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(322 BC) Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great.
626 Battle at Constantinople, The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople (Slavic, Persians, Avarenvloot defeated).
768 Stephen III (IV) begins his reign as Catholic Pope
936 Coronation of King Otto I of Germany (becomes King of Germany).
1409 Council of Pisa closes
1420 Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
1427 The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
1461 The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
1479 Battle of Guinegate: Emperor Maximilian I vs King Louis XI
1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
1498 Columbus arrives in Caribbean
1573 Francis Drakes fleet returns to Plymouth
1575 Spanish troops conquer Oudewater, almost all inhabitants died
1588 English assault on Spanish Armada
1606 The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou, French King Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1679 The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1710 Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance
1714 The Battle of Gangut, the first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1750 Slave uprising on Curacao
1760 Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1782 George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the Order of Purple Heart.
1789 The United States War Department & Lighthouse Service established.
1791 United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1794 The Whiskey Rebellion begins: farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)
1814 Pope Pius VII reinstates Jesuits
1819 Battle of Boyacá, Simón Bolívar defeats Span in Colombia
1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1864 Battle of Moorefield, WV
1879 The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
1882 Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
1884 Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
1885 5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar
1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door
1890 Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
1893 53rd Congress (1893-95) convenes
1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1904 Train derailed on bridge in Eden Colo during a flash flood, kills 96
1907 Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland
1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
1912 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for pres
1914 British Gloucester vs German Breslau, Goeben off Greece
1914 French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross
1914 French troops under Gen Bonneau occupy Altkitrch at Elzas
1914 German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
1914 Lord Kitchner says "Your country needs you," poster spreads over UK
1915 Assault up Russell's Top at Gallipolis, 232 Australians die
1915 St Louis 3rd base coach Miller Huggins, calls for ball Bkln rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, & Card runner scores
1921 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter
1925 League of Nation advises against Turk/Iraqi division of Mosoelgebied
1927 The Peace Bridge between US & Canada dedicated, opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1927 US rum smuggler Horace Alderman kills 3
1929 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
1929 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1930 Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
1930 The last lynching in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. A large mob estimated at 2,000 lynch two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1933 The Simele massacre, The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1935 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk)
1938 Leo Durocher, hits 2,000th Dodger home run
1938 Nazi's close theologic department of Innsbruck university
1940 Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War II
1940 Churchill recognizes De Gaulle government in exile
1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 1856 British Guiana)
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
1942 Transport 16 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 The Battle of Guadalcanal begins United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of World War II with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
1944 Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter
1944 Canada, Polish offensive direction Falaise, Total Cooperation
1944 German counter attack at Avranches fails
1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1944 July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins
1944 US 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany
1946 1st coin bearing portrait of Negro authorized
1947 The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1947 Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the Polynesian archipelago reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1948 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
1948 Delfo Cabrera wins 11th Olympic marathon (2:34:51.6)
1949 "All after Love" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 perfs
1950 Police bar white players-Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, & Frank Dyle, from playing in Negro League
1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph
1951 US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1954 "Golden Apple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 125 performances
1954 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
1955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
1955 KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
1956 Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans
1956 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
1956 Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida, transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space.
1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
1960 Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France.
1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
1961 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
1964 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000)
1964 Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots
1964 US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1964 The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1965 The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hell's Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1966 Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
1967 The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant during the Vietnam War.
1970 1st computer chess tournament
1970 California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom in San Rafael, California and killed (along with 4 others)during a courthouse shootout in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons).
1970 Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
1970 WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
1972 Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn
1974 Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band
1974 Philippe Petit performs a high wire (tightrope) act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1976 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Colgate-European Golf Open
1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Earth
1977 "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
1978 Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, & Larry MacPhail inducted to Hall of Fame
1978 Thousands of mourners file past body of Pope Paul VI
1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
1979 Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
1980 Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed
1981 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1983 "Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances
1983 1st World Track & Field Championships
1983 65th PGA Championship, Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA
1983 Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
1983 Grete Waitz of Norway, wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki Fin)
1983 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1983 Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
1984 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly," premieres in NYC
1984 Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball
1984 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
1985 Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
1985 Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances
1986 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina
1987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
1987 Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
1987 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea
1988 Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
1988 Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
1988 Writers guild end their 6 months strike
1989 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1990 Desert Shield begins US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
1991 Charles Austin breaks US high jump record at 7'10½"
1991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
1991 Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league HR
1991 Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
1991 US sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds
1992 Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
1992 Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
1993 "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
1993 Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
1994 "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
1994 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
1994 Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
1994 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
1997 STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
1997 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
1998 The United States Embassy bombing in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya killing approximately 212 people.
