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(1279 BC) Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem
526 A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
1417 Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League
1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted
1564 Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1621 Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1634 US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1659 Netherlands, England & France sign Treaty of The Hague
1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabtai Tswi proclaims himself Messiah
1669 Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1678 The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
1696 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
1727 France, England & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
1744 French troops conquer Kortrijk
1759 The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1775 The Mecklenburg Resolutions adopted in the Province of North Carolina
1790 Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1813 In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1821 Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
1837 Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1847 Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1849 Last edition of Orange sheet "Journal de La Haye"
1853 Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
1859 Phila A's organize to play "town ball" became baseball 20 years later
1859 The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
1861 Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
1861 Mint at New Orleans closes
1862 Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia in the American Civil War Peninsula Campaign.
1864 Battle of Cold Harbor The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade in the American Civil War Overland Campaign.
1864 Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
1866 In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
1868 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1868 Dr James Moore (UK) wins 1st recorded bicycle race, (2k) velocipede race at Parc fde St Cloud, Paris
1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
1870 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement
1878 German battleship Grosser Kurfurst sinks, 284 killed
1878 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation
1879 1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
1879 Madison Square Garden opens
1880 League of American Wheelmen (1st US bicycle association), forms in Newport RI
1883 French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar
1884 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1884 Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria
1889 Johnstown Flood, Over 2,209 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1891 Work on trans-Siberian railway begins
1893 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1899 Conference of Bloemfontein fails
1899 Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
1900 British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
1900 Piet de Law captures Lt-Col Spragges Irish Yeomanry
1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)
1900 US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 v England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever
1902 Second Boer War Ends, The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa, annexes Transvaal.
1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
1906 Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
1907 Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1908 Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 Creation of the Union of South Africa, declares independence from UK, Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa.
1910 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
1911 The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is launched.
1912 US marines land on Cuba
1913 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1913 Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6)
1914 Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
1915 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
1916 Battle of Skagerrak, Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1916 British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
1916 Battle of Jutland The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of World War I, which proves indecisive.
1917 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
1921 Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
1921 Tulsa Race Riot, A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
1923 China & USSR exchange diplomats
1924 The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
1926 Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigns after coup
1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A). The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1927 Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1928 1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
1928 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
1929 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
1930 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
1930 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
1931 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1935 Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
1935 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1937 1st quadruplets to finish college (Baylor University)
1937 Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
1937 German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's
1940 Gen-major Bernard Montgomery leaves Duinkerken
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with Marshal August Pétain who announces he is willing to make a seperate peace with Germany
1941 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
1941 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1941 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1941 A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
1941 British troops vacate Kreta
1941 German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1942 25th PGA Championship, Sam Snead at Seaview CC Atlantic City NJ
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury
1942 Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia, World War II.
1943 "Archie" comic strip 1st broadcast on radio
1943 Cards Mort Cooper pitches 1st of back-to-back one-hitters
1943 Zoot Suit Riots begin
1944 Allied breakthrough in Italy
1947 79th Belmont, Ruperto Donoso aboard Phalanx wins in 2:29.6
1947 Communists grab power in Hungary
1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 Italian government of Gasperi forms
1948 Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings)
1949 31st PGA Championship, Sam Snead at Hermitage CC Richmond VA
1949 Charley Lupica begins stay on 4 foot square platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days)
1950 Due to rain, Indy 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
1950 Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial
1951 Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
1953 Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
1953 WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1955 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1956 Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1958 Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Cavalier Golf Open
1961 Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern
1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
1962 Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
1962 The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1964 Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
1965 Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
1967 Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg
1969 "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs
1969 "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8
1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
1970 At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by 7.75 Ancash earthquake. It causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1970 KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies' Golf Open
1971 In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1971 WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 Ajax wins Europe Cup 1 in Rotterdam
1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season
1973 The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1974 Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 "Goodtime Charley" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 104 performances
1975 Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
1976 Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
1977 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
1977 Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes heir apparent to throne of Qatar
1977 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1977 Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
1979 "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances
1979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
1980 "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
1980 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
1981 Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1981 Cathy Reynolds wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 63 perf
1983 37th NBA Championship, Phila 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games
1984 57th National Spelling Bee, Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record
1985 41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
1985 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1985 Tornados in Penn, Ohio, NY & Canada kill 88 & injured more than 1,000
1987 Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station in Greece, starts broadcasting.
