HIDE

554 Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines milt governor in Italy
1183 Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
1248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1281 Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan
1385 Battle of Aljubarrota of the Portuguese Crisis of 1383–1385, Portuguese forces commanded by King João I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King Juan I at Aljubarrota, retain independence.
1395 Utrecht bishop Frederik of Blankenheim occupies Coevorden
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1498 Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
1551 Turkish fleet under Dragut occupies Tripoli
1559 Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla
1585 Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
1597 Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
1598 Battle of the Yellow Ford of the Nine Years War, Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1624 Dutch fleet ceases Callao the Lima in Peru
1636 Spanish troops occupy Corbie at Amiens
1642 Able Tasmans ships Heemskerck/Zeehaen depart out of Batavia
1678 Battle of Mons-French repulse William of Orange
1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War
1756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1758 Battle at Zorndorf: Prussia beat Russia, 1000s killed
1762 English fleet occupies Havana
1765 Mass colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1782 Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
1790 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Verela
1813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
1816 Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
1820 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
1824 General Lafayette returns to US
1825 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
1842 Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1846 The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
1848 Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1861 79th NY troops mutinies
1861 Martial Law is declared at St Louis, Missouri due to pro-secession sentiment which surged throughout Missouri after the Battle of Wilson's Creek
1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
1864 Confederate General Joe Wheeler besieges Dalton, Georgia
1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing
1875 Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
1876 Prairie View State University forms
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed (began in 1248).
1882 Queen Victoria recieves Zulu chief Cetewayo
1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1888 A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration.
1893 France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
1897 The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
1900 1st electric tram in Netherland (Leidseplein-Brouwersgracht)
1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
1900 A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1901 SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska & sinks killing 70
1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1903 James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1905 Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa
1907 "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1908 The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England.
1910 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
1911 General Leconte appointed temporary pres of Haiti
1911 United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
1912 United States Marines (2,500) invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier, US remains until 1925.
1914 British field marshal John French & Gen Wilson land in France
1915 British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1917 China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
1917 Leeuwen soccer team forms
1919 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
1919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
1920 Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp
1921 Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
1922 1st "old time" musicians broadcasted on radio (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
1925 Mount Rushmore 1st proposed
1925 The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line.
1928 Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," premieres in NYC
1929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
1932 Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game
1932 Philips makes 1 millionth radio
1933 Jimmie Foxx hits for cycle & sets AL record with 9 RBIs
1933 Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km²).
1935 United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
1937 China declares war on Japan, The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases (Chinese Air Force Day).
1937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
1938 BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)
1939 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2)
1940 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter of war, stating post-World War II aims.
1942 Dwight D Eisenhower named commander for invasion of North Africa
1943 Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo
1943 US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives at Corsica
1944 Operation Tractable, new Canadian offensive
1944 Russian offensive at Weichsel
1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone).  Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan standard time).
1947 India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire under the administration of United Kingdom and joins the British Commonwealth.
1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
1948 Bradman's last Test Cricket innings
1948 England all out for 52 v Australia at Cricket Oval
1949 Military coup under colonel Sami Hinnawi in Syria
1952 Mátyás Rákosi appointed premier of Hungary
1953 20th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Detroit 24, All-Stars 10 (93,818)
1953 KXLF TV channel 4 in Butte, MT (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WGR TV (now WGRZ) TV channel 2 in Buffalo, NY (NBC) begins
1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1958 Cleveland Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
1959 26th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Baltimore 29, All-Stars 0 (70,000)
1959 AFL organized with NY, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver & Houston
1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1961 Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game
1962 French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1964 Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer
1964 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria form common market
1965 Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show
1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games
1965 Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
1966 Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered
1967 Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland
1967 Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1967 UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1968 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
1969 British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland.
1969 NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant
1970 City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
1970 Steven Stills arrested for drug possession
1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
1971 Cards Bob Gibson, 35, no-hits Pirates, 11-0
1971 France performs nuclear test
1972 An East German Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156.
1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
1973 The constitution of 1973 comes into effect in Pakistan
1973 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia
1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1974 Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus
1974 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 Pakistani military coup against president Mujib ur-Rahman
1975 Dmitri Shotakovitch, buried at the Novodevitshi-convent
1975 Norwegian King Olav V opens Longyearbyen Airport on Spitsbergen
1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
1976 The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
1977 59th PGA Championship, Lanny Wadkins shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach Cal
1977 77,691 see NY Cosmos beat Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 at Giant Stad
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Long Island Charity Golf Classic
1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
1980 17,000 workers strike in Gdansk, Poland
1980 Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale
1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1980 Lech Walesa leads strikes at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards.
