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587 Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram takes cousin Childebert II as heir
1095 On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1340 Battle of Salado Spain: last Moor invasion driven back
1443 Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1569 Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1582 In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
1627 The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
1660 At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1666 At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1670 Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice," premieres in Paris
1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured
1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1745 French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY
1757 England condemns ceasefire of Kloster-Seven
1775 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1795 US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1811 Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1813 Kosacks occupy Utrecht
1814 The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 Panama declares independence, separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia (Panama Independence Day).
1833 Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
1843 Ka La Hui, Hawaiian Independence Day The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1847 Church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo in Bologna.
1853 Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army
1862 In the Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas, of the American Civil War, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates (475 casualties).
1862 Battle of Hooly Spring, MS of the American Civil War
1864 Third day of Battles at Waynesboro, Jones's Plantation, Georgia in the American Civil War
1864 Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC
1875 Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa
1879 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
1885 Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois, 6 cars. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours (avg 7 MPH).
1899 Battle of Mud river (Boer general. Cronjé beats British gen Methuen)
1901 Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony in G, premieres
1904 Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa
1905 In Dublin, Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1906 Tommy Burns & Jack O'Brien fight to a draw in 20 for hw boxing title
1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa
1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
1910 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1911 Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1913 Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris
1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1916 1st (German) air attack on London
1917 Sigmund Rombergs revue "Over the Top," premieres in NYC
1917 The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1918 Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1918 Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany, abdicates
1919 Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920 Kilmichael Ambush The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen in the Irish War of Independence.
1921 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
1922 6 old minsters in Greece, executed
1922 Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1924 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves 2nd Chamber
1925 7th French government of Briand sworn-in
1925 NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies of TB 4 months later
1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
1927 J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels," premieres in NYC
1929 Adm Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight
1929 Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chic Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
1930 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres
1931 Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, v South Africa
1932 France & USSR signs not-attack treaty
1932 Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time
1934 Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1938 4th Heisman Trophy Award, Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB)
1939 Nazi Gov-Gen of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat
1939 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty
1940 Cleveringa arrested by nazis
1941 German troops vacate Rostov
1942 500 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
1942 In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1943 Tehran Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss World War II strategy.
1944 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
1944 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
1944 Hal Newhouser is named AL MVP
1944 In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
1944 US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen
1945 Australian Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
1946 French government of Bidault, resigns
1946 Landverrader Anton Mussert to death sentenced
1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
1948 1st Polaroid camera sold
1949 "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 perfs
1950 Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager
1951 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in NYC
1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
1953 "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 perfs
1953 41st CFL Grey Cup, Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 12-6
1954 1st pro football game in Netherlands
1954 Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 80-yard punt
1954 KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 KMVI (now WMAU) TV channel 12 in Wailuku, HI (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 KTHV TV channel 11 in Little Rock, AR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Photography begins on "... & God Created Women"
1957 "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1957 Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award
1958 AL announces Opening Day in 1959 will be earliest ever, April 9
1958 Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
1958 George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1958 KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay
1958 US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM
1959 47th CFL Grey Cup, Winn Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-7
1959 KOMC (now KSNK) TV channel 8 in McCook Oberlin, NB (NBC) begins
1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum
1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
1961 Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy
1961 General Meeting of UN debates about New-Guinea
1961 Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher," premieres in Munich
1962 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
1963 1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 on UK record chart
1963 Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1963 WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 52nd CFL Grey Cup, BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24
1964 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964 National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
1965 Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yds (109)
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1965 In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam in the Vietnam War.
1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy, a republic is declared
1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
1966 Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1967 33rd Heisman Trophy Award, Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)
1967 The 1st pulsating radio source (pulsar) detected
1968 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
1969 Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
1970 58th CFL Grey Cup, Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 23-10
1971 "Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 587 perfs
1971 59th CFL Grey Cup:, Calgary Stampeders defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-11
1971 Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, he dies two days later.
1971 Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1972 "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances
1972 LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
1972 Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
1973 Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
1973 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry wins AL Rookie of Year
1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1974 John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden NYC)
1975 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1975 Democratic Republic East-Timor proclaimed
1975 East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1975 Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI v Australia Brisbane
1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley
1976 64th CFL Grey Cup, Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20
1978 44th Heisman Trophy Award, Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
1978 Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
1979 "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 perfs
1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board.
