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463 Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
622 Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira). 
622 The beginning of the Islamic calendar, Origin of Islamic (Moslem) Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH).
1054 Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
1054 Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as starting the East-West Schism.
1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, After Pope Innocent III called European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeated those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and medieval history of Spain (end of Moslem power in Spain).
1251 The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)
1338 German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
1377 Coronation of Richard II of England.
1429 Army entered Reims
1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1465 Battle at Montlhéry
1519 Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck
1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1573 Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland
1618 Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
1659 Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II
1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1683 Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1683 Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1755 John Adams graduates Harvard
1769 Father Junipero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
1779 American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
1782 First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Abduction "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" from the Seraglio in Vienna.
1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
1798 US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1801 Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1809 The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1845 NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1856 Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
1857 Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1861 Manassas Campaign
1862 David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank, American Civil War.
1863 Utrecht-Swells railway opens
1867 Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1867 D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1867 Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1880 Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1880 Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
1895 Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
1902 John McGraw named manager of NY Giants
1902 Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford
1904 Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1909 Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
1914 Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
1915 Henry James became a British citizen, to dramatize his commitment to England during the first World War.
1918 Czar Nicholas II, his family, the family doctor, their servants and their pet dog are shot by the Bolsheviks, who had held them captive for 2 months in the basement of a house in Ekaterinberg, Russia.
1920 15th Davis Cup, USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1920 China joins the League of Nations
1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 Babe Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1924 Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
1924 NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1931 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1934 Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes
1935 The world's first automatic parking meter is installed in the Oklahoma capital, Oklahoma City.
1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1936 NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1938 21st PGA Championship, Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa
1940 NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
1941 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv), the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
1942 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1944 Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1945 Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
1945 The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1946 US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
1947 Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19
1948 Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
1948 Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War's Operation Dekel.
1950 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1950 Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
1951 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
1951 J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye published by Little, Brown and Company
1951 King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1951 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval
1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published
1953 KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
1956 Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1957 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1957 United States Marine major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
1960 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1960 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1960 USS George Washington (SSBN-598) a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first Ballistic missile while submerged.
1961 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
1961 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
1962 NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record)
1964 Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate
1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1966 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1967 Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
1969 Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1970 Iraq's constitution goes into effect
1970 Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
1971 Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
1972 Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance
1973 Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations,l Watergate Scandal.
1975 Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term
1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
1977 Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe
1978 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1979 Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1979 Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
1981 India performs nuclear Test
1981 Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.
1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
1982 George P Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs
1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1982 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
1983 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1985 56th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn.  All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
1985 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
1987 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1988 Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan
1988 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton
1989 44th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines
1990 Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1990 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
1990 Luzon Earthquake stroke in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippineswith an intensity of 7.7.
1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Ukraine declares independence
1993 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
1993 SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games
1993 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
1994 "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 perfs
