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741 St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
915 Pope John X crowned Berengar I of Italy as Holy Roman Emperor.
1347 Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics
1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
1621 Galileo invents telescope
1639 1st annulment by court decree passes
1676 Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen
1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford
1685 Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
1694 English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
1699 Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague
1775 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
1799 Battle of Wiesloch of the War of the Second Coalition, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
1800 Battle of Hohenlinden of the War of the Second Coalition, French General Moreau defeats the Austrian Archduke John near Munich decisively, coupled with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte's victory at Marengo effectively forcing the Austrians to sign an armistice and ending the war.
1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state (Admission day).
1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
1833 Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
1834 1st US dental society organized (NY)
1834 The Zollverein (German Customs Union) begins the first regular census in Germany.
1835 1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
1844 RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
1847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1854 Eureka Stockade, In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.
1863 Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
1864 Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
1866 Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
1878 Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel
1881 Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
1883 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
1898 The Duquesne Country and Athletic Club defeated 16–0, an all-star collection of early football players, in what is considered to be the very first all-star game for professional American football.
1901 Milwaukee is dropped from the AL & replaced by St Louis Browns
1901 US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1903 Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh
1904 The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
1907 George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town," premieres in NYC
1908 Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres
1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1912 Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
1912 The Naval Battle of Elli of the First Balkan War takes place.
1912 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
1912 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1914 Netherlands army shoots up geïnterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
1919 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1920 Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
1921 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
1922 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
1923 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Wash DC)
1925 The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements in the World War I aftermath.
1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
1927 Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
1929 Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
1930 Otto Ender forms Austrian government
1930 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London
1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1932 20th CFL Grey Cup, Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6
1932 Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1933 Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
1933 Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals, last NFL black until 1946
1934 Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
1934 KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn
1938 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1939 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres
1941 Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
1943 9th Heisman Trophy Award, Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
1943 Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1943 Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres
1944 The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists. Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army in the Greek Civil War. British order to disarm.
1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends
1944 Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
1944 NFL Cardinals-Pittsburgh merger disolves
1944 US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald
1946 12th Heisman Trophy Award, Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
1946 US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1947 Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC
1948 "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
1948 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
1948 Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
1949 KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
1950 Cleveland Browns become the last NFL team with a no-pass game, Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts (Cleveland beats Philadelphia 13-7)
1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1952 Marcos Perez Jiménez elected president of Venezuela
1953 "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
1953 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet
1954 Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," premieres
1954 William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida," premieres in London
1955 KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 England & France pull troops out of Egypt
1956 KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
1956 Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
1957 23rd Heisman Trophy Award, John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1959 State of emergency on Cyprus ends
1959 The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
1960 Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner's musical "Camelot" debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway in NYC for 873 performances, and would become associated with the Kennedy administration.
1961 Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
1961 Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
1961 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
1962 Pravda criticizes western art
1964 Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their (Berkeley Free Speech Movement) takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.
1964 KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
1965 USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1966 US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
1967 First human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, South Africa)
1967 At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1967 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)
1967 Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia
1967 Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1968 NBC Elvis comeback special airs
1968 Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters
1969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
1970 October Crisis, In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Canadian government grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins. Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India, India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.
1971 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1971 Pres Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet), sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1975 Laos falls to communist forces, Lao People's Democratic Republic proclaimed
1976 An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.
1976 Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
1978 "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
1978 Pat Bradley & Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1979 45th Heisman Trophy Award, Charles White, Southern Cal (RB)
1979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
1979 In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
1979 Iran accepts constitution
1979 Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1980 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
1981 Beth Daniel & Tom Kite wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 First NJ Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4
1982 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
1982 77°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Dec
1982 A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
1982 NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
1982 Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez
1983 "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 perfs
1983 49th Heisman Trophy Award, Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)
1983 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 Bhopal Disaster, A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1985 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
1986 Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
1988 54th Heisman Trophy Award, Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
1988 NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1989 In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between NATO and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
1989 Pat Bradley & Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1990 At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 7 passengers and 1 crew member aboard flight 1482.
1990 NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
1991 Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
1991 Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
1991 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
1992 A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.
1992 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
1992 UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, with the task of establishing peace and ensuring that humanitarian aid is distributed in Somalia.
