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69 Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1769 Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce.
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1790 The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
1807 The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries in orderto force peace between Britain & France, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.
1808 Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1849 The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
1851 India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1862 Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
1864 Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".
1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1885 Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1886 1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1890 Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
1891 Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 The Dreyfus affair begins. French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1894 United States Golf Association forms (NYC)
1907 Saint-Saëns & Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati, Federal Baseball League disolved
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1920 The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in NYC
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 First common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1937 The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York, New York.
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany, 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1939 Indian Muslims observe a "Day of Deliverance" to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with the United Kingdom.
1940 Himarë is captured by the Greek army in World War II.
1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC for a wartime conference
1942 Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon during World War II.
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium in World War II.
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1944 Battle of the Bulge of World War II, German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"
1944 The Vietnam People's Army is formed during World War II to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
1945 Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1946 Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1947 The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
1951 The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1956 Colo, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity, is born at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio.
1956 Last British & French troops leave Egypt
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
1963 The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles (290 km) north of Madeira, Portugal with the loss of 128 lives.
1964 Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity.
1964 The first test flightof the Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft (Blackbird) at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. It reaches 3,530 kph, a record for a jet.
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago," premieres
1965 In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British, lasts until approx April 1975
1974 Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 perfs
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1976 German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1978 The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 President-elect Ronald Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) & James Watt (Interior)
1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1982 William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in NYC
1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots four African American would-be muggers on a NYC subway express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York.
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1985 74th Davis Cup, Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1986 India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1987 In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
1987 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
1988 Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
1989 -18°F in Denver, -23°F in KC Mo, -42°F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47°F in Hardin Mont & -60°F in Black Hills South Dakota
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
1989 Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 Cold wave, -4°F in Oklahoma City, -6°F in Tulsa, -12°F in Pitts
1989 Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest with a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
1990 Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1990 The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.
1991 Armed opposition groups launch a military coup against President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1992 The Archives of Terror are discovered.
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 perfs
1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with Eng need 1 to win
1997 Acteal massacre, Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
1998 Hurricane Quinto strikes the Cayman Islands, knocking out power to the entire island for 2 days. Looting is rampant, but contained after 12 hours.
1999 Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed.
1999 The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21, 1999).
2001 Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
2001 Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2002 Joe Strummer, lead singer of the British punk band The Clash, dies at age 50