1981 George Foster hits his 8th HR into red seats at Riverfront
1981 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott
1982 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
1982 Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
1982 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
1983 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1983 Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03
1984 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
1984 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested
1986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
1987 All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
1987 Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
1988 70th PGA Championship, Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree GC Edmond
1988 Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
1989 President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
1990 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam
1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
1991 Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
1991 Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HR
1993 Dr William Masters (78) weds college sweetheart Geraldine Oliver (76)
1993 Nigerian presidential election
1993 Reggie Jackson Day NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
1993 Shari Beadley weds Christopher Martin (Kid 'n Play)
1993 St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
1994 76th PGA Championship, Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1994 Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
1994 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1994 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1994 Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic
1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
1994 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum Sudan
1995 Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st woman to attend the Citadel
1997 "1776," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Open
1997 Oklahoma Court of Appeals upholds death sentence of Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
1997 Soyuz TM-25 lands
2003 Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.
2006 Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
2007 The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
2010 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics, officially starts in Singapore.
2012 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
2012 Hungary falls back into recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the second quarter of 2012 following a fall of 1.0% in the first quarter
2013 14 people are killed and 26 are injured by two roadside bombings in Baqubah, Iraq
2013 638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt
2015 Most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed on Patrick Hardison by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez at New York University Langone Medical Center
2126 Comet Swift-Tuttle approaches close to Earth.

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1297 Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)
1473 Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
1479 Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527)
1552 Fra Paolo Sarpi (Paulus Venetus), philosopher
1575 Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
1586 William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)
1599 Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)
1625 François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)
1626 Daniel Elsevier, book publisher
1642 Cosimo III de' Medici, Monarch of Florence (1670-1723), Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1653 Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688)
1675 Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer
1687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/ruler (Nassau-Dietz) [NS]
1688 Frederick William I King of Prussia (bodyguard of giants) (d. 1740)
1714 Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
1727 Anne Henriette of France, Princess daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1752)
1727 Marie Louise Élisabeth of France, Princess daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759)
1737 Charles Hutton, mathematician
1740 Pius VII (Luigi B Chiaramonti), Pope (1800-23), Bishop of Imolae (d. 1823)
1742 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris)
1758 Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter and lithographer (d. 1835)
1769 Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer
1777 Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1777 Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist and chemist (View of Chemical Law), (d. 1851)
1784 Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal and diplomat
1802 Letitia Elizabeth Landon, England, poet (Heath's Book of Beauty)
1810 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
1814 Henry Hayes Lockwood, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1899)
1817 Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874)
1821 Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1823 Karel Miry, composer
1824 William Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1836 Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist (Rebel Queen)
1840 Baron Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist
1840 Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
1842 Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author
1847 Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922)
1850 Earnest YY (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actor (Kloris & Roses)
1851 Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887)
1857 Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
1860 Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
1863 Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
1865 Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
1866 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)
1867 Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
1867 John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1932) (d. 1933)
1868 Leone Sinigaglia, composer
1869 Edvard Armas Jornefelt, Vyborg Finland, composer (Berceuse)
1871 Guangxu Emperor, Qing Emperor of China (d. 1908)
1876 Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia and Yugoslavia (1922-34) (d. 1903)
1876 Sibilla Aleramo, [Rina Faccio], Italian feminist/poet (Una Donna)
1878 Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Aage og Else)
1881 Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
1882 Gisela Richter, English art historian (d. 1972)
1883 Ernest E Just, biologist (pioneered cell division)
1887 Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (d.1937)
