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653 St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
656 Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
676 Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1091 Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
1119 Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders
1291 Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed
1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1535 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1579 Anti-English uprising in Ireland
1579 Sir Francis Drake entered SF Bay, claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1580 Battle at Hardenberg, Spanish troops beat rebels
1583 Brabant, duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
1609 Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
1665 Battle at Viciosa, English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1700 Mass orders priest to leave the colony
1734 French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
1773 Cúcuta, Colombia is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill) in the American Revolutionary War.
1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1815 Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
1855 Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
1861 Battle of Boonville, MI-Brigadier General Lyon defeats Confederate forces
1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia
1863 Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia.
1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
1864 Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
1864 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished
1864 General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
1864 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
1876 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
1876 Battle of the Rosebud 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory, Indian Wars (Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother).
1877 Battle of White Bird Canyon the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory, Indian Wars.
1880 John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
1885 Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City Harbor aboard French ship `Isere'
1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
1897 William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 Aurel Vlaicu performed the first flight of A. Vlaicu nr. 1.
1911 Belgium government of De Broqueville forms
1915 League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
1916 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
1916 US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
1917 British king George V takes the name Windsor
1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1930 Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
1930 Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1932 Around a thousand World War I veterans (Bonus Army) amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
1933 Union Station Massacre, in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
1938 Japan declares war on China
1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940 General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
1940 Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1940 Operation Ariel begins Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation, World War II.
1940 Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France in World War II.
1940 The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces, World War II.
1943 Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
1944 French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
1944 Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark, proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland, and becomes a republic.
1944 Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London
1945 Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
1947 Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1948 Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
1950 Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
1951 "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
1952 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
1953 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
1953 Riots in East Germany for reunification
1953 Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1953 Workers Uprising, in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
1954 Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
1956 Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
1957 "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2
1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1958 The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing being built connecting Vancouver and North Vancouver, Canada, collapses into the Burrard Inlet, killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day
1959 Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
1961 "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1961 61st US Golf Open, Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
1961 The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
1962 62nd US Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA
1962 Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
1962 Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers
1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1963 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
1963 The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
1965 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
1966 Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
1967 "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
1967 Barbra Streisand's A Happening in Central Park performed
1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1967 Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics)
1968 Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
1968 KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
1969 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
1970 Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
1972 "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
1972 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
1972 Chile president Allende forms new government
1972 Five White House plumbers apprehended after second burglary of Democratic Natl HQ, Watergate
1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
1972 Five White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic National Committee (Watergate scandal), in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1973 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
1973 73rd US Golf Open, Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US
1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
1976 Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
1978 "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
1979 "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
1979 79th US Golf Open, Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1981 Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
1982 Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1984 John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
1986 Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
1987 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1988 Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips
1988 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 Soyuz TM-5 launches
1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 perfs
1990 "Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1990 90th US Golf Open, Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il
1990 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1991 The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act (last of its Apartheid laws), which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
1991 Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
