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558 King Chlothar I reunites the Frankish Kingdom after his brother Childebert I has died. He becomes sole ruler of the Franks.
1294 Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 The Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opened by Pope Paul III
1570 Sweden & Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
1572 Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under admiral Lumey
1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1621 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
1643 English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1668 Jean Racines "Britannicus," premieres in Paris
1734 England & Russia sign trade agreement
1742 Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
1759 1st music store in America opens (Phila)
1769 Dartmouth College is founded by Reverend Eleazar Wheelock in New Hampshire, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
1774 1st incident of American Revolution 400 attack Ft William and Mary, New Hampshire
1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor.
1816 Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1823 Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
1833 HMS Beagle & Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia
1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1861 Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 At the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights) of the American Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
1864 Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
1867 A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, England, United Kingdom, killing six.
1879 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1895 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony
1900 Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
1901 Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
1903 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
1903 Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1906 German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
1907 George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
1907 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
1913 Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1916 Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
1916 French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
1918 US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
1919 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1920 F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1920 League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
1920 Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
1922 Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
1924 KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1928 Clip-on tie designed
1928 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
1930 George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
1930 Theodore Steeg forms French government
1934 Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
1936 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship. Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
1937 Battle of Nanking Nanjing of the Second Sino-Japanese War, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese.
1937 Nanjing Massacre begins, Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
1938 Los Angeles freezes at 28°F
1938 The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1939 Battle of the River Plate (La Plata) of World War II, Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
1941 German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941 Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru, about 3,000 die
1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
1941 Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States in World War II.
1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
1942 Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
1943 The Massacre of Kalavryta in World War II,  by German occupying forces in Greece.
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in NYC
1946 Leon Blum elected French premier
1947 "Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
1947 Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
1949 MLB American League votes down proposal to revive spitball
1949 The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
1950 "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1953 KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires
1959 Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1960 While Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
1961 Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1962 NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1963 Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
1964 In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & Mexican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
1964 Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
1965 Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
1966 First US bombing of Hanoi
1966 First battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
1966 Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II, Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels
1967 San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours.
1967 United Soccer Association & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
1968 Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva decrees the AI-5 (or the fifth Institutional Act), disbands parliament, which lasts until 1978 and marks the beginning of the hard times of Brazilian military government.
1968 Playland at Beach reopens
1969 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
1969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1970 Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
1970 Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in NYC
1971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1972 Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
1973 MPLA & FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1974 Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
1974 Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations
1975 First time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
1975 Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1975 Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
1977 A DC-3 aircraft chartered from the Indianapolis, Indiana-based National Jet crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff and boosters of the team.
1978 Susan B Anthony dollar, first US coin to honor a woman, issued
1979 "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1979 The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
1980 "Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1981 70th Davis Cup, USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1)
1981 General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland to prevent dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity, arrests Solidarity activists.
1982 71st Australian Mens Tennis, Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62)
1982 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1983 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game, Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1983 British Airways incorporates
1983 Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
1983 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
1983 Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
1985 David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
1985 Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India)
1987 Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
1987 Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
1988 Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter the United States.
1989 Attack on Derryard checkpoint, The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
1989 The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden.
1989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
1990 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1990 President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
1991 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
1992 "Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
1992 Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
1993 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
1993 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
1995 Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
1995 US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
1996 Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
1996 Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1997 63rd Heisman Trophy Award, Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
2000 American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
2000 The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
2001 The Parliament of India Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
2002 Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit (see Operation Red Dawn).
2004 Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted the same day on appeal.
2006 The Baiji, or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
2007 The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players to be named include Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.
