HIDE

533 Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
1167 Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongols offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
1467 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
1488 Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
1569 Westmoreland flees to Scotland
1582 Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens profesor of botany, medicine
1582 Spanish Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar
1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1640 Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
1664 English colonizing Connecticut
1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
1778 American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
1791 First US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1791 The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
1810 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
1820 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
1863 Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita).
1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
1864 In the Battle of Nashville, TN, Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood.
1864 Raid on Stoneman, Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
1868 Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
1893 Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
1894 Cricket day 2 1st T Australia vs England Australia 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
1905 The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
1906 The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
1913 Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1914 A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
1914 Battle of Lodz ends, Russians retreat toward Moscow
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914 The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I.
1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
1917 An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers in World War I.
1918 American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC
1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
1925 First hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
1925 First road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)
1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
1933 The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies
1935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship
1935 Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin
1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
1939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
1939 Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao
1941 Gas & electrical use restricted in Holland
1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
1941 German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.
1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens, Heinrich Himmler falls faint
1941 Allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing in North Africa.
1941 The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1941 USS Swordfish becomes first US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1942 Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license plate tabs
1942 The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
1945 During the U.S. Occupation of Japan, General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
1946 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
1946 Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
1946 The first election to the Representative Assembly of French India was held.
1946 US-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
1948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
1949 Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris
1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
1952 Christine Jorgenson is first person to undergo a sex-change operation
1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1954 The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
1960 King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
1960 Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1961 In Jerusalem, Israel Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
1961 JFK visits Puerto Rico
1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
1962 Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
1964 First time there are 4 people in space
1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1965 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
1965 D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London
1965 Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
1965 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
1967 Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
1967 Silver Bay bridge between Ohio and West Virginia collapes during afternoon rush hr, killing 46 people.e.
1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
1969 San Francisco Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
1970 Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
1970 South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Strait of Korea killing 308.
1970 Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973.
1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
1973 The American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness, votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
1976 Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
1976 The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
1980 MLB NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503
1982 Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1983 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1991 "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1992 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
1993 The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds concerning Northern Ireland self determination.
1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
1993 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
1994 "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
1994 Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
1995 The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another.
1996 Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1996 Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
1996 Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
1997 A chartered Tupolev Tu-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85.
1997 NFL SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
1997 The Treaty of Bangkok is signed allowing the transformation of Southeast Asia into a Nuclear-weapon-free zone.
2000 The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
2005 Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.
2005 Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
2005 Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
2005 The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II
2009 Boeing's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
2010 A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing at least 30 passengers
2011 Barry Bonds is sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service, for an obstruction of justice conviction stemming from a grand jury appearance in 2003
2012 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey
2013 China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon
2013 Michelle Bachelet is re-elected President of Chile
2015 1,000 schools closed in Los Angeles after a email threat, supposedly from jihadists
2015 Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a a criminal investigation

