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(216 BC) Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
(338 BC) A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
257 St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1057 Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
1377 the Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River, while being drunken.
1492 Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1542 French troops leave Flanders
1552 Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1578 Battle of Rijmenam
1581 Leiden University names Snellius math professor
1610 Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1665 French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
1704 Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
1718 Austrian joins Triple Alliance
1738 France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
1776 Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
1782 George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1786 Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
1787 Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1790 The first US Census is conducted.
1791 Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
1798 Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) of the French Revolutionary Wars, concludes in a British victory under Adm Horatio Nelson
1802 Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
1819 1st parachute jump in US
1831 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
1832 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 Black Hawk defeated (IA)
1832 Whites defeat Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1861 Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
1864 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1865 Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
1869 Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinokosho) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1875 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1884 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
1894 Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1894 Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1903 Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
1906 Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
1907 Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1911 Haiti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
1912 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY
1914 Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1914 German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1914 German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914 Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914 Great Britain mobilizes
1914 Postdam Conference ended
1914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
1916 Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto in World War I.
1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1920 Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
1921 Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1922 China, hit by a typhoon, about 60,000 die
1924 Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
1928 Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
1931 Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs
1932 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 Adolph Hitler becomes Führer (commander-in-chief) of Germany
1934 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1938 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1939 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1940 Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1940 KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1941 Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1942 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1942 Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
1943 Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
1943 Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1943 RAF bombs Hamburg
1943 Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
1943 Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1943 PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew, World War II.
1944 Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
1944 Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
1944 Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
1945 Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers (Stalin, Truman & Churchill) discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1953 Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
1953 KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
1955 USSR performs nuclear test
1958 Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
1959 41st PGA Championship, Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
1959 Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
1959 SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
1961 Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
1961 St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)
1964 Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1964 Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy during the Vietnam War.
1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
1967 The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
1967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1968 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)
1968 The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1969 Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1969 Pres Nixon visits Romania
1970 Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
1970 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1970 Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
1972 Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
1973 A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1973 George Brett gets his 1st hit
1975 104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
1975 107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
1979 "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1980 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1981 Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1982 Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season
1982 Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
1983 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1985 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
1986 TODAY/PC born today
1987 25th Tennis Fed Cup, Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
1987 Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
1987 Cincinati Red Eric Davis becomes the 7th & earliest to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases in one season
1987 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
1987 Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
1988 System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1989 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1989 Pakistan is re-admitted back into the Commonwealth of Nations, for restoring democracy, since 1972.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the Gulf War.
1990 Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
1991 Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1992 "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
1992 Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
1993 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
1993 Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
1993 Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
1993 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
1994 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1994 Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
1994 NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
1994 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
1998 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
1998 30th Curtis Cup, US wins 10-8 at The Minikahda Club (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US)
2012 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
2013 40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria

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1455 John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (1486-99) (d. 1499)
1533 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
1612 Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
1627 Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter
