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363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1284 the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
1409 The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1483 Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English King Richard III
1498 Toothbrush invented
1541 Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1553 Christ's Hospital in England granted a charter
1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1714 Spain & Netherlands sign peace/trade agreement
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America
1723 After a lasting siege and bombardment by cannons, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1794 Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1844 US pres John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in NYC
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1848 End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 Cawnpore England massacre
1857 The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London (62 receive).
1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, Union repulses Confederacy in Virginia
1862 Day 2 of 7 Days-Battle of Mechanicsville VA (Meadow Bridge)
1862 US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1870 The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1870 Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich
1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1896 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10 cents for admission
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Garidebs" (BG)
1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1907 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
1909 23rd US Womens Tennis, H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61)
1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1909 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
1910 24th US Womens Tennis, H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
1910 Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Association championship
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1912 Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1915 Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)
1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1918 In World War I on the Western Front, Battle for Belleau Wood occurs.  Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1919 NY Daily News begins publishing
1924 After 8 years of occupation, American troops leave Dominican Republic
1924 Ziegfeld Follies opens on Broadway
1927 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1929 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
1934 Germany & Poland sign no-attack treaty
1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1934 W E B Du Bois resigns position at NAACP
1935 Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 v Hants
1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
1935 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
1935 Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany
1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ
1936 Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1937 Test cricket debut of Len Hutton v NZ at Lord's, scores 0 & 1
1938 Cin Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar, Gregorian readopted 6/27
1940 Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina, World War II.
1941 Finland enters WW II against Russia
1941 Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1942 German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
1942 The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line
1944 Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
1945 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs
1945 The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
1946 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
1946 Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
1948 Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin
1948 William Shockley files the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote (CVP gains)
1950 Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
1952 Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)
1952 Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1952 The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewise labour parties.
1953 KCTV (now KLST) TV channel 8 in San Angelo, TX (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested
1954 Jim Peters runs marathon in 2:17:39.4
1955 Actor Geoffrey Holder marries Carmen de Lavallade
1955 Freedom Charter signed in South-Africa
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1958 Gaston Eyskens becomes premier of Belgium
1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1958 Vanguard SLV-2 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
1959 The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration
1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland .
1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
1962 WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1963 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
1963 John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) on a visit to West Berlin.
1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
1964 Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1964 Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo
1965 Wallon party forms in Belgium
1966 "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs
1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1967 Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals
1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
1971 "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 perfs
1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
1972 Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 & 8-53) on Test cricket debut v Eng
1972 IRA proclaims resistant in North-Ireland
1973 At Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1973 London production of "Grease" premieres
1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1976 The CN Tower, the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, is opened to general public.
1976 WS shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career
1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes & kills a driver
1981 "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in US
1982 Carlos Lopes runs Europe record 10k (27:34.39)
1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1983 "Loving" premieres on TV
1983 "Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances
1983 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4
1984 Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last"
1984 Tiny Tim gets married
1986 South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
1988 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for 2nd time
1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 8 KS & OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1990 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall
1991 "Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 perfs
1991 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress
1991 Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick
1991 Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes
1991 The Yugoslav people's army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1992 Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
1992 NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1993 "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV
1993 Actress Julia Roberts & country singer Lyle Lovett wed
1993 NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs
1993 Rebecca Jones, of Georgia, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1993 The United States launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1993 US Tomahawk-rockets hit Iraqi secret service, Baghdad
1994 "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
1994 "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
1994 104°F (40°C) at Denver Colorado
1994 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin Nevada
1994 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley Calif
1994 Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
1994 Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
1994 Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1994 Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
