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284 Diocletian is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his soldiers in the army of the east
762 Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.
762 During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.
1168 Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope
1194 Emperor Henry VI conquers Palermo.
1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England
1342 Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
1347 Coke di Rienzo, later Roman Tribunal, addressess a meeting of on the Capitol during people's revolt in Rome
1407 A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
1431 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies
1520 Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
1521 Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1583 Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst
1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1695 Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is executed.
1700 Great Northern War: Battle of Narva King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
1719 Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm
1755 English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1759 -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
1805 Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1815 2nd Peace of Paris, France & allies after 2nd defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1815 Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe" same day as Treaty of Paris
1817 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1820 An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
1829 Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1852 Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces," premieres in London
1861 Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government, leading to the American Civil War.
1862 Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
1866 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 Howard University founded (Washington DC)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1873 Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1888 William Bundy patents timecard clock
1889 Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony
1890 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Slavery in the Missions"
1894 US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1901 Opera "Grisélidis" is produced (Paris)
1902 Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1906 George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1911 Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich
1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1915 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
1917 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 Ukraine is declared a republic.
1917 Battle of Cambrai of World War I begins British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
1922 Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
1923 Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal
1923 The Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
1928 Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1928 WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1929 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
1929 Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1932 Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1934 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0
1934 Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC
1934 New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers)
1934 Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period
1936 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails
1940 Hungary, Romania and Slovakia  becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers in World War II.
1941 Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 German Q, pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 Battle of Tarawa ("Operation Galvanic") of World War II begins United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. Japanese casualties are much higher.
1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees in Amsterdam
1944 Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1945 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 Nuremberg Trials, Trials of 24 Nazi war criminals begin at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1945 Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1946 Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei
1947 The Princess (future Queen) Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1947 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1948 US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park
1952 Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
1952 George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in NYC
1952 Slánský trials begin a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
1954 KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ
1955 Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 v NZ
1957 Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in NYC
1959 UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1961 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1962 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1962 USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow
1965 "Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances
1965 UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1965 WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open
1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1969 Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut v Australia Kanpur
1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1969 SF Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP
1969 The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1970 UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
1974 The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.
1975 Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain, dies after 36 years in power.
1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president
1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions
1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
1979 US's 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1981 Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
1981 Burundia adopts its constitution
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
1981 Ringo releases "Stop & Smell Roses" album
1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live
1983 "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1983 NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing
1984 McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
1984 The SETI Institute is founded.
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1985 NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