2011 Murder-suicide in the city of Liège (Belgium), killing 6 and wounding 125 people at a Christmas market.
2012 A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
2012 Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute
2014 A civil rights protest march in Washington, D.C. takes place, against the police killing of unarmed black men
2014 Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, criticizes UN Security Council for its lack of action over war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan
2014 Divisions emerge between rich and poor nations at the UN climate change talks in Peru
2014 Marcus Mariota, Oregon (QB) wins the 80th Heisman Trophy Award
2014 The British Government announces it will send hundreds of troops to Iraq, to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the conflict with Islamic State
2014 Two US soldiers killed in a Taliban bombing of a NATO convoy in Kabul
2015 COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between nearly 200 countries to attempt to tackle rising global tempertures
2015 Irishman Conor McGregor knocks out Brazilian Jose Aldo in 13 seconds to win his 1st featherweight title in Las Vegas

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1521 Sixtus V (Felice Peretti "Montalto"), bishop of Fermo, Pope (1585-90)
1533 Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-1569) (d. 1577)
1553 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre, France (1572, 1589-1610) (d. 1610)
1585 William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 Robert Plot, English chemist, naturalist (d. 1696)
1662 Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)
1678 Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1684 Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1754)
1720 Carlo Gozzi, Italian playwright (d. 1804)
1724 Aepinus (Franz UT Hoch), German physician, physicist
1724 Franz Aepinus, German philosopher (d. 1802)
1732 Jean-Claude Trial, composer
1740 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
1770 John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
1780 Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (d. 1849)
1784 Louis, Archduke of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 Heinrich Heine, German poet, lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) (d. 1856)
1804 Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1873)
1810 Clark Mills, American sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
1814 Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (d. 1880)
1816 Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy) (d. 1882)
1816 Ernst Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer, engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
1818 Mary Todd Lincoln, American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States (1861-1865) (d. 1882)
1819 Edwin George Monk, composer
1835 Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop, composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
1836 Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904)
1838 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer
1843 George Stephanescu, composer
1850 G F Grace, cricketer
1850 Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer
1853 Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao musician, composer, screenwriter
1854 Herman Bavinck, Dutch theologian and churchman (d. 1921)
1856 Svetozar Boroević, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1920)
1858 Jakab Gyula Major, composer
1860 Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1863 Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar
1864 Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1865 Gustav Luders, composer
1867 Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian explorer and scientist (d. 1917)
1870 Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1871 Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (d. 1945)
1871 Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian
1871 Russell W Porter, American explorer (Alaska)
1874 Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944)
1874 Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst)
1877 Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych, composer
1883 Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian, bibliographer and archivist (d. 1950)
1884 Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor (d. 1951)
1886 Lambertus J van Apeldoorn, lawyer (martial law)
1887 Alvin York, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1887 George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 1985)
1889 Clarence Loomis, composer
1890 Marc Connelly, American playwright (One Minute Please)
1892 Brand Dirck Ochse, filmer, co-founder (Polygoon)
1893 Curt Jurgens, German actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day)
1897 Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961)
1897 Drew Pearson, American journalist, newscaster (Drew Pearson) (d. 1969)
1898 Daniel Lazarus, composer
1899 Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
1899 Yusef Greiss, composer
1900 Jonel Perlea, Romanian conductor (d. 1970)
1900 Norman Foster, Ameerican actor (Skyscraper Souls)
1901 Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist, theorist
1901 John Wijga, painter, illustrator
1902 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986)
1902 Paul Kurzbach, composer
1902 Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (d. 1979)
1903 Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (Suite Flamenco 1966) (d. 1993)
1903 Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986)
1903 Jewgeni Petrow, writer
1903 John Piper, English writer (US Churches in WW I), official war painter
1906 Ingemar Liljefors, composer
1906 Laurens jan van der Post, South African author, soldier, explorer, conservationist (d. 1996)
1906 Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
1908 Victor Babin, composer
1910 Lillian Roth (Rutstein), singer, actress (Animal Crackers)
1910 Sol Saks, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2011)