1992 UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
1995 "Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
1995 "Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1995 84th Davis Cup, USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
1995 Beth Daniels & Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1995 Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v South Africa, a record
1995 Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
1995 Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
1997 "1776," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
1997 Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
1997 In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign The Ottawa treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
1999 NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
1999 Six firefighters are killed in the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire in Worcester, Massachusetts.
2005 XCOR Aerospace makes first manned rocket aircraft delivery of US Mail in Mojave, California.
2007 Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
2009 A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
2012 At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha, makes landfall in the Philippines
2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reaches the end of our solar system and enters interstellar space
2014 Australian Rugby star David Pocock is arrested after protesting against a coal mine under construction in an Australian national forest
2014 Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
2014 Protests erupt in cities across the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the NY police officer who killed Eric Garner with a choke-hold
2015 US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces all combat roles in US armed forced will be opened to women

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1368 Charles VI (the Well-Beloved), King of France (1380-1422) (d. 1422)
1483 Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist
1560 Jan Gruter, Dutch critic and scholar (d. 1627)
1576 Marsilio Casentini, composer
1596 Nicola Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
1668 Casimir Schweizelsperg, composer
1684 Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder (Danish & Norwegian literature)
1722 Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794)
1729 Padre Antonio Francisco J Jose Soler, Spanish composer (Fandango) (d. 1783)
1750 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer
1752 Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer
1753 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny spinning machine)
1755 Gilbert Stuart, American portrait painter (painted Washington) (d. 1828)
1758 Josef Gelinek, composer
1776 Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
1795 Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
1797 Francis P Kenrick, Irish-American archbishop of Baltimore
1800 France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Krst pri Savici) (d. 1849)
1806 Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1876)
1809 Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) (d. 1899)
1822 Charles Adam Heckman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1896)
1826 Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer, musicologist
1826 George B(rinton) McClellan, American Major General (Union Army), and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1885)
1829 Green Berry Raum, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1909)
1838 Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau) (d. 1916)
1838 Octavia Hill, English activist, leader of open-space movement (d. 1912)
1842 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist, founder (Pillsbury Company) (d. 1899)
1842 Ellen Henrietta Richards, American chemist (Amer Home Economics Association-1st Pres)
1842 Ellen Swallow Richards, American chemist (d. 1911)
1842 Phoebe Hearst, American philanthropist and activist (d. 1919)
1857 Joseph Conrad, Polish author (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) (d. 1924)
1862 Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist, minister, premier (1931-32)
1864 Herman Heijermans Jr, Dutch author (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City) (d. 1924)
1872 William Haselden, English cartoonist (d. 1953)
1875 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman, antifascist
1875 Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter (d. 1955)
1875 Émile Delchambre, French rower (d. 1958)
1878 Francis A. Nixon, American businessman (d. 1956)
1879 Albert Asher, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1965)
1879 Charles Hutchison, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1949)
1879 Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician (d. 1970)
1879 Kafū Nagai, Japanese author and playwright (d. 1959)
1880 Alexander Hall, Canadian soccer player (d. 1943)
1880 Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1883 Albert "Tibby" Cotter, Australian cricketer
1883 Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Austrian 12-tone composer (d. 1945)
1884 Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, first President of India (d. 1963)
1884 Walther Stampfli, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
1885 Marchien Zwitsers, farmer in Lutten (died at 109 yo)
1886 Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1978)
1887 Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990)
1887 Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1990)
1888 Ion Nonna Otescu, composer
1888 Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-Irish rabbi (d. 1959)
1889 Khudiram Bose, Indian activist (d. 1908)
1894 Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1975)
1895 Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud (d. 1982)
1896 Boleslaw Szabelski, composer
1896 John Urzidil, Austria-American writer (Die erbeuteten Frauen)
1897 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Without My Cloak)
1898 Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer
1899 Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
1900 Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
1900 Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist (Nobel
1900 Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist (vitamins) (Nobel Prize laureate 1938) (d. 1967)
1900 Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountaineer, guide (d. 2004)
1902 Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (d. 1976)
1902 Willem Arnold de Vries Robbe, composer
1904 Juan E Yrausquin, founder (Party of Patriot Arubans), minister
1905 Leslie Ames, English cricketer
1907 Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader
1907 Connee Boswell, American singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
1908 Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989)
1908 Halsey Stevens, American composer (Triskelion)
1908 Nigel M Balchin (Mark Spade), English author (Business for Pleasure)
1910 Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary, surgeon
1911 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
1911 Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada) (d. 1979)
1913 Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish industrial, resistance fighter
1914 Irving Fine, American composer (Toccata)
1918 Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
1919 Charles Craig, opera singer
1921 Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking)
1921 Phyllis Curtin, American soprano
1922 Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (d. 2006)
1923 Dede Allen, American film editor (d. 2010)
1923 Moyra Fraser, Australian-English actress and dancer (d. 2009)
1923 Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer and manager (d. 2010)
1923 Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
1923 Trevor Bailey, English cricket all-rounder
1924 Francisco Sionil José, Filipino author, Philippine National Artist for Literature
1924 John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
1924 John Winter, Australian high jumper (d. 2007)
1924 Roberto Mieres, Argentine race car driver (d. 2012)
1924 Wiel Coerver, Dutch football manager (d. 2011)
1925 Ferlin Husky, American country singer (Born to Lose, Gone) (d. 2011)
1925 Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman
1925 Kim Dae-jung, South Korean politician, 8th President of South Korea (Nobel laureate) (d. 2009)
1926 Hans Gunther Franz Otte, German composer, pianist
1927 Andy Williams, American singer and actor (The Williams Brothers, Moon River, Andy Williams Show) (d. 2012)
1927 Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress, singer (Outland, Comics)
1928 Thomas M. Foglietta, American politician and diplomat (d. 2004)
1929 Clarence Ford, sax player
1929 Paul Harris Turok, composer
1929 Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance)
1930 Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless) and screenwriter
1930 Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg WV, soprano (NYC Opera)
1931 Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director (Sonja)
1931 Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author
1931 Jaye P. Morgan, American singer and actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
1932 Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
1933 Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist (Nobel Prize laureate)
1934 Abimael Guzmán, Peruvian activist
1934 Nicolas Coster, American actor (Robert Delaney-Another World)
1934 Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 24, 37/36)
