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350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1083 Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral
1098 Antioch, Turkey falls to the crusaders (First Crusade) after an eight-month siege.
1140 French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.
1326 Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1357 Peace of Aat
1539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain
1540 Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so
1608 Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1620 Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1621 The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for "New Netherlands" (NY).
1621 WIC, West Indian Co, under Heeren XIX, founded
1658 Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.
1665 James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch Fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
1748 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
1752 Moscow houses & churchs destroyed by fire
1770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
1781 Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1789 Alex Mackenzie explores Mackenzie River (Canada)
1800 U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern because the White House was not yet completed).
1818 Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1833 4th national black convention meets (Phila)
1839 In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
1850 The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas".
1851 1st baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt & blue long trousers
1856 Cullen Whipple patents screw machine
1860 Comanche, Iowa completely destroyed by 1 of a series of tornadoes
1861 Battle of Philippi, WV (also called the Philippi Races) Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the American Civil War.
1864 Gen Lee wins his last victory of  American Civil War at Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia.
1866 The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
1871 Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000
1875 Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
1876 Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
1884 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party natl convention chair
1885 In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
1886 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda
1888 The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
1899 W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days
1906 Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession
1907 Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
1911 "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
1916 The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men establishes The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC.
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
1925 Eddie Collins, is 6th to get 3,000 hits
1925 Goodyear airship "Pilgrim" makes 1st flight (1st with enclosed cabin)
1925 White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit
1929 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
1929 Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area, Border dispute between Peru & Chile resolved
1930 Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
1932 John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
1932 Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13
1932 Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1933 A's score 11 runs in 2nd, Yanks score 10 in 5th & win 17-11
1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1934 Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1935 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours
1935 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 Duke of Windsor (Edward 8) weds Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France
1937 Josh Gibson HR's just 2 feet below rim of Yankee Stadium (580' drive)
1938 German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1939 71st Belmont, James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6
1939 Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1940 The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat, World War II.
1940 The Luftwaffe bombs Paris, World War II.
1941 Attack on telephone exchange in Schiphol
1941 Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn
1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports
1941 The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, World War II.
1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1943 United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms
1944 76th Belmont, G L Smith aboard Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1944 Generals Giraud & de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1944 Nazis pull out of Rome
1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1946 Intl Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1946 US Supreme court rules race separation on buses, unconstitutional
1947 British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1948 "Sleepy Hallow" opens at St James Theater NYC for 12 performances
1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory
1948 Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
1949 1st negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1949 Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1949 GN Clark becomes 1st female US treasurer
1950 French expedition reaches top of Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal
1952 Romanian premier Petru Groza chosen president
1953 Alexander Cartwright officially credited by U.S. Congress as founder of baseball
1953 Congress cites research of NYC librarian Robert Henderson in proving
1953 KVOS TV channel 12 in Bellingham/Vancouver, WA (CBS) begins
1955 KLFY TV channel 10 in Lafayette, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Stan Musial hits his 300th HR
1956 British Railways renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
1956 KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open
1957 Howard Cosell's 1st TV show
1958 Referendum allows city to sell Chavez Ravine to the Dodgers
1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo
1959 Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker message off the Moon
1959 Real Madrid wins 4th Europe Cup 1
1959 Singapore adopts constitution
1961 "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances
1961 93rd Belmont, Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2
1961 JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna
1962 An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris, killing 130.
1962 Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1962 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
1962 WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.
1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis & pharyngitis
1964 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
1965 Launch of Gemini 4, 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White), the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners)
1966 Gemini 9 launched, 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan)
1967 99th Belmont, Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8
1967 Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1
1968 Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins
1968 Poor Peoples March on Washington
1968 Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1968 Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
1969 Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
1969 Melbourne-Evans collision, Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1970 1st artificial gene synthesized
1970 Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC coml reference ban
1971 Chic Cub Ken Holtzman 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 1-0
1971 Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, v Engl at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)
1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
1972 1st female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
1972 Sally J Priesand becomes 1st female US rabbi
1972 Yanks score 8 times in 13th beating White Sox 18-10
1973 "Smith" closes at Eden Theater NYC after 17 performances
1973 A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
1973 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Sealy-Faberge Golf Classic
1973 Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed
1974 Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government
1976 Queen's "Bhoemian Rhapsody" goes gold
1976 Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley v West Indies (0 & 17)
1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
1977 Balt Orioles pull their 6th triple play (9-6-4-6-6 vs KC Royals)
1977 Belgium government of Tindemans forms
1977 US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
1978 Phillies Dave Johnson is 1st to hit 2 pinch hit grand slams in a year
1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
1979 33rd Tony Awards, Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win
1979 A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
1979 Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
1980 "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs
1980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
1980 ESPN begins televising college world series games
1980 Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
1980 NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
1981 Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1982 55th National Spelling Bee, Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis
1982 The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot by Palestinians on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
1984 "Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances
1984 30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1984 38th Tony Awards, Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win
