partypossum.com January 30th

January 30th

Holidays and Celebrations

King's Birthday (Jordan)
School Day of Non-violence and Peace * (see below)
Birthday of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (US 32nd President)) * (see below)
Escape DayFun at Work Day
National Inane Answering Machine Message Day
Yodel For Your Neighbors Day
Ghandi Assasination Rememberaence Day - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
Anniversary of the Start of The Tet Offensive, when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. (1968)
Anniversary of the Roof Concert. The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
Anniversary of Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. (1933 )
National Croissant Day
Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs. This Feast honors the three great Fathers of the Eastern (Byzantine) St.

Feast of Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom (Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Aldegonde
Christian Feast Day of Anthony the Great (Coptic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Balthild
Christian Feast Day of Hippolytus of Rome
Christian Feast Day of Hyacintha Mariscotti
Christian Feast Day of King Charles the Martyr (Society of King Charles the Martyr, Anglicanism)
Christian Feast Day of Martina, Virgin and Martyr, c. 226 AD ·
Christian Feast Day of Mutien-Marie Wiaux (+1917)
Christian Feast Day of Savina, martyred under Emperor Diocletian
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (10of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day Out - (13of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
* Ati-Atihan (Phillipines) (1-14)
* Dance Festival (Khajuraho, India) 4 Days - Mid January to February (2013)
* Losar Archery Festival Bhutan (Late January or early February)

* School Day of Non-violence and Peace (DENIP from catalan-valencian-balear: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), founded in Spain in 1964 and observed on January 30 or thereabouts every year.
* Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday AKA FDR's B-Day (1882) , 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)

Carnival Season (Christianity) January 6th to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday A celebration period proceeding the Fast of Lent

Ellébore Day Translation Hellebore Day (French Republican) The 11th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here’s to our guest
Don’t let him rest.
But keep his elbow bending.
‘Tis time to drink
Full time to think
Tomorrow, when you’re mending."
- Anonymous

Drink of The Day

Duck Fart

1 Part Crown Royal
1 Part Amaretto
1 Part Bailey's Irish Cream
Fill with Cream, then Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with an olive.

Wine of The Day

Mazza Chautauqua Cellars 2009 Riesling
Style - Riesling
Lake Erie
$15

Beers of The Day

-Eastern Hemisphere-
Distelhäuser Dunkles Weizen
Brewer - Distelhäuser Brauerei ; Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
Style - German-Style Dark Wheat Ale

-Western Hemisphere-
Duet
Brewer - Alpine Beer Co. ; Alpine, California, USA
Style - American-Style India Pale Ale

Joke of The Day

Mary had a little skirt,
Split right up the sides.
And every time she wore that skirt,
The boys could see her thighs.

She also had another skirt,
Split right up the front.
But she never wore that one.

Quote of the Day

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."

- W. C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) (American comedian, actor, juggler and writer) born on January 29th, 1880 and died on December 25th, 1946.

- Also see January 29th

January Celebrations

Apple and Apricots Month
Artichoke and Asparagus Month
Be Kind to Food Servers
Bread Machine Baking Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month
Carnival Season (Starting January 6th)
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Cherry Blossom Festival in Okinawa, Japan, a very colorful festivals every January in Nago since 1928.
Coffee Gourmet International Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
First Binary Month (1of 3) (0s and 1s)
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
National Bath Safety Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Mont
National Blood Donor Month
National Book Blitz Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Candy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Egg Month
National Get Organized Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hobby Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Lose Weight, Feel Great Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Meat Month
National Mentoring Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Soup Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Thank You Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Mont
National Wheat Bread Month
Prune Breakfast Month
Resolve to Eat Breakfast Month
National Returns Month
Rising Star Month
Self-Love Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Shape Up US Month
Thaipusam - Festival of Faith in Batu Caves, Malaysia
Thyroid Awareness Month
Tubers and Dried Fruit Month
World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Week Celebrations

