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1409 The University of Leipzig opens.
1620 English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
1682 English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam
1697 St Paul's Cathedral is opened in London.
1755 The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
1763 Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States.
1775 The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.
1777 British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
1790 Austrian army occupies Brussels
1802 English sell Suriname to Dutch
1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor of France in Paris
1805 Battle of Austerlitz of the Napoleonic Wars, French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1812 James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
1813 Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
1816 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
1822 In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
1823 US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts "The Monroe Doctrine".
1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris
1840 William H Harrison elected 9th President of USA
1845 US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West (Manifest Destiny).
1848 Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
1851 Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III), 2nd French empire established.
1859 Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
1864 Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1867 At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1868 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
1877 Camille Saint-Saëns' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar
1882 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
1883 John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
1885 Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna
1887 Amsterdam's Oscar Carrés Circus Theater opens
1887 French president Grevy (80) resigns
1891 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
1895 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
1896 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke," premieres in Berlin
1899 Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1899 US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1900 South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
1901 King Camp Gillette begins selling safety disposable razor blades
1902 Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
1907 English Professional Football Player's Association forms
1907 Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two
1908 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1913 Archdiocese of Managua created
1913 Government Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1917 An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.
1917 Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
1920 Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
1922 10th CFL Grey Cup, Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
1924 British-German trade agreement signed
1927 Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile, sold, for $385.
1928 Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
1929 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
1930 Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1932 "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
1933 Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released
1934 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
1939 British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
1939 New York City's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight
1941 Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
1941 NY Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
1941 Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
1941 Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
1942 During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago.
1943 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
1943 A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
1944 10th Heisman Trophy Award, Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
1944 German troops seize Betuwse dikes
1944 US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
1946 The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.
1947 13th Heisman Trophy Award, John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
1947 Jerusalem Riots of 1947, Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
1948 Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
1951 "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
1951 Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
1952 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
1952 18th Heisman Trophy Award, Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
1954 "Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1954 Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
1954 The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
1954 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C..
1954 US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
1956 The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1957 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
1957 Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1
1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award, Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
1958 Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
1958 KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
1959 Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
1961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1961 Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing
1962 50th CFL Grey Cup, Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
1962 After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the Vietnam War's progress.
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965
1964 Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
1966 Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
1967 55th CFL Grey Cup, Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
1968 Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
1969 "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
1970 The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations (Dir: William Ruckelshaus).
1970 Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London
1971 Trucial States Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates and declare independence from UK.Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes president
1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1972 "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
1972 "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
1972 60th CFL Grey Cup, Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
1972 In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1973 62nd Davis Cup, Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
1973 Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Wash DC opens
1973 US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
1974 Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
1974 Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
1975 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
1975 G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt v WI
1975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1975 Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms
1975 Pathet Lao seizes Vientiane which gives way for their power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1978 Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
1978 Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1
1978 Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
1979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
1979 Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1980 Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
1981 Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year
1981 Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
1981 Spanish government requests membership in NATO
1982 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1984 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
1984 Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 perfs
1985 Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder
1985 Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in NYC
1986 Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
1987 "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend NJ Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
1987 Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colo becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
1989 55th Heisman Trophy Award, Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
1990 First parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
1990 First time 12 people in space
1990 79th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
1990 Beth Daniel, Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
1991 Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
1991 Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
1992 WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
1993 A Websters musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA
1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
1993 Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
1993 Space Shuttle program, STS-61 NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour 5 on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
1994 "Cobb" premieres
1994 Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
1994 Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
1995 17th ACE Cable Awards
1997 MCI Center opens in Wash DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics
1999 Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales
1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2005 Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking.
2008 Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis.
