stanley Cup, Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 3
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open
1952 Bob Cain of Browns & Bob Feller of Indians each pitch a one-hitter
1952 NY Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game & hits his only HR
1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA
1953 KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WCOV TV channel 20 in Montgomery, AL (IND/CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
1955 "Kismet" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 583 performances
1955 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Open
1955 The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1956 US Supreme court ends race segregation on buses
1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game
1959 "Destry Rides Again" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 472 perfs
1959 1st heliport in Britain opens in London
1960 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite"
1961 "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 216 performances
1961 Algiers putsch by French generals.
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1962 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1962 NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1
1962 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1963 "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 perfs
1963 Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in NYC
1964 Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
1964 James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 New York State Theater opens
1965 Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 Soyuz 1 of the Soviet space program, a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty.
1968 "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances
1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 pence)
1968 United Methodist Church forms
1968 Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university, Vietnam War.
1969 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney
1969 LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points
1969 Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China
1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1971 Soyuz 10 launched, cosmonauts become 1st in Salyut 1 space station
1972 26th Tony Awards: Sticks & Bones & 2 Gentlemen of Verona win
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1972 Betty Burfeind wins LPGA Birmingham Centennital Golf Classic
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1975 Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London
1977 ADO The Hague soccer team forms
1977 Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1977 Dr Allen Bussey completes 20,302 yo-yo loops
1977 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa
1978 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1978 Reds Joe Morgan ends record streak of 91 cons errorless games at 2nd
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach.
1980 Soviet sub catches fire off Japan, 9 die
1982 Conch Republic is established.
1982 The ZX Spectrum is released.
1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka
1984 AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1985 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
1985 Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.
1985 Flyers 5-Isles 3-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-0 lead
1986 Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking
1986 Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec)
1987 28 construction workers die when the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1987 NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
1988 A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles
1988 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less
1988 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker
1989 Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1990 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1990 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1991 Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
1991 Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home
1991 USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1992 Marion Berry (former mayor of Wash DC) is let out of prison
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
1993 Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in NYC
1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
1994 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
1994 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Golf Championship
1995 Pres Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Reno NV on KRZQ 96.5 FM
1996 Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1997 "Titanic," opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1997 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines & Brooks & Dunn
1997 Omaria massacre in Algeria, 42 villagers are killed.
2003 Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus
2009 The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 is observed for 10 seconds. The event signals the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe
2011 Zach Daniels defeated Rick Michaels to become the new TNT Heavyweight Champion
2012 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach
2012 Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
2012 Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football 2013 21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China
2013 28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq
2012 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach
2013 A 1% flash crash hits the US stock market after a news agency was hacked and claimed injury to President Obama
2013 The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage
2013 West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls)
2014 60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
2015 Loretta Lynch is confirmed as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General
2016 Beyoncé releases her 6th album "Lemonade" with a 1 hour film on HBO

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1170 Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)
1185 King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
1464 Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, queen of France (d. 1505)
1464 Robert Fayrfax, composer
1484 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian philosopher (On the Subtlety of Things) (d. 1558)
