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335 Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem
642 Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
1156 Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)
1176 The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1394 Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1462 The Battle of Świecino (Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1562 Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1577 The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1584 Gent surrenders to duke of Parma
1595 Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France
1598 Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1630 The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631 Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War, King Gustaaf Adolf defeats Gen Tilly.
1644 French troops occupy Mainz
1678 France & Spain signs peace treaty
1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules", the first known description of protozoa (bacteria).
1691 Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter
1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks
1730 Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1737 Georg-August University opens in Göttingen
1745 Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders
1776 The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
1787 Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem
1787 The United States Constitution is signed  by Philadelphia convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1809 Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1814 Francis Scott Key finishes his poem The Star-Spangled Banner.
1819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
1835 Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1850 Great fire in San Francisco
1859 Joshua A. Norton in SF declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
1861 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia
1861 Hampton Institute forms
1862 George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), the bloodiest day in American history, 23, 110 die.
1862 The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War.
1862 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
1862 Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city
1863 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
1864 Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1872 Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1873 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1876 Race riots in SC
1894 The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1897 3rd US Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton Ill
1899 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
1900 Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed
1900 Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac during the Philippine-American War.
1900 Queen Victoria disbands British parliament
1901 Battle at Blood River Port, Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry
1901 Battle at Elands River Port, Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1902 US protests anti-semitism in Romania
1903 Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
1906 Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's
1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1911 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
1911 25th US Womens Tennis, Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
1912 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles
1914 Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right
1916 Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France in World War I.
1920 Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings
1920 The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.  12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Association
1922 Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1923 Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London
1924 Italy signs treaty of Rapallo
1924 The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1926 Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
1927 47th US Mens Tennis, Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
1927 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1928 48th US Mens Tennis, Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)
1928 Henri Cochet wins US Tennis Open
1928 Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
1928 The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
1929 British troops begin evacuating
1931 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed
1931 Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London
1931 Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
1934 RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)
1934 USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no)
1935 Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines
1937 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3
1938 52nd US Womens Tennis, Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63)
1938 58th US Mens Tennis, J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61)
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938 Don Budge wins US Tennis open & completes Grand Slam
1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous during World War II, 519 die
1939 The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner.  Poland's president Moscicki & PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
1940 Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
1941 Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
1941 A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued in World War II.
1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1943 Red Army recaptures Brjansk
1943 The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis in World War II.
1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 Allied Airborne troops parachute into Arnhem, Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden in World War II.
1946 "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater NYC for 79 performances
1946 "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances
1947 Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
1947 James V. Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
1947 US Dept of Defense forms
1948 KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA (IND) begins
1948 The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
1948 WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 8th Ryder Cup, US beats Europe, 7-5 at Ganton GC, England
1949 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
1949 The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
1949 WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
1951 "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances
1951 Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
1952 "I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1953 First successful separation of Siamese twins
1953 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
1954 Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 "Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 176 perfs
1955 Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game
1956 Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school
1956 Television is first broadcast in Australia.
1956 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
1957 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren & producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico
1957 KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 Malaysia joins the United Nations.
1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1957 Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat
1957 The North East Humanists group is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1959 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
1960 "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1960 Cuba nationalizes US banks
1961 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
1961 Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 Justice Dept files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
1962 US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
1963 "Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV
1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1964 "Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV
1964 Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
1964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR
1964 Supremes release "Baby Love"
1965 WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 Cleve pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings
1967 "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13
1967 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0
1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
1970 Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
1970 Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas
1970 WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV
1972 BART begins passenger service in SF
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic
1972 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
1974 Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1974 Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
1975 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
1976 Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize
1976 NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif
1976 Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album
1976 The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
1977 22nd Ryder Cup, US, 12½-13½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes England
1977 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
1978 30th Emmy Awards, All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson win
1978 Begin, Sadat & Carter sign Camp David accord
1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3
1978 The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
1979 Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
1979 Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season
1980 "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres
1980 After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
1980 Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
1980 Iraq (Saddam Hussein) signs accord with Algeria
1980 Oakland A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22
1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1980 South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
1981 Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season
1982 NJ Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa
1983 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship
1983 Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, first black Miss America.
