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475 The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
476 German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
476 West Roman Empire formally disbands, emperor Romulus August ousted
489 Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague.
1511 The Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1521 Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1542 Battle of Wofla of the Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557), the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1609 Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1619 Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1637 WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1640 Second Bishop's War, King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1655 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1777 American Revolutionary War Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1810 Battle of Grand Port the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
1830 The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States, runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill.
1837 Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1845 The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after having been under siege since July 20th after proclaiming independence
1850 Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1859 A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run of the American Civil War, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
1862 Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000
1862 Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
1867 The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll (Midway Islands in Pacific).
1879 Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz
1879 Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1883 Slavery banned throughout British Empire
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1884 Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1901 Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
1907 UPS (United Parcel Service) is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1908 14th US Golf Open, Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1911 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg, violent German/Russian battles
1914 Battle at Helgoland, British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914 John French evacuate Amiens
1914 German troops conquer Namur during World War I.
1914 The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, World War I.
1916 Germany declares war on Romania in World War I
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1922 1st Walker Cup, US beats England 8-4
1922 Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC
1922 WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
1924 The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1929 Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
1931 France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1938 Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1938 On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
1939 "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 Netherland mobilizes
1939 Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
1940 French colonies Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1941 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1942 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
1942 Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1943 Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers during World War II
1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
1944 US air raid on Ambon
1944 Marseille and Toulon are liberated during World War II.
1949 38th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1950 Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
1952 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1953 "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
1953 Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1956 England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1958 Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
1961 Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1962 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech; Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan flat, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1964 Race riot in Philadelphia
1964 The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
1965 Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1967 Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng
1967 Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1968 Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention, Police & anti-war demonstrators clash.
1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1971 The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 India & Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1976 NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1977 NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1979 An IRA bomb explodes in the Great Marke, Brussels.
1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1981 The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. These will soon be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1982 "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 perfs
1982 The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances
1983 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1983 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1986 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1986 Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
1986 United States Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
1988 40th Emmy Awards, 30something, Wonder Years & Richard Kiley
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
1988 Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 First regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1989 Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0
1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1990 Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1990 The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 Reds Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both prior perfect game pitchers
1992 Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
1993 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
1994 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
1994 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
1995 Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 & 157
1996 Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
1996 Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex
1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1998 Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.
2005 Hurricane Katrina hammers the south eastern United States, especially New Orleans, Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi
2012 Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate (the first Morman major party nominee)
2013 51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq
2013 70th Venice Film Festival: "Sacro GRA" directed by Gianfranco Rosi wins Golden Lion
2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons

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865 Rhazes (Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi), Persian physician
1025 Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1476 Motonoboe, Japanese painter (Kano-school)
1582 Taichang Emperor, of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English Prime Minister (1625-28) (d. 1628)
1612 Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1673 Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
1691 Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1700 Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer
1713 Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland
1714 Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, social philosopher, and scientist (d. 1832)
1754 Peter Winter, composer
1774 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, First American-born Catholic saint (1975) (d. 1821)
1775 Sophie Gail, composer
1789 Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1794 Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
1795 Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
1801 Antoine A(ugustin) Cournot, French philosopher and mathematician (Rule of Cournot) (d. 1877)
1814 Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1824 Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician
1826 Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
1827 Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1827 Teresa Milanollo, composer
1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910)
1828 William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900
1829 Albert Dietrich, composer
1831 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer
1831 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, U.S. First lady (1877-81)
1833 Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter and designer
