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418 St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
457 Majorian is crowned emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Pope Leo I.
484 Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
801 Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
893 An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
1065 Westminister Abbey is consecrated in London.
1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono, emperor of Japan, begins.
1612 Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
1614 Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
1732 1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
1768 King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
1795 Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
1816 American Colonization Society organizes
1821 Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna from Naples
1828 6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
1832 John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign (differences with Pres Jackson).
1835 Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1836 South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1836 Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
1846 Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1849 M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
1850 Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire
1864 Battle of Egypt Station, MS
1867 United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
1877 John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill
1878 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
1879 Tay Bridge disaster, The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a North British Railway's train passes over it, killing 75.
1885 Indian National Congress a political party of India is founded in Bombay, British India.
1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
1893 French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
1895 Film makers The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
1895 Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1897 Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris
1902 The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5-0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
1902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
1903 Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC
1904 First daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1905 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
1905 New South Wales all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253
1906 Ecuador adopts its constitution
1908 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000.
1910 Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)
1912 National Council of Young Israel convenes
1912 The first municipally owned streetcars, SF Municipal Railway starts operation in San Francisco, California at Geary St (MUNI).
1915 SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
1918 Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
1923 George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC
1925 George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC
1926 Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
1926 Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW
1926 Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
1927 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC
1928 Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
1928 Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
1931 Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
1935 Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
1935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
1939 First flight of the Consolidated XB-24 Liberator bomber prototype.
1940 Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
1941 State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
1942 Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
1942 Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1943 All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed
1943 After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona of World War II concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
1944 Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
1944 Former Washington 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
1944 Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC
1944 Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
1945 Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
1947 Chicago Cards beat Philadelphia Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
1948 IDF crosses Egyptian border
1948 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
1948 The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
1948 US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
1949 20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs
1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
1950 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
1952 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 43rd Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 44th Davis Cup, Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
1956 Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 "Greatest Game Ever Played" Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
1958 Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
1958 What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
1961 Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC
1962 UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
1963 "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
1963 "Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
1963 Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
1964 Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin
1964 Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins
1966 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
1966 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1967 Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange
1968 57th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1968 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
1968 Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
1969 Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC
1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs
1970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
1971 Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet
1972 Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.
1972 Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
1973 Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
1973 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
1973 The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
1974 6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
1974 Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
1975 "Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
1975 First broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
1975 Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
1975 Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at Madison Square Garden
1976 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs
1976 Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
1978 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
1978 With the crew investigating a problem with the landing gear, United Airlines Flight 173 runs out of fuel and crashes in Portland, Oregon, killing 10. As a result, United Airlines instituted the industry's first crew resource management program.
1980 Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
1981 Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
1981 The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1981 Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
1983 72nd Davis Cup, Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1983 Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29
1983 US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
1983 Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants
1984 Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
1984 Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
1984 TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 Warring Lebanese Muslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
1986 Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors wins Davis Cup
1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
1988 John Tarrant, first Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
1990 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1990 Blockbuster Bowl 1, Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
1991 Blockbuster Bowl 2, Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
1991 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
1991 Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
1993 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
1993 John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
1994 Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v England, MCG)
1994 Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
1996 India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning
1997 Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
1999 Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed President for Life in Turkmenistan.
2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2005 A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
2007 Nepal declared a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
2008 The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
2008 The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed in the War in Somalia.
2009 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.
2010 Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government, part of the Arab Spring.