1910 Van Heflin, American actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary) (d. 1971)
1911 Kenneth Patchen, American poet, author (Cloth of the Tempest), and painter (d. 1972)
1911 Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1999)
1912 Max Croiset, Dutch actor (Dog of Flanders, Little Ark)
1913 Archie Moore, American boxer, light-heavyweight champ (1952-60) (d. 1998)
1913 Arnold Brown, English 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
1913 Jimmy Carroll, American pianist (Most Important People)
1913 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian
1914 Alan L Bullock, English historian and author (d. 2004)
1914 George "Tiger" Haynes, guitarist, actor (Land Without Music, Guv'nor)
1914 Samuel "Larry" K Parks, American actor (Jolson-Jolson Story)
1915 Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 4th Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-1977) (d. 1983)
1915 Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor (d. 1982))
1915 Mark Stevens, American actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
1915 Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (Goodbye Look) (d. 1983)
1917 Dave Street, American actor, singer (Broadway Open House)
1917 John Hart, American actor (d. 2009)
1919 Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot, ace of World War II (d. 1942)
1920 Don Taylor, American actor (Father's Little Dividend)
1920 Frits Noske, Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
1920 George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State (1982-1989)
1920 Kaysone Phomvihane, Premier-President Laos (Pathet Lao) (1991-92)
1923 Antoni Tapies, Spanish painter, sculptor, and theorist (Dau al Set) (d. 2012)
1923 Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP)
1923 Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1923 Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate)
1924 Larry Doby, American Baseball Player, 1st African-American in the AL (Cleveland Indians)
1925 Dick Van Dyke, American actor (Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke Show), singer, and producer
1925 Henry C Gordon, USAF astronaut (Dynasoar)
1926 Carl Erskine, baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)
1926 George Rhoden, Jamaican runner
1928 Eve Meyer, American model and actress (d. 1977)
1928 Jack Tramiel, Polish-American Businessman (Amiga, Commodore 64) (d. 2012)
1928 W Gordon Smith, playwright
1929 Albert Paulsen, Ecuadorian actor (Doctors' Hospital)
1929 Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House, Up)
1930 Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
1930 Robert Prosky, American actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues) (d. 2008)
1934 Richard Darryl Zanuck, American film producer, executive (d. 2012)
1935 Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1935 Joe Christopher, American baseball player
1935 Kenneth Hall, American football player
1935 Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
1935 Thomas Wakefield, writer
1936 Aga Khan IV, Swiss-French 49th Nizari Ismaili Imam
1936 J. C. Martin, American baseball player
1936 Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Nizari Ismailis, prince and billionaire
1937 Rob Houwer, Dutch director, producer, actor (OK, Professor Columbus)
1937 Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player
1937 Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (d. 2009)
1938 Alvin Curran, American musician and composer (Musica Elettronica Viva)
1938 Heino, German singer
1938 Tom Shaw, American PGA golfer (1969 Doral Open AVCO Golf Classic)
1938 Tony Gomez, rocker (Foundations)
1939 Clive Brain, educationalist
1939 Eric Flynn, Chinese-Welsh actor and singer (d. 2002)
1940 Edith Clever, German actress (Parsifal, L'Adolescente)
1940 Steve Harmon, American actor (Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts)
1941 Anouska Hempel, New Zealand actress (Tiffany Jones)
1941 Bessel Kok, Dutch businessman
1941 John Davidson, American actor and game show host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
1942 Anna Eshoo, American politician
1943 Arturo Ripstein, director (El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot)
1943 Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player, pitcher (Red Sox)
1943 Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
1944 Dick Dees, Dutch politician
1944 Hwang Jang Lee, Korean martial artist and film actor
1944 Marti Webb, English actress and singer
1945 Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (d. 1977)
1945 Herman Cain, American businessman (Godfather Pizza), radio host, and politician
1945 Kathy Garver, American actress
1947 Darlene Cates, American actress (What's Eating Gilbert Grape)
1947 Dave Hamilton, American baseball player
1947 Les Joslin, Australian cricketer
1947 Rex Hagon, Canadian actor
1948 Brian Wilson, Scottish politician
1948 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, American guitarist (Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers)
1948 Kathy Garver, American actress (Cissy-Family Affair)
1948 Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (d. 1982)
1948 Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter, 400m (Olympic-silver-1968) (d. 1970)
1948 Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees, Damnocracy)
1949 Luc Sala, Dutch businessman
1949 Nana Alexandria, Soviet International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976)
1949 Paula Wilcox, English actress
1949 R(oberta) A(nn) MacAvoy, American sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael)
1949 Randy Owen, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alabama)
1949 Robert Lindsay, English actor
1949 Tom Verlaine (Miller), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television, Neon Boys)
1949 Walter "Clyde" Owen, rocker
1950 Afemo Omilami, Actor (Forrest Gump)
1950 Davey O'List, rocker (Roxy Music)
1950 Heather North, American actress (Barefoot Executive)
1950 Tom Vilsack, American politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1950 Wendie Malick, American actress (Just Shoot Me, The Emperor's New Groove)