1979 LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year
1980 Operation Morvarid of the Iran–Iraq War, Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day.
1981 "Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg & become college football's winningest coach
1981 Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions (Our Lady of Kibeho).
1982 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 perfs
1982 70th CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
1982 71st Davis Cup, USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1)
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched
1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
1985 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
1986 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
1988 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1989 Velvet Revolution In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract
1989 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his reign as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister
1991 South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
1993 "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
1993 "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1993 81st CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 33-23
1993 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
1994 In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
1994 Norway votes against joining European Union
1995 James Brady, former white house press sect, suffers a heart attack
1997 Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head," on MTV
1997 First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
1998 The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
2000 Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
2004 Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2012 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria

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1118 Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
1489 Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)
1570 James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
1598 Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
1607 Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento
1628 John Bunyan, English cleric and author (Pilgrim's Progress) (d. 1688)
1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (d. 1687)
1640 Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain (c. 1648)
1650 John Palfijn, Flemish physician, inventor (forceps)
1661 Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
1681 Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)
1700 Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)
1700 Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)
1704 Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1757 William Blake, British poet, painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience) (d. 1827) (d. 1827)
1763 Matthaus Fischer, composer
1770 F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V & Wilhelmina of Prussia
1772 Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
1777 Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
1784 Ferdinand Reis, composer
1785 Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France (1835-1836) (d. 1870)
1792 Victor Cousin, French philosopher, minister of Education (d. 1867)
1793 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck), romantic poet (d. 1866)
1795 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
1805 John Stephens, American archeologist, founded study of Central America (d. 1852)
1810 William Froude, British naval architect, engineer (d. 1879)
1811 Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)
1812 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer
1820 Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher, Marx's collaborator (d. 1895)
1820 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
1829 Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Omitri Doskoy) (d. 1894)
1837 John Wesley Hyatt, American inventor (celluloid) (d. 1920)
1841 E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)
1843 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
1853 Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)
1854 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians, German botanist
1856 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
1857 Alfonso XII, King of Spain (1874-85) (d. 1885)
1864 Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer, wood carver
1864 James Allen English writer (d. 1912)
1864 Lindley M. Garrison, American Secretary of War (d. 1932)
1866 Arthur Frederick Augustus "Dick" Lilley, cricket keeper (England)
1866 Henry Bacon, American architect (Lincoln Memorial) (d. 1924)
1866 Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, Dutch actor, husband of Truus Soete
1868 Frantisek Alois Drdla, composer
1876 Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (d. 1946)
1878 Jozef van Mierlo, Belgian Jesuit/literary (Hadewych)
1880 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) (d. 1921)
1880 Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator
1881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist (Beware of Pity) (d. 1942)
1883 Paul Hastings Allen, composer
1887 Bobby Watson (Knucher), American comedian
1887 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, Bolivian leader, Nazi official (d. 1934)
1887 Jacobo Palm, Curacaos pianist, organist
1891 Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist & politician (d. 1949)
