partypossum.com May 17th

May 17th

Holidays and Festivals

Norwegian Constitution Day a.k.a. Sottende/Syttende Mai
National Famine Memorial Day (Ireland)
Navy Day (Argentina)
Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Birthday of the Raja (Perlis, Malaysia)
Constitution Day (Nauru)

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia a.k.a. IDAHO.
World Telecommunications Day
World Information Society Day
Pack Rat Day
Galician Literature Day a.k.a. Día das Letras Galegas (Galicia, Spain)
Rogation Sunday
Rural Life Sunday Day
NASCAR Day
Feast of Saint Paschal Baylon or Pascal Baylon
Feast of Saint Restituta
Feast of Saint Victor
Feast of ‘Aamat (Bahá'í Faith)

Fête de la Buglosse Translation: Bugloss Day (French Republican) The 28th day of the Month of Floréal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"To your good health, old friend,
may you live for a thousand years,
and I be there to count them."
- Robert Smith Surtees (May 17th 1805 - March 16th, 1864), an English editor, novelist and sporting writer.

Drink of The Day

Grass Hopper

1 Part Green Creme De Menthe
1 Part White Creme de Cacao
1 Part Cream
Roll between Micing Cups or Mix in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a Cocktail Glass.

Wine of The Day

Casa Larga NV Cab-Merlot
Style - Cab-Merlot
American
$15

Beer of The Day

Rockfish Wheat
Brewer - Blue Mountain Brewery, Afton, VA
Style - American Style Wheat Beer

Joke of The Day

I was making love to my wife the other day when she stopped moving.
She just laid there lifeless, but I decided to finish.
All of a sudden she jumped up and shouted BOO!!.
Honestly, some people are just sick in the head!.

Quote of The Day

"He that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
- Unknown

Whiskey of The Day

McIvor 17 Year Old Finest Blended Scotch Whisky
$50

May Observances

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) Awareness Month
APS (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) Awareness Month
American Wetlands Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Bicycle Safety Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Carrots and Cauliflower Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Clean Air Month
Community Living Month (Ontario, Canada)
Creative Beginnings Month
Date Your Mate Month
EcoDriving Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Gardening for Wildlife Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
Good Car-Keeping Month, Natl
Grapefruit and Kiwi Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
High Blood Pressure Education Mont
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Internal Audit Awareness Month, Intl
International Audit Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness Month
International Multiple Sclerosis Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Better Hearing and Speach Month
National Bike Month
National Blood Pressure Month
National Cancer Research Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Egg Month
National Electric Safety Month
National Family Month (5/12 to 6/16)
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Lupus Awareness Month
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Motorcycle Safety Month
National Moving Month
National Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Photograph Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Prepare To Buy a Home Month
National Preservation Month
National Recommitment Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa (Food) Month
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
National Teen Self-Esteem Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month
National Vinegar Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
National Youth Traffic Safety Month
Personal History Month
Potatoes and Limes Month
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/12-6/16)
REACT Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Month, Natl
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Awareness Month
Teen CEO Month
Teen Self Esteem Month
Tennis Month
Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15)
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
Young Achiever Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month

Observances this Week

National Women's Health Week, 7 Days beginning with Mother's Day
Reading Is Fun Week, Second Full Week in May
Universal Family Week, Second Full Week in May
Food Allergy Awareness Week, Second Full Week in May
National Return To Work Week, Second Full Week in May
Salute to Moms 35+ Week, Second Full Week in May
Work At Home Moms Week, Second Full Week of May
National Stuttering Awareness Week, Second Full Week of May

Public Service Recognition Week, Full Week of May 15th
National Police Week, Full Week of May 15th

Arbour Week (Prince Edward Island, Canada), Third Week in May * CLICK HERE
National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week, Third Week in May
American Craft Beer Week, 7 Days Starting the Second Monday in May
World Trade Week, 12 Days Starting Second Monday in May
Children's Book Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Etiquette Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Transportation Week, Full Week of the Third Friday in May
National Safe Boating Week, 7 Days ending the last Friday before Memorial Day