1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
1987 Stanley Cup, Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 3
1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
1989 1st International Rock Awards
1989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
1989 Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
1990 63rd National Spelling Bee, Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne
1990 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
1991 Oldest bride Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
1991 Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
1992 5th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,060,000
1992 46th Tony Awards, Dancing at Lughnasa & Crazy For You win
1992 Barb Mucha wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
1994 Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates
1996 Mark Van Thillo & Abigail Alling, former biospherian win $100,000 lawsuit against Biospheric Development for Space Biospheres Ventures
1997 "Once Upon a Matress," closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 187 perf
1997 Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
2002 The New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA Finals appearance.
2005 Mark Felt, former FBI high ranking official revealed as "Deep Throat" source during Watergate investigations in "Vanity Fair" article
2008 Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
2010 Shayetet 13 soldiers tried to stop the flotilla that wanted to break the blockade on Gaza Strip. During the boarding on the MV Mavi Marmara ship, a violent confrontation had started. It caused the death of 9 activists who were on board, and several more injured activists. Moreover, several israeli soldiers were injured
2012 Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
2014 Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube
2015 Harriette Thompson aged 92 and 65 days becomes the oldest woman to complete a marathon (Suja Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego)
2015 Silicon Valley wins Best Comedy Series, The Americans win Best Drama Series at the 5th Critics' Choice Television Awards

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1443 Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration (d. 1521)
1472 Erardus van der Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal
1535 Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
1557 Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
1557 Theodorus I (Fedor Ivanovitsj), czar of Russia (1584-98)
1613 John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
1640 Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
1656 Marin Marais, French composer (d. 1728)
1664 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal
1674 Friedrich Erhard Niedt, composer
1701 Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
1732 Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg (d. 1812)
1744 Richard Edgeworth, writer, Bath
1753 Pierre V(icturnien) Vergniaud, French revolutionary, police leader (d. 1793)
1754 Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
1773 Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d. 1853)
1801 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1802 Cesare Pugni, composer
1804 Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer
1810 Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
1817 Edouard Deldevez, composer
1817 Georg Herwegh, writer
1818 John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
1819 Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) (d. 1892)
1835 Hijikata Toshizo, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
1837 Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
1837 Joseph Grimaldi, London, clown
1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1837 William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University) (d. 1900)
1852 Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
1857 Pius XI (Ambrogio DA Ratti), Italian 259th Pope (1922-39) (d. 1939)
1860 Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish-English painter (The Miner) (d. 1942)
1861 Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907)
1863 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist, explorer (d. 1942)
1864 Albert J M Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch)
1866 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer
1872 Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
1872 William Heath Robinson, England illustrator, cartoonist (Don Quixote) (d. 1944)
1875 Italo Montemezzi, composer
1879 Mark Hambourg, composer
1882 Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
1883 Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
1887 Saint-John Perse, France, poet, diplomat (Nobel Prize laureate 1960) (d. 1975)
1888 Jack Holt, US, golddigger/actor (Cat People, San Francisco, Brimstone)
1889 Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
1892 Erich Neumann, German Nazi politician (d. 1948/1951)
1892 Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician, pharmacist, NSDAP-Reich organization leader (d. 1934)
1892 Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) (d. 1968)
1892 Louis Fourestier, composer
1892 Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (d. 1968)
1892 Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
1894 Fred Allen, American comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show) (d. 1956)
1897 Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society)
1898 Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter
1898 Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) (d. 1993)
1899 Leonid Leonow, writer
1900 Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef)
1901 Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1902 Billy Mayerl, composer
1902 Henk Schaer (Hendricus JM Schaareman), actor/conductor
1902 Ralph Walter Wood, composer
1905 Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
1905 Roy Peaches Davis, baseball pitcher
1907 Valston Hancock, British air marshal
1908 Don Ameche, American actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) (d. 1993)
1908 Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000)
1909 Aurore Gagnon, French Canadian victim of child abuse (d. 1920)
1909 Jan Lewando, British director (Marks & Spencer)
