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951 Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy
1122 Concordat of Worms.
1408 Battle of Othee
1409 Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368.
1459 Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1513 King Henry III & Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik
1529 The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
1561 King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
1641 The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion USD, is lost at sea off Land's End.
1642 First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusets.
1666 Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren
1719 Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire
1739 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade
1746 Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
1779 A squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships including HMS Serepis in American Revolution.
1780 British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides and his plot to betray West Pt. during the American Revolution.
1780 Brit Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's
1795 Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
1803 Battle of Assaye of the Second Anglo-Maratha War, British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army.
1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1818 Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, and 30,000 Turks are massacred.
1830 Dutch troops occupy Brussels
1835 HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
1845 Hunger strike in Hague
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest.
1857 The Russian warship Lefort capsized and sank during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
1864 Battle of Athens VA
1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence ("Lares Revolt") and is crushed by Spain.
1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
1876 Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game
1877 Hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200
1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
1879 Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
1880 Jules Ferry forms French government
1884 Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1890 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1904 Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet
1905 Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken
1905 Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1907 Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
1908 University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
1909 The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1911 Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
1912 Mark Sennet presents first "Keystone Cops" (Keystone Comedy) film "Cohen Collects a Debt"
1913 Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
1913 Serbian troops march into Albania
1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
1920 Alexander Millerand elected president of France
1922 B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany
1922 Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish parliament.
1922 In Washington D. C., Charles Evans Hughes signs the Hughes-Peynado agreement, that ends the occupation of Dominican Republic by the United States.
1923 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
1925 George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man," premieres in NYC
1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
1926 Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1933 Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
1936 Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins
1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1938 Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
1940 French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees
1940 Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler
1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
1941 German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1941 The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz during World War II.
1942 Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
1942 Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
1942 Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River in World War II.
1943 The so-called Salò Republic is born in World War II.
1948 Braves clinch NL pennant
1949 Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
1949 Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant
1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open
1950 Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1950 US Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed
1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
1952 Dodgers clinch NL pennant
1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
1952 Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1953 KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad
1955 Yankees clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2
1957 "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1
1957 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
1957 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting
1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Venetië
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Iowa farmer Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
1959 The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s first passenger roll-on-roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1961 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
1961 Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1962 ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons
1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104
1962 Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin
1962 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opens with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.
1963 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
1963 WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC
1967 Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou
1967 Radio Malta stops testing
1968 WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
1969 Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead
1969 The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
1970 Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
1971 John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen
1972 Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
1972 President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines
1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power in Argentina.
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open
1973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered
1974 "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances
1974 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service
1976 Ford-Carter TV debate
1976 South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them
1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
1979 Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1979 Somali constitution approved by president
1979 St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career
1980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
1982 "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances
1982 Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins
1983 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio in 10 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
1983 Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards)
1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
1984 36th Emmy Awards, Hill St Blue, Cheers, John Ritter & Tyne Daly
1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
1984 SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games
1984 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues
1986 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
1986 Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers (ends with 10).
1988 Fiji's new constitution is proposed
1988 José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club (first to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs).
1988 Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)
1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
1990 Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
1992 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
1992 A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
1992 Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
1992 Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's dept stores in NYC
1992 Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah
1992 Mud storm kills 30 in South France
1993 "Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh
1993 Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high)
1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM)
1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM)
1997 Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)
1999 NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
1999 Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history since 1960.
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
2004 At least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
2005 FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
2008 Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.
