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1290 Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
1384 The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal to the act of destroying stamped government documents, which by law necessitated one hundred floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu Emperor decided to pardon them, seeing as how their intention was not to tear up the money.
1477 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, weds Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy in Ghent, Belgium
1513 Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) King Henry VIII of England  and Maximilian defeats French Forces who are then forced to retreat.
1570 King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1625 Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1691 Yorktown Va founded
1717 Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
1743 Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1745 Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1748 "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
1777 The Americans led by General John Stark routed British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York in the American Revolutionary War.
1780 Battle of Camden of the American Revolutionary War, The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
1792 Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1794 Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
1797 Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1812 American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit (Detroit & Michigan territory) without a fight to the British Army in the War of 1812.
1819 Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured by English police cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre (Manchester Massacre) at a public meeting of unemployed demonstrators at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
1829 Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1834 Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
1841 U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1846 Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pélissier in Paris
1858 U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1859 The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
1861 Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861 Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1863 Chickamauga campaign GA
1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed
1864 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia, Federal assault
1864 Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1865 Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic, The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1868 Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami which followed a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
1869 Battle of Acosta Ñu, A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 The Battle of Mars-La-Tour of the Franco-Prussian War is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1876 Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1882 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1890 Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896 Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala
1896 Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1898 Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1903 Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
1904 NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1905 Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1906 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1907 Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
1913 Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
1913 Tohoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) admits its first female students.
1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914 Battle of Cer of World War I begins.
1914 Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1915 KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
1918 US troops overthrows Archangelsk
1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit in the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1920 The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
1922 AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
1924 38th US Womens Tennis, Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (61 63)
1924 Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1924 Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1927 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1929 The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
1930 The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1934 US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1934 US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
1936 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1940 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1940 The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway in World War II.
1941 HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
1942 Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1942 The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean in World War II. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
1943 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
1943 Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise Normandy
1944 Chartres freed
1944 Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944 First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1944 US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1945 An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki.
1945 Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1946 Great Calcutta blood bath Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1947 Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
1948 Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948 Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1950 West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
1953 KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953 Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954 "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1954 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1954 The first edition of Sports Illustrated is published.
1955 Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1956 Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1956 Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
1959 USSR introduces installment buying
1960 United Kingdom grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today - High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
1960 Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
1961 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961 Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
1962 Pete Best replaced by Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) as drummer for The Beatles.
1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1963 Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1964 A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
1965 AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1966 The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
1967 Cincinati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
1967 WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Day two of the Woodstock Festival.
1969 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
1969 Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
1970 52nd PGA Championship, Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
1970 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
1972 54th PGA Championship, Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
1972 Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches
1972 The Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon, in an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, Hassan II of Morocco's B727 plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1975 "Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1975 Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1976 58th PGA Championship, Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
1976 St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
1980 Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980 Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
1980 Jools Holland quits Squeeze
1981 Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
1983 Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1984 Andrea Doria's safe opened
1984 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
1984 NASA launches Ampte
1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1986 "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
1986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single
1986 Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1987 A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan (Detroit), killing 155 passengers and crew. The sole survivor is four-year-old Cecelia Cichan.
1987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
1987 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
1987 Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1988 Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1989 A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
1989 Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1990 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990 Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1991 Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants
1991 President Bush declares recession is near an end
1992 20th du Maurier Golf Classic, Sherri Steinhaur
1992 74th PGA Championship, Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
1992 In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black.
1992 Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
1993 The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release"
1994 Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
1994 Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
1997 For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1998 80th PGA Championship at Sahalee CC, Seattle WA
1998 Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
2003 U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2005 West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.
2008 Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics.