1999 Second Chechen War began.
2007 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
2008 Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War.
2012 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria
2012 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
2012 Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
2013 11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan

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317 Flavius Julius Constantius II, Emperor of Egypt, Byzantine, and Rome (337-61) (d. 361)
1282 Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
1533 Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
1560 Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)
1574 Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
1598 Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules) (d. 1672)
1726 James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
1742 Nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General (d. 1786)
1746 Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian
1751 Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange, wife of Willem V (d. 1820)
1779 Carl Ritter, German geographer, cofounder of modern science of geography (d. 1859)
1779 Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
1783 John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
1783 Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
1818 Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
1823 Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer
1826 Carl AE Ahlqvist (A Oksanen), Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi)
1829 Thomas Ewing Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers) (d. 1896)
1833 Powell Clayton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)/(Gov-R-Ark)
1836 Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1920)
1844 Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
1860 Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1862 Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931)
1867 Emil Nolde (Hansen), German painter, graphic artist (d. 1956)
1868 Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony)
1868 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1870 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born)
1870 Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole (vicar of Denmark)
1872 Andries C D de Graeff, governor-general of Neth Indies (1926-31)
1876 Mata Hari (Margaretha G Zelle), Dutch spy, dancer, courtesan (WW I) (d. 1917)
1877 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
1879 J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07)
1879 Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
1880 Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)
1883 J Ringelnatz, writer
1885 Billie Burke, American actress (Glinda-Wizard of Oz) (d. 1970)
1885 Gordon Harker, London England, actor (Facts of Love, Champagne)
1886 Louis Hazeltine, inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible)
1887 Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician
1887 Luckey Roberts, composer
1895 Edward Gill, baseball player
1897 Franz J Weinrich, [Heinrich Lerse], German writer (Himmlisches)
1899 Ricci Riano, England
1900 Taylor Caldwell, novelist
1901 Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
1903 Louis Leakey, British archaeologist, anthropologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal) (d. 1972)
1903 Saburo Moroi, composer
1904 Ralph Bunche, American diplomat (UN) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1950) (d. 1971)
1906 Gerhard Frommel, composer
1907 Albert Kotin, American abstract painter (d. 1980)
1907 Ben Carter, NYC, actor (Dark Alibi, Dressed to Kill)
1911 R Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist (Rebel Without a Cause) (d. 1979)
1913 George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
1914 Ted Moore, South Africa, cinematographer (James Bond)
1918 Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter
1918 Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and pacifist (d. 2007)
1919 John Hogan, Lowes, Kentucky, chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), (d. 2012)
1920 Jan Walravens, Flemish writer (Motionless at Sea)
1921 Karel Husa, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
1921 M J bin Gorion, writer
1921 Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
1925 Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (Bye Bye Love) (d. 2003)
1925 Julian Orbon De Soto, composer
1925 M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
1926 Amo Houghton, (Rep-R-New York)
1926 Stan Freberg, American voice comedian, ad executive, cartoon voice (Bertie)
1927 Art Houtteman, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1927 Carl Switzer, American child actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang) (d. 1959)
1927 Edwin W. Edwards, American politician (Gov-La)
1928 Amazing (James) Randi, Canadian skeptic magician (Nova)
1928 Herbert H Bateman, (Rep-R-Virginia)
1928 James Randi, Canadian-American magician
1928 Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)
1929 Don Larsen, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Yankees), only player to pitch a perfect game in the World Series.