1992 A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1992 Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1992 Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
1992 Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, South Africa, kills 42
1993 Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit
1994 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.  LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
1995 "Who's Tommy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM
1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000
2008 First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
2009 A EF5 Tornado swept through Aurora Nebraska totally leveling the entire town.
2012 American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open
2012 France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
2012 Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
2012 112th US Golf Open: Webb Simpson shoots a 281 at Olympic Club CA
2015 9 people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21 year old gunman
2015 US Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman

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HIDE

1239 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), chased Jews out of England (d. 1307)
1603 Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
1604 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House)
1682 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718) (d. 1718)
1691 Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (d. 1765)
1693 Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775)
1704 John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)
1714 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (d. 1762)
1714 César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor) (d. 1784)
1718 George Howard, British field marshal (d. 1796)
1725 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
1742 William Hooper, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
1750 Michel Woldemar, composer
1756 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
1808 Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845)
1810 F(erdinand) Freiligrath, German writer (d. 1876)
1811 Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence fighter (d. 1879)
1817 Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1818 Charles Francois Gounod, French opera composer (Faust) (d. 1893)
1818 Sophia (Frederika Mathilde) of Württemberg, queen of Netherlands, wife of William III (d. 1877)
1823 John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1903)
1828 Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian
1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1913)
1832 William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (Crookes-pipe, thallium) (d. 1919)
1837 Vincent Strong, civil war fighter (d. 1863)
1838 Bankim C(handra) Chattopadhyaya, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Delight, Kapala-Kundala)
1839 Arthur Tooth SSC, English Anglican Clergyman prosecuted for ritualist activities (d. 1931)
1845 Hendrik P Staal, Dutch banker
1855 Fritz Steinbach, composer
1858 Eben(ezer) Sumner Draper, 44th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1914)
1861 Omar Bundy, American army general and soldier (d. 1940)
1861 Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
1861 Sidney James Jones, composer
1863 Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934)
1867 Henry Lawson, Australian poet (d. 1922)
1867 John Robert Gregg, Irish inventor (shorthand) (d. 1948)
1870 George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties)
1871 James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar)
1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania
1874 Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
1875 Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1880 Carl Van Fight, American author/critic (Red, Nigger Heaven)
1880 Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (d. 1964)
1880 Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln)
1881 Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (d. 1955)
1882 Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1918)
1882 Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (Rite of Spring) (d. 1971)
1883 Alexandre Cellier, composer
1884 Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
1888 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
1888 Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954)
1895 Slavko Osterc, composer
1898 Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
1898 Harry Patch, British supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1898 M(aurits) C Escher, Dutch graphic artist (d. 1972)
1900 Hermann Reuter, composer
1900 Martin Bormann, Nazi propoganda minister (Hitler) (d. 1945)
1902 Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
1902 Sammy Fain, American popular music composer (d. 1989)
1903 Michail Swetlow, writer
1903 Ruth Wakefield, American cook (Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie) and hotelier (d. 1977)
1904 Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist
1904 Ralph Bellamy, American actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places) (d. 1991)
1906 Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
1907 Charles Eames, American designer and architect (d. 1978)
1907 Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1908 Frank Sully, St Louis MO, actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief)
1908 Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
1908 John Verrall, composer
1909 Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
1909 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)
1910 George Hees, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1910 Herbert Owen Reed, composer
1910 Red Foley, American musician, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1968)
1911 Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukrainian author (Vokopach Stalingrada)
1912 Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument)
1913 Felix Hartlaub, writer
1914 John R Hersey, American author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall) (d. 1993)
1915 David "Stringbean" Akeman, American musician and actor (d. 1973)
1915 Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1915 Stringbean (David Akeman), Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw)
1916 Einar Englund, composer
1916 Terry Gilkyson, American singer, lyricist and composer (d. 1999)
1916 Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live
1917 Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2007)
1918 Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1992)
1918 Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party)
1919 Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer)
1919 Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
1919 Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale)
1919 Max Dendermonde (Henk Hazelhoff), Dutch literary
1920 Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard)
1920 François Jacob, French biologist and bacteriologist (Nobel laureate 1965)
1920 Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (d. 1981)
1920 Patrick Duffy, MP
1922 Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
1922 Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, composer (Lively Ones, Hogan's Heroes)
1923 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, American football player, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams) (d. 2004)
1924 Gotthold Gloger, writer
1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president (Dutch Communist Party)
1925 Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle)
1926 Alan Walters, political economist
1926 Manuel Enriquez, composer
1927 Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977)
1927 Lucio Fulci, director
1927 Martin Böttcher, German conductor
1929 Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985)