HIDE

HIDE

37 Nero (Claudius Augustus Germanicus), 5th emperor of Rome (54-68) (d. 68)
130 Lucius Verus, Roman co-emperor (d. 169)
1534 Lucas Osiander, composer
1567 Christoph Demantius, German composer, theorist, and poet (d. 1643)
1574 Samuel Besler, composer
1610 David Teniers II, Flemish courtpainter (Theatrum Pictorium)
1648 Gregory King, English statistician (Natural & Political Observations)
1657 Michel Richard Delalande, French composer and organist (d. 1726)
1667 Ludwig Ernst, composer
1686 Jean-Joseph Fiocco, Belgian composer (d. 1746)
1720 J F Beck, writer
1735 Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian lawyer
1765 Philippe-Jacques Pfeffinger, composer
1778 Godert AGP baron van der Capellen, Dutch gov-gen (Dutch-Indies)
1787 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor, Shakespearean critic
1789 Carlos Soublette, Venezuelan general and politician, 11th President of Venezuela (d. 1870)
1793 Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
1802 Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
1803 August Freyer, composer
1812 Isidor Dannstrom, composer
1821 Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer
1822 Edward Stephen, composer
1823 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1830 Francesco D'Arcais, composer
1832 Gustave Eiffel (Alexandre), French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower) (d. 1923)
1836 Edmond Picard, French-Belgian lawyer, writer (La forge Roussel)
1842 Henry Gadsby, composer
1848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
1852 Henri Becquerel (Antoine), French physicist, discovered radioactivity (Nobel Prize laureate 1903), (d. 1908)
1852 Tewfik Pasja, khedive (viceroy) of Egypt
1853 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
1857 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer
1859 Ludwik L Zamenhof, Polish physician, linguist, creator (Esperanto) (d. 1917)
1860 Abner Powell, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1860 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician, phototherapist (Nobel Prize laureate 1903) (d. 1904)
1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, American engineer, inventor (first auto built & operated in US), co-founder (Duryea Motor Wagon Company) (d. 1938)
1861 Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish politician, 3rd President of Finland (d. 1944)
1863 Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer (patented rayon) (d. 1935)
1863 Paul (Prudent) Painlevé, French mathematician, minister, premier
1869 Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist (d. 1946)
1870 Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect
1873 Pongrac Kacsoh, composert
1875 Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet, revolutionary, and activist (d. 1899)
1875 Friedrich Niggli, composer
1876 Ferdinand Hardekopf, writer
1878 Hans Carossa, German author and poet (d. 1956)
1879 Hugo W C Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer
1879 Rudolf von Laban, Czech-German choreographer (modern dance)
1881 James Schneider, American actor (Keystone Kops)
1885 Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian philosopher (d. 1971)
1887 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of the Dutch Tribe)
1888 Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist, writer (Kati), politician
1888 Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and playwright (Winter Set, High Tor) (d. 1959)
1892 David Guion, composer
1892 J. Paul Getty, American oil businessman, founder (Getty Oil) (d. 1976)
1892 Jose Maria Castro, composer
1896 Ann Nolan Clark, American author (d. 1995)
1896 Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
1896 Carl Ferdinand Cori, American bio-chemist
1896 George B Cressey, American geographer (Asia's Lands & Peoples)
1896 Margaret Bannerman, Canadian actress (Elopement)
1896 Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor
1898 Fernando Remacha, composer
1899 Frank Vosper, English actor (Man Who Knew Too Much)
1899 Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978)
1900 Francesco Messina, sculptor
1902 Robert F. Bradford, American politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
1903 Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (d. 1938)
1904 Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
1904 William Hitzig, Austrian Maxwell physician
1905 Ferenc Farkas, composer
1906 Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
1907 Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designer (United Nations Headquarters, Cathedral of Brasília) (d. 2012)
1910 John H. Hammond, American record producer, jazz musician (I Can Tell, So Many Roads) (d. 1987)
1911 Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
1911 Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer (d. 1979)
1912 Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1913 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award) (d. 1980)
1913 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager
1913 Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (d. 2001)
1914 Ernie Toshack, Australian cricket pace bowler
1915 Jose Toribio Merino Castro, admiral
1916 Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
1916 Maurice Wilkins, English physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel Prize laureate 1962) (d. 2004)
1917 Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer (d. 2005)
1918 Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel), American actor (Broken Arrow) (d. 1961)
1919 Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1919 Max Yasgur, American farmer, owner of the Woodstock festival site (d. 1973)
1920 Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002)
1921 Alan Freed, American radio and television host (d. 1965)
