HIDE

(612 BC) Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh.
70 "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)
610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an.
654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West.
991 Battle of Maldon, The English led by Bryhtnoth, Duke of Essex, are defeated by a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem.
1270 Yekuno Amlak takes the imperial throne of Ethiopia, restoring the Solomonic dynasty to power after a 100-year interregnum.
1304 Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
1316 Second Battle of Athenry
1461 Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain
1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"
1500 Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
1511 Portugese troops occupy parts of Malacca
1512 Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France
1519 Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. Second in command Sebastian Elcano, Basque navigator, completes the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
1557 Battle of St. Quentin, Spanish victory under Lamoraal of Egmont & Philibert over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars.
1566 Iconoclasm begins
1585 English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Neth
1622 County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges
1627 Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1628 The Swedish warship  Vasa sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes on her maiden voyage, 50 killed.
1653 Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch
1664 Austria/Turkey signs Peace of Vásvár
1675 King Charles II lays the foundation stone of Royal Greenwich Observatory in London.
1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
1678 Netherlands & France signs peace treaty in Nijmegen
1680 The Pueblo Revolt begins, In New Mexico, Popé leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniads
1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1759 Carlos III becomes king of Spain
1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1776 Word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1787 Mozart completes his "Eine small Nachtmusik"
1787 Turkey declares war on Russia
1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1792 Storming of the Tuileries Palace during the French Revolution. Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody.
1809 Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain (National Day). (The rebellion was crushed on August 2, 1810.)
1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1822 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1829 First ascent of Finsteraarhorn, the highest summit of the Bernese Alps.
1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1831 Hurricane hits Barbados, about 1,500 die
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 The Smithsonian Institution "nation's attic", is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000 for such a purpose.
1856 Hurricane washes away 2-300 revelers at Last Island, Louisiana
1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek, MO (Springfield, Oak Hills),  the American Civil War enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state. General Lyon is Killed
1862 Battle of Nueces River TX
1866 Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
1869 O B Brown patents moving picture projector
1876 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
1877 In Big Hole River, Colorado, John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians
1877 Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM
1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
1888 NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record
1889 Dan Rylands patents screw cap
1893 Chinese deported from SF under Exclusion Act
1895 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagners "Rienzi")
1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
1900 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
1901 Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1901 The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
1904 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
1904 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1904 Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1904 The Battle of the Yellow Sea during the Russo-Japanese War, between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets.
1904 Yankees Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games
1905 Russo-Japanese War: peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth.
1906 Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
1907 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
1909 Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 Second Balkan War ends, Bulgaria loses. delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
1914 At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen, Turkey joins Germany
1914 German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
1914 Royal Nationally Steuncomite forms
1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1920 Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
1920 Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres (Allies & Turkey) that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies, World War I.
1921 FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, 4 die
1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty signed
1929 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
1932 A 5.1kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player
1936 114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
1936 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
1938 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
1939 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
1940 Prince Bernhard Fund forms
1941 FDR & Churchill's 2nd meeting at Placentia Newfoundland
1942 Gen B Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in N Africa
1943 Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
1943 Gen Patton calls injured soldier "cowardly"
1943 Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
1944 Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cin Reds 2-0
1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
1944 US/French offensive at Alencon
1944 US recaptures Guam from Japanese in World War II.  American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1948 Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
1948 Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
1948 WABC TV channel 7 in New York, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1949 Natl Military Establishment renamed Dept of Defense
1949 U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government,  and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Women Golf Tournament
1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
1954 Netherland - Indonesian Union breaks up
1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1956 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Macktown Golf Open
1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit, returned 1st object from space
1960 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
1961 England applies for membership in European Common Market
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km
1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1968 Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
1968 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open
1969 A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
1969 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open
1970 Jim Morrison is tried in Miami on "lewd & lascivious behavior"
1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
1971 The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
1971 Twins' Harmon Killebrew is 10th to amass 500 HRs, & adds his 501st
1972 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
1972 Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession
1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
1974 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-European American Golf Open
1975 57th PGA Championship, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 276 at Firestone Akron
1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1977 In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam") is arrested in Yonkers NY for a series of killings in the New York City  area over the period of one year.
1977 US & Panamana sign Panama Canal Zone accord
1977 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1978 Three members of the Ulrich family were killed in an Accident. This accident lead to the famous Ford Pinto litigation.
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1979 Ecuador adopts its constitution
1979 Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
1980 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley
1980 62nd PGA Championship, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 274 at Oak Hill NY
1980 Allen, most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx
1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 Murder of Adam Walsh, The head of John Walsh's son is found. Inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.
