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557 Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.
644 Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
872 John VIII elected as Catholic Pope
1124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)
1287 St. Lucia's flood, The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
1542 Princess Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots) succeeds her father James V and becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland at 6 days old.
1575 Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1582 Zealand-Brabant Netheralnds adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25
1600 Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die
1656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
1702 The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
1708 Prosper Jolyot's "Electre," premieres in Paris
1751 The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world.
1774 Portsmouth, New Hampshire militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary
1782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British
1782 The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
1812 The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
1814 The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisianain the War of 1812.
1819 Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd U.S. state
1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
1836 The Toledo War unofficially ends.
1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
1882 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
1889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus v Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)
1894 Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren
1896 The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1900 Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (Quantum Mechanics).
1901 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
1902 The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii.
1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut
1903 The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 The schooner  Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1909 New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete
1913 Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongō-class, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
1914 Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
1917 UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
1918 Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in NYC
1918 The President of Portugal Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC
1923 Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou
1924 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma," premieres in Paris
1926 Danish Madsen government, forms
1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man
1929 Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
1930 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
1931 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
1932 French government of Herriot falls
1933 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
1934 First streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
1935 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban
1937 Japanese troops conquer & plunder Nanjing
1938 AL permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games
1938 Major leagues agrees on standard ball, disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president
1939 The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland in the Winter War.
1941 First NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
1941 Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand in World War II.
1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion, werving of labor force for Germany
1944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
1944 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
1945 Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl," premieres in NYC
1946 "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 perfs
1946 The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York, New York.
1946 Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
1947 Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
1947 The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1950 "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs
1950 Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
1950 UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut v Pakistan, Calcutta
1952 Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
1953 Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax
1954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations.
1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman, wife as vicar
1955 Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic
1956 Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO
1957 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 perfs
1957 "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances
1958 The third Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic.
1959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m
1960 Australia vs. West Indies in first Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
1960 Washington Senators joins American League
1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
1961 Tanzania joins the United Nations.
1962 NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly-by another planet (Venus).
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir wall bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
1963 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
1965 "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances
1967 DNA created in a test tube
1969 "La Strada" opens & closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
1969 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) vs. Australia at Calcutta
1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1971 Over 200 of East Pakistan's (now Bangladesh) intellectuals are massacred by the Pakistan Army and their local allies.
1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1972 Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor
1974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes
1975 "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
1975 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
1975 WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1976 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
1977 "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC
1977 Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
1977 Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash
1977 Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, v England at Lahore
1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
1978 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
1978 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 "Onward Victoria" opens & closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
1980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
1980 Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
1980 Nancy Lopez & Curtis Strange win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967).
1982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances
1983 The third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
1984 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
1987 Allan Border scores 205 v NZ to become Australia's top rungetter
1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
1988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
1988 The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
1991 57th Heisman Trophy Award, Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him
1992 During the Siege of Tkvarcheli in the War in Abkhazia, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli, Abkhazia, Georgia is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, 25 of which are children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1993 Muslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
1994 Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
1995 "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
1995 AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
1995 The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, France by leaders of various governments (Yugoslav Wars).
1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 62nd Heisman Trophy Award, Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)
1997 "View From the Bridge," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 Diners Club Senior Golf Match
1997 Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches
1997 Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals
1999 Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
2003 President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein.
2003 The President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2004 Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.
2004 The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened.
2006 American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.
2008 President George W. Bush made his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.
2012 24 people are injured in a knife attack at a primary school in the Chinese province of Henan.