1500 Alexander Alesius (Aless, Alane), Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
1516 Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
1564 William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (d. 1616) (approximate birth date)
1598 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
1621 William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670)
1623 Jan Adam Reincken, composer
1628 Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
1629 John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
1649 Andreas Kneller, composer
1676 King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
1697 George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
1708 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
1715 Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1720 Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
1725 Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
1728 Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
1735 Ildephons Haas, composer
1746 Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794)
1747 Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
1775 J(oseph) M(allord) W Turner, English landscape painter (Shipwreck) (d. 1851)
1791 James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (1857-61) (d. 1868)
1791 W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1792 John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
1794 Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856)
1803 Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
1804 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
1805 Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1809 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1810 Thomas Wright, historian
1812 Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
1813 Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar (Society of Saint Vincent de Paul) (d. 1853)
1813 Stephen A(rnold) Douglas (Little giant), U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (Lincoln debates) (d. 1861)
1818 James Anthony Froude, historian
1818 John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
1821 Pierre Dupont, song writer
1823 Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
1827 Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
1828 Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
1834 Artemus Ward, American comic writer (d. 1867)
1838 Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
1852 Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of American Acad of Poets Award 1937)
1853 Winthrop M. Crane, 40th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1920)
1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza) (d. 1919)
1858 Ethel Mary Smyth, English composer (d. 1944)
1858 Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
1858 Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Quanta Physics) (d. 1947)
1861 Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo, British general (d. 1936)
1865 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (d. 1943)
1867 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928)
1867 Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
1872 Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, British musician (d. 1951)
1876 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
1877 Arthur Farwell, composer
1880 Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942)
1881 Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
1881 Otakar Sini, composer
1882 Albert Coates, British composer (Eagle) (d. 1953)
1882 Max (G M J) Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II)
1888 Georges Vanier, French-Canadian soldier and diplomat (d. 1967)
1889 Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
1889 Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942)
1890 Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka, Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
1892 Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
1892 R Huelsenbeck, writer
1893 Frank Borzage, American film director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo) (d. 1952)
1894 Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
1894 Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (d. 1955)
1894 George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
1895 Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
1896 Margaret Kennedy, novelist
1897 Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
1897 John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
1897 Lester B(owles) Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada (1963-68) , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1957) (d. 1972)
1897 Lucius du Bignon Clay, American WW II general (West Germany) (d. 1978)
1898 Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
1899 Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979)
1899 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew)
1899 Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (d. 1982)
1899 Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
1900 Ary Verhaar, composer
1900 Henry Barraud, composer
1900 Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996)
1901 E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1902 Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1903 Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d. 1974)
1904 Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (Cisco Kid) (d. 1985)
1904 Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
1905 Lord Carew, Ireland, judge (dressage)
1906 Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
1906 Maria Arnoldo (Adrianus Broeders), photographer/writer
1907 Baroness Dudley
1907 Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
1907 Lee Miller, American photographer & model (d. 1977)
1908 Frederick Hawkins, dancer
1908 Herbert Telley, British actuary
1908 Myron Waldman, American animator (d. 2006)
1909 Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
1910 Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
1911 Ronald Neame, British film producer (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
1911 Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
1913 Jan Meyerowitz, composer
1914 Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
1914 John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1914 Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
1915 Arnold Hall, CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
1916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
1917 Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (d. 2008)