1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner
1984 Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
1984 Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs
1984 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
1986 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
1986 Mets clinch NL East Championship
1986 US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
1987 Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
1988 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
1988 Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL
1988 Military coup in Haiti, Lt Gen Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
1989 Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC
1989 41st Emmy Awards, LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win
1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ)
1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
1990 Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1991 4,355 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1991 Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1992 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ8.8 billion
1992 An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
1992 House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1993 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
1994 Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
1994 Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995
1994 Princess Christina separates
1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 276 perfs
1995 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colo Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field
1997 Dr Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test
2001 The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2003 Ohio re-ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2004 Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
2008 The IAU named another dwarf planet, Haumea
2010 The 54 year run of the soap opera As the World Turns ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2011 Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
2012 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
2012 China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
2012 Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
2012 Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn condom
2012 United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence system in Japan
2013 6 people are killed after a train and double-decker bus collide in Ottawa, Canada
2014 Voreqe Bainimarama's Fiji First Party wins the first Fijian elections since his coup in 2006
2015 US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer hottest on record

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HIDE

64 Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
879 Charles III (The Simple), King of France (893-923) (d. 929)
1192 Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305) (d. 1305)
1552 Paul V (Camillo Borghese), Italian Pope (1605-21) (d. 1621)
1580 Charlotte Brabantia, countess of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange
1605 Francesco Sacrati, composer
1619 John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader
1630 Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1643 Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author
1657 Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
1677 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1688 Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
1711 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
1714 Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire)
1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
1739 John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
1743 Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician
1743 Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method) (d. 1794)
1748 Robert Wainwright, composer
1764 John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
1765 Gregory XVI (Bartolomeo A Cappellari-Mauro), Italian Pope
1767 Henri-Montan Berton, composer
1771 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1773 Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849)
1774 Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
1783 Samuel Prout, water-color painter
1795 Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
1798 Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1800 Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy) (d. 1874)
1801 Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights)
1814 Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer
1818 Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
1819 Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)
1819 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa)
1819 Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP, died in office
1820 Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
1820 Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1821 Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
1825 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy) (d. 1893)
1826 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function) (d. 1866)
1834 Edouard Pailleron, French attorney-stage writer
1839 Ira Davenport, American magician (d. 1911)
1849 Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer
1853 Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie)
1854 David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d. 1929)
1854 Hans Muller, music historian
1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist, space researcher (d. 1935)
1859 Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator
1859 Richard Henry Warren, composer
1861 Owen Seaman, poet, editor (Punch)
1868 James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
1869 Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist and internationalist (Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1921) (d. 1938)
1874 Ben(jamin) Turpin, American comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin)
1875 Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer
1877 Jean Hure, composer
1878 Vincenzo Tommasini, composer
1879 Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
1879 Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1881 Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1882 Anton H Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of Light)
1883 Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners, 14th baron/composer
1883 William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
1884 Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian/Justice of Curacao
1884 Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (White Peacock) (d. 1920)
1885 George Cleveland, Sydney Nova Scotia, actor (Courage of Lassie)