1632 Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)
1672 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
1674 Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
1696 Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (Turkey) (1730-54), fought Austria & Russia (d. 1754)
1702 Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau, German Prince (d. 1769)
1703 Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
1723 Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
1740 Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)
1746 Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825)
1775 Jose Angel Lamas, composer
1788 Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1802 Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
1815 Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
1818 (Willem) Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major
1820 John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
1826 William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1902)
1828 Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
1832 Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
1834 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty) (d. 1904)
1834 Isaac Capadose, lawyer, evangelist
1835 Elisha Gray, American inventor (Telephone) and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
1854 Francis Marion Crawford, British author
1858 Catherina van Rennes, composer
1858 Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
1858 William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
1865 Irving Babbitt, American literary critic and writer (Rousseau & Romanticism) (d. 1933)
1865 John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
1867 Ernest C Dowson, British poet
1868 Constantine I, king of Greece (d. 1923)
1871 John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
1872 George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
1875 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1878 Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) (d. 1956)
1878 Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
1881 Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)
1881 Stanislaw Kazuro, composer
1882 Johannes Tralow, writer
1882 Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
1882 Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
1882 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll)
1884 Rómulo Gallegos, President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
1886 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian Aviator (d. 1961)
1887 Tommy Ward, Former South African cricketer (d. 1936)
1888 Oscar Rasbach, composer
1890 Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
1890 Pauline Hall, composer
1891 Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians)
1891 Mihail Jora, composer
1891 Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
1892 Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film producer (Warner Bros) (d. 1978)
1892 John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
1895 Matthew Henderson, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)
1896 Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
1897 Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
1897 Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
1899 Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
1899 George Malcolm Thomson, journalist
1900 Helen Morgan (Riggins), US, singer and actress (Applause)
1900 Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
1902 Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
1905 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
1905 Myrna Loy, American actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair) (d. 1993)
1906 Albert Goodwin, historian
1907 Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
1908 George Kimble, geographer
1909 Lord Benson, accountant
1910 Gertruida EW "Truss" van Aalten, actress (Girl in Blue Hat)
1910 Lawrence Josset, engraver
1910 Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
1910 Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
1912 Ann Dvorak (McKim), American actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface) (d. 1979)
1912 Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist
1912 George Kimble, geographer
1912 Palle Huld, Danish actor
1912 Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
1913 Lord Benson, accountant
1914 Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
1914 Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)
1914 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist
1915 Gary Merrill, American actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve) (d. 1990)
1915 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter
1916 Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story)
1916 Reginald Murley, surgeon
1919 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist
1919 Nehemiah Persoff, American actor
1920 Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)
1920 Phyllis James, mystery writer
1920 Theo Marcuse, WA, actor (Mara of Wilderness)
1922 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
1922 Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-NV, 1974)
1923 Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal
1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel and the ninth President of the State of Israel
1924 Carroll O'Connor, American actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night) (d. 2001)
1924 James Baldwin, American author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country) (d. 1987)
1924 Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
1925 Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
1925 John Dexter, English stage and film director (d. 1990)
1925 John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
1925 Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
1926 Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite, department store mogul
1926 Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
1927 Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1927 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1928 Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist
1928 Malcolm Hilton, Former England cricketer (d. 1990)
1929 John Gale, theatrical producer
1929 John Hannam, MP
1929 Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda
1930 Ron de Lugo, (Rep-D-Virgin Islands, 1973-79, 81)
1930 Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
1931 Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
1931 Henryck Schiller, composer
1931 Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1931 Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer
1931 Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
1931 Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
1932 Lamar Hunt, American sports executive, NFL owner (KC Chiefs) (d. 2006)
1932 Marvin David Levy, composer
1932 Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
1933 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1933 Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician
1933 John Gale, theatrical producer
1933 John Hannam, MP
1933 Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda
1934 Albert W Hall, actor (Apocalypse Now)
1934 Carl Cecil Cain, Freeport Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
1935 Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
1935 Derek Anthony Enright, politician
1935 Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
1935 John MacIvor Perkins, composer
1936 Anthony Edward Payne, composer
1936 Christopher Hogg, CEO (Courtaulds & Reuters)
1937 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1937 Billy Cannon, American football player
1937 Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band-Life is a Carnival) (The Band)
1937 Ronald Brierley, company chairman
1937 William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959)
1938 Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1938 Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1938 Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
1938 Terry Peck, Falkland Islander-born British soldier (d. 2006)
1939 Benjamin Barber, American political theorist
1939 Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
1939 Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1939 John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 Wes Craven, American film director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