2012 28 people, including 20 young children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The gunman Adam Lanza had six guns (three registered to his mother), he murdered his mother ealier and killed himself after. He had his brothers ID on him, sparking a barage of false reports that his brother was the Killer
2012 Australian Joel Parkinson wins the 2012 ASP World Tour
2012 Gene Wolfe wins the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
2014 Shinzō Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party win re-election in Japan, retaining their two-thirds majority with coalition partner New Kōmeitō Party
2015 Bus plunges off bridge into Balboa River near Argentina city of Rosario de la Frontera, killing 43 frontier police on board
2015 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Harrison Ford has its world premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles

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1009 Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1363 John Van (Jean C) Gerson, French theologist
1503 Nostradamus (Michel de Nostre-Dam), French astrologist, prophet (Les Propheties) (d. 1566)
1546 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (Golden nose) and chemist (d. 1601)
1553 Henri IV the Bourbon, King of Navarra (Henri III), France
1607 János Kemény, Hungarian prince (d. 1662)
1625 Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)
1631 Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1640 Aphra Behn, English playwright and author (d. 1689)
1678 Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743)
1720 Justus Möser, German jurist and theorist (d. 1794)
1730 Capel Bond, English organist and composer (d. 1790)
1738 Johann Antonin Kozeluch, Bohemian composer (d. 1814)
1775 Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founder (Kenyon College) (d. 1852)
1775 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral (d. 1860)
1777 Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet, interpreter (El dos the mayo)
1779 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer
1780 Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German-Russian minister of Foreign Affairs
1783 Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
1784 Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)
1787 Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816)
1789 Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer
1791 Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823)
1794 Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1812 Charles J Canning, English earl, First viceroy of British-Indies
1824 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
1829 John Mercer Langston, First black to hold US political office
1830 Allen Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1907)
1832 Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1902)
1837 William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1892)
1852 Daniel De Leon, American journalist, politician, and theoretician, developed De Leonism (d. 1914)
1853 Errico Malatesta, Italian activist (d. 1932)
1853 Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)
1862 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian-Italian writer
1862 John M Acket, Dutch literary (Grammatic Conceptions)
1866 Roger Fry, English painter and art critic (d. 1934)
1868 Richard Batka, composer
1870 Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40)
1870 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor, 4th President of Austri (1918-1920, 1945-1950) (d. 1950)
1873 Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer
1875 Dobri Khristov, composer
1877 Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music writer, composer (Leiecyclys)
1881 Howard Valentine, American sprinter (d. 1932)
1881 Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956)
1883 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer (d. 1962)
1883 Morihei Ueshiba "the founder", Japanese martial artist, founder (Aikido) (d. 1969)
1884 Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1884 Regina Ullmann, writer
1887 Xul Solar, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
1894 Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer
1895 George VI, King of the United Kingdom (1936-1952) (d. 1952)
1895 Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952)
1896 James H Doolittle, American USAF general (Raid on Tokyo 1942) (d. 1993)
1897 Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
1897 Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (Rep,Sen-R-Maine) (d. 1995)
1898 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer
1900 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer
1901 Henri Cochet, tennis champion (US Open-1928)
1901 Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64) (d. 1964)
1902 Frances Bavier, American actress (Aunt Bea-Andy Griffith Show) (d. 1989)
1905 Sydney Lipton, bandleader, violin
1906 Helmut Bornefeld, composer
1907 Guy Middleton, English actor (Gentlemen Marrie Brunettes)
1908 Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union player (d. 2001)
1908 Laurence Naismith, English actor (Judge Fulton-Persuaders)
1908 Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
1908 Mária Szepes, Hungarian author (d. 2007)
1909 Edward L Tatum, American molecular geneticist (Nobel Prize laureate 1958) (d. 1975)
1909 Phia (Sophia R) Berghout, harpist, founder (Eduard of Beinumstichting)
1911 Hans von Ohain, German-American aerospace engineer (d. 1998)
1911 Ota Adler, Czech-English fur trader, founder (Federal Trust)
1911 Spike Jones, American singer, bandleader, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous) (d. 1965)
1912 Morey Amsterdam, American comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1913 Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978)
1914 Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
1914 Dan Dailey, American dancer, actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)
