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363 Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II
1167 Battle of Monte Porzio A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 The Lombard League defeat Frederick I Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano
1414 Council of Constance.
1453 Ottoman armies (Turks) under Sultan Muhammad II  Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine-Ottoman Wars.
1453 French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
1506 Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont
1576 Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea
1592 At the Battle of Sacheon, the Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin, repels a Japanese army that outnumbers it nearly 3 to 1.
1630 Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
1652 English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp
1660 Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
1677 Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
1692 Battle at La Hogue, English & Dutch fleet beat France
1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1727 Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia
1733 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1753 Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres
1765 Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1780 At the Battle of Waxhaws Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford's continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed, American Revolutionary War.
1787 "Virginia Plan" proposed
1790 Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1848 Battle at Curtazone, Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1848 Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
1864 Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico (Vera Cruz) for the first time.
1867 The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
1868 The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
1886 Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1889 August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen
1897 31st Belmont: J Scherrer aboard Scottish Cheiftain wins in 2:23.25
1900 25th Preakness, H Spencer aboard Hindus wins in 1:48.4
1900 N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil
1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
1902 Dutch State Mine law forms
1903 May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania
1909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1911 1st running of Indianapolis 500
1912 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1913 Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
1914 Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
1916 NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
1916 Official flag of president of US adopted
1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1919 Charles Strite files patent for the pop-up toaster
1919 Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse (light-bending prediction) in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
1919 The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1922 Ecuador becomes independent
1922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws
1924 AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1932 World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1935 Hague local museum opens
1935 The Hoover Dam is completed.
1939 Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
1940 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of Hague Neth
1940 In WW II, Germans capture Ostend & Ypres in Belgium & Lille in France
1940 The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
1942 Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1943 Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
1943 Meat & cheese rationed in US
1944 British troops occupy Aprilia Italy
1945 First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1945 US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
1946 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1948 Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC
1950 The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1952 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
1953 Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1954 Kirk & Anne Douglas married
1954 Pope Pius X issues holy declaration
1955 Jordan government of Tewfik Abdul Huda resigns
1956 Arnold Schoenberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres
1956 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
1957 Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
1957 NYC Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants & Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast
1958 Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels
1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"
1964 The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1965 Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19
1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II
1968 Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London
1968 Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1968 UN resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia
1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1969 General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1970 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1971 Court Room by Clarence Carter hits #61
1972 26 people are killed and dozens more injured when three Japanese gunmen open fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1972 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1973 Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1974 Northern Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
1975 Daniel (Dwight) Tosh, American stand-up comedian and host (Tosh.0)
1976 "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29
1976 Only HR of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil
1977 A J Foyt wins Indianapolis 500 for a record 4th time
1977 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indy 500
1977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1977 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1977 Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 1st class postage now 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM
1979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres
1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1980 53rd National Spelling Bee, Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1980 Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan Jr National Urban League pres
1980 J Turners "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 "I Know What Boys Like," by The Waitresses hits #62
1982 Pentagon plans 1st strategy to fight a nuclear war
1982 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral, 1st papal visit to Britain since 1531.
1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)
1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans.
1985 Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot
1986 59th National Spelling Bee, Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor
1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
1988 Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season
1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan
1988 Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires
1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
1990 An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
1990 Mets fire and replace manager Davey Johnson with Buddy Harrelson
1990 Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record
1990 The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at ACTEA Theatre, Auckland NZ
1991 Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I
1992 NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games
1992 White Sox Tim Raines swipes his 700th career base
1993 Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
1993 Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits & 3 walks, he damages his arm
1994 "Joseph & the Amazing" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 223 perfs
1994 "Picnic" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1994 Al Unser Jr wins 78th Indianapolis 500 in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1994 Great comet-iceball seen above North sea
1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1994 Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11), lands
1997 70th National Spelling Bee, Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1997 Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7
1997 Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
1999 Charlotte Perrelli wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 for Sweden in Jerusalem, Israel with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.
1999 Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
2001 U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2004 The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2005 France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.
