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69 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
1140 Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland, Friesland, causing floods
1561 Archbishop Granvelle installed
1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
1598 Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile, all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".
1620 William Bradford and the 103 Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1650 Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1784 John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
1788 Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
1826 American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1832 Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya of the Egyptian–Ottoman War.
1835 HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1844 The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, United Kingdom starting the Cooperative movement.
1849 1st US skating club formed (Phila)
1861 Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia
1866 Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
1872 Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.
1879 World première of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1883 The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed: .
1890 Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1898 Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
1900 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
1907 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
1907 The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in NYC
1909 U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1910 An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
1912 Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
1913 Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1914 "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
1914 First feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
1915 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
1918 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
1919 J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists, feminist Emma Goldman to Russia.
1920 Jerome Kern, BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC
1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
1925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1925 Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against NZ
1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
1929 First group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
1933 Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1936 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
1937 First feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
1941 Chicago bears win the NFL championship, Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
1941 A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand in World War II.
1942 US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
1944 Cardinals' Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1945 "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
1945 Gould, Comden, & Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in NYC
1946 "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
1946 An 8.1 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
1946 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis
1948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
1948 Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
1949 Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
1950 Cole Porte's musical "Out of this World" premieres at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs
1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
1959 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
1959 Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
1961 JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda
1962 Angolin leaves Comecon
1962 Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1962 US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
1966 USSR launches Luna 13, soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
1967 Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
1968 Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew (Borman, Lovell & Anders) on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in California
1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
1969 The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
1973 The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1975 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances
1975 "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
1975 First NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1975 64th Davis Cup, Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
1976 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1976 Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
1976 UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder
1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
1979 Lancaster House Agreement, An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London, England, United Kingdom by Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
1983 Musical "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
1983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1983 NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
1984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
1984 USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 Alice Miller & Don January win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
1986 75th Davis Cup, Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1986 Amy Alcott & Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1987 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
1988 The Lockerbie bombing, A bomb explodes on board a NY bound Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard.
1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1989 VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
1990 Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1992 A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, Portugal, killing 56.
1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
1994 Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
1995 Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996 Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
1997 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
1997 Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
1997 Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
1997 Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
