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96 Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1180 Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1437 Farmer uprising in Transsylvania
1454 In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
1544 Peace of Crépy, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I
1573 Spain attacks Alkmaar
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed by Turkey & Austria, Austria cedes Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1755 Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens
1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
1769 John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)
1789 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such (National Day).
1811 English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
1812 The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three quarters of the city,  90% of houses & 1,000 churchs. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1830 Horse beats 1st US made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
1846 Elizabeth Barrett & R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1848 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1849 De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns
1850 The U.S. Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850.
1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times (2 cents a copy), which later becomes The New York Times.
1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
1863 The Battle of Chickamauga of the American Civil War takes place.
1864 Battle of Martinsburg WV
1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873
1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1882 The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)
1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
1895 Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment
1897 Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC
1898 Fashoda Incident Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1908 Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male and female suffrage.
1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1911 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC
1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa in World War I.
1914 The Irish Home Rule Act receive Royal assent and becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1915 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1919 The Netherlands gives women the right to vote, Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage.
1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1922 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
1922 Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
1926 46th US Mens Tennis, Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate)
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1929 Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1929 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC
1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1930 NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
1930 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
1931 The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo.
1932 Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
1934 St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1934 The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
1938 Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10
1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1939 William Joyce makes his first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
1939 Polish government of Ignacy Moscicki flees to Romania in World War II.
1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC
1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani in World War II.
1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) in World War II.
1943 The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór in World War II.
1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru, 5,600 killed
1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
1944 US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
1944 The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru, 5,600 killed, World War II.
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary Indiana schools to protest integration
1945 General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1947 National Security Act, passes
1947 The United States Air Force (USAF) becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin).
1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1948 Ralph J Bunche is confirmed as acting United Nations mediator for Palestine and Israel.
1948 Yoni Abramski, age 12, killed by sniper in Jerusalem.
1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
1954 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1962 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Fort Worth
1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
1963 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1964 Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 "Get Smart" premieres
1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1967 Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup
1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
1969 Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged
1971 19th Ryder Cup, US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis, Missouri, US)
1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
1972 First Ugandans expelled by Idi Amin arrive in the United Kingdom.
1973 German FR & German DR admitted to UN
1973 The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1975 Heiress, bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF
1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1976 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1976 Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
1976 Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1976 Rock Music Award
1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
1977 Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
1977 Joanne Carner, Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
1977 US Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1978 All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
1978 Leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David.
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
1979 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
1980 "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1980 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 Christian militia begin massacre of six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1983 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 Lebanese & Syrian army battle
1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31
1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
1985 "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
1985 BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston
1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
1987 US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 Burma suspends its constitution
1988 Coup in Haiti
1988 End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1990 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations
1991 Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee
1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
1991 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1992 An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup, US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va
1994 Austrian conservative FVP wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5%
1994 Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1994 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
1994 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1997 Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1997 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD $1 billion to the United Nations.
1997 Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
1998 ICANN is formed.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2003 The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent.