1921 Bob Todd, English comic, actor (Original Sin) (d. 1992)
1922 Alan Freed, American DJ, accepted payola, introduced term "rock-n-roll"
1923 Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist and mathematician
1923 Uziel Gal, German-Israeli firearm designer, designed the Uzi gun (d. 2002)
1923 Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and politician (d. 2009)
1924 Ida Haendel, Polish violinist, author (Woman with Violin)
1925 Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager
1928 Ernest Ashworth, American singer (d. 2009)
1928 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect (Kuchlbauer Tower, Waldspirale) (d. 2000)
1928 Jerry Wallace, American singer (d. 2008)
1928 Jimmy Nelson, American ventriloguist (Nestles, Farfel)
1929 Barry Harris, American pianist
1929 Keith Andrew, Engloish cricketer
1930 Alim-ud-Din, Pakistani cricketer
1930 Edna O'Brien, Irish author (Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace), poet, and playwright
1931 Evald Schorm, Czech director (Courage for Every Day)
1932 Elaine Barkin, composer
1932 Igor Stuhec, composer
1932 Jesse Belvin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1960)
1933 Bapu, Indian cartoonist and director
1933 Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (d. 2001)
1933 Jesse Belvin, American vocalist (Mr Easy)
1933 Tim Conway, American actor, comic, screenwriter, and producer (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
1936 Joe D'Amato, Italian director and producer (d. 1999)
1937 John (Thomas) Sladek, American sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs)
1937 Karen Morrow, American actress (Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour)
1938 Billy Shaw, American football player
1938 Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei
1939 Cindy Birdsong, American singer-songwriter (The Supremes, Labelle)
1939 Nicolaus A Huber, composer
1940 Nick Buoniconti, American football player, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins), sportscaster (NBC)
1941 Austin Savage, Welsh hockey player
1941 Geoffrey Davies, English actor (Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go)
1942 Dave Clark, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (The Dave Clark Five)
1942 Kathleen Blanco, American politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana
1943 Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor
1943 Mihaly Hesz, Hungarian 1K kayaker (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988)
1944 Jim Leyland, American baseball player and manager
1944 Stan Bahnsen, MLB baseball pitcher (NY Yankee, 1968 AL Rookie-of-year)
1945 Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor (Mission Impossible, Tony-Days of Our Life)
1946 Art Howe, American baseball player and manager
1946 Carmine Appice, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice, Cactus)
1946 Harry Ray, American vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 Rodney Bingenheimer, American radio host
1948 Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991)
1948 David Gwillim, English actor (Island at Top of the World)
1948 Melanie Chartoff, American actress
1949 Don Johnson, American actor (Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment) and singer
1949 Ton (Teunis) Sijbrands, Dutch world checkers champion
1951 Joe Jordan, Scottish soccer star
1951 Ken Knox, rock vocalist (Chairmen of the Board)
1952 Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer
1952 Julie Taymor, American director
1952 Marta DuBois, Panamanian-American actress
1952 Rudi Protrudi, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Fuzztones)
1953 J. M. DeMatteis, American author, comic book writer
1954 Alex Cox, director (Repo Man)
1954 Justin Ross, American actor (Sinatra, Chorus Line, Fan, Quick Change)
1954 Mark Warner, American politician, 69th Governor of Virginia
1954 Mike Ratledge, author (2DAY & NEWDAY)
1955 Melanie Chartoff, American actress (Fridays, Parker Lewis)
1955 Paul Simonon, English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Clash, Havana 3am)
1956 John Lee Hancock, Writer (The Blind Side)
1956 Tony Leon, South African politician
1956 William Orbit, English keyboard player and producer (Torch Song and Bassomatic)
1957 Chō, Japanese voice actor
1957 Laura Molina, American singer, guitarist, actress, and painter
1957 Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998)
1957 Tim Reynolds, German-American singer-songwriter and musician (Dave Matthews Band, TR3, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds)
1957 Yuuichi Nagashima, Japanese voice actor
1958 Carlo J. Caparas, Filipino director and Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper
1959 Greg Matthews, Australian cricketer
1959 Heidi Bohay, American actress (Megan-Hotel)
1959 Rashid Khan, Pakistani cricketer
1960 Don Franklin, actor (Seaquest 2032, Noah Dixon-The Young Riders)
1960 Doug Phelps, American singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1960 Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer and producer
1961 Annie Pujol, French TV hostess (Roue de la Fortune)
1961 Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist
1961 Reginald Hudlin, director (House Party)
1962 Tim Gaines, Austrian bass player (Stryper and SinDizzy)
1963 Andrew Luster, Max Factor heir
1963 Asif Karim, kenyan cricketer
1963 David Wingate, American basketball player, NBA guard & forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1963 Ellie Cornell, American actress
1963 Helen Slater, American actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People) and singer
1963 Norman J. Grossfeld, American screenwriter and producer
1964 Carlton Bailey, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1964 Jerry Ball, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings)