1984 The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar.
1985 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
1985 Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques
1986 Battles in Beirut; 53 killed
1987 "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France
1987 "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," released in France
1987 Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
1988 "Big," premieres in US
1988 Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony
1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1989 Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
1989 Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
1989 Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall
1989 SkyDome is officially opened in Toronto, Ontario
1989 The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1990 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560
1990 44th Tony Awards, Grapes of Wrath & City of Angels win
1990 Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Kyushu, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists, worst eruption in Japanese history.
1991 NY Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft
1991 Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title
1992 Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought about by Eddie Mabo.
1992 Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support
1992 World's largest environmental summit opens (Rio De Janeiro Brazil)
1993 66th National Spelling Bee, Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze
1994 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
1994 Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27)
1994 WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
1995 Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0
1998 Eschede train disaster, an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
2006 The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
2007 USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia
2012 Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
2012 Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
2012 Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record
2013 20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 US extends sanctions against Iran through its automotive industry and currency
2013 119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China
2014 Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team
2014 President Obama announces his plan for a $1 billion fund to increase deployment of US troops to Europe
2015 200 people are killed by an explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana
2015 Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital
2016 A week of heavy rains in Germany and France leave 10 dead and closing Paris museums along the Seine, including the Louve

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1540 Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)
1610 Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1635 Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)
1636 John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)
1657 Manuel de Egues, composer
1659 David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1660 Johannes Schenck, composer
1685 Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
1723 Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1738 Johann Christoph Oley, composer
1746 James Hook, composer
1750 Frederic Thieme, composer
1761 Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell)
1770 Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)
1771 Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1773 Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1773 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
1780 William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1782 Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer
1801 Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
1804 Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder (Anti-Corn-Law League)
1808 Jefferson F Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (1861-5) (d. 1889)
1812 Pieter Mijer, Dutch gov-gen of Neth Indies (1866-72)
1815 Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
1818 Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)
1819 Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)
1819 Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
1819 Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
1824 Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1828 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1829 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
1831 Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
1832 Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
1839 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause)
1840 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
1840 Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)
1841 Eduardo Caudella, composer
1843 Frederick VIII, King of Denmark (1906-12) (d. 1912)
1844 Detlev ([Freiherr Friedrich A von) Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)
1844 Emile Paladilhe, composer
1844 Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (1897-99) (d. 1899)
1853 William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)
1864 Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)
1864 Ransom Eli Olds, American automobile (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer (d. 1950)
1865 George V, Saksen-Coburg (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom (1910-36) (d. 1936)
1866 George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)
1867 Bela Anton Szabados, composer
1868 Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
1869 Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao (Radulphus College)
1870 Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919)
1873 Otto Loewi, physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1936) (d. 1961)
1877 Raoul Dufy, French painter (Palm) (d. 1953)
1878 Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)
1879 Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
1879 Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
1881 Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)
1887 Emil Axman, composer
1888 Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
1893 Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1895 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1898 Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist
1899 Georg von Bekesy, physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1961) (d. 1972)
1900 Gerard den Brabander (Jan G Jofriet), poet (Nothing New)
1900 Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
1901 Maurice Evans, English actor (Maurice-Bewitched) (d. 1989)
1901 Zhang Xueliang {d. 2001}
1902 Edward Wayne, physician (Queen of Scotland)
1903 Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