1951 Robert Lindsay, English actor (Strike it Rich, King Lear)
1952 John Francome, English jockey
1952 Junkyard Dog, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1952 Sylvester Ritter (Junkyard Dog), American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1953 Ben Bernanke, American economist, 14th Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve
1953 Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player
1953 Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 Jim Davidson, English comedian
1953 Ray Stewart, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Dunhill Cup)
1953 Tom Sanders, American aerial cameraman (Living Daylights)
1953 Zoltan Magyar, Hungarian side horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1954 Emma Bull, American author
1954 John Anderson, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
1954 Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 Tamora Pierce, American author
1956 Dale Berra, American baseball player, infeilder (Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees)
1956 Majida El Roumi, Lebanese singer and actress
1956 Phillip Gregory Hubbard, American basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1957 Eric Marienthal, American saxophonist (Chick Corea Elektric Band and Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
1957 Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
1957 Morris Day, American singer-songwriter (The Time, Flyte Tyme) and actor
1957 Steve Buscemi, American actor (Fargo, Boardwalk Empire) and director
1958 Clark Brandon, American actor (Fast Food)
1958 Dana Strum, American rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1958 Lynn-Holly Johnson, American figure skater and actress (Ice Castles)
1959 Jim Barrell, American professional wrestler
1959 John Whitaker, American actor (Family Affair, Snowball Expr)
1959 Marianne Gravatte, American playmate of year (Oct, 1982)
1960 Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
1960 Randy Stoklos, American beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1960 Richard Dent, defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1960 Rusty Cundieff, American actor
1961 Gary Zimmerman, American football player, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1961 Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer, conductor, and producer
1961 Irene Sáez, Venezuelan model (Miss Universe 1981), and politician
1962 Jamie Raskin, American academic and politician
1962 Karen Witter, American actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)
1962 Kendra Slewenski, English netballer
1962 Rob Ryan, American football player and coach
1962 Roger Ilegems, Belgian cyclist
1964 Hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (X Japan and Zilch) (d. 1998)
1965 Jackie Clune, English actress and singer
1965 Marko Mäetamm, Estonian illustrator
1965 Stacy Sunny, American female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1966 Don Roff, American screenwriter and director
1966 Mike Tirico, American sportscaster
1966 Ross Burden, New Zealand chef
1967 Bo Pelini, American football player and coach
1967 Chris O'Loughlin, American fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 Deborah Driggs, American Model, playmate (Mar, 1990)
1967 Jamie Foxx, American actor (Ray, Django Unchained), singer, comedian (In Living Color)
1967 Jenn Thompson, American actor (Dee-Harper Valley PTA)
1967 Mike Mordecai, American infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1967 NeNe Leakes, American reality TV atar (The Real Housewives of Atlanta)
1967 Scott Zolak, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1968 Carlos Hasselbaink, Dutch soccer player (VVV/FC Utrecht/Haarlem)
1968 Shaun Stafford, American tennis star (1992 Taipei)
1968 Tony Curran, Scottish actor
1969 Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
1969 Norm Krumpschmd, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1969 Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player, NHL forward (Detroit, Oly-S-1998)
1969 Tony Curran, Scottish actor (Gladiator)
1970 Basit Ali, Pakistani cricketer
1970 Elizabeth Patricia Reilly, American Miss America-RI (1996)
1970 George Van Os Jr, American team handball left back (Oly-1996)
1970 Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer
1970 Tonja Yevette Buford-Bailey, American 400m hurdler (Oly-bronze-96)
1971 Jeffrey Pierce, Actor (S1m0ne)
1971 Johnny Dixon, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi
1971 Mike Pelton, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Chris Grant, Australian footballer
1972 Craig Sauer, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 GiGi Gordon, American Miss America-Pennsylvania (1997)
1972 Niki Evans, English singer
1973 Christie Clark, American actress (Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life)
1973 Shandon Anderson, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1974 Chris Lewis, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1974 Debbie Matenopoulos, American actress and television host
1974 Nicholas McCarthy, English singer and guitarist (Franz Ferdinand, Box Codax)
1974 Sara Cox, English television and radio host
1975 Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player
1975 Kostas Kiassos, Greek footballer
1975 Matt LeCroy, American baseball player, catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Sarah Brady, Miss Universe-New Zealand (1996)
1975 Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (blink-182, Angels & Airwaves, Box Car Racer)
1976 Josh Fogg, American baseball player
1976 Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
1976 Søren Friis, Danish footballer
1977 Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union footballer
1977 Sascha Kindred, English Paralympic swimmer
1978 B.J. Penn, American mixed martial artist
1978 Olav Bjortomt, English quiz player
1978 Ryo Kawakita, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Maximum the Hormone)
1979 Christina Todd, American Miss Ohio Teen USA (Miss Congeniality-1997)
1980 Bosco Wong, Hong Kong singer and actor