1929 Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player, world chess champion (1963-69) (d. 1984)
1930 Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
1930 James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1930 Romuald Twardowski, composer
1931 John Baldessari, American artist
1932 Derek Ibbotson, 5K runner (Oly-bronze-1956)
1932 John P Murtha, American politician (Rep-D-PA, 1974) (d. 2010)
1932 Peter Lupus, American actor
1933 Anthony Bevilacqua, Brooklyn, New York, Roman Catholic Cardinal (Philadelphia), (d. 2012)
1933 Christian Ferras, French violinist (d. 1982)
1933 Harry Browne, American free-market libertarian writer, politician, and investment analyst (d. 2006)
1933 Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)
1936 Ken Loach, British film director
1936 Vern Harper, Canadian First Nations Cree Elder and Korean War veteran
1937 Peter Lupus, actor (Mission Impossible)
1938 Judy Kimball-Simon, LPGA golfer
1939 Dickey Do (Gerry Granahan), Musician (Dickey Doo & The Dont's)
1939 Donald Anderson, MP (Labour)
1939 Hanna Johansen, writer
1940 Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1940 George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel laureate
1940 Tony Marlow, MP (Conservative)
1942 Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian IAEA director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1942 Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1943 Barry Manilow, American musician, singer and pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)
1943 Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer
1943 Christopher Brown, composer
1943 Newt(on) L Gingrich, American politician (Rep-R-G, 1979), Speaker of House (1995-97)
1944 Bill Rafferty, comedian (Real People, Laugh-in '77)
1944 Chris Spedding, rocker
1944 Randy Johnson, American football player (d. 2009)
1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France)
1945 Frank Ashmore, American actor
1945 Ken Livingstone, English politician (Labour Party)
1945 Tommy Franks, American General
1945 Tony Roche, tennis coach
1946 Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983)
1946 Peter Rosei, Austrian writer
1947 Christopher Allport, American actor (d. 2008)
1947 George S. Clinton, American composer and musician
1947 Linda Chavez, American author
1947 Paul Young, English singer and percussionist (d. 2000)
1948 Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (d. 1992)
1948 Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
1949 Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator
1949 Snakefinger, British-born musician (d. 1987)
1950 Cathy Sherk, LPGA golfer
1950 Lee Tamahori, New Zealand film director
1951 Joe Piscopo, American actor (SNL, Miller Lite commercials)
1952 Mike Milbury, American ice hockey player, coach and executive
1954 Len Davies, Wrestling promoter
1954 Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers)
1955 Gail Jones, Australian author
1956 Chi-chi Nwanoku, English Double Bassist
1956 Nicholas Cook, cricketer
1957 Jack Wouterse, Dutch actor
1957 Jon Gries, American actor
1957 Martin Dillon, American opera singer (d. 2005)
1957 Phil(lip) Chevron, Irish musician (The Pogues, The Radiators From Space)
1958 Bobby Farrelly, American film director
1958 Dan(iel) McVicar, American actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful)
1958 Derek Lee Ragin, American countertenor
1958 Jello Biafra, American musician and activist
1958 Sam Hamad, Syrian-born Canadian politician
1960 Adrián Campos, Spanish racing driver
1960 Mitzi Edge, Albany GA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic)
1960 Thomas Haden Church, American actor
1961 Koichi Yamadera, Japanese seiyu, actor and tarento
1962 Ed Brady, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1962 Michael Monroe, Finnish singer (Hanoi Rocks)
1963 Greg Kinnear, American actor, talk show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later)
1963 Kevin Glover, NFL center (Detroit Lions)
1964 Erin Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
1964 Michael Gross, German swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)
1964 Rinaldo Capello, Italian racing driver
1964 Steve Rhodes, cricketer (England wicket-keeper 1994-95)
1965 Dan Jansen, American speed skater (Oly-gold-1984, 88, 92)
1965 Danny McManus, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 Dara O'Kearney, Irish ultra runner and professional poker player
1965 Dermontti Dawson, American football player, NFL center (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 Gianluca Pozzi, Bari Italy, tennis star (1991 Brisbane)
1965 Kami Cotler, Long Beach California, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons)
1965 Mike Magnante, Glendale CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
1965 Ray Seals, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
1966 Clare Look-Jaeger, Milwaukee Wisconsin, high jumper
1966 Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 Jason Patric, American actor
1967 Eric Stefani, American musician
1967 Keith Sims, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
1967 Pearl Sinn, LPGA golfer
1967 Robyn Meagher, Antigonish Nova Scotia, 5k runner (Olympics-96)
1967 Terry Davis, NBA forward/center (Dallas Mavericks, Wash Wizards)
1968 Julie Miller, Hawaiian triathelte
1968 Minoru Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 Karen Nystrom, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-Silver-98)
1969 Kevin Thornton, American vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1969 Patric Kjellberg, hockey forward (Team Sweden Oly-1998)
1969 Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
1970 Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1970 Jason Hanson, American football player, NFL kicker (Detroit Lions)
1970 Michael Showalter, American comedian
1970 Ron "Popeye" Jones, American basketball player, NBA center and forward (Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors)
1970 Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer and actress
1970 Stéphane Fiset, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
1970 Will Forte, American writer, actor and comedian
1971 Mildred Fox, Irish politician
1971 Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
1971 Tripp Schwenk, US, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 Dirk-Jan Derksen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1972 James McKnight, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Sebastian White, English musician and artist
1973 Christian Claudio, Puerto Rican Business Consultant
1973 Krayzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1973 Leander Paes, Indian tennis player
1973 Louis Leterrier, French film director
1974 Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
1975 Chloe Jones, American pornographic actress (d. 2005)
1975 Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie)
1975 Jennifer Irwin, Canadian actress
1975 Joshua Leonard, American actor
1975 Petra Vaarakallio, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1976 Scott Adkins, English actor
1976 Sven Nys, Belgian mountainbiker & cyclo-crosser
1977 Andrea Deak, Miss Universe-Hungary (1996)
1977 Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
1977 Branko Tomovic, Serbian actor
1977 Jason Miller, American actor (New Mickey Mouse Club)
1977 Mark Tauscher, American football player
1977 Roger Manganelli, American bassist (Less Than Jake)
1978 Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer
1978 James Corden, English actor and comedian
1978 Jenny Keim, Cin Ohio, diver (Olympics-9th-96)
1978 Kumiko Aso, Japanese actress
1979 Cawey Schau, Seattle Wash, canoist (alt-Olympics-96)
1979 Nick Rimando, American soccer player
1980 Andee Pickens, New Orleans La, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 Brittney McConn, Largo Fla, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr champ)
1980 Jeph Jacques, American webcomic writer
1980 Kimeru, Japanese singer
1980 Venus Williams, American tennis player