1965 Kimberly Donley, American Model, playmate (Mar, 1993)
1965 Walter Reeves, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1966 Carl Hooper, Guyanese cricketer
1966 Manos Papayiannis, Greek fashion model and actor
1966 Molly Price, American actress
1967 Chris Gioskos, CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 Christine Larsen, Canadian synchro swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1967 David Howells, English footballer
1967 Elix Skipper, American wrestler
1967 Frank Hartley, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers)
1967 Keith Askins, NBA guard, forward (Miami Heat)
1967 Mo Vaughn, American baseball player, infielder (Boston Red Sox, MVP-1995)
1968 Garrett Wang, American actor (Star Trek Voyager)
1968 Javid Hussain, Indian film producer
1968 Osama Ali Maher, Egyptian-Swedish politician
1969 Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete
1969 Dan Williams, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, KC Chiefs)
1969 Sean Briscombe, American diver (Olympics-96)
1969 Wayne Simmons, linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1970 Damon Thomas, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey
1970 Lawrence Funderburke, American basketball player, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1970 Michael Shanks, Canadian actor (Elysium)
1970 Mitchell Butler, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Cleveland Cavaliers)
1971 Arne Quinze, Belgian painter and sculptor
1971 Boudewijk Pahlplatz, soccer player (FC Twente, PSV)
1971 Chris Maumalanga, NFL defensive tackle (Chicago Bears, Az Cardinals)
1971 Clint Lowery, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sevendust, Dark New Day, and Call Me No One)
1971 Eric Bjornson, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 Ken Alexander, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Rodney Harrison, American football player, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Stanislav Jasecko, Slovakian hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1972 Stuart Townsend, Irish actor (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and director
1973 Geoff Stewart, Australian rower, 1 of 3 brothers (Olympics-96)
1973 James Stewart, Australian rower, 1 of 3 brothers (Olympics-96)
1973 Mike Cherry, quarterback (NY Giants)
1973 Mirko Ludemann, Weiwasser GER, NHL defenseman (Team Germany, Colorado)
1973 Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor, screenwriter, and director
1973 Surya Bonaly, French-American figure skater
1973 Tammy Melinda Pearman, American soccer forward, defender (Olympics-96)
1974 Jeffrey van der Stone, soccer player (RKC)
1976 Aaron Miles, American baseball player
1976 Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
1976 Elix Skipper, American professional wrestler
1976 Todd Tichenor, American baseball umpire
1977 Catherine Fox, 400m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 Geoff Stults, American actor (Wedding Crashers)
1977 Larissa Fontaine, American gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 Henrietta Nagyova, Nove Zamky Slovakia, tennis star (ITF/Cali-COL)
1978 Jerome McDougle, American football player
1978 Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist and songwriter (Epica, After Forever, Mayan)
1979 Adam Brody, American actor (Mr. & Mrs. Smith)
1979 Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby player
1980 Sergio Pizzorno, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kasabian)
1981 Andy González, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor (Freddy vs. Jason)
1981 Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister
1981 Firman Utina, Indonesian footballer
1981 Michelle Dockery, English actress (Hanna) and singer
1981 Najoua Belyzel, French singer
1981 Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian footballer
1981 Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)
1981 Victoria Summer, Actress (The Zombie Diaries)
1982 Borja García, Spanish race car driver
1982 Charlie Cox, English actor (Stardust)
1982 George O. Gore II, American actor
1982 Tatiana Perebiynis, Ukrainian tennis player
1983 Camilla Luddington, Actress (Tomb Raider)
1983 Delon Armitage, Trinidadian-English rugby player
1983 René Goguen (René Duprée), Canadian professional wrestler
1983 Ronnie Radke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Falling in Reverse, Escape the Fate)
1983 Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
1984 Joshua Third, British Guitarist in The Horrors.
1984 Kirsty Lee Allan, Australian actress
1984 Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer
1985 Diogo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer
1985 Sheeba Reiter, American illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason
1986 Iveta Mazáčová, Czech sprinter
1986 Junsu, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (TVXQ and JYJ)
1986 Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model
1987 Mandy Jiroux, Director and Actress (The Miley and Mandy Show)
1988 Emily Head, English actress (The Inbetweeners Movie)
1989 Megan Hurst, Actress (Hard to Be Me)
1990 James Garfunkel, Son of Art Garfunkel and Kim Garfunkel
1991 Eunice Cho, American actress (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)
1992 Natalie Grace, Actress (Neither Here Nor There)
1993 Silje Hagrim Dahl, Actress (Inkognitiv)
1994 Emma Lockhart, American actress (Batman Begins)
1995 Alina Eremia, Actress (Pariu cu viata)
1996 Avi Horowitz, Actor (My Genie)
1997 Stefania Owen, Actress (The Lovely Bones)
1998 Chandler Canterbury, American actor (Knowing)
1999 Josh Feldman, Actor (The Sleepover)
1999 Liah O'Prey, Actress (Painless)
2002 Kiwi Limone, Actress (Chooch)
2005 Daniel Oliver and Zachary Frisch, Twin Actors (One Life to Live)