2011 Beginning of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid
2012 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
2012 Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
2012 South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
2013 61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines
2015 'Batman' samaritan Lenny B. Robinson is killed in a car accident in Maryland
2015 97th PGA Championship: Jason Day wins setting major championship record of 20-under-par at Whistling Straits in Kohler

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1355 Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (d. 1382)
1378 Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
1397 Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia, Hungary, Germany
1401 Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France (d. 1436)
1550 Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer, pastor, vicar
1557 Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
1573 Anna of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1598)
1596 Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
1622 Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
1637 Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
1645 Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
1650 Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
1666 Henriette Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz
1682 Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712)
1761 Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
1769 Jean Aime Vernier, composer
1776 Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
1795 Heinrich August Marschner, composer
1815 John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
1816 Joseph Robinson, composer
1817 Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), died in 1865
1820 Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
1828 Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1831 John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
1832 Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist and philosopher (d. 1920)
1836 John Farmer, composer
1837 Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
1842 Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
1845 Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1921)
1846 Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)
1856 Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader (d. 1904)
1858 Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
1860 Jules Laforgue, French poet (Les Complaintas) (d. 1887)
1860 Lord Hawke, cricketer (England batsman 1890's, many official posts)
1860 Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer (d. 1938)
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, American coach, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy) (d. 1965)
1864 Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx)
1867 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely)
1868 Bernarr McFadden, American publisher (Physical Culture, True Romances) (d. 1955)
1868 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1871 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
1874 Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26)
1876 Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
1876 Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic (d. 1947)
1877 Karl L Hoschna, composer
1879 Ethel Barrymore, classic film & stage actress (Pinky, Moonrise)
1882 Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (d. 1998)
1882 Pierre H Ritter Jr, Dutch literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper)
1884 Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser (British Petroleum/Shell)
1884 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor, publisher, and sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo) (d. 1967)
1884 Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
1885 Charles Carson, London England, actor (Cry the Beloved Country)
1887 Nadia Boulanger, conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony)
1888 Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
1888 T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)
1892 Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
1892 Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
1894 George Meany, American labor union leader (headed AFL-CIO) (d. 1980)
1895 Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
1895 Jacinto Guerrero, composer
1895 Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1895 Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
1897 Robert Ringling, circus master
1897 Vicente Ascone, composer
1899 Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
1902 Georgette Heyer, England, novelist (Friday's Child) (d. 1974)
1902 Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
1904 Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel laureate 1946) (d. 1971)
1906 Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89)
1907 Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer
1907 Mae Clarke (Klotz), Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge)
1908 Orlando Cole, American classical cellist and educator (d. 2010)
1908 William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
1909 Paul Smith Callaway, composer
1910 Mae Clarke, Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)[or 1907]
1911 E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977)
1912 Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
1912 Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
1913 Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel  (1977-1983)(Nobel laureate 1978) (d. 1992)
1914 Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1915 Al Hibbler, American singer (Unchained Melody) (d. 2001)
1916 Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1917 Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
1920 Charles Bukowski, American poet (Hollywood: A Novel) (d. 1994)
1922 Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (d. 2001)
1922 Louis E Lomax, author
1923 Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd
1923 Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
1924 Fess Parker, American actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller) (d. 2010)
1925 Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1928 Ann Blyth, American actress (Kismet, Mildred Pierce)
1928 Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy)