1917 Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
1918 Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
1918 Gordon Hirabayshi, Seattle, Washington, American civil rights activist and WWII internment opponent (Hirabayshi v. United States), (d. 2012)
1918 Maurice Druon (Kessel), French author and journalist (Prix Goncourt) (d. 2009)
1919 Dorian Leigh, San Antonio TX, model, sister of Suzy Parker
1919 Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet double-agent (d. 1963)
1919 Talivaldis Kenins, composer
1920 Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
1920 Louis Barron, composer
1921 Janet Blair, American actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family) (d. 2007)
1921 Warren Spahn, American baseball player, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves) (d. 2003)
1922 Boy (Segundo JA) Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter
1922 Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer
1922 Jack May, voice actor (d. 1997)
1922 Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
1923 Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler (d. 1977)
1923 Avram Davidson, American sci-fi writer (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!) (d. 1993)
1923 Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
1923 James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
1923 Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
1924 Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
1924 Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
1924 Chuck Harmon, American baseball player
1924 Colin Welch, columnist/critic
1924 James Colin Ross Welch, journalist
1924 Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
1926 J(ames) P Donleavy, Irish American novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
1926 Richard Laws, Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
1927 Russell Smith, composer
1928 Bill Cotton, CEO (Noel Gay TV)
1928 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet
1928 Shirley Temple Black, American actress (Heidi) and politician, ambassador (UN)
1929 George Steiner, professor (English)
1930 Alan Oppenheimer, NYC, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied)
1930 Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
1932 Halston (R Halston Frowick), American fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame) (d. 1990)
1932 Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (Jim Fixx on Running) (d. 1984)
1933 Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter
1934 George Canseco, Filipino music composer (d. 2004)
1935 Bunky Green, American musician
1935 David Evans, MP
1936 Elias (Etienne Michiels), Flemish painter
1936 Estelle Harris, actress (Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld)
1936 John D'Arcy, cricketer (NZ Test batsman on 1958 England tour)
1936 Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter
1936 Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (Pretty Woman) (d. 1988)
1937 Barry Shepherd, cricketer (Australian lefty bat early 60's)
1937 Don Massengale, Jackson TX, PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity)
1937 Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
1938 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker
1938 Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
1938 Steven D Symms, (Sen-R-ID, 1981)
1939 David Birney, Wash DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere)
1939 Jorge Fons, Mexican film director
1939 Lee Majors, American actor
1939 Ray Peterson, American singer (Tell Laura I Love Her) (d. 2005)
1939 William Hagerty, editor (People)
1940 Lee Majors (Harvey Yeary), American actor ($6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man)
1940 Michael Copps, American Federal Government official
1940 Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
1941 Ed Stewart, British DJ
1941 Hal Daub, (Rep-R-NB, 1981)
1941 Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
1941 Michael Lynne, American film executive
1941 Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland 1995-2003
1942 Sandra Dee (Zuck), American actress  (Gidget, Imitation of Life) (d. 2005)
1943 Carmen von Thyssen, Barcelona Spain, Baroness
1943 Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
1943 Gail Goodrich, American basketball player
1943 Hervé Villechaize, French actor (Fantasy Island, "Da Plane! Da Plane!") (d. 1993)
1943 Hugh Davies, composer
1943 Tony Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1943 (Gerardus) Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943)
1944 Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold)
1947 Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish political activist
1947 Glenn Cornick, British musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 Saskia (Trudy van den Berg), singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
1948 Pascal Quignard, French author
1948 Richard Day, engineer/development expert
1948 Serge Thériault, French-Canadian comedian and actor
1948 Tessa Wyatt, actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
1949 Blair Brown, Wash DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
1949 David Cross, British violinist (King Crimson)
1949 John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon)
1949 Joyce DeWitt, American actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
1949 Walter Sweeney, MP
1951 Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch MP (VVD)
1952 Lionel Johnston, Augusta Ga, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1952 Narada (Michael Walden), American musician and producer (Don't Want Nobody Else)
1952 Terry Moor, Hartford Conn, tennis star
1952 Tony Maselli, (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
1953 Fred Upton, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 James Russo, NYC, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl)
1954 Michael Moore, American filmmaker (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko)
1955 Captain Sensible (Ray Burns), UK rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st)
1955 Fumi Hirano, Japanese voice actress and essayist
1955 Judy Davis, Australian actress (Husbands & Wives)
1955 Mike Smith, British DJ
1955 Su Ingle, British TV hostess
1955 Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
1956 Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer
1957 Jan Hooks, American actress (SNL, Designing Women)
1957 Kathleen Lynch, Motueka NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1957 Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer
1957 Neville Brody, English graphic designer, typographer and art director