2011 Uludere airstrike, Turkish warplanes bombed 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
2012 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
2012 Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man
2012 Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children
2013 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
2013 2 year old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified haemorraghic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow (Early signs of Ebola epidemic)
2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashes in bad weather in the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board
2015 Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII "comfort women", Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation

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1164 Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)
1484 Joachim Vadianus (von Watt), Swiss physician, mayor of Sankt Gallen
1522 Margaret of Austria & Parma, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)
1619 Antoine Furetière, French author and scholar (d. 1688)
1631 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter, cartoonist
1635 Elizabeth Stuart, English Princess daughter of Charles I of England (d. 1650)
1651 Johann Krieger, German composer and organist (d. 1735)
1655 Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)
1665 George FitzRoy, First Duke of Northumberland, English general (d. 1716)
1694 Ceslav Vanura, composer
1731 Christian Cannabich, German composer, royal chaplain master
1738 Thaddaus Ferdinand Lipowsky, composer
1751 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer
1753 Johan Wikmanson, composer
1763 John Molson, English-Canadian brewer, founder (Molson Brewing Company) (d. 1836)
1775 Jean-Gabriel Eynard, Swiss banker (d. 1863)
1778 Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (d. 1846)
1783 Robert Gallenberg, composer
1787 Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer, engineer on Curacao
1798 Thomas James Henderson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1844)
1801 James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1869)
1805 Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer
1812 Julius Reitz, composer
1818 Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist(d. 1897)
1822 William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadeer General (Confederate Army) (d. 1898)
1823 Thomas Alexander Scott, Assistant Secretary of War (Union) (d. 1881)
1826 Conrad Busken Huet, Dutch vicar, literary (Country of Rubens)
1827 Robert Latimer McCook, Union volunteers Brigadier General (d. 1862)
1828 Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
1833 Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1907)
1835 Archibald Geikie, British geologist
1837 Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer
1842 Calixa Lavallée, Canadian army officer and composer (d. 1891)
1845 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer
1849 Herbert von Bismarck, German politician, son of Otto of Bismarck
1856 (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson, American politician, 28th President of the United States (1912-1921) (Nobel Prize laureate 1919) (d. 1924)
1859 Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
1859 John W Fortescue, military historian
1859 Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
1860 Alexander von Fielitz, composer
1865 Félix E Vallotton, Swiss-French painter, writer (Chaste Suzanna)
1866 Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat, founder (Askenazy school) (d. 1935)
1868 Marie van Regteren Altena, Dutch painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)
1870 Charles Bennett, English runner (d. 1949)
1880 Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician, writer, poet
1882 Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist, cosmologist, and mathematician (d. 1944)
1883 A Wolfenstein, writer
1884 Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier (1950-52), communist hunter
1887 Charles Dingle
1887 Werner Kolhörster, German physicist (d. 1946)
1888 F. W. Murnau, German director (d. 1931)
1888 Gabriel von Wayditch, composer
1889 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1890 Frank Butler, English actor, sreenwriter (Road to Bali, China)
1890 Quincy Wright, American political scientist (d. 1970)
1894 Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot (Eagle of Flanders)
1894 Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
1895 Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (d. 1981)
1896 Roger Huntington Sessions, American composer (Black Masks)
1898 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (d. 1957)
1898 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
1899 Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
1902 Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (Encyclopedia Brittanica) (d. 2001)
1902 Shen Congwen, Chinese author (d. 1988)
1903 Earl Hines, American pianist (d. 1983)
1903 John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and astronomer (Bocher Award 1938) (d. 1957)
1904 Clabon W Allen, Australian-British astronomer
1904 Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director (Otello, Banya)
1905 Cliff Arquette, American actor, comedian (Charlie Weaver) (d. 1974)
1905 Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
1905 Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda the Rajkumar of Vizianagram (Ind)
1907 Roman Palester, Polish composer (The Weichsel)
1908 Lew Ayres, American actor (All Quiet on Western Front, Dr Kildare) (d. 1996)
1909 Billy Williams, American singer (Your Show of Shows)
1909 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija)
1910 Billy Williams, American singer (The Charioteers) (d. 1972)
1910 John Kerr, New Zealand cricketer
1911 Phani Majumdar, film maker
1911 Sam Levenson, American humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)
