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1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula in Canada and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and her 1-year-old son, James VI becomes King of Scotland
1577 Spanish army, German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
1704 English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1715 A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under Admiral Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, 9 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida. A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 France passes 1st copyright law
1799 William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
1814 War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823 Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
1847 After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1851 Window tax abolished in Britain
1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA CS Gen Wise retreats
1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1864 Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
1866 Tennessee becomes the first U.S. State to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1870 1st trans-US rail service begins
1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma
1893 For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1901 O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1902 Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1905 Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II
1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1909 Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1911 Cleveland's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1911 Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, Lake Michigan, with the loss of 845 lives.
1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1921 Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1924 The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris.
1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
1927 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 The Kellogg-Briand Pact (proclaimed by U.S. President Hoover), renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931 A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1931 George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1933 #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie & #4589 McDowell
1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1934 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
1935 The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1935 The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1936 118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 Gen Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-government
1937 Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys", 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro.
1938 First ascent of the Eiger north face.
1938 Instant coffee invented
1940 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1941 FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1942 Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in NYC
1943 Operation Gomorrah of World War II begins, British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied, German positions
1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 US troops land on Tinian
1945 US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1946 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1948 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian makes his first appearance in the cartoon Haredevil Hare.
1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
1950 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1952 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1952 Pres Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia
1955 Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1956 At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together. They began performing together on July 25, 1946.
1956 Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1956 Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum.
1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1958 Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1959 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
1959 VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1960 42nd PGA Championship, Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1965 Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of anti-aircraft missiles in the first such attack against American aircraft in the Vietnam War. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
1966 48th PGA Championship, Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 Gloria Ehret and Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1966 Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 49th PGA Championship, Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 Chinese army, air force, fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
1967 During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership
1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1968 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
1969 Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1970 Intl Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1973 44th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC.  All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
1974 After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored.
1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1974 The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1977 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977 End of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1977 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in NYC
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves
1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Tx" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 perfs
1982 Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1982 KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
1983 "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup, Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983 George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1983 Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 The Pine Tar Game, Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1986 SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1987 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1988 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1990 Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1993 Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
1994 32nd Tennis Fed Cup, Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
1998 Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircrafts (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
2001 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2002 James Traficant (D) is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.
2007 Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
2011 Cadel Evans of Australia wins the 98th Tour de France 2012 Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
2012 John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2013 22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan
2013 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2014 47th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2014 116 people are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali
2014 Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq
2014 Over 10,000 Palestinians protest Israel's operation in Gaza; 2 Palestinians killed after Al-Aqsa Brigades members fire at Israeli forces
2014 Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel
2015 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya
2016 Chris Froome of Great Britain wins the 103rd Tour de France

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923 Emperor Suzaku of Japan (d. 952)
1380 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
1529 Karl II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, governor of the Margravate of Durlach (d. 1577)
1561 Maria of Palatinate-Simmern, Duchess of Södermanland (d. 1589)
1574 Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss-born physician (d. 1628)
1660 Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1686 Benedetto Marcello, composer
1720 Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1725 John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1738 Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author, poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1757 Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759 Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
1783 Simón Bolívar, South American liberator, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830)
1786 Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1796 Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer and statesman
1796 John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
1798 John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1879)
1802 Alexandre Dumas, French author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo) (d. 1870)
1802 Ira Aldridge, famous African
1803 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
1803 Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
1815 Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia)
1817 Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
1818 Felix Godefroid, composer
1821 William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
1826 Francisco S Lopez (Tiran), President of Paraguay (1862-70)