1935 Eddie Bernice Johnson, American politician
1937 Binod Bihari Verma, Indian doctor, linguist, and author (d. 2003)
1937 Bobby Allison, American race car driver (3 time winner of Daytona 500)
1937 Morgan Llywelyn, American-Irish author
1937 Stephen Rubin, English attorney, shoe manufacturer (Reebok, Adidas)
1938 Jean-Claude Malépart, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
1938 Jose Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor, composer (Star Wagon)
1938 Martyn Taylor, teacher, campaigner
1940 Jeffrey R. Holland, American educator and religious leader
1941 Mary Alice, American newscaster (CBS, Lettie-Different World)
1942 Alice Schwarzer, German journalist, founded EMMA Magazine
1943 J. Philippe Rushton, Canadian academic and theorist (d. 2012)
1943 Valerie Perrine, American actress (Slaughterhouse 5)
1945 Laura Dean, American composer/choreographer (Drumming)
1945 Paul Nicholas English actor and singer
1946 Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
1946 Peter McAllum, Actor (The Tunnel Movie)
1947 Patricia Krenwinkel, American murderer
1948 Diane Kurys (Emir Kusturica), Sarajevo, bass guitarist
1948 Jan Hrubý, Czech violinist and songwriter (Framus Five and Etc...)
1948 Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter (Black Sabbath) and actor (The Osbournes)
1949 Christopher John Seward, aid worker
1949 Heather Menzies-Urich, Canadian actress (Jessica-Logan's Run, The Sound of Music)
1949 John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
1949 Mickey Thomas, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship)
1950 Alberto Juantorena, Cuban runner
1950 John Akii-bua, Ugandan 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist
1951 Danger Alberto Juantorena, Cuban 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 Greg Rice, American actor
1951 James Turner Brewer, American basketball player (Oly-silver-1972)
1951 John Rice, American twin actor (d. 2005)
1951 Greg Rice, American twin actor
1951 Mike Bantom, American basketball player
1951 Mike Stock, Musician (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1951 Nicky Stevens, Welsh singer (Brotherhood of Man)
1951 Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (d. 1994)
1951 Rick Mears, American race car driver, Indy-car (over 25 wins)
1951 Riki Chōshū (Mitsuo Yoshida), South Korean-Japanese wrestler (NJPW/All-Japan)
1952 Benny Hinn, American televangelist
1952 Don Barnes, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author (38 Special)
1952 Duane Roland, rock guitarist (Molly Hatchet)
1952 Mel Smith, English comedian, actor, director, producer, author (Morons From Outer Space)
1953 Franz Klammer, Austrian downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 Lothar Schneider, German footballer
1954 Grace Andreacchi, American author
1954 Paul Gregg, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1955 Melody Anderson, Canadian actress (Natalie Dillon-All My Children)
1955 Steven Culp, American actor
1955 Warren Jeffs, American religious leader, convicted polygamist
1956 Hart Bochner, American actor, director (Rich & Famous)
1957 Valerie Quennessen, French actress (d. 1989)
1959 Eamonn Holmes, Northern Irish journalist, TV presenter
1959 Kathy Jordan, American tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981)
1960 Daryl Hannah, American actress (Splash, Blade Runner)
1960 Igor Larionov, Russian ice hockey player
1960 Julianne Moore, American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright, Children of Men)
1960 Mike Ramsey, American ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980)