1913 Lou Jacobi, Canadian actor, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba) (d. 2009)
1914 Bernard Youens, English actor (Coronation Street) (d. 1984)
1914 Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (d. 1974)
1914 Lee Bowman, American actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)
1915 Roebuck "Pops"  Staples, American gospel singer (The Staple Singers) (d. 2000)
1916 Noel Johnson, British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash)
1917 Ellis Clarke, President of Trinidad & Tobago (1976-87)
1919 Inocenti Carreno, composer
1920 Steve Van Buren, American football player, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles) (d. 2012)
1921 Eddy Doorenbos, Dutch vocalist, pianist, guitarist
1921 Johnny Otis, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)
1922 Nyron Sultan Asgarali, West Indian cricketer
1922 Stan Lee, American writer, publisher, producer, actor, creator (Spiderman, Incredible Hulk)
1923 Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War)
1924 Johnny Otis (Veliotes), composer (Every Beat of My Heart)
1924 Milton Obote, Ugandan politician, 2nd President of Uganda (d. 2005)
1924 Rod Serling, American writer, host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
1925 Bill [William] Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough
1925 Hildegard Knef, German actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique) (d. 2002)
1926 Donald Carr, English cricketer
1927 Anne Legendre Armstrong, ambassador (to UK)
1927 Martin Milner, American actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)
1927 Simon Raven, English playwright, critic (Alms for Oblivion)
1928 Kamillo Lendvay, composer
1928 Moe Koffman, Canadian musician and composer (d. 2001)
1929 Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (d. 1994)
1929 Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-American astronomer (quasars)
1929 Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
1929 Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers) (d. 1970)
1931 Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist, underminister of Finance
1931 Guy Debord, French theorist and author (d. 1994)
1931 John de Mol, Dutch vocalist, composer, /producer
1932 Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet, writer
1932 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founder (Reliance Industries) (d. 2002)
1932 Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One) (d. 1979)
1932 Harry Howell, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 Manuel Puig, Argentine author (Blood of Requited Love) (d. 1990)
1932 Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
1932 Roy Hattersley, English journalist and politician, Labour-parliament leader
1933 Jack Perkins, American newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine)
1933 John Y. Brown, Jr., American politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky
1934 David Warrilow, actor (Simon, Radio Days, Dakota Road, Barton Fink)
1934 John Akers, business executive
1934 Maggie Smith, English actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
1934 Peggy Wilson, golfer
1934 Rudi Faßnacht, German football coach and manager (d. 2000)
1934 Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
1935 Fernando Lopes, Portuguese director (Encoberto, Matar Saudades)
1936 Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
1936 Lawrence Schiller, American journalist
1936 Nichelle Nichols, American actress (Uhura-Star Trek)
1937 Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, Portuguese businessman
1937 Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1938 Bruce Yarnell, American actor (Outlaws)
1938 Charles Neville, American rock vocalist, saxophonist (Neville Brothers)
1938 Dick Sudhalter, American trumpet player (d. 2008)
1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author, performing artist, educator
1938 Richard Sudhalter, British writer, jazz musician
1939 Michelle Urry, American journalist (d. 2006)
1939 Philip Anschutz, American businessman, founded Anschutz Entertainment Group
1940 A. K. Antony, Indian politician, Defence Minister of India
1940 Alvin Elliot Singleton, composer
1940 Don Francisco, Chilean-American television host
1940 Lonnie Liston Smith, American jazz performer (Cosmic Echoes, Magic Lady)
1941 Don Francisco, Spanish variety show host (Sabado Gigante)
1941 Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricket leg-spinner (1959-77)
1942 Paul Horowitz, American physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
1942 Roger Swerts, Belgian cyclist
1943 Bobby Comstock, musician
1943 David Peterson, Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Ontario (1982)
1943 Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Peruvian cardinal
1943 Keith Floyd, English chef and author (d. 2009)
1943 Oscar D Dhlomo, South African sect-gen of Inkatha (1978-90)
1943 Richard Whiteley, English journalist, television presenter (d. 2005)
1944 Johnny Isakson, American politician
1944 Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal (1972) (d. 2001)
1945 Dwight Bement, Musician (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1945 Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief (Daily Telegraph)
1946 Edgar Winter, American singer-songwriter (They Only Come Out at Night), musician (Edgar Winter Group), and producer (Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band)
1946 Hubie Green, golfer (US Open-1977, PGA-1985)
1946 Jorge Velasquez, sportsman
1946 Mike Beebe, American politician, 45th Governor of Arkansas
1946 Pierre Falardeau, Canadian director and activist (d. 2009)
1946 Tim Johnson, American politician, senior senator from South Dakota
1947 Andrew Olle, broadcaster
1947 Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player (d. 2000)
1947 Dick Diamonde  (Van Der Sluys), bassist (Easybeats)
1948 Jorge Velasquez, jockey (Kentucky Derby-1981, Preakness-1981)
1948 Mary Weiss, American singer (The Shangri-Las)