1986 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1988 "Les Miserables," opens a Bus & Truck tour in Tampa
1989 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1989 Velvet Revolution, The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1990 Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
1990 Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year
1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1991 An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan was shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.
1991 Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP
1992 In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle (Queen Elizabeth's home), badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
1993 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo
1993 Savings and Loan scandal, The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1993 Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
1994 "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1994 Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
1994 Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
1994 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year).
1995 "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released
1995 "Racing Demon" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1995 FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
1995 Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
1995 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands
1997 "Ivanov," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 51 performances
1997 Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley
1997 Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals
1997 Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played
1997 NY Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak
1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
1998 The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
2001 In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
2003 After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
2006 Jimmie Johnson wins 58th NASCAR Sprint Cup 2008 After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997
2009 The Mexican government declares its economy technically out of recession after 2.93% GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009; Mexico had been in a severe economic crisis for over a year prior to its economic rebound
2011 Adele, Bruno Mars & Taylor Swift win at the 38th American Music Awards
2012 Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
2014 Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US will have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes
2015 More than half of all trees in Amazon forest at risk of extinction according to data published in journal "Sciences Advances"

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270 Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1327 Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder (Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan)
1602 Otto von Guericke, German physicist, inventor (air pump) (d. 1686)
1606 Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian
1620 Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower (d. 1704)
1621 Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1625 Artus II Quellinus "the Young", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1625 Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1652 Romanus Weichlein, composer
1660 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1726 Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov)/signed Decl of Independence
1750 Tippu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1757 Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer
1759 Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer
1761 Pius VIII (Francesco S Castiglioni), Italian 253rd Pope (1829-30) (d. 1830)
1762 Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
1765 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
1765 Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1766 John Wall Calcott, composer
1781 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist, law historian (d. 1854)
1802 James Lawrence Lardner, American Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1881)
1830 Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1900)
1834 Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer
1836 John Thomas Croxton, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1874)
1839 Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
1841 Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1841 Wilfrid Laurier, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911) (d. 1919)
1850 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer
1851 Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
1858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author (Nobel laureate) (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) (d. 1940)
1862 Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer, co-founder and chairman (SDAP)
1863 Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (Black Griet)
1864 Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (d. 1931)
1864 Gerard W Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor (Groene Amsterdammer)
1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge, First commissioner of baseball (d. 1944)
1867 Vicente Ripolles, composer
1869 Clark Griffith, American baseball player, manager (NY Yankees) (d. 1955)
1871 William H Kilpatrick, American mathematician, philosopher, educator
1873 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer (Chanticker)
1874 James Michael Curley, American 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1879 Franz Pfemfert, writer
1880 George McBride, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1882 Andy Coakley, American baseball player and coach (Columbia University) (d. 1963)
1884 Norman Thomas, American politician, socialist Presidential Candidate (1928-1948) (d. 1968)
1886 Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (bees) (Nobel laureate 1973) (d. 1982)
1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) (d. 1953)
1890 Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter
1890 Robert Armstrong, American actor (Mighty Joe Young, King Kong)
1891 Leon Cadore, pitcher (pitched an entire 26 inning game)
1891 Reginald Denny Richmond England, actor (Rebecca, Cat Ballou, Batman)
1892 James B Collip, Canadian biochemist/physiologist (insulin)
1894 Carl Mayer Graz, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise)
1896 Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer
1896 Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1897 Lores Bonney, aviator
1897 Margaret Sutherland, composer
1899 Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer
1900 Chester Gould, American comic strip artist (Dick Tracy) (d. 1985)
1902 Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian
1903 Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
1903 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
1904 Alexandra Danilova, ballet great
1905 François, 9th duc de Noailles, French nobelman (d. 2009)
1907 Fran Allison, American television personality, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) (d. 1989)
1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (Le salaire de la peur) (d. 1977)
1908 Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist, TV host (Masterpiece Theatre) (d. 2004)
1909 Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74)
1910 Pauli Murray, famous African
1910 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
1911 Jean Shiley, US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932)
1912 Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman, head of the Habsburg house
1913 Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
1914 Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954 (d. 1992)
1915 Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director (Matatabi, Money Talks) (d. 2008)
1916 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008)
1916 Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter
1916 Judy Canova, American comedienne, actress (Cannonball)
1916 Robert A Bruce, American pioneer (exercise cardiology)
1916 William John Elwyn Davies, painter
1917 Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1917 Max Georg Baumann, composer
1917 Pam Henningen (Cornelia CP Ingenegeren), Indonesian-Dutch dancer
1917 Ram Gopal, English dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain)
1917 Robert C Byrd, American politician (Sen-D-WV, 1959), majority leader
1918 Dora Ratjen, German high jumper, man possing as woman  (Oly-4th-1936)
1919 Dulcie Gray, Malaysian actress (Mine Own Executioner)
1919 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (Adventure of Martin Eden)
1919 Halka Grossman, resistance fighter, politician
1919 John McCarthy, composer
1920 Armin Schibler, composer
1920 Douglas Dick, American actor (Carl-Waterfront)
1920 Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1921 Jim Garrison, American district attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1921 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (Nora, Fort Worth) (d. 2012)
1923 Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people) (Nobel laureate 1991)
1924 Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-French mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
1925 Judy Woodruff, news analyst & commentator
1925 June (Shirley L) Christy, American jazz singer (Tampico)
1925 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet)
1925 Robert F(rancis) Kennedy, American politician (D-Sen-NY), assassinated (d. 1968)
1926 Andrzej W. Schally, Polish endocrinologist, Nobel laureate
1926 Kaye Ballard, American comic actress (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law)
1926 Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (d. 2007)
1927 Estelle Parsons, American actress (Rachel Rachel, Bonnie & Clyde)
1928 Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
1928 Franklin Cover, American actor (Tom-The Jeffersons)
1928 John Disley, Welsh athlete
1928 Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor (Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s)
1929 Dick Clark, American TV host (American Bandstand) (d. 2012)
1929 Don January, American professional golfer
1929 Donald Ray January, American PGA golfer (1960 Tucson Open)
1929 Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, American conductor (Amer Ballet)
1932 John Barnes Chance, composer
1932 Richard Dawson, English-American actor (The Running Man) and game show host (Hogan's Heroes, Family Feud) (d. 2012)
1934 Valentine J Peter, Omaha Neb, priest (Boy's Town 1985)
1936 Don DeLillo, American author
1937 Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier
1937 Jack Linkletter, SF California, TV host (Haggis Baggis, Hootenanny)
1937 René Kollo, German tenor
1937 Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
1937 Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
1938 Tony White, Australian cricketer
1939 Dick Smothers, American comedian (Smother Brothers' Show)
1940 Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne)
1940 Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director (Apple Trees, Manoever)
1941 Gary Karr, American double-bassist (Oslo Philharmonic)
1941 Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright
1942 Joseph R (Joe) Biden Jr, 47th Vice President of the United States (Sen-D-DE, 1973)
1942 Meredith Monk, American performing artist, composer, and choreographer
1942 Norman Greenbaum, American folk singer (Spirit in the Sky)
1942 Paulos Faraj Rahho, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic bishop (d. 2008)
1943 Lindsay Thomas, (Rep-D-GA, 1983)
1943 Veronica Hamel, American actress (Joyce-Hill St Blues, 79 Park Ave)
1944 Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwe field hockey coach, player (Olympic-1980)
1944 Louie Dampier, American basketball player
1945 Dan McBride, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1945 Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress
1945 Rachid Mimouni, author
1945 Rick Monday, American baseball player
1946 Duane Allman, American guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1971)
1946 Greg Cook, American football player
1946 John "Blackfoot" Colbert, US singer (Soul Children, Taxi)
1946 Judy Woodruff, American TV newscaster (McNeil Lehrer Report)
1946 Ray Stiles, Musician
1946 Samuel E. Wright, American film and theater actor (voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid)
1947 George Grantham, American rock drummer/vocalist (Poco)
1947 Joe Walsh, American guitarist, singer (Eagles, James Gang)
1947 Mardell Wilkins, LPGA golfer
1948 Barbara Hendricks, American/Swedish singer
1948 John R. Bolton, American ambassador
1948 Richard Masur, American actor (David-One Day at a Time, The Thing)
1948 Samuel E Wright, Camden SC, actor (Enos, Ball Four)
1949 Jeff Dowd, American film producer
1949 Juha Mieto, Finland, 15KM skier (Olympic-silver-1980)
1949 Ray Vitte, American actor (Doc, Cody-Quest)
1949 Thelma Drake, American politician
1950 Gary Green, Musician (Gentle Giant)
1951 David Walters, American politician
1951 Rodger Bumpass, American voice actor
1952 John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL
1953 Greg Gibson, American Greco-Roman wrestler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1954 Berit Andnor, Swedish politician
1954 Frank Marino, Montreal Canada, rock guitarist (Mahogany Rush)
1954 Steve Dahl, American radio personality, Chicago's anti-disco DJ (WLS-FM)
1955 Thea Vidale, actress (Family Matters)
1955 Timothy Kristian Charles Mace, English
