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(202 BC) Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus in the Battle of Zama of the Second Punic War.
439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
615 St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1031 Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord
1216 King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1298 Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1453 The French recapture of Bordeaux at the 2nd Battle at Castillon, brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
1466 The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1492 Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)
1512 Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1576 Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence
1630 In Boston the 1st general court is held
1634 Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood
1649 New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1682 English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland
1722 French C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher
1739 England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30]
1765 Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties
1781 At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau at 2 PM, Revolutionary War ends.
1789 Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1812 Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
1813 The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1818 US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
1822 In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
1845 Richard Wagners opera "Tannhäuser," premieres in Dresden
1853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
1856 James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
1859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope
1863 Battle of Buckland Mills, VA
1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroy the Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
1864 St. Albans Raid, 25 Confederate raiders launch a surprise attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1864 US brig-gen Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major
1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed
1872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
1873 Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1874 Mary Walsh & Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon
1879 Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign
1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light
1882 Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley
1888 Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs
1900 Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition
1900 South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe
1901 Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool
1901 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
1904 Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1906 Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France
1907 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)
1911 Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch
1912 Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1914 US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail
1915 Russia and Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1917 Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1917 The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series
1921 Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
1923 Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks
1923 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1925 Italian army takes Somalia
1926 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers
1930 Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
1932 Austria forbids demonstration by nazi's & anti fascists
1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union
1932 Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech
1932 Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP & Chuck Klein wins NL MVP
1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi
1935 The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1936 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18½ days
1939 Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas
1941 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico
1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert
1943 Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY)
1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
1944 Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg
1944 John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC
1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES
1944 US forces land in Philippines
1944 United States forces land in the Philippines.
1947 De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections
1948 "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances
1949 A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton
1949 Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
1950 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1950 The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
1950 UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open
1951 Pres Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
1953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
1954 Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
1954 First ascent of Cho Oyu
1954 KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,022 performances
1957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
1959 The first discothèque opens.
1959 William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC
1960 France grants Mauritania independence
1960 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
1962 Stalin-monument removed in Prague
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 Yardbird 1st US tour (NYC)
1967 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1967 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
1969 J Bock & S Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in NYC
1969 Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1969 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
1969 The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
1970 "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances
1970 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
1970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
1971 Last issue of "Look" magazine is published
1972 "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 12 performances
1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
1973 Ringo releases "Photograph"
1974 Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps
1974 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
1974 Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1975 "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances
1975 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals
1975 Hamlisch & Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in NYC
1975 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic
1976 Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species.
1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found
1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC
1980 Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle
1981 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
1982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
1983 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
1983 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
1983 Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
1983 Phila Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak
1983 Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday
1986 "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1986 "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances
1986 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1986 Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1986 USSR expels 5 US diplomats
1987 "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances
1987 Black Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508.32 points, 4½ times previous record
1987 In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
1987 Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM & Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time
1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
1988 South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988 US Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
1989 "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
1989 Astor Piazzolla & Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in NYC
1989 The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
1991 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991 Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL
1993 UN authorizes arms, milt & police supply embargo against Haiti
1994 160 killed at battles in Tsjetsjenie
1994 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
1995 "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances
1996 Atlanta Braves beat NY Yanks by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series
1997 "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleve Indians)
1997 David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1997 Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic
1998 The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage.
2001 SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2004 Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
2004 Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on charges of corruption.
