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1276 While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
1287 Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria.
1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance.
1535 Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1541 Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
1565 Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester, New Model army (15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers) under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists in the English Civil War
1647 English New Model-army installed
1648 Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
1658 Battle at Dunes, English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 Battle at Schooneveld, Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1755 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1775 The Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army during the American Revolutionary War.
1777 The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
1789 Bounty mutiny survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 7,400 km (4,000-mile) journey in an open boat.
1789 Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
1800 The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo (Alessandria) in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
1807 Emperor Napoleon I's French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1821 Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1822 Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 First Henley Royal Regatta, the village of Henley, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first Regatta.
1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 Bear Flag Revolt begins Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California (Bear Flag) Republic, indepent of Mexico.
1846 Belgian Liberal Party forms
1847 Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 Fire destroys part of SF
1861 Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 Battle of Second Winchester a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia in the American Civil Warm American Civil War.
1863 Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay
1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.
1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 14th Belmont, L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 France signs Niger Convention
1900 Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1901 1st golf championship is played
1904 Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 Norway adopts female suffrage but restricts woman's voting rights.
1908 Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships.
1917 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917 Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1922 5th PGA Championship, Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v South Africa
1924 WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 2nd French Womens Tennis, Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1926 Brazil leaves the League of Nations
1928 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1929 Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 German government of von Papen forms
1933 Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
1938 Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.
1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there). A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1940 The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence
1940 Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat, World War II.
1941 Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 June deportation, the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 French government of Reynaud resigns
1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 Canadian Library Association established
1948 Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1952 52nd US Golf Open, Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
1952 General strike in Tunisia
1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 The Keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus.
1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1954 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States' Pledge of Allegiance.
1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1956 "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 58th US Golf Open, Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
1959 A group of Dominican exiles with leftist tendencies that departed from Cuba land in the Dominican Republic with the intent of deposing Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Save for four of them, all are killed and/or executed by Trujillo's army. This feat would be the inspiration for a clandestine group that would seek to continue undermining Trujillo's power and would be called "Movimiento Catorce de Junio" (14th of June Movement).
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 106°F, hottest temperature in SF
1962 Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim.
1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris later becoming the European Space Agency.
1962 The New Mexico Supreme Court in the case of Montoya v. Bolack, 70 N.M. 196, prohibits state and local governments from denying Indians the right to vote because they live on a reservation.
1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1966 The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.
1967 Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus (Flyby).
1967 Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV
1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1969 John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1973 46th National Spelling Bee, Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1975 45th French Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1976 The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
1979 NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1982 The Falklands War ends, Argentine forces in the capital Stanley unconditionally surrender to British forces.
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1985 TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah shortly after take-off from Athens, Greece.
1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 41st NBA Championship, LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 44th NBA Championship, Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1990 Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 Miners from Jiu Valley are called to Bucharest by President Ion Iliescu to quell demonstrations in University Square by anti-government protesters.
1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Dave Stockton
1992 46th NBA Championship, Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 Stanley Cup, NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1995 49th NBA Championship, Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1995 Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
2001 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2005 Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium
2012 An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
2012 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
2013 Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran
2013 Start of the Flash floods and landslides in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh kill more than 5,700 people and trap more than 20,000, it Continues until June 30th
2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property
2014 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down
2014 Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland
2015 "Jurassic World", 1st film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend
2016 First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced, the Bramble Cay melomys from Torres Strait