1994 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
1994 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA
1994 Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds ½ billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)
1994 Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
1994 Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts)
1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
1994 Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup
1995 "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 perfs
1995 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship, J C Snead
1995 50th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1997 Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies in a plane mishap over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette.
2004 Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley
2007 The 2007 Chuetsu offshore earthquake, an earthquake 6.8 in magnitude and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off Japan's Niigata coast, killing 8 people, with at least 800 injured, and damaging a nuclear power plant
2008 AL wins 79th All Star Baseball Game 4-3 at Yankee Stadium, New York
2013 27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India
2013 AL wins 84th All Star Baseball Game 3-0 at Citi Field, New York
2014 Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria
2014 Death toll within Gaza surpasses 200 people following air strikes by Israel
2014 Hamas and Islamic Jihad offer Israel a 10-year truce with 10 conditions, which include lifting the blockade and the release of prisoners; it is rejected
2014 Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza
2015 Scientists reveal 1st close-up pictures of Pluto, sent by the New Horizons probe
2015 Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others
2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate

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1194 Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1571 Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized
1611 Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, consort to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's King Wladyslaw IV Vasa (d. 1644)
1704 John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
1714 Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1715 Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France
1722 Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)
1723 Joshua Reynolds, English painter (Simplicity) (d. 1792)
1725 Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1728 Henri Moreau, composer
1731 Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence and president of Continental Congress (d. 1796)
1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer (1st asteroid-Ceres)
1749 Cyrus Griffin, tenth and final president of Continental Congress (d. 1810)
1796 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
1821 Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founded Christian Science (Science & Health) (d. 1910)
1822 Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer
1823 James Isham Gilbert, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1834 Carlo Angeloni, composer
1834 Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
1839 Philipus J Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist
1848 Henri(cus A) Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
1855 Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
1858 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)
1860 Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist
1862 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (Iola), American civil rights activist (d. 1931)
1865 George A Birmingham (Rev James Owen Hannay), novelist
1870 Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer, discovered South Pole (d. 1928)
1877 Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)
1880 Kathleen Thompson Norris American novelist (d. 1966)
1882 Edward Earle, Toronto Ont, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1882 Felix Locher, Switzerland, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1883 Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
1884 Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1888 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player whose on-field achievements were overshadowed by the 1919 Black Sox Scandal (Say it aint so, Joe) (d. 1951)
1888 Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel laureate 1953), inventor (phase-contrast microscope) (d. 1966)
1888 Percy Kilbride, American actor (Egg & I, Ma & Pa Kettle) (d. 1964)
1889 Larry Semon, American comedian 1915 to 1928 (d. 1928)
1896 Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
1896 Mauritius R J Dekker (Boris Robazki), Dutch writer (Merkteken)
1896 Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
1896 Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52)
1899 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney (NY)
1901 Fritz Mahler, composer
1902 Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1903 Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
1903 Mary Philbin, American stage and film actress (The Phantom of the Opera) (d. 1993)
1904 Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (Beatitudines) (d. 2003)
1904 Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal (Belgium)
1906 Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
1907 Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds) (d. 1990)
1907 Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
1907 Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn) (d. 1995)
1908 Aruna Asaf Ali, politician
1908 Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral
1909 Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian
1909 John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
1910 Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (d. 1968)
1911 Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath), American actress and dancer (Gay Divorcee) (d. 1995)
1911 Sonny Tufts (Bowen Charleston Tufts II), American actor (Variety Girl) (d. 1970)
1912 Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1912 Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1913 Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer
1913 Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear)
1915 Barnard Hughes, American actor (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends) (d. 2006)
1915 Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker (House of Lords)
1915 Edward Miller, Master (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge)
1916 Harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough
1917 William Bishop, Oak Park Ill, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life)
1918 Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1919 Charles Graham, lord-lt of Cumbria UK
1919 Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1919 Hermine Braunsteiner, German concentration camp guard World War II, convicted as a war criminal (d. 1999)
1920 Anatole Broyard, American literary critic and essayist (d. 1990)
1920 Anwar Hussain, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2002)
1921 Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
1921 Trevor Williams, scientific consultant
1923 Chris Argyris, American educator
1923 Reginald Prentice, British government minister
1924 Bess Myerson, American beauty queen, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)
1925 Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1925 Phillip Pine, Hartford Ct, actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground)
1926 Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks & Spencer)
1926 Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1926 Philip Randle, biochemist
1927 John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office
1927 John Warr, English cricketer, president (MCC)
1927 Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator
1928 Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928 Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1928 Dave Treen, American political figure; first Republican governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction (d. 2009)
