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(43 BC) Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated.
185 Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
574 Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity, he abdicates the throne in favour of his general Tiberius and proclaims him Caesar.
1354 Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
1696 Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1724 Tumult of Thorn religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1741 Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
1776 Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
1783 Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1783 William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1808 James Madison elected 4th US President and George Clinton Vice-President
1835 German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens
1836 Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
1842 NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
1862 Battle of Hartsville, TN of the American Civil War.
1862 Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas of the American Civil War.
1864 Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek, Cypress Swamp, Georgia in the American Civil War.
1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri, kills 1.
1872 HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1875 Natives Sons of the West organized
1876 NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
1877 Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
1885 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
1889 Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London
1891 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
1900 Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1907 Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
1911 Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in NYC
1911 National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver & Victoria
1912 Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1916 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister
1917 United States becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria-Hungary during World War I
1920 NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921 KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
1924 German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis & Communists lose)
1925 Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
1925 Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in NYC
1926 Gas refrigerator patented
1929 Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
1929 Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1930 13th PGA Championship, Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
1930 W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
1931 Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
1932 First gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1935 CFL Grey Cup, Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
1936 Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
1937 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937 Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1938 Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in NYC
1938 W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
1939 Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
1940 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2), Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
1940 British counter offensive under general O'Connor in North Africa.
1940 The first prototype Fairey Barracuda flew
1941 First Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward) in WWII.
1941 Australian bombers land on Timor, Ambon in WWII.
1941 Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
1941 German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941 Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies at the same time (December 8 in Asia), World War II.
1943 President Roosevelt travels back to the US from Cairo.
1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
1944 General Radescu forms Romanian government
1945 Microwave oven patented
1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1946 Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
1949 15th Heisman Trophy Award, Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1949 The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei during the Chinese Civil War.
1952 KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1953 WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
1954 KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
1956 Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
1957 Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
1958 Romulo Betancourt elected pres of Venezuela
1959 "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1962 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1963 Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
1963 Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1964 George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
1965 Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1966 A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
1967 "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
1967 Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1968 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823.
1970 Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
1970 West Germany & Poland normalize relations
1971 "Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
1971 Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
1971 Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
1972 Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1972 Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
1973 Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1973 Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
1973 Wings release "Band on the Run"
1975 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
1975 Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
1975 Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1975 Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
1976 UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
1977 Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
1978 Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
1981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1983 An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
1983 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
1985 51st Heisman Trophy Award, Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1986 Juli Inkster, Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
1987 Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
1987 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
1987 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1988 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1988 NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