1981 Amrita Rao, Bollywood actress
1981 Kyle Boller, American football player, quarterback
1981 Shane Watson, Australian cricket all-rounder
1982 Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player
1983 Connie Fisher, English stage actress
1983 Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese singer and actor
1983 Lee Ryan, British singer (Blue)
1984 John Gallagher Jr., American stage actor
1985 Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player
1985 Rafael Sóbis, Brazilian footballer
1988 Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
1988 Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
1989 Giorgos Tofas, Cypriot footballer

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656 Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
676 Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76)
855 Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55)
900 Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders)
1025 Boleslaw I the Brave, first king of Poland (b. 967)
1091 Dirk V, Count of Holland (1061-91) (b. 1052)
1119 Boudouin VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19)
1463 Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (b. 1436)
1501 Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland
1565 Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
1672 Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer
1678 Giacomo Torelli, composer
1694 Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic Cardinal (b. 1629)
1696 Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96) (b. 1629)
1719 Joseph Addison, English politician and writer, secretary of state (b. 1672)
1734 Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshal of France (b. 1653)
1734 Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle
1740 Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
1762 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (b. 1674)
1771 Daskalogiannis executed at Candia, Crete
1775 Major John Pitcairn, British marine (killed in battle) (b. 1722)
1797 Agha Muhammad Khan, Shah of Persia, castrated & killed (b. 1742)
1813 Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (b. 1726)
1815 Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
1821 Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
1858 Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
1862 Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies
1863 Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n)
1898 Edward Burne-Jones, English artist (b. 1833)
1904 Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Russian politician, Governor-General of Finland (assassinated) (b. 1839)
1906 Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
1906 William Dale, international legal consultant
1910 Lady Mosley, biographer
1918 Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission)
1928 Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades)
1936 Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red)
1938 H V "Ranji" Hordern, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia 1910-12
1938 Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
1939 Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1939 Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
1940 Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1941 Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer and organist (Cyrano de Bergerac) (b. 1862)
1942 Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician (b. 1853)
1950 Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India)
1951 Carl Vogler, composer
1952 Alberto Williams, Argentine composer (Etrerno Reposo)
1952 Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1953 Walter Niemann, composer
1956 Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
1956 Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
1957 D(orothy) Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
1959 Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author
1960 Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South)
1961 Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel), American actor (Away all boats) (b. 1918)
1963 Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough
1963 Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician and nationalist (b. 1882)
1963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils)
1965 Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front)
1968 José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901)
1970 Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930)
1971 C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Phila)
1973 Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family)
1974 Pamela Britton, American actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian) (b. 1923)
1974 Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India)
1978 Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
1979 Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)
1979 Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza)
1981 Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1981 Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (b. 1889)
1982 Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
1983 Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch min of Foreign affairs 1939-46
1983 Peter Mennin(i), American composer and teacher (Moby Dick) (b. 1923)
1984 Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter)
1984 John Murray, American playwright (b.1906)
1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
1985 John Boulting, English film-maker (b. 1913)
1985 Piet De Somer, Belgian rector of University of Louvain
1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader
1986 Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America) (b. 1907)
1987 Dick Howser, American baseball player and manager (NY Yankees & KC Royal) (b. 1936)
1989 John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor
1989 Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash
1990 Dick Elffers, graphic artist,
1990 Palmira Henry, fashion designer
1992 Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler
1992 Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note)
1993 Angus Suttie, English potter
1993 French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia
1994 Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo)
1995 Claire Sterling, journalist
1996 Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
1999 Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, England (b. 1923)
2000 Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 1931)
2001 Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2001 Thomas Joseph Winning, Cardinal Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (b. 1925)
2002 Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
2002 Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
2004 Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
2005 Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (b. 1962)
2005 Sam Loeb, comic book writer (b. 1988)
2006 Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2006 Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
2007 Gianfranco Ferrè, Italian fashion designer (b. 1944)
2007 Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (b. 1933)
2008 Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)
2008 Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2009 Darrell Powers, American World War II veteran of the United States 101st Airborne Division. (b. 1923)
2009 Ralf Dahrendorf, German-born sociologist and politician (b. 1929)
2010 K. S. Rajah, Singaporean jurist (b. 1930)
2012 Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cops
2014 Patsy Byrne, English actress
2015 Suleyman Demirel, Turkish leader, President (1993-2000) and Prime Minister
2015 Ron Clarke, Australian runner (set 17 world records) and mayor
2016 Prince Be (Attrell Cordes), American rapper (PM Dawn)

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