1994 Microsoft no longer supports MS-DOS and the development of FreeDOS begins.
1994 PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1994 US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup
1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations (Orbit 9)
1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
1997 Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional
2008 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional. 2011 Yani Tseng wins the 57th LPGA Championship
2013 20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand
2013 Kevin Rudd defeats Julia Gillard in a leadership battle to become Australian Prime Minister
2013 Peter Ustinov's "The Moment of Truth" opens at Southwark Playhouse in London starring Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)
2014 Canadian Andrew Wiggins is selected as the No.1 draft pick in the NBA by the Cleveland Cavaliers
2014 Following a military coup in Thailand, people have been warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
2014 Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
2015 Connor McDavid is selected by the Edmonton Oilers as the first draft pick for the 2015 NHL Entry Draft
2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls for a Greek referendum on new bailout terms
2015 Gunman opens fire at beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia, killing 38. Isis claims responsibility
2015 Saudi suicide bomber kills 27 at Shia Imam al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait, 227 injured
2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
2016 City of Falluja freed from Islamic State control after a month-long campaign by Iraqi forces
2016 Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson

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1575 Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1582 Johannes Schultz, composer
1655 Jean Deutz, merchant/Amsterdam regent
1681 Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
1689 Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
1694 Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1702 Philip Doddridge, English religious leader, nonconformist clergyman (d. 1751)
1703 Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
1730 Charles Joseph Messier, French Astronomer (cataloguer of "M objects") (d. 1817)
1742 Arthur Middleton, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1747 Leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer
1749 Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer
1760 Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal
1763 George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes
1798 Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1817 Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819 Abner Doubleday, American Major General (Union), inventor (baseball)  (d. 1893)
1821 Bartolome Mitre, Argentine general, historian, and politician (d. 1906)
1823 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer
1824 Kelvin (William Thomson), Irish physicist (Kelvin Scale) (d. 1907)
1824 Moritz Furstenau, composer
1831 Julius Rodenberg (Levy), German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace)
1835 Thomas W. Knox, American author (d. 1896)
1837 Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1923
1837 Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (d. 1894)
1854 Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician, 8th Canadian PM (1911-20) (d. 1937)
1865 Bernard Berenson, American art historian (Italian Painters of the Renaissance) (d. 1959)
1865 Charles E Bonin, French explorer/diplomat (China)
1865 George C Pearce, actor (Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant)
1866 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
1866 Josef Swickard, Coblenz Germany, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities)
1869 Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
1874 Albert Relf, cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14)
1874 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer
1875 Camille Zeckwer, composer
1876 Nico(laas P]) de Jong, Dutch radio play actor (Laughter & Tears)
1878 Albert Siklos, composer
1878 Ernest Torrence, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1880 Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
1881 Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (d. 1960)
1885 Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog), French writer (Balzac)
1885 Anna M F van Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 9/26]
1885 Billy Jenkins (Erich Rosenthal), Magdeburg
1886 Margaretha C E "Greta" Beekman, actress (Wrong Poes)
1887 Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist
1891 Heinrich Lemacher, composer
1891 Sidney Coe Howard, US, dramatist (Swords, Pulitzer 1925)
1891 Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/(stage)author/resistance fighter
1892 Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck, American writer (Nobel laureate 1938) (Good Earth) (d. 1973)
1893 "Big Bill" Broonzy, Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)
1894 Bill Wirges, Buffalo NY, orchestra leader (Growing Paynes)
1894 Jeanne Eagels, actress (Rain, Under False Colors)