1961 Adal Ramones, Mexican comedian, television host, and actor
1962 Tammy Jackson, WNBA forward, center (Houston Comets)
1963 Ashley De Silva, Sri Lankan Cricket wicketkeeper (1993)
1963 Joe Lally, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Fugazi, Ataxia)
1963 Steve Hegg, American road cyclist (Olympics-16th-84, 96)
1963 Terri Schiavo, American right to die patient (d. 2005)
1964 Darryl Hamilton, American outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 Toi Cook, cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1965 Andrew Stanton, American director, screenwriter (Finding Nemo), animator, producer, and voice actor
1965 Katarina Witt, German figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
1965 Steve Harris, American actor
1965 Tammy Jacques, Auburn Maine, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1966 Flemming Povlsen, Danish footballer
1966 Lisa Lightfoot, Australian middle distance runner (Olympics-96)
1966 Monic Hendrickx, Dutch actress
1967 David Diaz, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1967 Greg Sutton, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1967 Katie Henderson, American WPVA volleyball (US Open-25th-1993)
1967 Mark Deklin, Actor (Riverworld)
1968 Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor (School Ties, The Mummy)
1968 Isabel Cueto, West Germany, tennis star
1968 Kevin Telles, actor (Party Camp)
1968 Montell Jordan, American singer-songwriter and producer
1969 Bill Steer, English guitarist and songwriter (Carcass, Firebird, Angel Witch, and Gentlemans Pistols)
1969 Ed King, NFL guard (NO Saints)
1969 Kwamie Lassiter, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Charles Hope, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Christian Karembeu, French footballer
1970 Jennifer Rothschild (Rubin), actress (Judas Project)
1970 Laura Schuler, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1970 Lindsey Hunter, American basketball player, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1970 Lu Parker, American journalist, Miss USA 1994
1970 Paul Byrd, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets)
1971 Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
1971 Henk Timmer, Dutch footballer
1971 Keegan Connor Tracy, Canadian actress (Final Destination 2)
1971 Ola Rapace, Swedish actor
1971 Vernon White, American mixed martial artist
1972 Bucky Lasek, American skateboarder
1972 Eva Nemcova, WNBA forward/guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1972 Peter Wright, US, 1500m freestyle (Olympics-96)
1973 Andrew McNally, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 Brian Loyd, Lynwood CA, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 Holly Marie Combs, American actress (Dr. Giggles)
1973 MC Frontalot, American rapper
1973 Sammy Leung, Hong Kong singer, disc jockey, and actor
1973 Super Crazy, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 Joseph Gatt, Actor (Thor)
1974 Ralph Staten, safety (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 Csaba Czébely, Hungarian drummer (Pokolgép)
1975 Lauren E Roman, Wilmington NC, actress (Laura Kirk-All My Children)
1975 Malinda Williams, American actress
1975 Mickey Avalon, American rapper
1975 Nadine Neumann, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Byron Kelleher, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1976 Cornelius Griffin, American football player
1976 Gary Glover, American baseball player
1976 Mark Boucher, South African cricketer
1976 Silvia Fontana, Italian figure skater
1976 Todd Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dog Fashion Disco, Polkadot Cadaver, The Alter Boys, and Knives Out!)