1826 Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1827 Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1912)
1832 Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1841 Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
1851 Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1853 William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
1856 Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (Promised Country) (Nobel Prize laureate 1917) (d. 1943)
1858 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
1860 Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1860 Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
1862 Johan A de Sleeve (Adwaita), philosopher and poet (Brahman)
1864 B(enjamin) Frank(lin) Wedekind, German writer (Lulu)
1864 Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
1864 Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1867 Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (d. 1940)
1867 Fred Tate, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1867 Frederic Benson, novelist
1867 Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. 1908 Same day)
1870 Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper
1874 Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 Lord Dunsany (Edward JMD Plunkett), Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods) (d. 1957)
1880 Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (MacBeth) (d. 1959)
1880 Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1884 Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
1885 Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist and composer
1886 Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (Snow Dusting) (d. 1965)
1888 Arthur Richardson, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1894 Walter Schulthess, composer
1895 Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
1896 Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
1897 Amelia Earhart, American aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic) (disappeared 1937)
1897 Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
1897 Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
1898 Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
1899 Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (Little Big Man) (d. 1981)
1900 Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, 1st wife of F Scott (d. 1948)
1902 Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1902 Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
1903 Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1904 James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
1904 Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1904 Richard B. Morris, American constitutional, legal, diplomatic historian (d. 1989)
1907 Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
1908 Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
1910 Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
1913 Britton Chance, American biochemist
1913 George H Brown, film producer
1913 Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
1914 David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
1914 Ed(win) Mirvish, Canadian businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario (Old Vic) (d. 2007)
1914 Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
1914 Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1914 Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
1915 Enrique Fernando, Filipino jurist (d. 2004)
1915 Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
1916 Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1916 John D. MacDonald, American novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye) (d. 1986)
1917 Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1917 John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1917 Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
1917 Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1918 Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist (Paganini) (d. 2012)
1919 Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1919 Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1920 Alexander H Cohen, NYC, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)
1920 Bella Abzug, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74) (d. 1998)
1921 Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86)
1922 Leo Kraft, composer
1922 Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1924 David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
1924 Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1924 Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
1924 Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
1925 Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
1926 Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1926 James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)
1927 James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965)
1927 Wilfred Josephs, composer
1929 Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
1929 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
1930 Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
1930 Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
1930 Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
1931 Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1932 William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1933 Doug Sanders, American golfer
1933 John Aniston, American actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
1934 Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
1934 Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1934 Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
1934 Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
1935 Derek Varnals, South African cricketer
1935 George Varnals, South African cricketer batsman
1935 Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)
1935 Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
1935 Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
1936 Mark Goddard, American actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
1936 Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
1937 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
1937 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1937 Manoj Kumar, Indian actor
1937 Quinlan Terry, architect
1938 Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
1938 Eugene J. Martin, American painter and artist
1938 John Sparling, New Zealand cricketer (11 Tests 1958-64)
1938 Mike Mainieri, rocker
1939 Barry (Norman) Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
1939 Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1939 Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)
1940 Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86)
1940 Dan Hedaya, American actor
1940 Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1941 Barbara Love, rocker
1942 Chris Sarandon, American actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
1942 Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
1943 Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
1943 Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
1943 Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
1945 Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1945 Hugh Ross, Canadian scientist and Christian apologist
1946 Leo Gallagher, American comedian
1946 William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
1947 Geoffrey McQueen, British television screenwriter (d. 1994)
1947 M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
1947 Michael Coveney, drama critic
1947 Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
1947 Peter Serkin, American pianist (Tashi)
1947 Robert Hays, American actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
1947 Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)
1949 Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 Michael Richards, American comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)
1949 Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter
1950 Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)
1950 Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
1950 Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
1951 Chris Smith, British politician, MP (Labour)
1951 Lynda Carter, American actress, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
1952 Gus Van Sant, American film director
1952 Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981)
1953 Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1953 Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1953 Julian Brazier, MP
1953 Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
1954 Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
1955 Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1956 Charles Crist, American politician, Governor of Florida
1956 Pat Finn, American game show host and producer
1957 Dorothy Mays, Baltimore MD, playmate (Jul, 1979)
1957 Pam Tillis, American country singer (Melancholy Child)
1957 Robbie Grey, rocker
1958 Jim Leighton, Scottish goalkeeper
1958 Joe Barry Carroll, American basketball player
1958 Mick Karn, rocker
1958 Pam Tills, Country music artist
1959 Brian Fogt, Dayton OH, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
1959 Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1961 Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 Johnny O'Connell, American race car driver
1962 Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chic Bears)
1963 Julie Krone, American jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
1963 Karl Malone, American basketball player, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1963 Paul Geary, American musician, drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