1928 James Kilfedder, MP (Ulster Popular Unionist)
1928 Ray Thornton, (Rep-D-Arkansas)
1928 Robert Sheckley, American author (10th Victim, Mindswap) (d. 2005)
1928 Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1929 Michael Morland, High court judge
1930 Guy Béart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter
1930 John Everett Watts, composer
1930 Michael Bilirakis, American politician (Rep-R-Florida, 1983)
1931 Caroline Blackwood, writer
1932 Dick Thornburgh, American politician
1932 John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
1932 Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1932 Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)
1932 Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
1932 (Dick) Richard L Thornburgh, Penn, US Attorney General (1988-93)
1933 Sollie McElroy, R&B singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)
1934 Don(ald) Payne, American politician, New Jersey Congressman (1989-2012) (d. 2012)
1935 Tom Rosenthal, publisher/British broadcaster
1936 Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
1936 Venkatraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer
1936 Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician
1937 Richard Bryan, American politician (Sen-D Nevada)
1938 Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist
1938 Thorkell Sigurbjornsson, composer
1938 Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
1939 Corin Redgrave, English actor (Excalibur, Man For All Seasons)
1939 Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
1939 Marion Pitt, social worker/writer
1939 Mary Parkinson, British broadcaster
1939 William Bell (Yarborough), US singer (Tryin' to Love Two)
1940 Tony Jackson, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 Dag Solstad, Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist
1941 George Young, MP/British minister of housing & planning
1941 Hans Wiegel, Dutch commissioner of the queen (Frisia)
1941 Jan G H Krajenbrink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1941 Mišo Kovac, Croatian musician
1942 Desmond Dekker (Dacris), Jamaican reggae pioneer (Aces-Israelites) (d. 2006)
1942 Frank Field, MP (Labour)
1942 Margaret Court, Australian tennis player (1970 Grand Slam)
1943 Jimmy Johnson, American football coach, NFL (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins)
1943 Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1943 Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker
1945 Barry Dudleston, cricket umpire
1945 Diana Warwick, leader (Association of University Teachers)
1945 Jos Stelling, director (Pointsman)
1945 Kellie Everts, Kalv Germany, Miss nude Universe (1968)
1946 Barbara Lee, American politician
1946 Richard LeParmentier, American actor
1946 Ron Yary, American football player
1946 Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor
1947 Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
1947 Assata Shakur, American activist
1947 Roelof P Meyer, S Afr under minister of Law & Order etc
1947 Tom Boggs, rock drummer (Box Tops)
1948 Kevin McKenzie, South African cricketer
1948 Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist (Leventritt 1967)
1948 Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1949 Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1949 Cyndy Garvey, Detroit, wife of Steve Garvey, talk show host (AM LA)
1949 Ray Major, rock guitarist (British Lions)
1950 Camille Saviola, Bronx NY, actress (Nightlife)
1950 Dennis Priestley, English darts player
1950 Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
1950 Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
1950 Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1951 Esther M Friesner(-Stutzman), American sci-fi author (Witchwood Cradle)
1951 Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
1951 Lorraine Chase, actress/model (Lame Ducks, Love & Bullets)
1952 Ken McEwan, South African cricketer
1952 Phillip Carrick, cricketer
1952 Robert David Steele, American spy
1952 Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police)
1953 Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
1953 Philece Sampler, San Angelo, Tx, actress (Donna Love-Another World)
1954 Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
1956 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission)
1956 Jerry Doyle, American actor
1956 Tony Kushner, American playwright
1957 Alan Donnelly, MP (Labour)
1957 Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1957 Wlodi Smolarek, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1958 Michael Flatley, Irish-American dancer and choreographer (Lord of Dance)
1958 Mike D. Rogers, American politician
1958 Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
1959 Doug Herzog, American television executive
1959 Gary Anderson, American football player, NFL kickerk (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 Zoran Jolevski, Macedonian Ambassador to the US
1960 Eus van Someren, pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw)
1960 Gisela Beyer, German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980)
1960 Terry Pendleton, American baseball player, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1961 Leila Kenzle, Patchogue LI NY, actress (Fran Devanow-Mad About You)
1963 Mikael Pernfors, Sweden, tennis star
1963 Phoebe Cates, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemount High)
1963 Srecko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1964 Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist (Tour de France winner 1991-95)
1964 Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
1965 Charles Smith, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL forward (Team Canada, Colorado)
1965 Tina Tyler, Canadian porn star
1966 Bonnie Bright, Redondo Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-)
1966 Chip Lohmiller, NFL kicker (NO Saints)
1966 Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
1966 Jyrki Lumme, Tampere Fin, NHL defenseman (Canucks, Finland Oly-B-98)
1966 Warren Sallenback, South Surrey BC, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1967 Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
1967 Roger Duffy, NFL guard/center (NY Jets)
1967 Will Ferrell, American comedian
1968 Ariel Solomon, NFL center/guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Barry Sanders, American football player, NFL running back (Detroit Lions, 1988 Heisman Trophy)
1968 Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player
1968 Eric Jonassen, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
1969 Daryl Mitchell, American actor
1969 Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
1969 Rain Pryor, American actress (Head of the Class), daughter of Richard Pryor
1970 Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
1970 Fabio Casartelli, cyclist
1970 Phil Graham, Halifax Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 William Van Landingham, Columbia TN, pitcher (SF Giants)
1971 Chris Thomas, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1971 Corey Feldman, American actor (License to Drive, Stand by Me)
1971 Ed Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1972 Aaron Glenn, NFL cornerback/kick returner (NY Jets)
1972 Mindy Carson, NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue)
1973 Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1973 Karla Beteta, Miss Universe-Guatemala (1996)
1973 Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
1973 Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
1973 Tim Ryan, American politician
1974 Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
1974 Jeremy Enigk, American singer/songwriter and guitarist (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft)
1974 Michelle Chandler, Australian basketball point guard (Olymp-bronze-96)
1974 Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and union footballer
1975 Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
1975 Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver
1975 Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1975 Jonathan Zwinkel, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1976 Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player (1993 Futures-Erlangen GER)
1976 Bobby Lashley, American Professional Wrestler
1976 Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
1976 Michael Petkovic, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1976 Tomasz Kuchar, Polish Rally driver
1977 Bryan Budd, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 2006)
1978 Stephanie Lee Hamilton, Williston ND, Miss America-ND (1997)
1978 Taj Anwar, model and activist
1979 Chris Mihm, American basketball player
1979 Jayma Mays, American actress
1979 Kim Rhode (Kimberley), Whittier California, double trap (Olympics-gold-1996)
1979 Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
1980 Adam Scott, Australian golfer
1980 Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress and erotic model
1980 Justine Joli, American pornographic actress, adult model and former ballerina
1981 Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer
1981 Zach Randolph, American basketball player
1982 Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1984 Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
1984 Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
1986 Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
1987 Andrew James Allen, American actor
1987 AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
1989 Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
1990 James Maslow, American singer and actor Big Time Rush
1991 Randall Bentley, American actor
1994 Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor

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276 Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
599 Monulphus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht (St Servaaskerk)
1099 El Cid, [Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar], Span general strategist
1139 Walram II, duke of Limburg/Neth-Lutherans
1216 Innocent III (Lotario di Segni), Italian Pope (1198-1216) (b. 1160 or 1161)
1324 Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 King Charles I of Hungary (b. 1288)
1482 John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight
1546 Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 Anne of Cleeves, Queen of England, fourth wife of Henry VIII (b. 1515)
1590 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus (Fernandez), pontiff of Portugal
1594 Thomas Kyd, English playwright (Spanish Tragedy) (b. 1558)
1647 Massaniello (Tommaso Aniello), Napolitan rebel, murdered (b. 1622)
1664 A Gryphius, writer
1664 Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1698 Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer
1729 Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1730 Elijiah Fenton, poet
1736 Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer
1747 Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1762 Jacques Hotteterre, composer
1764 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered
1770 Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1782 Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1796 George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1827 Josiah Spode, potter
1831 Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1843 Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician
1850 Julia Glover, Irish-born actress (b. ca. 1779)
1857 Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet
1864 Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1868 Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (b. 1840)
1868 Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer
1871 Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1879 Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), author (b. 1823)
1887 Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen)
1889 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1890 Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet
1896 Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
1896 William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist
1897 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1915 Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 Ilja (Elias) Metsjnikov, Russian microbiologist (Nobel laureate 1908) (b. 1845)
1916 Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise)
1916 Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician
1917 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (Album Polonaise) (b. 1847)
1923 Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles)
1931 Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83)
1939 Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student
1944 John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed
1947 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
1949 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
1953 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome)
1955 Jean de Merode (Marie-Louise Courtenay), Belgian princess
1960 Albrecht von Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Italy) (b. 1881)
1960 John P(hillips) Marquand, novelist, American novelist (b. 1893)
1961 (Louise) Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof)
1962 Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages)
1971 H T Tsiang
1972 Giorgio Nataletti, composer
1972 Max Zehnder, composer
1973 Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven)
1976 Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1979 James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles
1981 Harry Chapin, American musiciant, folk vocalis (Taxi) (b. 1942)
1982 C.R. Swart, South African politician (b. 1894)
1982 Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies
1982 Patrick Dewaere, French actor (Catherine & Co), shoots self (b. 1947)
1984 Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1985 Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1985 Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (Wayne King Show) (b. 1901)
1989 Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 Cornelis Z Forster (Da Kuneisi), Suriname granman/gaanman
1991 Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days)
1991 Frank Rizzo, American politician (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80) (b. 1920)
1991 Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep) (b. 1915)
1992 "Gorgeous" George (Arena), wrestler
1992 Buck Buchanan, American football player, NFL defensive lineman (KC Chiefs) (b. 1940)
1992 Johnny Martin, cricketer (NSW & Australian chinaman bowler)
1994 Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1994 M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant)
1994 Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey
1994 Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera)
1995 Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence)
1995 Juan Manuel Fangio, racing Driver
1995 Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor
1995 May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide
1995 Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds)
1995 Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher
1995 Stephen Harold Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
1995 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
1996 Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1996 John Panozzo, American musician, drummer (Styx) (b. 1948)
1998 John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
2001 Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2003 Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2004 George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2005 Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2006 Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2008 Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)
2010 James Gammon, American actor (b. 1940)
2011 Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
2012 Jon Lord, English musician
2012 Kitty Wells, American country singer
2014 Johnny Winter, American Hall of Fame blues musician
2016 Nate Thurmond, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
2016 Bonnie Brown, American country singer (The Browns)

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