2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California.
2008 An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of coal fly ash slurry.
2010 The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
2012 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus
2012 8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan
2012 Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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244 Diocletian, Roman emperor (d. 311)
1095 Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)
1178 Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
1400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
1428 Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
1459 Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
1515 Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland
1523 Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
1546 Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)
1550 Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
1573 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz, mayor of Frisia, Groningen
1624 Tomas Micieres, composer
1639 Jean Racine, French playwright (d. 1699)
1643 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)
1666 Guru Gobind Singh, Indian Sikh guru (d. 1708)
1684 Johann J Dillenius (Dillen), German botanist (Historia Muscorum)
1690 Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)
1694 Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)
1696 James Oglethorpe, English General, Author, founder (Province of Georgia) (d. 1785)
1700 Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent
1702 Jean E Liotard (Turk), Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay)
1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer, viola player (d. 1787)
1727 William Ellery, American attorney, signer (Declar of Independence)
1728 Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden
1744 Abigail Adams, American 2nd first lady (1797-1801)
1753 Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher (Scottish common sense)
1761 Dorothea Jordan, Irish-French comedic actress
1764 Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvian mystic visionary renounced nobility
1765 Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
1767 Andreas Hofer, Rebellion leader (fought Napoleon's France)
1768 John (Old) Crome, English landscape painter, etcher
1787 Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar
1795 Thomas Ainsworth, English-Dutch industrialist (Twentse textile)
1803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1805 John Obadiah Westwood, English entomologist and archaeologist (d. 1893)
1807 Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)
1808 Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son)
1809 Benedict Augustin Morel, French psychologist (dementia praecox)
1812 Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress (Romeo & Juliet)
1815 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian
1815 Lucien Petipa, French dancer, choreographer, ballet leader
1819 Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer, choir conductor (d. 1870)
1819 George Eliot, English Victorian novelist (Adam Bede)
1819 Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892)
1821 Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1826 James Scott Negley,  Major General ((Union volunteers) (d. 1901)
1830 Justin M'Carthy, Irish politician, novelist (Miss Misanthrope)
1831 Mark Rutherford, writer
1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1874)
1832 Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1889)
1842 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet
1842 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer
1844 Izydor Lotto, composer
1846 Andreas Hallen, composer
1849 Fritz Mauthner, Bohemian-German author, philosopher (skepticism)
1853 Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor
1853 Sarada Devi, Indian philosopher (d. 1920)
1853 Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan singer, composer, and pianist (d. 1917)
1853 Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919)
1856 Frank B. Kellogg, American politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, tried to outlaw war (1925-1929) (Nobel Prize laureate 1929) (d. 1937)
1857 George (Robert) Gissing, English novelist
1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian opera composer (La bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly) (d. 1924)
1859 Cecil (James)  Sharp, English folk musician
1860 Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator, developer (the Palmer Method) (d. 1927)
1861 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology)
1862 Connie Mack, American baseball player, manager (Phila A's 1900-1950), Hall Of Fame executive (d. 1956)
1863 Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter
1863 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier, explorer (Sudan)
1865 Charles Sands, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1945)
1866 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer
1867 Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer, critic
1867 Joseph (Maria) Olbrich, German architect (Wiener Sezession)
1867 (Karl Eduard) Wilhelm Groener, German Soldier and politician
1868 John Nance Garner, Texas, (VP-D-1933-41)
1869 Andre(-Paul-Guillaume) Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947)
1869 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (Richard Corey) (d. 1935)
1872 Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961)
1873 L(eopold) S(tennett) Amery, British politician
1873 Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Austria-Hungary, linguist
1874 Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
1874 Herman Harrell Horne, American philosopher (idealism)
1875 Antoine Mariotte, composer