2005 Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2007 Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
2012 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
2013 11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium
2013 16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia
2013 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 2
2014 A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
2015 Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party win a majority with 184 seats in the Canadian federal elections
2015 US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought

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1276 Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
1433 Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
1507 Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, [Aytta van Zwichem], Dutch priest
1545 Giovanale Ancina, composer
1562 Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
1582 Dmitry Ivanovich (Dmitry of Uglich), Russian Tsarevich and son of Ivan IV "the Terrible" (d. 1591)
1605 Thomas Browne, English writer (Garden of Cyrus) (d. 1682)
1610 James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
1652 Louis Le Quointe, composer
1658 Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
1680 John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
1684 Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer
1688 William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
1690 Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
1718 Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
1720 John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
1721 Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
1784 James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859)
1784 John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country (d. 1857)
1784 Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
1792 Dirk Donker Curtius, Dutch attorney/minister of Justice (liberal)
1810 Cassius Marcellus Clay, American abolitionist, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1903)
1819 Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist (Crises Commercial)
1824 Frantisek Pivoda, composer
1824 Rufus Saxton, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1908)
1828 Adolfo Fumagalli, composer
1834 Francis Channing Barlow, US lawyer, gen-major, co-founder (ABA)
1850 Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer, explorer, diplomat (d. 1935)
1851 Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
1858 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
1860 Affie Jarvis, cricketer (Australian WK of the late 19th century)
1862 Auguste Lumière, French inventor, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory) (d. 1954)
1863 John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)
1865 Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1892, 18 & 3)
1866 Clarence Lucas, composer
1868 Bertha Landes, first woman mayor of a major US city (Seattle) (d. 1943)
1871 Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Wisdom of the Body)
1873 Barton King, cricketer (North America's greatest all-rounder)
1873 Jaap Eden, Dutch World Champion cycling & speed skating (d. 1925)
1873 John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
1876 Mordecai (3 finger) Brown, American baseball player, hall of fame pitcher (d. 1945)
1882 Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
1882 Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuania, poet/philologist/playwright
1885 Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
1889 Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer (1968 Acad of Country Music Award)
1892 Alexander A Aljechin, Russian/French chess champ (1927-35, 37-46)
1892 Ilmari Hannikainen, composer
1895 Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999)
1895 Louis Mumford, American historian, city planner, writer (d. 1990)
1896 Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1897 Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
1899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), (d. 1974)
1899 Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1900 Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (great Australian batsman, HS 437 Vic v NSW) (d. 1991)
1900 Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
1900 Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
1900 Theodoro Valcarcel, composer
1901 Arleigh A Burke, American admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross) (d. 1996)
1903 Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
1903 Vittorio Giannini, composer
1907 Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
1908 Nils Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
1908 Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer (Elegy)
1909 Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
1909 Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
1909 Robert Beatty, Ontario, actor (Amorous Mr Pawn, Where Eagles Dare)
1910 Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
1910 Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player (d. 2009)
1910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicis (Nobel Prize laureate 1983) (d. 1995)
1911 George Cates, NYC, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1911 Hilde Spiel, writer
1913 Jean Urruty, France, Jai-Alai champion
1913 Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer (Le ragazze di San Frediano)
1913 Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
1914 Harold Gimblett, cricketer (legendary Somerset & England batsman)
1915 Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
1916 David Lewis, Pitts Pa, actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1916 Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (Brussels Competition-1938) (d. 1985)
1916 Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
1916 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sweden, opera composer (Herr von Hancken)
1916 Toby Rowland, theatrical manager
1918 Charles Evans, British mountaineer, leader of the expedition that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955 (d. 1995)
1918 Louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife)
1918 Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor
1920 Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1920 LaWanda Page, Cleve Ohio, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
1920 Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
1921 George Nader, Pasadena California, actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats)
1921 Gunnar Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922 Jack Anderson, American journalist (Washington Post) (d. 2005)
1925 Bernard Hepton, Bradford England, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
1925 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist
1926 Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
1926 Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
1927 Marjorie Tallchief, US ballerina (Harkness Ballet)
1927 Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director (Cobra)
1928 Buff Cobb, Florence Italy, actress (Masquerade Party)
1928 Lou Scheimer, American animation producer
1929 Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
1929 Dumitru Capoianu, composer
1930 Tom ap Rees, botanist
1931 John le Carré, English novelist
1931 Laszlo Kalmar, composer
1932 Lloyd Haynes, South Bend Indiana, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222)
1932 Robert Reed, American actor (Mike-Brady Bunch, Nurse) (d. 1992)
1933 Brian Booth, cricketer (dual Australian cricket/hockey international)
1933 Wilfried Dietrich, German FR, super-heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 David Guard, rocker (Kingston Trio)
1934 Des Hoare, cricketer (Australian quickie in Test in 1961 v W Indies)
1934 Jakubu Gowon, army staff chief/president of Nigeria (1966-75)
1935 Jim Reeves, Musician
1936 James Bevel, American activist (d. 2008)
1936 Johnetta Betsch Cole, educator/president (Spellman College)/(Sen-D-KY)
1936 Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!)
