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1099 First Crusade captures, plunders Jerusalem. Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1205 Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1207 John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1240 A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1307 Duke Henrik van Karinthi chosen king of Bohemia
1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
1410 Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1410 Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland
1500 "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre
1500 Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion
1501 Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon
1524 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1538 Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I
1662 King Charles II charters Royal Society in London
1685 James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
1741 Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1755 French ambassador recalled from London
1779 US troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY
1783 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
1787 Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1789 Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1806 Pike expedition, near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1808 French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
1815 1st flat horse race held on Nottingham Hill at Cheltenham, England (day and month TBC)
1815 Napoleon surrendered & is later exiled on St Helena
1815 Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1823 A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
1830 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri
1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1840 England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
1850 John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's
1856 Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1862 CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
1863 Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army
1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens
1869 Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy
1870 Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. Reconstruction era of the United States is over.
1870 Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1870 The Kingdom of Prussia and the Second French Empire commence the Franco-Prussian War.
1876 Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
1888 The stratovolcano Mount Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years, killing approximately 500 people.
1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1901 NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
1902 Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey
1904 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1906 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
1909 Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
1911 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1914 Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1916 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
1916 In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing Co.).
1918 The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack during World War I.
1920 Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
1920 The Polish Parliament establishes Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1922 26th US Golf Open, Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill
1923 27th US Golf Open, Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY
1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
1927 62nd British Golf Open, Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews
1927 Massacre of July 15, 1927, 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
1929 First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1934 Continental Airlines commences operations.
1936 Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1938 Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent
1939 Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
1940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
1941 Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1942 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
1945 27th PGA Championship, Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio
1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1948 Pres Harry Truman nominated for another term (Phila)
1949 "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances
1949 Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1949 WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1952 Gerald D Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1954 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1954 First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
1954 KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1955 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Beverly Hanson, Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1956 Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1958 US marines deployed in Lebanon
1959 The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1960 Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
1961 "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances
1961 90th British Golf Open, Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 Spain accept equal rights for men & women
1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1962 Neth & Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
1963 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
1964 Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
1965 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1967 "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances
1967 LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs
1967 Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1968 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
1968 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1968 NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1969 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1969 Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1971 Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
1972 101st British Golf Open, Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 Sandra Palmer, Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship
1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
1973 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped
1973 Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
1973 Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs
1974 In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1974 Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1975 46th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee.  All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets)
1975 Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1976 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif
1978 107th British Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews
1979 34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
1979 Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1980 Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
1982 Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1982 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1983 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France. The Orly airport attack in Paris
1983 Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1984 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1984 John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
1985 Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
1986 57th All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston.  All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
1987 State of siege ends in Taiwan
1990 45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1991 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1991 Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit
1991 US troops leave northern Iraq
1992 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
1994 Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
1994 Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th
1994 NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)
1995 Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
1995 Jews take Jerusalem
1995 Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
1996 A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1996 After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
