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325 The First Council of Nicea, Asia Minor - the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
526 An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
685 The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
1217 The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
1293 King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
1303 Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
1310 Shoes were made for both right & left feet
1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal
1495 French King Charles VIII leaves Naples
1497 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship  Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
1501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
1521 Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball at the Battle of Pampeluna
1524 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland
1570 Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern atlas.
1571 Venice, Spain & Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius
1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg
1631 The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1639 Dorchester Mass, forms 1st school funded by local taxes
1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY
1734 1st Jockey Club forms in SC
1774 Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
1784 England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
1802 By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
1813 Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1825 Charles X becomes King of France
1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830 D Hyde patents fountain pen
1835 Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
1840 York Minster was badly damaged by fire
1845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
1861 The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in the American Civil War, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
1861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
1861 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
1861 US marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence
1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, provides cheap land for settlement of West.
1864 Battle of Ware Bottom Church in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight, 1,400 killed or injured in this Confederate victory of American Civil War.
1864 Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person
1867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
1867 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
1868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
1870 Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment
1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1875 Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures forms by treaty
1879 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37
1882 Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago
1882 St Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
1882 The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
1883 Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano's final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.
1891 The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1892 George Sampson patents clothes dryer
1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
1896 The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
1900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
1902 US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends, Cuba gains independence. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
1910 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
1911 Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex
1913 38th Preakness, James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4
1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
1916 The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
1917 Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1918 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)
1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
1920 Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1920 Policemen raid the Cubs' bleachers & arrest 24 fans for gambling
1922 "Egypt" sinks off Ushant after colliding with "Seine," killing 90
1922 Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the NY lineup & go hitless
1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
1926 Belgian government of Jaspar takes power
1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes
1926 Railway Labor Act became law
1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1927 At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1927 By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1930 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
1930 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot
1932 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1932 Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
1939 "3 Little Fishies," by Kay Kyser hits #1
1939 1st regular transatlantic airmail (Pan Am: NY to Marsseille France)
1940 Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1940 The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1940 Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
1940 Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
1941 Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published
1941 Former Dutch PM Colijn says Neth Indies not ready for independence
1941 Germany invades Crete
1941 White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
1941 Battle of Crete German paratroops invade Crete, World War II.
1942 US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
1943 French, British & US victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
1944 US Communist Party dissolves
1945 Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's
1946 Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher's fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances
1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1948 Cleve Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4)
1949 In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
1949 The Kuomintang regime declares martial law in Taiwan.
1950 76th Preakness, Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2
1954 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
1956 In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb (Atomic fusion - thermonuclear) is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
1956 Jordan government of Samir resigns
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon"
1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
1959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
1959 Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
1960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
1961 87th Preakness, Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6
1961 Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen
1961 Mauritania adopts constitution
1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
1962 Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia
1964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for US Olympic team
1965 PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
1965 Yorkshire all out for 23 v Hampshire at Middlesbrough
1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 93rd Preakness, Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2
1967 BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
1969 The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
1969 US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
1970 2 die in a NYC subway accident
1970 100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
1970 Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premieres in UK
1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
1972 "Different Times" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 24 performances
1972 "Hard Job Being God" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 6 performances
1972 5th ABA Championship, Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets, 4 games to 2
1972 98th Preakness, Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6
1972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
1973 "2 Gentlemen of Verona" closes at St James Theater NYC after 613 perfs
1973 25th Emmy Awards, Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore
1973 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
1978 104th Preakness, Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4
1978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1, produces 1st global radar map of Venus
1979 "I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 864 perfs
1979 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1980 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated