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1479 Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1529 Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, Mayor of Bohemia (d. 1595)
1657 Cornelis Cruys (Niels Olsen Creutz), Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1691 Jan Francisci, composer
1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1730 Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer
1736 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law) (d. 1806)
1760 Candido Jose Ruano, composer
1763 Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1769 Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1796 Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (d. 1866)
1798 František Palacký, Czech scholar and politician (d. 1876)
1801 Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1868)
1805 Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1871)
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) (d. 1896)
1812 Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (d. 1881)
1819 Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
1820 John Bartlett, American editor, publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (d. 1905)
1821 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
1832 Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
1835 Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
1836 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1854 Frederik Rung, composer
1855 Robert Marion La Follette, American Senator, Presidential candidate (Progressive) (d. 1925)
1856 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (Markov Chain) (d. 1922)
1864 Alois Alzheimer, German physician and pathologist (Alzheimer Disease) (d. 1915)
1865 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1868 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician (recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930) (d. 1943)
1870 Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
1871 Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
1874 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1877 Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
1882 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
1882 Michael Zadora, composer
1883 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1884 John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1889 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
1890 May Allison, American actress (d. 1989)
1893 Siggie Nordstrom, Swedish singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (d. 1980)
1894 Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1924)
1895 Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Missouri, singer (54th Street Revue, When You Wish Upon a Star)
1895 Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (d. 1968)
1895 Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
1899 Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968) (d. 1972)
1900 June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven)
1903 Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (d. 1995)
1903 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1904 Benno Ammann, composer
1904 Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist (d. 1971)
1905 Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (d. 1991)
1906 Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1906 Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist (d. 1971)
1906 Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
1907 Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1989)
1907 Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
1907 René Char, French poet/painter
1908 John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 Burl Ives, American musician, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) (d. 1995)
1910 Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72) (d. 1976)
1912 E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer)
1913 Joe Morris, C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (d. 1996)
1914 Pauline Moore, American actress (d. 2001)
1914 Winifred Milius Lubell, New York, American illustrator and writer (The Outer Lands) (d. 2012)
1916 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
1916 Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916 Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
1917 Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1917 Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)
1917 Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist and writer
1918 Carter Harman, composer
1918 Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1918 Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1919 Gene Barry, American actor (d. 2009)
1919 Sam Wanamaker, American actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal) (d. 1993)
1920 Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1921 Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law)
1922 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1922 Kevin Roche, Irish architect
1923 Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
1923 Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1923 Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1924 James W. Black, British doctor (d. 2010)
1924 Solouchin, writer
1925 Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter
1925 David Bache, designer
1925 Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC), John F. Kennedy's Press Secretary (d. 2004)
1926 Don Newcombe, baseball player
1926 Hermann Kant, German author
1928 (Ernesto) "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician (Cuban Revolution) (d. 1967)
1929 Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder)
1929 Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman), American songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity) (d. 2004)
1931 Junior Walker, Saxophonist and singer (Jr. Walker & the All Stars) (d. 1995)
1931 Marla Gibbs, American actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1932 Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona
1933 Jerzy Kosinski, Polish author (Painted Bird, Being There) (d. 1991)
1933 Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
1935 Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA)
1936 Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish actor
1936 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
1937 Jørgen Leth, Danish film director
1939 John F. MacArthur, American evangelist
1939 Steny H Hoyer, U.S. Congressman (Rep-D-MD, 1981)
1940 Ben Davidson, LA California, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R), (d. 2012)
1940 Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
1940 Jack Bannon, LA California, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1940 John Mizelle, composer
1941 John Edgar Widerman, US writer
1943 Barry Burman, English artist (d. 2001)
1943 F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
1943 Harold Wheeler, American composer
1943 John Miles, British racing driver
1943 Muff (Mervyn) Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 Spooner Oldham, American musician
1943 W J (Billy) Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980)
1944 Joe Grifasi, American actor
1944 Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992)
1945 Marilyn Schreffler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
1945 Rod Argent, English musician (The Zombies, Argent)
1946 Donald Trump, American businessman and entrepreneur (Trump Towers, Trump Plaza)
1946 Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
1947 Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1948 Laurence Yep, American author
1949 Alan White, British drummer (Yes)
1949 Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc)
1949 Harry Turtledove, American author
1949 Jimmy Lea, British musician (Slade)
1949 Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
1950 Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem)
1950 Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
1951 Paul Boateng, British politician
1952 Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley)