1937 Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
1937 Nicholas Palmer, television writer/producer
1937 Peter Max, American psychadelic artist (Dynamite Chicken)
1937 Sean Garrison, NYC, actor (Up Periscope, Splendor in the Grass)
1938 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader
1940 Jerzy Kulej, Poland, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68), (d. 2012)
1940 Michael Gambon, Irish actor (Singing Detective, Paris at Night)
1941 Simon Ward, British actor (4 Musketeers, 4 Feathers) (d. 2012)
1942 Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
1943 Michael Findlay, cricket wicket-keeper (WI early 70's)
1943 Robert Morris, composer
1943 Robin Greville Holloway, composer
1943 Robin Holloway, British composer
1943 Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
1944 George McCrae, American soul singer (Lead Me On, Rock Your Baby)
1944 Keith Adrian (Johnson), Indies-Dutch actor (Intrepid Mr Twist)
1944 Peter Tosh (Winston Hubert McIntosh), Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
1945 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic, activist
1945 Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), American actor (Pink Flamingo) (d. 1988)
1945 Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
1945 John Lithgow, American actor (Harry & Hendersons, Pelican Brief)
1945 Keith Reid, rocker (Procol Harum) [or 10/10/46]
1945 Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist, president (National Organization of Women)
1945 Patrick Simmons, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1946 Bob Holland, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner at age 38)
1946 Philip Pullman, English writer
1947 Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
1947 Wilbert Hart, US singer (Four Gents, Delfonics-Didn't I)
1948 Chester Biscardi, composer
1948 Dave Mallow, American voice actor
1948 Patrick Simmons, American musician
1949 Jamie McGrigor, British politician
1949 Lynn Dickey, American football player
1951 Annie Golden, Brooklyn NY, actress (Forever Lulu, Hair)
1951 Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
1952 Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo (Oly-76)/WLAF GM (Rhein Fire)
1952 Veronica Judith Sainz Castro, Mexican singer and actress (Nana)
1953 Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
1954 Deborah Blum, American writer
1954 Joe Bryant, American basketball player
1954 Sam Allardyce, English football manager
1955 Lonnie Shelton, NBA forward (NY Knick, Seattle Supersonics)
1955 Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
1955 Pat Klous, Hutchinson Ks, actress (Marcy-Flying High, Judy-Love Boat)
1956 Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach
1956 Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
1956 Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
1956 Grover Norquist, American political figure
1956 Nino DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1956 Sue Barker, tennis pro (French Open 1976)
1956 Sunny Deol, Indian actor
1957 Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide
1957 Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician (World Party)
1957 Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic
1958 Antoine Trousers, rock drummer/singer (Dike-Bleeding Heart)
1958 John Bloom (Joe Bob Briggs), drive-in movie critic
1958 Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
1958 Michael Steele, American political figure
1958 Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
1959 Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem (2008 )
1960 Dan "Woody" Woodgate, London, rock drummer (Madness)
1960 Dawn Coe-Jones, Campbell River BC, LPGA golfer (1992 Kemper Open)
1960 Jennifer Holliday, Houston Tx, singer/actress (Dream Girls)
1960 Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
1960 Woody, Musician (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
1961 Sunny Deol, Indian actor
1961 Tim Belcher, Sparta Ohio, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, KC Royals)
1962 Evander Holyfield, American boxer (Oly-bronze-1988), Heavyweight champion (1990-92)
1962 Ruud Bread, soccer player (NAC)
1962 Tracy Chevalier, American author
1963 Brian H Henniger, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit Guaranty)
1963 Jim Dombrowski, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1963 Laurent, Belgian Prince, son of Albert II & Paola
1964 Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
1964 Webster Slaughter, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1965 Brad Daugherty, American basketball player, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1965 Lucio Topatigh, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1965 Maria Lee Ostapiej, La Mess California, Miss Calif-America (1991)
1965 Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
1966 Amy Linker, Bkln NY, actress (Lewis & Clark, Lauren-Square Pegs)
1966 Anna Clark, San Francisco Ca, playmate (Apr, 1987)
1966 Dave Veres, Montgomery AL, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwright
1966 Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director (Swingers)
1966 Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
1966 Sinitta, American singer (Omn Sinitta)
1967 Amy Carter, daughter of US President Jimmy Carter, peace activist
1967 Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
1968 Sinitta, American singer
1969 DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
1969 Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
1969 John Edward, American TV Psychic
1969 Trey Parker, American cartoonist (South Park) writer, director (Team America: World Police), and actor (Orgazmo, Baseketball)
1969 Zdeno Ciger, Martin Slo, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1970 Benita Brooks, Miss Alabama USA (1996)
1970 Chamara Dunusinghe, cricket wicketkeeper (Sri Lanka 1995)
1970 Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
1972 Glen Anthony Mitchell, Hamilton NZ, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1972 Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
1972 Marc Newfield, Sacramento CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1972 Megan Still, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Otto Steffers, Louisville KY, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1972 Pras, American musician
1972 Reggie Rusk, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
1973 Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 Robert Tate, wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Shi Ting Wang, Tainan Taiwan, tennis star (1994 Taipei)
1974 Percy Ellsworth, safety (NY Giants)
1976 Amber Hamilton, Auburn Washington, Miss America-Washington (1996)
1976 Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Desmond Harrington, American actor
1976 Joy Bryant, American actress
1976 Michael Young, baseball player
1976 Omar Gooding, American actor
1977 Habib Beye, Senegalese footballer
1977 Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
1977 Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
1977 Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
1978 Chris Sellers, Cleve Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
1978 Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
1978 James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player
1978 Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
1979 Brian Robertson, American trombonist (Suburban Legends)
1979 José Luis "Parejita" López, Mexican footballer
1979 Randy Spelling, LA California, (Sean Richards-Sunset Beach)
1980 Benjamin Salisbury, American actor (Brighton Sheffield-Nanny)
1980 Rajai Davis, American baseball player
1981 Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