1981 Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
1981 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman is 21st to hit 400 HRs (off Matt Young at Seattle)
1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
1986 "Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances
1986 Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1986 Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired
1986 Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC
1986 Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates
1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
1987 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
1988 Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec)
1988 Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
1988 UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
1989 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
1989 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1990 The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
1990 The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.
1990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
1991 "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 7 perfs
1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53
1992 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
1992 Soyuz TM-15 lands
1993 An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
1993 Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
1994 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
1995 Dodgers leading 2-1 in 9th forfeit game to Cards, fans become unruly
1995 Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain agreement for his testimony.
1996 Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
1996 Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
1996 Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
1996 Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
1997 36th Walker Cup, US, 18-6
1997 Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine
1997 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
1997 Deb Richard wins LPGA Friendly's Classic
1997 Northville Long Island Senior Golf Classic
1997 Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
1998 The Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei.
2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent . It is the first time the UK has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
2003 Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
2006 Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from commercial airplanes.
2008 90th PGA Championship: Pádraig Harrington shoots a 277 at Oakland Hills Country Club
2013 6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia
2013 16 Royal Guardsmen are killed in a bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco
2013 14th World Championships in Athletics open at Moscow, Russia
2014 Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to another 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
2014 Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of African American Michael Brown by a policeman.
2014 96th PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy shoots a 268 at Valhalla Golf Club
2015 Google announces its restructure as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android and Chrome as subsidiaries.

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HIDE

1267 King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1296 John the Blind, King of Bohemia, Count of Luxembourg (d. 1346)
1360 Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
1397 Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1489 Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
1520 Madeleine de Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
1556 Philipp Nicolai, German theologist, poet, and composer
1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
1567 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer
1589 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer
1602 Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
1645 Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
1652 Peterus I Scheemaeckers, Flemish sculptor (tomb stones)
1654 Bernard Nieuwentyt, Dutch physician/theologist
1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director
1699 Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer
1708 John Stinstra, baptist vicar
1720 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
1737 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
1740 Samuel Arnold, composer
1744 Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
1750 Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer
1762 Santiago Ferrer, composer
1782 Charles Napier, London, soldier
1793 Heinrich August Neithardt, composer
1794 Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
1801 Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC (Confederacy) (d. 1882)
1808 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1809 John Kirk Townsend, American naturalist (d. 1851)
1810 Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia (d. 1861)
1810 Cornelis Outshoorn, Dutch architect
1814 Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
1814 Jacob Edvard Gille, composer
1814 John Clifford Pemberton, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1881)
1814 William Lowndes Yancey, MC (Confederacy) (d. 1863)
1821 Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist
1823 Charles Thomas Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d. 1886)
1827 Lovro Toman, Slovenian politician (d. 1870)
1835 Gyula Beliczay, composer
1836 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer
1839 Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1839 Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1845 Abai Kunanbaev, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
1845 Abay Qunanbayuli, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
1845 Kunanbajew, writer
1854 J Scott Lidgett, London, theologist
1856 Paul Geisler, composer
1856 William Willett, English promoter of daylight saving time (d. 1915)
1860 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1861 Almroth Wright, Yorkshire England, bacteriologist
1865 Alexander K Glazunov, Russian composer (Chopiniana) (d. 1936)
1869 Laurence Binyon, British poet (Symbolic Wounds) (d. 1943)
1872 Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1874 Herbert (Clark) Hoover, 31st President of the United States (1929-1933) (d. 1964)
1874 James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
1877 Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
1877 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
1878 Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1880 Clarence Cameron White, composer
1880 Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
1881 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
1882 Max Kowalski, composer
1883 Carlos Lavin, composer
1884 Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1886 Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement
1888 Johanna E F G (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actress (Saint Joan)
1889 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
1889 Charles Darrow, Inventor (d. 1967)
1889 Irene Steer, England, 4 X 100m relay swimmers (Olympic-gold-1912)
1890 Angus L(ewis) Macdonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1891 Henry O'Neill, Orange NJ, actor (Lady Killer, Nothing But Trouble)
1893 Douglas Stuart Moore, Cutchogue NY, composer (Good Night Harvard)
1893 Viscount Dunrossil, Scotland, Gov Gen of Australia (1959-61)
1893 Voranc Prezikov (Lovro Kuhar), Slovenian author (Samorastniki)