National Medical Group Practice Week Starting the 4th Monday in January
New York City Restaurant Week Winter January 25th - February 7th
International Printing Week Last Week of January
World Leprosy Week Last Week of January
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week (Elko, Nevada) Starting Last Saturday of January
Catholic Schools Week Starting the last Sunday in January
Meat Week Starting the last Sunday in January (http://www.meatweek.com/)
International Hoof Care Week Starting Last Monday in January
US National Snow Sculpting Week Starting Last Tuesday in January

Historical Events on January 30th

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435 Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as "federati," in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully postponed for 20 years.)
1048 The villagers around today's Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop. Later, in a move that would not be seen before the Protestant Reformation, he is also elected Pope by acclamatio, just to die that same day. It is rumored that Ildebrando di Soana heard of the acclamatio and used it later to get elected himself as Pope Gregory VII.
1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349 Günther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany, Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci
1487 Bell chimes invented
1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400
1648 Eighty Years' War, The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict (Tachtigjarige War) between the Netherlands and Spain.
1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1667 Treaty of Andrussovo, Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1750 In Colonial America, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon entitled, "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission." The sermon attacked both the divine right of kings and ecclesiastical absolutism.
1774 Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' South, 1820km from south pole (record)
1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1788 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Alas for the rich! They are so soon offended.'
1790 The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne by Mr Greathead, the inventor.
1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1806 The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes
1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica (UK claim).
1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'God feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man.... So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly falling dew of his Spirit.'
1841 A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1847 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugenie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1858 Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester
1858 The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1867 The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president.
1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
1879 French President MacMahon resigns
1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria
1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76)
1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham
1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria)
1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
1911 The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1913 The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania
1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
1920 Quebec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game
1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over New South Wales
1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Victoria win over New South Wales
1925 The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
1927 Left wins national election in Thuringen
1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) New South Wales vs Victoria
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in New York City NY
1930 The world's second radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
1933 "The Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC radio, 21-year run
1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
1933 German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen
1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by the US government, New York City NY
1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days
1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1935 Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
1936 Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
1939 Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win
1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
1943 German assault on French in Tunisia
1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General field marshal
1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
1943 Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island, WWII. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1944 United States troops land on Majuro in World War II.
1945 Raid at Cabanatuan, World War II, 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
1945 The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,000 people, World War II.
1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1948 Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1952 Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns
1956 American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in New York City NY
1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval
1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
1960 CIA oks Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1960 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England
1960 The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
1960 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1964 Ranger 6 launched, makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1964 Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill
1966 -19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
1966 -27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record)
1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 05.2)
1966 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 11th string quartet
1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1968 The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam, Vietnam War.
1969 The Beatles' last public performance, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY after 19 performances
1971 Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs England
1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
1972 Bloody Sunday, British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment catholic marchers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 26th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers
1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1976 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (New South Wales vs Queesland)
1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1979 Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1980 Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque" premieres in New York City NY
1981 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1982 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
1983 Super Bowl XVII Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP John Riggins, Washington, Running Back
1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl)
1989 5 Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 16th American Music Award, Randy Travis & George Michael wins
1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
1989 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (2nd day)
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1993 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
1994 68th Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (60 62)
1994 82nd Australian Open Men's Tennis Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets
1994 Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
1994 Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta; Super Bowl MVP Emmitt Smith, Dallas, Running Back
1995 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
1995 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
1996 Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
1996 Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
1997 Minuteman III launches
1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169
2000 Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB
2003 Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage
2003 Richard Reid sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb an American Airlines flight with 197 on board
2005 Marat Safin beats Lleyton Hewitt (1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4) at the 93rd Men's Australian Open
2005 Serena Williams beats Lindsay Davenport (2-6, 6-3, 6-0) at the 93rd Women's Australian Open
2005 "Forty Shades of Blue", directed by Ira Sachs, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 21st Sundance Film Festival
2011 NFC beats AFC 55-41 at the NFL Pro Bowl
2011 Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray (6-4, 6-2, 6-3) at the 99th Men's Australian Open
2011 Kim Clijsters beats Li Na (3-6, 6-3, 6-3) at the 99th Women's Australian Open
2011 Team Lidstrom beats Team Staal 11-10 at Raleigh, North Carolina at the 58th NHL All-Star Game
2011 "Like Crazy", directed by Drake Doremus, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 27th Sundance Film Festival
2013 South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite
2014 24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad
2016 Angelique Kerber beats Serena Williams (6-4 3-6 6-4) at the 104th Women's Australian Open
2016 Boko Haram militants on motorcycles attack Dalori village near Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing at least 65 and injuring 136