1977 Adam Małysz, Polish ski-jumper
1977 Chad Durbin, American baseball player
1977 David Sales, cricketer
1977 Troy Evans, American football player
1978 Bram Tankink, Dutch cyclist
1978 Daniel Alexandersson, Swedish footballer
1978 Jiří Bicek, Slovak ice hockey player
1978 Trina, American rapper
1979 Daniel Bedingfield, English singer-songwriter
1979 Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor
1979 Rock Cartwright, American football player
1979 Sean Parker, American businessman, co-founded Napster
1979 Tiffany Haddish, American actress and dancer
1980 Anna Chlumsky, American actress (My Girl)
1980 Jenna Dewan, American actress (Step Up)
1980 Jim Sorgi, American football player
1980 Laryea Kingston, Ghanaian football player
1980 Zlata Filipović, Bosnian author
1981 Brian Bonsall, American actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation)
1981 David Villa, Spanish footballer
1981 Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (d. 2010)
1981 Ioannis Amanatidis, Greek footballer
1981 Liza Lapira, American actress
1981 Louise Roe, English model and journalist
1981 Tyjuan Hagler, American football player
1982 Franco Sbaraglini, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1982 Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
1982 Manny Corpas, Panamanian baseball player
1982 Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
1983 James Ihedigbo, American football player
1983 Sherri DuPree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Eisley)
1983 Stephen Donald, New Zealand rugby player
1984 Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1984 Hind Laroussi, Dutch singer
1985 Amanda Seyfried, American actress (Les Misérables) and singer
1985 László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
1985 Marcus Darrell Williams, American basketball player
1985 Marcus Williams, American basketball player
1985 Mike Randolph, American footballer
1985 Robert Swift, American basketball player
1985 Sıla Şahin, German actress
1986 James Laurinaitis, American football player
1986 Josh Vaughan, American football player
1986 Radek Smoleňák, Czech ice hockey player
1987 Alicia Sacramone, American Gymnast
1987 Brian Robiskie, American football player
1987 Michael Angarano, American actor (Almost Famous)
1988 Kevin Alexander Clark, Actor (The School of Rock)
1989 Selçuk Alibaz, Turkish footballer
1990 Severin Tyroller, Actor (Die Hundebescherung)
1991 Rilee Marks, Adult film actress
1992 Joseph McManners, English singer-songwriter and actor
1993 Josefine Mattsson, Actress (I taket lyser stjärnorna)
1994 Jake T. Austin, American actor (Rio)
1995 Saige Ryan Campbell, Actress (I Heart Huckabees)
1996 Kandice Rose Deford, 11yo Cancer Victim (featured in the film Locks of Love: The Kindest Cut)
1997 Ee-jae Sin, Actor (For Horowitz)
1998 Veronica Hampson, Actress (Bury the Lead)
2000 Will Swyers, Actor (Antique Humans)
2003 Kai Abaya, Actor (Caught on Tape: Are You Making the Right Health Choices?)
2005 Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway
2006 Sienna Joseph, Actress (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1)

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311 Diocletian, Roman emperor (b. 244)
450 Petrus Chrysologus, 1st archbishop of Ravenna
1137 Lotharius III, of Supplinburg, Roman-Ger emperor (1133-37)
1154 Anastasius IV, Pope (1153-54) (b. 1073)
1265 Odofredus, Italian jurist
1463 Louis Chalon, prince of Orange
1469 Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence
1491 Thomas Basin, French historian, bishop of Lisieux
1533 Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33) (b. 1479)
1552 Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1506)
1552 St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East (b. 1506)
1610 Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
1660 Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor, painter
1676 Daniel Stalpaert, Amsterdams master builder, buried
1706 Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637)
1765 Lord John Philip Sackville, English cricketer (b. 1713)
1789 Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter (b. 1714)
1807 Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron)
1815 John Carroll, first American Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1735)
1823 Joseph Pouteau, composer
1839 Frederik VI, King of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14)
1845 Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier, con-man (b. 1786)
1857 Christian D Rauch, German sculptor
1866 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
1876 Hermann Goetz, composer
1882 Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1811)
1888 Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
1889 Baltasar Saldoni, composer
1890 Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1892 Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
1892 William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien
1894 HM Jozef Schadde, Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange)
1894 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author and poet (b. 1850)
1902 Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (b. 1833)
1904 David Bratton, American water polo player (b. 1869)
1910 Mary Baker Eddy, American founder (Christian Science Monitor) (b. 1821)
1912 Prudente José de Morais Barros, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1917 Harold Garnett, English cricketer (b. 1879)
1919 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, sculptor (b. 1841)
1928 Ezra Meeker, American businessman (b. 1830)
1933 Richard Henry Warren, composer