2012 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York
2012 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
2012 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
2012 At the 64th Emmy Awards "Homeland", "Modern Family", Damian Lewis & Claire Danes win
2013 25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China

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(63 BC) Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
(480 BC) Euripides, Greek playwright (Medea) (d. 406 BC)
1158 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
1161 Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1434 Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
1555 Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange
1591 Michael Lohr, composer
1596 Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher
1598 Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1605 Daniel von Czepko, German poet
1641 Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist (against jansenisme)
1642 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer
1647 Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
1650 Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
1684 Johann Theodor Romhild, composer
1703 Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
1712 Ferdinand VI, the wise, King of Spain (1746-59) (d. 1759)
1740 Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1745 John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn)
1759 Clothilde of France, Queen of Piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (Rights of Wallace)
1771 Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1781 Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
1782 Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
1791 Johann F(ranz) Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet) (d. 1865)
1791 Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
1800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
1804 David Van de Kellen, coin engraver
1805 Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist
1816 Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC (Union), died in 1887
1816 Julius White, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1817 Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer
1819 Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
1820 Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, American suffragist, feminist, and reformer (d. 1927)
1842 Karl Munzinger, composer
1849 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
1852 William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon, established 1st US surgical school (d. 1922)
1853 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar
1854 Cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05)
1856 William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess)
1861 Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt)
1861 Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1863 Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)
1863 Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer, civil rights activist (d. 1954)
1864 Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
1865 Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
1866 Edouard Combe, composer
1869 Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid (d. 1938)
1870 John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1871 Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
1876 Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1968)
1880 John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel Laureate 1949) (d. 1971)
1888 Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons)
1889 Walter Lippmann, American journalist, political writer (Men of Dystany) (d. 1974)
1890 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer
1890 Friedrich Paulus, German general (Netherlands) (d. 1957)
1894 Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (Edda & Thora)
1895 Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1895 Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1897 Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (surrealist)
1897 Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie) (d. 1984)
1899 Louise Nevelson, sculptor
1899 Marcel Dalio (Israel Blauschild), French actor (China Gate)
1899 Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
1899 William Levi Dawson, composer
1900 Bill Stone, British serviceman, one of the last surviving veterans of World War I (d. 2009)
1900 Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (Sky Cathedral) (d. 1988)
1901 Adrian Pitlo, lawyer
1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (Nobel Prize Laureate 1984) (d. 1986)
1902 Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
1904 Meyer Schapiro, art historian
1904 Wallace "Scotty" Scott, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1905 Jeno Kenessey, composer
1906 Willard F McMurry, musician
1907 Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
1907 Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
1907 Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera)/pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
1909 Marianne Straub, weaver
1910 Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer (Murder in the Oval Office)
1910 Soulima Stravinsky, Lausanne Switz, Russian pianist (Igor's son)
1911 Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
1912 Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
1912 Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
1913 Alexey Davidovich Machavariani, composer
1913 Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
1914 Norman Cazden, composer
1914 Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
1915 Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
1915 Finn Arnestad, composer
1915 Ian Dawson-Shepherd, campaigner
1916 Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1917 Imry Nemeth, Hungarian hammer thrower (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 Alexander Arutiunian, composer, (d. 2012)
1920 Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon
1920 Jiri Jaroch, composer
1920 Mickey Rooney, American actor
1922 Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator
1924 Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary
1924 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
1925 Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft)
1925 Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
1925 Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress (d. 2007)
1926 John Coltrane, American saxophonist (Round Midnight) (d. 1967)
1928 Robert Helps, composer
1929 Wally Whyton, English musician, broadcaster (d. 1997)
1930 Colin Blakely, irish actor (Shattered, Equus, King Lear) (d. 1987)
1930 Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut (Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup)
1930 Ray Charles (Robinson), American musician, singer and pianist (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around) (d. 2004)
1930 Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996)
1931 Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
1931 Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter
1934 Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
1934 Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer (Hour of the Lynx)
1935 Pierre Marietan, composer
1936 Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
1938 Clifford Ann Creed, LPGA golfer
1938 Romy Schneider, French actress (Bloodline, Death Watch) (d. 1982)
1938 Tom Lester, American actor
1939 Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
1939 Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
1939 Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1939 Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive
1940 Tim Rose, rocker
1941 George Jackson, American civil-rights activist (d. 1971)
1941 Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1942 Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
1943 Bob Clement, (Rep-D-Tennessee)
1943 Julio Iglesias, Spainish singer (Of All the Girls I Loved Before)
1943 Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
1943 Tanuja, Indian actress
1943 Walter Scott, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1944 Eric Bogle, British/Australian singer and songwriter
1944 Loren J Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS 31, STS 46)
1945 Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1945 Paul Petersen, American actor (Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1945 Ronald Bushy, Washington DC, rock drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1946 Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
