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(1184 BC) In the Trojan War, Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
631 Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80,000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
758 Abbasid Arabs and Uyghur Turks arrive simultaneously at Chang'an, the Tang Chinese capital, in order to offer tribute to the imperial court. The Arabs and Turks bicker and fight over diplomatic prominence at the gate, in order to present tribute before the other. A settlement is reached when both are allowed to enter at the same time, but through two different gates to the palace.
1231 Harderwijk becomes a city
1345 The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political prisoners.
1429 Hundred Years' War: The start of the Battle of Jargeau.
1488 Battle of Sauchieburn, Scotland
1509 Henry VIII of England marries wife #1, Catherine of Aragon.
1517 Sir Thomas Pert reaches Hudson Bay
1572 Spanish co-land guardian duke of Medinaceli arrives in Lock
1578 England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US
1594 Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía (i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer
1666 Vierdaagse Sea battle (Ruyter-Monk vs Prince Ruprecht)
1676 Battle at Öland, Danish & Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1685 James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, rebels against Catholic king James II
1690 English king Willem III departs to Ireland
1699 England, France & Neth agree on 2nd Extermination treaty of Spain
1726 Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier
1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1770 Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1774 Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army
1776 The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.
1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
1788 Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches Alaska.
1793 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick
1805 A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.
1816 Gas Light Co of Baltimore founded
1825 The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
1837 The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
1838 Iowa Territory is organized
1859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada
1864 Battle of Trevillian Station, VA (Central Railroad)
1864 300' (90 m) of Meigg's Wharf washed away in storm
1864 Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky, Gen Hobsons unit caught
1864 Battle of Laurel Hill, WV
1864 Confederate warship CSS Alabama runs into harbor of Cherbourg
1866 The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
1870 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1876 Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate
1878 DC is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president (change in 1974)
1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted
1892 The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
1895 1st auto race
1895 Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized
1898 1st US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War, 600 US marines land at Guantanamo Bay.
1898 23rd Preakness, Willie Simms aboard Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75
1898 Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking
1898 Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships set sail for Cuba.
1898 The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor in hopes changing social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905.
1900 Battle at Diamond Hill, British troops chase General Botha
1901 Cook Islands annexed & proclaimed part of New Zealand
1901 New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
1904 Cub's Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0
1904 German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
1905 Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs)
1907 George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
1907 Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
1911 Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15
1911 UNIA founded by Garvey
1917 King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicated under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
1919 23rd US Golf Open, Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass
1919 51st Belmont, J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown
1919 Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
1920 Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
1921 53rd Belmont, Earl Sande aboard Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
1921 Brazil adopts women suffrage
1924 Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924 Koos Vorrink elected President of AJC
1927 59th Belmont, Earl Sande aboard Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6
1927 Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs
1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
1928 Alfred Hitchcock's 1st film, "Case Of Jonathan Drew," is released
1934 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails
1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1936 The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
1937 Great Purge, The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
1938 42nd US Golf Open, Ralph Guldahl shoots a 284 at Cherry Hills Denver
1938 Cin Red Johnny Vander Meer no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0
1938 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 v Aust) aged 20 yrs 19 days
1938 Earthquake in Belgium
1938 England declare at 8 for 658 v Australia at Trent Bridge
1938 The Battle of Wuhan starts in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1938 The Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. 500,000 to 900,000 civilians are killed in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1939 King & Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1940 Italy declares war on allies/raids Malta
1940 Premier Winston Churchill flies to Orleans
1940 British forces bomb Genoa and Turin in Italy, World War II.
1940 First attack of the Italian Air force on the island of Malta, World War II.
1941 2nd great raid on Jews of Amsterdam
1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942 The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union during World War II.
1943 British invades Pantelleria (tiny island south of Sicily)
1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos
1944 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1944 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944 KP gang surprise attack on Dome Arnhem jail
1947 WW II sugar rationing finally endd in US (began May 28, 1942)
1949 49th US Golf Open, Cary Middlecoff shoots a 286 at Medinah CC ILL
1949 81st Belmont, Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 2:30.2
1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:28.2)
1950 Ben Hogan wins US Open golf tournament
1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1951 NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1953 "Amos 'n Andy," TV Comedy, also radio from '29; last aired on CBS
1953 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge
1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies
1955 87th Belmont, Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 2:29
1955 Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (race continues).