1904 Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
1904 Jan Peerce (Jacob Pincus Perelmuth), American tenor (NY Met Opera) (d. 1984)
1905 Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)
1906 Josephine Baker, American dancer. Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere) (d. 1975)
1906 Louis Simmonds, bookseller
1906 Norman Gallichan, cricketer (all-rounder in 1 Test NZ v England 1937)
1906 Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
1906 Walter Robins, cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder)
1907 Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer
1907 Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)
1908 Adele Dixon, actress (Calling the Tune)
1908 Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of the Pecos, Phantom Creeps, Outer Gate)
1910 Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)
1910 Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
1911 Ellen Corby, American actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons) (d. 1999)
1911 Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money)
1911 Olaf Okern, Norway, Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948)
1911 Paulette Goddard (Marion Levy), Swiss actress (Great Dictator)
1912 Richard D'Aeth, president (Hughes Hall Cambridge)
1912 William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1913 Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)
1914 Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist
1914 Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1915 Iris Meredith, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Son of Davy Crockett)
1917 Leo Gorcey, American actor (Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar) (d. 1969)
1918 Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
1918 Patrick Cargill, English actor (Help, Hammerhead) (d. 1996)
1920 Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal (Ordinary)
1921 Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete
1922 (M) Alain Resnais, France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Melo, I Want to Go Home)
1922 Ivan Patachich, composer
1923 Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
1923 Michael Jaffe, director (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England)
1924 Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)
1924 David Richard Holloway, literary Editor
1924 Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
1924 Michael Gow, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1924 Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)
1924 Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1925 Gerhard Zwerenz, writer
1925 Thomas Joseph Winning, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)
1925 Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), American actor (Some Like It Hot)
1926 Allen Ginsberg, American beat poet (Howl) (d. 1997)
1926 Carlos Veerhoff, composer
1926 Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
1926 Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969)
1926 Janez Maticic, composer
1926 Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1927 Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (Yakety Sax) (d. 2007)
1928 Donald Judd, US, sculptor (minimal art)
1928 John Reid, cricketer (prolific NZ batsman 1949-65)
1928 Sheila Faith, MP/MEP
1929 Chuck Barris, American game show host (Gong Show)
1929 Howard Yanks, founder (Philadelphia folk festival)
1929 Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1930 Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
1930 Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
1930 Marion (Eleanor) Zimmer Bradley (Breen), American sci-fi author (Storm Queen) (d. 1999)
1930 Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's)
1931 Françoise Arnoul, French actress (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise) and composer
1931 John Norman, American author
1931 Lindy Remigino, American athlete
1931 Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
1932 Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)
1933 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)
1934 Jim Gentile, baseball player
1934 Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
1935 Edward McGrady, MP
1935 Irma P. Hall, American actress
1935 Raoul Franklin, chancellor (City University London)
1936 Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player
1936 David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1936 Harry Pitt, vice chancellor (Reading University)
1936 Jim Gentile, baseball player
1936 Larry McMurtry, American author (Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986)
1936 Philip J Attenborough, CEO/publisher (Hodder & Stoughton)
1937 Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
1937 Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician (Rep-D-TX, 1983)
1939 David Frederick Stock, composer
1939 Ian Hunter (singer), English musician
1939 Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist
1939 Phil Gallie, MP
1939 Steve Dalkowski, baseball player
1940 Connie Saylor, American NASCAR racecar driver. (d. 1993)
1940 Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
1942 Anita Harris, singer/actress (Follow that Camel)
1942 Curtis Mayfield, American musician, vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly) (d. 1999)
1942 Duane Josephson, baseball player
1943 Billy Cunningham, American basketball player, NBA/ABA (Phila 76ers, Carolina Cougers)
1943 Eddie McGrady, MP
1943 Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)
1944 Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete
1944 Edith McGuire, American runner, 200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1945 Hale Irwin, American professional golfer, PGA tour (1974 US Open)
1945 John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator
1946 Anita Pollack, MEP (Labour)
1946 Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)
1946 Eddie Holman, American singer
1946 Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1946 Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993)
1946 Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor (Robert Scorpio-General Hospital)
1947 John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor
1947 Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
1947 Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)
1947 Penelope Wilton, actress (Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests)
1947 Timothy David, diplomat
1949 David Evenett, MP (Conservative)
1949 Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer
1949 Stephen Ruppenthal, composer
1950 Christos Verelis, Greek politician
1950 Deniece Williams, American singer
1950 Marlene Elejarde, Havana Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1950 Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter
1950 Suzi Quatro(cchio) American singer (Stumblin') and actress (Happy Days)