1894 V(arahagiri) V(enkata) Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1895 Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
1895 Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
1897 Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924)
1897 John W. Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
1897 Piet(er O) Bakker, Dutch novelist (Ciske the Rat)
1898 Jack Haley, American actor (Tin Man-Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue) (d. 1979)
1900 Arthur Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete, 100m sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1924) (d. 1994)
1902 Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1902 Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
1902 Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1903 Lisle, British lord
1903 Ward Moore, American author (d. 1978)
1905 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
1905 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
1906 Era Bell Thompson (Dakota Dick), American journalist, actress (Ebony) (d. 1986)
1907 Su Yu, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1984)
1908 Adelino ("Billy") Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
1908 Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer
1908 Rica Erickson, Australian naturalist and botanic (d. 2009)
1909 Brian Easdale, composer
1909 Claude Thornhill, composer
1909 Frank Bowden, industrialist/landowner
1909 George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980)
1909 Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire)
1909 Leo Fender, American Musician, inventor (Fender guitars) (d. 1991)
1909 Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61)
1910 Angus Campbell, US, psychologist (Elections & Political Order)
1911 A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
1912 Herman Strategier, Dutch organist/composer/conductor
1912 Izaak Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)/mayor of Amsterdam
1912 Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (O Pais do Carnaval) (d. 2001)
1912 Richard Reeves, NYC, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
1912 Romain Maes, Belgian bicylist (Tour de France 1935)
1913 Noah Beery Jr., American actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot) (d. 1994)
1913 Steven Nagy, bowler, 1st to bowl 300 on TV (1954)
1913 Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
1914 Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
1914 Jeff Corey, American actor (Getting Straight, Superman & Mole Men) (d. 2002)
1916 John Clark, Hampton IA, actor (Graveyard of Horror)
1919 Elizabeth Thomas, literary consultant
1919 Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
1920 William "Red" Holzman, American basketball coach, NBA (NY Knickerbockers, 754 wins) (d. 1998)
1921 Leonard Lickorish, dir-gen (British Tourist Authority)
1923 Fred Ridgway, England cricketer, pace bowler
1923 Gillian Brown, diplomat
1923 Rhonda Fleming (Marilyn Louis), American actress (Spellbound)
1924 Martha Hyer, American actress (Day of the Wolves, Night of the Grizzly)
1924 Nancy Buckingham Sawyer (Christina Abbey, Erica Quest, Nancy John, Hilary London), British romance novelist.
1925 Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher
1925 George Cooper, general
1925 Lawrence Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary
1926 Edwin James Nairn Carr, composer
1926 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist/composer
1927 Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
1928 Eddie Fisher, American singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
1928 Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
1928 Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
1929 John Alldis, composer/conductor
1930 Barry Unsworth, novelist (Pascali's Island), (d. 2012)
1930 Saeedi Sirjani, poet
1932 Alexander Goehr, composer
1933 Alan Hardcastle, chairman (Lloyds Regulatory Board)
1933 Bill Nieder, shot putter, (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 Butler-Sloss, British Lady Justice
1933 David Rowland, chairman (Lloyd's)
1933 Doyle Brunson, American poker player
1933 Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth (d. 2005)
1933 Rocky Colavito, American baseball player (Hit 4 HRs in a game)
1934 James Carl Tenney, composer
1935 Giya Alexandrovich Kancheli, Georgian composer (Night Prayers)
1935 Jerrie Anthony Hulme, British major-general
1935 Lord Stewartby
1936 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao
1937 Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
1937 Lucinda Williams, American sprinter (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Charles Rose, (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973)
1939 Kate O'Mara, British actress (Caress Morell-Dynasty, AbFab)
1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions
1940 Bobby Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
1940 Richard Wells, Chief Constable (South Yorkshire)
1940 Sid Waddell, Darts Commentator for the PDC
1941 Anita Lonsbrough, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-1960)
1941 Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder (Simplistic Union)
1942 Betsy Johnson, American fashion designer (1971 Winnie Award)
1943 Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005)
1943 Louise Forestier, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1943 Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer
1943 Ronnie Spector (Veronica Bennett), American singer (The Ronettes) (Be My Little Baby)
1943 Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricketer, batsman
1943 Veronica Bennett, rocker
1945 Harriet Miers, White House Counsel
1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder (Schlager Festival Gay Party)
1945 Larry Larden, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1945 Laura Spurr, Tribal Chair, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi
1947 Alan Ward, England cricketer, pace bowler (1969-76)
1947 Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
1947 Ian Anderson, Scottish singer (Jethro Tull)
1948 Pal Gerevich, Hungary, fencer (Olympic-bronze-1972, 80)
1948 Patti Austin, American singer and actress (Real Me)
1949 Gene Johnson, Sugar Grove Pa, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1950 A L Harris, clinicaloncologist
1950 James Reynolds, Oskaloosa Ks, actor (Abe Carver-Days of our Lives)
1950 Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
1951 Maria Combs, LPGA golfer
1952 Ashley Putnam, NYC, soprano (NY City Opera 1978)
1952 Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 Diane Venora, American actress
1952 Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1952 Pepsi Nunes, marine biologist
1953 Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer
1955 Marja-Liisa Hamalainen, Finnish cross country skier (Oly-gold-1984)
1956 Charlie Peacock, American record producer, singer-songwriter
1956 Dianne Fromhottz, Balestrat Australia, tennis star
1956 Fred Ottman, American wrestler
1956 Tugboat (Fred Ottman), WWF wrestler
1958 Jack Richards, English cricketer, wicket-keeper
1959 Florent Vollant, Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)
1959 Mark Price, bassist and vocalist (All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged)
1959 Rosanna Arquette, American actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour)
1960 Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor (Desperado, Evita, Mambo Kings)
1960 Kenny Perry, American golfer
1960 Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
1960 Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit.