1909 Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
1910 Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist
1911 Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector
1911 Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
1912 Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1912 Dave O'Brien, Big Springs TX, actor (Kiss Me Kate, 1st Aid)
1912 Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
1912 Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution)
1913 Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral
1914 Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
1916 Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker, director (Fanfare) (d. 1997)
1916 John Vivyan, actor (Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life)
1916 Judy Campbell, actress (Convoy, Bonnie Prince Charlie)
1919 Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer
1919 Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician
1920 Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
1921 Alida Valli, Italian actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man) (d. 2006)
1921 Andrew Grima, British jeweller
1921 Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer (d. 2008)
1921 Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
1922 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat) (d. 1992)
1922 Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein
1923 Clint Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949) (d. 2005)
1923 Wolfgang Lesser, composer
1924 Russell Endean, cricketer (28 Tests for South Africa, handled the ball 1956)
1926 Derek Birley, British Vice-Chancellor (Ulster U)
1926 Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper (India in late 40's/early 50's)
1926 Viscount Ingleby
1927 Isabel Stoate, British diplomat
1927 James Eberle, Brit admiral/director (Royal Institute of Intl Affairs)
1927 Michael Sandberg, British CEO (Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp)
1927 Red Holloway (James), Helena, Arkansas, jazz tenor saxophonist, (d. 2012)
1928 Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
1928 Pankaj Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad)
1929 Aladar Zoltan, composer
1929 Elaine Stewart, Montclair NJ, actress (Take the High Ground)
1929 Neil Shaw, British CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1930 Clint Eastwood, American film director, actor (Dirty Harry, Gran Torino), mayor (Carmel, California)
1930 William Taylor, British Chairman of Convocation (London University)
1931 John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1972)
1931 Justice Turner
1931 Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
1931 Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California)
1932 Ed Lincoln, Brazilian musician, producer
1932 Elizabeth Southey, British CEO (Natl Fed of Women's Institutes)
1932 George Vallings, British Vice-Admiral
1932 Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
1932 Ronald Hampel, British CEO (ICI)
1933 Henry B. Eyring, LDS apostle, son of award-winning chemist Henry Eyring
1934 Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1934 Karl-Erik Welin, composer
1935 Bruce Bolton, cricketer (two Tests NZ v England 1959)
1935 Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1937 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 Johnny Paycheck, American singer (Take this Job and Shove it) (d. 2003)
1938 Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1939 Charles Drain, singer
1939 Terry Waite, British humanitarian, Anglican Church envoy, Lebanese hostage
1940 Augie Mayer, rocker (Sir Douglas Quintet)
1940 Elfi Mikesch, cinematographer (Erotique, Out of America, Malina)
1940 Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
1941 Gil (Walter) Morgan, Haddock GA, PGA golfer (1990 Kemper Open)
1941 June Clark, British Professor of Nursing (Middlesex U)
1941 Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln)
1941 Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
1942 John Daniel, British Vice-Chancellor (Open U)
1943 Earl of Macclesfield
1943 Joe Namath, American football player, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
1943 Sharon Gless, American actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)
1944 Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1945 Bernard Goldberg‎, American journalist
1945 Linda Davies, British Judge
1946 Debbie Moore, founder/CEO (Pineapple Dance Studios)
1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (Marriage of Maria Braum) (d. 1982)
1946 Steve Bucknor, West Indian Cricket Umpire
1946 Ted Baehr, American media critic
1947 Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade)
1947 William H Campbell Jr, rocker
1948 Duncan L Hunter, American politician, 2008 presidential candidate (Rep-R-CA, 1981)
1948 John Bonham, British musician, drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
1948 Lynda Bellingham, actress (Sweeney, Scarlet Tunic)
1949 Nancy Shade, American soprano
1949 Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
1949 Tom Berenger, American actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
1950 Edward Barker, cartoonist
1950 Gregory Harrison, American actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
1952 Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1953 Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor
1954 Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
1954 Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000)
1955 Ben de Lisi, British fashion designer
1955 Laura Baugh, Gainesville FL, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown Classic-9th)
1955 Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP
1956 Bart van Poppel, Dutch bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1956 Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1956 Yoshiko Sakakibara, Chiba Japan, actress (Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter)
1957 Jim Craig, American hockey player, goalie (oly-gold-1980)
1957 Stephen Jones, British milliner
1958 Angel Franco, Asuncion Paraguay, golfer (1993 Nike Dominion)
1958 Gary George Hallberg, Berwyn IL, PGA golfer (1983 Andy Williams)
1958 Kyle Secor, Tacoma Wash, actor (Tim Bayliss-Homicide)
1958 Mkhuseli Jack, South African UDF-leader (consumer boycots)
1959 Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver
1960 Chris Elliott, American comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
1960 Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 Norm Johnson, NFL place kicker (Seattle Seahawk, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1960 Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player
1961 Harry Enfield, comedian (Dermot-Men Behaving Badly, Saturday Live)
1961 Justin Madden, Australian politician and former Australian rules footballer
1961 Lea Thompson, American actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)
1961 Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Corey Hart, Canadian musician, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night)
1962 Henry Williams, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1962 Joe Orsulak, Glen Ridge NJ, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1962 Sebastian Koch, German actor
1963 Hugh Dillon, Canadian musician and actor
1963 Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
1963 Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1963 Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
1964 Darryl McDaniels (DMC), American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1964 Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman
1964 Scotti Hill, American rock guitarist (Skid Row)
1965 Annette Renee Peters (nee Hand), American Runner, 1500/3000
1965 Brooke Shields, American actress and supermodel (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan)
1966 Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian
1966 Jessica Monroe, Palo Alto California, Canadian rower (Olympics-96)
1966 Nick Scotti, American actor and singer
1966 Roshan Mahanama, cricketer (Sri Lankan opening batsman)
1967 Kenny Lofton, American baseball player, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1967 Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1967 Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress (Vagabond, Police)
1967 Vampiro, Canadian professional wrestler
1968 Duane Causwell, NBA center (Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings)
1968 John Connolly, Irish author
1969 Juliet Haslam, Adelaide SA Australia, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1969 Mindi Abair, American smooth jazz saxophonist
1970 Cory Mantyka, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1971 Brad Elberg, CFL running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Lenny McGill, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 Murray Hocking, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 Sarah O'Hare, model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994)
1971 Troy Malave, Cumana Venezuela, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1972 Bryan Walker, safety (Washington Redskins)
1972 Dave Roberts, American baseball player
1972 Eileen Richetelli, Milford Conn, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 Karl Geary, Irish actor
1972 Sarah Murdoch, Australian model
1973 Dominique Van Roost, Belgian tennis player (1995 Futures-GBR)
1973 Marty Janzen, Miami FL, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 Tyrone Williams, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
1974 Bindi Mansfield, Mooerbank NSW Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 Chad Campbell, American golfer
1974 Jim Carey, Dorchester MA, NHL goalie (Washington Capitals)
1974 Sean Kent, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer
1974 Steve Martin, defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Zsolt Erdei, Hungarian light heavyweight boxer
1975 Sienna Guillory, English actress
1976 Colin Farrell, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report)
1976 Matt Harpring, American basketball player
1976 Tonka Tomicic, Chilean model and television presenter
1977 Debbie King, English TV presenter
1977 Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
1977 Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
1977 Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete
1977 Joel Ross, British disc jockey
1977 June Sarpong, British television presenter
1977 Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
1977 Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player
1977 Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player
1977 Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player
1980 Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1980 Craig Bolton, Australian rules footballer
1981 Jake Peavy, American baseball player
1982 Jonathan Tucker, American actor
1983 David Hernandez, American singer
1983 Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
1983 Reggie Yates, English television presenter
1984 Jason Smith, Australian actor
1984 Milorad Cavic, Serbian swimmer
1984 Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1985 Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
1986 Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
1986 Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
1986 Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
1988 Hope Partlow, American Singer
1990 Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam
1994 Shim Eun-kyung, South Korean child actress

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455 Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
1091 Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91)
1198 Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz
1246 Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England (b. 1188)
1349 Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
1408 Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
1410 King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)
1495 Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415)
1504 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz
1551 Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer
1558 Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
1567 Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522)
1567 Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform
1594 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter (b. 1518)
1620 Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg
1665 Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter
1680 Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)
1696 Heinrich Schwemmer, composer
1740 Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740) (b. 1688)