1951 David Ogilvie, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1977-78)
1951 Deniece Williams (Chandler), US singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
1952 Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)
1952 David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
1954 Cindy Ferro, LPGA golfer
1954 Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter (Sometimes When We Touch)
1954 Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player
1956 Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster
1956 Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)
1956 George Burley, Scottish football player and manager
1956 Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1957 Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
1958 Ann Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1985 R/U NSW Open)
1958 Ibrahim Hussein, marathoner, (Boston Marathon-1988, 91, 92)
1958 Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop
1958 Scott Valentine, actor (Nick-Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
1959 John Carlson, American talk radio host
1959 Sam Mills, NFL linebacker ( New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers), (d. 2005)
1959 Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids)
1960 Barry Lyons, baseball player
1960 Carl Rackemann, cricketer (Queensland & Australian quickie)
1960 Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1960 Steve Lyons, baseball player
1961 Kevin Arnott, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 101* v NZ 1992)
1961 Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author
1961 Peter Glen Vidmar, LA California, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/silver-1984)
1962 Connie Price-Smith, St Charles MO, discus thrower (Oly-5th-96)
1962 Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru
1963 Deb Richard, Abbeville LA, LPGA golfer (1991 Women's Kemper Open)
1963 Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician
1963 Sabrina Goles, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1963 Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor
1963 Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, Russia, cosmonaut
1964 Doro Pesch, German singer
1964 James Purefoy, British actor
1964 Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
1964 Nelson Liriano, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1965 Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
1965 Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)
1965 Suzan Kaminga, Austin TX, bodybuilder
1966 Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
1967 Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman
1967 Jason Jones, Canadian actor
1967 Tamas Darnyi, Hungary, backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-88, 92)
1967 William "Bill" Carlucci, Minneapolis Minn, rower (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 Jamie O'Neal, American singer
1968 Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
1969 Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
1969 Ray Roberts, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1969 Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
1970 Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
1970 Andrea Congreaves, WNBA forward/center (Charlotte Sting)
1970 Carl Everett, baseball player
1970 Esther Hart, Dutch singer
1970 Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
1970 Lanee Butler, Manhasset NY, mistral sailboat yachter (Olymp-11th-1996)
1970 Peter Newton, Kailua Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1970 Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
1971 Aaron Ledesma, baseball player
1971 Carl Everett, American baseball player, outfielder (NY Mets)
1971 John Hodgman, American author and humorist
1971 Mark Parrish, Columbia MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 Bryan Rekar, Oak Lawn IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1972 Omar Douglas, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1972 Robert Kennedy, cricketer (New Zealand opening bowler 1996)
1973 Charles Emanuel, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Sargis Sargsian, Yerevan Armenia, tennis star (1995 NCAA)
1974 Alison McCreary, Florence Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-4th-1997)
1974 Arianne Zucker, American actress
1974 Ashaundai Smith, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 Bryan Still, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1975 Jamie Nails, offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1975 Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer
1976 Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver
1976 Yuri Ruley, American drummer
1977 Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player
1977 Cris, Brazilian footballer
1977 Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer
1977 Travis Hafner, American baseball player
1978 Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer
1980 Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1980 Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
1982 Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer
1982 Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
1983 Janine Habeck, German model and Playboy Playmate
1984 Emily Scott, Australian model
1985 Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer
1986 Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver
1986 Al Horford, American basketball player
1986 Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer
1986 Brenden Richard Jefferson, African-American actor
1986 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
1986 Tomas Verner, Czech Republic ice skater
1987 Lalaine, American actress and singer
1987 Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
1989 Katie Hoff, American swimmer
2002 Prince Tirso of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family
2006 Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

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545 Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint
800 Staurakios, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire
1107 Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle
1395 Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
1397 William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)
1411 Duke Leopold IV of Austria (b. 1371)
1548 Juan de Zumárraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (b. 1468)
1594 John Aylmer, English political theorist (b. 1521)
1594 Michel Renichon, priest, executed
1615 Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1640 Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
1649 Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (b. 1590)
1657 William Harvey, English physician (b. 1578)
1659 Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (b. 1619)
1661 Gottfried Scheidt, composer
1679 Jean-Francius Miller, painter