Historical Events on May 17th

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218 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
352 Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
884 St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
1525 Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
1527 Pánfilo de Narváez departs to explore Florida
1536 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason (Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers")
1544 Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
1590 Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1631 Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
1642 Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
1672 Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1673 Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
1678 King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1712 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
1733 England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
1742 Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands
1750 -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1756 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1775 The Continental Congress bans trade with Canada during the American Revolutionary War.
1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1792 The New York Stock Exchange is formed by 24 merchants at 70 Wall Street.
1794 Hard frost in southern New England
1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1804 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1805 Muhammad Ali became Wali of Egypt.
1809 Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll. It is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
1814 Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
1837 Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
1845 Rubber band patents
1848 Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
1849 Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri, threatens to burn the city to the ground.
1853 Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
1859 Australian Rules Football first 'laws of the game' published
1860 German football club TSV 1860 München is founded
1862 Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
1863 Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the Galician language.
1864 Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1865 The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established.
1871 Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1872 Bohemian Club incorporated
1873 El Paso, Texas is established by charter from the Texas Legislature.
1875 1st Kentucky Derby, Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby in 2:37.75
1876 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1881 7th Kentucky Derby, Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
1881 Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
1881 Revised version of New Testament
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
1890 Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
1890 Pietro Mascagni's opera "Rustic Chivalry" premieres in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi
1894 19th Preakness, Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49.25
1895 The first Omonoia station of the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
1895 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
1898 Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
1899 Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
1900 British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1900 British troops relieve Mafeking in the Second Boer War.
1902 Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1903 Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
1904 Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade," premieres in Paris
1905 Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
1906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1910 Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins
1911 36th Preakness, Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
1914 The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
1915 40th Preakness, Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
1915 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1915 National Baptist Convention chartered
1915 The last British Liberal Party government (Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1916 British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1919 War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1921 Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
1921 President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
1924 50th Kentucky Derby, John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
1925 Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1926 German government of Marx takes power
1927 Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
1927 U.S. Army aviation pioneer, Major Harold Geiger, dies in the crash of his Airco DH.4 de Havilland plane at Olmstead Field, Pennsylvania
1928 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1930 56th Kentucky Derby, Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
1932 Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1937 Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1938 Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1938 Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1939 The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the first-ever televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
1940 Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France, World War II
1940 Nazi's bombs Middelburg/
1940 The old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland, World War II. B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
1942 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
1943 The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1944 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1944 General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 Operation Straightline, Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
1945 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1946 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946 Pres Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1947 "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
1948 Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
1948 Soviet Union recognized Israel
1949 British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
1952 78th Preakness, Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
1953 Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
1954 Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v (Topeka) Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1955 Dutch government of Drees resigns
1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1957 School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
1958 84th Preakness, Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
1958 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1959 Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
1963 Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in Madison Square Garden for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in professional wrestling history.
1963 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1964 Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
1966 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
1967 President Abdul Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt during the Six-Day War.
1968 European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
1968 Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game
1968 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1969 "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
1969 95th Preakness, Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
1969 Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
1969 Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1970 Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
1970 Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat (reed raft) Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
1971 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway
1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination
1972 Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors
1972 Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
1973 "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1973 Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
1973 Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run
1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
1973 US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
1973 Hearings on the Watergate scandal begin in the United States Senate and are televised.
1974 Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
1974 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
1974 Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
1974 Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland.
1975 "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
1975 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
1975 101st Preakness, Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
1975 Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
1976 28th Emmy Awards, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned
1976 Earthquake in Uzbekistan, 1000's killed
1977 Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
1978 Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
1979 -12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
1979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
1980 106th Preakness, Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
1980 General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
1980 Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
1980 Major race riot in Miami Florida 16 killed, 300 injured
1980 On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
1980 Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
1981 "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
1981 Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
1981 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1983 Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli peace treaty and withdrawal from Lebanon.
1983 Stanley Cup, NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
1983 U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
1984 Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
1984 Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA
1984 Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
1985 Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
1986 112th Preakness, Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
1987 "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
1987 An Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. warship USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever, 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa
1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
1990 Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
1990 European court rules pension rights for both men & women
1990 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
1990 the WHO takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses.
1991 Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
1992 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
1992 Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
1993 Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
1994 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
1994 Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
1995 After 18 years as the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac takes office as President of France.
1996 Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs
1997 123rd Preakness, Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
1997 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
1997 Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic Of Congo
1997 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
1998 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Se Ri Pak
2000 In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
2004 Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
2006 The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to be an artificial reef
2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953
2008 Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown wins the 133rd Preakness in 1:54.80
2013 90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq
2014 Arsenal defeats Hull City to win the 2014 FA Cup Final
2014 Atlético Madrid win the 2013–14 La Liga
2014 Bayern Munich defeats Borussia Dortmund to win the 2013–14 DFB-Pokal
2014 The center-right Hindu Nationalist Party, the BJP, wins landslide election victory in India
2014 Victor Ezpinoza aboard California Chrome wins the 139th Preakness in 1:54.84
2015 A mudslide hits the alpine town of Salgar in Western Colombia killing over 50 people
2015 Canada defeats Russia to win gold at the 2015 IIHF World Championship
2015 Gun fight between rival biker gangs and police in Waco Texas leave 9 death and 18 injured. 170 later arrested for organised crime
2015 Melbourne Victory FC defeats Sydney FC to win the Australian A-League
2015 Taylor Swift wins top artist & 7 other awards at the 24th Billboard Music Awards