1747 Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
1809 Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle
1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten) (b. 1732)
1809 Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769)
1831 Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1832 Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1837 Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (king of pantomime) (b. 1779)
1846 Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
1847 Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
1848 Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
1849 Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1854 Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
1862 Robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1900 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75)
1900 John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle
1906 Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist)
1906 King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
1906 Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
1908 C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1895-96)
1908 Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
1910 Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician, 1st woman physician (b. 1821)
1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
1928 Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader
1928 Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian
1931 Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
1945 Odilo Globocnik, Austrian nazi (b. 1904)
1947 Adrienne Ames, actress (Black Sheep, 24 Hours)
1947 Henri G Casadesus, Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour)
1948 Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo)
1955 "Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
1955 Raoul Gunsbourg, composer
1957 Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1957 Stefanos Sarafis, officer of the Hellenic Army and member of the Greek Resistance (b. 1890)
1960 Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
1960 Willem Elsschot (Alfons de Ridder), Flemish writer (Kas) (b. 1882)
1961 Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
1962 Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel (b. 1906)
1962 Eduardo Toldra, composer
1962 Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
1963 Carel C van Essen, archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome)
1967 Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1970 Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929)
1971 Dainty Ironmonger, cricketer (74 wkts in 14 Tests after age 46)
1971 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
1971 Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologist
1972 Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1973 Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist
1974 Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy)
1976 Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1976 Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell
1977 William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
1978 József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1979 Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India)
1983 Jack Dempsey, American boxer, heavyweight boxing champ, actor (b. 1895)
1985 Gaston Rébuffat, Legendary French mountaineer (b. 1921)
1986 James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1986 Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist (b. 1918)
1987 Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall)
1987 John Abraham (director), Indian film director (b. 1937)
1989 C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian)
1989 Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer)
1989 Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent
1991 Angus Wilson (Johnstone-W), British writer (Wrong Set)
1991 H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent
1992 Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl
1993 John Granger, actor (Advise & Consent)
1993 Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog
1994 Doug Freeman, cricketer (2 Tests of leg-spin for NZ 1933)
1994 Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter
1994 Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (b. 1909)
1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director
1995 Tim Mara, owner (NY Giants)
1996 Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker
1996 Elsbeary Hobbs, singer
1996 Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82)
1996 Paul Peter Piech, artist
1996 Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer
1996 Timothy (Francis) Leary, American Harvard professor and LSD advocate (b. 1920)
1997 James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
1997 Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon (Rosie the riveter)
1998 Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (b. 1912)
2000 Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2000 Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923)
2001 Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 1907)
2004 Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
2004 Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2006 Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)
2006 Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)
2006 Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2006 Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970)
2009 Danny La Rue, British entertainer (b. 1927)
2009 George Tiller, American abortion doctor (b. 1941)
2009 Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster died. (b. 1912)
2010 Benjamin Lees, American composer (b. 1924)
2010 Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (b. 1933)
2010 Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculpter (b. 1911)
2010 Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (b. 1942)
2010 Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist (b. 1947)
2010 William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (b. 1923)
2013 Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)
2013 Tim Samaras, American tornado chaser, dies from tornado injuries
2014 Martha Hyer, American actress

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