1891 Marinus de Jong, composer
1892 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer
1893 Alfred Alessandrescu, composer
1893 Carl Benton Reid, Lansing MI, actor (Pressure Point)
1895 Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1899 Jaroslav Jeremias, composer
1900 Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer
1901 James Pitman, English educator/publisher/phonetic speller
1903 John Ringling North, circus director (Ringling Bros)
1903 Millard Mitchell, Havana Cuba, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter)
1903 Ronald Stewart, CEO (London Brick Co)
1905 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier
1907 Stanley Adams, songwriter
1908 Lady Jean Swaythling, chief controller (ATS)
1908 Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
1909 Len Darling, cricketer (South Australian & Test batsman of 30's)
1910 Pierre Schaeffer, French composer, engineer (d. 1995)
1910 Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
1911 Ethel Lois Payne, journalist (Chic Defender)/1st Lady of Black Press
1911 Jan Koetsier, composer
1911 Pieter Platteel, last governor Neth New-Guinea
1912 Eva Strittmatter, writer
1913 Fred Davis, English world champ snooker player (1948-49, 51)
1913 Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1914 Sydney Wooderson, miler (world record 1937)
1915 B.A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and journalist (d. 1998)
1915 Lord Mishcon, economist
1916 Andrew Kay, surgeon/professor of surgery (U of Glasgow)
1916 Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1992)
1916 Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005)
1920 Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem Palestine, actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
1921 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director
1923 William Flanagan, composer
1924 Georges Prêtre, French conductor
1924 Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor
1924 Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (d. 2009)
1925 Russell Baker, American columnist, humorist (NY Times)
1926 Alice Adams, US author
1926 Alice Ghostley, American actress (Bewitched, Designing Women) (d. 2007)
1926 Buddy Greco, Phila Pa, jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)
1926 Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director
1926 René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (Asterix) (d. 1977)
1927 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker
1927 Lord Whaddon, CEO (Daltrade & Skorimpex-Rind)
1928 Laurentius L M (Laurens) van Deenen, (pathed) physiologist
1928 Lina Wertmueller, [Arcanguela von Elgg], Rome, actress (7 Beauties)
1929 Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
1929 Hewlett Thompson, Bishop of Exeter
1929 Louise M Slaughter, (Rep-D-New York)
1929 Oliver Neville, principal (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)
1930 Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)
1930 Gerald B H Solomon, (Rep-R-New York, 1979)
1930 Lord Chorley, mountaineering enthusiast
1931 Frederic Raphael, writer (After the War, California Time)
1931 Marylyn Roberts, librarian/founding member (WIC)
1932 Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster (Downside School Great Britain)
1932 James V Hansen, (Rep-R-Utah, 1981)
1932 Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
1933 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1934 Robin McLaren, British ambassador (China)
1935 John Brodie, American football player
1936 Trevor Bannister, British actor
1937 Brian Curvis, Swansea, Wales, boxer, British welterweight champion (1960-1964) (d. 2012)
1937 Brian Fenelly, composer
1938 Betsy Cullen, LPGA golfer
1938 Niara Sudarkasa (Gloria M Clark), educator, President (Lincoln College)
1938 Stuart McKinnon, high court judge
1940 Dash Crofts, American musician (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1940 Galen Hall, American football coach, WLAF (Orlando Thunder, Rhein Fire)
1941 Connie Smith, American singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons)
1941 David Crosby, American musician (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
1941 Peter Truscott, cricketer (one Test NZ v Pakistan 1965, 3 & 26)
1942 Jackie Oliver, British Formula One driver
1942 Sandy Gilmour, Montclair NJ, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
1943 Barrie Leadbeater, cricket umpire
1943 Jimmy Johnson, American football coach, NFL (Dallas Cowboys)
1943 Jon Andrew McBride, Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G)
1943 Keith Hampson, MP
1943 Ronald Campbell, MP
1944 Robyn Smith Astaire, jockey/wife of Fred Astaire
1944 Tim Bogert, Richfiled NJ, rock bassist (Vanilla Fudge) [or 8/27]
1945 Brenda Benet, Hollywood, actress (Lee-Days of Our Lives, Beach Ball)
1945 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer
1945 Jennifer d'Abo, CEO (Ryman, Moyses Stevens)
1945 Steve Martin, American actor and comedian (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne)
1945 Tony Scannel, actor (Bill, Blue Money)
1945 Wim Wenders, German-born film director (American Friend, Hammett)
1946 Alexander Curly (Harm Breemer), Dutch artist
1946 Antonio Fargas, American actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
1946 Larry Graham, American musician (Graham Central Station-One in a Million You)
1946 Marga van Praag, Dutch radio hostess
1946 Susan Saint James (Miller), American actress (McMillian & Wife)
1947 Bruce Nash, American television producer
1947 Danielle Steel, American novelist (Wanderlust, Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy, The House)
1947 George Newsome, rocker
1947 Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist
1947 Maddy Prior, British folk singer
1947 Peter Christian, British actor
1948 Terry Adams, American musician (NRBQ)
1949 Bob Backlund, American wrestler
1949 John Tarrant, Tasmania, 1st Australian born Zen teacher
1949 Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
1950 Gary Larson, American cartoonist (The Far Side)
1951 Peter Blegvad, American musician (Slapp Happy)
1952 Carl Lumbly, American actor
1952 Debbie Meyer, American swimmer, 200m/400m/800m (Oly-3 gold-68)
1952 Mark C Lee, Viroqua WI, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 30, 47, 64, 82,sk: 98)
1953 Cliff Johnson, American computer game author
1953 James Horner, American actor (Titanic, Apollo 13, Balto, Jade, Casper)
1954 Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1956 Andy King, English footballer
1956 Jackée Harry, American actress
1956 Johnny Lever, Indian actor
1956 Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1956 Sharon Bryant, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1957 Gino Hernandez, American professional wrestler (d. 1986)
1957 Jackee (Harry), Winston-Salem NC, actress (Sandra-227)
1957 Peter Costello, Australian politician