1980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
1980 Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
1980 In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 59.5% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
1981 Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam
1983 A car-bomb explosion kills 17 and injures 197 in the centre of Pretoria, South Africa.
1983 First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
1983 Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title
1983 Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs
1984 "On Your Toes" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 505 performances
1984 Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1984 Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory
1985 1150 Lebanese/Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
1985 Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
1985 Indians-Brewers game at Cleve Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
1985 Israel exchanges 1,100+ Arab prisoners for 3 Israeli soldiers
1985 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
1985 US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
1986 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
1986 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
1987 Gutenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee
1987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"
1988 Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's & John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade
1988 Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place
1989 115th Preakness, Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8
1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in Beijing in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
1990 "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 33 performances
1990 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space
1990 The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
1991 Chic Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
1991 Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1992 FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London
1992 India launches its 1st satellite independently
1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds
1993 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1994 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
1994 Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
1994 Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
1995 121st Preakness, Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4
1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
1995 In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
1995 Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of HRs in 5 consecutive games
1996 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
1997 Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful
1997 White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time
2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976)
2006 Javier Castellano aboard Bernardini wins the 131st Preakness in 1:54.65
2006 Lordi for Finland wins the 51st Eurovision Song Contest singing "Hard Rock Hallelujah" in Athens
2007 "That Mitchell and Webb Look" Best Comedy, "The Street" Best Drama at the 53rd British Academy Television Awards
2012 Adele, 21 win at the 20th Billboard Music Awards
2012 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
2012 Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
2013 2 people are killed and 20 are injured after a hot air balloon crashes in Cappadocia, Turkey
2013 133 people are killed and 283 are injured in a continued wave of insurgency in Iraq
2013 The Church of Scotland votes to allow openly gay men and women to be ministers
2013 Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $1.1 Billion
2015 5 major world banks (JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup, RBS and UBS) fined US$5.7bn for manipulating currency markets - some of the largest ever fines
2015 Bobby Isaac, Terry Labonte, and Jerry Cook inducted into the 2016 NASCAR HOF
2015 David Letterman, after 33 years, hosts the "Late Show with David Letterman" for the last time
2015 Journal Nature publishes findings of the oldest man-made tools from Kenya’s Turkana basin - 3.3 million years, the 1st found to pre-date the Homo genus.

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1315 Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
1364 Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
1470 Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, theologian (d. 1547)
1537 Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
1547 Melchior Bischoff, composer
1554 Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist
1593 Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1663 William Bradford, British-born printer (d. 1752)
1706 Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
1726 Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1737 William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
1750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
1754 Hans Gram, composer
1759 William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (Capitol building, Wash DC) (d. 1828)
1764 J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
1768 Dolley (Dandridge Payne) Madison, First Lady of the United States (1809-17) (d. 1849)
1769 Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
1772 William Congreve, English officer, inventor (design fire rocket) (d. 1828)
1776 Simon Fraser,Canadian Explorer (d.1862)
1799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, Utilitarian (d. 1873)
1812 Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
1818 William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo & Company) (d. 1881)
1822 Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
1822 Frédéric Passy, French economist, pacifist (Nobel laureate 1901) (d. 1912)
1825 Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister)
1828 James William Reilly, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1905)
1830 Amalia MdGA, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry
1830 Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family) (d. 1907)
1838 Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1841 Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
1844 Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
1850 Eaton Faning, composer
1851 Emil Berliner, German recording pioneer (flat phonograph record) (d. 1929)