1996 MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
1996 Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers
1996 Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
1997 In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
1999 The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington.
2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2009 A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami
2012 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
2012 A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station
2013 13 people are killed by a car bomb in Deir Atiyah, Syria
2013 18 people are killed and 47 are injured in a riot following a boxing match in Indonesia
2014 20 people are killed & 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow
2014 AL wins the 85th All Star Baseball Game 5-3 at Target Field, Minnesota
2014 Israel announces it has officially voted to accept the ceasefire proposed by Egypt; Hamas reject, saying they were not consulted
2016 Attempted military coup in Turkey fails, nearly 300 killed, 6,000 then arrested

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1273 Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
1353 Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1458 Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish Explorer (d. 1521)
1471 Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
1553 Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
1573 Inigo Jones, English architect (Old St Paul's Cathedral, Coven Garden) (d. 1652)
1606 Rembrandt, Dutch artist (Night Watch) (d. 1669)
1631 Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, composer
1700 Johann Christoph Richter, composer
1701 Pierre Joubert, became oldest known Canadian (113 y 124 d at death)
1704 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader, founder of Moravian Church in North America (d. 1792)
1737 Princess Louise-Marie of France, daughter of King Louis XV (d. 1787)
1779 Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet ('Twas the Night Before Xmas) (d. 1863)
1796 Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology) (d. 1867)
1798 Charles H Bell, Comm (Union Navy) (d. 1875)
1799 Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
1802 John Barnett, composer
1808 Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851)
1808 Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (Westminster) (d. 1892)
1812 Benno Adam, animal painter
1812 James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1817 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway)
1818 Heinrich Esser, composer
1837 Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859)
1848 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
1849 Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer
1850 Francesca Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), Italian-born Catholic saint, 1st US saint (d. 1917)
1851 Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
1856 Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test captain)
1864 Marie Tempest (Marie Susan Etherington), English singer and actress (Yellow Sands) (d. 1942)
1865 Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe
1865 Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
1867 Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist
1870 Ernest Walker, composer
1870 Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
1871 Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1875 Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1875 Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter
1878 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist
1884 Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
1889 Marjorie Rambeau, SF California, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song)
1892 Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
1893 Dick Rauch, American professional American football player and coach (d. 1970)
1893 Enid Bennett, Australia, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins)
1894 Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1898 Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage), composer
1898 Norman Demuth, composer
1899 Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
1901 Pyke F C Koch, Dutch surrealistic painter (Dolores' Breakfast)
1902 Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission (1967-70) (d. 1983)
1902 Raymond Hackett, NYC, husband of Blanche Sweet/actor (Faithless Lover)
1903 Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1904 Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
1905 Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (I'm in the Mood for Love) (d. 1974)
1906 Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
1906 Rudolf "Rudi" Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
1907 Paterson Fraser, British air marshal
1909 Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist
1909 Isabel Jewell, Shoshone WY, actress (Ceiling Zero, Arousers)
1909 John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler (one Test 1931)
1910 Ronald Binge, composer
1911 Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1911 Juliet Pannett, English portrait painter
1911 Lord Shackelton, explorer/government minister
1913 Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist (d. 2010)
1913 Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
1913 Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
1913 Murvyn Vye, Quincy Mass, actor (Bob Cummings Show)
1913 Ralph Hammond Innes, English author
1914 Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
1914 Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
1914 Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
1915 Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA)
1915 Ron Smith, union leader (British Postal Workers)
1916 George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter (Willemsorde/Madurodam)
1916 Margaret Lockwood, British actress (d. 1990)
1917 Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life)
1918 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1918 Joan Roberts, American actress
1918 Lord Buxton of Alsa, CEO (ITV)
1919 Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (Severed Head, Unicorn) (d. 1999)
1920 Eldon Rudd, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977)