1929 Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980)
1929 Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1929 Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist
1930 Frank Gifford, American football player, NFL halfback (NY Giants) and sportscaster (ABC)
1930 Marion A Trabert, tennis champ (US Open-1953)
1930 Robert Culp, American actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) (d. 2010)
1930 Tony Trabert, American former tennis player (1955 Wimbledon)
1932 Eydie Gorme (Edithe Gormezano), American singer (Bossa Nova)
1932 Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1933 Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher (Perscombinatie)
1933 Julie Newmar, American actress
1933 Reiner Kunze, writer
1933 Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, American astronaut (Apollo 14) (d. 1994)
1934 Diana Wynne Jones, British sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
1934 Ed van Thijn, Dutch foreign minmayor (Amsterdam, 1983-94)
1934 John Standing, London England, actor (Edward-Lime Street)
1934 Ketty Lester (Revoyda Frierson), American singer and actress (Love Letters)
1934 Pierre Richard, French actor
1934 Sam Trimble, Australian cricketer
1935 Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
1935 Betsy von Furstenberg, Nelheim Ger, actress (Machine Calls it Murder)
1935 Cliff Fletcher, Canadian National Hockey League executive
1935 Julie Newmar, Hollywood California, actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll)
1936 Anita Gillette, Balt Md, actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck)
1936 Gary Clarke, LA California, actor (Hondo, Virginian, Michael Shayne)
1937 Andrew J(efferson V) Offutt, US, sci-fi author (Undying Wizard)
1937 David Anderson, Canadian politician
1937 David Behrman, composer
1937 Lorraine Gary, NYC, actress (Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 4)
1938 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 Carol Shelley, London, actress (Gwendolyn Pidgeon-Odd Couple)
1939 Seán Brady, Cardinal-Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
1939 Sir Trevor Mcdonald, Trinidadian-born British television newsreader
1939 Valeri V Ryumin, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32)
1939 Wim Meijer, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 Bruce Beresford, Australian film director (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies)
1942 Barbara George, American singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
1942 John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker (People's Daily)
1943 Sharon Baird, American actress and tap dancer
1944 Dick Zimmer, (Rep-R-New Jersey)
1944 Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistan left-arm quick, 1 Test)
1945 Bob Balaban, Chicago IL, actor/director (2010, Girlfriends)
1945 Gary Loizzo, Chicago IL, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1945 Gordon "Snowy" Fleet, Merseyside, rock drummer (Easybeats)
1945 Kevin Ayers, England, progressive rocker (Joy of a Toy)
1945 Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor (Absence of Malice, Altered States)
1945 Suzanne Farrell, ballet dancer (Don Quioxote)
1946 Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (d. 1996)
1946 Lesley Ann Warren, American actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible)
1946 Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician
1947 Carol Moseley Braun, American politician and lawyer (Sen-D Illinois)
1947 John Howard, (US), speed record (152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT)
1947 Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer
1947 Marc Messier, Canadian actor
1948 Barry Hay, Indian-born Dutch singer, fluitist, saxophonist, and guitarist  (Golden Earring)
1948 Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player
1948 Pierre Reid, Canadian politician and teacher
1949 Barbara Goodson, American voice actress
1949 Bill Spooner, rock guitarist/vocalist (Tubes)
1949 Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
1950 Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian athlete, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 Jeff(rey R) Thomson, Australian cricketer
1950 Marshall Manesh, Iranian-born American actor
1950 Stockwell Day, Canadian politician
1951 Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
1951 Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician
1952 Gianna Rolandi, NYC, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
1952 Mahes Goonatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
1952 Reginald VelJohnson, American actor (Carl Winslow-Family Matters, Die Hard)
1953 Catlin O'Heaney, Whitefish Bay Wisc, actress (Snow White-Charmings)
1953 James "J.T." Taylor, American singer (Kool & The Gang)
1953 Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1953 Nick Leyva, baseball manager (Phillies 1988-91)
1954 George Galloway, British politician
1954 James Cameron, Canadian film director (True Lies, Titanic)
1956 Colleen Walker, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mazda Champions)
1956 Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist
1956 Dominic Erban, French rugby international player
1957 Randhir Singh, Indian cricketer
1957 Tim Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1958 Angela Bassett, American actress (What's Love Got to Do With It)
1958 Jonathan Prince, Beverly Hills Pa, actor (Danny-Alice, Pray TV)
1958 José Luis Clerc, Argentine tennis player
1958 Madonna (Ciccone), American singer and actress (Like a Virgin, Vogue)
1958 Michael Harkin, American anthropologist
1958 Peter "Jeff" K Wisoff, Norfolk VA, PhD/Astronaut (STS 57, 68, 81/84)
1959 Laura Innes, American actress
1959 Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist
1960 Timothy Hutton, American actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People)
1961 Christian Okoye, American football player
1961 Michaela Dornonville de la Cour, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers)
1962 Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
1963 Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress
1963 Scott Dunlap, Pittsburgh PA, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 S Afr Masters)
1964 Jimmy Arias, American tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1964 Nigel Redman, English rugby international player
1965 Brian McDonough, Long Beach California, points cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