1892 Thomas Wood, composer
1894 Brooks Atkinson, drama critic (Broadway theater namesake)
1894 Henry Hazlitt, Libertarian philosopher, economist (d. 1993)
1895 José Iturbi, Spanish pianist (d. 1980)
1896 Dawn Powell, American writer (d. 1965)
1896 Lilia Skala, Austrian actress (House of Games, Flashdance, Charly) (d. 1994)
1897 Uno Choyo, writer
1898 Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS]
1900 Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage)
1902 Victor Jory, Canadian actor (Kings Row, Manhunt)
1904 James O Eastland, American politician (Sen-D-Miss) (d. 1986)
1904 Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a cold climate) (d. 1973)
1907 Alberto Moravia (Pincherle), Italian author (Indifferent Ones) (d. 1990)
1907 Rose Bampton, American opera singer (d. 2007)
1908 Arturo Frondizi, president Argentina (1958-62)
1908 Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (d. 2009)
1908 Roberto Lupi, composer
1909 Aleksandar Rankovic, Yugoslavic partisan, vice-premier
1911 Václav Renc, Czech poet (d. 1973)
1912 Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1912 Morris Louis, American painter (post abstract) (d. 1962)
1913 Hugo Pos, Suriname, Neth WW II prosecutor of minor war crimes Tokyo
1915 Evald Okas, Estonian painter
1915 Pamela Harrison, composer
1915 Yves Thériault, Canadian author (d. 1983)
1916 Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III
1916 Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
1917 Kees Schilperoort, Dutch radio and TV host
1919 Keith Miller, Australian cricketer
1920 Cecilia Colledge, English figure skater (Olympic-silver-1936)
1922 Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
1923 Gloria Grahame, American actress (It's a Wonderful Life)(d. 1981)
1923 Helen Delich Bentley, (Rep-R-MD, 1985)
1923 Phyllis Jenkins, literary & theatrical agent community activist
1923 Ted Stevens, (Sen-R-AK, 1968)
1924 Dennis Brutus, South African poet
1924 Kees (Gerrit C) Otten, Dutch flutist
1925 Aurelio de la Vega, composer
1925 Gloria Grahame, American actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
1925 József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
1925 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
1927 Chuck Mitchell, American actor (d. 1992)
1928 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
1928 Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng
1928 John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (d. 1973)
1929 Berry Gordy Jr., American record company owner (Motown)
1931 Dervla Murphy, Irish cyclist and travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule)
1931 Hope Lange, American actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1931 Ian Skipper, English businessman, multi-millionaire (Heritage Projects)
1931 Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor, author (Nude on Fence)
1931 Thomas Enders, diplomat
1931 Tomi Ungerer, French graphic artist
1932 Ethel L Ennis, US orchestra leader, jazz singer (Once Again)
1932 Ray Perkins, Canadian singer (The Crew-Cuts)
1932 Terence Frisby, poet, screenwriter (There's a Girl in My Soup)
1933 Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
1933 Joe Knollenberg, American politician (Rep-R-Michigan)
1934 Carlos Farinas, composer
1934 Dick Rhyan, American PGA golfer (1994 GTE-5th)
1935 Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
1935 Randolph Stow, Australian author, poet (Suburbs of Hell)
1936 Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
1936 Gary Hart, American politician (Sen-D-Co, 1975-86)
1939 Gary Troxel, rocker
1940 Bruce Channel, American singer
1940 Clem Curtis, rocker
1941 Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (Wifemistress, Divine Nymph)
1942 Paul Warfield, American football player, NFL & WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
1943 Randy Newman, American composer, vocalist (Short People, Love LA, Raindrops)
1944 R.B. Greaves, Guyanan singer (d. 2012)
1944 Rita Mae Brown, actress (Long Hot Summer, Slumber Party Massacre)
1944 Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
1946 Joe Dante, American film director and producer (Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins)
1946 Susan Spencer, American correspondent (48 Hours)
1947 Maria Farantouri, Greek singer
1947 Michel Berger, French songwriter (d. 1992)
1948 Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director (Europa Europa)
1948 Beeb Birtles (Gerard Birtlekamp), Dutch-Australian guitarist (Little River Band)
1948 Dick Morris, American political figure, author
1949 Alexander Godunov, Russian composer, ballet dancer (Bolshoi), defected in 1979 (d. 1995)
1949 Hugh McKenna, Musician (Alex Harvey Band)
1949 Paul Shaffer, Canadian orchestra leader (SNL, David Letterman)
1949 Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian-Israel, Mossad agent (By Way of Deception)
1950 Ed Harris, American actor (A Beautiful Mind, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma)
1950 Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 Jeff Fahey, actor (Darkman III, Crossover, Serpent's Lair)
1952 S. Epatha Merkerson, American actress (Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2)
1953 Nadezhda Olizarenko, Soviet 800m/1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1953 Sixto Lezcano, Puerto Rican baseball player
1955 Adem Jashari, Albanian freedom fighter
1955 Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer
1955 Jeffrey Byron, American actor
1956 Kristine Arnold, Torrance, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
1956 Lucy Gutteridge, actress (Top Secret, Trouble With Spies)