1851 Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1856 Henri E Cross (Delacroix), French painter
1860 Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1874 Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry
1876 John Owen Jones, composer
1881 Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)
1882 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (Kristin Lavransdatter) (Nobel laureate 1928) (d. 1949)
1883 King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1883 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher
1886 Ali Sami Yen, the founder of Galatasaray Sports Club (d. 1951)
1889 Felix Arndt, composer
1889 Margery Allingham, detective story writer
1889 William Lawther, union leader
1890 Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
1894 Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
1894 Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1895 Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire) (d. 1937)
1897 Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist (d. 1983)
1899 Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1899 Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)
1899 John Marshall Harlan II, 91st Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1955-71) (d. 1971)
1901 Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, world chess champion (1935-37) (d. 1981)
1901 Otto Waldis, Austria, actor (Port of Hell, Unknown World)
1902 Hans Sahl, writer
1903 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
1904 Russell Hardie, Buffalo NY, actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky)
1905 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Sailing)
1905 Harry Campion, statistician/founder (Brit Central Statistical Office)
1906 Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1989)
1908 Jimmy Stewart (James), American actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life), (d. 1997)
1909 Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist
1909 John Arkell, director of administration (BBC)
1911 Annie M G Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke)
1911 Gardner F(rancis) Fox, American sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman) (d. 1986)
1912 Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1913 Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
1913 Ion Dumitrescu, composer
1913 William Hewlett, American engineer (Hewlett-Packard Co) (d. 2001)
1914 Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
1914 Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, minister of Defense (d. 1981)
1915 Peter Copley, British actor (Victim, King & Country) (d. 2008)
1916 Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
1916 Cornelie Coposu, politician
1916 John McIntyre, theologian
1916 Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
1916 Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1917 Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
1917 Enyss Djemil, composer
1917 Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
1917 Richard Charles Cobb, historian
1918 Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1919 George Gobel, American comedian, TV personality (I Love My Wife) (d. 1991)
1919 Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (d. 1983)
1920 Betty Driver, English singer and actress (Coronation St, Pardon the Expression, Penny Paradise)
1920 John Cruickshank, Scottish airman, Victoria Cross recipient
1920 William Simpson, British trade union leader
1921 Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1921 John Harrison, British vice admiral, surgeon (Rep-R-NY)
1921 Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
1922 Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough Univ of Technology)
1923 Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
1923 Hugh Beach, British General
1923 Samuel Selvon, author
1924 Peter Shore, MP (Labour)
1924 Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan reporter and politician (d. 1976)
1925 Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
1925 D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985)
1926 Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
1926 David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
1926 John Lucarotti, TV writer (d. 1994)
1926 Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)
1927 Bud Grant, American football coach
1927 David Frederick Barlow, composer
1927 David Hedison, American actor
1927 Franciszek Macharski, Polish Cardinal
1927 Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
1927 (Harold) Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
1928 David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees)
1928 David Hedison, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
1928 Jack Kevorkian, controversial American medical doctor
1929 Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, who fought in Yom Kippur.
1929 Andre Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
1930 James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
1930 Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
1930 Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach
1931 Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
1931 Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1931 Paul Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d. 1987)
1932 Bob Florence, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2008)
1933 Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
1935 José Mujica, Uruguayan politician and current president-elect
1936 Anthony Zerbe, American actor (Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
1937 Dave Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1967 Memphis)
1937 Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
1937 Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer (Guinness)/large landowner
1937 Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I'm on the Outside Looking In)
1938 Alan Smithers, British professor
1938 Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K Dutch speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1938 Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist
1940 Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), hit 868 career HR
1940 Shorty Long, American musician, pianist (Here Comes the Judge) (d. 1969)
1940 Stan Mikita, Slovak-born ice hockey player, NHL center (led NHL in scoring 4 times)
1941 Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Senior Minister (1990)
1941 John Strasberg, American actor
1941 Manuel Isaias Lopez, Mexican child psychiatrist