1958 Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Icelandic music composer
1958 Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 Terri Luckhurst, LPGA golfer
1960 Claude Julien, French-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 Joseph Martin Mudd, Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1988 Federal Express)
1960 Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
1960 Valerie Bertinelli, American actress (1 Day at a Time, Sydney), Ms Eddie Van Halen
1961 George Lopez, American actor and comedian
1961 Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (d. 2001)
1962 John Hannah, Scottish actor
1963 Benoit Doucet, Montreal Quebec, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1963 Magnús Ver Magnússon, Icelandic powerlifter
1963 Paul Belmondo, French actor and racing driver
1964 Dan Frischman, Whippany NJ, actor (Arvid Engen-Head of the Class)
1964 Gen (Simon Matthews), English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones)
1964 Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish backstroke swimmer (world record 200m)
1965 Donna Weinbrecht, skier (Olympic-gold)
1966 Jacques "Jacq" Koumans, soccer player (NAC)
1966 Jim Stynes (James), Dublin Ireland, Hall of Fame Australian rules footballer (only foreigner to win Brownlow medal), (d. 2012)
1966 Richard Greenwood, LA California, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Napa Valley)
1966 Wayne Drinkwalter, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1967 Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1967 Kim Hee-ae, South Korean actress
1967 Melina Kanakaredes, American actress (Eleni Andros-Guiding Light)
1967 Rheal Cormier, Canadian baseball player, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1968 Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1968 Princess Zein bint Al Hussein of Jordan
1968 Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence RI, Miss RI-America (1991)
1968 Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 Byron Thames, American actor
1969 Martin López-Zubero, Spanish swimmer
1969 Nadeem Shahid, cricketer
1969 Richard Wolstencroft, Australian Filmmaker
1969 Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast
1970 Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league footballer
1970 Cristiano Caratti, Italy, tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles)
1970 Dennis Bayne Culp, American singer/songwriter
1970 Frank Temming, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Sadao Abe, Japanese actor
1970 Scott Bairstow, American actor
1971 Charmaine Sinclair, English model
1971 Chuck Adams, Pacific Palisades California, tennis star (1989 USTA Boys)
1971 Uli Herzner, German American designer
1972 Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
1972 Pierre Labrie, Canadian poet
1972 Rachel Hetherington, Port Macquarie NSW, golfer (1993 NSW Champ)
1972 Sonya Smith, American actress
1973 Derek Armstrong, Ottawa, NHL center (NY Islanders)
1973 Patrick Poulin, French-Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 Barry Watson, American actor
1974 Carlos Dengler, American musician (Interpol)
1974 Joey Kent, wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 Sam Madison, cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1975 Bobby Shaw, American football wide receiver for the NFL
1975 Bret Anderson, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1975 Jón Þór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer (Sigur Rós)
1976 Tamas Buday Jr, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1977 Andruw Jones, Curaçaoan baseball player
1977 John Cena, American professional wrestler
1977 John Oliver, British comedian
1977 Kal Penn, American actor (Dr. Lawrence Kutner-House, The Namesake) and civil servant
1977 Lee Young-Pyo, Korean footballer
1977 Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Barry Fratelli, Scottish bassist (The Fratellis)
1979 Jaime King, American actress
1979 Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
1979 Yana Gupta, Indian actress & model
1981 Chris Sharma, American rock climber/boulderer
1981 Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael
1981 Joanna Krupa, American model and actress
1981 Sean Henn, American baseball player
1982 Taio Cruz, English Hip Hop singer
1983 Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
1983 Jennifer Heil, Canadian free style skier
1984 Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess World Champion
1985 Angel Locsin, Filipina actress
1986 Jessica Stam, Canadian model
1986 Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater
1987 Emily Fox, American cupstacking champion
1988 Molly Burnett, American actress
1988 Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer
1989 Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
1990 Dev Patel, British actor
1990 Matthew Dillon Underwood, American actor

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34 Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
303 George, knight of Cappadocië, saint, patron of England, beheaded
303 Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr
725 Wihtred, King of Kent
871 Ethelred I, king of Wessex, brother of Alfred the Great
990 Ekkehart II (Palatinus), monk to St-Gallen/poet
997 Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague, apostle, bishop (b. c. 956)
1014 Brian Boru, High King of Ireland (killed in battle)
1014 Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of England (1013-14)
1016 Aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016)
1124 King Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078)
1151 Queen Adeliza of England (b. 1103)
1217 King Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
1407 Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326)
1416 Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies
1605 Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. c. 1550)
1616 El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539)
1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote) (b. 1547)
1616 William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (Hamlet), dies on his 52nd birthday (b. 1564)
1625 Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)
1670 Loreto Vittori, composer
1691 Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer
1695 Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans)
1702 Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614)
1728 Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer
1732 Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1740 Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685)