1957 David Van Day, British singer (Dollar)
1958 Dave Righetti, American baseball player, baseball pitcher (Yankees, Giants)
1958 David Van Day, rocker (Dollar-Loves Gotta Hold on Me)
1958 Georges Rutaganda, Rwandan war criminal
1958 Kriss Akabusi, British athlete, 4X400 runner (Olympic-silver-1984) and television presenter
1958 Tim Mullens, Dutch singer, guitarist (Ivy green)
1959 Judd Nelson, American actor (Breakfast Club, Jack-Suddenly Susan)
1959 R Glynn Holt, American PhD, astronaut (STS 73 alt)
1959 Stephen Roche, bicylist
1960 Deneice Lewis, American model
1960 John Galliano, British fashion designer
1960 Ken Howell, baseball player
1961 Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director and Writer (Children of Men)
1961 Jane Sibbett, American actress (Teddy Z, Heddy Newman-Herman's Head)
1961 Martin Clunes, British actor
1961 Patty Zomer, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
1962 Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1962 Jon Stewart, American comedian (The Daily Show)
1962 Karen Marsden, Australian field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1962 Matt Cameron, American drummer (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
1962 Paul Dinello, American comedian and actor
1963 Armando Iannucci, Scottish comedian and radio producer
1963 Cornelia Guest, American debutante
1963 Jesus Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican convicted killer (d. 2006)
1963 Johnny Newman, American basketball player, NBA guard and foward (Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks)
1963 Walt Weiss, American baseball player, shortstop (Oakland A's, Colorado Rockies)
1964 Cornelia Guest, debutante (Debutante's Guide to Life)
1964 John Burkett, American pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1964 Michael Bennet, American politician
1964 Roy Tarpley, American basketball player
1965 David Ecob, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 Erwin Mortier, Belgian author
1965 Matt Williams, American baseball player, infielder (SF Giants)
1966 Sam Seder, American comedian
1967 Anna Nicole "Vickie" Smith, American television personality, playmate (May 1992) (d. 2007)
1967 José del Solar, Peruvian footballer
1967 Stephnie Weir, American comedian
1968 Dawn Robinson, American singer (En Vogue)
1968 Jonathan Brown, American rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1969 Dale Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1969 Doug Petersen, CFL defensive end (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 Lexington Steele (Clifton Britt), American adult film actor
1969 Marc Spindler, NFL defensive tackle/end (NY Jets, Detroit Lions)
1969 Nick Knight, English cricketer
1969 Pedro Astacio, Dominican pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1969 Pio Sagapolutele, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints, Cleveland Browns)
1969 Robb Nen, American baseball player, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1969 Sonia O'Sullivan, Irish 5k runner (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1970 Arshad Laiq, United Arab Emirates cricket all-rounder (World Cup 1996)
1970 Evan Droop, Australasia golfer
1970 Jason Day, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 Todd Perry, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1970 Álex López Morón, Spanish tennis player
1971 Fenriz, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone)
1971 Karin Taylor, Jamaican playmate (June, 1996)
1971 Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
1971 William Simas Jr, American pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1972 Anastasia Kelesidou, Greek discus thrower
1972 Jesper Strömblad, Swedish guitarist (In Flames)
1972 Paulo Figueiredo, Angolan footballer
1973 Jade Puget, American musician (AFI)
1974 András Tölcséres, Hungarian footballer
1974 Jason Ferguson, defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1974 Joerg Heckenbach, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1974 Kristian Schmid, Australian actor
1974 Styles P, American rapper
1974 apl.de.ap, American rapper (Black Eyed Peas)
1975 Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
1975 Sigurd Wongraven, Norwegian musician (Satyricon)
1975 Sunny Mabrey, American actress (Snakes on a Plane)
1976 Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor (Strange Love)
1977 DeMya Walker, American basketball player
1977 Fabio Grosso, Italian footballer
1977 Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer
1977 Greg Somerville, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 Aimee Garcia, American actress (A Lot Like Love)
1978 Brent Albright, American professional wrestler
1978 Freddie Mitchell, American football player
1978 Haytham Tambal, Sudanese footballer
1978 Mehdi Nafti, Tunisian footballer
1978 Ryan Leslie, American producer
1979 Chamillionaire, American rapper
1979 Daniel Henney, Korean-American model-actor
1979 Joel Maximo, American professional wrestler
1980 Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
1980 Stuart Taylor, British footballer
1981 Louise Bourgoin, Actress (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec)
1982 Chris Harris, British speedway rider
1982 Leandro Barbosa, Brazilian basketball player
1983 Emun Elliott, Actor (Prometheus)
1984 Alan Ritchson, Actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
1984 Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
1984 Joross Gamboa, Filipino actor
1984 Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress (Final Destination 3)