1952 Jimmy Lea, England, rock bassist (Slade)
1952 Leon Wieseltier, American writer.
1952 Pat Summitt, American basketball coach
1953 David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
1953 Janet Mackey, New Zealand politician
1954 Will Patton, American actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1955 Kim Lankford, Montebello California, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing)
1955 Larry Burrows, fictional character (Mr Destiny)
1955 Michael D. Duvall, California State Assemblyman
1955 Paul O'Grady, British comedian and television presenter
1955 Vince Evans, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1956 Fred(erick) Funk, American Professional golfer, PGA tour (1992 Shell Houston Open)
1956 Gianna Nannini, Italian singer
1956 King Diamond (Kim Petersen), Danish heavy metal musician (Merciful Fate, King Diamond)
1956 Sam Irvin, American director and producer
1957 Maxi Jazz, British rapper (Faithless) and racing driver
1958 Brian David Willis, rock drummer (Quarterflash)
1958 Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
1958 Eric Heiden, American speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980)
1959 Marcus Miller, American musician
1960 Mike Laga, American baseball player
1960 Tonie Campbell, LA California, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 "Boy George" O'Dowd, British singer (Culture Club)
1961 Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1961 Sam Perkins, American basketball player, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1962 Scott Radecic, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 James Patrick, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1963 Laurel Kean, Portland ME, LPGA golfer (1994 JAL Big Apple-17th)
1964 Jamie Dukes, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1964 Peter Gilliver, English lexicographer
1964 Randall Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, boxer (Olympics-96)
1966 Ricky Siglar, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs, New Orleans Saints)
1966 Rod Stephens, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1966 Traylor Howard, American actress (Joy Byrnes-Boston Common)
1967 Ante Mise, Yugoslav soccer player (Hajduk Split/Vitesse)
1967 Dedrick Dodge, NFL safety (SF 49ers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 Kelly Nash, American radio personality
1967 Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92)
1968 Brian Wiggins, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1968 Campbell Brown, American journalist and news reporter
1968 Eric Murdock, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Miami Heat)
1968 Faizon Love, American actor
1968 Tony Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1968 Yasmine Bleeth, American actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch)
1969 Eric Desjardins, Rauyn Quebec, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Canada)
1969 Eugene Chung, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Kyle Hebert, American voice actor
1969 MC Ren, American rapper
1969 Michael Gerber, American parody author
1969 Steffi Graf, German tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
1969 Éric Desjardins, Canadian hockey player
1970 Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
1970 Todd Manning, fictional character (One Life to Live)
1970 Willie Beamon, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1971 Bruce Bowen, American basketball player, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1971 Fred Baxter, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1971 Ramon Vega, former Swiss footballer
1972 Jeff Kysar, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1972 Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist (KDE)
1972 Michael Cade, American actor
1972 Rick Brunson, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1972 Shaun Keaveny, British radio DJ
1973 Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
1973 Daniel Marsh, cricketer (son of Rod South Aust slow lefty since 1993)
1973 Michael Cade, NJ, actor (Sylvester Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 Sam Shade, NFL strong safety (Cin Bengals)
1973 Sami Kapanen, Finnish hockey player, NHL left wing (Whalers, Carolina, Oly-B-98)
1973 Stepfret Williams, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (d. 2009)
1974 Joshua Radin, American songwriter
1974 Phillip Rhys, British actor
1974 Rod Payne, corner (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 A J Mleczko, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1975 Bob Nanna, American musician (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City on Film)
1975 Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
1975 Ryuji Miki, Japanese racing driver
1976 Alan Carr, British Stand-up comedian, Television presenter
1976 Massimo Oddo, Italian football player
1976 Rita Carvalho, Miss Universe-Portugal (1996)
1977 Chris McAlister, American football player
1977 Massimiliano Neri, Italian Supermodel
1978 Annia Hatch, Cuban-American gymnast
1978 Diablo Cody, American screenwriter
1978 Steve Bégin, French-Canadian hockey player
1981 Chauncey Leopardi, American actor
1981 Lonneke Engel, Dutch model
1982 Jamie Green, British racing driver
1982 Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
1983 Hirofumi Araki, Japanese actor
1983 John Stocco, American football player
1983 Louis Garrel, French actor
1984 Lorenzo Booker, American football player
1984 Siobhán Donaghy, British singer (Sugababes)
1984 Yury Prilukov, Russian swimmer
1985 Andrew Bonner, Scottish football player
1985 Andy Soucek, Spanish racing driver
1986 Jonathan Clare, English cricketer
1987 Andrew Cogliano, Professional Hockey Player
1988 Kevin Michael McHale, American singer
1989 Courtney Halverson, American actress
1989 Lucy Hale, American actress
1992 Daryl Sabara, American actor
1992 Evan Sabara, American actor
1995 Daniel Hunter, child prodigy
1995 Richard Wisker, British actor
2160 Montgomery Edward Scott, Scottish fictional engineer (Star Trek)

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1144 Aboe 'l-Kasim Mahmoed ibn Omar al-Zapowersjari, theologist
1161 Emperor Qinzong of China (b. 1100)
1349 Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349
1381 Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1497 Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Borgia (b. 1474)
1544 Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1489)
1548 Carpentras, French composer
1594 Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (Prophet sybillarum)
1594 Roland de Lassus, composer
1662 Henry Vane the Younger, British Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1613)
1674 Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French writer (b. 1600)