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133 Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1505 Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1563 Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
1566 Alessandro Piccinini, composer
1609 Wenzel E Fürst von Lobkowitz Austrian chancellor (-1674)
1615 Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
1616 William Sancroft, Archbishop (Canterbury)
1624 Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher (About Virtue)
1628 George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham England
1647 Konrad Hoffler, composer
1661 Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
1687 Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1694 Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster, composer
1697 Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
1708 Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist
1710 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
1719 Magnus G Lichtwer German writer (Äsopischer Fabeln)
1720 Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
1724 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer
1752 Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer
1754 John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
1756 Josef Preindl, composer
1760 Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
1775 Walter Savage Landor, Warwick England, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation)
1781 Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
1789 George Augustus Kollmann, composer
1797 Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1814 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian glass painter
1816 Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1894)
1822 Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
1822 John Basil Turchin, [Ivan Turchinoff], Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1829 Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1830 James G Blaine, US, minister of foreign affairs
1832 Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1834 Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
1835 Oliver Edwards, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
1841 Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, died in 1914
1841 Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1844 Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German General/Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17)
1846 Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
1853 Leland Hone, cricketer (England keeper 1879 without county experience)
1859 Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1861 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
1862 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer
1865 Samuel Pl'h Naber, Dutch rear-admiral/librarian
1866 Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow)
1871 Seymour Hicks, St Helier Jersey, actor-manager (Scrooge)
1871 Wilfred Lucas, actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford)
1873 Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
1873 Rose Melville, actress (Sis)
1878 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945) (d. 1945)
1885 John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero
1889 Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
1892 Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer
1892 Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39)
1894 Boris III, czar of Bulgaria (1918-43) (d. 1943)
1894 Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet)
1898 Alfred Schläppi Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympics-gold-1924)
1899 Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1951) (d. 1972)
19-- Randy Brooks Bronx, actor (Rituals, Renegades, Brothers & Sisters)
1900 Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer
1900 Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress (Man in Grey, Becket)
1900 Sandy Powell, Rotherham England, costume designer (Rob Roy)
1901 Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter
1901 H E Nossak, writer
1901 Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
1902 Elise Cavanna, actress (Pharmacist, Dentist, Barber Shop)
1902 Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (The Buildings of England) (d. 1983)
1903 G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology)
1906 Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill)
1909 Mihaly Hajou, composer
1909 Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
1909 Saul David Alinsky, Chicago IL, radical writer (John L Lewis)
1910 C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1910 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union)
1911 Alexander George Ogston, biochemist
1911 Hugh Marlowe, Philadelphia PA, actor (Ellery Queen)
1911 Roy Eldridge, American musician (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw) (d. 1989)
1912 Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (Pulitzer, Guns of August) (d. 1989)
1912 Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1912 Jadwiga Wajsowna-Marcinkiewicz, discus thrower (Olympics-bronze-1932)
1912 Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
1913 Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 1935, 1, 0-12)
1913 Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
1914 David Wayne, American actor (Andromeda Strain, Adams Rib) (d. 1995)
1914 John Ireland, Canadian actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral) (d. 1992)
1914 Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman
1915 Dorothy Dell, actor (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel)
1915 Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
1915 John D Profumo, England, politician (C)
1915 John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
1915 Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno)