1920 Ruthven Wade, British Air Chief marshal
1921 Henri Colpi, French film director (d. 2006)
1921 Jack Hamilton Beeson, composer
1921 Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1922 Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union (ACV 1968-87)
1922 Jeffrey Benson, CEO (600 group)
1922 Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia, journalist/dissident
1922 Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1924 David Cox, warden (Nuffield College, Oxford)
1924 Jeremiah A Denton, (Sen-R-AL, 1981-86)
1925 Phil(ip) Carey, American actor (Asa Buchanan-One Life to Live) (d. 2009)
1926 Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author (d. 2007)
1926 John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer
1926 John Graham, British ambassador to NATO
1926 Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
1927 Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright (Knack)
1927 Carmen Zapata, NYC, actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man & the City)
1928 Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1929 Charles Anthony, American tenor
1929 Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (d. 2001)
1929 Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
1930 Charles Kelly, chief constable (Staffordshire England)
1930 Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
1930 Richard Garneau, French-Canadian sports journalist
1930 Stephen Smale, American mathematician
1931 Clive Cussler, American author (Raise The Titantic, Sahara)
1931 Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs
1932 Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 Nina Van Pallandt, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo)
1933 Frederico Davia, opera singer
1933 Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
1933 James Ball, economist
1933 Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
1934 Harrison Birtwistle, English composer (Trombeau)
1934 Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
1934 Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union)
1935 Alex Karras, American football player, NFL (Detroit Lions) and actor (George-Webster)
1935 Donn Clendenon, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1935 Ken Kercheval, American actor (Cliff Barnes-Dallas)
1936 George Voinovich, American politician, senior senator of Ohio
1936 Marion Roe, MP (C)
1938 Barry Goldwater Jr., American politician
1938 Carmen Callil, publisher
1938 Enrique Figuerola Camue, Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 Ernie Barnes, American artist and football player
1939 Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician
1939 Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricket off-spinner (12 Tests 1958-62)
1939 Patrick Wayne, American actor (Rounder, Shirley, Beyond Atlantis)
1939 Ronald Hadfield, chief constable (West Midlands England)
1939 William David Hellerman, composer
1940 Ronald Gene Simmons, American convicted murderer (d. 1990)
1941 Denis Héroux, French-Canadian film director and producer
1941 Geoffrey Burgon, composer
1942 Henry McCubbin, MEP (Labour)
1942 Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
1942 Philip R Sharp, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1975)
1943 Diligenti quintuplets, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1943 Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
1944 Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster & Billie)
1944 Millie Jackson, American singer (Get it out 'cha system)
1945 Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
1945 Peter Lewis, LA California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape)
1946 Hassabal Bolkiah Mu'izzadin Waddaulah, Sultan of Brunei
1946 Linda Ronstadt, American singer (Dif Drum), actress (Pir of Penzance)
1947 Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes)
1948 Alicia Bridges, American singer
1948 Artimus Pyle, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1948 Enrique Basilio, hurler, 1st lady to light Olympic flame (Mexico-1968)
1949 Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
1949 John Arthur Casken, composer
1949 Kerry Short, Vineland Ont, Canad Tour golfer (Highland Amat-1981, 84)
1949 Trevor Horn, British music producer (Buggles, Yes, Frankie)
1949 WiIlliam Faure, producer
1950 Alan Hurst, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1974-79)
1950 Arianna Huffington, Greek-born American newspaper columnist
1950 Colin Barnett, Australian politician
1951 Jesse "The Body" Ventura (James Janos), American professional wrestler, actor (Predator, Running Man), and and Polititcian (Gov MN)
1952 David Bell, horse trainer
1952 David Pack, Musician (Ambrosia)
1952 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (Rep-R-Florida)
1952 Jeff Carlisi, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 Jill Long, (Rep-D-Indiana)
1952 Johnny Thunders, American musician (d. 1991)
1952 Judy McGrath, American television executive
1952 Larken Collins, rocker (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 Terry O'Quinn, American actor
1953 Cathy Larmouth Torrance California, playmate (Jun, 1981)
1953 Franklyn Seales, St Vincent, actor (Dexter-Silver Spoons)
1953 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian politician, President (1991, 1994)
1953 John Denham, British politician
1954 Boris Polak, Israel, Men's 50M Free Rifle 3 Positions (Oly-20-1996)
1954 Mario Kempes, Argentine football player
1956 Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey coach and commentator
1956 Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1956 Joe Satriani, American guitarist
1956 Kathy Kreiner, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Marky Ramone, American musician (Ramones), and Radio DJ
1956 Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner (world record 25/30 km)
1956 Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
1957 Kate Kellaway, critic
1958 Daniel Bruce Forsman, Rhinelander WI, PGA golfer (1992 Buick Open)
1958 Gary Heale, former professional English soccer player
1958 Mac Thornberry, American politician
1959 Shep Pettibone, American record producer
1959 Vincent Lindon, French actor
1960 Alexander W Dunlap, Honolulu Hawaii, astronaut
1960 Kim Alexis, American supermodel (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover) and actress