1965 Eric van der Luer, soccer player (Roda JC)
1965 Todd McNair, NFL running back/kick returner (Houston Oilers)
1965 Xavier Hernandez, Port Arthur TX, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1966 Barry Lather, American choreographer, musician and actor
1966 Ed Olczyk, Chicago, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1966 Rosey Edeh, Canadian 400m hurdler (Olympics-4-92, 96)
1966 Terry Shumpert, Paducah KY, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 Bret Barberie, Long Beach CA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 Matt Vanderbeek, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1967 Pamela Smart, American convicted murderess
1967 Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish television personality
1968 Donovan Leitch Jr, actor/musician (I Shot Andy Warhol)
1968 Eric Jonassen, offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Mateja Svet, Slovenian alpine skier
1969 Andy Milder, American voice actor
1969 Becky Delos Santos, Boston Mass, playmate (April, 1994)
1969 Ben Coates, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)
1969 Carl Henkel, Torrance California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 Adrian Hardy, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1970 Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
1970 Dena Head, WNBA guard (Utah Starzz)
1970 Eric Swann, NFL defensive tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (d. 1995)
1970 Killah Priest, American rapper
1970 Lester Smith, CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 Manisha Koirala, Nepalese Bollywood actress
1970 Quinton McCracken, Wilmington NC, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1970 Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
1970 Wilco Hellinga, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1971 Nigel Williams, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 Rulon Gardner, American Greco-Roman wrestler
1971 Stefan Klos, German footballer
1971 Troy Alexander, CFL defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 Willie Jackson, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Eddie Goines, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Emily Robison, American country singer, instrumentalist and songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
1972 Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian
1972 George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian television and radio personality
1972 Michael Reed, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 Michael Thornberry, Virginia Beach Va, team handball circle (Oly-1996)
1972 Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1972 Zach Wiegert, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1973 Damian Jackson, American baseball player
1974 Bryan Chiu, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 Iván Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer
1974 Krizstina Egerszegi, Hungarian backstroke swimmer (100/200m WR)
1974 Roger Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1974 Ryan Longwell, NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer
1975 Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975 Felicia Zimmermann, Rochester NY, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1975 George Stults, American actor
1975 Pantelis Konstantinidis, Greek footballer
1976 Dave Ockun, American concert producer
1976 Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
1976 Tiina Kankaanpää, Finnish discus thrower
1977 Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer and actor
1978 Eddie Gill, American basketball player
1978 Fu Mingxia, Chinese female diver
1979 Michael Stahlman, American rower and coach
1979 Monder Rizki, Belgian athlete
1979 Paul Gallacher, Scottish football player
1980 Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1980 Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter
1981 Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
1981 Taylor Rain, American pornographic actress
1982 Cam Gigandet, American actor
1982 Joleon Lescott, English footballer
1983 Colin Griffiths, English TV presenter and DJ
1983 Colt Brennan, American football player, NFL Quarterback, Washington Redskins
1983 Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
1984 Candice Dupree, American basketball player
1985 Agnes Bruckner, American actress
1986 Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
1986 Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player
1987 Carey Price, Canadian Hockey Player
1987 Evan Berger, Australian footballer
1987 Kyal Marsh, Australian actor
1988 Kevin Schmidt, American actor
1988 Rumer Willis, American actress, child of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
1991 Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
1991 G.E.M., Hong Kong singer
1991 Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress

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1027 Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)
1297 John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1358 Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
1508 Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland
1518 Loyset Compère, French composer (b. circa 1445)
1532 John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1603 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri)
1661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, churchman and historian (b. 1608)
1675 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews
1678 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love) ODs (b. 1621)
1705 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (b. 1654)
1733 Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
1738 Joe Miller, English comic
1748 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer
1786 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster
1791 Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1799 Vincenzo Manfredini, composer
1807 Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker
1831 Eduard Brendler, composer
1836 Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1854 Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1855 Henry Colburn, British publisher
1864 John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle
1870 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer
1886 Sri Ramakrishna, Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda, Indies philosopher (b. 1836)
1888 John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