2012 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
2012 Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
2012 Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million
2012 Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear
2014 President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups
2014 New York Rangers beat Montreal Canadians, 4 games to 2 in the NHL Eastern Conference Final
2015 Heat wave in India centered in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week
2015 "Jurassic World", directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard premieres in Paris
2015 Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in as the President of Nigeria
2015 Sepp Blatter is elected to a fifth term as president of FIFA
2015 Tampa Bay Lightning beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 3 in the NHL Eastern Conference Finals

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1594 Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and Princess (Grand Mademoiselle) (d. 1693)
1630 Charles II, King of England (1660-85) (d. 1685)
1673 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, lawyer/president of High Council
1675 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
1716 Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist (d. 1800)
1722 James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1730 William Jackson, composer
1731 Orazio Mei, composer
1736 Patrick Henry, American patriot, statesman, and orator ("Give me liberty or give me death") (d. 1799)
1741 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1773 Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1791 Pietro Romani, composer
1794 Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1895)
1810 Juan B Alberdi (Figarillo), Argentina politician/writer
1810 Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1875)
1823 John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
1825 David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1864)
1826 Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
1827 Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1890)
1837 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
1837 Luca Fumagalli, composer
1839 Ned Gregory, cricketer (bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test)
1840 Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Plague in Florenz)
1841 Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, (d. 1971)
1843 Emile Pessard, composer
1846 Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education
1851 Leon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
1852 Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
1860 Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1863 Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1864 A H Borgesius, Dutch amateur astronomer
1874 G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton, English novelist (Man Who Made Gold) (d. 1936)
1880 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Decline of West) (d. 1936)
1881 Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
1883 William Beatton Moonie, composer
1885 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
1890 Francis de Bourguignon, composer
1892 Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (La inquietud del rosal) (d. 1938)
1893 Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)
1894 Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (Around World in 80 Days) (d. 1989)
1894 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (Der blaue Engel) (d. 1969)
1896 George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
1897 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (Violanta) (d. 1957)
1897 Ignace Lilien, composer
1903 Bob Hope (Leslie Townes), British-born comedian and actor (famous profile) (d. 2003)
1904 Robert Knox, bacteriologist
1905 Fela Sowande, composer
1905 Jan (Johannes) Teulings, Dutch actor/director (That Joyous Eve)
1905 Sebastian Shaw, English actor (Return of Jedi, Chimera) (d. 1994)
1906 Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
1906 T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1906 Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones)
1907 Desmond Shawe-Taylor, critic
1907 Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
1909 Neil R(onald) Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds)
1910 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1911 Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star (d. 1989)
1911 James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
1911 Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
1912 John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet (Go to the Mosque)
1912 Lucie Aubrac (Bernard), Paris, history teacher and French resistance member, (d. 2007)
1913 Douglas Black, physician
1913 Iris Adrian, LA California, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
1913 Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1914 Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1915 David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
1915 Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
1915 Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1915 Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
1916 Carl M Story, fiddler
1917 John F(itzgerald) Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963) (d. 1963)
1918 Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show)
1918 Isabel Dean, Engl, actress (5 Days one Summer, Virgin Island, Ransom)
1920 John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1920 Robin Haydon, British diplomat
1921 Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
1921 George Terry, chief constable (Sussex England)
1921 James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
1922 Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect, major contributor to musical modernism (d. 2001)
1922 John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
1923 Earl of Morley, Lord Lt (Devon)
1923 Richard Worsley, quarter master General
1924 Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)
1925 Kenneth Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1926 Charles Denner, French actor (And Now My Love) (d. 1995)
1926 Iannis Xenakis, composer/architect/engineer
1927 Carl Toms, stage designer (1 Million BC, Moon Zero Two)
1927 Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer
1927 Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
1927 Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
1928 Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
1929 Anthony Grant, British MP
1929 Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
1929 Katie Boyle (Lady Sander Saunders), British broadcaster
1929 Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
1930 Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
1931 Carl Toms, stage designer
1932 Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1932 Richie Guerin, former basketball player
1933 Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1935 Andre P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
1935 Denis J Worrall, South African politician/leader (DP)
1935 Martin Garrod, Commandant General (Royal Marines)
1936 Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
1937 Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
1937 Charles W. Pickering, American judge
1937 Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (d. 1989)
1937 Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
1937 Peter Kolman, composer
1938 Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
1938 Francis Thomas (Fay) Vincent, baseball commissioner
1939 Al Unser, Sr., American race car driver (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
1939 Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines
1939 Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage)
1940 Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1941 Doug(las) Scott, British mountaineer
1941 Roy Crewsdon, Manchester, rocker (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1942 Kevin Conway, American actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
1942 Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
1943 Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
1943 E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976)
1943 Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
1943 Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
1944 Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)
1944 Quentin Davies, MP (C)