1840 Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1840 Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns)
1842 Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1853 Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1859 Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (d. 1943)
1860 Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
1867 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1872 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
1878 George Hoyt Whipple, American doctor, astrophysicist (Nobel laureate 1934) (d. 1976)
1881 Arne Eggen, composer
1882 Carl W de Vries, Dutch jurist (Unknown Thorbecke)
1883 E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor (Night Must Fall, Dark Hour)
1884 Peter Fraser, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
1885 Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
1885 Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1887 Daniel Zamudio, composer
1889 Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
1890 Ivor Gurney, composer
1891 Stanley Andrews, Chicago IL, actor (Shine on Harvest Moon)
1894 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower)
1894 Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1897 Morris Ankrum, IL, actor (Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers)
1898 Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1898 Ludwig Turek, writer
1899 Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1901 Cornelis J Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet)
1901 Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
1903 Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1903 Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer
1904 Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
1905 Sam Levene, Russia, actor (Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang)
1906 John Betjeman, English poet (Mt Zion) (d. 1984)
1907 Philip A Edwards, Brit Guiana, runner (Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36)
1908 Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist, writer (How to Know Birds) (d. 1996)
1910 Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician
1911 Joseph Luns, Dutch foreign minister, Secretary general (NATO) (d. 2002)
1912 Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
1913 Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
1913 Jack Dreyfus, American entrepreneur (d. 2009)
1913 John Terence Reese, bridge master
1913 Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993)
1913 Richard Tucker (Reuben Ticker), American Tenor (NY Met Opera) (d. 1975)
1913 Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1913 Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
1914 Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
1915 Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite)
1916 Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1916 Jack (Holbrook) Vance, American sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume)
1917 Jack Kirby, American comic book cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America) (d. 1994)
1918 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician
1919 Ernest H Martin (Markowitz), producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1919 Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
1920 Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 Joop Doderer, Velsen Netherlands, actor (Swiebertje)
1921 Nancy Kulp, American actress (Miss Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 1991)
1924 Janet Frame, New Zealand author (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry) (d. 2004)
1924 Peggy Ryan, American actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0) (d. 2004)
1924 Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
1924 Vilayat Khan, composer
1925 Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
1925 Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1925 Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
1925 John Gillett, film researcher
1925 Marvin Davis, Newark NJ, CEO (Davis Oil Company)
1928 F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1928 James Wild, music teacher
1929 István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1929 Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
1929 Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
1930 Ben Gazzara, American actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII) (d. 2012)
1930 Windsor Davies, British actor
1931 John Perkins, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone (Death in Venice)
1931 Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director
1932 Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL (1958 MVP) (NY Rangers)
1932 Carlene Polite, US dancer/activist/author (Sister X)
1932 (Moriyuki) Pat Morita, Isleton CA, actor (Hiroshima, Karate Kid)
1935 Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1936 Harry McLevy, trade Unionist
1937 12th duke of Argyll, Scottish Campbell-captain/large landowner
1938 Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1938 Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1939 Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
1939 Clem Cattini, rocker
1939 Edward Patten, US soul singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1940 Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1940 Richard Sanders, actor (Les Nessman-WKRP)
1940 Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 William S Cohen, (Sen-R Maine, 1979)
1941 Paul Peter Plishka, American opera singer, bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens)
1941 Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1942 Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 Anne "Honey" Lantree, rocker
1943 David Soul (Solberg) American actor (Starsky & Hutch)
1943 Lou Piniella, American baseball player  (1969 AL rookie of the year) and manager (NY Yankees)
1943 Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
1944 Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1944 Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1945 Bob Segarini, American musician and radio personality
1945 Bruno Nuytten, director (Camille Claudel)
1945 Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
1947 Alice Playton, NYC, actress (Who Killed Mary Whats 'er Name)
1947 Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
1947 Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1948 Danny Seraphine, American musician, drummer  (Chicago)
1948 Heather Reisman, Canadian businesswoman
1948 Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer
1948 Vonda N(eel) McIntyre, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV)
1949 Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
1949 Svetislav Pešic, Serbian basketball player and coach
1950 Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry, American Baseball Player, pitcher (NY Yankees) (Cy Young 1978)
1951 Dave Hlubek, rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet)
1951 Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1951 Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1952 Rita Dove, American poet
1952 Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1953 Gates McFadden, Columbus Ohio, actress (Star Trek Next Generation)
1954 George Church, American geneticist
1956 Beverley Goddard-Callender, Barbados, 4x100m (Olympic-bronze-1980, 84)
1956 Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
1956 Mark Lutz, Puerto Rican actor
1957 Daniel Stern, American actor (City Slickers, Wonder Years)
1957 Ivo Josipovic President of Croatia
1957 Rick Rossovich, Croatian-American actor (Top Gun, Roxanne, ER)
1958 Scott (Scovell) Hamilton, American figure skater (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 Mary Murphy, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1990 US Women's Open-5th)
1960 Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader
1960 Emma Samms (Samuels), English actress (Colby's, General Hospital)
1960 Leroy Chiao, Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut (STS 65, 72, sk: 92)
1961 Cliff Benson, American football player
1961 Kim Appleby, English singer (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
1962 David Fincher, American music video and film director
1962 Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 Richard Elliott Fehr, Seattle WA, PGA golfer (1986 BC Open)
1963 Abe Button, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1963 Regina Marie Jacobs, American athlete, 800m/1500m runner (Olympics-10th-1996)
1963 Reyna Thompson, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1964 Lee MacLeod Janzen, Austin MN, PGA golfer (1993 US Open)
1965 Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
1965 James Jagger, son of Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall
1965 Satoshi Tajiri, founder of Game Freak
1965 Shania Twain, Canadian singer (You're Still the One)
1966 Jerry Fehily, rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1966 Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1966 Teresa Zarzeczny Bell, Washington Crossing NJ, rower (Oly-silver-1996)