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1155 Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
1443 Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1460)
1444 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
1451 Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
1490 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia
1551 Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)
1551 Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist
1568 Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer
1576 Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
1628 Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria, Regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662)
1682 Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
1691 Antoine Court, French reformed theologist
1706 Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
1718 Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)
1732 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
1741 John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence)
1743 Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
1749 Edward Jenner, English medical researcher, discovered vaccination (d. 1823)
1758 John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (d. 1839)
1768 Caroline of Brunswick, Queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1821)
1768 Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
1794 Anna Brownell Jameson, Irish writer (d. 1860)
1796 Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao (christen slaves)
1800 Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
1803 Robert Smith Surtees, novelist
1804 Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions)
1808 Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
1812 Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1819 Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
1821 Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
1823 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine)
1836 Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923)
1836 Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian world chess champion (1866-94) (d. 1900)
1844 Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
1845 Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
1846 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
1850 Antonio Scontrino, composer
1866 Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
1867 Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1868 Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1920)
1871 Henricus P Bremmer, art historian (Modern Kunstwerken)
1873 Dorothy Miller Richardson, English writer (d. 1957)
1873 Henri Barbusse, French novelist (Le Feu) and journalist (d. 1935)
1876 Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
1879 Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
1886 Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
1888 A P "Tich" Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965)
1888 Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1889 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
1890 Philip James, composer
1891 Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and resistance leader during World War II (d. 1957)
1891 Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
1895 Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2010)
1895 Saul Adler FRS, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (d. 1966)
1896 Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
1896 Hannah Tillich, writer
1897 Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1898 Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
1899 Ralf Harolde, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off)
1900 Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
1900 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Muslim cleric, Iran's ayatollah (1979-89) (d. 1989)
1901 Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige) (d. 1983)
1902 John Vincent, composer
1903 Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (d. 1991)
1903 Douglas Packard, British Lt General
1904 Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
1905 John Patrick, screenwriter
1906 Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft)
1906 Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (d. 1989)
1907 Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
1907 Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
1907 Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)
1908 Sigismund Toduta, composer
1908 Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
1909 Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
1909 Magda Schneider, actress (Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight)
1911 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative
1911 Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish-born supermodel (d. 1992)
1911 Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice) (d. 1998)
1912 Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate)
1912 Clarence "Ace" Parker, American baseball and football player, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
1912 Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor
1913 Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn)
1913 Hans Ruesch, Swiss racing driver (d. 2007)
1913 Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
1914 Guido Masanetz, composer
1915 Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer
1916 Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician
1916 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter
1918 A. C. Lyles, American film producer
1918 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome) (d. 2005)
1919 Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
1919 Merle Miller, American biographer (d. 1986)
1920 Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
1920 Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 1998)
1921 Dennis Brain, English French horn player (Serenade) (d. 1957)
1921 John Garlick, British senior civil servant
1923 Michael Beetham, Marshal (RAF)
1923 Miles Wingate, deputy master (Trinity House)
1923 Peter Mennin(i), Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
1924 Frantisek Kovaricek, composer
1924 Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce)
1924 Thomas Baird, vice-admiral
1926 Cicely Berry, voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1926 David Young, Lt-Gen/CEO (Cairn Tech)
1926 Earl of Airlie, KT
1926 Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
1926 Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet
1926 Tenniel Evans, rev/actor (10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper)
1927 Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO (British Steel)
1928 Donald Cameron Watt, historian
1928 Ian Griggs, bishop (Ludlow)
1928 Vivian Moses, biotechnologist
1929 Raymond Hide, geophysicist
1931 Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1931 Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (d. 1997)
1932 Arthur Jones, principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
1932 Colin Hope, CEO (T/N)
1932 Peter Burge, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman of 50's & 60's)
1932 Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR
1934 Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
1935 Dennis Christopher George Potter, English playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie) (d. 1994)
1935 Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
1936 Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
1936 Lars Gustafsson, writer
1936 Philippe Boesmans, composer
1937 Hazel R. O'Leary, 7th United States Secretary of Energy
1938 Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy LewisGeneral Hospital)
1938 Jason Bernard, American actor (Judge-Liar Liar) (d. 1996)
1938 Pervis Jackson, musician (Spinners)
1938 Trinus Riemersma, Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden)
1939 Gary Paulsen, American author
1939 Hugh Dykes, MP
1939 Wim de Bie, CEO (Simplistic Covenant)
1940 Alan Kay, American computer scientist
1940 Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
1941 Ben Nelson, American politician, 40th Governor of Nebraska & United States Senator from Nebraska
1941 David Cope, American composer and author
1941 David Howell Cope, composer
1941 Grace Zabriskie, American actress
1941 Malcom Hale, rocker
1941 Miriam Margolyes, actress (Will Be)
1942 Caroline Charles, fashion designer
1942 Taj Mahal, American musician (Real Thing, Lovin' in my baby's Eyes)
1943 Johnny Warren, Australian Footballer (d. 2004)
1943 Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (d. 2005)
1944 Arif Butt, cricketer (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65)
1944 Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG
1944 Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
1944 Paul Crossley, concert pianist
1945 D A S Pennefather, Maj-General/Commandant (General Royal Marines)
1945 George Miller, (Rep-D-CA, 1975)
1945 Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
1946 F. Paul Wilson, American novelist
1946 Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 Udo Lindenberg, German musician
1947 John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)
1948 Dick Gaughan, Scottish musician, singer and songwriter
1949 Bill Bruford, English drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis)
1949 Timothy Cordy, British director (Town/Country Planning Association)
1950 A A Johnson, MP
1950 Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
1950 Howard Ashman, American lyricist (d. 1991)
1950 Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician (d. 2008)
1950 Keith Bradley, MP
1950 Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russian politician, dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party
1951 I R Evans, CEO (Hyder, Welsh Water)
1951 Simon Hughes, British politician
1952 Howard Hampton, Canadian politician
1952 Jody Pijper, Dutch (background) singer
1953 George Johnson, LA California, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
1953 Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
1953 Luca Prodan, Italian singer musician (Luca Prodan)
1953 Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
1953 Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun)
1954 John Iles, dolby supervisor (Elephant Man, Richard III)
1954 Michael Roberts, jockey
1955 Bill Paxton, American actor and film director (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies)
1956 Bob Saget, American actor, comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video)
1956 Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist
1956 Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
1956 Sugar Ray (Charles) Leonard, American boxer (Olympics-gold-76)