1945 Gary Brooker, musician, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1945 Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
1945 Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland)
1945 Martin Pipe, horse trainer
1945 Mike Rossi, rocker (Status Quo)
1946 Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
1946 Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
1947 Anthony Geary, American actor
1947 Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
1947 Mark Nelson, Brooklyn NY, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1948 Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
1948 Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
1948 Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
1948 Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
1949 Andrew Clements, American author
1949 Brian Kidd, English footballer
1949 Francis Rossi, guitarist (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
1949 Robert Axelrod, American actor
1950 Rebbie (Maureen) Jackson, American singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
1950 Talat Ali, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in ten Tests 1972-80)
1951 Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
1952 Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne)
1953 Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
1953 Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo, Simspon Show Theme)
1953 Ranji Nanan, cricketer (Trinidad off-spinner, 1 Test v Pakistan 1981)
1953 Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin (Pres Reagan, 1981)
1955 Ken Schrader, American race car driver
1955 Mike Porcaro, rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1955 Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
1956 Greg R, Musician (Bad)
1956 LaToya (Yvette) Jackson, American singer (If You Feel the Funk)
1956 Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
1957 Jeb Hensarling, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Texas)
1957 Ted Levine, American actor
1958 Annette Bening, American actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont)
1958 Ivar Sisniega, Mexico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
1958 Sam Clancy, WLAF defensive assistant coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1958 Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
1959 Adrian Paul, English actor (Dance to Win, Highlander)
1959 Mel Gaynor, Glasgow Scotland, rock drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1959 Rupert Everett, English actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country)
1959 Tamayo Otsuki, actress (Mrs Yamagami-Davis Rules)
1960 Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
1960 Neil Crone, Canadian actor
1961 David Palmer, heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC)
1961 Melissa Etheridge, American musician (Never Enough)
1961 Todd Boonstra, Minneapolis Minn, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1962 Eric Davis, American baseball player, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1962 Fandi Ahmad, Singapore footballer
1962 Gerry Norquist, Portland OR, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-5th)
1962 John D. LeMay, American actor
1963 Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1963 Lisa Whelchel, American actress (Blair-Facts of Life)
1963 Tracey E. Bregman, American actress (Lauren-Bold & Beautiful, Days of Our Life)
1963 Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
1964 Howard Mills III, New York State politician
1965 Charlie Hayes, Hattisburg MS, 3rd baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees)
1965 Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
1965 Jammo Myllys, Savonlinna FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland, Oly-Br-98)
1966 Floyd Turner, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1967 Bill Risley, Chicago IL, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1967 Karina Orum, Denmark, golfer (Scandinavian champion 1989)
1967 Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
1967 Ray Bernard, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 Brian Roche, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1968 Duane Young, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1968 Tate George, American basketball player
1969 Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1969 Toby Borland, Quitman LA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1969 Wiltrud Probst, Nuermberg Germany, tennis star (1992 Belgian Open)
1970 Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
1971 Bernd Mayländer, Formula One Safety Car driver
1971 Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
1972 Bill Curley, American basketball player, NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, Minn Timberwolves)
1972 David Hendrix, NFL strong safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Kenny McEntyre, WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1972 Kevin McDougal, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
1972 Simon Jones, British musician (The Verve)
1972 Stanislas Renoult, French singer
1973 Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1973 Anthony Azizi, American actor
1973 Emma Johnson, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 Etdrick Bohannon, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1973 Jason Dawe, North York, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1973 Malcolm Allen, Wauchope NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1973 Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county California, playmate (Oct, 1992)
1974 Barbara Mulej, Kranj Slovenia, tennis star (1992 Futures Germ)
1974 Kenny Bynum, running back (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Macka, blogger, messageboarder and gamer
1974 Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
1974 Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter on Triple J and TV personality on Spicks and Specks
1974 Robyn Petroskey, Minneapolis Minn, figure skater (1996 Midwest champ)
1974 Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player
1975 Alexander Zhurik, hockey defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98)
1975 Anthony Wall, English golfer
1975 Bianca Langham, Australian field hockey fullback/halfback (Olympic-96)
1975 Daniel (Dwight) Tosh, American stand-up comedian and TV host (Tosh.0)
1975 Melanie (Janine) Brown "Scary Spice", English musician and actress (Spice Girls)
1975 Shoshanna Lonstein, NYC, girlfriend (Jerry Seinfeld)
1976 Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
1976 David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1976 Egor Titov, Russian footballer
1976 Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
1976 Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
1976 Yusuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
1977 Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
1977 Brent Roberts, Leesville La, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 Danny Gerard, American actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge)
1977 Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1977 Scott Allen, American figure skater
1978 Adam Rickitt, British actor
1978 Lorenzo Odone, American patient (d. 2008)
1978 Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1978 Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1979 Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singapore footballer
1979 Arne Friedrich, German football player
1979 Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
1979 Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
1979 John Rheinecker, Major League Baseball player
1979 Luann Roberts, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1996)
1979 Shweta Gulati, Indian television actress
1980 Ernesto Farías, Argentine footballer
1981 Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
1981 Justin Chon, American actor
1982 Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
1982 Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
1982 Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
1982 Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1982 Matt Macri, American baseball player
1983 Joanna Higson, English actress
1983 Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1983 Richard Jackson, Redlands California, actor (Ryan Meyers-Saved by the Bell)
1984 Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player (New York Knicks)
