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217 Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1093 The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.
1139 Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.
1149 Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
1195 Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaak II as Byzantine emperor
1271 In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers.
1341 Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León declares Florida a territory of Spain.
1716 Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece
1730 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1759 British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1766 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1767 Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders.
1781 Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379
1783 Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1789 House of Representives 1st meeting
1801 Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported & -controlled
1808 The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII.
1820 The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1832 Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans, The Black Hawk War.
1832 Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
1848 1st battle at Gioto, Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru, Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy
1862 John D Lynde patents aerosol dispenser
1864 Battle of Mansfield Union forces (La Federals) are thwarted by the Confederate army under Gen Richard Taylor at Mansfield, Louisiana, American Civil War:
1866 Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire.
1869 American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
1876 Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
1879 Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879 Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1886 William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1893 The Critic reports that ice cream soda is our national drink
1893 The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
1895 In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
1898 Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
1904 Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
1904 The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale concerning colonial matter.
1906 Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
1908 Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
1908 Lord Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British premier
1912 Steamers collide in Nile, drowning 200
1913 Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1913 The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
1914 US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning Panama Canal Zone
1916 In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.
1916 Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1918 Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district during World War I.
1920 LONGA soccer team forms in Tilburg
1929 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
1931 "White Horse Inn" opens in London
1931 Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "The Arrow," premieres
1933 Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror
1935 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282
1935 Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC
1935 The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1939 ACV soccer team forms in Axes
1939 King Zog I of Albania, flees
1940 Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1940 The United Kingdom and France announce that they have mined Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by German supply ships, World War II.
1941 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 A Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet "Pillar of Fire," premieres in NYC
1942 In World War II, Siege of Leningrad Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad.
1942 The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines in World War II.
1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma
1943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
1943 Stanley Cup, Detroit Red Wings sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities.
1945 Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.
1947 Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1948 Soen Nakagawa & Nyogen Senzaki (Zen teachers) meet in SF
1950 "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
1950 India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact.
1952 U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld chosen as secretary-general of UN
1953 Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers.
1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 270 perfs
1954 A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
1956 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC
1956 20th Golf Masters Championship, Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289
1956 M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1960 Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961 "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 perfs
1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1962 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1963 35th Academy Awards "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft & G Peck win
1963 Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000
1964 Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1966 AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
1966 OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
1968 BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
1968 Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King assassination
1968 Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 1st Baseball game in Canada, Montreal Expos beats NY Mets 10-9
1969 Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres & Pilots win their 1st games
1970 "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 8 performances
1970 Bahr el-Baqar incident, Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed.
1970 Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1971 1st legal off-track betting system begins (OTB-New York)
1972 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings v NZ
1973 Thirty-two terrorist bombings in Cyprus take place.
1974 Discovery Island opens
1974 At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, (Hammerin') Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
1975 47th Academy Awards "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
1975 Frank Robinson debuts as
1975 Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager (Cleveland beats NY 5-3).
1977 Israel premier Rabin resigns
1979 "Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances
1979 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1979 204th & final episode of "All in the Family"
1979 People's Republic of China joins IOC
1980 Islander Potvin's 2 shorthanded goals tie NHL record vs Kings & set NHL rec of 2 shorthanded playoff goals in 1 period
1981 Islanders scored 9 goals against Toronto in playoffs
1982 Penguins 2-Isles 4-Preliminary-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1982 Tracy Caulkins, 19, wins her 36th US swimming title
1984 4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins
1984 13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
1985 "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 perfs
1985 Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1985 Regarding the Bhopal disaster, India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
1986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
1987 Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
1989 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn
1989 Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
1990 "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
1990 "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV
1990 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278
1990 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1990 Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1990 New Democracy wins the national election in Greece.
1990 Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1991 "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
1991 Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident
1991 Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement
1991 Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas
1991 Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking
1992 "5 Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 445 perfs
1992 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
1992 Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1993 Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks)
1993 STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1993 The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations.
1994 Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
1994 Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
1994 Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
1994 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1995 BPAA US Open won by Dave Husted
1995 Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 Bruce Seldon TKOs Tony Tucker in 7 to win vacated WBA boxing title
1997 Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
1999 Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
2000 Nineteen Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near Marana, Arizona.
2004 The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups in the Darfur conflict.
2004 U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission.
2006 Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang.