1964 Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1964 Barry Bonds, American baseball player, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)
1964 Christopher Gudgeon, Professor of history
1964 Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1964 John Rosengren, American writer and author
1964 Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
1965 Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1965 Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 Doug Liman, American film director
1965 Joe Oliver, Memphis TN, catcher (Cin Reds)
1965 Kadeem Hardison, American actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
1966 Martin Keown, English footballer
1967 Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1968 Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
1968 Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 Laura Leighton, American actress
1968 Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1968 Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1969 Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1969 Rick Fox, Bahamian basketball player, NBA guard and forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
1969 Steve Jennings, Wash DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1970 Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1970 Elli Kokkinou, Greek singer
1970 Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1970 Stephanie Adams, American model and author, playmate (Nov, 1992)
1971 Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 John Partridge, English singer
1972 Kaio Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist
1973 Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)
1974 Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Ill, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1975 Dafydd James, Welsh rugby player
1975 Eric Szmanda, American actor
1975 Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star
1975 Jamie Langenbrunner, American ice hockey player
1975 Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1976 Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)
1976 Chris(tian) Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)
1976 Nate Bump, American baseball player
1976 Rafer Alston, American basketball player
1976 Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1977 Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1977 Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter
1977 Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)
1977 Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1979 Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 José Valverde, American baseball player
1979 Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
1979 Mark Andrew Smith, American graphic novelist
1979 Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 Stat Quo, American rapper
1979 Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
1980 Gauge, American pornographic actress
1980 Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1981 Summer Glau, American actress
1982 Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand actress (Piano)
1982 Elise Crombez, Belgian model
1982 Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
1982 Élise Crombez, Belgian model
1983 Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984 John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1985 Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1985 Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress
1986 Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986 Megan Park, Canadian actress
1987 Mara Wilson, American actress (Mrs Doubtfire)
1988 Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
1988 Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer
1990 Daveigh Chase, American actress
1990 Evan James Springsteen, LA California, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
1990 Travis Jones, Up-and-coming Growth group leader
1993 Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
1998 Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer, daughter of Steve Irwin

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1115 Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1240 Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1345 Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
1568 Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1652 Johann Weichmann, composer
1712 Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg
1739 Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
1756 George Vertue, engraver
1758 John Dyer, poet
1768 Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1809 Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
1812 Joseph Schuster, composer
1819 Sophie Gail, composer
1826 Jacob Kimball, composer
1831 Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer
1837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1842 John Sell Cotman, landscape painter
1846 Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master
1846 Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10)
1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (1837-41) (b. 1782)
1865 Johan Filip von Schantz, composer
1868 George Cattermole, painter, illustrator
1876 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer
1883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1900 Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered
1908 Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. 1867 same day)
1910 Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1931 Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance
1933 Max von Schillings, composer
1936 James Philip Dunn, composer
1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed
1947 Ernest Austin, composer
1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader
1957 Sacha Guitry, French actor, director (Lovers & Thieves), screenwriter and playwright (b. 1885)
1960 Carl Deis, composer
1960 Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel)
1962 Victor Moore, comedian
1962 Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (b. 1917)
1964 Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer
1965 Constance Bennett, American actress (Madame X, Topper) (b. 1904)
1965 Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart)
1966 Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
1967 Little Billy Rhodes
1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik) and dramatist (b. 1904)
1970 Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1971 Alan Rawsthorne, composer
1972 Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed in bar brawl
1973 Mary Frasca, singer/actress
1974 Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl)
1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1935) (b. 1891)
1979 Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1980 Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared) (b. 1925)
1980 Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1986 Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, discoverer (co-enzymes) (Nobel Prize laureate 1953) (b. 1899)
1986 Laurie Nash, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1932-36)
1989 Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest)
1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm)
1991 Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51)
1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author (Yentl) (Nobel Prize laureate 1978) (b. 1904)
1991 Karl Ellis
1992 Arlette-Leonie Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
1992 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist
1992 Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 Ben(jamin S) Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter
1993 Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire
1993 Lonnie D'Orsa
1993 Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1994 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress
1994 Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988)
1995 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1995 George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
1995 Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
1995 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher
1995 Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress, and occultist (b. 1922)
1995 Werner Grusch, film director
1996 "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager
1996 Alphonso Roberts, West Indian cricketer and politician (b. 1937)
1996 Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen)
1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager
1996 Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson)
1997 Saw Maung, Burmese dictator, president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92) (b. 1928)
1997 William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1956-90) (b. 1906)
2000 Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2004 Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (b. 1925)
2005 Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
2009 E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)
2010 Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
2011 Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2012 Chad Everett, American actor
2012 John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President
2012 Sherman Hemsley, American Actor
2012 Robert Ledley, American physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist
2016 Marni Nixon, American singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)

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