1956 Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman Colo
1958 UN Security council sends observers to Lebanon
1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
1960 92nd Belmont, Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
1961 "Winston Churchill," last airs on ABC-TV
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1961 Norm Cash becomes 1st Det Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
1961 Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
1962 Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
1962 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
1963 Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
1963 Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
1963 JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act"
1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
1964 Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy
1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1964 West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1964 World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1966 "(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20
1966 "I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
1966 "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs
1966 "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1
1966 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs
1966 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK
1966 French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1966 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF)
1967 A J Foyt & Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans
1967 Chicago Cubs (7) & NY Mets (4) tie record of 11 HRs in a game
1967 Mexico becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1967 Race riot in Tampa Florida, National Guard mobilizes
1969 "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK
1969 David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1970 After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
1970 US leaves Wheelus AFB Libya
1971 US & Japan sign accord to return Okinawa to Japan
1971 US ends ban on China trade
1972 18th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Ahern
1972 31°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1972 Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
1972 KPAT-AM in Berkeley CA returns from KRE
1974 Bundy victim Georgann Hawkins disappears from UW, Seattle, Wash
1974 Mel Stottlemyre's AL record 272nd consecutive start, without relief
1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1975 Greece adopts constitution
1975 One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 yrs 364 days
1976 "Magnificent Marble Machine," last airs on NBC-TV
1976 Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa
1976 Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain
1976 Beatles "Rock & Roll Music" LP is released in USA
1977 "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Fat Woman)" by Joe Tex hits #12
1977 "Dance & Shake Your Tambourine" by Universal Robot Band peaks at #93
1977 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & Sunshine Band peaks at #1
1977 "I Need A Man" by Grace Jones peaks at #83
1977 "Lonely Boy" by Andrew Gold peaks at #7
1977 "The Pretender" by Jackson Browne peaks at #58
1977 "Watch Closely Now" by Kris Kristofferson peaks at #52
1977 109th Belmont, Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6
1977 Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977 ELO releases "Telephone Line"
1977 Main Street Electrical Parade premieres in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World
1978 "Grease" starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens
1978 24th LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1978 Altaf Hussain founds the students' political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (a.k.a APMSO) in Karachi University.
1978 Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
1978 Christa Tybus of London sets record of 24½ hrs of hula-hoop
1978 Joseph Freeman Jr is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
1981 A Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
1981 Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1981 Richter Scale 6.9 magnitude Golbaf earthquake at Iran, killing at least 2,000.
1982 Israel & Syria stop fighting in Lebanon
1982 Larry Holmes TKOs Gerry Cooney in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 Movie "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)
1982 Pope John Paul II visits Argentina
1983 "Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8
1983 "Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49
1983 "Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12
1983 "My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5
1983 "Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59
1983 "When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61
1983 115th Belmont, Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8
1983 Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab
1983 Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball
1983 Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14
1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes
1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally
1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 Von Hayes becomes 21st to hit 2 HRS in an inning (Phils-26, Mets-7)
1985 WJW-AM/TV in Cleveland Ohio change call letters to WRMR
1986 "Blacke's Magic," last airs on NBC-TV
1986 Amnesty International megaconcert
1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd cons term
1988 "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3
1988 "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61
1988 "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14
1988 25th Curtis Cup, British Isles, 11-7
1988 120th Belmont, Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6
1988 Freedomfest Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1988 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½")
1988 Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)
1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Orville Moody
1989 59th French Mens Tennis, Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)
1989 Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International
1990 Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress
1990 Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson & Willie Randolph (all ex Yanks)
1990 Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitutional
1990 UN appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador
1991 Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0
1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1992 Tracy Austin, 29, is youngest inductee of Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1992 US Olympic baseball team plays 1st exhibtion game, beat Venez 20-0
1993 "Jurassic Park" opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
1993 "Scattergories," game show; last airs on NBC-TV
1993 "Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV
1994 "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33
1994 126th Belmont, Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
1994 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
1994 Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
1994 Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria
1995 65th French Mens Tennis, Thomas Muster beats Michael Chang (75 62 64)
1995 Julie Larsen wins Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1995 Rondell White has six hits & hits for the cycle in 13-innings
1996 Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president
1998 Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
2001 Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2004 Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe.
2004 Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official historic apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.
2009 A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home. Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in the hospital.