2006 Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape is made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
2007 Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2012 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
2012 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
2012 The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
2012 World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
2014 8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
2014 Emma Watson delivers an address to a standing ovation at UN Headquarters in New York City, helping launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality
2014 Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom
2015 Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, confirms 2.3 million people applied for 238 menial office jobs

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53 Trajan, XIII Roman Emperor, (Trajan's Forum) (d. 117)
1344 Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
1434 Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
1505 Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1558)
1574 Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet
1587 Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. c. 1640)
1636 Pietro Sanmartini, composer
1643 Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
1676 Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
1684 Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer, Musicographer (d. 1748)
1709 Samuel Johnson, English writer (Boswell's Tour Guide) and lexicographer (d. 1784)
1713 Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher
1718 Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (d. 1783)
1733 George Read, American judge, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
1750 Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias) (d. 1791)
1752 Adrien-Marie Lagendre, French mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals (d. 1833)
1752 Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
1765 Oliver Holden, composer
1765 Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
1772 Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
1779 Joseph Story, 19th U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1812-45) (d. 1845)
1786 Christian VIII of Denmark, King of Denmark (d. 1848)
1786 Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor, poet, writer (d. 1862)
1787 Johann D Passavant, German historian, painter, graphic artist
1805 Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1874)
1812 Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
1815 Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1818 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1819 Leon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
1837 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
1838 Anton Mauve, Dutch painter, graphic artist, cousin of Vincent Van Gogh (d. 1888)
1846 Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (d. 1930)
1857 John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1945)
1858 Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1955)
1859 John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1859 Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
1860 Alberto Franchetti, composer
1863 Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist (d. 1931)
1870 Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (American Indian) (d. 1947)
1874 Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten)
1875 Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945)
1876 James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
1876 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Pesme)
1877 Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow)
1883 Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, British composer (1st Childhood) (d. 1950)
1885 Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer
1888 Toni Wolff, Swiss student and lover of Carl Jung (d. 1953)
1889 Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
1890 Vladimir Ambros, composer
1893 Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (Jamaican Rumba) (d. 1960)
1893 William March (Campbell), American writer (Company K) (d. 1954)
1895 John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (1957-63) (d. 1979)
1895 Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world from January 2007 until his death (d. 2009)
1897 John Mens, writer (People Without Money)
1897 Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer
1900 Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
1901 Harold Clurman, American film producer and director (Deadline at Dawn) (d. 1980)
1904 David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, British politician and peer (d. 1999)
1905 Agnes de Mille, American choreographer (Oklahoma) (d. 1993)
1905 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (Jack Benny Show) (d. 1977)
1905 Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille) (d. 1990)
1906 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli)
1907 Edwin McMillan, discoverer plutonium, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1907 Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
1908 Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50)
1910 Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi
1910 Josef Tal, composer
1910 Leon Stein, composer
1911 Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1912 Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
1914 Jack Cardiff, British film director (d. 2009)
1915 Hetta Empson, artist
1915 Ronald Ogden, engineer
1916 Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
1916 John J Rhodes,
1916 John J(acob) Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (Rep-R-Az) (d. 2003)
1916 Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer, actor, and director (Antaeus-Survivors) (d. 1994)
1917 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director
1917 Francis Parker Yockey, American author (d. 1960)
1917 Gerrit Borgers, literature
1917 June Foray, American voice actress
1918 John Berger, English politician
1920 Jack Warden, American actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby) (d. 2006)
1922 Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
1922 Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
1923 J T Mellema, Boer politician (CHU)
1923 Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
1923 Queen Anne of Romania
1924 Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2)
1925 Harvey Haddix, American baseball player, pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th) (d. 1994)
1926 Bob Toski, American golfer
1926 Bud Greenspan, American film producer, documentary maker (Olympic Games)
1927 Gerlando Alberti, Palermo, Italy, Sicilian Mafioso (Ciaculli massacre, 1963, 'Mafia! What is that? A kind of cheese'), (d. 2012)
1927 Phyllis Kirk, American actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show) (d. 2006)
1928 Adam Walacinski, composer
1929 June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist
1929 Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player
1929 Nancy Littlefield, American film producer (d. 2007)
1932 Jack Mullaney, Pitts Pa, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time)
1932 Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33) (d. 2002)
1932 Valery Viktorovich Ryumin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37)
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (Jimmie Rodgers Show, Honey Comb)
1933 Manfred Niehaus, composer
1933 Robert Blake, American actor (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
1933 Robert F(oster) Bennett, American senator (Sen-R Utah) (Utah)
1933 Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach, NHL player and coach (Mont Canadians)
1933 V(alentina) L(eonidovna) Ponomaryova, cosmonaut (Vostok 6 backup)
1935 John Spencer, English snooker player (d. 2006)
1936 Big Tom, Irish country singer
1937 Norman Dinnerstein, composer
1937 Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 Bob Whittaker, (Rep-R-KS, 1979)
1939 Fred Willard, American comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
1939 Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal
1939 Naresh Kumar Sohal, composer
1940 Frankie Avalon, American musician (Beach movies), singer (Venus)
1941 Clive Burton, neuropathologist
1941 Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson, composer
1941 Mariangela Melato, Milan Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Summer Night)
1942 Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
1942 Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer.