1958 "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton, American professional wrestler (SMW/ECW/NJPW/WCW, Midnight Express)
1959 Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Amrican Basketball Player, NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92)
1959 Frank Brickowski, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1959 Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
1960 Broderick Thompson, NFL tackle/guard (Denver Broncos)
1960 Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano
1960 Fred Roberts, NBA forward (LA Lakers)
1960 Sarah Brightman, British soprano (Phantom of the Opera)
1961 "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1961 Susan Olsen, American actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
1962 Jerry Foltz, Las Vegas NV, Nike golfer (1991 Pensacola Open-2nd)
1962 Mark Gubicza, Philadelphia PA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1962 Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer
1962 Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer
1964 Brannon Braga, American scriptwriter, executive producer (24, Star Trek, FlashForward)
1964 Neal Anderson, American football player
1965 Emmanuelle Béart, French actress (The Smile)
1965 Lynette Falls, Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
1966 David Hallyday, Boulougne France, actor (He's My Girl)
1966 Halle Berry, American actress
1966 Karl Petter Løken, Norwegian footballer
1968 Adrian Lester, British actor
1968 Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist
1968 Catherine Bell, American actress
1968 Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
1968 Glenn Leroy McLeay, Invercargill NZ, points race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 Halle Berry, Cleve Ohio, Miss World USA (1986)/actress (Boomerang)
1968 Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer
1969 DJ Uncle Al, American hip-hop DJ (d. 2001)
1969 Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
1969 Tracy Caldwell, American astronaut
1970 Arno Doornernik, soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 Slava Dosedel, Czech, tennis star
1970 Susan Veasey, Wilmington DE, LPGA golfer (U of S Fla)
1970 Trise Jackson, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1971 Adam Timmerman, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Christopher R Nelloms, Dayton Ohio, sprinter
1971 James Folston, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1971 Mark Loretta, Santa Monica CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 Pramodaya Wickremasinhghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
1971 Raoul Bova, Italian actor
1971 Sean Hill, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1971 Stan White, NFL/WLAF quarterback (NY Giants, London Monarchs)
1972 Brian Gragert, WLAF punter (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Ed O'Bannon, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1972 Evan Pilgrim, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1972 Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist
1972 Katja Maaria Lehtd, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1972 Ross Schulte, NFL/WLAF kicker/punter (Buffalo Bills, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Yu Jae-seok, South Korean entertainer
1973 Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer
1973 Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
1973 Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
1973 Kieren Perkins, Australian free-style 1500m swimmer (world record)
1973 Mike Mamula, NFL linebacker/defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Nancy Sweetnam, Lindsay Ontario, 400m swimmer (Olympics-7-92, 96)
1973 Romane Bohringer, Pont-Sainte-Maxene France, actress (Savage Nights)
1973 Wayne Chrebet, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1974 Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
1974 Christopher Gorham, American actor
1974 Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
1974 Martin Bulloch, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
1975 Mike Vrabel, American football player, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1975 Viaceslav Ivanovski, Israel, Men's Weightlifting 99kg
1976 Alex Albrecht, American actor
1976 Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
1976 Steve Braun, Canadian actor
1977 Juan Pierre, American baseball player
1978 Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
1978 Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
1979 Paul Burgess, Australian athlete
1979 Yoichiro Morikawa, Japanese film director
1980 Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer
1980 Roy Williams, American football player
1981 Julius Jones, American football player
1981 Kofi Kingston, Jamacian professional wrestler
1981 Matthew Etherington, English footballer
1983 Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian/British tennis player
1983 Leo Núñez, Dominican baseball player
1983 Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress
1983 Spencer Pratt,American socialite
1984 Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
1984 Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Nick Grimshaw, British radio DJ and television presenter
1984 Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
1985 Ashlynn Brooke, American Pornographic Actress
1985 Christian Gentner, German footballer
1986 Terin Humphrey, American gymnast
1987 Chrystina Sayers, American singer and dancer (Girlicious)
1987 Tim Tebow, American football player (2007 Heisman trophy)
1988 Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer
1989 Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer

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582 Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor
1167 Raynald van Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
1204 Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1390 John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1430 Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1433 John I, king of Portugal (1383-1433) (b. 1357)
1464 Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1573 Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1587 Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1652 Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1691 Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
1704 Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
1727 William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
1763 Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
1774 Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
1778 Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages)
1784 Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
1785 John William Fletcher, evangelist
1788 Thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer)