1942 Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)
1942 Jill Jackson, American singer
1942 Lynn Davies, long jumper
1942 Paula (Jill Jackson), Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
1942 Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant (Hong Kong)
1943 Al Bano, Italian singer
1943 Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian 1963-80)
1943 Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
1943 Tison Street, composer
1944 Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president)
1944 Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
1944 David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, 53, 69)
1944 Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
1944 Joe Cocker, British singer, vocalist (Little Help From My Friends)
1944 Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
1945 Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975)
1945 Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
1945 Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel, cosmonaut
1945 Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
1945 Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
1946 Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
1946 Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian), American singer and actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)
1946 Craig Patrick, NHL coach
1947 Greg Dyke, British broadcast executive
1947 Iain Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
1947 John Corapi, American Roman Catholic prelate
1948 Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian & actor (SCTV, Grace Under Fire)
1948 John Amiel, director (Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow)
1948 John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
1948 Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981)
1949 Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977)
1950 Reinaldo Merlo, Argentine footballer
1950 Yvon Lambert, French Canadian ice hockey player
1951 Mike D Crapo, American politician (Rep-R-Idaho)
1951 Thomas D Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61, 79)
1951 William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
1952 Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1952 Warren Cann, Victoria Canada, rock drummer (Ultravox)
1953 Robert Doyle, Australian politician
1954 Cindy Hensley McCain, wife of John McCain
1954 David Paterson, American politician
1954 Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina, Russia, doctor/cosmonaut
1954 Guy Hoffman, American musician, Drummer (Violent Femmes)
1954 James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1954 Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
1955 Nigel Griffiths, MP (Labour)
1955 Steve George, rock keyboardist (Mr Mister)
1955 Zbigniew Preisner, Polish film composer
1956 Andrew Hilditch, cricketer (Australian opening bat 1979-85)
1956 Dean Butler, American actor
1956 Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
1956 Tomas Smid, Czech, tennis star
1956 William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
1958 Jane Wiedlin, American singer, guitarist (The Go-Go's)
1958 Mike Engleman, Sonoma California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1958 Ron(ald Prescot) Reagan Jr, American talk show host, Son of President Ronald Reagan (Ron Reagon Show)
1959 Bronson Pinchot, American actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
1959 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
1959 Peter Greene, Bkln NY, producer (After Midnight)
1960 John Billingsley, American actor
1960 John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills)
1960 Susan Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills)
1960 Tony Goldwyn, American actor (Ghost, Kuffs, Traces of Red)
1961 Clive Allen, English footballer, WLAF kicker (London Monarchs)
1961 Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1961 Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
1961 Sally Quinlan, LPGA golfer
1961 Vaughn Jefferis, Matangi NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olymp-bronze-96)
1962 Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
1962 Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
1962 Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model/actress
1963 Brian Nash, Glendale California, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
1963 David Wells, American baseball player, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees)
1963 Dipak Chudasama, cricketer (Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
1964 Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana
1964 Jeff Schwarz, US baseball pitcher (California Angels, Chicago White Sox)
1964 Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1964 Paul W Richards, Scranton PA, astronaut
1964 Todd Peat, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1965 Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner (world record 200 m indoor)
1965 Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
1965 Joe Cioe, Cranston RI, Canadian Tour golfer (NH Open-1992, 93)
1965 Ted Allen, American television host
1965 Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima WA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays)
1966 Dan Abrams, American TV reporter
1966 Gina Ravera, American actress
1966 Lawyer Tillman, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1966 Liselotte Neumann, Finspang Sweden, LPGA golfer (1988 US Women's Open)
1966 Mindy Cohn, American actress (Facts of Life)
1966 Paolo Seganti, actor (Damian-As the World Turns)
1967 Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart Ger, tennis star (1989 Futures Israel)
1967 Blake Schwarzenbach, American singer and guitarist ([Jawbreaker (band)|Jawbreaker]])
1967 Gabriele Muccino, Italian film director
1967 Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
1967 Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
1968 Damon Mays, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Phil Hansen, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Timothy Olyphant, American actor
1968 Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby union and rugby sevens footballer
1969 Alberto Mancini, Argentina, tennis star
1969 Brian Gerard James, American professional wrestler
1969 Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
1970 Jason York, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 Louis Theroux, English television broadcaster (Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met....)