1895 George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
1895 Jankel Adler, Polish painter
1897 Viola Dana, Brooklyn, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover)
1898 Chesty Puller, American military officer, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
1899 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1900 Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter
1901 Stuart Symington, American politician (Sen-D-Mo) (d. 1988)
1901 William Busch, composer
1902 Antonia Brico, Rotterdam Holland, conductor/pianist (Antonia)
1902 Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
1902 William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO (Lear Jet Corp)
1903 Ashley Clarke, president (Venice in Peril Fund)
1903 Floyd "Babe" Herman, Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average)
1904 Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1904 Peter Lorre, Hungarian actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers) (d. 1964)
1905 Jack Longland, British director of education (Derbyshire)
1905 Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Neth resistance fighter in France
1906 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974)
1906 Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia)
1906 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
1907 Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1908 Salvador Allende, Former President of Chile (1970-1973) (d. 1973)
1909 "Colonel" Tom Parker (Dries Van Kruijk), Music manager (Elvis Presley) (d. 1997)
1909 Betty Askwith, author
1909 Nicholas Polunin, environmentalist
1910 Charles Spry, Australian security chief
1911 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
1911 Edward Levi, professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning)
1913 Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1913 Babe (Mildred Ella) Didrikson, Port Arthur TX, hurdler (Oly-gold-32)
1913 Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist, inventor (stored program concept for computers)
1914 John J "John" Beautiful Garden, sculptor
1914 Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (d. 2006)
1914 Laurie Lee, British writer (I Can't Stay Long) (d. 1997)
1914 Richard Maltby, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1914 Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)
1915 Charlotte Zolotow, American author
1915 Paul Castellano, American organized crime figure (d. 1985)
1916 Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer
1916 Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist
1917 William Hamilton, British MP
1919 Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general (Ewell)
1919 Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
1920 Michael Eastham, high court judge
1921 Abe Jan Koldijk, SS-physician (Limburg's family doctor)
1921 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
1922 Alan Peacock, economist
1922 Campbell Adamson, CEO (Abbey National Pictures)
1922 Eleanor Parker, American actress (Caged, Detective Story, Hans Brinker)
1922 Frances Rafferty, Sioux City Iowa, actress (December Bride)
1923 Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
1923 David Haslam, British rear admiral (hydrographer)
1924 Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher
1924 Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse
1924 Syd Lawrence, bandleader (Syd Lawrence Orch)
1925 Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod II) (d. 1970)
1927 Leslie Carpenter, CEO (Reed International)
1928 Jacob Druckman, American composer (Animus I Auerole) (d. 1996)
1928 Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929 Alexander Fenton, CEO (Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh)
1929 Francesco Cossiga, president of Italy (1985)
1929 Ian Prestt, English ornithologist
1929 Milton Glaser, American Designer
1930 Willem G Statius Muller, Neth Antilles, conductor/pianist/composer
1931 Alan Bailey, British sect (dept of transport)
1931 Colin Wilson, British writer (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries)
1931 Lucien Goethals, composer
1932 Henry Bromfield, cricketer (S Afr off-spinner in 9 Tests 1961-65)
1933 Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (London Symph-1982)
1933 David Winnick, British MP
1933 Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1934 Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
1934 Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1934 John V Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion/(Rep/Sen-D-California)
1934 Josef Sommer, Germany, actor (Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March)
1934 Luis Felipe Pires, composer
1935 Douglas Peterson, (Rep-D-Florida)
1936 Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal
1936 Robert Maclennan, British politician
1937 Peter Pike, MP
1937 Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1937 Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
1938 Gerald North, American climatologist
1938 Neil Abercrombie, (Rep-D-Hawaii, 1986-88)
1939 Ansar Ilgamovich Sharafutdinov, Russian cosmonaut
1939 Charles "Chuck" Robb, (Sen-D-Va)/husband of Lynda Bird Johnson
1939 Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, South Africa, sec-gen (Bishops' Conference 1983-88)