1984 Trey Songz, American recording artist
1985 Caitlin McClatchey, Scottish swimmer
1986 Johnny Simmons, Actor (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
1987 Karen Gillan, Scottish actress (A Christmas Carol)
1988 Christopher Stringini, American singer
1988 Sam Smith, Actor (How to Say I Love You)
1988 Scarlett Pomers, American actress (Erin Brockovich)
1989 Lonny Ofry, Actress (Brainwashed a True Story)
1990 Dedryck Boyata, Belgian football player
1991 Alex Joganic, Actor (My Fellow Americans)
1992 Adam Hicks, American actor
1993 Taylor Phillips, Actress (My Best Friend)
1994 Lola Sanchez, Actress (Elijah)
1995 Rachel Bridges, Actress (Company Town), Daughter of actor-director Jimmy Bridges.
1996 Tom Doromal, Reality TV Star (Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition)
1997 Payton Spencer, Actress (Escaped)
1997 Thor Salden, Belgian singer
1998 Paul-Can Atlama, Actor (Ein Mord zu viel)
1999 Nyla Crawford Noel, Actress (Don't Think This Hasn't Been Fabulous)
2002 Charlie Williams, son of self proclaimed psychic, Lisa Williams
2003 Jolhan Martin, Actor (A Butterfly Kiss)
2004 Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia Moder, Fratenal twin children of Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder

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741 Pope Gregory III, Syrian Catholic Pope
1058 Kazimierz I Restaurator, duke of Poland (1034-58)
1170 Owain Gwynedd, Welsh King of Gwynedd (c. 1100)
1262 Shinran, Japanese monk, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect (b. 1173)
1290 Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
1499 Edward Plantagenet, 18th Count of Warwick, beheaded
1514 Hartmann Skull, German physician, historian (Skull's Liederbuch)
1545 Jacob van Liesveld, printer/"heretic" (Refeyen), beheaded
1559 Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist
1574 Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1585 Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
1590 Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Neth theologist
1641 Robert Dowland, English luitist, son of John Dowland
1667 Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and botanist (b. 1633)
1675 Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1675 Leonard Hoar, English-American minister and academic, President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1680 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor, painter (b. 1598)
1680 Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
1694 Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
1695 Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
1695 Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer (b. 1637)
1698 Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, 3rd Governor General of New France (b. 1622)
1763 Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (b. 1734)
1785 William Whipple, American judge, merchant, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1730)
1788 Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht
1794 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American army officer, inspector-general of Washingtons army (b. 1730)
1801 Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
1815 Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, conductor, and composer (b. 1745)
1827 Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader, author (Imirei Binah)
1843 József Ficzkó, Slovene-Croatian priest and author (b. 1772)
1852 Emmanuil Xanthos, Greek activist, co-founder of Filiki Eteria (b. 1772)
1852 Ludger Duvernay, French journalist, politician, newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1859 Washington Irving, American author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent) and historian (b. 1783)
1860 Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist
1861 Robert Fuhrer, composer
1870 Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
1872 Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1872 Mary Somerville, Scottish author (b. 1780)
1876 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian-German embryologist
1878 Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1878 Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (b. 1805)
1880 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
1890 Jyotirao Phule, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1827)
1898 C F Meyer, writer
1899 Adrian the la Rey, son of South African general, dies in battle
1904 Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1847)
1907 Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer
1907 Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
1912 Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany)
1912 Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
1915 Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author, critic (C'era una Volta)
1915 Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1916 Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902)
1917 Mikelis Avlichos, Greek poet (b. 1844)
1918 Alexis Contant, composer
1921 Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
1927 Arthur Wichmann, German-Dutch geologist (New-Guinea)
1930 Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople (b. 1859)
1935 Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian ethno-musicologist and scholar (b. 1877)
1939 James Naismith, Canadian-American creator of basketball (b. 1861)
1940 Nicolae Iorga, president of Romania, author, murdered by fascist
1944 Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn
1944 Camille Looten, Belgian priest, literature historian
1944 Joop Brouwer de Koning, youngest Dutch radio operator, executed
1944 Lode Zielens, Flemish author-journalist