1956 Bo Derek (Mary Collins), American actress (10, Tarzan the Ape Man, Tommy Boy)
1956 Dan Powers, rock guitarist (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 Mark Gastineau, American football player (NY Jets, Pro Bowl 1981-85)
1956 Sergei Gayevich Severin, Russian cosmonaut
1957 James Brown, British reggae singer/drummer (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1957 Mike Craven, English footballer
1957 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985)
1958 Rickson Gracie, Brazilian Mixed Martial Artist
1959 James P. McGovern, American politician
1959 Sean Young, American actress (Dune, Young Doctor in Love, Blade Runner)
1960 Marc Labrèche, Canadian actor and television host
1961 Dave Watson, English footballer
1961 Jim Brickman, American musician and songwriter
1961 Larry Karaszewski, American screenwriter
1961 Tim Harvey, British racing driver
1962 Steve Alexander, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1963 Ming-Na Wen, Macau actress (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within)
1963 Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
1964 John Maclean, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1964 Leonardo Medeiros, Brazilian actor
1964 Ned Vaughn, actor (The Rescuer)
1965 Andrew Stewart, CFL defensive tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1965 Jimmy Vasser, American racing driver
1965 Mike D(iamond), American rapper, vocalist (Beastie Boys)
1965 Sen Dog, Cuban rapper (Cypress Hill)
1965 Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)
1966 Jill Thompson, American comic book writer and artist
1966 Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996)
1966 Thanasis Kolitsidakis, Greek footballer
1967 Alex Arias, American infielder (Florida Marlins)
1967 Chris Childs, American basketball player, NBA guard (NJ Nets, NY Knicks)
1967 Chris Patton, American Nike golfer (1993 NM Charity Classic)
1967 Jeff Cotler, American actor (Brian-Struck by Lightning)
1967 Teoman, Turkish rock singer
1968 Jeff Tarango, American tennis player (defaulted 1995 Wimbledon)
1968 Keith Rucker, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1968 Ming Na-Wen, actress (ER, One Night Stand, Lien-As the World Turns)
1968 Richard Clarke, Canadian Yachter Finn (Olympics-96)
1968 Tommy Asinga, Surinamese track star
1969 Callie Thorne, American actor (Next Stop Wonderland)
1969 Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer
1969 Dabo Swinney, College football coach
1969 Konstantin Semyonov, Israeli pole vaulter (Oly-11th-1996)
1969 Malvin Hunter, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 Richard Dickson Reid, New Zealand road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 Silvia Sommaggio, Italian 5k runner
1970 Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
1970 Geoffrey Keezer, American jazz pianist
1970 Joe Zaso, American actor
1970 Matt Blunt, American politician
1970 Sabrina Lloyd, American actress (Sliders, Dopamine)
1970 Trevor Cobb, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Dion Nash, cricketer (NZ right-arm medium-pacer 1992)
1971 Joel McHale, American actor (Community, Ted), host (Talk Soup) and comedian
1971 Joey Galloway, American football player, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Marco Oppedisano, American guitarist and composer
1971 Robert Wijnands, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1972 Riddick Parker, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian poet
1972 Trent Pollard, NFL guard (Cin Bengals)
1972 Yanick Dupre, Montreal, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1973 Brad Keeney, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Matthew Smith, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1974 Brad Williams, Australian cricketer
1974 Drew Ginn, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Jerald Moore, running back (St Louis Rams)
1974 Kirk Reynolds, Outlook Saskatchwan, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1974 Marissa Ryan, actress (Elizabeth MacGillis-Major Dad)
1974 Memos Begnis, Greek actor
1975 Davey Havok, American singer (AFI)
1975 Dierks Bentley, American singer
1975 J. D. Drew, American baseball player
1975 Jeffrey Lewis, American anti-folk singer/songwriter and comic book artist
1975 Joshua Gomez, Actor (BioShock)
1976 Dominique Dawes, American gymnast (Olympics-gold/brz-92, 96)
1976 Elisa Blair, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Jason Thompson, Canadian actor
1976 Laura Harris, Actress (The Faculty)
1976 Theodoros Velkos, badminton player
1976 Tusshar Kapoor, Indian actor
1977 Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer
1977 Josh Turner, American singer
1977 Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee
1978 Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer
1978 Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model (Flight)
1978 Ryan Leslie, American singer/songwriter
1979 Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
1979 Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player (Silver Ferns)
1980 James Chambers, English footballer
1981 Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1981 Jilen Siroky, 200m breaststroke (Olympics-96)
1981 Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 Margo Stilley, American actress (9 Songs)
1983 Kristopher Dolphin, Director (Sunset Rising: Chapter 0.5 - The Deliverer)
1984 Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver
1984 Tashard Choice, American football player
1984 Jeremy Jordan, Actor (Joyful Noise)
1985 Aaron Yan, Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit)
1985 Dan Byrd, American actor (Easy A)
1985 Darcy Donavan, Actress (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
1985 Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver
1986 Ashley Fink, Actress (You Again)
1986 Jared Followill, American rock musician
1986 Oli Sykes, English musician
1988 Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor (The Black Balloon)
1989 Cody Linley, American actor (Miss Congeniality)
1989 Tyga, American rapper
1990 Sam Burton, English footballer
1991 Michaela McPherson, Actress (Friending Emily)
1992 Ishimura Maiha, graduated Berryz Kobo member
1992 Maiha Ishimura, Japanese pop singer
1993 Kayla Perkins, Actress (Nightmare Fuel)
1994 Lorenzo Doryon, Musician (High School Musical 2: Part 4)
1996 Devon Tucker, Actor (Evan Almighty)
1987 Molly Blixt Egelind, Actress (Love Is All You Need)
1999 Prince Umberto of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
1999 Princess Sofia of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
2000 Alex Crisci, Actor (The Harder They Fall)
2000 Connie Talbot, English singer
2001 Lancelot Roch, Actor (Anything for Her)
2004 Hercules Rossi, Rescued Dog (Pit Bulls and Pinot Noir)

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869 King Edmund of East Anglia (b. 841)
967 Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of Liederen)