1929 James Pilditch, designer
1929 Richard T Schulze, (Rep-R-PA, 1975)
1929 Ruth Carter-Stapleton, Plains Ga, 1st sister/evangelist
1930 Velio Tormis, composer
1931 Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author
1932 Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1960, 64) (d. 1973)
1932 Ann Harding, US, actress (East is West, Janie)
1932 Edward Hardwicke, British actor
1932 Maria M L "Marijke" Bakker, Dutch actress (Mammaloe-Pipo the Clown)
1932 Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist
1933 Eddie Firmani, South African football player and coach
1933 Jerry (Eugene) Pournelle, US, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon)
1936 Charles Pope, US soul singer (Tams-Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1936 Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
1936 Richard L(ouis) Tierney, US, sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr)
1937 Don Wilson, England cricketer
1938 Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist
1938 Helen Caldicott, Melbourne Australia, physician/anti-war activist
1939 Anjanette Comer, American actress
1939 Verna Bloom, Lynn MA, actress (After Hours, Badge 373)
1940 Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician
1940 Marlyn Mason, San Fernando Cal, actress (Making It, Peyton Place)
1940 Tom Barlow, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
1941 Thomas F Hartnett, (Rep-R-SC, 1981-86)
1942 Anjanette Comer, Dawson Tx, actress (Baby, Lepke)
1942 B.J. Thomas, American singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)
1942 Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1942 Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer
1942 Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host, PBS (Prairie Home Companion)
1942 Masa Saito, wrestler (AWA/WWF/NJPW/CWFI)
1942 Tobin Bell, American actor
1943 Alain Corneau, French film director (Choice of Arms)
1943 Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1994)
1943 Lana Cantrell, Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days)
1944 David Rasche, American actor (Sledge Hammer)
1944 John Glover, American actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special)
1944 Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1945 Alan Page, American football player, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings), Supreme Court justice
1945 Kerry Chater, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1945 Patrice Mestral, composer
1946 Ed Seykota, American commodities and futures trader
1947 Ann Beattie, writer
1947 Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian entertainer
1947 Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader (On Your Own)
1948 Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
1948 Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author
1949 Carlo Novi, rocker
1949 Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader
1950 Alan Keyes, American diplomat and political activist
1950 David James Wottle, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 Rodney Crowell, Houston TX, country singer (She's Crazy for Leavin')
1951 Gary Hall, US swimmer (Olympics-bronze/2 silver-1968, 72)
1952 Alexei Sayle, British comedian
1952 Andy Fraser, rock bassist (Free London)
1952 Richard Joswick, rocker (Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods)
1953 Anne Fadiman, American writer; daughter of Clifton Fadiman
1954 Caroline Aaron, Richmond VA, actress (Crimes & Misdemeanors)
1954 Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
1955 Greg Nickels, American politician, mayor of Seattle
1955 Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director
1955 Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
1955 Wayne Knight, American actor
1956 Kent V Rominger, Del Norte Colo, US Navy /astronaut (STS 73, 80, 85)
1957 Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 Alberto Salazar, American marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)
1958 Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1958 Larisa Karlova, USSR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1959 Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer
1960 David Duchovny, American actor (Fox Mulder-X Files)
1960 Jacquie O'Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama)
1961 Walter Swimburn, Irish jockey (Derby 1981)
1961 Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast (Olympic-gold-1980)
1962 Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
1963 Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
1963 Marcus Lewis, Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song)
1963 Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, lives only 3 days (d. 9 August 1963)
1963 Patrick Newman, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-10-88, 96)
1964 John Birmingham, Australian author
1964 Michael Weishan, American TV host
1964 Patti Liscio, Santa Maria CA, golfer (1994 Chicago Challenge-49th)
1965 Caroline S Keggi, El Paso TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Dinah Shore-19th)
1965 Elizabeth Manley, Canada, figure skater (Olympics-Silver-88)
1966 Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur
1966 Kristin Hersh, American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses)
1966 Tony Stargell, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs, Chicago Bears)
1967 Charlotte Lewis, Kensington London, actress (Golden Child, Pirates)
1967 Jason Grimsley, American baseball player, pitcher (California Angels)
1968 Leslie Lyness, Paoli PA, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot)
1968 Tomas Carbonell, Barcelona Spain, tennis star
1969 Dave Smits, soccer player (Willem II)
1969 Jodi Figley, LPGA golfer
1969 Keith Cash, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs, Oakland Raiders)
1969 Ludovit Tatos, Lynnwood Wash, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 Travis Brown, Durango Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 Eric Namesnik, American swimmer, 400m medley (Olympics-silver-1992, 96) (d. 2006)
1970 Joe Cocozzo, NFL guard (San Diego Chargers)
1971 Chris T Jones, NFL tackle/wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Dominic Cork, England cricketer
1971 Dominic Cork, cricketer (England all-rounder Hat-trick v WI 1995)
1971 Kevin Gaines, WLAF DB (London Monarchs)
1971 Rachel York, American actress and singer
1971 Sydney Penny, American actress (Danni-New Gidget, Thorn Birds, All My Children)
1972 Greg Serano, American actor
1972 Oscar Gray, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Tony Bouie, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 Willy Tate, NFL/WLAF tight end (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1973 Bo Hanson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 Danny Graves, American baseball player
1973 Kevin Muscat, Australian footballer (soccer), defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Kimmo Rinatnen, hockey forward (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1974 Chico Benymon, American actor
1974 Jeff Buckey, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 Michael Shannon, American actor
1974 Philippe De Rouville, Victoriaville, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1974 Sek Loso, Thai Singer
1975 Alshermond Singleton, linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 Charlize Theron, South African actress (The Cider House Rules, Monster)
1975 David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist
1975 Edgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1975 Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian musician
1975 Hans Matheson, Scottish Actor