1988 Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1988 Spitak Earthquake, In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
1988 Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
1989 C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in NYC
1990 Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
1990 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
1991 A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
1993 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
1993 Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
1993 The Long Island Rail Road massacre, Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1994 5th Billboard Music Awards
1994 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
1995 NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
1997 Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
1999 The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement.
2003 The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
2005 Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
2005 Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2006 A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties
2007 The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit
2014 Typhoon Hagupit hits central Philippines; millions flee homes for shelter
2014 The Syrian military accuse Israel of carrying out two air strikes on Syria
2014 Mayor of Paris calls for diesel cars to be banned from the French Capital by 2020, in order to reduce pollution
2014 The Archbishop of Canterbury claims that he is more shocked by the plight of Britain's hunger-stricken poor than suffering in African refugee camps
2014 Human Rights Watch Asia Division call for investigation into Indonesian security forces shooting of peaceful protesters
2015 Beijing issues its 1st ever red alert for pollution
2015 Time Magazine readers name Bernie Sanders their 'person of the year'
2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US

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521 Columba, Irish saint, Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
903 Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
967 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
1302 Azzone Visconti, Italian ruler, founded Milan (d. 1339)
1545 Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
1557 Girolamo Trombeti, composer
1561 Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
1598 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (St Teresa in Ecstasy) (d. 1680)
1604 Ambrosius Reiner, composer
1637 Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
1648 Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer
1670 John Aislabie, English director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
1724 Louise of Great Britain (d. 1751)
1731 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1751 Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
1754 Jack Jouett, American patriot
1761 Madame (Marie Grosholtz) Tussaud, French entrepenur, created wax museum, (d. 1850)
1764 Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841)
1772 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
1784 Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
1791 Ferenc Novák Hungarian-Slovene priest (d. 1836)
1792 Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch literator (d. 1857)
1801 Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, Austrian actor (Judith und Holofernes) and playwright (d. 1862)
1803 Maria Josepha of Saxony, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1829)
1808 Hugh McCulloch, American Secretary of Treasury
1810 Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
1810 Theodor Schwann, German physiologist, co-originator of cell theory (d. 1882)
1823 Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker) (d. 1891)
1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician, minister of Education
1835 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk, musicologist
1838 Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
1839 Redvers H Buller, English general, landowner (Natal)
1840 Hermann Goetz, composer
1842 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist, sociologist (schedelmetingen)
1847 James Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1847 Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar, Jewish leader
1857 Nicola van Westerhout, composer
1860 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1862 Paul Adam, French author (La Bataille d'Uhde) (d. 1920)
1863 Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952)
1863 John Ebenezer West, composer
1863 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana) (d. 1945)
1863 Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (d. 1914)
1863 Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Forest King)
1872 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens)
1873 Willa Cather, American author (My Antonia) (d. 1947)
1876 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
1878 Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1879 Rudolf Friml, Czech-American composer (Bohemian suite) (d. 1972)
1882 Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer
1885 Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945)
1885 Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (d. 1919)
1887 Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (Melodie Lehre) (d. 1964)
1888 Hamilton Fish III, American soldier and congress leader, isolationist (d. 1991)
1888 Joyce Cary, Irish author (House of Children) (d. 1957)
1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of American Newspaper Guild
1889 Heathcote Dicken Statham, composer
1891 Fay Bainter, American actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) (d. 1968)
1892 Nora Nicholson, English actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow)
1894 Stuart Davis, US painter
1895 Jack Pennick, American actor (Lady From Louisiana)
1896 Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer
1901 A F (Tony) Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1902 J G Navle, Indian cricketer, wicket-keeper
1903 Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
1904 Clarence Nash, American voice actor (d. 1985)
1904 Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991)
1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer (moons of Uranus, Neptune) (d. 1973)
1906 George Richard James, saxophonist
1907 Fred Rose, Canadian politician (d. 1983)
1908 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
1908 John H Doeg, tennis champ (US Open-1930)
1909 Jacob Kainen, artist, curator
1909 Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and activist (d. 1942)
1910 Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian orchestra leader, singer (d. 2011)
1910 Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter (That Old Black Magic), trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978)