1949 Barbara De Fina, American film producer
1950 Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Box Tops, Big Star) (d. 2010)
1950 Hugh McDonald, American bass player (Bon Jovi)
1950 Rainer Maria Latzke, German-American painter
1950 Øivind Blunck, Norwegian comedian and actor
1951 Ian Buruma, Dutch author (Japan and the Far East) and scholar
1951 Kenneth Pope, NFL football player
1952 Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
1952 Ray Knight, MLB Baseball Player, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
1952 S Epatha Merkerson, American actress (Lt Van Buren-Law and Order)
1953 Charlie Pierce, American journalist and author
1953 Richard Clayderman, French pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
1953 Robert Pittman, TV executive, developer (MTV)
1953 Tatsumi Fujinami, Japanese wrestler
1954 Denzel Washington, American actor (Training Day, The Hurricane, American Gangster), director, and producer
1954 Gayle King, American journalist
1954 Lanny Poffo, Canadian-American wrestler
1954 Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise)
1954 Tony Rosato, Italian comedian (SCTV, Saturday Night Live, Amanda's)
1955 Liu Xiaobo, Chinese activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 Kenneth Grant, bass, vocalist (Midnight Star)
1956 Michael Gibbons, musician (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Don't be a Hero)
1956 Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
1957 Anne Sargeant, Australian netball player
1958 Carl Marsden, bodyguard
1958 Carlos Carson, football player
1958 Joe Diffie, American country singer, guitarist (Home)
1958 Mike McGuire, American singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1958 Terry Butcher, British soccer player
1958 Twila Paris, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1959 Ana Torroja, Spanish singer-songwriter (Mecano)
1959 Everson Walls, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants)
1959 Phil Abrams, American actor
1960 Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce)
1960 James Caan, Pakistani-English businessman, founded Hamilton Bradshaw
1960 John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star
1960 Marty Roe, American singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1960 Melvin Turpin, American basketball player (d. 2010)
1960 Ray(mond) Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, Boston)
1960 Terri Garber, American actress (Leslie Carrington-Dynasty)
1960 Zane Smith, American baseball player, MLB pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1961 Heather Hafner, American WPVA volleyballer (National-7th-90)
1961 Kent Nielsen, Danish footballer and coach
1962 Choi Soo-jong, South Korean actor
1962 Keith Lee, basketball player (Memphis State)
1962 Melissa R. Kelly, American politician
1962 Michel Petrucciani, French-American pianist (d. 1999)
1962 Niel van der Watt, South African composer
1962 Rachel Z, American pianist
1963 Malcolm Gets, actor (Richard Karinsky-Caroline In the City)
1963 Mel Stottlemyre Jr, pitcher (Toronto Blues Jays)
1963 Willow Bay, TV host (Good Morning America)
1964 Charles Sinek, dance skater (& Beata Handra-1997 Pac Coast Sr 3rd)
1964 Maite Zúñiga, Spanish runner
1965 Allar Levandi, Estonian skier
1965 Colleen Dion, actress (Brett Gardner-Another World)
1965 Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984)
1965 Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd)
1966 Joe Wolf, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1967 Chris Ware, American cartoonist
1967 Paul Lynch, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1968 Akihiko Hoshide, Japanese engineer and astronaut
1968 Darrick Brownlow, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 Jennifer Palmquest, American Model, Miss SD-America (1991)
1968 Jozef Dano, Czech NFL safety (Buffalo Bills)
1969 James Trapp, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American computer programmer, developer (Linux kernel)
1970 Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Dutch tennis star (95, 96 Oklahoma City)
1970 Elaine Hendrix, American actress (The Parent Trap), singer, and producer
1970 Elizabeth McIntyre, American Model, Miss America-WV (1996)
1970 Francesca Le, American porn actress and director
1970 James Jett, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1971 Benny Agbayani, American baseball player
1971 Frank Sepe, American bodybuilder, model, and author
1971 Melvin Nieves, Puerto Rican Baseball Player, MLB outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1971 Michael Watkins, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 Steve Morrison, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 William Gates, American basketball player
1972 Adam Clawson, American slalom single canoe (Olympic-19th-96)
1972 Adam Vinatieri, American football player, WLAF & NFL punter, kicker (Amsterdam Admirals, NE Patriots)
1972 Jean-Francois Jomphe, Canadian NHL right wing (Anaheim)
1972 Jim Kitts, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy, Miami Dolphins)
1972 Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player (1993 USTA, Aptos California)
1972 Roberto Palacios, Peruvian footballer
1973 Alex Dimitriades, Australian actor
1973 Bobby Taylor, NFL cornerback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Garth John Da Silva, New Zealand heavyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 Herborg Kråkevik, Norwegian singer and actress
1973 Holger Blume, German sprinter
1973 Marc Blume, German sprinter
1973 Seth Meyers, American actor (SNL, Journey to the Center of the Earth)
1974 Jason Ridge, American porn actor
1974 Markus Weinzierl, German footballer
1974 Rob Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1975 B. J. Ryan, American baseball player
1975 Kesley Perrin, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1975 Tannis Vallely, American actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)
1976 Brendan Hines, Actor (Ordinary Sinner)