1960 (James) Kenneth Perry, Elizabethtown KY, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial)
1961 Beatrice Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Lisa-Four Seasons)
1961 Jon Farriss, Australian musician, vocalist and drummer (INXS)
1962 Dan Donovan, rocker (Bad)
1963 Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
1963 Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary (d. 2001)
1964 Aaron Hall, American songwriter
1964 Andy Stankiewicz, Inglewood CA, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos)
1965 Carolyn Schuwalow, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1965 Claudia Christian, American actress
1965 John Starks, American basketball player, NBA guard (NY Knicks)
1965 Mike E. Smith, American jockey
1965 Patricia Spurgin, US scherpschutser (Olympics-gold-1984)
1966 Gerald Williams, New Orleans LA, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1966 Hansi Kürsch, German singer
1967 Carlos Briceno, Fountain Valley, CA, beach volleyball (Oly-br-92, 96)
1967 Lori Tatum, LPGA golfer
1967 Lorraine Pearson, singer (Five Star) and author
1967 Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
1967 Peter Murphy, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 Philippe Albert, Belgian former footballer
1967 Reinout Scholte, Dutch cricketer (1996 World Cup)
1967 Riddick Bowe, American boxer, HW champion (Olympic-silver-1988)
1968 Alex Andrievski, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1968 Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 Jennifer Horton, Dover NJ, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 Michael Bivins, American singer (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe)
1968 Michel Doesburg, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1968 Miroslav Mosner, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 Moe Gardner, NFL nose tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Peter Docter, American film director
1969 Earl of Iveagh
1969 Emily Symons, Australian actress
1969 Iain Fraser, Scarborough, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 Brendon Julian, Australian cricketer
1970 Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 Gino Torretta, quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1992, Seattle Seahawks)
1970 Jeff Mangum, American musician
1970 Steve Mautone, Australian footballer
1971 Craig Newsome, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Justin Theroux, American actor
1971 Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist
1971 Mario César Kindelán, Cuban boxer
1971 Martin Quinney, Quesnel BC, Canada Tour golfer (1994 Glen Meadows-2nd)
1971 Mike Morreale, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Paul Newlove, rugby league player
1971 Roy Keane, Irish footballer (soccer)
1971 Sal Fasano, American baseball player, catcher (KC Royals)
1971 Stephan Groth, Norwegian musician
1972 Angie Harmon, American model and actress
1972 Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician
1972 Julann Vadnais, Miss Maine USA (1996)
1972 Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union footballer
1973 Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
1973 Jessica Grieco, Englewood NJ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 Keisha Delancy, Miss Turks & Caicos islands Universe (1997)
1973 Lisa Raymond, American tennis player (1995 Indian Wells doubles)
1973 Mark Doubleday, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1973 Sherriden May, NFL fullback (NY Jets)
1974 Dave Fiore, tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1974 David Sommeil, French footballer
1974 Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
1974 Miro Simonovic, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1974 Rachel Simmons, American feminist and author
1974 Walt Harris, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1975 Ilhan Mansiz, Turkish footballer
1975 Lise Mackie, Te Kuiti NZ, Australian swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Michael Depoli, American wrestler
1977 Aaron Kamin, American musician (The Calling)
1977 Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
1977 Matt Morgan, British comedian
1978 Chris Read, English cricketer
1978 Claire Yiu, Hong Kong actress
1978 Daniel Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 Marcus Fizer, American basketball player
1979 Alin Anuar, Fashion Innovator
1979 Brandon Lyon, American baseball player
1979 Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 Joanna Garcia, Cuban actress
1979 Ted Geoghegan, American filmmaker and author
1979 Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1980 Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
1981 Malek Mouath,Saudi Arabian footballer
1981 Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
1981 Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian Badminton Player
1982 Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
1982 Josh Anderson, American baseball player
1983 Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Mariel Rodriguez, Filipino TV host
1985 Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
1985 Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
1989 Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1989 Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
1993 Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor and singer

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258 Saint Lawrence, martyr
612 BC Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
794 Fastrada, 3rd wife of French king Charles the Great
955 Conrad the Red, Duke of Lotharingen, dies in battle
1002 Al-Mansur, Arabic general strategist/regent of Cordoba
1250 Erik IV Plovpenning, king of Denmark, murdered
1535 Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence, poisoned (b. 1509)
1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader
1628 Hans Jonsson, Swedish fleet commander
1637 Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 Maarten Harpertsz Tromp (Bestevaer), Dutch admiral, dies in battle (b. 1598)
1655 Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
1655 Louis de Vadder, Flemish painter
1717 Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