1940 Billy Davis Jr., American singer (The 5th Dimension)
1940 Robert Kramer, actor (A.K.)
1941 Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
1942 Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
1942 James J. Dillon, American professional wrestling manager
1942 Larry Taylor, Brooklyn, rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
1943 Georgie Fame, British singer (Get Away, Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde)
1943 Jean Knight, US singer (Mr Big Stuff)
1943 John Allen Strang, composer
1943 John Beasley, American actor
1943 Warren Farrell, American author
1944 Ruth Kempson, linguist (SOAS)
1945 Barry Schrader, composer
1945 David Heyn, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman 1975 World Cup)
1945 Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader
1946 Clive Francis, London England, actor (Masada)
1948 Allen Michael Doyle, Woonsocket RI, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial-64th)
1951 Breyson Cooper, jockey
1951 Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
1951 Pamela Bellwood (King), American actress (Ellen-W.E.B., Claudia-Dynasty)
1951 Rindy Ross, Portland Oregon, rock vocalist/saxophonist (Quarterflash)
1952 Gordon McQueen, soccer player
1953 James Anderson, writer
1953 Ralph Ezell, Union Miss, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1953 Robert Davi, American actor (Gangster Chronicles), opera singer
1954 Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
1955 Mary Margaret Brownie, RI, fictional ID of Prymaat (Coneheads)
1955 Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
1956 Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/S Afr leader (United Democratic Front)
1956 Bernard A Harris Jr, Temple Texas, MD/Astronaut (STS 55, 63)
1956 Chris Isaak, American singer and songwriter (Wicked Game)
1956 Robert Davi, actor (License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing)
1957 Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
1957 Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
1958 Glen Stewart Godwin, Miami Fla, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1959 Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
1960 Barbara Edwards, Albuqueque NM, playmate of year (Sept, 1983)/actress
1960 Jumpy Geathers, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1960 Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (d. 1997)
1961 Greg LeMond, American cyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990)
1961 Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
1962 George P N earl of St Andrews, under English prince Edward
1962 Jerome Kersey, American basketball player, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Sea Supersonics)
1962 Preston A. Whitmore II, American screenwriter and film director
1963 Harriet Wheeler, British singer and composer (The Sundays)
1963 Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman, oligarch and convicted felon
1963 Richard Garfield, American game designer
1963 Wendy Lucero-Schayes, Denver Co, US diver (Olympic-92)
1964 Alison Wyeth, Isle West Middlesex England, 1.5k/5k runner
1964 Pamela Wright, Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr Toledo-3rd)
1964 Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1")
1966 Bryan Webb, horse trainer
1966 Jürgen Reil, American drummer (Kreator)
1966 Kirk McLean, Toronto, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 Minaguchi Yuko, Japanese voice actress
1966 Paul Mokha, Erie Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
1967 Travis Fine, Atlanta GA, actor (Ike McSwain-Young Riders)
1968 Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1968 Shannon Sharpe, American football player, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1969 Barry Kloeth, WLAF wide receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 Colin Greenwood, British musician
1969 Harry Boatswain, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
1969 Michael Myers, American baseball player, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1969 Troy Auzenne, NFL tackle (Chic Bears)
1970 Chris O'Donnell, American actor (School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever)
1970 Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970 Matt Letscher, American actor
1970 Nick Offerman, American actor
1970 Nicole Richardson, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
1970 Sean Hayes, American actor
1971 Carlton Gray, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Eddie Parenti, Montreal Quebec, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-96)
1971 Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1972 Garou, Canadian singer
1972 Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper (Olympics-96)
1972 Jerris McPhail, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1973 Aaron Jackson, Pitts Pa, actor (Mark Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 Gretchen Wilson, American singer
1973 Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1973 Mischa Smoking, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1973 Pawel Malaszynski, Polish actor
1973 Rebecca Budig, American actress
1973 Reggie Brown, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 Derek Jeter, American baseball player, shortstop (NY Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996)
1974 Dieter Kalt, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1974 Jason Kendall, American baseball player, catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1974 Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
1974 Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
1974 Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer
1975 Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist
1975 Terry Skiverton, English football player
1975 Umeki Webb, WNBA guard/forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1976 Chad Pennington, American football player
1976 Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1976 Joe Landon, American pornographic actor
1976 Mpumelo Mbangwa, cricketer (Zimbabwe pace bowler v Pakistan 1996)
1977 Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist
1977 Mark Jindrak, American Professional Wrestler
1978 Alexandra, French singer, L5's singer
1979 Andy O'Brien, English footballer
1979 Ryan Tedder, American Musician
1979 Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
1979 Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
1980 Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1980 Hamílton, naturalized Togolese footballer
1980 Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980 Michael Vick, American football player
1980 Sinik, French singer and rapper
1981 Damien Sargue, French singer
1984 Aubrey Plaza, American comedian, writer and actress
1984 Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984 Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
1984 Gabrielle Walcott, winner of Miss Trinidad & Tobago World 2008
1984 Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
1984 Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1985 Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986 Casey Desmond, American singer