1980 Patrik Antonius, Finnish poker player
1980 Ryan France, English footballer
1980 Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor
1981 Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Evanescence)
1981 Chelsea Hertford, actress (Major Dad)
1981 Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer
1982 Anthony Callea, Australian singer-songwriter and actor
1982 Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 Dominik Werling, German footballer
1982 Freddie Weinke, American football player
1982 Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
1982 Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver
1983 Matt Deis, American bass player and songwriter (CKY and All That Remains)
1983 Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
1984 Hanna-Maria Seppälä, Finnish swimmer
1984 Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer
1985 Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player
1985 Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress
1985 Michael Bumpus, American football player
1986 Dennis Bermudez, American mixed martial artist
1986 Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter
1987 Michael Socha, Actor (This Is England)
1988 Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer
1988 Rickie Fowler, American golfer
1989 Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter (Our Song), guitarist, and actress
1990 Nick Roux, Actor (Lemonade Mouth)
1991 Jay Greenberg, American composer
1991 Senah Mango, Togolese footballer
1992 Alison McArthur, Actress (The Ghosts of Madison's Inn)
1993 Marcus Orelias (Marcus Sterling Dixon), American Stage Actor (Copies)
1995 Alana Locke, Actress (One Missed Call)
1997 Andrés Torres Romo, Actor (Intercambio)
2003 Haven Cain, Actor (The Bold and the Beautiful)
2004 Aiden Flowers, Actor (2 Bedroom 1 Bath)
2005 Prince Aymeric of Belgium
2005 Prince Nicolas of Belgium

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558 Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496)
838 Pippijn I, King of Aquitania
1048 Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Persian scholar, royal astrologer, and polymath (b. 973)
1124 Callistus-Callixtus II (Guido di Borgogna), Italian Pope (1119-24) (b. 1065)
1126 Henry IX, the Black, Duke of Bavaria (1120-26) (b. 1075)
1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher, talmudic scholar, rabbi, and philosopher (b. 1135)
1250 Frederick II, Holy Roman-German Emperor (1212-1250) (b. 1194)
1404 Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
1466 Donatello, Florentine painter and sculptor (b. 1386)
1516 Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462)
1521 Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521) (b. 1469)
1557 Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (b. 1499)
1565 Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist (b. 1516)
1574 Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1603 Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540)
1621 Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1622 Jan Campanus, composer
1672 Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68)
1693 Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia, writer (Saint Lives)
1693 Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter
1716 Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
1729 Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity) (b. 1676)
1738 Gotthard Wagner, composer
1754 Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696)
1769 C F Gellert, writer
1769 Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (b. 1715)
1774 Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother
1783 Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
1784 Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer
1812 Marianne von Martinez, composer
1814 Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal, author (b. 1735)
1835 John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)
1837 Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary and saint (b. 1756)
1862 Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg
1862 Maxcy Gregg, US Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg
1862 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brig-General, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg
1863 Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813)
1868 Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794)
1872 Helena Beeloo, maid, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
1872 W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, murdered by Henry Jut at the Hague, Netherlands
1881 August Šenoa, Croatian author (Kletva [The Curse]) and poet (b. 1838)
1883 Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1893 Georg August Rudolph, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
1894 Sarah Parker Remond, American-Italian abolitionist
1895 Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
1898 George Frederick Bristow, composer
1908 Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet, interpreter
1911 Reg Duff, Australian cricketer
1919 Amintore Galli, composer
1919 Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (b. 1850)
1921 Frederick Martin, English cricketer
1922 Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
1924 Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader (American Federation of Labor) (b. 1850)
1929 Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
1930 Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1869)
1931 Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
1932 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
1934 Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1854)
1935 John Nicolson, South African cricketer
1935 Victor Grignard, French chemist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1871)
1940 Dusty Tapscott, South African cricketer
1940 George Macaulay, English cricketer
1940 George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
1940 Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
1940 Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1857)