1934 Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. 1849)
1935 Victoria, Princess of the United Kingdom (b. 1868)
1937 Prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor
1939 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (b. 1848)
1941 Johann Christian August Sinding, composer
1941 Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883)
1942 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer
1944 Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor, poet (Ark of Noah)
1949 Elin Pelin, writer
1949 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress (Spookies) (b. 1876)
1949 Maria Ouspenskaya, actress, dies at 62
1952 Rudolf Margolius, Czech politician (b. 1913)
1954 Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
1955 Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist (b. 1894)
1956 Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (b. 1891)
1956 Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian-Bengali author (b. 1908)
1957 Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher
1960 Hermann Stephani, composer
1961 Jekabs Graubins, composer
1961 Mary Charleson, actress (Upstairs & Downstairs)
1964 Ernst Ginsberg, writer
1964 George Brown, English cricketer
1967 Annette Kolb, writer
1967 Fred Engelen, Flemish actor, director (Kritisch Theater)
1967 Harry Wismer, American broadcaster, original owner of the New York Jets (b. 1913)
1969 Mathias Wieman, German actor (b. 1902)
1969 Ruth White, actress (Fugitive)
1972 William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (b. 1872)
1973 Bea Miles, Australian writer (b. 1902)
1973 Emile Christian, American trombone player and composer (b. 1895)
1973 Michael O'Shea, actor (DennyIt's a Great Life)
1975 Hugh Thurlow, Australian cricketer
1975 Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist
1976 Mary Nash, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
1978 William Grant Still, composer
1979 Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
1980 Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
1981 Walter Knott, American farmer, founder (Knott's Berry Farm) (b. 1889)
1984 Virginia Lacy Jones, American librarian, presidents advisor
1984 Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
1985 Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane)
1989 Connie B. Gay American businessman, founded the Country Music Association (b. 1914)
1989 Fernando Martin Espina, Spanish basketball player (b. 1962)
1990 Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath)
1991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset)
1991 Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart)
1992 Harry Ellerbe, actor (House of Usher, Magnetic Monster)
1992 Luis Alcoriza, actor, writer, director (Tiburoneros)
1992 Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70)
1993 Lewis Thomas, American biologist (b. 1913)
1993 Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula)
1994 Dolf Verspoor, literary, translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958)
1994 Elizabeth Glaser, American activist (b. 1947)
1994 Elizabeth Meyer, wife of Paul Michael Glaser
1994 Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated
1994 Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher, author
1994 Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (b. 1933)
1994 Said Mekbel, Algerian editor in chief (Le Matin), murdered
1995 Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1995 Jimmy Jewel, English actor, comedian (b. 1909)
1995 Robertson Davies (author)
1995 Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine), mother of Lenny Kravitz
1996 Babrak Karmal, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1980-81)
1996 Det Glynn, teacher, anti-apartheid activist
1996 Georges Duby, French historian (b. 1919)
1997 Marian Kratochwil, artist
1997 Steve Hamilton, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1998 Pierre Hétu, Canadian conductor and pianist (b. 1936)
1999 Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
1999 Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
1999 Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942)
2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (b. 1917)
2000 Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (b. 1922)
2002 Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b. 1970)
2003 David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)
2004 Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 Logan Whitehurst, American drummer (The Velvet Teen) (b. 1977)
2007 James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948)
2008 Robert Zajonc, Polish-American social psychologist (b. 1923)
2009 Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress (b. 1959)
2009 Richard Todd, Irish-English soldier and actor (b. 1919)
2010 Abdumalik Bahori, Soviet poet and fiction writer (b.1927)
2011 Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
2011 Philip Burrell, influential Jamaican record producer
2012 Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator and director (b. 1917)
2012 Geoffrey Shakerley, English photographer (b. 1932)
2012 Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (b. 1966)
2012 Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938)
2012 Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2012 Leo Rajendram Antony, Sri Lankan bishop (b. 1927)
2012 M. Mahroof, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1950)
2012 Tommy Berggren, Swedish footballer (b. 1950)
2014 Ian McLagan, English rocker
2015 Scott Weiland, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)

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