1885 Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer
1890 Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
1890 Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina
1891 Leslie Lincoln Henson, actor (Lady Luck, Funny Face, Harvey)
1892 Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Ballade of Merel)
1893 Abel J Herzberg, Russian-Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews)
1894 Fay Compton (Virginia Lillian Emeline Compton), actress (Haunting)
1896 Denise Grey (Edouardine Verthuy), Italian actress (Julietta)
1897 Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
1899 Winnie Lightner, Greenport NY, comedienne (Sit Tight, Side Show)
1900 Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1900 John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1901 Francis Charles Chinester, English adventurer , yachtsman, aviator (d. 1972)
1902 Esther Ralston, Bar Harbor ME, American Venus/actress (Old Ironsides)
1903 Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
1903 Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
1904 Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972)
1904 Frederick Ashton, Ecuador, British choreographer (Cinderella), (d. 1988)
1904 Jerry Colonna, Boston MA, actor (Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore)
1905 Dolores Costello, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
1905 Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director (OW&OC)
1905 Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer
1906 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
1906 Junius Richard Jayawardene, president (Sri Lanka, 1978-89)
1907 Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law
1907 Helen Vinson, American actress (Transatlantic Tunnel, In Name Only)
1907 Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (1969-86) (d. 1995)
1908 Franz J A Grothe, German composer
1909 Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London
1909 Kenneth Darling, Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe
1910 Vernon Thompson, thoracic surgeon
1912 Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
1912 Pauline Parsons, matron in chief (PMRAFNS)
1913 Jorgen Jersild, composer
1914 Shin Kanemaru, politician
1916 Mary (Florence Elinor) Stewart, English sci-fi author (Crystal Cave)
1916 Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp)
1917 Isang Yun, composer
1917 Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City NJ, artist (Sanitarium)
1917 Peter Bennett, London, actor (Leonides-Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1918 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93) (d. 1997)
1920 Dinah Sheridan, actress (Genevieve, Railway Children)
1920 Marjorie S Holt, (Rep-R-MD, 1973)
1921 Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90)
1922 Agostinho Neto, President Angola  (d. 1979)
1922 Naomi Datta, geneticist
1922 Ursula Howells, London, actress (Girly, Murder is Announced)
1923 Hank Williams, American country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin') (d. 1953)
1923 John Hale, linguist
1926 Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
1926 Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
1926 Donald Acheson, England's chief medical officer
1926 Reginald Marsh, actor (Sicilians, It Happened Here)
1927 George Blanda, American football player, NFL kicker-quarterback (Bears, Oilers, Raiders)
1927 Ted Weiss, (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92)
1928 Brian Matthew, British disc jockey
1928 Roddy McDowall, English actor (Planet of Apes, Lord Love a Duck) (d. 1998)
1929 John Stewart-Clark, MEP (C)
1929 Lord Craig of Radley, marshal (RAF)
1929 Pat Crowley, American actress
1929 Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
1929 Stirling Moss, London England, race car driver
1930 David Huddleston, American actor (How the West Was Won)
1930 Dorothy Loudon, Cambridge Mass, actress/singer (Garry Moore Show)
1930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, American astronaut (Apollo 14)
1930 Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner
1930 Jim Rohn, American business philosopher
1930 Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
1930 Thomas P Stafford, American astronaut (Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18)
1931 Anne Bancroft, American actress (Graduate, Miracle Worker) (d. 2005)
1933 Charles E Grassley, American politician, (Sen-R-Iowa, 1981)
1933 Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
1933 D(esmond) A Fennell, British high court judge, headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1933 Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
1933 Patricia Crowley, Olyphant Pa, actress (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1934 Little Milton (Campbell), Musician
1934 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, American tennis player , 1st woman grand slam (1953) (d. 1969)
1934 Orlando Cepeda, Giants player (NL MVP 1967)
1935 Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) (d. 2001)
1935 Timothy Bavin, Bishop of Portsmouth
1936 Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer
1936 Mischa de Vreede, poetess (Our Eternal Hunger)
1936 Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president (Law Society)
1937 Albertine Sarrazin, French author (L'astragale, La Cavale)
1937 Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 Alec Broers, master (Churchill College Cambridge)
1938 Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
1938 Paul Benedict, Silver City NM, actor (Harry-Jeffersons)
1939 David H Souter, 107th U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1990)
1939 Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer
1939 Lamonte McLemore, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension)
1939 Shelby Flint, American singer
1940 Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
1940 Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)
1941 Robert T Matsui, U.S. Congressman (Rep-D-California, 1979) (d. 2005)
1941 Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (d. 2001)
1941 William Grut, Sweden, penthalete (Olympic-gold-1948)
1942 Beverly Aadland, Hollywood Cal, Errol Flynns last girlfriend
1942 Des(mond) Lynam, British sportscaster
1942 Doris Brown-Heritage, US, 800m track star (Olympic-gold-1968)
1942 Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
1943 Samuel T Durrance, Tallahassee Fl, PhD/astronaut (STS 35, STS 67)
1943 Sarah Lucas, theatre administrator
1944 Mary Lou Crocker, LPGA golfer
1944 Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber (Mount Everest)
1945 Bhakti Caru Swami, Indian spiritual leader
1945 Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
1945 David Emerson, Canadian politician
1945 Phil Jackson, American basketball player, NBA (Knicks) and NBA head coach (Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers)