1982 Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
1984 Kaio de Almeida, Brazilian swimmer
1985 Terry Etim, English mixed martial artist
1989 Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
1990 Janet Leon, Swedish singer and dancer (Play)

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727 Saint Frideswide
1187 Pope Urban III
1216 King John (b. 1167)
1268 Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded
1432 John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
1547 Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter
1553 Bonifazio Veronese, Veneziano (de' Pitati), Italian painter
1587 Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
1608 Martinus A del Rio, Spanish lawyer historian, theologist, occultist (b. 1551)
1609 Jacobus Arminius (Jacob Hermans), theologist
1636 Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
1682 Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
1723 Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
1745 Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (Gulliver's Travels) (b. 1667)
1758 Johan H Roman, Finnish-Swedish composer, conductor, violinist
1786 Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
1790 Lyman Hall, American physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
1793 Francisco Morera, composer
1810 Jean-Georges Noverre, French choreographer (ballet d'action)
1813 Josef Antoni Poniatovski, Polish Prince, General, Marshal of France, dies in battle (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
1815 Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (b. 1755)
1834 Cornelis Loots, accountant/poet (Volkswoede)
1835 Henry Doeff, translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
1838 Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat
1842 Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
1851 Marie Thérèse Charlotte, Princess  (b. 1778)
1856 William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
1864 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, magistrate/brig-general, dies in battle
1888 Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind)
1889 King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
1893 Lucy Stone, American suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1818)
1897 George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
1901 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
1909 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist
1912 Dwyer, cricketer (Aus-born Sussex bowler 1906-09)
1918 Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
1918 Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I)
1921 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1932 Arthur Friedheim, composer
1934 Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures)
1936 Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
1937 Betty Carver, wife of English fieldmarshal Bernard Montgomery
1937 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (Nobel laureate 1908) (b. 1871)
1943 Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's youth), murdered
1943 Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
1945 Plutarco Elías Calles, President of Mexico (b. 1877)
1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, dramatist, feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) (b. 1892)
1955 John Hodiak, actress (Lifeboat, Battleground)
1956 Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
1957 Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian
1959 Boughera El Quafi, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1928), shot to death
1959 Stanley Bate, composer
1960 George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
1960 Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Busskantate)
1961 Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam
1961 John Axel Fernstrom, composer
1964 Maurice Gosfield, actor (Doberman-Phil Silvers Show)
1964 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885)
1966 Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer
1970 Lázaro Cárdenas, President of Mexico (b. 1895)
1970 Unica Zorn, writer
1971 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial
1971 Betty Bronson, actress (Naked Kiss)
1978 Gig Young, American actor, kills his bride of 3 weeks and commits suicide (b. 1913)
1981 Frank DeKova, actor (F Troop)
1981 Paul Snoek (Edm Schietekat), Belgian poet
1982 Jock Ewing, dies in an aircrash on TV show "Dallas"
1983 Albert Carel Willink, painter (surrealism)
1983 Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (1979-83), murdered in coup (b. 1944)
1984 Henri Michaux, writer
1984 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest, associated with the Solidarity union, murdered by the agents of internal intelligence agency (b. 1947)
1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally shoots himself on set of "Cover Up"
1985 Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
1986 Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
1986 Moses Asch, record founder (Folkways)
1986 Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
1987 Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1987 Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
1988 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist
1988 Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
1992 Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles)
1992 Gert Nastian, general & companion of Petra Kelly, found dead
1992 Maurice le Roux, French conductor/composer (Contes immoraux)
1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead
1993 Bert Schoofs, table tennis star
1993 Dionisio Herrero, Spanish air force general, murdered
1993 Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night)
1993 Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings)
1994 Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (Pin Up Girl) (b. 1916)
1994 Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan
1994 Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70)
1994 Stanislaw Brunstein, artist
1995 Don E Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
1995 Vicki Stangroome, campaigner
1996 Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist
1996 Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist
1997 Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Alice Cooper) (b. 1947)
1999 James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
1999 Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
2000 Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
2003 Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
2003 Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
2003 Michael Hegstrand, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2003 Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
2004 Elliott Smith, American Singer Songwriter(b. 1969)
2005 Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
2005 Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
2006 James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
2007 Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
2007 LaLa Brown, American singer (b. 1986)
2007 Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
2007 Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
2008 Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (b. 1922)
2008 Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
2009 Howard Unruh, American spree killer (b. 1921)
2009 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
2010 Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
2012 Fiorenzo Magni, Italian professional road racing cyclist
2013 Noel Harrison, British singer and actor
2014 Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress

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