1894 Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar)
1899 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1900 Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
1907 James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
1910 Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer
1911 Karl Munzinger, composer
1920 J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun)
1921 King Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
1921 Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia
1929 Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer
1938 Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
1938 Robert Johnson, American blues singer and guitarist, poisoned  (b. 1911)
1939 Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer
1940 Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
1940 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France)
1944 Roman Padlewski, composer
1945 Nico Richter, composer
1945 Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri)
1946 Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)
1948 Babe Ruth, American baseball player (NY Yankees) (b. 1895)
1949 Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (Gone With the Wind) (b. 1900)
1951 Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise) (b. 1887)
1952 Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1956 Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (Dracula) (b. 1882)
1957 Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1958 Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce)
1959 Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados)
1959 Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1959 William "Bull" F Halsey Jr., American Navy Admiral (WW II Pacific) (b. 1882)
1960 Errol Holmes, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for England 1935)
1961 Maulvi Abdul Haq, Indian educator and linguist, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
1964 Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana)
1965 Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
1966 Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid)
1968 Luis Gianneo, composer
1969 Russ Bender, actor/writer (Air Patrol, Strangler)
1971 Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House)
1971 Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox (b. 1893)
1972 John Barnes Chance, composer
1972 Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
1973 Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist (Nobel Prize Laureate 1952) (b. 1888)
1973 Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad)
1974 Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies
1975 Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-born Soviet distance runner (b. 1927)
1976 Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83
1977 Elvis Presley, American singer, actor, and guitarist (b.1935)
1978 Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer governor general of Neth Indies (b. 1888)
1979 John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
1983 Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1984 Gyorgy Kosa, composer
1986 Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1986 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man)
1988 Milton Adolphus, composer
1989 Amanda Blake, American actress (Gunsmoke) (b. 1929)
1990 Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1991 Luigi Zampa, Italian film director (b. 1905)
1991 Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor
1991 Shamu the Whale
1991 Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1992 Mark Heard, AmericanChristian musician, singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
1993 Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can)
1993 Joseph Towers, US pilot
1993 Stewart Granger, British film actor (Scaramouche) (b. 1913)
1993 Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live)
1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason)
1994 Frits de Knight, photographer
1994 Henry Geldzahler, US critic
1994 John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War)
1995 J(ohn) P(riestly) McCarthy, American radio personality (b. 1933)
1995 John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC)
1995 Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician
1996 Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower)
1996 Robert Lynn, anarchist
1997 Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (b. 1915)
1997 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician & singer (b. 1948)
1999 Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
2002 Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
2002 Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
2003 Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
2004 Carl Mydans, American photographer (b. 1907)
2004 Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
2004 Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2005 Joe Ranft, American animator (b. 1960)
2005 Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematography (b. 1922)
2005 Vassar Clements, American musician (b. 1928)
2005 Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (b. 1943)
2005 William Corlett, English children's author (b. 1938)
2006 Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
2006 Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2006 Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
2006 Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (b. 1975)
2007 Bahaedin Adab, Iranian politician (b. 1945)
2007 Dewey Robertson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1939)
2007 Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
2007 The Missing Link, professional wrestler (b. 1939)
2008 Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
2008 Elena Leuṣtean, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist (b. 1935)
2008 Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese sustainable farmer and author (b. 1913)
2008 Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1934)
2010 Bobby Thomson, American baseball player
2012 William Windom, American actor
2015 Jacob Bekenstein, American-Israeli theoretical physicist (Bekenstein-Hawking radiation)
2016 João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist and FIFA President 1974-98
2016 John McLaughlin, TV commentator (McLaughlin Group) and Nixon aide

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