1910 Richard Franko Goldman, composer
1910 Rod Cameron, Canadian actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
1912 Daniel Jones, Welsh composer (d. 1993)
1913 Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (d. 1986)
1914 Winston Place, English cricketer
1915 Brackett Hamilton Leigh (Douglass), American sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
1915 Eli Wallach, American actor (Magnificent 7, The Good the Bad and The Ugly)
1915 Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1916 Jean Carignan, French-Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
1918 Jorunn Vidar, composer
1919 Ellen Stewart, actress, founder (La Mama Theatre Group)
1919 Lis Løwert, Danish actress (d. 2009)
1920 Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012)
1920 Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002)
1920 Walter Nowotny, Austrian pilot (d. 1944)
1921 Arne Dorumsgaard, composer
1921 Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader and scholar
1923 Ted Knight, American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort) (d. 1986)
1924 John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One race car driver (d. 2005)
1924 Mário Soares, Portuguese politician, 17th President of Portugal
1925 Hernando da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian race car driver
1926 Victor Kermit Kiam II, CEO (Remington shavers), NFL owner (Patriots)
1926 Wolfgang Ludewig, composer
1927 Helen Watts, Welsh opera singer (d. 2009)
1927 Vlastimir Pericic, composer
1928 Noam Chomsky, American linguist and philosopher (founded transformational grammar)
1928 Raymond Henry Charles Warren, composer
1930 Christopher Nicole, Guyanese author
1930 Hal Smith, American baseball player
1930 Richard Felciano, composer
1932 Ellen Burstyn, American actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here)
1932 Geoff Lawson, Australian cricket player
1932 Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host (Like Father, Like Son)
1932 Paul Caponigro, American photographer
1932 Rosemary Rogers, Sri Lankan-American author
1935 Jean-Claude Casadesus, composer
1936 Martha Layne Collins, American politician (Gov-D-Ky)
1937 Thad Cochran, American politician (Sen-R-Miss)
1940 Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 Kumar Shahani, writer, director (Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan)
1940 Stan Boardman, English comedian
1941 Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist
1942 Alex Johnson, American baseball player
1942 Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle) (d. 1981)
1942 Jonathan D Kramer, composer
1942 Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006)
1943 Bernard C. Parks, American politician, Los Angeles Police Department Chief
1943 Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician
1943 Nicholas Katz, American mathematician
1943 Susan Isaacs, American author
1944 Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
1944 Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker (d. 2008)
1944 Miroslav Macek, Czech politician
1945 Marion Rung, Finnish singer
1947 Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 Johnny Bench, American baseball player, catcher (Reds)
1947 Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer
1947 Peter de Jong, Dutch actor (Maxi-Mini & Maxi)
1947 Tony Thomas, American television and film producer
1947 Vincent Baggetta, American actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
1948 Gary Morris, American country singer and actor (Colbys)
1948 Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
1948 Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
1949 Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter (Blue Valentine), guitarist, and actor
1951 Henk Temming, Dutch vocalist, keyboardist (Good Cause)
1952 Eckhard Märzke, German footballer
1952 Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
1952 Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine
1953 Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer
1954 Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer
1954 Julie Halston, actress (Juror, Drunks, Addams Family Values)
1954 Mark Hofmann, American criminal, bomber, murderer
1954 Mary Fallin, American politician, 27th Governor of Oklahoma
1954 Mike Nolan, Irish singer (Bucks Fizz and Brooks)
1955 John Watkins, Australian politician
1955 Priscilla Barnes, American actress (License to Kill, 3s Company)
1956 Larry Bird, American basketball player, NBA hall of famer (Boston Celtics, 12-time NBA All Star)
1957 Geoff "Henry" Lawson, cricketer (Australian fast bowler 1980-89)
1957 Rohan Jayasekera, cricketer (one Test Sri Lanka v Pakistan 1982)
1957 Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator
1958 Edd Hall, TV announcer (Jay Leno's Tonight Show)
1958 Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1958 Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter (The Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love)
1959 Salim Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1960 Abdellatif Kechiche, Director (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
1960 Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter (The Fall)
1961 Lisa Fischer, American R&B singer
1961 Mario Miethig, German footballer
1961 Mary Beth Evans, Pasadena CA, actress (Katherine Ashton-Gen Hospital)
1962 Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan actress
1963 Barbara Weathers, singer (Atlantic Star)
1963 Kristi Albers, American LPGA golfer (1993 Sprint Classic)
1963 Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer
1964 Duncan Miller, Musician (Blue Mercedes)
1964 Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1964 Patrick Fabian, American actor
1964 Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey player, defenseman (Olympics-1994) and coach
1964 Roberta Close, Brazilian model
1964 Tadao Uematsu, Japanese racing driver
1965 Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
1965 Dorien de Vries, Dutch sailor
1965 Jeffrey Wright, American actor (Casino Royale)
1965 Peter Draisaitl, Czech hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1966 C. Thomas Howell, American actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man) and director
1966 Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer
1967 Tino Martinez, American baseball player, MLB 1st baseman (Seattle Mariner, NY Yankees)
1967 Vaclav Chalupa, Czechoslovakian rower (Henley Royal Regatta 1989)
1968 Cammy Myler, Plattsburgh NY, American luger (Olympics-1994)
1968 Keith Goganious, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1968 Melissa Iverson, American rower (Olympics-96)
1968 Ricky Ervins, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 Tom Myslinski, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian historian
1969 Patrice O'Neal, American comedian and actor (d. 2011)
1969 Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star
1970 Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and model