1999 The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
2004 Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
2006 Puzzle Play aired to network Ten, replacing In the Box
2007 The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders.
2012 "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
2012 39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya
2012 The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar reaches the date 13.0.0.0.0
2012 The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled games to 625.

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1118 Thomas Becket, English archbishop of Canterbury (1162-1170) (d. 1170)
1401 Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
1518 Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman, politician
1537 Johan III, King of Sweden (1569-92)
1596 Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1603 Roger Williams, English theologian and politician, founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (d. 1684)
1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer
1628 Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer
1639 Jean Racin, writer
1672 Benjamin Schmolck, German composer (d. 1737)
1682 Calico Jack, English pirate (d. 1720)
1714 John Bradstreet, Canadian-born English army officer (d. 1774)
1728 Hermann Friedrich Raupach, German composer (d. 1778)
1756 Thomas Anton Kunz, composer
1778 Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1860)
1795 John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (d. 1883)
1795 Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1800 Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy) (d. 1876)
1804 Benjamin Disraeli, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868, 1874-80) (d. 1881)
1805 Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
1810 Ludwig Schuncke, composer
1811 Archibald Tait, English archbishop (d. 1882)
1815 Thomas Couture, French painter, author, and educator (d. 1879)
1818 Amalia of Oldenburg, wife of king Otto of Greece (d. 1875)
1818 Lewis H Morgan, American etnologist (Systems of Consanguinity)
1823 Jean Henri Fabre, French entomologist (insects & spiders)
1826 Ernst Pauer, composer
1832 John Henry Ketcham, American Major General (Union volunteers), and politician (d. 1906)
1840 Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
1840 Namık Kemal, Turkish poet (d. 1888)
1843 Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand poet (d. 1898)
1848 Edward Everett Rice, composer
1849 James Lane Allen, American writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
1850 William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1862)
1850 Zdeněk Fibich, Bohemian composer (d. 1900)
1851 Thomas Chipman McRae, American politician, 26th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1853 Isolde Kurz, German writer, poetess (Meine Mutter)
1859 Gustave Kahn, French poet (claimed to have invented vers libre) (d. 1936)
1860 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)
1866 Maud Gonne, English-Irish actress and activist (d. 1953)
1867 John Winter Thompson, composer
1868 George W. Fuller, American engineer (d. 1934)
1872 Albert Payson Terhune, American author (Lad, a Dog) and journalist (d. 1942)
1872 Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
1872 Sidney Ainsworth, English actor (d. 1922)
1873 Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
1874 Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua (1932-36)
1876 Jack Lang, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
1878 Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish philosopher and mathematician (d. 1956)
1879 Theodore Limperg, business economist (substitute value)
1885 Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1886 George Norman Peterkin, composer
1886 Hermann A J Kees, German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology)
1889 Sewall Wright, American biologist (d. 1988)
1890 Fred M Vinson, American Supreme Court Justice (1946-53)
1890 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1967)
1891 John William McCormack, American politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1962-1970) (d. 1980)
1892 Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980)
1892 Rebecca West (Cicily I F Andrews), English author (Meaning of Treason), and journalist (d. 1983)
1892 Walter Hagen, American PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 1919) (d. 1969)
1895 Paul Hoffer, composer
1896 Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman, KVP-min Socialist Business
1896 Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal, vice-premier of Poland
1896 Leroy Robertson, American composer (d. 1971)
1898 Ira S Bowen, American physicist, astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
1899 Guy Wilkerson, American actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron)
1900 Oda Schaefer, German author, poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only)
1900 Wischnewski, writer
1901 Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer
1901 Robin Irvine, English actor (Easy Virtue)
1905 Anthony Powell, English author (Infants of Spring) (d. 2000)
1907 Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary (Poet in Love)
1908 Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (d. 2008)
1908 Pat Weaver, American TV Executive (started Today show)
1909 George Ball, American lawyer, undersecretary of state
1909 Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery author and journalist (d. 1992)
1911 Josh Gibson, American baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs) (d. 1947)
1911 Paul Burkhard, composer
1913 Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter (d. 2010)
1913 Raich Carter, soccer star
1914 Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (d. 2010)
1914 Ivan Generalić, Austro-Hungarian-born Croatian painter (d. 1992)
1915 Joe Mantell, American actor (d. 2010)
1915 Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (Trapp Family Singers) (d. 2007)
1916 Eve Perrick, journalist
1916 John Boon, publisher
1917 Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
1917 Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
1917 Heinrich Böll, German author (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1985)
1917 Sophie Masloff, American politician, 55th Mayor of Pittsburgh
1918 Donald Regan, American politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff, US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85) (d. 2003)
1918 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician, 9th President of Austria (1986-1992), 4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-1981) (d. 2007)