1914 Karl Carstens, German politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1979-1984) (d. 1992)
1914 Nam Phuong, Vietnamese wife of Bao Dai (d. 1963)
1914 Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (Bach & Rock) (d. 2003)
1915 Clay Warnick, American choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1916 Shirley Jackson, American author (Road Through the Wall) (d. 1965)
1917 C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish politician and author
1917 Elyse Knox, American actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold) and fashion designer (d. 2012)
1917 June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004)
1917 Wilf Ferguson, West Indian cricket leg-spinner
1918 B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founder (Iyengar Yoga)
1918 James Thomas Aubrey Jr., American television executive (d. 1994)
1918 Radu Beligan, Romanian actor
1920 Albertus Meintser, office clerk, resistance fighter
1920 Clark Terry, American trumpet player
1920 Quinton Hazell, businessman
1922 Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
1922 Don Hewitt, American television producer (CBS), creater (60 Minutes) (d. 2009)
1922 Junior J. Spurrier, American soldier (Medal of Honor recipient) (d. 1984)
1922 Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 2001)
1923 Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch author (Evenings, Dear Guys) (d. 2006)
1923 Leonardus S van Egeraat, Dutch travel expert
1923 Sully Boyar, American actor (Car Wash)
1924 Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
1924 Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1924 Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1925 Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1926 Frank King, West Indian cricketer
1927 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch internal minister (VVD) (1982-86)
1927 Koos Rietkerk, Dutch politician (d. 1986)
1927 Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d. 1998)
1929 Ron Nelson, composer
1931 Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet, and philosopher (d. 2002)
1931 Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgussaar, Estonian director
1932 Abbe Lane (Mrs Xavier Cugat), American singer and actress (Xavier Cugat Show)
1932 Charlie "Silver Fox" Rich, American singer-songwriter (Behind Closed Doors) and guitarist (d. 1995)
1932 George Furth, American actor, director (Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings)
1933 Leo N Wright, American saxophonist (I left my heart in SF)
1934 Petrus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist
1934 Shyam Benegal, Indian director and screenwriter
1935 Barbara Leigh-Hunt, English actress (Search for the Nile)
1935 David White, English cricketer
1935 Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer, The Omen) (d. 1991)
1935 Lewis Arquette, American actor (Horror Show, Book of Love), screenwriter, and producer (d. 2001)
1936 Robert Alan Ridley Parker, American Doctor, Astronaut (STS 9, STS 35)
1938 Hal Williams, American actor (Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford & Son)
1938 Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)
1938 Leonardo Boff, Brazilian Catholic theologian and author
1939 Ernest (Ernie) Davis, American football player, First African-American to win Heisman Trophy (1961) (d. 1963)
1939 Marilyn Cooper, American actress (Broadway Bound, Survivors)
1940 Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and administrator
1941 Barry Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1941 Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006)
1941 Karan Armstrong, American soprano
1942 David Band, banker
1942 Rex Thompson, American actor (Young Bess, King & I, Her 12 Men)
1942 Zoe Laskari, Greek actress
1943 Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
1943 Frank Allen, vocalist (Searchers)
1946 Anthonius A M "Ton" Kors, Dutch writer (Hannie Schaft)
1946 Jackie McCauley, Irish pianist (Them Coleraine)
1946 Jane Birkin, English-French actress (Mrs Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust) and singer
1946 Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1946 Michael Ovitz, American talent agent, co-founder (Creative Artists Agency), President (Walt Disney Co)
1946 Patty Duke (Anna Marie), American actress (Miracle Worker)
1946 Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower (Oly-2 gold-72, 76) and politician
1946 Stanley R Smith, American tennis player (Wimbledon 1972, US Open-1971)
1947 Christopher Parkening, American guitarist (transcribed sacred music)
1947 Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian politician, 36th President of Brazil
1947 Linda Sutton, English painter
1948 Boudewijn Büch, Dutch poet and television host (d. 2002)
1948 Dee Wallace Stone (Deanna Bowers), American actress (Critters, 10, ET)
1948 Kim Beazley, Australian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
1949 Bill Buckner, American baseball player, First baseman (notable error for Red Sox in the 1986 world series)
1949 Cliff Williams, Australian bass player and singer (AC/DC Home, Bandit)
1950 Vicki Michelle, English actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
1951 Celia Weston Actress, The Village
1951 Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
1951 Paul Zaloom, American actor and puppeteer
1952 Germain Houde, French-Canadian actor
1952 John Lurie, American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and producer (The Lounge Lizards)
1952 Tamara Danz, singer
1953 Joe Toplyn, American comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
1953 Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician, Minister for Defence
1953 René Eespere, Soviet-Estonian composer
1953 Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician, Minister for National Defence
1953 Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player, actor (Octopussy)
1953 Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer
1954 Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver, NASCAR (Winston Cup) (d. 1993)
1954 Eva Mattes, German actress (Celeste, Man Like Eva)
1954 Hans William Schlegel, German Astronaut (STS 55)
1954 Ib Anderson, Dutch ballet dancer
1954 James Horan, American actor (Loving)
1954 Steven Glenwood MacLean, Canadian astronaut (STS 52)
1955 Jane Crafter, Australian golfer (1987 JC Penney Mixed Teams)
1956 Hanni Wenzel, German skier, Slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
1956 Linda Fabiani, Scottish politician
1956 T K Carter, American actor (Mike-Punky Brewster, Just our Luck)
1957 Gary Ferris, American author
1958 François Zocchetto, French politician
1958 Jan Dijksma, Dutch bassist (Weekend at Waikiki)
1958 Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Inc, The Waterboys)
1958 Spider Stacy, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pogues)
1958 Steven Rock-Savage, American actor
1959 Bob Paris, American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor
1959 Franco Iglesia, Cuban spanish singer
1959 Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
1960 Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate
1960 Catherine G Coleman, American USAF Captain, Astronaut, Doctor (STS 73)
1960 Chris Waddle, English footballer
1960 Don Franklin, American actor
1961 Jeff Robinson, baseball player (Det, Balt)
1961 Patrik Sundstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
1962 Bharat Arun, Indian cricketer
1962 Chris Dahlquist, Fridley, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1962 Ginger Lynn, American model and actress
1963 Alice Ripley American actress
1963 Cindy Gibb, American actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood)
1963 Greg Abbott, English footballer and manager
1963 Mario Yamasaki, Brazilian-American mixed martial arts referee
1963 Michael Moloney, American interior designer
1963 Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian opera singer
1964 C(arl) J(eff) Snare, American vocalist (Firehouse)
1964 Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains)
1964 Rebecca Gibney, Australian actress
1965 Christine Burton, Australian golfer (1990 T25 Victorian Open)
1965 Craig Biggio, American baseball player, infielder (Houston Astros)
1965 Ken Hill, American baseball player, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1965 Lawrence Clay-Bey, American super heavyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1965 Ted Raimi, American actor (Spider-Man)
1966 Anthony Mason, American basketball player, NBA forward (NY Knicks, Charlotte Hornets)
1966 Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Boston)
1966 Carl Herrera, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1966 Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian race car driver
1966 Tim Sköld, Swedish bass player (Shotgun Messiah, Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult, MDFMK, KMFDM, ohGr)
1967 Ali Wood, American WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1967 Eldridge Recasner, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets)
1967 Ewa Białołęcka, Polish author
1967 Noelle Beck, American actress (Trisha-Loving, Fletch Lives)
1968 Cees Marbus, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1968 Jamie Crysdale, CFL corner (Calgary Stampeders)
1968 Noelle Beck, American actress
1969 Archie Kao, American actor
1969 Arthur Numan, Dutch footballer (PSV)
1969 Craig Jones, Australian Canadian Tour golfer (NZ Open-1994)
1969 Dave Nilsson, Australian baseball player, catcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Natascha McElhone, English actress (The Truman Show)
1969 Rogerick Green, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
1970 Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1970 Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 Bradford Banta, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Nadine Garner, Australian actress (Mull)
1971 Brian Gay, American golfer
1971 Chris Therien, Canadian Hockey Player, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1971 Lisa-Marie Vizaniari, Australian discus, shot putter (Olympics-96)
1971 Michaela Watkins, American actress (The Back-up Plan)
1971 Natascha McElhone, English actress
1971 Tia Texada, American actress (Phone Booth) and singer
1972 Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor
1972 Johnny Mcwilliams, tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
1972 Miranda Hart, English comedian and actress (Date)
1973 Eelco Wassenaar, Dutch-American field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 Pat Burke, Irish basketball player
1973 Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001)
1973 Tia Texada, American actress and singer
1973 Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-Canadian soccer player
1974 Billy Koch, American baseball player, pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Inga Drozdova, Latvia, playmate (Nov, 1997)
1975 James Cotton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1975 Justin Furstenfeld, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blue October and The Last Wish)
1975 KaDee Strickland, American actress (The Sixth Sense)
1975 Tamecka Dixon, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1976 André Couto, Portuguese race car driver
1976 Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
1976 Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
1976 Sebastien Chaule, French-German rugby player
1976 Tammy Blanchard, American actress (Moneyball)
1977 Brain Damage, American wrestler (d. 2012)
1977 Jamie Peacock, English rugby player
1977 KaDee Strickland, American actress
1977 Tisha Dabber, American actress (New Mickey Mouse Club)
1978 Dean Brogan, Australian footballer
1978 Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
1978 Radu Sîrbu, Moldovan singer and producer (O-Zone)
1978 Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech footballer
1979 Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
1979 Michael Owen, English footballer