1967 Chris Armstrong, CFL slot back (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 Darren Lewis, Berkeley CA, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1967 Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1968 Scarlet Annette Morgan, Pfafftown NC, Miss NC-America-1991
1968 Tom Fitzgerald, Melrose, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1969 Jack Black, American musician (Tenasious D) and actor
1969 Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor (Brandon-Beverly Hills 90210)
1969 Mary McCartney, English photographer, daughter of Beatle Paul McCartney
1969 Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (NY Islanders, Montreal Canadiens)
1970 Gavin Maxwell, Mississauga Ontario, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 Jaime Fields, NFL/WLAF linebacker (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores)
1970 Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1970 Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
1971 Janet Evans, American swimmer, 400m/800m swimmer (Oly-4 gold-88, 92, 96)
1971 Olaf Sheep, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer (Olympic-92)
1971 Scott Eldredge, Chatham Mass, 1996 World Mens' Champion
1971 Shane Andrews, American baseball player, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 Todd Eldredge, American figure skater (1997 National Sr champ)
1972 Darby Hendrickson, Richfield Minn, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1972 Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1972 Mike Cawley, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
1973 DJ Assault, American musician
1973 Eric Lindros, NHLer (Phila Flyers)
1973 Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor
1973 Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1974 Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1974 Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 Mark Smith, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1975 Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975 Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
1976 Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1978 Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979 Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979 Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1979 Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1980 Carly Pope, Canadian actress
1980 T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981 Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
1981 Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981 Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1981 Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1981 Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1982 Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982 Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1982 LeAnn Rimes, American country singer (Blue, Holiday in Your Heart)
1982 Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1983 Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer (RBD)
1983 Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1985 Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986 Florence Welch, musician (Florence and the Machine)
1986 Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
1988 Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
1989 Cassadee Pope, American Pop Musician (Hey Monday)
1990 Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 Kyle Massey, American actor
1991 Sarah Jane Santos, Filipino singer
1999 Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Danish royalty

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388 Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
430 Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Belijdenissen) (b. 354)
876 Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76)
1065 Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65)
1341 King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 Afonso V, King of Portugal (b. 1432)
1484 Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered
1539 Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded
1544 Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist 
1550 Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state 
1645 Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1646 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche)
1647 Johann Dilliger, composer
1654 Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1676 Joan Cererols, composer
1677 Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist
1678 John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1767 Johann Schobert, composer
1778 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister
1784 Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)  
1785 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
1793 Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general, parliament member (executed) (b. 1740)
1798 James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind)
1803 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
1805 Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago
1820 Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1885 Julius Hopp, composer
1900 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University) (b. 1838)
1903 August Labitzky, composer
1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1914 Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga)
1916 Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916)
1922 Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil
1930 Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911)
1933 Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943 Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43) (b. 1894)
1944 Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
1947 Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1951 Robert Walker, actor/writer (Bataan, Madame Curie)
1955 Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi (b. 1941)
1958 Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
1959 Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czech composer (Hry o Marti) (b. 1890)
1960 Anton Lajovic, composer
1961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame
1964 Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1964 Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox)
1965 Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1967 Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly
1967 Paul Muni (Muni Weisenfreund) actor (Good Earth)
1968 John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala
1968 Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
1969 Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops)
1971 Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924)
1971 Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (b. 1889)
1972 William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V          
1975 Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1976 Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War)
1978 Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
1979 Simonow, writer
1981 Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1982 Geoff W. A. Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
1982 Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse)
1983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
1985 Ruth Gordon, American actress (Big Bus) (b. 1896)
1987 John Huston, Irish-American movie director (Maltese Falcon) (b. 1906)
1988 Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie)
1988 Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1988 Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v England 1933)
1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske) (b. 1913)
1991 Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (b. 1913)
1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult)
1991 Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days)
1993 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again)
1993 William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1994 David Wright, poet
1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
1994 Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green)
1995 Agnes Patrick, campaigner
1995 Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
1995 Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story)
1995 Michael VerMeulen, journalist
1996 Lynda Carr, educationist
1996 Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer
2003 Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2006 Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 Hilly Kristal, American Punk rock musician, Founder (CBGBs) (b. 1932)
2007 Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2007 Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2008 Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
2009 Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (b. 1973)
2010 William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University
2011 Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (b. 1967)
2012 Rhodes Boyson, British politician and author (Black Papers)
2014 Glenn Cornick, English rock bassist
2015 Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

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