1986 Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
1986 Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler
1986 Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
1986 Valy Hedjasi, Afghan singer
1987 Alessandra Torresani, American actress
1987 Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
1987 Noah Reid, Canadian actor
1989 Danielle Riley Keough, American model, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
1990 Dave Morton, American guitarist
1991 Kristen Alderson, American actress

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1259 King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
1379 King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
1405 Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
1425 Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
1453 Constantine XI Palaeologus (Dragases), last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
1500 Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portuguese sea explorer, drowns
1544 Jacobus Latomus (Jasques Masson), Belgian inquisitor
1546 David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal, archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1593 John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader, executed (b. 1559)
1629 Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council
1660 Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
1660 Gyorgy Rákóczi II, prince of Transsylvania, dies in battle
1660 Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian
1680 Abraham Megerle, composer
1691 Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral, son of Maarten T (b. 1629)
1750 Giuseppe Porsile, composer
1788 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver
1790 Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1796 Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
1814 Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (1804-14) (b. 1763)
1815 Cornelis de Gijselaar, politician/patriot
1816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O
1829 Humphry Davy, English chemist, inventor (Miner's safety lamp) (b. 1778)
1833 William Marshall, composer
1847 Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1862 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
1866 Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1868 Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
1869 Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher
1873 Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
1877 John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands)
1882 Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1883 Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum
1883 WFLC Marianne, princess of Orange-Nassau
1885 Alfred von Meissner, Austria physician/writer (Ziska)
1892 Baha'u'llah (Mirza HA Noeri), Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
1896 Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
1899 Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer
1903 Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1903 Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)
1905 Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
1910 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej) (b. 1837)
1911 William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan) (b. 1836)
1917 Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (b. 1831)
1919 Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
1922 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director
1924 Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London)
1933 Frank Sugg, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for England 1888)
1934 Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X)
1935 Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
1939 Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
1942 John Barrymore, American actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8) (b. 1882)
1943 Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer
1946 Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
1948 May Whitty, English actress (Gaslight, Mrs Miniver, Suspicion) (b. 1865)
1951 Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (b. 1885)
1951 Fanny Brice, American singer, comedian (Baby Snooks Show) (b. 1891)
1951 Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer
1951 Robert Kahn, composer
1953 Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1955 Daniel G van Beuningen, art collector
1956 Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting)
1956 Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (Gewandhausorkest)
1957 George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb)
1958 Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet (Nobel laureate 1956) (b. 1881)
1961 Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer
1967 Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer
1970 John Gunther, American writer, host (John Gunther's High Road) (b. 1901)
1971 Max Trapp, composer
1972 Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 Eric Applewhite, entertainer
1973 P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
1977 Goddard Lieberson, composer
1978 Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes)
1979 John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
1979 Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets) and studio founder (b. 1892)
1982 Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (Cardinal) (b. 1938)
1983 Arvids Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
1985 39 Soccer Fans, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccer match
1985 Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show)
1987 Alain Vincx, Belgian stuntman, dies in an accident
1989 John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1991 Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class)
1992 Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol)
1992 Karl Carstens, president of RFA (1979-84)
1992 Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist
1992 Pippa Steele, actress (Vampire Lovers)
1993 Billy Conn, American boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951) (b. 1917)
1993 Tiny Hofman, Amsterdam activist (Nieuwmarkt)
1994 Erich Honecker, president of German DR (1971-89) (b. 1912)
1994 Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94)
1994 Harry Levin, literary Scholar
1994 Jose Bohr, actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor)
1994 Joseph Janni, producer
1994 Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer
1995 Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me)
1996 James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist
1996 Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem)
1996 Tamara Toumanova, Ballet star and actress (b. 1919)
1997 George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (You Bet Your Life) (b. 1919)
1997 Jeff Buckley, American musician, drowns (b. 1966)
1997 John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender)
1998 Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)
2002 Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
2003 David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
2004 Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
2004 Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
2005 George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
2005 Hamilton Naki, South African medical assistant (b. 1926)
2006 Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
2006 Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
2007 Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian politician (b. 1927)
2007 Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler (b. 1938)
2008 Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)
2008 Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2009 Karine Ruby, French snowboarder and Olympic champion (b. 1978)
2010 Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (Easy Rider) (b. 1936)
2011 Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
2011 Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
2011 Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian president (b. 1949)
2012 Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician
2013 Françoise Blanchard, French actress
2014 Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
2015 Doris Hart, American tennis player (6 Grand Slams)
2015 Henry Carr, American athlete (2 Olympic golds 200m and 4x400m relay 1964)

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