1688 Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik
1732 Pieter Vuyst, Dutch gov-gen of Ceylon, executed
1764 Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe
1780 Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (b. 1711)
1804 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
1809 John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer
1826 Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (b. 1766)
1844 Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angouleme
1849 Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer
1858 Julius Reubke, German composer (b. 1834)
1861 Stephen A. Douglas, "Little Giant", American politician, senator (Lincoln Debates) (b. 1813)
1864 James P McMahon, US Union colonel (164th NY), dies in battle
1864 Peter A Porter, US Union colonel (8th NY), dies in battle
1865 Okada Izo, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1872 Heinrich Esser, composer
1875 Georges Bizet, French composer (b. 1838)
1877 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1877 Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
1881 Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55, oldest amphibian
1882 Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839)
1888 Cark Reidel, composer
1890 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1894 Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812)
1898 Nikolai Afanisev, composer
1898 Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone)
1899 Johann (Baptist) Strauss II, Austrian composer (Waltz King) (b. 1825)
1904 Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard & Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide
1913 Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer
1924 Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis) (b. 1883)
1928 Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864)
1933 William Muldoon, American wrestler, boxing commissioner (b. 1852)
1943 Folkert E Posthuma, Min of Agriculture
1946 Michail I Kalinin, Pres (Supreme Soviet)
1949 Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America
1955 Barbara Graham, American murderer (b. 1923)
1959 Ole Windingstad, composer
1963 John XXIII (Angelo G Roncalli), Pope (1958-63) (b. 1881)
1963 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902)
1963 Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57
1964 Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1966 Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends)
1967 Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic, children's book author
1967 Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
1967 Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer
1970 Douwe Hermans Kiestra, [Harm Harmstra], Fries boer/writer
1970 H G Hjalmar Schacht, pres Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco
1970 Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (b. 1877)
1971 Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (b. 1894)
1973 Dory Funk, professional wrestler (b. 1919)
1975 Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
1975 Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) (b. 1906)
1977 Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
1979 Arno Schmidt, writer
1981 Carleton Coon, anthropology prof (What in the World)
1981 Eric Dalton, cricketer (698 runs for South Africa at 31 72)
1983 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen)
1983 Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Lollywood actor, Lahore
1986 Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer
1986 Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer
1986 Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember)
1987 Will Sampson, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose) and artist (b. 1933)
1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (b. 1902)
1989 John McCauley, NHL official (b. 1945)
1989 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah
1990 Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)
1990 Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
1990 Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ)
1991 Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd)
1991 Eva La Gailliene, Brit/US actress/director (Resurrection)
1991 Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
1991 Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1942)
1991 Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (eruption) (b. 1946)
1991 Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager
1992 Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest
1992 Robert Morley, English actor (Around the World in 80 Days) (b. 1908)
1992 William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine)
1993 Bob Fitzsimmons, NY radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM)
1994 Hub Matthijsen, violinist/bandmaster
1994 Jack Cowie, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 45 wkts at 21 53)
1994 Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk
1994 Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (b. 1925)
1994 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist
1995 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
1995 Dilys Powell, film Critic
1995 Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
1995 Frank Waters, writer
1995 Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer
1996 Len Creed, bookmaker
1996 Peter Glenville, actor/director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)
1996 Tito Okello, Ugandan general
1997 Dennis James, American television personality (b. 1917)
1998 Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
2001 Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (b. 1915)
2003 Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
2004 Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1936)
2004 Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
2005 Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (b. 1945)
2006 Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
2009 David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
2009 Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." (b. 1928)
2009 Sam Butera, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
2010 John Hedgecoe, English photographer (b. 1932)
2010 Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
2011 Andrew Gold, American singer, musician and songwriter. (b. 1951
2011 Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, right-to-die activist (b. 1928)
2011 James Arness, American actor (d. 1923)
2013 Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)
2013 Deacon Jones, American NFL Hall of Fame Defensive End
2015 Bevo Francis, American basketball player (college basketball record scorer)
2016 Dave Swarbrick, British folk fiddler (Fairport Convention)
2016 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), American world heavyweight boxing champion (1964-70, 1974-80)

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