1940 Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
1941 Homer Banks, US singer/songwriter (Be What You Are)
1942 Isabel Allende, Chilean author
1942 Leo Beenhakker, Dutch soccer trainer
1943 Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1943 Kathy Lennon, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1943 Max Wright, American actor (Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science)
1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright (Restoration)
1943 Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
1944 Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
1944 Joanna Cassidy (Caskey), American actress (240 Robert)
1944 Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician
1945 Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer
1945 Jewell Jackson McCabe, pres (natl coaltion of 100 black women)
1945 Joanna Cassidy, American actress
1945 John Bowis, MP
1947 Massiel, Spanish singer
1947 Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright
1948 Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
1948 Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
1948 Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)
1949 "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band)
1949 Bertalan Farkas, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 36/35)
1949 James Fallows, American journalist
1949 John Bowis, MP
1949 Madeleine Smith, Sussex England, actress (Vampire Lovers)
1950 Kathryn Harrold, Tazewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud)
1950 Lance Ito, American judge (OJ Simpson trial)
1950 Mathieu Carriere, Hanover West Germany, actor (Bay Boy, Woman in Flames)
1950 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
1951 Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter (Lonely Boy)
1951 Freddie Wadling, Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
1951 Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
1951 Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
1952 Angel Herrera, Cuba, FW/LW boxer (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 Paul David Crews, SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 Anne Leuchars, British TV journalist
1953 Butch Patrick, American actor (Eddie Munster-Munster)
1953 Marjo, Quebec singer
1954 James Charles Kopp, American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian
1954 Lisa Brown, KC, Mo, actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns)
1954 Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish (soccer) footballer and manager
1955 Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
1955 Jimmy Lowe, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Pirates of Ms-Fred Jake)
1955 Roberta Wallach, NYC, actress (Civil Wars)
1955 Tim Dunigan, American Actor
1955 Tony Godden, English footballer
1956 Bill Murchison Jr, Lake Charles LA, Nike golfer (1994 Boise Open-2nd)
1956 Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author
1956 Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
1956 Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
1957 Anne Leuchars, TV journalist
1957 Butch Vig, American record producer and musician (Garbage)
1957 Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
1957 Stephen Kelly Petterson, Auckland NZ, Smallbore rifle (Olympics-96)
1958 Arshad Ayub, Indian cricketer
1958 Sammy McIlroy, soccer player
1959 Britt Helfer, Clearfield Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat)
1959 Victoria Jackson, American comedian
1960 Apollonia (Patricia Kotero), American singer and actress (Purple Rain)
1960 David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)
1960 Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic)
1961 Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)
1961 Ed West, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons)
1961 Graham Dye, English singer/songwriter and guitarist (Scarlet Party; The Alan Parsons Project)
1961 Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
1961 Pete de Freitas, Trinidad, rock drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman)
1963 Caroline Pierce, Cheshire England, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple Classic-2nd)
1963 Cynthia Stevenson, American actress (Player, Bob, Hope & Gloria)
1963 Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer
1963 Jeff Bloom, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Montana Open)
1963 Laura Bennett, American architect and designer
1964 Frank Biela, German racing driver
1964 John Cullen, Puslinch, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 Mary-Louise Parker, American actress (Fried Green Tomatoes)
1965 Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
1965 Takayuki Iizuka, wrestler (NJPW)
1966 Joseph Wanag, Wilson Ct, US judoka (Olympic-92)
1966 M.V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer
1966 Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 Tim Wakefield, American baseball player, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1967 Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983)
1967 Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
1967 Derek Wells, LA California, actor (Fitzpatricks)
1967 Martin Laamers, soccer player (Vitesse)
1968 John Stanier, American musician Helmet
1968 Sean Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
1969 Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns)
1969 Erik Meijer, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Uerdingen)
1969 Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
1969 Jan Axel Blomberg Norwegian musician (Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem)
1969 Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
1970 Chainey Umphrey, Albuquerque NM, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1970 Elijah Alexander, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos)
1970 Jonathan Andrew Kaye, Denver CO, PGA golfer (1995 Quad City-2nd)
1970 Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter (Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Mallrats)
1970 Philo Wallace, West-Indian cricketer
1970 Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks, USA)
1970 Wes Bender, WLAF/NFL running back (Frankfurt Galaxy, NO Saints)
1971 Alice Evans, English actress
1971 Dick Schreuder, Dutch soccer player (PSV/FC Groningen/RKC)
1971 Fernando Smith, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
1972 Daniele Nardello, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1972 Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
1972 Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
1972 Lee McClinton, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1972 Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
1972 Nathan Thomas, Australian water polo player (Olympics-96)
1973 Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer
1973 Fiona Mullally, Miss Ireland Universe (1997)
1973 George Zidek, NBA center (Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets)
1973 Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
1973 Kari Anne Safford, Point Pleasant WV, Miss America-WV (1997)
1973 Karina Habsudova, Bojnice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Futures Czech)
1973 Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227)
1973 Nancy Drolet, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer, butterfly (Oly-br/gold-92, 96)
1974 Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
1974 Jeremy Castle, Oklahoma country singer and songwriter
1974 Nabil Bouchlal, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 Paul Grasmanis, defensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1975 Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
1975 Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
1975 Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player
1976 Jay Heaps, American footballer
1976 Michael Weiss, Olympic figure skater (1997 World Champ-7th)
1976 Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
1976 Reyes Estévez, Spanish athlete
1976 Sam Worthington, Australian actor
1977 Edward Furlong, American actor (John Connor-Terminator 2)
1978 Goran Gavrancic, Serbian footballer
1978 Matt Guerrier, American baseball player
1979 Marco Bonura, Italian footballer
1979 Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan athlete
1980 Ivica Banovic, Croatian footballer
1980 Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
1981 Aleksander Emelianenko, Russian MMA fighter ( Fedor's brother)
1982 Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