1917 Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008)
1918 David Opatoshu, American television actor (Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada) (d. 1996)
1918 Jarl Andre Bjerke, [Bernhard Borge], Norwegian poet/writer
1919 Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1919 Robert Suter, composer
1920 Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
1920 Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007)
1920 George Skibine, Russian/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona)
1920 Michael Anderson, English film director
1920 Patrick Heron, abstract painter
1921 Bernie Leighton, West Haven Ct, orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime)
1922 Dick Martin, American comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy) (d. 2008)
1922 Pal Jardanyi, composer
1924 Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
1924 Margaret Beda Nicholson, author (No Medals for the Major)
1924 Shirley Chisholm (Representative-D-NY)
1925 Dorothy Malone, American actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place)
1925 Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
1926 Ruth Brown, Portsmouth Va, actress (Leona-Hello Larry, Checking In)
1927 Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
1927 Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86) assassinated (d. 1986)
1928 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster
1928 Hal Prince, American stage producer and director (West Side Story, Evita, Phantom of Opera)
1928 Mitch Leigh, composer
1929 Hugh Tayfield, cricketer (celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60)
1929 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
1929 Viscount Long
1930 Gene Hackman, American actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
1930 Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense (1980)
1930 Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
1930 Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
1931 Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
1931 Gene Hackman California, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
1931 Jack Bowman, Chief Constable (Tayside)
1931 John Crosbie, Canadian politician
1931 Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author (Transit of Venus)
1931 Stewart B McKinney (Representative-R-CT, 1971)
1932 Kazuo Inamori, Japanese business executive (Kyocera Ceramics Co)
1932 Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1933 Bob Muddimer, CEO (Ranks Hovis McDougall)
1933 Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (Wall Street Week) (d. 2006)
1933 Richard Dufallo, Chicago Ill, clarinetist/conductor
1934 Tammy Grimes, Lynn Mass, actress (Can't Stop the Music)
1935 John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington
1935 Martin Taylor, former vice-chairman, Hanson
1935 Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (Trout Fishing in America) (d. 1984)
1936 F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
1936 Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
1936 Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
1937 Boris Spassky, Russian chess player and 10th world chess champion (1969–1972)
1937 Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
1937 Vanessa Redgrave, English actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express)
1938 Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
1938 Marcel P A van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV)
1938 Marlies van Alcmaer, [Smal], Dutch actress/director (Bridge too Far)
1939 Eleanor Smeal, feminist/president (NOW)
1939 Frank R Wolf, (Representative-R-VA, 1981)
1939 Nick Gaselee, racehorse trainer
1940 David Johnson, composer
1941 Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1941 Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
1941 Joe Terranoua, musician (Danny & The Juniors)
1941 Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
1942 Andres [Dries Holten], Dutch singer (Sandra & Andres)
1942 Christopher Howes, Crown Estate Second Commissioner
1942 Dave Brown, cricketer (Warwicks pace bowler, played 26X for England)
1942 Heidi Brühl German actress/singer (Mädels vom Immenhof)
1942 Marty Balin, American musician (Jefferson Starship-Miracles)
1943 Davy Johnson, American baseball player and manager (New York Mets)
1943 Sandy Deane, musician
1944 John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire
1944 Lord Westwood
1944 Lynn Harrell, New York City NY, cellist
1945 Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
1945 Robert Wittinger, composer
1946 Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, British QC
1947 Les Barker, English poet
1947 Martin Christoph Redel, composer
1947 Steve Marriott, English musician (Humble Pie, The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
1948 Earl of Huntingdon
1948 Miles Reid, English mathematician
1948 Nicholas Broomfield, English filmand documentary-maker (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss)
1948 Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1949 Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1949 William King, Alabama, soul trumpeteer (Commodores-Easy)
1950 Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses)
1950 Ralph Wilcox, Milwaukee WI, actor (Big Eddie, Busting Loose)
1950 Silvia Bertolaccini, LPGA golfer
1950 Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1951 Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
1951 Charles S. Dutton, American actor (Alien 3, Crocodile Dundee 2, Roc)
1951 Clifford Leon Anderson, musician (Cure)
1951 Marv Ross, musician (Quarterflash)
1951 Phil Collins, English musician (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1951 Trevor Laughlin, cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1978-79)
1952 Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
1954 Alides Hidding, singer/guitarist (Time Bandits)