1875 John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor (Dead Water)
1876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, writer (Futurism e Futurista) (d. 1944)
1877 Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet
1878 Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (d. 1925)
1879 Ralph Hawtrey, English economist (multiplier)
1879 Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion (1925)
1881 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician
1882 Charles Vildrac, French poet, playwright
1883 Arthur James Cook, English union leader (coal miners)
1883 Edgard Varèse French-American composer (d. 1965)
1883 Marcus Hurley, American cyclist (d. 1941)
1885 Abe Manley, American businessman (d. 1952)
1885 Joseph Deems Taylor, American conductor, composer (Peter Ibbetson), and critic (d. 1966)
1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1888 Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate, First Baron Rank, founder (Rank Organisation) (d. 1972)
1889 Mikha`il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright
1889 Minor Watson, American actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid) (d. 1965)
1890 Harry Pollitt, English General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain
1890 Mark Tobey, American abstract painter (Broadway Norm)
1891 Edward L Bernays, Austrian 1st public relations agent
1892 Herman Potočnik, Croatian engineer (d. 1929)
1896 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet
1898 Lionel Charles Robbins, English economist
1898 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974)
1899 Gustav Gründgens, German actor, director (M) (d. 1963)
1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer
1900 Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist, teacher
1900 Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1901 Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American orchestra leader (Lincoln Portrari) (d. 1980)
1902 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, French WW II hero (liberator of Paris)
1902 Joe Adonis, Italian-American crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ
1903 Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across US in 86 days in 1960
1903 Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist (Nobel Prize laureate 1967) (d. 1983)
1903 Marc Lavry, composer
1904 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, French physicist (Nobel 1970)
1905 Kenneth Rexroth, American poet, critic, translator (Birds in the Bush) (d. 1982)
1905 Pierre Brasseur (Espinasse), French actor (Enfants du Paradis) (d. 1972)
1907 Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days) (d. 1991)
1907 Yoshio Hasegawa, composer
1908 Marius F Duintjer, Dutch architect
1908 Max Bill, Swiss painter, sculptor, politician (Ruban Sans Fin)
1909 Alan Carney (David Boughal), American actor (Zombies on Broadway)
1909 Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)
1910 Richard Ainley, English actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion)
1911 Grote Reber, American astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope)
1912 Claudia A "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, American wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, 38th First Lady of the United States (1963-1969) (d. 2007)
1912 Doris Duke, American heiress (American Tobacco Co)
1912 Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer (d. 1943)
1912 Henry Armstrong, Boxer, held feather, light, welterweight boxing titles (1938)
1913 Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller
1914 Satchidananda Saraswati, Indian-American guru (d. 2002)
1915 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010)
1917 Andrew Fielding Huxley, London England, physiologist (Nobel 1963) (d. 2012)
1917 Gene Rayburn, American TV game show host (Match Game) (d. 1999)
1917 Piet De Somer, Belgian rector (U of Leuven)
1918 Frankie Darro, American actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men)
1918 William Kennedy, baseball player
1919 Lil Green, American singer-songwriter (d. 1954)
1921 Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist (d. 1996)
1921 Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ozark Jubilee) (d. 1963)
1921 Robert Frank Kurka, composer
1922 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (June-Leave it to Beaver)
1922 Calder Willingham, novelist, scriptwriter
1922 Jack Brooks, American politician (d. 2012)
1922 James C Wright Jr, (Rep-D-Texas) Speaker of House (1987-89)
1922 Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999)
1923 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor, director
1924 Frank Corsaro, American opera director
1924 Geraldine Page, American actress (Interiors, Beguiled)
1925 Gunther Schuller, American jazz composer
1925 Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006)
1925 Thomas Christian David, composer
1926 Peggy Castle, American actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman)
1928 Piero Angelo, Italian writer (Control)
1929 Jan Wiegel, director, producer (Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada)
1929 Wazir Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
1930 Larry Stevenson (Richard), American skateboard innovator (kicktail) (d. 2012)
1930 Peter Hall, English director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1932 Joe Clark, American WLAF off coordinator coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1934 David Pearson, American race car driver
1935 John L Finley, USAF astronaut
1935 Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov, Russian pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1936 Héctor Elizondo, American actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love, Pretty Woman)
1936 James Burke, Irish author and broadcaster
1936 Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