1945 Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War, donator of tennis' Davis cup (b. 1879)
1947 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, WW II hero (liberator of Paris)
1947 Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902)
1953 Frank Olson, American biologist (b. 1910)
1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1938) (b. 1901)
1959 Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance)
1960 Max Pruss, Prussian commander (b. 1891)
1960 Richard N Wright, American author (Native son) (b. 1908)
1960 Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (b. 1896)
1962 Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands (1898-1948) (b. 1880)
1963 Fred Uttal, TV host (QED)
1963 Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), murdered (b. 1941)
1964 Charles Meredith, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch-English playwright (Dolle Hans)
1966 Vittorio Giannini, composer
1967 Leon M'ba, First president of Gabon (1960-67) (b. 1902)
1968 Enid Mary Blyton, English author (Before I Go To Sleep) (b. 1897)
1969 Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro)
1970 Fritz v Unruh, writer
1970 Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada)
1971 Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, assassinated by Black Sept (b. 1920)
1972 Gustave Frederic Soderlund, composer
1972 Havergal Brian, English composer (b. 1875)
1973 Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author (b. 1886)
1976 Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55
1976 Rosalind Russell, American actress (Mame) (b. 1907)
1977 Bob Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1977 Trevor Bardette, American actor (Clanton-Legend of Wyatt Earp) (b. 1902)
1978 Andre Morell, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
1978 Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive, businessman (b. 1902)
1983 Christopher George, American actor (Chisum, Heist) (b. 1929)
1984 Hans Speidel, German Genreal, NATO-supreme commander (1957-64)
1985 Fernand Braudel, French historian
1986 Herb Vigran, American actor (Ernest-Ed Wynn Show) (b. 1910)
1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter
1987 Choh Hao Li, Chinese bio-chemist (isolated growth hormones) (b. 1913)
1987 Paul Arma, composer,
1989 Jo(hanne M Bos-)Vincent, Dutch soprano (Songs for Life)
1990 Tamara De Treaux, actress (ET)
1992 Bill Kearns, American actor (Playtime)
1992 June Joyce Lewis Fraser, entertainer
1992 Ronald Smeenk, Dutch cabaret performer
1992 Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
1993 Abu Rish, Palestinian PLO-leader
1993 Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (I've Got A Secret) (b. 1915)
1993 Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf, The Sparrows) (b. 1946)
1993 Kenneth Connor, English comic actor (Carry on Sergeant)
1993 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death
1994 Al Levitt, American-French jazz drummer
1994 Buster Edwards, English criminal (b. 1932)
1994 Franfo Fortini, poet
1994 Jeffrey Dahmer (Butcher of Milwaukee), American serial killer, killed in prison (b. 1960)
1994 Jerry Rubin, American anti-war activist (Youth Party) (b. 1938)
1994 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide
1994 Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal
1996 Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano
1997 Georges Marchal, French actor (Dirty Game, Blondine) (b. 1920)
1998 Kerry Wendell Thornley, American author, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
2000 Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
2001 Kal Mann, American songwriter (b. 1917)
2001 William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
2001 William Reid, Scottish pilot, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
2002 Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist (Koerner, Ray & Glover) (b. 1943)
2003 Antonia Forest, English children's author (b. 1915)
2003 Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
2005 Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
2006 Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
2006 Robert Volpe, American Art Theft Detective and painter (b. 1942)
2007 Gudrun Wagner, Prussian director, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)
2008 Havaldar Gajender Singh, Indian army officer (b. 1972)
2008 Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Indian army officer (b. 1977)
2009 Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and director (b. 1928)
2009 Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (b. 1923)
2010 Gil McDougald, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2010 Giorgos Fountas, Greek actor (b. 1922)
2010 Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (b. 1926)
2010 Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (b. 1921)
2011 Andrew Kazdin, classical record producer
2011 Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia
2011 Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian (b. 1969)
2012 Don Rhymer, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1961)
2012 Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer (b. 1922)
2012 Jakes Gerwel, South African academic (b. 1946)
2012 José Maria Fidélis dos Santos, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1944)
2012 Knut Ahnlund, Swedish historian (b. 1923)
2012 Spain Rodriguez, American cartoonist (b. 1940)
2012 Zig Ziglar, American author (b. 1926)
2013 Mitja Ribicic, Yugoslavian Prime Minister
2015 Olene Walker, American politician (R), 1st female Governor of Utah (2003-2005)
2015 Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director

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