2012 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
2012 Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
2012 Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup
2012 Maria Sharapova beats Sara Errani (6-3, 6-2) in the 111th Women's French Open
2012 Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic (6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5) in the 111th Men's French Open
2012 The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
2012 Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
2014 Islamic State of Iraq forces seized control of government offices, and other important buildings in the northern city of Mosel

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1403 John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1540 Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
1572 Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
1588 George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749)
1696 Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1697 Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
1704 Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
1713 Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
1719 Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik
1723 Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer, 1st saw Halley's comet on return (d. 1788)
1726 Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, Dauphine of France, died in childbirth (d. 1746)
1740 Luigi Gatti, composer
1741 Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
1776 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain) (d. 1837)
1797 José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran National Hero (d. 1855)
1807 James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1808 Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1815 Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
1816 Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1890)
1822 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1889)
1823 James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1895)
1829 Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
1840 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
1842 Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
1842 Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1846 William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
1847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist, leader (English women's movement) (d. 1929)
1861 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
1863 Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
1864 Richard Georg Strauss, German composer and conductor (Don Quixote) (d. 1949)
1865 Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
1867 Charles Fabry, French physicist, discoverer of the ozone layer in upper atmosphere (d. 1945)
1871 Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
1874 Richard Stohr, composer
1876 Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist, author (Anthropologist looks at History) (d. 1960)
1877 Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
1879 Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879 Roger P Bresnahan, baseball player, hall of fame catcher and manager (d. 1944)
1880 Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist, and pacifist, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana) (d. 1973)
1883 Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
1886 David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1886 Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
1888 Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1889 Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
1892 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1894 Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician, The Professor (d. 1992)
1895 Nikolai A Bulganin, Soviet politician, premier of USSR (1955-58) (d. 1975)
1897 Bruno Frei, writer
1897 Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)
1899 George Frederick McKay, composer
1899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1900 Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press)
1902 Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
1903 Ernie Nevers, American football player, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals) (d. 1976)
1904 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1904 Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer
1904 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1906 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
1907 Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon)
1907 Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
1907 Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)
1910 Carmine Coppola, American composer, director (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now) and songwriter (d. 1991)
1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (Calypso) and inventor (d. 1997)
1911 Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
1912 James Algar, American film director (d. 1998)
1912 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1912 William Baziotes, painter (abstract expressionist)
1913 John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp)
1913 Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
1913 Risë Stevens, American operatic soprano
1913 Vince Lombardi, American football coach, NFL (Green Bay Packers) (d. 1970)
1914 Gerald Mohr, American actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue) (d. 1968)
1914 Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
1914 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
1915 David Kindersley, font designer/cutter
1915 Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d. 1999)
1917 James Bostock, painter/engraver
1917 Joseph B. Wirthlin, LDS apostle (d. 2008)
1919 Richard Todd, Irish actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident) (d. 2009)
1920 Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
1920 Hazel Scott, Trinidad singer and pianist (Hazel Scott) (d. 1981)
1920 Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (World of Our Fathers) (d. 1993)
1920 Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
1921 Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
1921 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
1922 Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life)
1922 John Bromfield, American actor(Easy to Love) (d. 2005)
1922 Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot film maker (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
1922 Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer (Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye)
1923 Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
1924 Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1925 Richard White, Gisborne, New Zealand, rugby union player (55 games as an All Black), (d. 2012)
1925 William Styron, American author (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice) (d. 2006)
1926 Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
1926 Carlisle Floyd, American composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
1927 Eric St Eval Atkinson, cricketer (bro of Denis WI pace bowler 1958-59)
1927 John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
1927 Josef Anton Reidl, composer
1927 Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
1928 Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, Spanish Queen of Belgium
1928 Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (CDA)
1930 Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
1930 Charles B. Rangel, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1971)
1931 Audrey Schuh, American soprano
1931 Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
1931 Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
1931 Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
1932 Athol Fugard, South African playwright, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
1932 Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
1933 Gene Wilder, American actor
1933 Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1934 Anthony Evans, British high court judge
1934 Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
1934 Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
1935 Gene Wilder (Jerome Silbermann), Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak)
1935 Sheikh Fazalur Rehman, cricketer (played 1 Test Pakistan v WI 1958)
1936 Chad Everett, American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II) (d. 2012)
1936 George Bryan Ingham, artist