1937 Charlotte Lamb, English author (d. 2000)
1937 Eduard Uspensky, Russian author
1937 Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician
1938 Lucien Bouchard, Canadian politician, 27th Premier of Quebec
1938 Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player
1939 James Gurley, American guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 2009)
1940 Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian politician (d. 2009)
1942 Dick Parry, English saxophonist (Jokers Wild)
1942 Jerry Koosman, American baseball player
1943 Paul Wolfowitz, American politician, 25th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
1943 Stefan Janos, Slovak-Swiss physicist
1944 Barry Jenkins, English drummer (The Animals)
1944 Guido de Angelis, Italian singer (Guido & Maurizio De Angelis)
1944 Steve Carlton, American baseball player, pitcher (Phillies) (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82)
1945 Diane Sawyer, American journalist, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)
1945 Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister (1994-, VVD)
1945 Marianne van Wijnkoop (Bosscher), Dutch actress (Les Miserables)
1946 Rick Nielsen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cheap Trick)
1946 Roberta Speer, LPGA golfer
1947 Brian C Daley, American sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron) (d. 1996)
1947 Dilip Doshi, Indian cricketer
1948 Chris Old, English cricketer
1948 Flip Mark, American actor
1948 Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003)
1948 Noel Edmonds, English game show host, TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
1948 Steve Garvey, American baseball player, first baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
1949 Maurice Gibb, English singer-songwriter bass player and producer (The Bee Gees, The Bloomfields) (d. 2003)
1949 Michael Osborne, American guitarist, vocalist (Axe)
1949 Robin Gibb, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Bee Gees) (d. 2012)
1951 Charles de Lint, Dutch sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)
1951 Dan Martin, American voice actor
1951 Gerald Grosvenor, Irish-English businessman, 6th duke of Westminster, billionaire
1951 Jan Stephenson, Australian golfer (LPGA Rookie of Year-1974)
1953 Bernnadette Stanis, American actress (Thelma-Good Times)
1953 David Leisner, composer
1953 Gregor Fisher, Actor (Love Actually)
1953 Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 Tom Underwood, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1954 Derick Parry, West Indian cricketer
1954 Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese race car driver
1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader
1955 Lonnie Smith, American baseball player
1956 Marcy Hanson, American playmate (Oct, 1978)
1957 Carole James, Canadian politician
1957 Lynne Thigpen, American actress (Nancy-Love Sidney)
1957 Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist (Deacon Blue-Raintown)
1957 Susan Powter, Australian author, motivational speaker, talk show host (Susan Powter Show)
1958 David Heavener, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director
1958 Frank Gambale, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Chick Corea Elektric Band, Return to Forever, Vital Information)
1958 Lenny Von Dohlen, American actor (Love Kills, Electric Dreams)
1959 Bernd Schuster, German footballer
1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American graffiti artist, painter (Gray, SAMO), and poet (d. 1988)
1960 Luther Campbell (Luke), American rapper (2 Live Crew)
1960 Mark Brydon, English guitarist, composer, and producer (Moloko, Chakk, and Krush)
1960 Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney
1960 Tyrell Biggs, American super HeavyWeight boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 Wakin Chau, Hong Kong-Taiwanese singer and actor (Superband)
1961 Andrew Fastow, American businessman
1961 Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-19)
1962 Ralph Nathaniel Fiennes, English actor (English Patient, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)
1963 Brian McMillan, South African cricketer
1963 Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer
1963 Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealist painter
1964 Mike Jackson, American pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1965 David S. Goyer, Writer (Batman Begins)
1966 Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
1966 Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, German singer and bass player (Destruction)
1967 Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer and manager
1967 Mike Sullivan, NFL center (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 Paul Morris, Australian race car driver
1967 Richey James Edwards, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manic Street Preachers), disappeared in 1995 (d. 1995)
1967 Roland Holder, West Indian cricketer
1967 Sean Foster, WLAF wide reciever (Rhein Fire)
1967 Stéphane Gendron, Canadian politician
1968 Dina Meyer, American actress (Starship Troopers)
1968 Lauralee "Bug" Bell, American actress (Cricket-Young & Restless)
1968 Luis Hernández, Mexican footballer
1969 Andrew Scott, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1969 Greg Biffle, American race car driver
1969 Marcie Aguilar, American female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 Myriam Bédard, Canadian biathlete
1970 Brooks Findlay, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1970 Gary Anderson, Scottish darts player
1971 Deborah Twiss, Actress (Kick-Ass)
1971 Pat Mastroianni, Canadian actor
1972 Andrew Moore, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Anthony Edwards, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Big Tigger, American radio and television host