1942 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer
1942 Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
1944 Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal (b. 1908)
1944 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration) (b. 1866)
1945 Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
1945 Irma Grese, German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1923)
1945 Josef Kramer, German nazi commandant (b. 1906)
1945 Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1945 Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
1947 Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874)
1950 Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1902)
1951 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist, composer (Daniel Hjort)
1954 John Raymond Hubbell, American director, author, and composer (b. 1879)
1955 Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1874)
1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1958 Brand Dirck Ochse, film-bioscope pioneer (Polygoon)
1958 Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
1958 Tim Moore, American actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy) (b. 1887)
1960 Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882)
1961 Grandma Moses (Anna M), American painter (b. 1860)
1962 Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1905)
1963 Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate, premier (1939-45)
1966 Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1968 Siegfried Reda, composer
1969 Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (battle of Midway) (b. 1886)
1969 Spencer Williams Jr., American actor and director (b. 1893)
1971 Max Mell, Austria artillery officer, literary
1973 Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1974 Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction)
1975 Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis)
1975 Hendrik Kruls, Dutch gen/chief milt authority (1944-46)
1976 Eduard Claudius, writer, dies
1979 Jon Hall, American actor (Ramor of the Jungle) (b. 1915)
1980 Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician
1981 Cornelius Cardew, composer
1981 Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, dancer, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In) (b. 1904)
1982 Jack Badcock, cricketer
1983 Alexander Schmemann, Estonian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1983 Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit)
1983 Mary Renault (Challans), English author (Funeral games)
1983 Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (b. 1933)
1986 Ella Baker, American activist (b, 1903)
1986 Heather Angel, English actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone) (b. 1909)
1986 Smita Patil, Indian actress (b. 1955)
1990 Alice Marble, American tennis star
1990 Friedrich Dörrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame)
1991 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge)
1992 Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist, orchestra leader (duivelswiel)
1992 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (b. 1899)
1992 K. C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (b. 1899)
1993 Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet, author (Ogentroost) (b. 1972)
1993 Vanessa Duriès, French author
1994 Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France (1952-53)
1994 Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, American librarian, Yale-curator
1994 Michalis Nikolinakos, Greek actor (b. 1923)
1994 Norman Beaton, Guyanese actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn) (b. 1934)
1995 Ann Nolan Clark, American author (b. 1896)
1995 Evangeline Bruce, hostess
1995 Nancy LaMott, singer
1996 Cao Yu, dramatist
1996 Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer
1996 Edward Blishen, English author, teacher, broadcaster (b. 1920)
1996 Mae Barnes, singer
1997 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician
1997 Martin Carter, poet, critic
1997 Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
2001 Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death Control Denied, and Voodoocult) (b. 1967)
2002 Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (b. 1944)
2003 William V. Roth Jr., American politician, U.S. Senator (b. 1921)
2004 Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 David Wheeler, English computer scientist (b. 1927)
2005 Stanley Tookie Williams, co-founder of the Crips and convicted murderer (b. 1953)
2005 Stanley Williams, American murderer (b. 1953)
2005 Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (b. 1981)
2006 Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founder (American Football League, World Championship Tennis) (b. 1932)
2007 Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor and activist (b. 1936)
2007 Mark Partridge, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean politician (b. 1922)
2008 John Drake, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1959)
2008 Kathy Staff, English actress (b. 1928)
2010 Enrique Morente, Spanish flamenco singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2010 Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1941)
2010 Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Barclay James Harvest) (b. 1947)
2011 Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1923)
2011 Park Tae-joon, South Korean general, founder (steel giant Posco)
2011 Russell Hoban, American author (creator of the 'Frances' series)
2012 Abdesslam Yassine, Moroccan educator, founder and leader (Al Adl Wa Al Ihssane) (b. 1928)
2012 Ian Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1924)
2012 Jack Hanlon, American actor (b. 1916)
2012 Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer (b. 1919)
2012 Natalya Kustinskaya, Russian actress (b. 1938)
2012 Rob Talbot, New Zealand politician (b. 1923)
2012 T. Shanmugham, Indian footballer and coach (b. 1920)
2012 Willie Ackerman, American drummer (b. 1939)
2014 Raoul Cita, R&B pianist and songwriter (Harptones)

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