1946 Billy Bonds, British soccer player
1946 Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office
1947 Jeff MacNelly, Puliter Prize-winning cartoonist (Shoe)
1947 Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist
1947 Tessa Jowell, British politician
1948 Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
1948 John Ritter, American actor (Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire) (d. 2003)
1948 Patricia Kluge, Baghdad Iraq, wife of Billionaire John Kluge
1950 Chris Heister, Swedish politician
1950 Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
1950 Lawrence Anthony, Johannesberg, South Africa, conservationist and author, (d. 2012)
1950 Narendra Modi, Indian politician
1951 Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), American actress (Echo Park, Elvira)
1952 Steve Sanders, Richland Ga, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1953 Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
1954 Joël-François Durand, French composer
1955 Charles Martinet, American actor
1955 Koralia Karanti, Greek actress
1955 Rita Rudner, comedienne (Funny People)
1955 Scott William Simpson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 US Open)
1956 Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
1956 Rita Rudner, American comedian
1956 Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
1957 David Bintley, choreographer
1957 Richard Reinhardt (AKA Richie Ramone), Drummer of The Ramones from 1983-1987
1958 Daniel Nunez, Cuba, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
1959 Hank Ilesic, Edmonton, CFL punter, place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto)
1960 Damon Hill, English race car driver and 1996 F1 world champion
1960 Hank Baran, San Diego California, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Won Mexican)
1960 John Franco, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets)
1960 Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
1960 Terry Nihen, Concord Mass, playmate (December, 1983)
1961 Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager
1961 Pamela Ann Melroy, Palo Alto California, Major USAF/astronaut (sk:STS 92)
1961 Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1962 Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
1962 Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor (Harry-21 Jump Street)
1962 Wayne Riley, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1963 Amy Roloff, American reality star
1963 James Urbaniak, American actor
1963 Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler (NJPW)
1963 Michael Adler, American businessman
1963 Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
1963 Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)
1963 Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
1964 Christian Conrad, actor (Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers)
1964 Karen Straker, horse show jumper
1965 Bryan Singer, American director
1965 Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1965 Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
1966 Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1966 Fred Childress, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1967 Dan Dupuis, Ashcroft BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Canadian Golf)
1967 Derek Ware, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1967 Malik Yoba, American actor (NY Undercover-Det JC Williams)
1967 Maurice Hurst, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1968 Anastacia, American singer
1968 Lord Jammer, rocker (Brand Nubian)
1968 Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
1968 Stacey Dillard, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1968 Suzy Cote, Santa Barbara California, actress (Samantha-Guiding Light)
1968 Valeri Zelepukin, NHL forward (NJ Devils, Team Russia Oly-Sil-98)
1969 Keith Flint, English singer, musician (Prodigy)
1969 Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1969 Matthew Settle, American actor
1969 Rob Zamuner, NHL forward (Tampa Bay Lightning, Team Canada 1998)
1970 Al Fontenot, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1970 Ashley Ambrose, NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Mark Brunell, American football player, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Wolfgang Kromp, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1971 Adriana Sklenaríková, Slovak supermodel
1971 Annika Duckmark, Miss Universe-Sweden (1996)
1971 David Hynes, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
1971 Mauro Milanese, Italian footballer
1971 Mike Catt, English rugby player
1971 Octus Polk, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1971 Paul Janssen, soccer player (Fortuna S, NAC)
1972 Allen Williams, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1972 Bobby Lee, American comedian
1972 Brian Henry, American poet
1972 Darrius Johnson, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1973 Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
1973 David Reid, Phila, light middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
1974 Bas Leferink, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1974 Jason Hewitt, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1974 Mirah, American musician
1974 Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
1975 Austin St. John, American actor
1975 Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1975 Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1976 Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
1976 Jonathan Nichols, Wilmington Del, dance skater (& Tami Tyler)
1976 Trincy Low, Miss Malaysia Universe (1997)
1977 Becky Turner, Marietta Ga, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1977 Latoya Warning, Suriname 4th Miss Teenager (1993)
1977 Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
1977 Tony Goskowicz, Wauwautosa Wis, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1978 Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 Flo Rida, American rapper
1979 Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
1980 Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler (born as Dolgorsuren Dagvador)
1980 Danny Haren, American baseball player
1981 Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
1981 Casey Janssen, American baseball player
1981 Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
1981 Jonathan Radtke, American musician (Kill Hannah)
1982 Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
1982 Wade Robson, Australian choreographer
1983 Jennifer Peña, American singer
1984 Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
1984 Mary Descenza, American swimmer
1985 Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player, NHL Forward (Wahington Capitals)
1985 Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player  (St. Patrick's Athletic)