1942 Koos van den Berg, Dutch MP (SGP)
1943 Michael Vetter, composer
1944 Charles L(acy) Veach, American astronaut (STS 39, STS 52) (d. 1995)
1944 Michael Franks, American musician
1944 Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1946 Alan "Bam" King, rocker
1946 Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
1946 Otis Sistrunk, American football player
1947 Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
1947 Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist (Sandy Coast)
1948 Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1949 Billy Drago, American actor
1949 Jim McCrery, American politician (Rep-R-Louisiana)
1949 Kerry Livgren, American singer, guitarist  (Kansas)
1949 Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
1949 Peter Shilton, English footballer
1950 Anna Deavere Smith, American actress and playwright
1950 Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 Helene Weijel, author (In the Street Without a Coat)
1950 Mike Hossack, Patterson NJ, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers), (d. 2012)
1950 Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
1951 Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
1951 Darryl Stingley, American football player (d. 2007)
1951 Dee Dee Ramone, Virg, [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones)
1951 Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
1952 Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (d. 2002)
1952 Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Greek politician
1952 Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
1953 Betsy Boze née Vogel, American academic
1954 Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1954 Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1996)
1954 Steven Pinker, Canadian-American scientist
1954 Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut (STS 87)
1954 Tommy Tuberville, American football coach
1955 Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
1955 Jeana Tomasino, Milwaukee Wis, playmate (Nov, 1980)
1956 Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
1956 Peter Štastný, Slovak ice hockey player
1956 Tim McInnerny, English actor
1957 Emily Remler, American Jazz Guitarist (d. 1990)
1958 Don Geronimo, American radio personality
1958 John Aldridge, Irish footballer
1958 Linda Lusardi, English actress and model
1959 Ian Arkwright, English footballer
1959 Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
1959 Ryne Sandberg, American baseball player, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1960 Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
1961 James Gandolfini, American actor
1961 Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery Ala, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
1961 Sharon Barrett, San Diego, LPGA golfer (1993 Nabisco Dinah Shore-22nd)
1962 Boris Said, American race car driver
1962 Joanne Catherall, English singer (Human League)
1962 John Fashanu, English footballer
1963 Jim Pocklington, British racing driver
1963 Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, US slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
1963 Rob Brettle, British historian
1964 Holly Robinson Peete, American actress (21 Jump Street)
1964 Marco Masini, Italian singer-songwriter
1966 Isabelle Demongeot, Gassin France, tennis star
1966 Spike, guitarist (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac) [or Feb 4]
1967 Ricky Bell, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
1967 Tara Fitzgerald, English actress (Siren)
1968 Cappadonna, American rapper
1968 Toni Kukoc, Croatian basketball player, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1969 Robert Coons, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
1970 Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
1970 Darren Gough, English cricketer
1970 Everett Lindsay, NFL guard/center (Minnesota Vikings)
1970 Gary Rogers, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 Michela Rocco, Udine Italy, Miss Italy (1987)
1970 Mike Compton, NFL center/guard (Detroit Lions)
1971 Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
1971 Jada Pinkett Smith, American model and actress (Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society)
1971 Kate Starre, Armadale Australia, field hockey utility (Olympics-96)
1971 Lance Armstrong, American road cyclist and testicular cancer survivor (Olympics-6th-92, 96, Tour de France)
1971 Michael Patrick Walker, American composer and lyricist
1971 Oleg Ladik, Kiev Ukraine, Canadian 100 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 Ron Childs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1972 Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
1972 David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1972 Francois Gesthuizen, soccer player (PSV, NAC)
1972 Michael Landes, actor (American Summer)
1972 Richard Huntley, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi)
1973 James Marsden, American actor
1973 Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
1973 Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian and musician
1974 Sol Campbell, English footballer
1974 Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
1974 Travis Schuldt, Actor
1974 Xzibit, American rapper
1975 "Habacuc" Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican artist
1975 Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
1975 Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
1976 Gabriel Gervais, Canadian football player
1976 Kikki Daire, American pornographic actress
1977 Kieran West, British oarsman
1977 Li Tie, Chinese footballer
1978 Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
1978 Shelly Moore, Miss Teen USA (Tennessee, 1997)
1979 Alison Lohman, American actress
1979 Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
1979 Vinay Rai, Indian actor
1980 Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
1980 Charles Hedger British musician (Cradle of Filth)
1980 Chris Tarrant, Australian footballer
1981 Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and model
1983 Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
1983 Sanaya Irani, Indian actress