1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright
1833 Luigi Cagnola, architect
1834 Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer
1844 Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante)
1856 Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
1856 William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist
1858 George Combe, phrenologist
1860 André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
1863 Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore)
1867 Niccola Benvenuti, composer
1870 David (James) Glasgow Farragut, American Admiral of the United States Navy (b. 1801)
1874 Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
1884 Arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist
1887 Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist
1891 Johnny Mullagh, cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868)
1905 Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka)
1905 Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
1909 William Stanley, inventor and engineer (b. 1829)
1922 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate
1923 Jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij)
1926 John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
1928 Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet (b. 1890)
1928 Klabund (Alfred Henschke), German writer (Spuk, Rasputin)
1932 Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog
1936 Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
1937 Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond)
1938 Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
1938 J J Kelly, cricketer (36 Tests for Aust 1896-1905, stumped 20)
1938 Landon Ronald, composer/pianist
1941 Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
1941 Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)
1941 Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)
1943 Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1946 Susan St James (Susan Jane Miller), American actress (Kate & Allie)
1949 Husni al-Barazi, President - Dictator of Syria, shot to death
1951 William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (b. 1863)
1954 Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek resistance fighter (b. 1901)
1955 Fiske Kimball, US architect, art historian
1955 Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage) (b. 1898)
1956 Freiherr Constantine von Neurath, German foreign min (1932-38)
1958 Big Bill Broonzy, Blues Musician
1958 Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize Laureate 1936) (b. 1900)
1958 Gladys L Presley, mom of Elvis
1958 Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b. 1873)
1958 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian
1961 Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds)
1961 Guido Alberto Fano, composer
1961 Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist
1963 Clifford Odets, US playwright (Golden Boy)
1964 Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (b. 1934)
1965 Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and writer (Walk at Dawn)
1966 S J "Tip" Snooke, South African cricketer, all-rounder (b. 1881)
1967 Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
1969 Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer
1969 Sigrid Gurie, actor (3 Faces West, Algiers)
1970 Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer
1971 Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer
1972 Jules Romains, French author (Death of Nobody) (b. 1885)
1972 Oscar Levant, American actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life) (b. 1906)
1972 Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes) (b. 1905)
1975 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids)
1978 Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
1980 Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model, Playmate, murdered by boyfriend Paul Snider (b. 1960)
1981 Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
1981 Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
1982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear) (b. 1922)
1984 J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley, English stagewriter (Magicians) (b. 1894)
1984 Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer
1984 Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1984 Tigran Petroshan, Russian chess grand master
1985 Gale Sondergaard, American actress (Letter) (b. 1899)
1988 Enzo Ferrari, Italyian sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari) (b. 1898)
1988 Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)
1988 Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (b. 1939)
1989 Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
1991 Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
1991 Douglas Kiker, newscaster (NBC-TV)
1992 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter
1992 Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church
1992 John J Sirica, American judge (Watergate) (b. 1904)
1992 Marion P Ames, US, advocate/activist, dies
1992 Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)
1994 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk),
1994 Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (Nobel 1981) (b. 1905)
1994 Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect
1994 Patrick Meehan, petty Criminal
1994 Tom Greenshields, sculptor
1995 Joseph Fattorini, businessman
1996 Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol)
1996 Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
1996 Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
1996 Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker
1999 Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2000 Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
2000 Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
2002 Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
2003 Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
2004 Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)
2005 Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
2006 Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
2007 Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
2007 Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
2010 Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
2010 Tahar Wattar, Algerian novelist (b. 1936)
2011 Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1931)
2012 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress
2012 Ron Palillo, American actor
2013 Allen Lanier, American rocker
2013 Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
2016 Fyvush Finkel, American Jewish actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences)
2016 Lita Roza, English singer ("How Much is That Doggie in the Window")

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