1955 Curtis Strange, American golfer (1989 US Open)
1955 John Baldacci, American politician, governor of Maine
1955 Judith Tarr, American author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica)
1955 Michael Thompson, guitarist (Afterburn, Fresh, Sahara, Gridlock'd)
1955 Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
1956 Jeremy Gittins, English actor
1956 Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
1957 "William" Payne Stewart, American golfer (1983 Walt Disney) (d. 1999)
1958 Brett Butler, American actress and comedian (Grace-Grace Under Fire)
1958 Rob van Zandvoort, Dutch rock vocalist/keyboardist (Jack of Hearts)
1959 Jody Watley, American dancer (Solid Gold) and singer (Looking For a New Love)
1959 Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
1960 Alex Titomirov, Russian-American businessman and former founder and CEO of InforMax Inc
1960 Tony O'Dell, Pasadena California, actor (Alan Pinkard-Head of the Class)
1961 Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
1961 Ranjit Madurasinghe, cricketer (3 Tests for Sri Lanka 1988-92)
1962 King Abdullah II of Jordan
1962 Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
1963 Tina Malone, English actress
1964 Cheryl Akemi Toma, Pearl City Hawaii, Miss Hawaii-America (1991)
1964 Otis Smith, American basketball player
1965 Julie McCullough, American model, actress (Growing Pains), and playmate (Feb 86)
1966 Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player (Canada, Olympics-98)
1966 Daphne Ashbrook, Long Beach California, actress (Liz-Our Family Honor)
1967 Bill Leverty, Richmond Va, guitarist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1967 Jay Gordon, American musician
1968 Bob Nardella, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1968 Felipe de Borbon, Prince of Asturias, heir to Spanish throne
1968 Prince Felipe of Spain
1968 Tony Maudsley, British film actor
1968 Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
1969 Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
1970 Edwin de Kruyf/Kruijff, soccer player (FC Utrecht, FC Groningen)
1970 Hans Spark, soccer player (RKC)
1970 Oleg Khmyl, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1970 Scott Levins, Spokane, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1971 Brent Moss, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Brent Moss WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Chris Slade, NFL outside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1971 Darren Boyd, British actor
1971 Derek Allen, NFL/WLAF offensive linebacker (New York Giants, Rhein Fire)
1971 Kevin Knox, WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire)
1971 Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player, NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Milko Pieren, Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1971 Quentin Neujahr, NFL center (Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns)
1971 Takeshi Yamanaka, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1971 Trent Klatt, Robbinsdale, NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers)
1972 Burt Thornton, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1972 Jill McGill, Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-2nd)
1972 Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
1973 Brad Yamaoka, CFL running back (BC Lions)
1973 Holly Noelle Roehl, Miss Indiana USA (1996)
1973 Jalen Rose, American basketball player, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1973 Jimmy Oliver, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1973 Sharone Wright, NBA center/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 Christian Bale, Welch actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women)
1974 Jemima Khan, English socialite
1974 Martina Jerant, Windsor Ontario, basketball center (Olympics-96)
1974 Olivia Colman, English actress
1974 Robert Rollins, cricketer (big-hitting Essex wicketkeeper-batsman)
1975 Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1975 Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1976 Andy Milonakis, American comedian
1976 Florian Keller, Munchen Germany, hockey player (Team Germany, Rosenheim)
1977 Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player
1977 Deltha O'Neal, American football player
1978 Carmen Küng, Swiss curler
1978 John Patterson, American baseball player
1978 Lnd Girchoukevitch, NHL goaltender (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1979 Diva Zappa, daughter of Frank
1979 Karen Smith, Australian field hockey midfielder/halfback (Olympics-96)
1980 Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
1980 Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
1980 Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
1980 Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
1981 Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1981 Jonathan Bender, American basketball player
1981 Josh Kelley, American musician
1981 Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1981 Peter Crouch, English footballer
1982 Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
1984 Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
1984 Kid Cudi, American hip hop performer, Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi
1985 Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
1985 Trae Williams, American football player
1986 Nick Evans, American baseball player
1986 Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
1987 Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
1987 Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1988 Rob Pinkston, American actor
1989 Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1990 Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
1990 Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
1991 Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor
2005 Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan

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1030 William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
1156 Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies
1181 Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
1384 Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
1393 Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball
1393 Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball
1574 Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
1584 Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle
1584 Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies
1606 Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
1644 William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies
1649 Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason (b. 1600)
1730 Peter II Alekseyevitch, tsar of Russia (1727-30) (b. 1715)
1774 Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69
1774 Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71
1797 Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40
1816 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74
1827 Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53
1836 Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1836 Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag (b. 1752)
1838 Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail
1849 Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
1858 Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
1860 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44
1867 Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831)
1869 William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
1881 Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58
1888 Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77
1889 Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
1890 Karl Merz, composer, dies at 53
1897 John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies
1900 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
1925 Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66
1925 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79
1926 Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
1927 Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64
1928 Douglas Haig, British field marshal (Sudan/Boer war/WWI), dies at 66
1928 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1929 La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
1934 Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
1942 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72
1945 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90
1945 William Busch, composer, dies at 43
1947 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80
1948 Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/GM (Phillies), dies
1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist, India spiritual and political leader, assassinated by Hindu extremists in New Delhi (b. 1869)
1948 Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
1951 Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (Porsche) (b. 1875)
1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68
1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88
1956 Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56
1957 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39)
1958 Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70
1958 Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
1958 Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
1962 Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
1963 Francis Poulenc, French composer (Litanies à la Vierge Noire) (b. 1899)
1963 P F "Plum" Warner cricketer (England manager during Bodyline tour)
1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
1965 Vic Jackson, cricketer (New South Wales/Leicerstershire off-spinner)
1967 Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies
1968 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
1969 Allan Welsh Dulles, US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75
1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58
1969 Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1970 Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82
1972 Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81
1973 Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54
1974 Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wickets vs South Africa 1910-11 series)
1975 Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72
1976 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80
1976 Mance Lipscomb, musician, dies at 80
1976 Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis cricketer (pair in only Test for South Africa), dies
1980 Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82
1980 Professor Longhair, American musician, king of New Orleans music (b. 1918)
1982 Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76
1982 Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
1982 Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73
1982 Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91
1983 Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia
1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65
1984 Patrick Lee McCall, South African bank robber, member of Stander gang (b. 1950)
1985 Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67
1986 Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74
1987 Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32
1987 Ken Drake, actor (Crime & Punishment USA), dies
1988 Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85
1989 Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, "Legitimist" pretender to the French throne (b. 1936)
1991 Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
1991 John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1991 John McIntire, American actor (Virginian, Psycho) (b. 1907)
1993 Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
1994 Bahjat Talhouni, PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies
1994 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64
1994 Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86
1994 Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53
1994 Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
1995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84
1995 George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88
1995 Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (Mockery Bird) (b. 1925)
1996 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73
1996 Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72
1998 Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38
1999 Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
1999 Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
2001 Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
2001 Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
2001 Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
2005 Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
2005 Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
2006 Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
2007 Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
2007 Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008 Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)
2008 Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
2009 Ingemar Johansson, Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world (b. 1932)
2011 John Barry, English film score composer (b. 1933)
2012 Frederick Treves, English actor
2012 Mary Grierson, Welsh botanical artist
2013 Patty Andrews, American singer (Andrews Sisters)
2015 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American chemist, father of the contraceptive pill
2015 Geraldine McEwan, English actress (Agatha Christie's Miss Marple)
2015 Ezra Sims, American composer of microtonal music
2016 Frank Finlay, English actor (Bouquet of Barbed Wire)
2016 Ken Sailors, professional basketball player (popularized and may have invented the jump shot)

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