2008 The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain.
2012 Bubba Watson wins the 76th Masters Golf Tournament, shooting a 278
2012 Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
2012 Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message
2013 15 people are killed and 53 are wounded by a car bombing in Damascus
2013 163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan
2013 Filip Vujanović’s election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission
2013 Louisville beats Michigan 82-76 in the 75th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
2014 Mike Babcock wins his 414th career game as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history (passing Jack Adams)
2014 Connecticut beats Notre Dame 79-58 in the 33rd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship

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1320 King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1336 Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
1460 Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1533 Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (d. 1604)
1541 Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593)
1582 Phienas Fletcher, poet
1605 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter
1605 Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65) (d. 1665)
1631 Cornelis de Heem, painter
1641 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)
1642 Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral
1655 Louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden)
1692 Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (Trillo del Diavolo) (d. 1770)
1695 Johann C Gunther, writer
1697 Pierre Prowo, composer
1708 Georg Zarth, composer
1726 Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)
1731 William Williams, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence)
1732 David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)
1741 Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)
1756 Joseph Gehot, composer
1775 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
1776 Thaddaus Weigl, composer
1783 John Claudius, London England, horticulturist
1798 Dionysios Solomos, poet
1816 Frederick William Burton, painter
1818 August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
1818 Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906) (d. 1906)
1826 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)
1827 Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
1828 George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet
1832 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal
1842 Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)
1843 Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
1850 William Henry Welch, US, pathologist (founded John Hopkins)
1859 Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (founded Phenomenology) (d. 1938)
1865 Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)
1869 Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (blood pressure studies) (d. 1939)
1871 Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
1874 Stanislaw Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
1875 Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34)
1875 King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
1878 Rudolf Nelson, composer
1880 Victor Schertzinger, composer/director (Uptown NY)
1881 Fernand Lamy, composer
1883 R. P. Keigwin, English academic (d. 1972)
1885 Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (d. 1951)
1886 Margaret A Barnes, writer
1887 Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
1888 Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964)
1889 Adrian Boult, Chester England, conductor/composer (BBC Sym Orch)
1889 Sir Adrian Boult, British conductor (d. 1983)
1892 Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith), Canadian actress (Poor Little Rich Girl) (d. 1979)
1892 Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
1893 Grace Cunard, Columbus OH, silent screen actress (Resurrection)
1893 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Sereniteit)
1895 Bert I Gordon, NY
1895 Sigurdur Thordarson, composer
1896 Karl Hermann Pillney, composer
1896 Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981)
1897 Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel)
1898 Achiel H Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1898 Cecil (Maurice) Bowra, British classics expert (Greek experience)
1902 Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924)
1902 Arthur Wellard, cricketer (big hitting Somerset & England batsman)
1902 Josef Krips, Vienna Austria, conductor (London Symph 1954-63)
1903 Ilka Chase, NYC, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien)
1904 Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (d. 1970)
1904 John Antill, composer
1904 John R Hicks, British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (Nobel 1972) (d. 1989)
1905 Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971)
1905 George Baxter, Paris France, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged)
1905 Hans Scherfig, Danish marxist/writer (Idealister, Frydenholm)
1905 Helen B M Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer, South African anti-apartheid activist (Side by Side) (d. 1992)
1905 Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61) [or 4/18]
1906 Charles J B Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer (Mirror of the Sea)
1906 Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974)
1907 Maurice Stacey, chemist
1908 Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (d. 1987)
1908 Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1909 George Dixon, trumpet/sax
1909 John Fante, American novelist (d. 1983)
1909 Olavi Pesonen, composer
1909 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1910 George Musso, American football player, NFL guard (Chicago Bears) (d. 2000)
1910 Wendell Bill, cricketer (NSW bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930)
1911 Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian
1911 Emil Mihai Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995)
1911 Melvin Calvin, American chemist  (photosynthesis, Nobel laureate 1961) (d. 1997)