1976 Igor Žiković, Croatian footballer
1976 Joe Manganiello, American actor (Spider-Man)
1977 Shane Elford, Australian rugby league player
1977 Vanessa Ferlito, American actress
1978 Chris Coyne, Australian footballer
1978 Jang Min-Hyeok, South Korean voice actor
1978 John Legend, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
1979 Bill Hall, American baseball player
1979 Bree Williamson, Canadian actress
1979 James Blake, American tennis player
1979 Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress (Prometheus)
1979 Senna Guemmour, German singer-songwriter (Monrose)
1980 Lomana LuaLua, Congo footballer
1980 Vanessa Ferlito, American actress (Death Proof)
1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, First American test tube baby
1981 Frank Turner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Million Dead and Möngöl Hörde)
1981 Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer
1981 Mika Väyrynen, Finnish footballer
1981 Narsha, South Korean singer and dancer (Brown Eyed Girls)
1981 Orlando Smeekes, Curaçaoan footballer
1981 Sienna Miller, English actress (Stardust) and fashion designer
1982 Beau Garrett, Actress (TRON: Legacy)
1982 Cedric Benson, American footballer
1982 Desiree Ortíz, Venezuelan model and television host
1982 Ferry Rotinsulu, Indonesian footballer
1982 François Gourmet, Belgian decathlete
1982 Kevin Pereira, American television host
1982 Quinton Porter, American footballer
1983 Mike He, Taiwanese actor
1984 Alex Lloyd, English race car driver
1984 Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler, Model
1984 Leroy Lita, English footballer
1985 Kamani Hill, American footballer
1985 Taryn Terrell, American wrestler and actress
1986 Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
1986 Victoria Atkin, English actress
1987 Hannah Tointon, Actress (The Children)
1987 Matthias Schwarz, German footballer
1987 Thomas Dekker, American actor (A Nightmare on Elm Street), singer, and producer
1988 Kateřina Kramperová, Czech tennis player
1988 Martina Pretelli, Sammarinese sprinter
1989 Mackenzie Rosman, American actress (Fading of the Cries)
1990 David Archuleta, American singer-songwriter (American Idol runner-up) and actor
1990 Zlatko Hebib, Swiss footballer
1991 MacKenzie Boyd-Garrison, Actress (Four Twenty)
1992 Silvia Alonso, Actress (El visitante)
1993 Victoria Billingsley, Actress (Lap Dance)
1994 Jamal Hadjkura, Actor (The Day Simon Told His Family About His Important Decision)
1995 Bas van Prooijen, Actor (De sterkste man van Nederland)
1998 Taylor Briggs, Actor (Red State)
1999 Thomaz Veloso, Actor (O Trote, o Filho e o Fora)
2000 Nick Shafer, Actor (Love Hurts)
2001 Alec Muggleton, Actor (Five Children and It)
2001 Madison De La Garza, American actress (You Take for Granted)
2002 Kelsey Smith-Briggs, American child abuse victim (d. 2005)

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300 Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
1367 Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
1446 Clement VIII (Sanchez Muñoz), Spanish anti-pope (1423-29) (b. 1369)
1503 Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici,  the Unfortunate, Italian ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
1542 Albert Pigge (Pighius), Dutch theologist, astronomer
1558 Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
1622 Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva, writer, saint (b. 1567)
1663 Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
1671 Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1611)
1673 Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer, publisher (Atlas Major)
1694 Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule (b. 1662)
1703 Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
1706 Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism) (b. 1647)
1708 Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
1715 William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)
1734 Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish criminal, folk hero, namesake of Rob Roy Cocktail (b. 1671)
1736 Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
1772 Ernst J earl van, of Biron, Russian duke of Courland
1775 Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of (Neth Indies)
1779 Gennaro Manna, composer
1793 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral
1795 Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (b. 1747)
1830 Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician (b. 1800)
1860 Cornelius Broere, Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman, poet
1862 Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer
1870 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
1870 Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter
1872 James Van Ness, American politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
1878 Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
1884 Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist, publisher
1891 Alfred Cellier, composer
1897 William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
1900 Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)
1903 George (Robert) Gissing, English novelist
1915 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer, politician
1916 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances) (b. 1835)
1917 Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian pilot (WWI) (b. 1892)
1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn)
1918 Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
1919 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
1923 Gustave Eiffel (Alexandre), engineer (Eiffel Tower)
1924 Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (b. 1866)
1932 Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1935 Clarence Day, American author (Life with Father) (b. 1874)
1937 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss-French composer (Bolero) (b. 1875)
1938 Florence Lawrence, Canadian silent screen actress (Confidence) (b. 1886)