1947 Don Grolnick, jazz musician
1947 Mary Kay Place, American country singer (Mary Hartman!)
1947 Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper)
1948 Rob van Koningsbruggen, sculptor
1949 Bruce Springsteen (The Boss), American singer and songwriter (Born in the USA, Born to Run)
1951 Ron Klink, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1952 Jim Morrison, American baseball player
1954 Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
1954 Cherie Blair, lawyer and politician, wife of ex-British PM
1955 Patti Weaver, WV, actress (Days of our Life, Gina-Young & Restless)
1956 June Forester, Chattanooga Tn, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1956 Lili Carati, Varese Italy, Miss Italy (1975)/actress (Alcove)
1956 Maren Jensen, Arcadia California, actress (Athena-Battlestar Galactica)
1956 Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
1956 Peter David, American writer
1957 Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer
1957 Rosalind Chao, American actress
1957 Sylvie Garant, Montmagny Quebec, playmate (Nov, 1979)
1957 Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
1958 Danielle Dax, British musician
1958 Larry Hogan Mize, American golfer, PGA tour (1987 Masters)
1958 Marvin Lewis, American football coach
1959 Elizabeth Peña, American actress
1959 Heather Drew, St Louis MO, LPGA golfer (1987 Henredon Classic-5th)
1959 Jason Alexander (Greenspan), American actor (George-Seinfeld) and voice actor (Duckman)
1959 Martin Page, English singer and songwriter
1960 John Rocca, English funk singer (Southern Freeze)
1961 Chi McBride, American actor
1961 Elizabeth Peña, Cuban actress (La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder)
1961 Phyllis Hines, Nashville TN, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1961 William C McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1962 Jack Warren Pierce, Cherry Hill NJ, hurdler
1963 Gabriele Reinsch, German DR, discus thrower (world record 1988)
1964 Bill Phillips, American author
1964 Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
1964 Diane Dixon, Bkln NY, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1964 Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
1964 Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and head coach
1964 Leon Meijs, soccer player (Willem II)
1965 Ian Leggatt, Cambridge Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Canadian Tour)
1965 Mark Woodforde, Adelaide Australia, tennis star (1993 Wimbledon mixed)
1966 Doug Widell, NFL guard (Detroit Lions)
1966 LisaRaye, American actress
1966 Pete Harnisch, American baseball player, MLB pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
1969 Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 Jeff Cirillo, Pasadena CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
1969 Patrick Fiori, French singer
1969 Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
1970 Ani DiFranco, American musician
1970 Brian Wells, Carmel California, pairs skater (& Lyons-1995 Midwest champ)
1970 Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
1971 Eric Montross, American basketball player, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1971 Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
1971 Marcel Boudesteyn, soccer player (Excelsior/FC Groningen)
1971 Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
1971 Osamu Nishimura, wrestler (NJPW)
1971 Taunya Harris, Miss USA-New Mexico (1997)
1971 Willie Greene, Milledgville GA, infielder (Cin Reds)
1972 Ana Marie Cox, American blogger and author
1972 Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper
1972 Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
1972 Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
1973 Artim Šakiri, Macedonian football player
1973 Grant McDonald, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1973 Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
1973 Michelle Tolson, Manchester NH, Miss America-NH (1997)
1974 Doris Glenn Easterly, Richmond Va, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
1974 Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
1975 Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
1975 Eric Miller, Irish rugby player
1975 Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
1975 Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
1975 Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975 Vitaliy Yeremeyev, hockey goalie (Team Kazkhstan 1998)
1976 Faune A. Chambers, American actress
1976 Kip Pardue, American actor and model
1976 Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer
1977 Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
1977 Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
1978 Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
1978 Worm Miller, American filmmaker
1979 Red, American rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1979 Ricky Davis, American basketball player
1980 Cameron Litvack, American television producer
1980 Matt White, American singer
1981 Misti Traya, American actress
1981 Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
1981 Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
1982 Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress
1983 Joffery Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
1984 Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
1984 Louie Stephens, American musician (Rooney)
1984 Matt Kemp, American baseball player
1984 Nathan Jendrick, American author
1985 Brian Brohm, American football player
1985 Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
1985 Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
1985 Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
1985 Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
1985 Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
1986 Martin Cranie, English footballer
1988 Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player
1989 Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
1991 Melanie Oudin, American tennis player

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79 Pope Linus
775 Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75)
918 Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18)
965 Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered
1193 Robert de Sablé, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
1241 Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
1390 John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
1535 Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
1571 John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
1573 Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1605 Pontus de Tyard, French poet
1624 Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter, etcher
1675 Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
1694 Francesco Passarini, composer
1700 Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer
1728 Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
1738 Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist, botanist, and physician (b. 1668)
1764 Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
1773 Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
1778 Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian
1780 John Andre, hanged as a British spy
1789 John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 Johann Georg Roser, composer
1830 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, American First Lady (b. 1768)
1835 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma) (b. 1801)
1837 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1844 Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
1846 John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
1847 Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgium revolutionary (Souvenirs)
1850 José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan soldier and statesman (b. 1764)
1867 Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1840)
1870 Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
1871 Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller
1871 Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (b. 1786)
1873 Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
1877 Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician, codiscoverer of Neptune (b. 1811)
1889 William W Collins, English writer (Moonstone) (b. 1824)
1896 Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet
1896 Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer
1900 William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1902 John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon)
1906 Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp
1910 H J H "Tup" Scott, cricketer (Australian Test captain 1886)
1917 Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
1929 Richard A(dolf) Zsigmondy, Austrian chemist (Nobel laureate 1925) (b. 1865)
1930 Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author
1937 Caro Roma, composer
1939 Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis (b. 1856)
1943 Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
1944 Colijn, Neth PM, buried
1944 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
1945 Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian Carabiniere (b. 1920)
1947 Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
1950 Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
1956 Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep)
1960 Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man)
1961 Billy House, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I)
1961 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol)
1968 Francesco Forgione "Padre Pio", Italian Catholic saint (b. 1887)
1970 Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
1971 Billy Gilbert, American actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio) (b. 1894)
1971 J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1972 Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama)
1973 A S Neill, British headmaster
1973 Manuel Borguno, composer
1973 Pablo Neruda (N R R Basoalto), Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (100 Love Sonnets) (b. 1904)
1974 Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (Charlie Weaver) (b. 1905)
1974 Gerhard Nebel, writer
1974 Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band), overdoses
1975 Ian Hunter, actor/writer (Rockets Galore, Ziegfield Girl)
1978 Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo)
1978 Lyman Bostock, American baseball player, outfielder (Angels) (murdered) (b. 1950)
1979 Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival)
1981 Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man) (b. 1899)
1982 Jimmy Wakely, country western singer
1984 Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer
1985 Mickey Simpson, actor (Wagonmaster)
1987 Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (All the Jazz) (b. 1927)
1987 O B McClinton, US country singer (Man needs a woman)
1988 Arwel Hughes, composer
1988 Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
1991 Chuck Vincent, Adult film director
1991 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie)
1992 Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League)
1992 James A Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge) (b. 1892)
1992 Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion)
1992 Paul E Garber, 1st curator (Natl Air & Space Museum)
1993 William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart)
1994 Alec Dickson, founder of VSO
1994 Ali Kouider Benyahia (sheik Boualem), Algerian Moslem leader, shot
1994 Cherif Gousmi (kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed), Algererian Moslem leader, shot
1994 Dalton Reed, singer
1994 Georgi, Czar Nicholas II's brother
1994 Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
1994 John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore
1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day), director (b. 1900)
1994 Robert Bloch, American author, screenwriter (Psycho) (b. 1917)
1995 Booker T Laury, blues pianist, vocalist
1995 Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner
1996 Denis Dowling, baritone
1996 Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
1996 Jack Newman, cricketer (NZ left-arm pacer 1932-33)
1996 Stuart Pigott, archaeologist
1997 Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears)
1997 Murray Burnett, writer (Everybody Goes to Rick-Casablanca)
1997 Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World)
1998 Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
1998 Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
1999 Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
2000 Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
2000 Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)
2001 Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2002 Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (BBC, Radio Ceylon) (b. 1927)
2003 Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
2003 Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
2004 André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
2004 Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
2004 Bob Mason, English actor (b. 1952)
2005 Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
2005 Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
2006 Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b. 1913)
2006 Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
2008 Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
2009 Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (b. 1918)
2010 Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (b. 1941)
2010 Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)
2012 Corrie Sanders, South African boxer

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