1919 Gert Fredriksson, Sweedish 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1920 Bob Bindig, American illustrator (d. 2007)
1920 Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (d. 1988)
1921 Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and choreographer
1921 James Tye, safety expert
1921 Joan Dickson, cellist
1921 John Severin, American illustrator (d. 2012)
1921 Robert Lipshutz, American lawyer (d. 2010)
1922 Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989)
1922 Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist and voice actor (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith) (d. 2005)
1923 Intizar Hussain, Urdu writer and columnist of Pakistan
1924 Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
1924 Johan W "Jo" van Marle, KNVB-chairman (1980-93)
1924 Rita Reys (Maria Reijs), Dutch jazz singer
1926 Arnošt Lustig, Czech author (d. 2011)
1926 Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
1926 John Herbert McDowell, composer
1926 Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, American actor (Rio Bravo)
1927 Michael Carreras, film director
1928 Ed Nelson, American actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
1928 Thomas Rajna, composer
1929 Jack Philip Cannon, composer
1930 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
1931 Caroline Kaart (Paterson Raitt), Dutch alto singer
1931 David Baker, American composer (Reflections)
1932 Edward Hoagland, American author
1932 Ilja Zeljenka, composer
1933 Denis E. Dillon, American politician (d. 2010)
1933 Huib Eversdijk, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1933 Jackie Hendriks, West Indian cricketer
1933 Miklos Kocsar, composer
1934 Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor
1934 Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
1935 Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, 22nd Governor General of Canada
1935 John G. Avildsen, American director
1935 Lorenzo Bandini, Italian race car driver (d. 1967)
1935 Phil Donahue, American talk show host and producer (Phil Donahue Show)
1935 Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (d. 2003)
1937 Donald F. Munson, American politician
1937 Harald V, King of Norway (1991-present)
1937 Jane Fonda, American actress (Barbarella, Klute, Coming Home)
1938 Frank Moorhouse, Australian author
1938 Larry Bryggman, American actor (Dr John Dixon-As the World Turns)
1939 Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian politician
1940 Arvi Lind, Finnish journalist
1940 Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Mothers of Invention) (d. 1993)
1940 Paul (Ray Hildebrand), American singer (Hey Paula)
1940 Ray Hildebrand, American singer-songwriter (Paul & Paula)
1942 Carla Thomas, American singer (Let Me Be Good to You)
1942 Hu Jintao, Chinese politician, 6th President of the People's Republic of China
1942 Reinhard Mey, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 Albert Lee, English guitarist and songwriter (Heads Hands & Feet and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings)
1943 André Arthur. Canadian radio host and politician
1943 Jack Nance, American actor (Rubbed Out) (d. 1996)
1943 Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
1944 Bill Atkinson, English footballer
1944 Jared Martin, American actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
1944 Michael Tilson Thomas, American pianist, conductor (NY Phil Young People), and composer
1944 Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat (d. 2007)
1945 Doug Walters, Australian cricketer
1945 Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut (STS 40)
1946 Carl Dean Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
1946 Christopher Keene, American conductor (La Traviata) (d. 1995)
1946 Josh Mostel, American actor (Windy City, Animal Behavior, Money Pit)
1947 Bryan Hamilton, Irish footballer
1947 Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist and songwriter
1948 Barry Gordon, American actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
1948 Carol Potter, American actress (Beverly Hills 90210, Today's FBI)
1948 Dave Kingman, American baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
1948 Samuel L. Jackson, American actor and producer (Amos & Andrew, White Sand, Pulp Fiction)
1948 Willem Vermeend, Dutch economist, undersecretary of Finance (1994-)
1948 Willi Resetarits, Austrian singer and activist
1949 Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek politician
1949 Thomas Sankara, Burkinabé military leader and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
1950 Jeffrey Katzenberg, American film producer, co-founded DreamWorks Animation
1950 Lillebjørn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gitarkameratene)
1951 Nick Gilder, English-Canadian singer-songwriter (Sweeney Todd)
1952 Dennis Boutsikaris, American actor (Batteries Not Included)
1952 Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player
1952 Steve Furniss, American swimmer (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1953 Andras Schiff, Hungarian pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
1953 Arie Luyendyk, Dutch Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500)
1953 Betty Wright, American gospel singer-songwriter, TV hostess (Little Miss Broadway)
1953 Tina Brown, journalist (New Yorker)
1954 Chris Evert, American tennis player
1955 Jane Kaczmarek, American actress (Malcolm in the Middle, Pleasantville
1955 Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (Southern All Stars)
1956 Kevin Burnham, American 470 yachter (Olympics-8th-1992, 96)
1956 Lee Roy Parnell, American country singer (Oughta be a Law)
1956 Phil Harris, American fisherman (d. 2010)
1957 Joshua Mostel, American actor (Delta House, At Ease)
1957 Lisa Gerritsen, American actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1957 Ray Romano, Italian-American comedian and actor (Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1957 Rolf Kanies, German actor
1957 Tom Henke, American baseball player
1959 Florence Griffith-Joyner, American sprinter (Olympic-3 gold-1988) (d. 1998)
1960 Andy Van Slyke, American baseball player
1960 Louis Demetrius Alvanis, London-based pianist
1960 Michael Swain, Elizabeth NJ, judoka (Olympics-bronze-88)
1960 Roger McDowell, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
1960 Sherry Rehman, Pakistani journalist, politician, and diplomat, 25th Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
1961 Del Wilkes, American wrestler
1961 Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
1961 Henry Ford Kamel, Ghanaian banker and politician (d. 2012)
1961 Ryuji Sasai, Japanese composer
1961 Trevor Bayliss, Australian cricketer