2012 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
2012 Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia
2012 Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
2013 China launches its first moon rover mission
2014 Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations
2014 Elizabeth Lauten, an aide to a Republican congressman resigns after her online criticism of President Barack Obama's teenage daughters
2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clash with police as they try to surround the government's headquarters in some of the worst violence since the protests began
2014 Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race
2014 The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
2014 Vanuatu police arrest at least 20 people over the deaths by hanging of two men accused of sorcery
2015 Attack on a social services centre in San Bernardino, California kills 14 and wounds 17

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1578 Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1640)
1678 Nicolaas S Cruquius, Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer)
1694 William Shirley, American Colonial Governor of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1771)
1703 Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (d. 1759)
1710 Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (d. 1783)
1728 Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist, philosopher, diplomat
1738 Richard Montgomery, Irish-American soldier (d. 1775)
1754 William Cooper, American judge an politician, founder (Cooperstown, New York) (d. 1809)
1760 John Breckinridge, American politician, 5th United States Attorney General (d. 1806)
1760 Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and educator (d. 1826)
1777 Henry Doeff, colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
1802 Melancthon Smith Wade, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1868)
1810 Henry Yesler, American politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle (d. 1892)
1811 Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)
1813 Jacob Rosenhaim, composer
1817 Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
1821 Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1895)
1825 Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89) (d. 1891)
1837 Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1864)
1846 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, 68th Prime Minister of France, Minister of Foreign affairs (d. 1904)
1856 Louis Zutter, Swiss gymnast (d. 1946)
1856 Robert Kajanus, composer
1859 Georges Seurat, French post-impressionist painter (Grande Jatte) (d. 1891)
1860 C T Studd, English cricketer
1863 Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1926)
1863 Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
1866 Henry Thacker Burleigh, American singer and composer (Springarn Medal) (d. 1949)
1868 Francis Jammes, French poet, writer (Jammisme)
1869 Jonas Cohn, German-English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)
1870 Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist, composer, conductor
1872 Carl Lehle, German rower (d. 1930)
1874 Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (d. 1901)
1875 Frank Reicher, German actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)
1884 Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)
1884 Ruth Draper, American lecture artist
1885 George Richards Minot, American physician (anemia) (Nobel Prize laureate 1934) (d. 1950)
1891 Charles H. Wesley, American historian and author, Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)
1891 Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator (d. 1969)
1893 Julius Bissier, German painter
1893 Leo Ornstein, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 2002)
1893 Louis Freeman, band leader
1893 William Gaxton, American actor (Destry, Convoy)
1894 Warren William (Krech), American actor (Caesar in Cleopatra) (d. 1948)
1895 Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
1895 Klaas Voskuil, journalist
1896 Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moskow & Stalingrad
1897 Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1897 Ivan Bagramyan, Soviet military leader (d. 1982)
1897 Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer (Americans in China)
1898 Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
1899 John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra) (d. 1970)
1899 John Cobb, English race car driver (d. 1952)
1899 Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1901 Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1986)
1901 Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, Belgian composer (Simon Peter)
1902 Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
1902 Miroslav Ponc, composer
1904 Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
1905 Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer
1906 Eric Dalton, South African cricketer
1906 John Bentley, English actor (Hammer the Tuff)
1906 Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American recording engineer, developer (color TV & LP records) (d. 1977)
1908 Robert F Simon, African actor (Man who shot Liberty Valance)
1908 Rufe Davis, African actor (Cocoanut Grove, Trail Blazers, Gangs of Sonora)
1910 Robert Paige, African actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
1910 Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor (Harper's Magazine) (d. 1991)