1986 Drake Bell, American actor, musician
1987 Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
1987 Samir Nasri, French footballer
1992 Jennette McCurdy, American actress
1994 Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
2001 Tristan Dowse, child of controversial international adoption case involving Ireland and Indonesia
2005 Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

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363 Flavius C Julianus (Apostata), Emperor of Rome (361-63) (b. 331)
1291 Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated
1631 Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada)
1657 Tobias Michael, composer
1661 Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1666 Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet
1688 Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
1778 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
1784 Caesar Rodney, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
1793 Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
1798 Eugene Godecharle, composer
1810 Joseph Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (b. 1740)
1819 Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1819 Slome Duikelar (Abraham J Swalff), Yiddish writer
1827 Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini)
1827 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny)
1836 Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760)
1856 Max Stirner, German philosopher (b. 1806)
1863 Andrew Hull Foote, US Union lt admiral
1878 Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1896 Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian)
1906 Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever)
1918 Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1922 Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1889-1922) (b. 1848)
1923 Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland)
1926 Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut
1937 Georg A Erman, Ger egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)
1938 James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash
1939 Ford M(adox) Ford (Hueffer), British writer, (Tietjens Saga) (b. 1873)
1943 Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide
1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
1944 Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887)
1945 Emil Hácha, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1872)
1945 Erno Rapee, composer
1945 Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer
1946 Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
1946 Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1947 Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1948 Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (b. 1924)
1949 Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1955 Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (b. 1895)
1956 Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu) (b. 1930)
1957 Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1958 Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1958 George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1958 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation)
1959 Audley Miller, cricketer (Test for England 1896)
1960 John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24)
1961 Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker)
1963 Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart)
1964 Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
1964 Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
1965 Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic
1965 Reginald Beckwith, actor/writer (39 Steps, Dr in Love)
1967 Errol Hunte, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests v England 1930)
1967 Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
1971 Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
1971 Inia Te Wiata, opera singer
1971 Juan Manen, composer
1972 David Lichine (Lichtenstein), Russian/US choreographer
1973 Arnold Richardson, composer
1973 Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday)
1975 St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1977 Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy)
1977 Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist
1978 Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed
1979 Charles Clore, financier
1981 Peter Kreuder, German composer
1982 Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist
1982 Andre Tchaikowsy, pianist/composer
1982 Charles Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison for James Bond films
1982 Sandy Powell, costume designer
1983 Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1984 Carl Foreman, producer
1984 George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll)
1986 Laurie Fishlock, cricketer (4 Tests for England)
1987 Glen Hall, cricketer (Test for South Africa 1965), commits suicide
1990 Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (b. 1909)
1991 Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II)
1991 Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women)
1992 Geert Vissers, Dutch TV host (Gay Dating Show)
1992 Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1992 Phil Rubenstein, US, actor (Tango & Cash, Robocop)
1993 Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay
1993 Jack Bittner, entertainer
1993 Roy Campanella, American baseball player, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), (b. 1921)
1993 William H. Riker, American political scientist (Small Truth) (b. 1920)
1994 A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe)
1994 Ian Board, barkeeper
1994 Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist (b. 1929)
1994 Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli)
1994 Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist
1996 Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1997 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
2001 Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
2002 Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2002 Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2003 Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
2003 Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2003 Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
2004 Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2004 Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
2005 Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
2006 Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
2007 Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)
2007 Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 Natasja Saad, Danish Reggae singer (b. 1974)
2010 Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
2010 Sergio Vega, Mexican Banda singer (b.1969)
2012 Ann Curtis, American Olympic swimmer
2012 Nora Ephron, American author/screenwriter
2013 Marc Rich, Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (b. 1934)
2016 Barbara Goldsmith, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)

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