1912 Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
1912 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (Olympic-gold-1928,32,36) (d. 1969)
1913 H Ernst, bishop (Breda Neth)
1914 John Cameron, cricketer (brother of Jimmy WI v-capt 1939 England tour)
1914 María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1918 Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
1918 Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
1919 (Douglas) Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1964-..) (d. 2007)
1920 Carmen McRae (Clark), American jazz singer and pianist (Dream of Life) (d. 1994)
1920 Erik Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1921 Alfie Bass, English actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served) (d. 1987)
1921 Betty Bloomer Ford, 1st lady (1975-76), namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
1921 Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003)
1921 Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
1921 Virginia O'Brien, LA California, actress/singer (Gus, Ziegfeld Follies)
1923 Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (Daniel Gregg-Ghost & Mrs Muir) (d. 1997)
1923 Franco Corelli, Anconia Italy, tenor (Don Jose-Carmen)
1923 George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
1924 Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter
1924 Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006)
1925 Shecky Greene, Chicago Ill, comedian/actor (Love Machine, Combat)
1926 Henry N. Cobb, American architect
1926 Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian
1926 Shecky Greene, American comedian
1926 Shirley Mills, American actress (d. 2010)
1928 Eric Porter, London England, actor (Antony & Cleopatra, 39 Steps)
1928 Fred Ebb, Manhattan NY, American composer, (d. 2004)
1928 John Gavin, LA California, actor (Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale)
1928 Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
1928 Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, CEO (NVSH)
1928 Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist, bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
1929 Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and composer (Pain in the A**) (d. 1978)
1929 Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (d. 1996)
1929 WIlliam K Everson, film historian
1929 Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone, husband of Christa Ludwig (d. 2000)
1930 Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
1930 Dorothy Tutin, London, actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell)
1930 John Bartholomew Tucker, Pa, TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island)
1930 John Reardon, NYC, baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus)
1930 Julien Van Remoortere (Piet Mortelman), Flemish writer (Fist)
1930 Mary Moore, principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
1931 John Gavin, American actor and politician (Felony, Jennifer, House of Shadows)
1932 Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2010)
1933 Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004)
1933 Jaroslav Smolka, composer
1934 Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
1935 Albert G Bustamante, American politician, (Rep-D-TX, 1985)
1935 Donald Thompsett, cricket umpire
1935 Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, epidemiologist (Living legacy award-1984)
1935 Oscar Zeta Acosta, American attorney, politician, and Chicano Movement activist (d. 1974?)
1936 Klaus Lowitsch, Berlin, actor (Despair, Marriage of Marla Braun)
1937 Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader
1937 Seymour Hersh, American journalist, award winning investigative reporter (NY Times)
1938 Barton Keith McLean, composer
1938 Kofi Annan, Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General
1938 Lory Patrick, Beckley WV, actress (Trina-Tales of Welles Fargo)
1938 Mohammad Farooq, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 7 Tests 1960-65)
1940 John Havlicek, American basketball player, NBA hall-of-famer (Boston Celtics)
1941 Darlene Gillespie, Canadian-born American actress
1941 Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
1941 Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
1942 Douglas Trumbull, American film director (Silent Running, Brainstorm)
1942 Eduard Visser, Dutch writer (Fyffes are now called Chiquita)
1942 Roger Chapman, British singer (Family, Streetwalkers)
1943 Carol Lavell, Fairfax Vt, equestrian dressage (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1943 J P Kavanaugh, racehorse trainer
1943 Michael Bennett, American dancer and choreographer (Chorus Line) (d. 1987)
1943 Miller Farr, American football player
1943 Robby Weaver, actor (Stone)
1943 Tony Banks, British politician (Lab) (d. 2006)
1943 William Garth Morrison, Chief scout
1944 Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian
1944 Christoph Hein, writer
1944 Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor (Family Way, Shelley)
1944 Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
1944 Santiago Jimenez Jr, US accordionist (El Mero Mero, Viva Seguin)
1945 Derrick Walker, British racing team owner
1945 Ian White, MEP
1946 Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1946 Jim "Catfish" Hunter, major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees)
1946 Stuart Pankin, American actor (Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs)
1946 Tim Thomerson, American actor
1947 Cindy Pickett, Norman Oklahoma, actress (Guiding Light, St Elsewhere)
1947 Hsiao-hsien Hou, dir (Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster)
1947 Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
1947 Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO
1947 Robert Kiyosaki, American investor
1947 Steve Howe, English guitarist (Yes, Asia, GTR)
1947 Thomas D Delay, American politician, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985)
1948 Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Rick-Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1948 Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate
1948 Robert Alan Litchfield, Mass, bank robber (FBI most wanted in the 1980s)