1957 Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1958 Paul Di'Anno, English singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1958 Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
1959 Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
1959 Marcelo Loffreda, Argentine rugby player and coach
1959 Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1960 Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1960 Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
1961 Enya (Eithne Ní Bhraonáin), Irish singer and songwriter (A Day Without Rain)
1962 Craig Ferguson, Scottish actor and comedian
1962 Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
1962 Scott Case, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
1963 Jon Koncak, American basketball player, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1963 Page McConnell, American musician and songwriter (Phish)
1964 Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (d. 1999)
1964 Stratos Apostolakis, Greek footballer
1965 Richard Baumhammers, American spree killer
1965 Trent Reznor, American musician (Nine Inch Nails)
1966 Danny Manning, American basketball player, NBA forward, center (Phoenix Suns)
1966 Hill Harper, American actor
1966 Mark Kratzmann, Australian tennis player
1966 Mark Schmocker, Interlaken Switz, US team handball goalie (Oly-96)
1967 Cameron Bancroft, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 Debbie Dutch, Titusville NJ, actress (Hell's Paradox)
1968 Tim Grunhard, NFL center (KC Chiefs)
1969 Aaron Ruffin, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Alan Doyle, Canadian musician (Great Big Sea)
1969 Craig Erickson, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins)
1969 Paige Turco, Boston MA, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)
1969 Thom Filicia, American television personality
1969 Ujesh Ranchod, cricketer (Zimbabwe off-spinner 1993)
1970 Alan Wetmore, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 Angelica Agurbash, Belarusian singer, actress and model
1970 Derrick Deese, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1970 Hubert Davis, American basketball player, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NY Knicks)
1970 Jim Cummins, Dearborn, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 Jodie Rogers, Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1970 John Karelse, soccer player (NAC)
1970 Jordan (Nathaniel M) Knight, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
1970 Matt Lindland, American mixed martial arts fighter
1970 Renzo Furlan, Italy, tennis star
1970 Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer (95 State Farm Rail Classic-11)
1970 Todd Mundt, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks)
1971 Bill Lindsay, Big Fork, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1971 Mark Williams, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
1971 Shaun Hart, Australian footballer
1972 Elena Wagner, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1996 ITF/Redbridge-GBR)
1972 John Burrough, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Jay Riemersma, tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1973 Josh Homme, American musician and songwriter (Queens of the Stone Age)
1973 Matthew McGrory, American actor (d. 2005)
1973 Sasha Alexander, American television actress
1973 Steve Barakatt, Canadian composer
1974 Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
1974 Eddie Lewis, American football (soccer) player
1974 Marcia Turner, Cambridge Mass, Miss America (Mass-Top 10-1996)
1974 Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
1974 Wiki González, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 Alex Wright, German professional wrestler
1975 Cheick Kongo, French martial artist
1975 Jonti Picking, British cartoonist
1975 Kostas Sommer, Greek actor
1975 Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
1976 Anna Windsor, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Daniel Komen, Nyaru Kenya, 5k runner
1976 José Guillén, Dominican baseball player
1976 Lee-Hom Wang, American-born Taiwanese musician and composer
1976 Peter Devine, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 Jere Michael, Aspen Colo, figure skater (1994 National Jr champ)
1978 Carlos Pena, Dominican baseball player
1978 John Foster, American baseball player
1978 Paddy Kenny, Irish goalkeeper
1979 Wayne Thomas, English footballer
1980 Dallas Taylor, American singer (Underoath)
1980 Davor Džalto, Serbian art historian
1981 Beñat Albizuri, Spanish cyclist
1981 Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer
1981 Leon Osman, English footballer
1981 Lim Jeong Hee, Korean singer
1981 R. J. Helton, American Idol finalist
1981 Shiri Maimon, Israeli singer
1982 Matt Cassel, American football player
1982 Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
1982 Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
1983 Channing Frye, American basketball player
1983 Chris Henry, American football player (d. 2009)
1983 Jeremy Sowers, American baseball player
1983 Nicky Hofs, Dutch footballer
1984 Christian Bolaños, Costa Rican footballer
1984 Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
1985 Derek Hough, American dancer and singer
1985 Matt Ryan, American football player
1986 Tahj Mowry, American actor
1988 Nikki Reed, American actress
1989 Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
1990 Leven Rambin, American actress
1991 Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper
1991 Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor

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1050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist
1189 Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
1336 Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
1365 Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
1395 Constantine Dragas, Serbian ruler of a semi-independent realm
1464 Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (executed) (b. 1427)
1510 Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi), Italian painter (Birth of Venus) (b. 1445)
1521 Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
1536 Francis Weston, English courtier and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber (b. 1511)
1536 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat
1536 Henry Norris, English courtier and groom of the stool
1536 Mark Smeaton, English courtier and musician
1536 William Brereton, English courtier and Groom of the Privy Chamber
1575 Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75) (b. 1504)
1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist
1606 Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1626 Juan Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
1643 Giovanni Picchi, Italian composer
1695 Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27) (b. 1684)
1729 Samuel Clarke, English philosopher, theologian (b. 1675)
1765 Alexis Claude Clairault, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1796 Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer
1797 Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
1801 William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
1807 John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1745)
1809 Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
1822 Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
1829 John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
1838 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat (b. 1754)
1838 René Caillé, French explorer (b. 1799)
1839 Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
1840 Niccolo Paganini, composer
1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason)
1864 N Hawthorne, writer
1866 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
1868 Isami Kondo, Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
1872 Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer
1875 John C. Breckinridge, 14th Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
1879 Asa Packer, railroad magnate and founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
1883 Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer
1884 Louis Brassin, composer
1886 John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer (b. 1804)
1888 Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1889 William Roxby Beverly, artist
1892 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader
1914 Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
1916 Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
1916 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
1917 Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, ruler of Sarawak (b. 1829)
1919 Bohumil Pazdirek, composer
1919 Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848)
1920 Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11)
1926 Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller)
1927 Harold Geiger, U.S. Army aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
1930 Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic)
1931 Johan (Eliza J) de Master, art critic/writer
1931 Timothy Cole, wood engraver
1935 Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
1936 Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
1938 Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
1943 Montagu Love, actor (Wind)
1945 Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter
1945 Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America
1947 George William Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
1950 Eduardo Fabini, composer
1951 Karl Heinrich David, composer
1953 Eric De Lamarter, composer
1955 Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31)
1955 Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
1955 Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
1957 Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer
1961 Frans van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp
1961 Henri Gagnon, composer
1963 John Wilce, physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (b. 1888)
1964 Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-born psychologist and parapsychologist (b.1895)
1964 Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56)
1966 Randy Turpin, known as the Leamington Licker, English boxer (b. 1928)
1967 John Wesley Work, composer
1967 Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist
1969 Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1970 Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner)
1973 Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer
1974 Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town)
1974 Ernest Nash, German born archaeologist (b. 1898)
1978 John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons
1981 Hugo Freidhofer, composer
1981 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot
1985 Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b. 1910)
1985 Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
1985 Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead)
1987 Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (Nobel Prize laureate 1974) (b. 1898)
1992 George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer
1992 Lawrence Welk, American musician, conductor, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show) (b. 1903)
1992 Leonardo del Ferro (Keyser), US epic tenor
1992 Warren Neal Boxer
1994 Alain Cuny (René X Marie), French actor (La Dolce Vita)
1994 Andrew Brown, film Producer
1994 Donald Keith Falkner, singer
1994 Willian Noel Moffat, architect
1995 Hector "Toe" Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and NHL coach (b. 1912)
1995 Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
1996 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician
1996 Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
1996 Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India)
1996 Scott Evans Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)
1996 Willi Daume, olympic organiser
1996 Willis Conover, broadcaster
1999 Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
2000 Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
2001 Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908)
2002 Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2002 Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
2002 Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (b. 1916)
2004 Ezzedine Salim, leader of Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943)
2004 Jørgen Nash, Danish artist (b. 1920)
2004 Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
2005 Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)
2006 Captain Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)
2006 Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)
2006 Eric Forth, British Member of Parliament (b. 1944)
2007 Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)
2007 T.K. Doraiswamy (Nakulan), poet, author (b. 1921)
2009 Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965)
2009 Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (b. 1920)
2010 Walasse Ting, Chinese/American painter (b. 1929)
2011 Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2012 Donna Summer, American singer
2013 Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)
2013 Alan O'Day, American rocker
2013 Ken Venturi, American golfer and sports broadcaster
2014 Gerald Edelman, American biologist & Nobel laureate
2015 Lionel Pickens "Chinx", American rapper (Coke Boys), dies in a drive-by shooting
2016 Guy Clark, American country singer (Heartbroke)

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