1970 Missy Cress, Burbank CA, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1970 Niklas Andersson, Kungalv SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 Terrell Brandon, American basketball player, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks)
1971 Jonas Berqvist, Angelhorn SWE, hockey forward (Team Sweden, Oly-98)
1971 Niklas Andersson, Kungalv Swe, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1971 Sandy Schreur, Dutch soccer player (NEC)
1971 Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1971 Šárka Kašpárková, Czech athlete
1972 Busta Rhymes, American rapper and actor
1972 Michael Cox, Hannibal Missouri, 1.5k runner
1972 Tina Hobley, British television actress
1973 Elsa Lunghini, French singer and actress
1974 Brandon Jessie, tight end (NY Giants)
1975 Andrew Sega, American musician
1975 Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
1975 Mark Zupan, American quadriplegic rugby player
1975 Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
1976 Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
1977 Angela Goethals, American actress (VI Warshawski, Heartbreak Hotel)
1977 Chad Muska, American Skateboarder for Element Skateboards
1977 Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer
1977 Matt Czuchry, American actor
1977 Miriam Parrish, American television actress
1977 Tiger Tyson, American pornographic actor
1977 Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
1979 Jayson Werth, American baseball player
1979 Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA (1996)
1980 Austin Kearns, American Baseball player
1981 Calico Cooper, American actress and dancer
1981 Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
1981 Josh Hamilton, American baseball player (Texas Rangers)
1981 Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1981 Mark Winterbottom, Australian racing driver
1982 Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
1982 Petr Cech, Czech footballer
1983 Jr. NTR, Indian film actor
1983 N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian film actor
1983 Roger Huerta, American mixed-martial artist
1984 Kenny Vasoli, American singer
1984 Naturi Naughton, singer, actress, member of girl group 3LW
1984 Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
1986 Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
1986 LaLa Brown, American singer (d. 2007)
1988 Carla Humphries, Filipina actress
1991 Mara Lopez, Filipina actress
1993 Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
2010 Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster

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188 Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (b. 1814)
685 King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
1277 John XXI (Petrus Juliani, Hispanus), Port Pope (1276-77) (b. 1215)
1285 John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1444 Bernardinus van Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary, saint (b. 1380)
1449 Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria)
1471 Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71)
1503 Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)
1506 Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, dies in poverty (b. 1451)
1509 Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli
1550 Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1597 Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle
1622 Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (1618-22) (b. 1604)
1648 Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland (b. 1595)
1650 Francesco Sacrati, composer
1669 Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
1677 George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
1713 Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
1717 John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
1722 Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
1732 Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
1751 Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer
1782 Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1782 Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer
1782 William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
1793 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1795 Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
1812 Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1732)
1825 Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
1834 Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (b. 1757)
1834 Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman
1834 Marquis de Lafayette, French general
1841 Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)
1847 Mary Lamb, writer
1864 John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail)
1873 Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1875 Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece
1876 Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
1876 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet
1880 Eugene LFC prince the Ligne, Belgian prince of Ambise
1883 William Chambers, author/publisher
1896 Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
1900 Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
1909 Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
1910 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer
1911 E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0)
1917 Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1917 Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1919 Jacob Verdam, philosopher
1923 Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
1926 Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for Engld 1892)
1935 Ivans (Jacob van Schevichaven), lawyer/detective writer
1939 Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39)
1940 Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36)
1940 Joris (Georges) van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament
1940 Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1946 Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
1947 Georgios Siantos, general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1890)
1947 Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1949 Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1956 Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm)
1956 Max Beerbohm, English theater critic, writer (Yet Again) (b. 1872)
1959 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
1961 Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
1968 Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia)
1968 Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter
1969 Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning)
1969 Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer
1971 Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1972 Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist
1972 Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables)
1973 Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
1975 Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72
1975 Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
1976 Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared" (b. 1924)
1980 Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN)
1984 Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle)
1985 George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry)
1986 Bernard Naylor, composer
1986 Willem Pee, Belgian linguistic
1989 Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451)
1989 Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon) (b. 1946)
1989 John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel laureate 1972) (b. 1904)
1991 Julian Orbon De Soto, composer
1992 Roger Keith Coleman, American convict (b. 1958)
1993 Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers)
1994 Dallas Pratt, collector
1994 Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels)
1994 Vivien John, artist
1996 Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter
1996 George Malcolm Thomson, journalist
1996 Jack Wyngaard, dancer
1996 Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988)
1996 Jon Pertwee, British actor (Dr Who) (b. 1919)
1996 Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
1997 Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90)
2000 Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2000 Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2001 Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
2002 Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
2009 Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (b.1924)
2009 Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980)
2011 Randy Savage, American Pro-Wrestler (b. 1952)
2012 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103
2012 Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer
2013 Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (the Doors) (b. 1939)
2013 Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
2014 Phil Sharpe, English cricketer

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