1962 Christy Forester, Amerian country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1963 Govinda, Indian actor and politician
1964 Ed Jongsma, Dutch pop bassist (Sleeze Beez-Look Like Hell)
1964 Fabiana Udenio, Argentine actress (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
1964 Joe Kocur, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1964 Keith Taylor, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1964 Rob Kelly, English footballer and manager
1965 Andy Dick, American actor (Matthew-Newsradio) and comedian
1965 Anke Engelke, Canadian-German comedian and actress
1965 Danielle von Zerneck, Actress (General Hospital)
1965 Gabrielle Glaser, musician (Luscious Jackson)
1965 Rodney Thomas, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1965 Stuart Mitchell, Scottish composer
1965 Sue Thomas, American LPGA golfer (1991 Orix Hawaiian Ladies-14th)
1966 Adam Schefter, American journalist
1966 Karri Turner, American actress
1966 Kiefer Sutherland, English-Canadian actor (24), director, and producer
1966 Michelle Hurd, Actress (Random Hearts)
1967 Ervin Johnson, American basketball player, NBA center (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1967 Fritz Karl, Austrian actor
1967 Kristi Cooke, American Miss Ohio-America (1991)
1967 Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian politician, 3rd President of Georgia
1967 Terry Mills, American basketball player, NBA forward (Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons)
1968 Anthony Lynn, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 Khrystyne Haje, American actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
1969 Chuck Smith, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 Jack Noseworthy, American actor (Event Horizon)
1969 Julie Delpy, French actress (Before Sunset)
1969 Leon Searcy, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers, Jackson Jaguars)
1969 Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer
1970 Irving Spikes, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1970 Monique Ambers, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1970 Ronnie Woolfork, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Brett Scallions, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fuel, Manzarek–Krieger, Circus Diablo)
1971 Ernest Hunter, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Fenton Keogh, Australian celebrity chef
1971 Irena Slavutskay, Israeli athlete (Oly-1996)
1971 Jey Phillips, WLAF DB (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Matthieu Chedid, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 Tommie Boyd, NFL & WLAF receiver (Detroit Lions, Rhein Fire)
1972 Claudia Poll, Costa Rican swimmer
1972 Dustin Hermanson, American baseball player
1972 Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan opera singer
1972 Gloria De Piero, English journalist
1972 LaTroy Hawkins, American baseball player
1972 Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, Indian politician
1973 Irakli Alasania, Georgian politician and diplomat
1973 Karmen Stavec, German-Slovenian singer
1973 Mike Alstott, American football player, fullback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 Karrie Webb, Australian LPGA golfer (1994 Aust Strokeplay)
1974 Raymond Austin, cornerback/safety (NY Jets)
1974 Tommie Boyd, wide reciever (Detroit Lions)
1975 Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
1976 Lukas Rossi, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rock Star Supernova and Daylight Division)
1976 Mirela Manjani, Greek javelin thrower
1977 A. J. Bowen, American actor
1977 Toby Rand, Australian singer-songwriter (Juke Kartel)
1978 Amber Corwin, American figure skater (1997 National Sr 5th)
1978 Emiliano Brembilla, Italian swimmer
1978 Michael Vitar, American actor (D2, D3, Sunset Grill, Sandlot Kids)
1978 Mike Vitar, American actor (The Sandlot)
1979 Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress (Jalla! Jalla!) and singer
1980 Michele Di Piedi, Italian footballer
1980 Royce Ring, American Major League Baseball Player
1981 Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
1981 Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, castmember (Real World: San Diego) (d. 2007)
1981 Lynda Thomas, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
1981 Mohammed Jabarah, Kuwaiti terrorist
1981 Sajid Mahmood, English cricketer
1981 Sanita Pušpure, Latvian-Irish rower
1982 Eddie Colón, Puerto Rican wrestler
1982 Erica Hayden, American journalist, psychotherapist, and radio personality
1982 Iljo Keisse, Belgian cyclist
1982 Mike Gansey, American basketball player
1982 Philip Humber, American baseball player
1982 Tom Payne, English actor
1984 Darren Potter, Irish footballer
1984 Jackson Rathbone, American Actor (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2)
1985 James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
1985 Tom Sturridge, English actor (Pirate Radio)
1986 Willie Grady, Writer (Battle Royale)
1987 Brad Howard, Australian footballer
1987 Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress
1988 Alexa Goddard, English singer
1988 Yasmin, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and DJ
1989 Mark Ingram Jr., American football player
1989 Tamannaah, Indian actress
1990 Shane Graham, Actor (The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D)
1991 Christina Peifer, Actress (Freche Mädchen)
1992 Whitney Lee, Actress (Saving Sarah Cain)
1993 Jinger Duggar, Reality TV Star (17 Children and Counting)
1994 Elijah Runcorn, Actor (Fellowship)
1995 Arthur Young, Actor (Daddy Day Care)
1996 Lexie Behr, Actress (Children of the Corn)
1997 Bryce Hitchcock, Actress (I've Loved You So Long)
1998 Kenjy Frélaut Actor (The Villain)
1999 Yuria Nara, Actress (Ponyo)
2001 Seamus McNulty, American Actor
2006 Irelyn, Layne, Drayden, Kieran, and landyn Ferrill, Reality TV Stars (Quint-essential)

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72 Thomas the Apostle (b. 1 AD)
882 Hincmar, French archbishop (b. 806)
918 Conrad I, Duke of Franconia, German King (911-918)
1295 Margaret of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (bc. 1221)
1308 Henry I, the Child, First Landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308) (b. 1244)
1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet (Vita di Dante) (b. 1313)
1504 Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
1549 Marguerite de Navarre, French wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1579 Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
1597 Peter Canisius, Dutch priest, saint (b. 1521)
1674 Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse
1734 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