1972 Kirk Maltby, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 Mike Thompson, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Vanessa Paradis, French singer, actress (White Wedding, Girl on the Bridge), model (Channel)
1973 Annie Pelletier, Canadian 3m diver (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 Jamel Williams, safety (Washington Redskins)
1973 Traci Dinwiddie, Actress (The Notebook)
1974 Heather Donahue, American actress
1974 Michael Barron, English footballer and coach
1975 Chris Adler, American actor
1975 Crissy Moran, American erotic actress
1975 Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer
1975 Sergei Aschwanden, Swiss martial artist
1975 Stanislav Neckář, Czech ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Oly-G-98)
1976 Brian A. Alexander, American screenwriter and director
1976 Jason Lane, American Baseball Player
1976 Katleen De Caluwé, Belgian sprinter
1977 Joanna Hughes, Australian gymnast (Olympics-96)
1977 Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 Emmanuel Olisadebe, Nigerian-Polish footballer
1978 Joanne Kelly, Canadian actress
1979 Vanessa Paradis, Actress (Girl on the Bridge)
1979 Jamie Langfield, Scottish footbaler
1980 Chris Carmack, American actor (The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations)
1981 Brandi Cunningham, Actress (Evil Bong)
1982 Brooke Nevin, Canadian actress (Infestation)
1983 Drew Hankinson, American wrestler
1983 Jennifer Hawkins, Australian model (Miss Universe 2004)
1983 Joe Dinicol, Actor (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
1984 Basshunter, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
1985 Nick Packard, Actor (Mystery Team)
1986 Dennis Armfield, Australian footballer
1986 Jeffery Wood, actor (Austin Warren-In The House)
1986 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian terrorist
1987 Éderzito António Macedo Lopes, Guinea-Bissauan footballer
1988 Leigh Halfpenny, Welsh rugby player
1989 Jharal Yow Yeh, Australian rugby player
1989 Jordin Sparks, American singer-songwriter (Battlefield), actress, American Idol winner
1989 Logan Huffman, American actor
1990 Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer
1990 Josef Newgarden American race car driver
1991 Samantha Burton, Actress (The Sandlot 2)
1992 Michaela Hončová, Slovak tennis player
1993 Aliana Lohan, American singer and actress
1994 Syrene Taylor, Actress (Monsterpiece Theatre Volume 1)
1995 Remy Thorne, Actor (Bad)
1996 Makisig Morales, Filipino singer and actor (Mak and the Dudes)
1997 Michael Rowlands, Actor (Into the Air: A Kiteboarding Experience)
1998 G. Hannelius, American actress (Den Brother) and singer
2002 Logan Kulick, Actor (Burn After Reading)

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69 Aulus Vitellius, Roman Emperor for 8 months, executed by the troops of his successor Vespasian in Rome (b. 15)
1100 Bretislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1060)
1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan
1419 John XXIII (Baldassare Cossa), Italian Pope (1410-15)
1440 Bluebeard, pirate, executed
1550 Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell), English bricklayer possibly a son of Richard III (b. 1469)
1603 Mehmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595-1603) (b. 1566)
1646 Peter Mogila, Moldavian bishop, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1660 André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)
1668 Stephen Day, first British colonial printer
1681 Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1611)
1708 Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (b. 1681)
1721 Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
1723 Jacques Basnage, French-Dutch historian, vicar
1738 Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed) (b. 1708)
1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer
1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1767 John Newbery, English publisher (b. 1713)
1788 Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714)
1797 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
1806 William Vernon, American merchant (b. 1719)
1815 Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
1828 Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson
1828 William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
1832 Ishmail Spicer, composer
1863 Michael Corcoran, Union brig-general
1867 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics) (b. 1788)
1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator
1870 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (b. 1836)
1874 Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1875 Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer
1880 George Eliot, English author (Adam Bede) and journalist (b. 1819)
1893 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
1893 Johann Czerski, German chaplain
1899 Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founder (Moody Publishers, Student Volunteer Movement) (b. 1837)
1902 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840)
1908 Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher, fairy tale writer
1913 Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
1917 Frances Xavier Cabrini, Austrian-American saint, patron of immigrants (b. 1850)
1918 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author, mayor, painter
1918 Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek aviator (b. 1891)
1919 Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
1923 Arthur H Bird, composer
1937 Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji
1939 Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", American blues singer, composer (b. 1886)
1940 Nathanael West (Weinstein), American author (Cool Million), and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1941 Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1942 Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