1914 Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)
1914 Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010)
1914 Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1914 Ray Walston, American actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees) (d. 2001)
1915 Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
1915 Nico Richter, composer
1915 Prince Mikasa of Japan
1915 Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
1916 John Bentley, English actor (Chair)
1917 Ezra Stone,  American actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
1917 Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)
1918 Milton Delugg, American orchestra leader (Tonight Show)
1919 Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher
1920 Robert Moevs, composer
1921 Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal
1922 Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, author, and scriptwriter (d. 2011)
1922 Leo V Gordon, American actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
1923 Maria M Callas, Greek-American soprano (Carmen) (d. 1977)
1923 Meshulam Riklis, husband of Pia Zadora
1924 Alexander Haig, American general and diplomat, 59th United States Secretary of State (d. 2010)
1924 Alexander Haig Jr, Bala-Cynwyd Pa, US Sec of State (1981-82)/General
1924 Jonathan Frid, actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows)
1924 Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish screenwriter and director (d. 2006)
1925 Julie Harris, American actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
1927 Prabhakar Thokal, Indian cartoonist
1928 Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (d. 2009)
1929 Harvey Phillips, American tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
1929 Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs (ARP)
1929 Lowell North, American yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
1930 David Piper, English race car driver
1930 Gary Becker, American economist (Nobel Prize laureate)
1931 Edwin Meese III, 75th United States Attorney General (1985-88), lawyer and author
1931 Hatsumi Masaaki, Founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization
1931 Nigel Calder, English author and screenwriter
1931 Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American pianist (d. 1971)
1933 K. Veeramani, Indian lawyer and anti-caste activist
1933 Michael Larrabee, American athlete, sprinter (d. 2003)
1934 Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (d. 2004)
1934 Sissela Bok, Swedish-American philosopher and ethicist
1934 Tarcisio Bertone, Italian cardinal and diplomat
1935 David Hackett Fischer, American historian
1935 Jurg Wyttenbach, composer
1936 Peter Michael Braun, composer
1937 Brian Lumley, English sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech)
1937 Manohar Joshi, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
1939 Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate
1939 Harry Reid, American politician
1939 Yael Dayan, Israeli politician and author
1940 Gerry Cheevers, NHL goalie (Bruin, longest undefeated streak-32 games)
1940 Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
1941 Paul C W Chu, China, physicist (superconductivity)
1941 Tom McGuiness, rocker (McGuiness-Flint)
1942 Bob E Smith, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1993 Yanase Cup)
1942 Ted Bluechel, San Pedro Ca, rock vocalist/drummer (Association)
1943 David Munden, Musician
1943 Wayne Allard, American politician
1944 Botho Strauß, German author
1944 Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
1944 Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek singer-songwriter
1944 Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovan politician, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
1944 Inger Davidson, Swedish politician
1944 Roger Omond, journalist
1945 Alan "Froggy" Thomson, cricketer (Australian quickie 1970-71)
1945 Penelope Spheeris, American film director
1946 David Macaulay, English-American author and illustrator
1946 Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founder (Versace) (d. 1997)
1946 Pedro Borbón, Dominican baseball player (d. 2012)
1947 Dhiraj Parsana, Indian cricket pace bowler
1947 Isaac Bitton, Moroccan-French drummer (Les Variations)
1947 Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist
1947 Michael Green, English TV/video producer
1947 Tommy Jenkins, English footballer
1948 Elizabeth Berg, American author
1948 T. Coraghessan Boyle, American author
1948 Toninho Horta, Brazilian guitarist
1949 Ron Raines, American actor
1950 Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic
1950 Benjamin Stora, French historian
1950 Bob Kevoian, American radio host
1950 Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
1950 Paul Watson, Canadian activist, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
1951 Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
1952 Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman
1952 Keith Szarabajka, American actor (Nightlife)
1952 Rob Mounsey, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (Joe Cool)
1953 Jay Dean Haas, American PGA golfer (1978 Andy Williams-San Diego)
1953 Meg Griffin, DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
1953 Myung-Whan Chung, Korean pianist (Chung Sisters)
1954 Dan Butler, American actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe-Frasier)