1736 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1755 Caspar Ruetz, composer
1799 Philip Affleck, English admiral (b. 1726)
1807 John Newton, English soldier, hymnist, and clergyman (b. 1725)
1820 Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer
1824 James Parkinson, English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist (b. 1755)
1859 Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian, archivist
1864 William Henry Fry, composer
1869 Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
1873 Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
1889 Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
1889 Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist, Bishop of Durham
1890 Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer
1900 Roger Wolcott, American political figure, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1847)
1906 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
1907 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths)
1914 A O Jones, English cricketer
1920 Claude Tozer, Australian cricketer, shot to death
1920 Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian military leader, founded the Dervish state (b. 1856)
1921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician
1927 Jack Saunders, Australian cricketer
1928 Harry Butt, English cricketer
1928 Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WW I, Caporetto)
1933 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule)
1933 Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879)
1935 Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, writer (Panter, Tiger & Co) (b. 1890)
1937 Frank B. Kellogg, American politician, 45th United States Secretary of State (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1856)
1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author (Zelda) (b. 1896)
1942 Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp)
1945 George S. Patton, American military commander (Sicily, Normandy), dies in car crash (b. 1885)
1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General, Minister of War, hanged
1952 Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (b. 1886)
1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father)
1956 Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius)
1957 Eric Coates, English-American composer (b. 1886)
1958 H(arry) B(yron) Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon)
1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, German author (Der falsche Nero), philosopher (b. 1884)
1959 Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1963 Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882)
1964 Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (b. 1880)
1965 Claude Adonai Champagne, Canadian composer (b. 1891)
1967 Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant
1967 Stuart Erwin, American actor (Trouble With Father) (b. 1903)
1968 Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football coach (b. 1886)
1972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa)
1974 James Henry Govier, English painter (b. 1910)
1974 Richard Long, American actor (Nanny & Professor) (b. 1927)
1975 William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater)
1976 Edward Bartlett, West Indian cricketer
1979 Bill Anderson, New Zealand cricketer
1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please)
1981 Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1982 Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri, Pakistani poet and composer (b. 1900)
1983 Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic (b. 1919)
1983 Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede)
1986 Bill Simpson, Scottish actor (b. 1931)
1987 John Spence, American singer (No Doubt) (b. 1969)
1987 Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong)
1988 Bob Steele (Robert Bradbury)
1988 Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1907)
1989 Jan Cikker, composer
1989 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-English photographer (b.1955)
1990 Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aeronautical engineer, designer (Lockheed U-2, Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird) (b. 1910)
1992 Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (Crosscut Saw), and producer (b. 1924)
1992 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American violinist (Beethoven, Bach) (b. 1903)
1992 Stella Adler, American actress (Love on Toast)
1992 Sybil Andrews, English-Canadian painter
1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon)
1994 Dean Rusk, US Sect of State
1994 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer
1995 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law
1995 Trenchard Cox, museum director
1996 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books
1996 Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts
1997 Amie Comeaux, American singer (b. 1976)
1997 Bruce Woodcock, boxer
1997 Juzo Itami, film director, actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade)
1997 Michael Lyne, air-marshal
1998 Ernst Gunther Schenck, German physician, joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 {b. 1904)
1998 Karl Denver, Scottish singer (b. 1931)
1998 Roger Avon, Durham actor (b. 1914)
2001 Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
2003 Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish playboy and businessman (b. 1924)
2004 Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
2005 Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
2006 Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen politician, First President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2006 Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (b. 1914)
2007 Ken Hendricks, American businessman, founder (ABC Supply) (b. 1941)
2009 Christos Lambrakis, Greek businessman (b. 1934)
2009 Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist (b. 1918)
2010 Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2012 Boyd Bartley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2012 Curtis Crider, American race car driver (b. 1930)
2012 David Lomon, English soldier (b. 1918)
2012 Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (b. 1956)
2012 Lee Dorman, American bass player (Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond) (b. 1942)
2012 Shane McEntee, Irish politician (b. 1956)
2012 Thomas W. McGee, American politician (b. 1924)
2013 Eli Beeding, American Air Force Captain and rocket test pilot
2014 Sonia d’Artois, British Canadian WWII resistance agent
2014 Billie Whitelaw, English actress

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