HIDE

HIDE

1025 Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025) (b. 958)
1072 Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan of Persia (b. 1029)
1230 Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230) (b. 1155)
1263 Haakon IV, King of Norway (b. 1204)
1515 Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies
1576 Joachim Hopperus (Hoppers), Frisian lawyer, politician
1598 Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Flemish-Dutch politician, poet (b. 1538)
1621 Charles d'Albert, duke of Luynes, French officer (b. 1578)
1626 Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor, painter
1673 Margaret Cavendish, English writer, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (b. 1623)
1675 Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter) (b. 1632)
1683 Izaak Walton, English author (b. 1593)
1688 Gaspar Fagel, Dutch politician, lawyer, Grand pensionary (1672-88) (b. 1634)
1699 Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist
1712 Sidney, first earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance
1715 George Hickes, English minister, scholar, linguist (Old German Philology) (b. 1642)
1753 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect, designed the Chiswick House (b. 1694)
1779 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1792 Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
1816 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
1817 Maria Walewska (Leszczinska), lover of emperor Napoleon I
1822 Ferenc Verseghy, composer
1826 William Browser, revolting slave, executed
1831 Paul R Cantzlaar, Governor of Saba, Curacao, Dutch-West Indies
1839 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter
1855 Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
1861 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
1878 Alfred Bird, English chemist, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
1880 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice
1889 Ferdinand II, King of Portugal
1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux tribal chief (Little Big Horn), killed (b. 1831)
1892 Charles Balmer, composer
1896 John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist, church historian
1901 Elias Alvares Lobo, composer
1909 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer
1934 Maggis Lena Walker, First American (African-American) woman to head a bank
1939 Tom McKibbin, Australian cricketer
1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, American singer-songwriter and jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate) (b. 1904)
1944 Glenn Miller, American bandleader and jazz composer (b. 1904)
1946 Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln)
1946 Gordon Frederic Norton, composer
1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1950 Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer
1950 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Iron Man of India), Indian political leader, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
1951 Eric Drummond, First Secretary General League of Nations (1919-33)
1953 Kishio Hirao, composer
1953 Robert Stangland, American jumper (b. 1881)
1958 Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1900)
1961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player
1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame) (b. 1899)
1966 Walt Disney, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, co-founder (Walt Disney Company) (b. 1901)
1968 Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1968 Jess Willard, American boxer, Heavyweight champION (1915-1919) (b. 1881)
1969 Karl Theodor Bleek, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1898)
1971 Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1972 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1972 Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel)
1973 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer
1974 Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1977 Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 Chill Wills, American actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders) (b. 1903)
1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway)
1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation)
1984 Jan Peerce (Perelmuth), American operatic tenor (b. 1904)
1984 Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
1985 Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician, Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
1989 Arnold Moss, American actor (Gambit) (b. 1910)
1989 Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
1990 Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico)
1990 Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty)
1991 Horatio Luro, American horse trainer (Northern Dancer)
1991 Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die)
1991 Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper (b. 1915)
1993 Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan (1972-74)
1993 William Dale Phillips, American chemist (b. 1925)
1994 Hans de Jong, musician, conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor)
1994 Harry Tobias, songwriter
1994 Henry Phelps Brown, historian, economist
1994 Mollie Doreen Phillips, English figure skater (Eur-bronze-33)
1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer, socialist
1995 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Spanish Minister of Defense (1977-81)
1996 Gerald Moverley, priest
1996 Guiseppe Dossetti, politician, priest
1996 Laurens jan van der Post, explorer, conservationist
1997 Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney
1997 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar
2000 Haris Brkić, Bosnian basketball player (b. 1974)
2001 Rufus Thomas, American musician, singer, and comidian (b. 1917)
2001 Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2003 Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2004 Pauline LaFon Gore, American lawyer, Mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
2004 Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (b. 1943)
2005 Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
2005 Dhabihu'llah Mahrami, Iranian criminal (b. 1946)
2005 Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
2005 Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
2005 William Proxmire, American politician, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915)
2006 Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One race car driver (b. 1939)
2007 John Berg, American actor (b. 1949)
2007 Julia Carson, American politician, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (b. 1938)
2008 León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
2009 Oral Roberts, American televangelist and author (b. 1918)
2010 Blake Edwards, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1922)
2010 Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2010 Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American political scientist, psychoanalyst, and theorist (b. 1940)
2011 Andy Carey, MLB third baseman (New York Yankees)
2011 Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (b. 1929)
2011 Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist (b. 1949)
2011 Frank X. McDermott, American politician (b. 1924)
2011 Jason Richards, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1976)
2012 Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (b. 1929)
2012 Owoye Andrew Azazi, Nigerian general (b. 1952)
2012 Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kaduna State (b. 1948)
2012 Páidí Ó Sé, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1955)
2012 Ralph Pampena, American police officer (b. 1934)
2013 Joan Fontaine, British-American actress
2015 Ken Pogue, Canadian actor (Adderly, Katts and Dog)

HIDE

Tweet

< December 14th     Calendar    December 16th >

©partypossum.com                                        Privacy Policy