1982 Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
1982 Kerry Rhodes, American football player
1982 Sara Foster, American actress
1983 Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
1984 Chiara Mastalli, Italian actress
1984 Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
1985 Britt Nicole, American Christian pop artist
1985 Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
1988 Brittany Hargest, American singer (Jump5)
1990 Alice Connor, British actress
1991 Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 Gabriel Anthony Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1992 Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
1993 Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee

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257 Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter
640 Severinus, Italian Pope (640)
686 Pope John V, 1st Greek-Syrian Pope (685-86)
924 Ælfweard of Wessex (b. 904)
1002 Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir
1075 John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople
1100 William II (Rufus), king of England, shot in New Forest
1222 Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
1445 Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1376 or 1377)
1511 Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
1512 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher
1589 Henry III, king of Poland and France (1573-89), assassinated (b. 1551)
1600 Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand
1611 Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1649 Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt
1655 Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat
1696 Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
1769 Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
1776 Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (Blue Boy) (b. 1727)
1792 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
1799 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, balloonist (b. 1745)
1811 William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep)
1815 Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
1823 Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
1827 James Hewitt, composer
1849 Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
1849 Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt
1858 A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent
1859 Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
1869 Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered
1872 Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd)
1873 Frank Mori, composer
1876 James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's (b. 1837)
1881 Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life)
1889 Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
1890 Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
1903 Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
1903 Martha Jane Cannary (Calamity Jane), US desperado
1914 Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
1916 Hamish MacCunn, composer
1920 Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, tenor (b. 1873)
1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (telephone) (b. 1847)
1922 (Wilhel) Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist
1923 Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921-23) (b. 1865)
1929 Mae Costello, American actress (b. 1882)
1932 Gheorghe Cucu, composer
1934 Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
1936 Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
1938 Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76
1939 Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosicrucian mystic (b. 1883)
1941 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria)
1942 Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord
1945 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana)
1945 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana) (b. 1863)
1954 Rene Amengual, composer
1955 Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
1955 Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal
1955 Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover)
1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army
1958 Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice)
1959 Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1961 Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti)
1963 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer
1964 Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly)
1964 Jose Maria Castro, composer
1965 Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament)
1967 Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press)
1969 Clarence Dickinson, composer
1971 Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher
1972 Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association), dies of overdose (b. 1942)
1972 Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
1972 Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer
1972 Rudolf Ganz, composer
1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (Bob Le Flambeur) (b. 1917)
1974 W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
1976 Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis) (b. 1890)
1978 Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
1978 Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi
1978 Totie Fields (Sophie Feldman), comedienne
1979 Thurman Munson, American baseball player, killed in a plane crash (b. 1947)
1980 Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ)
1982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables)
1982 Rudolf Maros, composer
1983 James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1936)
1985 Frank Faylen, vaudevillian
1985 Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests)
1986 Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
1986 Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy)
1987 Myron Stout, US abstract artist
1988 Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
1988 Raymond Carver, American short story writer (Furious Season) (b. 1938)
1988 Roger Vuataz, composer
1990 Edwin Richfield, British actor (b. 1921)
1990 Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
1991 Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1991 Helen Page Camp
1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia)
1992 Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase)
1992 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater)
1992 Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
1994 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police
1995 Brian Smith, British sportscaster
1995 Colin Gray, airman
1996 Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer
1996 Michel Debré, French politician, PM of France in (1959-62) (b. 1912)
1996 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian Warlord (b. 1934)
1996 U Hia Than, politician
1997 Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
1997 William S. Burroughs, American writer (Naked Lunch) (b. 1914)
1998 Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
2001 Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
2003 Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
2003 Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
2003 Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
2004 Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
2004 François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
2005 Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
2007 Chauncey Bailey, American journalist and editor (b. 1950)
2007 Holden Roberto, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (b. 1923)
2007 Kay Dotrice, English repertory actress (b. 1929)
2008 Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)
2011 DeLois Barrett Campbell, American gospel singer (b. 1926)
2012 Marguerite Piazza, American operatic soprano
2012 Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter (Handy Man)
2014 Rosetta Hightower, American singer, dies at 70 2015 Forrest Bird, American aviator, inventor (1st respirators and ventilators)
2015 Cilla Black, English pop singer and TV host (Blind Date)
2016 Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete and influential swimming coach
2016 David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski)
2016 Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist, (Nobel Prize 1999)

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