1984 Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
1986 Keeley Hazell, British model
1988 Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player

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31 Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed
96 Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
887 Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
993 Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
1137 Erik II Eimune (Onvergetelijke), King of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1180 Louis VII, King of France (b. 1120)
1261 Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne
1426 Hubert (Huybrecht) van Eyck, painter
1598 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
1675 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1684 Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom)
1721 Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (b. 1664)
1722 André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
1775 Andrew Foulis, bookseller, printer
1783 Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (b. 1707)
1792 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader, founder (Moravian Church in Amer) (b. 1704)
1797 Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general
1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
1818 Olaf Swaertz, botanist
1827 Robert Pollok, Scottish poet (b. 1789)
1830 William Hazlitt, English essayist, critic (b. 1778)
1831 Peter Hansel, composer
1857 Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
1860 Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras)
1860 Joseph Locke, English railway builder and civil engineer (b. 1805)
1872 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-72) (b. 1826)
1890 Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon)
1891 William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, French physicist (b. 1819)
1903 Isidor Vorobchievici, composer
1903 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer
1904 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto
1905 George MacDonald, Scottish sci-fi writer and minister (Princess & Curdie) (b. 1824)
1905 George MacDonald, author, dies at 80
1911 Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician (b. 1862)
1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House
1918 Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1924 Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism) (b. 1846)
1929 Hermann Gradener, composer
1931 Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler's niece (b. 1908)
1931 Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
1934 Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust)
1939 Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1944 Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
1944 Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39)
1944 Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk)
1944 Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944 Robert G. Cole, American Paratrooper of the 101st, 502nd division, dies in battle at Best (b. 1915)
1949 Frank Morgan, American actor (Wizard of Oz) (b. 1890)
1951 John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist
1952 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy)
1953 Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
1956 Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
1959 Benjamin Péret, French surrealist author (b. 1899)
1960 A J Evans, cricketer (only England Test v Aus 1921)
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish United Nations Secretary-General and distinguished economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)
1962 Therese Neumann, German stigma
1964 Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1964 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars) (b. 1880)
1966 Fernand Lamy, composer
1966 Jeno Vecsey, composer
1967 John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1968 Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters)
1968 Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
1968 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
1969 Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer
1970 Jimi Hendrix, American musician, guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of an overdose (b. 1942)
1973 Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)
1974 Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape)
1975 Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett, Night Digger)
1977 Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1979 Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel)
1980 K(atherine) A(nne) Porter, American novelist (b. 1890)
1986 Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)
1987 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1994 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
1994 Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (Davis Cup 1979) (b. 1954)
1995 Donald Alfred Davie, poet, critic
1995 Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London)
1995 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist
1995 Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1996 Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73)
1997 Harry Brian Boyne, journalist
1997 Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (b. 1920)
2001 Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
2002 Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
2002 Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2003 Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2003 Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2004 Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2004 Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
2005 Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2006 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2007 Pepsi Tate, Welsh bassist (tigertailz) (b. 1965)
2012 Jack Kralick, American MLB pitcher
2012 Steve Sabol, American filmmaker
2013 Ken Norton, American heavyweight boxer
2013 Richard C Sarafian, American actor/director

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