1703 Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
1709 Gottfried Wegner, composer
1727 Cornelis Cruys, Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1744 Andre Campra, composer
1750 Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1752 Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer
1752 Daniel Marot, French/Neth, architect/engraver
1789 Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1794 Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (b. 1718)
1800 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (b. 1753)
1800 Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader (b. 1768)
1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general
1825 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (b. 1754)
1828 Charles, Duke of Prussia
1828 Charles Augustus, grand duke of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach
1837 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
1864 Leonidas Polk, general, killed in action in Battle of Pine Mt
1873 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian
1883 Edward FitzGerald, English poet (b. 1809)
1885 Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curacao
1886 Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (b. 1823)
1891 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
1907 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP)
1907 Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93)
1907 William Le Baron Jenny, American engineer and architect (b. 1832)
1908 Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor general of Canada (b. 1841)
1911 Johan Severin Svendsen, composer
1914 Adlai Stevenson I, American politician, 23rd Vice President (b. 1835)
1916 João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
1920 Max Weber, German sociologist and economist (b. 1864)
1926 Mary Cassatt, American artist (b. 1843)
1927 Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859)
1927 Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1927 Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1894)
1928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist (b. 1857)
1932 Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer (b. 1858)
1933 Albert Ross Parsons, composer
1936 Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer and poet (Father Brown) (b. 1874)
1936 Hans Poelzig, German architect (b. 1869)
1938 William W Campbell, US astronomer (Stellar Motions)
1941 Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox)
1944 Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist
1944 Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
1946 John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer (b. 1888)
1948 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
1948 John Blackwood McEwen, composer
1951 Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician
1960 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52)
1960 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1962 Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim
1962 Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer
1964 (Hei)ko E Arnoldi, actor/director (3 Drops of Water)
1965 Guido Guerrini, composer
1967 Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
1968 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara)
1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (Nobel Laureate 1959) (b. 1901)
1974 Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer
1975 Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (b. 1902)
1977 Alan Reed, actor (Fred Allen)/voice (Fred Flintstone)
1977 Robert Middleton, American actor (Barney-Monroes) (b. 1911)
1978 Theodore Karyotakis, composer
1979 Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer and composer (b. 1946)
1982 Marie Rambert (Cyviam Ramberg), Polish/British ballerina
1982 Marjorie Bennett, actress (Blossom-Dobie Gillis)
1986 Alan Jay Lerner, American composer (b. 1918)
1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand) (b. 1899)
1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)
1987 Les Favell, cricketer (757 runs for Australia)
1989 Pete de Freitas, drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman)
1990 Erna Berger, German soprano (b. 1900)
1991 Joy Finzi (Joyce A Black), British painter
1991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India) (b. 1907)
1993 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop)
1994 Denys Hay, historian
1994 Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat)
1994 Henry Mancini, American composer (Pink Panther, Moon River) (b. 1924)
1994 Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz
1994 Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
1994 Marianne Kunvari, writer
1994 Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach
1994 Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort)
1994 Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
1995 Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, television producer
1995 Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist
1995 Gordon Greig, journalist
1995 Roger Joseph Zelazny, American sci-fi writer (b. 1937)
1995 Rory Gallagher, Irish guitarist (See Here) (b. 1949)
1996 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1996 Thomas Edward Montgomery, drummer
1997 Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1997 Richard Jaeckel, American actor (Starman, The Dark) (b. 1926)
1997 Tesslynn O'Cull, American child abuse victim (b. 1995)
1999 Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)
2000 Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (b. 1911)
2002 June Jordan, American writer and teacher (b. 1936)
2003 Dale Whittington, American racing driver (b. 1959)
2004 Eamonn McGirr, Irish-born singer and entertainer
2004 Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1900)
2005 Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
2005 Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
2006 Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930)
2006 Monty Berman, British film and television producer (b. 1905)
2007 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman (b. 1918)
2007 Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
2007 Ruth Graham, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
2008 Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1964)
2008 Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)
2009 Bob Bogle, founding member of The Ventures
2009 Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2014 Rodney Thomas, American NFL running back
2016 Henry McCullough, Irish guitarist (Wings)
2016 Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show)

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