1960 Willie Aames, American actor (8 is Enough, Paradise, Zapped)
1961 Forest Whitaker, American actor (Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout)
1961 Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter
1961 Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress (Blaze, Jungle2Jungle)
1961 Scott Ritter, American UN weapons inspector (Iraq)=
1962 Steve Brown, American darts player
1963 Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-born actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV)
1963 Joe Phillips, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs)
1963 Shari Headley, Brooklyn NY, actress (Mimi Reed-All My Children)
1963 Steve Thomas, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1964 Leonard Stabb, actor (Hunter Guthrie-One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1965 David Miliband, British politician
1965 Kirt Manwaring, Elmira NY, catcher (SF Giants)
1965 Scott Livingstone, Dallas TX, infielder (SD Padres, Det Tigers)
1966 Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Greek poet
1966 Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress (Red, Othello)
1966 Jason Bonham, English drummer, son of John Bonham
1966 Kristoff St John, NYC, actor (Adam-Generations, Young & Restless)
1966 Rickey Foggie, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 Adam Savage, American actor
1967 Carnell Lake, NFL strong safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Eddie Griffin, American comedian
1968 Stan Kirsch, American actor
1969 Christina Novak, Miss Arizona USA (1996)
1969 John Crotty, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trailblazers)
1969 Johnny Scott, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1969 Lorenzo Williams, NBA center (Wash Wizards, Dallas Mavericks)
1969 Peter Ciavaglia, Albany NY, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1969 Richard Fletcher Pride III, Tuscaloosa AL, PGA golfer (1994 Fed Exp)
1970 Chi Cheng, American musician (Deftones)
1970 Julian Paynter, Australian 5k runner (Olympics-96)
1970 Stephen Howard, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1971 Danijela, Croatian singer
1971 Dean Panaro, Knoxville Tenn, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 Eric Lacroix, Montreal, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1971 Ernest Dye, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 James Baldwin Jr, Southern Pines NC, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1972 Beth Ostrosky, American model
1972 Khalid Reeves, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets)
1972 Michael Barnett, UK musician / producer
1972 Scott Foley, American actor
1973 Brian Austin Green, American actor (David-Beverly Hills 90210)
1973 Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1973 Donald Willis, WLAF corner (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1973 Kris Holm, Canadian Mountain Unicycling Pioneer
1974 Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
1974 Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1974 Janice Bremner, Burlington Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olymp-silver-96)
1975 Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1975 Kara Drew, American professional wrestler (Cherry)
1976 Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
1976 Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
1976 Rebecca Snyder, Grand Junction Colo, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1977 Andre Nel, South African Cricketer
1977 Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
1977 Kitana Baker, American model (Miller Light Catfight commercial)
1977 Lana Parrilla, American actress
1977 Ray Toro, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
1978 Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player, Catcher
1979 Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1979 Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
1980 Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
1980 Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian professional ice hockey player
1980 Kelli Martin, American independent designer
1980 Mike Zambidis, Greek kickboxer
1980 Reggie Abercrombie, American professional baseball player
1981 Alecia Ingram, Knoxville Tenn, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1983 Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
1984 Alex Boyd, Scottish photographer
1984 Vice Cooler, American musician
1986 Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 Tristan Wilds, American actor
1990 J.B. Gaynor, American teen actor
1990 Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
1991 Derrick Favors, American basketball player
1992 Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

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668 Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium
1085 Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia & Calabria
1262 Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
1274 John F Bonaventura, Italian theologian and saint (b. 1221)
1291 Rudolf I, King of Germany & Holy Roman Empire (b. 1218)
1381 John Ball, English priest, ideologist of Boer uprising (b. 1338)
1406 Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1410 Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
1411 Johannes Parvus (Jean Petit), French theologist
1416 John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris
1417 Willem J Eggert, financier (W E Center, Purmerend)
1521 Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer (b. 1458)
1544 René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (b. 1519)
1571 Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1609 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
1614 Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c. 1540)
1655 Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England, executed (b. 1649)
1738 Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
1738 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer
1738 Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
1750 Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1751 John Wilson, botanist
1765 Charles-André Van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1767 Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1782 Farinelli, Italian singer
1782 Robert Wainwright, composer
1784 Johan B Straub, South German sculptor,