1742 Mihael Omerza, composer
1762 Johann Samuel Endler, composer
1774 Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter
1781 James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)
1786 Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter
1792 Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
1794 Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
1812 Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer
1827 Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek hero of the Greek War of Independence
1827 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth)
1838 John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies
1839 Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
1847 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer
1850 William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
1853 Auguste Laurent, chemist
1865 James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general
1878 Friedrich Preller, landscape painter
1880 Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter
1885 William Henry Holmes, composer
1889 Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
1895 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
1897 Clement Harris, composer
1905 Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
1905 Karel Komzak, composer
1907 Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
1915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania) (b. 1887)
1918 Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge
1925 Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus)
1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author
1929 Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
1936 Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28)
1945 Albrecht Haushofer, writer
1946 Jesus Castillo, composer
1951 Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1952 Elisabeth Schumann, singer
1952 Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
1952 Minus van Looi (Benjamin van der Neart), Flemish writer
1955 Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament
1957 William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music)
1960 Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist
1960 Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer
1965 Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion)
1969 Krzystzof Komeda, composer
1970 Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show)
1971 William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71)
1973 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar
1975 Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself
1975 R D Brinkmann, writer
1975 William Hartnell, English actor (Dr Who) (b. 1908)
1976 James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera)
1976 Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman)
1976 Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar)
1979 Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1980 Jane Froman, US singer (JF's USA Canteen)
1981 Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and writer (b. 1897)
1983 Buster Crabbe, American swimmer, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932) and actor (b. 1908)
1983 Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster)
1984 August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie)
1984 Red Garland, American jazz pianist (b. 1923)
1985 Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders)
1985 Sam J Ervin Jr, American politician, (Sen-D-NC) (b. 1896)
1986 Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluck), American composer, murdered (b. 1905)
1986 Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922)
1986 Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder) (b. 1906)
1988 Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury
1990 Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self
1990 Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night)
1990 Paulette Goddard, American actress (Hazard) (b. 1910)
1991 Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
1991 Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher
1992 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader
1992 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk) (b. 1921)
1992 Tanka Prasad Acharya former Nepalese Prime Minister (b.1912)
1992 Victoria Kellem Lederman, model
1993 Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze)
1993 César Chávez, American labor activist (b. 1927)
1993 Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered
1994 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered
1994 Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann
1995 Howard Cosell, American sports journalist (Monday Night Football) (b. 1918)
1995 John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from Mississippi (Sen-D-MS) (b. 1904)
1995 Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist
1995 Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
1996 Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian military officer (b. 1913)
1996 Leonard Kuntstat, blues discographer
1996 P. L. Travers, Australian author (b. 1899)
1996 Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins)
1997 Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
1998 Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
1998 James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
1998 Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
2003 Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
2003 James H. Critchfield, American Central Intelligence agent (b. 1917)
2005 Al Grassby, Australian immigration minister (b. 1928)
2005 Earl Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
2005 John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
2005 Romano Scarpa, Italian-born comic artist (b. 1927)
2006 Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (b. 1912)
2006 Phil Walden, American manager of the Allman Brothers Band (b. 1940)
2007 Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
2007 David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934)
2007 Paul Erdman, American economist and author (b. 1932)
2011 Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill (b. 1921)
2011 John Sullivan, British comedy writer (b. 1946)
2011 Tom King, American songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
2013 Robert Edgar, American Congressman
2015 Sawyer Sweeten, American actor (Everyone Loves Raymond)
2016 Banharn Silpa-archa, Prime Minister of Thailand (1995-96)

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