1943 Beatrix Potter, English author and illustrator (b. 1866)
1944 Antoine Mariotte, composer
1944 Eleni Papadaki, Greek actress (b. 1903)
1944 Harry Langdon, American actor, comic, director (Heart Trouble) (b. 1884)
1945 Otto Neurath, Austrian-British philosopher
1947 Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
1950 Frederick Freake, English polo player (b. 1876)
1950 Julius Weismann, composer
1950 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
1951 Powell Weaver, composer
1955 Jules De Bisschop, Belgian rower (b. 1879)
1955 Len Braund, English cricketer
1955 Otto Eppers, American illustrator (b. 1893)
1958 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement)
1959 Gilda Gray, Polish-American dancer and actress (Piccadilly) (b. 1901)
1960 Ninian Comper, Scottish architect (b. 1864)
1963 Giovanni Giorgio Trissino, Italian horse rider (b. 1877)
1964 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
1965 Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum)
1965 Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1913)
1967 Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1968 Louise Granville, entertainer
1968 Raymond Gram Swing, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1887)
1969 Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel)
1969 Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror)
1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express)
1971 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch author (Eric) (b. 1913)
1971 Renee Evans, entertainer
1973 Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer
1973 Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas
1974 Fosco Giachetti, entertainer
1974 Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer
1974 Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor)
1974 Sterling North, American author (b. 1906)
1977 Johann Nepomuk David, composer
1979 Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, and producer (20th Century Fox) (b. 1902)
1980 Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered
1985 D. Boon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Minutemen, The Reactionaries) (b. 1958)
1986 Celius Dougherty, composer
1986 Mary Burchell, English author and activist (b. 1904)
1987 Alice Terry (Taaffe), actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1987 Leonidas Zoras, composer
1987 Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sumo) (b. 1953)
1988 Chico Mendes, Brazilian activist (b. 1944)
1988 Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story)
1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish-French author (Molloy), and playwright (Nobel Prize laureate 1969) (b. 1906)
1990 Cecil Effinger, composer
1990 Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd)
1991 Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer (Orpheus & Eurydike)
1992 Frederick William Franz, American religious leader, CEO (Watch Tower) (b. 1893)
1992 Harry Bluestone, English violinist and composer (b. 1907)
1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!)
1993 Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel)
1995 Butterfly McQueen, American actress (Gone With the Wind) and dancer (b. 1911)
1995 James Meade, English economist (Bank of Sweden Prize winner) (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1907)
1996 Hetta Empson, artist
1996 Jack Hamm, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
1997 Dawn Steel, producer, president (Col TriStar)
1997 Douglas Ranger, surgeon
1997 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford
1997 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist
1997 Johnny Coles, trumpeter
1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide
1997 Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Cuban activist (b. 1931)
1998 Michelle Thomas, American actress (b. 1969)
2001 Ovidiu Iacov, Romanian footballer (b. 1981)
2002 Desmond Hoyte, Guyanan politician, 3rd President of Guyana (b. 1929)
2002 Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Clash, The Mescaleros, and The Pogues) (b. 1952)
2003 Dave Dudley, American singer (b. 1928)
2004 Doug Ault, American baseball player (b. 1950)
2006 Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
2006 Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
2006 Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
2007 Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and playwright (b. 1932)
2009 Albert Scanlon, English footballer (b. 1935)
2009 Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian politician (b. 1940)
2010 Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (b. 1921)
2012 Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter (b. 1924)
2012 Arthur Quinlan, Irish journalist (b. 1923)
2012 Bashir Ahmad Bilour, Pakistani politician (b. 1943)
2012 Bill Leger, American journalist (b. 1964)
2012 Bill McBride, American lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
2012 Bolesław Proch, Polish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2012 Chuck Cherundolo, American football player and coach (b. 1916)
2012 Cliff Osmond, American actor (b. 1937)
2012 Emidio Greco, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2012 Květa Legátová, Czech author (b. 1919)
2012 Lim Keng Yaik, Malaysian politician (b. 1939)
2012 Mariam Amash, Ottoman-Israeli super-centenarian (b. 1888)
2012 Marva Whitney, American singer (b. 1944)
2012 Mike Scaccia, American guitarist (Ministry, Rigor Mortis, Lard, League of Blind Women) (b. 1965)
2012 Rip Hawk, American wrestler (b. 1930)
2012 Robert Pew, American businessman (b. 1923)
2012 Ryan Freel, American baseball player (b. 1976)
2013 Ed Herrmann, American baseball player
2014 Joe Cocker, English rock musician (With a Little Help from My Friends)

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