1949 Brenda Russell, American singer/songwriter
1949 Jim Lampley, Hendersonville NC, newscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1949 John Madden, English film director
1950 Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer
1951 Geir Haarde, former Icelandic prime minister
1952 Adam Woods, rock drummer/pianist (Fixx)
1954 G.V. Loganathan, American professor (d. 2007)
1954 Gary Carter, American baseball player (Montreal Expos, NY Mets)
1954 John Schneider, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Bo-Dukes of Hazzard)
1955 Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
1955 David Wu, Taiwanese-born American politician
1955 John Campbell, harness racer (3-time winner of Hambletonian)
1955 Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman
1955 Ricky Bell, American football player (d. 1984)
1956 Christine Boisson, French actress
1956 Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer
1957 Fred Smerlas, American football player
1959 Franklyn Stephenson, cricketer (great all-rounder)
1959 Martin Weston, cricketer
1960 John Schneider, American actor
1961 Richard Hatch, American reality television personality
1962 Izzy Stradlin (Jeff Isabelle), American musician guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1963 Alec Stewart, English cricketer
1963 Erica Terwillegar, Nelsonville NJ, lugist
1963 Julian Lennon, English musician and singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)
1963 Seth Tobias, American financial commentator (d. 2007)
1963 Terry Porter, American basketball player and coach, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1964 Biz Markie, American rapper, disc jockey (Meteor Man, Townsend Television)
1964 John McGinlay, Scottish footballer
1964 Lisa Guerrero, American sports broadcaster
1964 Valinda Hilleary, Littleton Co, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1993)
1965 Michael Jones, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1966 Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality
1966 Dalton Grant, British high jumper
1966 Evripidis Stylianidis, Greek politician
1966 Mark Blundell, British racing driver
1966 Mazinho, Brazilian footballer
1966 Robin Wright Penn, American actress (Santa Barbara, Princess Bride)
1967 Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor
1967 Kenneth Charlie Griffith Benjamin, cricketer (WI like his namesake)
1968 Don Davey, NFL defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 Patricia Arquette, American actress (True Romance, Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
1968 Patricia Girard-Léno, French athlete (100 m hurdles)
1968 Tracy Grammer, American folk singer
1969 Steve Jackson, NFL cornerback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1970 Derek D Brown, Wash DC, team handball right wing (Olympics-1996)
1970 Gerald Vaughn, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 Harold Bishop, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Edward Fryatt, Rochdale England, Nike golfer (1994 NCAA West Regional)
1971 Marc Peers, Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1972 Damon Watts, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Isaac Davis, NFL guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Katrina Powell, Canberra Australia, field hockey striker (Olympics-96)
1972 Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot)
1973 Alex Gonzalez, American baseball player, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1973 Emma Caulfield, American actress
1973 Joel Davis, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
1973 Walter Nicholas Henry Tongue, Auckland NZ, 50m/100m swimmer (Oly-96)
1974 Chino XL, American rapper
1974 Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist
1974 Nayden Todorov, Bulgarian conductor
1974 Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nigerian-American writer
1975 Anouk, Dutch singer
1975 Timo Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1976 Jim Farnum, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1977 Mark Spencer, American computer programmer
1977 Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (d. 2008)
1978 Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
1978 Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer
1978 Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
1979 Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut)
1979 Jeremy Guthrie, American baseball player
1980 Katee Sackhoff, American actress
1980 Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
1981 Brian Burres, American baseball player
1981 Fred Bousquet, French swimmer
1981 Lito Sheppard, American football cornerback
1981 Rebecca Wilson, Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
1982 Judy Star, Canadian porn star
1983 Adrian Bellani, American actor
1983 Allu Arjun, Indian film actor
1984 Júlia Liptáková, Slovakian model
1984 Kirsten Storms, American actress
1984 Taran Noah Smith, American actor (Mark Taylor-Home Improvement)
1986 Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer
1986 Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1986 Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
1987 Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
1989 Alex DeLeon, lead singer of The Cab
1989 Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
1990 Kim Jonghyun, South Korean singer, lead vocalist of boy band SHINee
1992 Shelby Young, American actress
1993 Trent Sullivan, Australian Actor

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217 Caracalla (Marcus Antoniius), Roman Emperor (198-217), murdered (b. 186)
956 Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
1143 John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident (b. 1087)
1364 Jan (John) II, the Good, King of France (1350-64) (b. 1319)
1461 Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1492 Lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico", ruler of Florence (1469-92)
1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded
1537 Willem Aerts, Flemish architect
1586 Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1587 John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
1629 Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar
1691 Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611)
1697 Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
1704 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
1704 Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
1725 John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
1735 Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. 1676)
1736 Pedro Vaz Rego, composer
1759 Francois de La Croix, composer
1778 Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum)
1794 Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician
1844 Ignaz Franz von Mosel, compose
1848 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
1851 John Parry, composer
1853 Jan W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)
1857 Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
1858 Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher
1861 Elisha G Otis, American  elevator builder (Otis) (b. 1811)
1863 Joseph Netherclift, composer
1865 John Park, composer
1870 Charles-Auguste de Bériot, Belgian composer (b. 1802)
1871 Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
1889 Henry Jupp, cricketer (scored 63 on Test debut for Engl in 1877)
1890 Junius Morgan, philanthropist
1894 Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath)
1897 George Garrett, composer
1897 Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician
1902 Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1906 Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1850)
1919 Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1920 Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (White Peacock) (b. 1884)
1921 Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1935 Edwin Cannan, economist
1936 Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1937 Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer
1937 William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music)
1938 Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af)
1942 Alfred Mombert, writer
1942 Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
1943 Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
1943 Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match
1947 Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars)
1948 Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan)
1950 Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum)
1950 Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (b. 1890)
1957 Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump)
1958 Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
1959 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian
1963 Len Tuckett, cricketer (no runs no wkts in 1 Test for S A)
1965 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author
1965 Jack Durston, cricketer (one Test for England, 4-102 & 1-34)
1965 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil) (b. 1886)
1966 George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
1968 Barbara Jane Harrison, Air stewardess (b.1945)
1969 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer
1969 Denton Cooley, got 1st fully artificial heart
1970 Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg
1973 Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish artist and sculptor (Guernica) (b. 1881)
1974 James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
1976 Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill)
1977 Frank Milan, actor (Witness)
1978 Ford C Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
1981 Norman Taurog, dies
1981 Omar Bradley, last US 5-star general, (Normandy) (b. 1893)
1984 Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
1985 J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
1986 Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1987 Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea)
1990 Doreen Sloane
1990 Jose De Vega
1990 Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
1991 Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1991 Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1992 Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1992 Nelson Olmstead
1993 Arleen Whelan
1993 H Earnest, bishop of Breda
1993 Marian Anderson, American contralto (My Lord, What a Morning) (b. 1897)
1994 Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
1994 François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1994 Irene Eisinger, singer
1994 Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches)
1995 Maurice Allom, cricketer (14 Test wickets-NZ debut hat-trick)
1996 Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner
1996 Ben Johnson, American actor (Tex, Dillinger) (b. 1918)
1996 Charles Donald Adams, singer
1996 George W. Jenkins, American businessman (b. 1907)
1996 León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (b. 1906)
1997 Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
2000 Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
2002 María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2004 Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
2005 Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2005 Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
2006 Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
2007 Carey W. Barber, American clergyman, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905)
2007 Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
2008 John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
2008 Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
2008 Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
2009 Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
2010 Jack Agnew, American World War II veteran (b. 1922)
2010 Malcolm McLaren, British music manager and musician (b. 1946)
2010 Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
2012 Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman
2013 Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990) (b. 1925)
2013 Annette Funicello, American singer and actress (Mickey Mouse Club)
2014 The Ultimate Warrior (James Brian Hellwig), American Hall of Fame professional wrestler
2015 Sherwin Badger, American Figure Skating Champion (1920-24)

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