1723 Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1730 Sebastien de Brossard, composer
1759 Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain (b. 1713)
1784 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
1802 Franz Aepinus (Franz UT Hoch), German scientist, physicist (b. 1724)
1806 Johann Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
1821 Salvatore Vigano, composer
1839 John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1841 Hippolyte Monpou, composer
1843 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
1857 John Wilson Croker, politician
1859 George Staunton, writer
1861 Nathaniel Lyon, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle
1862 Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1867 Ira Aldridge, famed Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock) (d. 1867)
1875 Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), geographer (b. 1808)
1886 Eduard Grell, composer
1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
1902 George Vernon, cricketer (scored 11* & 3 in only England Test)
1904 Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus)
1905 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged
1911 Carl Christian Lumbye, composer
1915 Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1918 Erich Loewenhardt, Germany flying ace (World War I) (b. 1897)
1920 Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1921 John M Martin, last confederate congress member
1928 Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929 Aletta Henriette Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor/feminist
1929 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1930 William H Taft, US president (1909-13)
1932 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
1932 Slang, writer
1934 John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter
1938 Joseph Moorat, composer
1943 C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte)
1943 J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte)
1943 J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte),
1944 Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination
1945 Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
1948 Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
1948 E Ball-Hennings, writer
1948 Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1948 Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1958 Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1960 Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland)
1960 Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun)
1960 Oswald Veblin, mathematician
1962 Ted Husing, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
1963 Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1963 Estes Kefauver, American politician (Sen-D-Tn) (b. 1903)
1963 Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, only lives 3 days
1965 Rayford Robinson, cricketer (Test Aust v England 1937)
1966 Felix A Vening Meinesz, geophysicist (black force)
1966 Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Cinders)
1967 John Francis Larchet, composer
1969 Leno LaBianca, American businessman, murdered (b. 1925)
1969 Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife, murdered (b. 1930)
1970 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Requiem), commits suicide
1973 Douglas Kennedy, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1974 Ilona Massey, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death)
1976 Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
1976 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
1977 Vince Barnett, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
1979 Dick Foran, American actor (OK Crackerby) (b. 1910)
1979 Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
1980 Yahya Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1917)
1982 Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (b. 1962)
1985 Kenny Backer, comedian (Time Bandits)
1987 Calvin Culver, actor (Score)
1987 Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef)
1987 Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer, politician and Prime Minister (b. 1893)
1987 I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77)
1987 Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat)
1988 Adela Rogers St John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb)
1988 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama
1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University)
1991 Josef Lipski, Polish politician
1993 Ken England, US screenwriter (Good Girls Go to Paris)
1993 Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1994 Bill Baker, singer
1994 Kay Petre, early racing driver
1994 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered
1995 Fay Honey Knopp, activist
1995 Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist
1996 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest
1996 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director
1997 Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
1997 Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director and writer (Leola), dies in air crash (b. 1953)
1999 Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
2000 Gilbert Parkhouse, English cricketer (b. 1925)
2001 Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
2002 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2002 Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2003 Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2007 Chris Reyka, American law enforcement official (b. 1956)
2007 Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American military pilot (Tuskegee Airmen) and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2007 James E. Faust, American religious figure, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
2007 Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2008 Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
2010 Adam Stansfield, Professional footballer who played for Exeter City F.C. (b. 1978)
2012 Al Freeman Jr, American actor
2012 Carlo Rambaldi, Italian Special effects artist
2013 Eydie Gorme, American singer
2015 Elzie "Buddy" Baker, American NASCAR driver

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