1975 Jimmy van Fessem, soccer player (Willem II)
1975 Koray Candemir, Turkish singer
1976 Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer
1976 Shane Lechler, American football player
1977 Charlotte Ronson, British fashion designer
1977 Samantha Ronson, British DJ
1978 Alexandre Aja, French director
1978 Cirroc Lofton, American actor
1978 Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
1978 Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1978 Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
1979 Eric Johnson, American actor
1980 Anomie Belle, American musician
1980 Aurélie Claudel, French model
1982 Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer
1982 Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
1982 Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
1983 Christian Chavez, Mexican singer and actor (RBD)
1983 Tina O'Brien, British actress
1984 Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player
1986 Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
1987 Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
1988 Beanie Wells, American football player
1988 Melody Oliveria, American internet blogger
1994 Jack Antonio, son of Virginia Madisen & Antonio Sabatto Jr
1994 Sara Grayson, daughter of actress Katey Sagal
1996 Tessa Allen, American actress

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461 Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
479 Emperor Yuryaku of Japan
1033 Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine
1106 Henry IV, German king, Holy Roman Emperor (1056/1084-1105) (b. 1050)
1485 Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
1547 Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint
1609 Eustache du Caurroy, composer
1613 Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
1616 Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice) (b. 1548)
1635 Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
1639 Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
1657 Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness)
1661 Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
1712 Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer
1786 Friedrich Schwindl, composer
1798 Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer
1799 John Bacon, English sculptor8
1816 Dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae)
1817 Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
1834 Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1846 Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
1848 Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1855 Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1864 Li Xiucheng, late Taiping's Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)
1867 Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock)
1885 Antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83)
1893 Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (b. 1854)
1912 François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
1913 David Popper, composer
1914 B B (Bransby) Cooper, cricketer (Test for Australia)
1914 Boleslaw Dembinski, composer
1916 Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle
1917 Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
1921 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat)
1923 Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (H Pierson Foundation)
1924 Camille Zeckwer, composer
1928 Alphonse MAJ Ariëns, Dutch RC pastor/social worker
1931 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In Mist)
1938 Constantin Stanislavski, Russian-Soviet theatre practitioner, Director (S Method) (b. 1863)
1941 Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher, poet, writer (Nobel Prize Laureate) (b. 1861)
1942 Richard Gott, Brit gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle
1943 Gustav Schmidt, German lt-general, dies in battle
1953 Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1957 Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (Laurel & Hardy) (b. 1892)
1959 Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
1960 Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine Boxer (b. 1894)
1960 Vaino Hannikainen, composer
1962 Morris Louis, US painter (post painterly abstraction)
1967 Max Branch, music/radio commentator
1967 Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator
1969 Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
1969 Russ Morgan, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard)
1970 Haley, US judge, shot dead
1970 James McClain, US black activist, shot dead
1970 Jonathan P Jackson, US black activist, Brother of George Jackson, Black Panther, shot dead (b. 1953)
1970 William Christmas, US black activist, shot dead
1972 Aspasia Manos, wife of king Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
1972 Joi Lansing, American model and actress (Bob Cummings Show) (b. 1929)
1973 Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
1974 Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
1974 Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1976 Cecil Weston, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry Finn)
1976 Murvyn Vye, actor (Bob Cummings Show)
1978 Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer
1984 Esther Phillips, American singer (What a Difference a Day Makes) (b. 1935)
1985 Grayson Hall, American actress (Dark Shadows) (b. 1923)
1987 Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
1987 Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60)
1989 Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (Rep-D-Tx), & 15 others dies in plane crash in Ethiopia (b. 1944)
1990 Eva Sully Block, actress (Kid Millions)
1991 Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian, singer (Women at Play, Lusty Business) (b. 1944)
1991 Shapur Bahktiar, PM of Iran (1979), assassinated
1991 Shotzie, Cincinnati Red dog mascot
1992 John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
1992 Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera)
1993 Kelly Ahrendt, 1st NYer to die of rabies in 40 years
1993 Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger)
1994 Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
1994 Robert Hutton (Winne), US actor (Rocket)
1995 Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
1995 Tom Scott, poet/editor
1996 Anne Kristen, actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay)
1996 Christina Perri, Pressident
1996 Gerald Etheridge Gomez, cricketer
1996 Peter Winter, naval commander
1997 Douglas Gray, archivist
1997 Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man
1999 Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
2003 Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
2004 Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
2005 Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
2006 Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
2007 Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
2007 Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
2007 Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)
2008 Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A. (b. 1957)
2008 Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent/manager and producer (b. 1931)
2009 Louis E. Saavedra, American Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 1933)
2009 Mike Seeger, American folk musician (b. 1933)
2011 Nancy Wake, British war agent (b. 1912)
2015 Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian-American FDA Director (stopped thalidomide use in the US)
2016 Edward Daly, Irish Bishop "Bloody Sunday" priest

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