1954 Danielle Alexander, American country music pianist
1954 Huub Stapel, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned, Attic: Hiding of Anne Frank)
1954 Stone Phillips, American journalist, news host (NBC Dateline)
1955 Dennis Christopher, American actor (Breaking Away, Django Unchained)
1956 Steven Bauer, Cuban actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
1957 Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
1958 George Saunders, American writer
1958 Vladimir Parfenovich, Soviet-Belarusian canoer, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 Boman Irani, Indian actor
1959 Frank Dietrich, German footballer
1959 Greg Barton, kayak (Olympics-2 gold-88)
1959 Patty Jordan, American LPGA golfer (1988 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean)
1960 Justus von Dohnányi, German actor
1960 Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British Drummer (Hanoi Rocks)
1960 Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
1960 Rick Savage, English singer-songwriter, bass player (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass)
1962 Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family
1963 Ann Patchett, American author
1963 Brendan Coyle, English actor (The Jacket)
1963 Dan Gauthier, American actor
1963 Rich Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 Brian Habib, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 Chip Hale, American infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1964 Yolanda Henry, American high jumper
1965 Karrie Mitchell, American Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
1966 Anita Jokiel, Polish gymnist (Olympic-1980)
1966 Clive Eksteen, South African cricketer
1966 Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 Kelly Buchberger, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1966 Philippe Etchebest, French chef
1966 Rob Sullivan, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Tri-City Pro-Am)
1967 Laurie Morgan, English politician, 1st Chief Minister of Guernsey
1967 Naeem Akhtar, cricketer
1967 Sharry Konopski, American playmate (August, 1987)
1968 Darryl Kile, American baseball player, pitcher (Houston Astros) (d. 2002)
1968 Elna Reinach, South African tennis player
1968 Jiri Dopita, Czech hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1968 Lucy Liu, American actress ( Kill Bill: Vol. 1) and producer
1968 Mark Harding, English keeper of Internet biographies
1968 Nate Mendel, American bass player (Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft, and Juno)
1968 Rena Sofer, American actress (Rocky-Loving, Lois Cerullo-General Hospital)
1969 Lewis Bush, NFL outside linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1969 O J McDuffie, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1969 Paul Francis Stankowski, American PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 Joe Lo Truglio, American actor (Superbad)
1970 Rene Pucher, Czech hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1970 Treach, American rapper and actor (Naughty by Nature)
1970 Yang Hyun-suk, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (Seo Taiji and Boys)
1971 Francesco Toldo, Italian Footballer (Inter Milan)
1971 Jessie Hicks, WNBA forward, center (Utah Starzz)
1971 Mine Yoshizaki, Japanese illustrator
1971 Rachel McQuillan, Australian tennis star (1989 Futures ITA)
1971 Roy van de Hill, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor (Rent)
1972 Alan Henderson, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1972 Chris Burns, CFL tackle (Calgary Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats & Ottawa Renegades)
1972 James Willis, linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1972 Sunjith Somasunder, Indian cricketer
1972 Zack Crockett, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer
1973 Jan Ullrich, German cyclist
1973 Kevin Feighery, NFL/WLAF punter (NY Giants, Panthers, Galaxy)
1973 Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-American tennis player (US Open 1992)
1973 Suzy Nakamura, Actress (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)
1975 Brett Lindros, Canadian NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1975 Mark Kotsay, American baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player
1976 Jennifer Robinson, Canadian (1996 Canadian Champ)
1976 Masafumi Gotoh, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
1977 Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer (Aalborg BK)
1978 Christopher Wolstenholme, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Muse)
1978 David Rivas, Spanish Footballer (Real Betis)
1978 Jarron Collins, American basketball player (Utah Jazz)
1978 Jason Collins, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets)
1978 Luigi Malafronte, Italian footballer
1978 Maëlle Ricker, Canadian snowboarder
1978 Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1978 Peter Moylan, Australian Major League Baseball Pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1979 Melissa Archer, American actress
1979 Michael McIndoe, Scottish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
1979 Sabina Babayeva, Azerbaijani singer
1979 Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer-songwriter and actress
1980 Adam Kreek, Canadian rower
1981 Britney Spears, American singer-songwriter (Baby One More Time, Oops! ...I did it again, I'm A Slave 4 U), dancer, and actress
1981 Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player (SC Heerenveen)