1941 Hermann Wilker, German rower (b. 1874)
1942 Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (b. 1869)
1943 Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1945 Theodore Dreiser, American author (An American Tragedy) (b. 1871)
1946 Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly)
1947 Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46), Ethiopia (b. 1869)
1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
1949 Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner (Olympic-gold-1936), surgeon (b. 1910)
1949 W Hervey Allen, US writer, poet (Anthony Adverse)
1952 Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
1956 Louis Handley, Italian-American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1874)
1956 Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman
1959 Ante Pavelić, Croatian politician, leader (Nazi puppet State of Croatia) (b. 1889)
1960 Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, diplomat, and academic (b. 1895)
1961 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, American first lady (1915-21)
1962 Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist, writer
1963 Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer (Composer's World), and conductor (b. 1895)
1967 Béla Schick, Hungarian-American children's physician (Scarlet Fever)
1967 Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, women's rights activist (b. 1875)
1969 Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London)
1970 L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC)
1971 Max(imilian Raoul Walter) Steiner, Austrian-American composer (b. 1888)
1976 Freddie King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
1976 Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
1978 Harry Winston, American jeweler for the "rich & famous"
1980 Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer
1980 Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1981 Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1885)
1982 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer
1983 Dennis Wilson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
1983 Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
1983 William Demarest, American actor (My 3 Sons) (b. 1892)
1984 Sam Peckinpah, American director (b. 1925)
1986 Andrei Tarkovsky, dies
1986 Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)
1986 John D. MacDonald, American author (b. 1916)
1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter
1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN
1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director
1989 Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
1989 Robert Wickler
1990 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life)
1990 Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues)
1990 Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader
1991 Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (For Your Eyes Only) (b. 1952)
1991 Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road)
1992 Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock)
1992 Sal Maglie, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1993 Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
1993 Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61
1993 William L. Shirer, American journalist, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich) (b. 1904)
1994 Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1911)
1994 Julian Belfrage, theatre agent
1995 Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist
1997 George Fleming, cyclist
1997 James Lees-Milne, architecural historian
1997 Ronald Clive Williams, actor, comedian
1999 Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
2001 Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American soldier and scientist (b. 1919)
2001 William X. Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)
2003 Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
2004 Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 Susan Sontag, American author (b. 1933)
2006 Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
2007 Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (b. 1982)
2007 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Prime Minister (b. 1953)
2008 Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
2009 James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan, American singer-songwriter, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold, Pinkly Smooth, Suburban Legends) (b. 1981)
2010 Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)
2011 Jon Roberts, American drug trafficker (b. 1948)
2012 Arman Manukyan, Turkish economist and educator (b. 1931)
2012 Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian banker (b. 1939)
2012 Burdette Solum, American politician (b. 1927)
2012 Claude-Anne Lopez, Belgian-American author and scholar (b. 1920)
2012 Emilio Charles, Jr., Mexican wrestler (b. 1956)
2012 Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli football coach and manager (b. 1924)
2012 Frank Henderson, American politician (b. 1928)
2012 Frankie Walsh, Irish hurler (b. 1936)
2012 Jayne Cortez, African-American poet (b. 1934)
2012 Leif Krantz, Swedish director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1932)
2012 Lord Avie, American race horse (b. 1978)
2012 Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP (b. 1956)
2012 Martin G. Barnes, American politician (b. 1948)
2012 Nicolas Ambraseys, Greek seismologist (b. 1929)
2012 Richard Lee Beasley, American politician (b. 1930)
2012 Steve Bryles, American politician (b. 1957)
2012 Takashi Taniguchi, Japanese voice actor (b. 1947)
2012 Tommy Keane, Irish footballer (b. 1968)
2012 Václav Drobný, Czech footballer (b. 1980)
2015 Lemmy (Ian Kilminster), heavy metal musician (Motorhead)
2015 Ian Murdock, German-born American computer programmer (Debian project, Progeny Linux Systems)

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