1985 Jon Walker, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1985 José Gonçalves, Portuguese football player
1985 Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
1986 Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
1986 Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer
1987 Paul Huntington, English footballer
1991 Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
1994 Taylor Ware, American yodeler
2004 Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark

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1179 Hildegard van Bingen, German abbess and composer and mystic (Ordo Virtutum) (b. 1098)
1312 Ferdinand V, King of Castile, Leon
1322 Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 Constantine II of Bulgaria
1563 Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier (b. 1526)
1574 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida, soldier, navigator (b. 1519)
1575 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1604 Lucas Osiander, composer
1621 Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
1630 Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1652 Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant
1665 Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55) (b. 1605)
1676 Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
1679 John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
1679 Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands
1702 Olof Rudbeck, composer
1727 Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1732 Josef Antonin Planicky, composer
1762 Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, Italian violinist , composer (b. 1687)
1771 Tobias George Smollett, Scottish novelist (Adv of Roderick Random) (b. 1721)
1803 Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
1808 Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1820 Henri Hamal, composer
1823 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker
1824 Giacomo Tritto, composer,
1836 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1839 Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist
1846 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
1858 Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court)
1862 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general
1862 William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament
1863 Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet
1863 Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
1864 Walter Savage Landor, author
1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader
1869 Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus)
1873 Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1877 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer
1879 Eugene Emmanuel Violletle-Duc, gothic archetect
1879 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1884 Louis Schubert, composer
1892 Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian
1894 Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1895 Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
1907 Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1846)
1908 Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, 1st to die in an air crash (b. 1882)
1926 August Sauer, Austria literature historian
1933 Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1934 Edmund van der Straeten, composer
1936 Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1943 Dick Tyldesley, cricketer (7 Tests for England)
1944 Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle
1946 Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
1948 Lillian Brainthwaite, Brit actress (Man About the House)
1948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)
1951 Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic
1953 Henry Holden Huss, composer
1956 Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (Olympic-gold-1932)
1957 John W "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith
1958 Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist
1959 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director
1960 Jose Sancho Marraco, composer
1961 Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60)
1961 Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Bleke Bet)
1966 Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58) (b. 1930)
1971 Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
1972 Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim) (b. 1899)
1973 Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
1979 Miloslav Kabelac, composer
1980 Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua, assassinated in Paraguay (b. 1925)
1980 Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66)
1982 Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1983 Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston
1984 Richard Basehart, American actor (Rage) (b. 1914)
1985 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer (b. 1925)
1986 Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street)
1987 Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1989 Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide
1991 Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1992 Feodor Chaliapin Jr, actor (King's Whore)
1992 William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973)
1993 Christian Nyby, American film and television director (Big Sleep, Thing) (b. 1913)
1994 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea)
1994 John DeLaFose, zydeco musician
1994 Karl R Popper, Austrian philosopher (Poverty of Historianism) (b. 1902)
1994 Paul Nicholas Young, architect
1995 Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind)
1995 Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
1995 Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader
1996 Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician
1996 Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90)
1997 John Seldon Whale, theologian
1997 Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (Red Skelton Show) (b. 1913)
1998 Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
1998 Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
1999 Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
2000 Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2001 Lou Dog, Brad Nowell's dog, Sublime Mascot
2003 Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2005 Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
2009 Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)
2011 Colin Madigan, Australian architect (b. 1921)
2012 Russell E. Train, American environmentalist
2013 Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer
2014 George Hamilton IV, American country musician
2015 David Willcocks, English conductor and composer (Kings College choir)

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