1979 Sophie Monk, Australian singer-songwriter, model, and actress (Bardot, Click)
1980 Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
1980 Frankie J, American singer
1980 Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer
1980 Tata Young, Thai-American singer and actress
1981 Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress
1981 Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver
1981 Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler
1981 Liam Lawrence, English footballer
1981 Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
1982 Anthony Way, English singer and actor
1982 Josh Fields, American baseball player
1982 Matthew McNulty, Actor (Control)
1982 Steve Sidwell, English footballer
1983 James C. Morris, Actor (Dragon Lore: Curse of the Shadow)
1984 Chris Brunt, Irish footballer
1984 Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 Jackson Rathbone, Singaporean-American actor and singer (100 Monkeys)
1984 Krissy Lynn, American porn actress
1984 Rana Daggubati, Indian actor and producer
1985 Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
1985 Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player
1985 Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress and singer
1985 Paul Rabil, American lacrosse player
1985 Ren Yagami, Japanese actor and singer
1985 Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
1986 Jang Jae Ho, South Korean gamer
1987 Kenneth Medwood, American-Belizean hurdler
1988 Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player
1988 Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
1988 Vanessa Hudgens, American actress (Spring Breakers) and singer
1989 Onew, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Shinee)
1989 Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho, Brazilian footballer
1990 Tay Blessey, Actress (Soul Mates)
1991 Landon Hansen, Actor (Jiminy Glick in Lalawood)
1992 Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer
1992 Tori Kelly, American singer
1993 Alec Hogan, Actor (Amhurst)
1994 Joshua Dionisio, Filipino actor
1995 Kerry Paige, Actor (Company Town)
1995 Olimpia Preslavska, Princess of Bulgaria
1996 Morgan Simpson, Actor (The Acid House)
1997 Tommy Gerrits, Actor (Cloverfield)
1998 Trevor Woodruff, Actor (Whisper)
2001 Alexander and Jackson McClellan, Twin Actors (Cookies for Santa)
2006 Shelomi Sanders, Actress (Deion and Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love)
2009 Mason Dash Disick, Reality TV Star (Keeping up wuth the Kardashians)

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872 Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72) the last married pope
1077 Agnes of Poitou, German empress, wife of emperor Henry III
1136 Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
1417 John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned
1460 Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar (b. 1370)
1476 Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
1510 Friedrich of Saxony, Teutonic Knight (b. 1473)
1542 James V, King of Scotland (1513-42) (b. 1512)
1553 Hanibal Lucić, Croatian poet and playwright (b. 1485)
1591 Juan de la Cruz (de Yepes), Spanish Carmelet, poet, saint (b. 1542)
1624 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1536)
1651 Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
1713 Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
1715 Thomas Tenison, English Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
1732 Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1734 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter, cartoonist
1735 Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
1741 Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
1754 Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey
1760 Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga)
1788 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
1788 Carlos III, King of Naples & Spain (1759-88) (b. 1716)
1799 George Washington, American general and First President of the United States (1789-1797) (b. 1732)
1823 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799)
1829 Luigi Marchesi, composer
1831 Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (b. 1765)
1838 Jean-Olivier Chénier, French-Canadian physician and Patriot (b. 1806)
1849 Conradin Kreutzer, composer
1860 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1861 Albert, German Prince consort of England and husband of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
1861 George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl Minister of Foreign affairs
1861 Heinrich August Marschner, composer
1862 George Dashiell Bayard, Union Brigadier General
1865 Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
1873 J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist, paleo-biologist
1873 Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
1878 Alice, Princess of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
1886 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
1893 Karolina Pawlowa, writer
1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
1902 Julia Grant, American wife of Ulysses S. Grant, 19th First Lady of the United States (b. 1826)
1903 William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
1906 John A C Oudemans, Dutch geographer, astronomer
1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium
1912 Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English Army lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
1914 Giovanni Sgambati, composer
1918 Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
1920 George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1923 Giuseppi Gallignani, composer
1926 Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)
1927 Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
1928 Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments)
1935 Stanley G. Weinbaum, American sci-fi author (Martian Odyssey) (b. 1902)
1937 Fabian de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