1936 Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
1937 Johnny Brown, American comic actor (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
1937 Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1939 Barry George Barrington Porter, politician
1939 Barry Porter, MP (Conservative)
1939 Bernard Purdie, American session drummer
1939 Christina Crawford, American actress and writer, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest)
1939 Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver, three-time F1 world champion and former F1 team principal, announcer (27 Grand Prix)
1939 Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist
1939 Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
1940 Joey Dee, American musician (Joey Dee and the Starliters)
1942 Somachandra De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan leg-spinner 1982-84)
1943 Henry Hill Jr., mobster and FBI informant (inspired Goodfellas) (d. 2012)
1944 Alan Horworth, MP
1944 Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
1944 James "Ox" D A van Hoften, Fresno California, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
1944 Roscoe Orman, American actor
1945 Adrienne Barbeau, American actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
1946 Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
1946 John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
1946 Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army)
1947 Bob Evans, British racing driver
1947 Glenn Leonard, R&B singer (Temptations)
1947 Henry Cisneros, American politician, first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Clinton Administration)
1947 Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1947 Richard Palmer-James, British lyricist and guitarist (King Crimson and Supertramp)
1948 Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
1948 Dave Cash, Major league baseball player
1948 Michael Swan, American actor
1948 Skip Alan (Alan Skipper), drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
1948 Stephen Schnetzer, Boston Mass, actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World)
1949 Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist
1949 Frank Beard, American drummer (ZZ Top)
1949 George Willig, stuntman (climbed World Trade Center in 1977)
1949 Tom Pryce, British racing driver (d. 1977)
1950 Debbie "Pokey" Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 Graham Russell, British guitarist and vocalist (Air Supply)
1950 Lynsey De Paul, British singer and songwriter
1950 Michael Swan, Palo Alto California, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
1951 Collis King, cricketer (WI all-rounder late 70s)
1951 Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1951 Maren Seidler, Bkln NY, shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
1951 Mark D. Siljander, former Republican U.S. Representative from Michigan (Rep-R-MI, 1981)
1951 Mithra Wettimuny, cricketer
1951 Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist
1952 Donnie Van Zant, American rock vocalist (.38 Special)
1952 Russell Hitchcock, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 Georgios Orfanos, Greek politician
1953 José Bové, French activist
1953 Peter Bergman, American actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
1954 Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1954 John Dyson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman)
1955 Tony Allcock, bowler
1955 Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower
1956 Joe Montana. American football player, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1957 Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)
1957 Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1958 Deborah Vidal, Ponce Puerto Rico, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile-19th)
1959 Hugh Laurie (James Hugh Calum Laurie), English actor and comedian (Strapless, Dr Gregory House-House)
1959 Magnum T.A., American professional wrestler
1961 Caroline Quentin, English actress
1961 María Barranco, Spanish actress
1962 Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1962 Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1963 Bruce Kimball, American diver
1963 Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer
1963 Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
1963 Tommy Barnhardt, NFL punter (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, TB Bucs)
1964 Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1964 Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1965 Anthony Painter, Milton NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
1965 Joe Cain, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1965 Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist (Pixies)
1965 Manuel Uribe Garza, morbidly obese Mexican
1966 Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 Tiffany Cohen, Culver City California, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
1967 Clare Carey, American actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
1967 John Doherty, pitcher
1967 João Garcia, Portuguese mountaineer
1967 Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
1968 Staci Baldwin, Miss Washington USA (1996)
1969 Bryan Fogarty, professional ice hockey player (d. 2002)
1969 Johan Hansma, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1969 Matt McGrath, American actor
1969 Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
1969 Peter Dinklage, American actor
1969 Steven Drozd, American drummer
1970 Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 Chris Rice, singer/songwriter
1970 Kang Ho Dong, Korean traditional wrestler and MC
1970 Roman Kontsek, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 William Selby, Monroeville MI, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1971 Dion Foxx, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 Duane Dmytryshyn, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Andrew Peterson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1973 José Manuel Abundis, Mexican footballer
1973 Lance Johnstone, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1973 Robby Kiger, Encino California, actor (Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox)
1973 Tony McKenzie, WLAF guard (London Monarchs)
1974 David Starie, British boxer
1974 Emilee Klein, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-2nd)
1974 Tanya Pogatchnik, Miss Montana USA (1996)
1974 Tatiana Ignatieva, Minsk Belarus, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sopot POL)
1975 Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
1975 Thomas Bimis, Greek diver
1976 Gran Naniwa, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 Scott Guyton, Tokoroa NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 Tai Anderson, American musician (bass player for Third Day)
1977 Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
1977 Ryan Dunn, American actor
1977 Shane Meier, Canadian actor
1978 Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor (Mighty Ducks)
1978 Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
1978 Ujjwala Raut, Indian supermodel
1979 Amy Taylor, Australian footballer, television presenter and model
1980 Yhency Brazoban, Dominican born baseball player
1981 Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
1982 Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1982 Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
1982 Joey Graham, American basketball player
1982 Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
1982 Stephen Graham, American basketball player
1983 Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
1983 José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
1984 Andy Lee, Irish Boxer
1984 Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
1985 Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel
1985 Chris Trousdale, American pop singer and dancer
1985 Josh Ramsay, Canada, singer-songwriter (Marianas Trench)
1986 Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)
1986 Chase Clement, American football quarterback
1986 Shia LaBeouf, American actor (Disturbia, Transformers)
1987 TiA, Japanese R&B singer
1988 Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
1989 Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri
1989 Maya Moore, American basketball player
1994 Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress

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(323 BC) Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, son of Philip II of Macedon (b. 356 BC)
1183 Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
1216 Hendrik of Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16)