1970 Courtney Browne, West Indian cricketer (Test wicket-keeper 1995)
1970 Ed Robinson, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Rob Olson, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Newlands Open)
1971 Ben Atkins, American fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1971 Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress
1971 Mauricio Hadad, American tennis star (1995 Bermuda)
1971 Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
1972 Bobby Schoonens, soccer player (RKC)
1972 Christa Campbell, Actress (Drive Angry)
1972 Clay Shiver, corner (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
1972 Jordi Buritlo, Spanish tennis star
1972 Kevin Dogins, corner (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 Sunny (Tamara Fytch), WWF model
1972 Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler
1973 Charles Carl Roberts, American murderer (d. 2006)
1973 Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Juniper, Bell X1)
1973 Fabien Pelous, French rugby player
1973 Mark Hartsell, WLAF QB (Scotland Claymores)
1973 Rea Marie Bavilla, Miss USA-Alaska (1997)
1973 Terrell Owens, American football player, NFL wide reciever (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 Alex Radutescu, Romanian tennis star
1974 Annette Salmeen, Swimmer, 200m butterfly, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1974 Kang Full, South Korean illustrator, webcomic artist
1974 Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer, actress (All Saints and Appleton)
1975 Jamie Clapham, English footballer
1975 Nikola Wapzarow, writer
1976 Alan Faneca, American football player
1976 Brent Johnson, Canadian football player
1976 Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Ivan Franceschini, Italian footballer
1976 Mark Duplass, Actor (The League, Safety Not Guaranteed)
1976 Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish fashion model
1977 Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
1977 Eric Chavez, American baseball player
1977 Fernando Vargas, Oxnard Ca, welterweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1977 Francesca Lubiani, Bologna Italy, tennis star (Futures-Amadora-POR)
1978 Chad Dukes, American radio host
1978 Frankie J, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and producer (Kumbia Kings)
1978 Mr. Porter, American rapper and producer (D12)
1978 Shiri Appleby, American actress (Swimfan)
1979 Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
1979 Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
1979 Jennifer Carpenter, American actress (Dexter)
1979 Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer
1979 Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1980 John Terry, English footballer
1981 Emma Catherwood, Actress (The Reeds)
1982 Chrispa, Greek singer
1982 Jack Huston, English actor (Outlander)
1983 Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
1984 Aaron Gray, American basketball player
1984 Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
1984 Milan Michalek, Czech ice hockey player
1984 Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver (Formula One)
1985 Jon Moxley, American wrestler
1986 Jonathan Gill, English singer (JLS)
1986 Thomas Fiss, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Varsity Fanclub)
1987 Aaron Carter, American singer (Dead End), dancer, and actor
1987 Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
1988 Asia Ray Smith, American actress
1988 Emily Browning, Australian actress (Sucker Punch) and singer
1988 Nathan Adrian, American swimmer
1989 Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
1989 Caleb Landry Jones, Actor (Antiviral)
1989 Nicholas Hoult, English actor (Warm Bodies)
1990 Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
1991 Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor and singer
1992 Maya Koren, Actress (Family)
1993 Jasmine Villegas, American singer (Micheal's Band)
1994 Myrtle Sarrosa, Reality TV Star (Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition)
1995 Andrei Kunets, Belarussian Musician
1996 Evan Gilchrist, Actor (Carrie)
1997 Tommy Nelson, Actor (Moonrise Kingdom)
1998 Lulu, Dog Actress (Demon Child), Offspring of Lassie VIII
1999 Bethany Whitmore, Actress (Mary and Max)
2003 Catharina-Amalia, Princess of the Netherlands
2003 Oliwier Kruszynski, Actor (Na kocia lape)

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(43 BC) Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (b. 106 BC)
283 Eutychian, Catholic Pope, Saint
983 Otto II the Red, German king, Holy Roman Emperor (973-983) (b. 955)
1254 Innocent IV (Sinibaldo dei Fieschi), Pope (1243-54) (b. 1195)
1279 Bolesław V the Chaste, Polish husband of Kinga of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier, politician (b. 1243)
1383 Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant
1498 Alexander Hegius von Heek, German poet, humanist (b. 1433)
1562 Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (b. 1490)
1649 Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
1672 Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)
1683 Algernon Sidney, English politician (b. 1623)
1683 John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)
1723 Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (Karlova Koruna Chateau) (b. 1677)
1725 Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661)
1775 Charles Saunders, English admiral (b. 1715)
1793 Joseph Bara, French revolutionary soldier (b. 1780)
1811 Ignaz Spangler, composer
1815 Michel Ney, French military officer (Waterloo), murdered (b. 1769)
1817 William Bligh, English admiral and administrator, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
1823 Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1826 John Flaxman, English sculptor (tombs at St Paul's Cathedral)
1829 Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
1834 Ludwig Schuncke, composer
1839 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1841 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1842 Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
1860 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian, poet
1862 Sylvester Churchill, US Union brig-general
1867 Rudolf Viole, composer
1874 Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
1879 Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence leader (b. 1811)
1881 Julius FA Bahnsen, German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz)
1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, businessman, co-developer (Suez Canal) (b. 1805)
1899 Antoni Katski, composer
1899 Juan Luna, Filipino painter (b. 1857)
1902 Thomas Nast, German-American political cartoonist (b. 1840)
1906 Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1833)
1912 George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean
1913 Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
1917 Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