1981 Isabella Soprano, American pornographic actress
1982 Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
1982 Matt Ware, American football player
1982 Michelle Banzer, American model (Miss Kentucky USA 2007)
1982 Mike Scala, American rapper, producer, and politician
1982 Pizon, American rapper, producer
1983 Aaron Rodgers, American football player (Green Bay Packers)
1983 Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
1983 Chris Burke, Scottish footballer (Rangers F.C.)
1983 Daniela Ruah, American actress (Red Tails)
1983 Jaime Durán, Mexican footballer
1983 Jana Kramer, American actress (Click) and singer
1984 Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer (Reading F.C.)
1985 Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
1985 Dorell Wright, American basketball player
1986 Adam Le Fondre, English footballer
1986 Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player (FC Nantes Atlantique)
1986 Tal Wilkenfeld, Australian bass player and composer
1987 Teairra Mari, American R&B singer-songwriter and actress
1988 Alfred Enoch, English actor (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
1988 Edward EMG baron Downpatrick, grandson of English prince Edward
1988 Soniya Mehra, Indian Actress
1989 Cassie Steele, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress (Rock This Town)
1990 Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Ghanaian footballer
1990 Fausto Rossi, Italian footballer
1990 Gastón Ramírez, Uruguayan footballer
1990 Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Hey! Say! JUMP)
1991 Brandon Knight, American basketball player
1991 Sandro Lohmann, Actor (Pope Joan)
1992 Deanna Canterman, Actress (Autumn in New York)
1993 Dylan McLaughlin, Actor (Kicking & Screaming)
1993 Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer
1994 Anas Belarbi, Actor (Why Me?)
1995 Kevin DeCoste, Actor (Hachi: A Dog's Tale)
1997 Aspen Payge, Actress (9 Lives of Mara)
2001 Dusan Brown, Actor (42)

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537 Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37)
1348 Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
1381 John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic (b. 1293)
1463 Albert VI, Archduke of Austria (b. 1418)
1469 Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1416)
1515 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general, strategist, viceroy of Naples (b. 1453)
1547 Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer (b. 1485)
1552 Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
1592 Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Neth (1579-92)
1594 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (b. 1512)
1615 Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general (b. 1541)
1665 Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French author (b. 1588)
1694 Pierre Paul Puget, French painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1622)
1719 Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi) (b. 1634)
1723 Philip, French duke of Orleans, regent (1715-23), Premier (1723)
1726 Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
1747 Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
1748 Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
1763 Carl August Thielo, composer
1774 Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer, organist (b. 1720)
1814 Marquis de Sade, French politician, writer, and philosopher (b. 1740)
1828 Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm tall dwarf, cabaret artist
1831 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
1844 Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
1845 Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1849 Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1859 John Brown, American activist, abolitionist (Harpers Ferry) (b. 1800)
1860 Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
1864 Archibald Gracie III, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
1880 Josephine Lang, composer
1888 Franz Xaver Witt, composer
1888 Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer, journalist (Vatan) (b. 1840)
1892 Jay Gould, American financier (b. 1836)
1899 Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general, killed at Battle of Tirad Pass (b. 1875)
1903 Victor Roger, composer
1915 Jan Malat, composer
1916 Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
1918 Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
1918 Margit Kaffka, writer
1919 Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation
1923 Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer
1924 Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian linguist and philologist (b. 1879)
1925 Julio Garreta, composer
1931 Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count, composer
1931 Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
1933 Josef Gruber, composer
1935 Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer (b. 1875)
1935 Albert Kessel, 1st to die in California gas chamber
1936 John Ringling, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Brothers Circus (b. 1866)
1943 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
1944 Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player (b. 1917)
1944 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet (father of futurism) (b. 1876)
1944 JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi)
1944 Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
1950 Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (b. 1917)
1953 Ernest Hayes, English cricketer
1953 Francis Picabia, French painter, illustrator
1953 Reginald Baker, Australian rugby player and actor (b. 1884)