1216 Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
1249 Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint
1479 Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint
1488 James III, king of Scotland, dies in battle (b. 1451)
1557 King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
1560 Marie Guise (of Lorraine), French wife of king Jacobus V of Scotland, pro-French Regent of Scotland
1666 Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle
1674 Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
1695 André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
1698 Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World)
1712 Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, Marshal of France (b. 1654)
1727 King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
1764 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
1766 Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain
1775 Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer
1796 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (b. 1720)
1808 Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer
1811 Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden
1825 Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President (1817-25)
1828 Dugald Stewart, Scot philosopher (Scottish common sense)
1847 John Franklin, English sea captain and explorer (b. 1786)
1852 Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
1856 Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist
1858 Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
1879 Willem, Crown Prince of Orange, disgraced heir apparent to the Dutch throne, possibly murdered (b. 1840)
1882 Louis Maigret, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1804)
1886 Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet
1896 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1900 Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
1903 Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
1903 Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered
1903 Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
1906 Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit)
1908 Georg Adler, German statehouse head
1911 James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (b. 1815)
1912 Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants)
1913 Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered
1914 Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
1920 William F. Halsey, Sr., United States Naval Officer (b. 1853)
1924 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Jr, Dutch minister (CHU)
1924 Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (b. 1837)
1927 William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
1929 Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs
1930 George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia)
1930 Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library)
1934 Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (b. 1896)
1936 Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
1937 R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
1941 Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
1943 Sam(uel) de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor)
1949 Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1949 Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom)
1951 Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace)
1955 Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
1955 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
1955 Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King)
1956 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi)
1956 Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London)
1963 Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon (b. 1897)
1965 José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (b. 1883)
1966 Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows)
1966 Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy)
1967 Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films
1969 John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org)
1970 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917)
1970 Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
1970 Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)
1970 Frank Laubach, Christian missionary, taught reading through phonetics (b. 1884)
1970 Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral)
1970 William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
1974 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
1974 Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
1975 Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
1976 Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1979 August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer that Dies)
1979 John Wayne, American actor (Green Berets, True Grit) (b. 1907)
1981 Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter
1982 Al Rinker, American singer, and member of The Rhythm Boys (b. 1907)
1984 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician, secr-general (CP) (b. 1922)
1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient,, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
1985 Sapfo Notara, Greek actress (b. 1907)
1986 Chesley Bonestell, American-born engineer, architect, and artist (b. 1888)
1986 Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror)
1988 Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71)
1988 Nathan Cook, actor (White Night)
1990 Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound)
1991 Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)
1991 Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation)
1992 Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic
1992 Marlene Hazlett, entertainer
1992 Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds
1993 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player)
1993 Ray Sharkey, American actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock) (b. 1952)
1994 Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity)
1994 Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace)
1994 Jack Hannah, animator
1994 Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author
1995 Lovelace Watkins, singer
1995 Luigi Innocenti, designer
1996 Alan Weeks, British sports commentator
1996 Brigitte Helm (Gisele Eve von Kuenheim), German actress (Gloria) (b. 1908)
1996 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist
1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter
1996 Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer
1997 Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert (PBS)
1998 Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
1999 DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (b. 1923)
2001 Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, execution (b. 1968)
2003 David Brinkley, American television reporter (b. 1920)
2004 Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946)
2004 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2005 Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese general (b. 1922)
2006 Bruce Shand, father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (b. 1917)
2006 Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977)
2006 Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b. 1944)
2007 Imre Friedmann, American scientist (b. 1921)
2007 Mala Powers, American film actress (b. 1931)
2008 Miroslav Dvorák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)
2008 Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
2008 Võ Van Ki?t, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
2010 Zenani Mandela, Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter (b. 1997)
2011 Seth Putnam, American musician (b. 1968)
2012 Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress
2012 Norman F Lent, American republican Congressman
2012 Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban Heavyweight boxer
2013 Robert Fogel, American Nobel economic historian and Nobel Laureat (b. 1926)
2013 Miller Barber, American golfer
2014 Ruby Dee, American actress
2015 Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist and composer (Free Jazz)
2015 Ron Moody, British actor (12 Chairs, Oliver!)
2015 Dusty Rhodes [Virgil Riley Runnels Jr.], American professional wrestler (WWE)
2015 Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer (Nashville on the Road)
2016 Donald Carr, English cricketer and MCC official
2016 Alberto Remedios, British opera/concert singer

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