1938 Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906)
1938 Harry Moses, Australian cricketer
1941 2,400 casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Cecil Forsyth, composer
1941 Iida, Japanese pilot, dies in battle
1941 Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American navy captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor  (b. 1888)
1941 Herbert C. Jones, American navy officer, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor  (b. 1918)
1941 Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor  (b. 1884)
1941 Mervyn S. Bennion, American navy captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor  (b. 1887)
1941 Thomas James Reeves, American navy officer, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor  (b. 1895)
1943 John Bouber (Blom), actor, author (Bluejackets)
1946 Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (b. 1871)
1947 Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, university president (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1862)
1947 Tristan Bernard, French playwright and author (b. 1866)
1948 Godfrey Turner, composer
1949 Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
1956 Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
1960 Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
1962 Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
1967 House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1969 Eric Portman, English actor (Naked Edge) (b. 1903)
1969 Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster)
1969 Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1970 Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (Mike & Ike) (Pulitzer 1948) (b. 1883)
1971 Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn)
1972 Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour)
1975 Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter)
1975 Thornton N Wilder, American playwright and author (Bridge of San Luis Rey) (b. 1897)
1977 Paul Gibb, English cricketer
1977 Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
1978 Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, First woman full profesor at Harvard University
1979 Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam
1979 Nicolas Born, writer
1979 Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
1980 Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (Germs and Darby Crash Band) (b. 1958)
1981 Ava Helen Pauling, American activist (b. 1903)
1982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1982 Will Lee, American actor (b. 1908)
1983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
1983 Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
1984 Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (b. 1929)
1984 Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65
1984 Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car driver (Nascar) (b. 1938)
1985 J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
1985 Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-1981) (b. 1915)
1985 Robert Graves, English author and poet (King Jesus) (b. 1895)
1988 Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer
1988 Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps)
1988 Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London)
1989 William Calhoun, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
1990 Delecta "Dee" Clark, American singer (Raindrops) (b. 1938)
1990 Horst Bienek, writer
1990 Jean Duceppe, Canadian actor (b. 1923)
1990 Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
1990 Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay) (b. 1910)
1991 Michael Taylor, Male Model (b. 1913)
1992 Maurice Coutinho, writer, translator (Silent Struggle)
1992 Ruth Corbett Thom
1992 Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law)
1993 Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician, First President of Côte d'Ivoire (1960-1993) (b. 1905)
1993 Janet Margolin, actress (David & Lisa)
1993 Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1913)
1994 Elga Andersen, German-French model, actress (Global Affair)
1994 J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
1995 Larry Bartlett, photographer
1995 Tom Burns, editor
1996 Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself
1996 Jose Donoso, writer
1997 Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
1998 John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
1998 Martin Rodbell, American biochemist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1925)
2000 Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
2001 Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)
2003 Azie Taylor Morton, American politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)
2003 Carl F. H. Henry American theologian, journalist, and publisher (b. 1913)
2004 Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
2004 Jay Van Andel, American businessman, co-founder (Amway) (b. 1924)
2004 Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
2005 Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2005 Lucy d'Abreu, Scottish super-centenarian, oldest living person in the UK (April 2004-December 2005) (b. 1892)
2005 Rigoberto Alpizar, Airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
2006 Jay McShann, American singer and pianist (b. 1910)
2006 Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1926)
2008 Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (b. 1908)
2008 Marky Cielo, Filipino actor and dancer (b. 1988)
2009 Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)
2010 Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer, author, wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)
2010 Gus Mercurio, American-Australian actor (b. 1928)
2011 Harry Morgan, American actor (Colonel Potter-M*A*S*H) and director (b. 1915)
2012 Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, Kuwaiti terrorist (b. 1965)
2012 Berthold Albrecht, German businessman (b. 1954)
2012 Denis Houf, Belgian footballer (b. 1932)
2012 George Suppiah, Singaporean football referee (b. 1929)
2012 Gilbert Durand, French academic (b. 1921)
2012 Irene Hughes, American psychic (b. 1920)
2012 Jacintha Saldanha, Indian-English nurse (b. 1966)
2012 Jeni Le Gon, American actress and dancer (b. 1916)
2012 Joseph R. Weisberger, American politician and jurist (b. 1920)
2012 Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
2012 Nikola Ilić, Serbian basketball player (b. 1985)
2012 P. J. Carey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1953)
2012 Ralph Parr, American pilot (b. 1924)
2012 Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician (b. 1922)
2012 Saul Steinberg, American businessman (b. 1939)
2012 Thomas Cornell, American painter (b. 1937)
2012 William F. House, American physician (b. 1923)
2014 Ken Weatherwax, American actor
2014 John Bartholomew Tucker, American TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island)

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