1953 Tran Trong Kim, Vietnamese scholar and politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1883)
1957 Harrison Ford, American silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)(b. 1884)
1957 Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
1963 Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924)
1963 Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums)
1963 Thomas J. Hicks, English-American runner (b. 1875)
1965 The Rajkumar of Vizianagram, Indian cricketer
1966 Giles Cooper, Irish playwright (b. 1918)
1966 Luitzen (Bertus) Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
1967 Billy Chapman, English footballer (b. 1902)
1967 Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY
1968 Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
1969 José María Arguedas, Peruvian author, poet, and anthropologist (b. 1911)
1969 Kliment J Voroshilov, president of USSR (1953-60) (b. 1881)
1972 Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general
1972 Jose Limon, Mexican-American dancer (moor's pavane)
1972 Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (b. 1893)
1974 Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
1974 Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer
1976 Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (Pittsburgh Pirates) (b. 1917)
1976 William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull)
1979 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
1980 Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Pakistani politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
1980 Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French diplomat and author (b. 1914)
1980 Roza Eskenazi, Greek singer (b. 1890s)
1981 Hershy Kay, composer
1981 Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot, Governor of Dutch Antilles (1962-70)
1981 Wallace K(irkman) Harrison, American architect (UN)
1982 David Blue, Musicain
1982 Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (Young Frankenstein) (b. 1933)
1983 Atholl Mckinnon, South African cricketer
1983 Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell", Canadian actress (Dixie Jamboree) (b. 1904)
1985 Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice)
1985 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
1985 Philip Larkin, English poet and author (hermit of Hull) (b. 1922)
1986 Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), singer, and producer (b. 1917)
1986 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (b. 1912)
1986 Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
1987 Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian chemist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1906)
1987 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
1988 Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS officer (b. 1904)
1988 Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer-songwriter and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
1990 Aaron Copland, American composer and conductor (Fanfare for Common Man) (b. 1900)
1990 Robert Cummings, American actor (Love that Bob) (b. 1908)
1992 Gary Mascaro, choreographer
1992 Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist, historian (Treason in Rotterdam)
1992 Michael Gothard, English actor (b. 1939)
1993 Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug lord, shot to death (b. 1949)
1994 Donald John Urquhart, librarian
1994 James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer
1995 Francis Joseph Quinn, academic
1995 Robertson Davies, Canadian author (b. 1913)
1995 Roxie Roker, American actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons) (b. 1929)
1995 Stanley Devon, photographer
1995 (William) Robertson Davies, novelist essayist, dramatist
1996 Penelope Jessel, politcal activist
1997 Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
1997 Shirley Crabtree, English professional wrestler (b. 1930)
2000 Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
2002 Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
2002 Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
2003 Alan Davidson, Irish author (b. 1924)
2004 Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (b. 1910)
2004 Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakhstani firefighter (b. 1951)
2004 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
2005 Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer, executed (b. 1948)
2005 Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
2005 Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-Australian drug trafficker, hanged (b. 1980)
2005 William P. Lawrence, American navy officer (b. 1930)
2006 Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (b. 1947)
2007 Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (b. 1972)
2008 Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian businessman (b. 1933)
2008 Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American United Methodist Pastor (b. 1958)
2008 Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (b. 1930)
2009 Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Alan Parsons Project) (b. 1945)
2009 Foge Fazio, American college football player and coach (b. 1938)
2009 Maggie Jones, English actress (b. 1934)
2010 Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1940)
2012 Décio Pignatari, Brazilian poet (b. 1927)
2012 Ehsan Naraghi, Iranian sociologist and author (b. 1926)
2012 Hiroshi Kato, Japanese martial artist (b. 1935)
2012 Israel Keyes, American criminal (b. 1978)
2014 Chris White, American rock bassist
2014 Jean Marc Beliveau, Canadian NHL player NHL
2014 Bobby Keyes, American Saxophonist
2015 Anthony Valentine, British actor (Colditz)

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