1938 Marie FM Emmanuel, French composer, musicologist (Salamine)
1940 Anton Korošec, Slovenian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
1942 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader
1943 John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and businessman (Kellog's), co-creater (Corn flakes) (b. 1852)
1945 Constantino Gaito, composer
1945 Forrester Harvey, actor (Tarzan & Mate, Chump at Oxford)
1945 Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer, judge
1945 Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
1947 Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1947 Franz Zorell, German RC lexicographer
1947 Stanley Baldwin, English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1923, 1924-1929, 1935-1937) (b. 1867)
1948 Reginald Owen Morris, composer
1950 Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (Heroische Fahrt)
1953 Marjorie Rawlings, American author (b. 1896)
1954 Emil Rausch, German swimmer (b. 1883)
1956 Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
1957 Fred Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1959 Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off)
1960 Gregory Ratoff, actor (Skyscraper Souls)
1963 Dinah Washington, American singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose (b. 1924)
1963 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1963 Otto Fickeisen, German rower (b. 1879)
1964 William Bendix, American actor (Life of Riley) (b. 1906)
1965 Hermann Sandby, composer
1966 Emma Dunn, actress (You Can't Fool Your Wife)
1966 Richard Whorf, actor (Chain Lightning)
1966 Shailendra, Indian songwriter (b. 1923)
1966 Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride)
1970 Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
1971 Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (b. 1929)
1973 Yitzhak Edel, composer
1974 Walter Lippmann, American journalist (One of Dynasty) (b. 1889)
1975 Arthur Treacher, English actor, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show) (b. 1894)
1978 Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. 1886)
1979 Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricketer
1980 Elston Howard, American baseball player, MVP catcher (NY Yankees) (b. 1929)
1984 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1898)
1985 Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian social justice activist, founder (Madonna House Apostolate) (b. 1896)
1985 Roger Maris, American baseball player (61* Hr's in 1961, NY Yankees) (b. 1934)
1985 Stanley G(rauman) Weinbaum, American sci-fi author (Red Peri)
1987 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade)
1989 Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1975) (b. 1921)
1989 Jock Mahoney, American actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider) and stuntman (b. 1919)
1990 F(riedrich) Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)
1990 Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming)
1990 Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany
1991 John Arlott, cricketer, commentator
1991 Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas)
1993 Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
1993 Myrna Loy (Williams), American actress (Jazz Singer) (b. 1905)
1994 Mary Ann McCall, singer
1994 Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1994 Petrus HJ van Doorne, bus manufacturer, owner (BOVA)
1995 Don Anthony, bandleader, songwriter
1995 Eric Brown, architect
1995 Rob Harris, sky surfer, dies while skydiving
1996 Alan Hargreaves, climber
1996 Gaston Miron, Canadian poet (b. 1928)
1996 Norman Hackforth, broadcaster
1997 Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
1997 Owen Barfield, philosopher of language
1997 Robert Sutton, electronics engineer
1997 Stubby Kaye, American actor (Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity) (b. 1918)
1998 A(loyisus) L(eon) Higginbotham Jr., American judge, civil rights activist, and author (b. 1928)
1998 Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, USA (b. 1924)
1998 Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
1999 Gré Brouwenstijn, Dutch opera singer (b. 1915)
2001 W. G. Sebald, German academic and author (b. 1944)
2003 Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and foreign minister, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2003 Frank Sheeran, American labor union official (b. 1920)
2003 Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2004 Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)
2004 Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 Trevanian, American author and scholar (b. 1931)
2006 Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founder (Atlantic Records) (b. 1923)
2006 Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan chief political strategist (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and negotiator (b. 1938)
2006 Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
2009 Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
2010 Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
2010 Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
2010 Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois (b. 1957)
2011 Billie Jo Spears, American singer (b. 1937)
2011 Boris Chertok, prominent Soviet and Russian rocket engineer
2011 Joe Simon, American writer and illustrator (b. 1913)
2012 Alida Chelli, Italian actress and singer (b. 1943)
2012 Donnie Andrews, American criminal (b. 1954)
2012 Edward Jones, American politician (b. 1950)
2012 Hazel McIsaac, Canadian politician (b. 1933)
2012 John Graham, Welsh general (b. 1923)
2012 Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist (b. 1924)
2012 Klaus Köste, German gymnast (b. 1943)
2013 Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
2015 Lillian Vernon, founder and CEO of the Lillian Vernon Corporation (first company listed on US stock exchange started by a woman)

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