1022 Bernward of Hildesheim (b. 993)
1316 King John I of France (b. 1316)
1348 Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle against Roman revolutionaries by Porta Tiburtina
1437 Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
1480 Eleonora van Austrian, translator
1518 Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1518 Pierre de la Rue (Peter van Straten), Flemish composer
1527 Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1529 Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1591 Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1612 John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1651 Mikolaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
1662 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
1669 Arnold Geulincx, South Neth philosopher (Cholera)
1675 Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Neth (1664-68)
1678 Charles Dujardin, painter, etcher (Learned Dog)
1695 Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave (b. 1655)
1704 Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
1713 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel)
1737 Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1741 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, clergyman (b. 1661)
1750 Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, theologist (Christian religion)
1758 Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish composer, violist (b. 1694)
1764 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (b. 1690)
1778 Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1827 Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1851 Wenzel Sedlak, composer
1856 Farkas-Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
1863 James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor Jamaica
1882 Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
1887 Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver)
1894 Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (Dmitri Donskoi) (b. 1829)
1898 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway)
1899 Carl A E Ahlqvist (A Oksanen), Finnish translator
1903 Tom Horn, American gunman (hanged) (b. 1861)
1908 Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) (b. 1828)
1925 Alexandra, Danish princess, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1844)
1927 Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1934 Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
1936 Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish politician, executed (b. 1903)
1938 Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1938 Maud, Queen of Norway (b. 1869)
1939 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1944 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine)
1945 Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1950 Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1951 Thomas Quinlan (impresario) (b. 1881)
1952 Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica)
1954 Clyde Vernon Cessna, American aviation designer (b. 1879)
1957 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1957 Weldon Hart, composer
1960 Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet, writer
1960 Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli poet (b. 1881)
1962 Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct
1964 John Tasker Howard, composer
1968 Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel)
1968 Helen Gardner, silent film actress (Sandra)
1973 Allan Sherman, American comedian, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila) (b. 1924)
1975 Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-1975) (b. 1892)
1976 Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (b. 1898)
1977 Maxie Wander, writer
1978 Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1980 John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1983 Marcel Dalio, French actor (Casablanca) (b. 1900)
1983 Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1984 Alexander Moyzes, composer
1985 Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle)
1989 Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law)
1991 Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil)
1992 John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor)
1993 Christopher Frank, French writer
1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing)
1993 Heather Farr, golfer
1994 John Lucarotti, British-born Canadian screenwriter (b. 1926)
1994 Saeedi Sirjani, poet
1995 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist
1995 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (Oly-gold) (b. 1967)
1996 Bert Geoffrey Achong, electron microscopist
1997 Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1997 Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana
1997 Robert Palmer, music critic
1998 Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
2000 Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
2000 Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
2002 Nina Elias-Bamberger, executive producer (b. 1954)
2003 David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
2003 Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
2003 Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2003 Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
2003 Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
2003 Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2004 David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
2004 Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
2005 Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2005 James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2005 Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
2005 Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
2006 Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2006 Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
2006 Zoia Ceausescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
2007 Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
2008 Bennie Gonzales, American architect (b. 1924)
2008 Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
2009 Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2009 Max Robertson, British sports commentator, radio and television presenter and author (b. 1915)
2010 Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (b. 1931)
2010 Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2010 Laurie Bembenek, American convicted murderer and fugitive (b. 1958)
2010 Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954)
2012 William Grut, Swedish pentathlete
2013 Peter Griffiths, British politician (C), controversially won his seat (1964)
2015 Keith Michell, actor and theatre director (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
2015 Jim Perry, American and Canadian tv host ($ale of the Century)

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