1789 Jacques Duphly, French composer (b. 1715)
1798 Gaetano Pugnani, composer
1810 Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer
1828 Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
1844 Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1854 Wincenty Studzinski, composer
1856 Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap)
1857 Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
1862 David Emanuel Twiggs, US Confederate gen-mjr (Monterrey)
1865 Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
1868 William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether)
1869 A J Haynes, US army captain and civil war veteren, assassinated by KKK
1871 Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (b. 1858)
1876 Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra)
1881 William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett
1883 Tom Thumb, famous small person (40")
1885 Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
1890 Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1898 Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
1904 Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya) (b. 1860)
1910 Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer
1912 Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics)
1915 Ludwik Grossman, composer
1919 Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, suicide (b. 1852)
1929 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
1930 Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
1931 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1932 Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
1933 Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1933 Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (Democracy & Leadership) (b. 1865)
1934 Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32)
1935 Alfred Archer, cricketer (England batsman in one Test 1899)
1935 Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18)
1937 Walter Gay, artist
1939 Johon Mellanby, physiologist
1939 Percy Scott Worthington, architect
1940 Donald Calthrop
1940 Robert Pershing Wadlow, American, 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known (b. 1918)
1942 Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937)
1942 Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
1944 Marie-Victorin, French Canadian Christian Brother and botanist (b. 1885)
1946 Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 Henry Kolker
1947 Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 John J. Pershing (Black Jack), US general (Mexico, WW I) (b. 1860)
1952 Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother dies in a car accident
1953 Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b. 1882)
1957 George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie)
1957 James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1957 Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen)
1957 Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
1958 Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon, auto accident (b. 1914)
1958 Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated
1959 Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (Macbeth) (b. 1880)
1959 Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies
1959 Vance Palmer, Australian author (b. 1885)
1960 Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
1960 Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1961 John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1968 Lura Anson
1969 Peter Van Eyck
1971 Guy Wilkerson
1974 Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b. 1944)
1975 Charles Weidman, US dancer/choreographer (Fables for Our Time)
1976 Paul William Gallico, writer
1977 Konstantin Fedin, writer
1979 Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1980 Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show)
1980 Henri Martelli, composer
1982 Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1982 Donald Beard, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1952-56)
1982 Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1983 Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
1986 Benny Rubin, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
1986 Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
1986 Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court)
1987 Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served)
1987 Jack O'Hagan, cricketer/composer (Our Don Bradman)
1988 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
1989 Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 Alison Leggatt, actress (Day of Triffids, Cows)
1990 Margaret Mary Lockwood, British actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady) (b. 1916)
1990 Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D)
1991 Bert Convy, American actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw) (b. 1933)
1992 Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
1992 Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1992 Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl)
1993 Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
1993 David Brian, American actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth) (b. 1914)
1994 Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator
1995 Eddie J Bush, golf professional
1995 Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist
1996 Dana Hill, American actress (Vacation) (b. 1964)
1997 Alan Chaig, paleontologist (Carl Sagan of BBC)
1997 Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan (b. 1946)
2000 Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
2003 Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2003 Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2006 Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
2007 Kelly Johnson, English guitarist
2008 Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972)
2009 Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (b. 1958)
2010 James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (b. 1926)
2011 Googie Withers, British actress (b. 1917)
2012 Celeste Holm, American actress
2013 Earl Gros, American NFL player
2015 Wan Li, Chinese reform politician
2015 Howard Rumsey, American jazz musician (Lighthouse Cafe)

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