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(293 BC) The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
410 King Alarik I's Visigoten occupies & plunders Rome
1201 The city of Riga is founded.
1289 Pope Nicolaus IV publishes degree "Supra montem"
1541 A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541)
1564 Spanish king Philip II joins Council of Trente
1572 King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois
1572 Marriage in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1587 Saul Wahl is elected King of Poland, according to legend.
1587 Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
1590 John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
1591 Governor of Roanoke Island colony returns from England & found everyone in the colony had disappeared [or Aug 17, 1590]
1605 Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen
1634 Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1636 The Covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.
1674 Jean Racine's "Iphigénie," premieres in Versailles
1686 Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1698 Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
1700 Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1759 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
1769 Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1795 Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves
1817 Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1834 Mt Vesuvius erupts
1835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1838 1st US marine expedition
1838 The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838
1840 Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1846 Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM
1848 Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1858 Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
1862 General Lee's adjutant major Stuart captured
1862 Minnesota trader Andrew Myrick is killed and has his mouth stuffed with grass.
1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1864 6th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia: Confederate assault
1864 Battle of Globe Tavern Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in the American Civil War.
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Weldon Railroad day 1 of 3 days
1868 French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1870 Battle at Gravelotte Privat of the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties
1872 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1873 1st ascent of Mount Whitney, California (14,494')
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
1886 Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles
1891 Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
1894 Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1896 Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1903 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1904 Chris Watson resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by George Reid.
1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1914 Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp
1914 French troops under general Dubail occupy Sarrebourg
1914 Oscar Egg sets new cycling hour record (44,247 km)
1914 Pres Wilson issues "Proclamation of Neutrality"
1915 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
1917 A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1917 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)
1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
1920 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
1920 19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified
1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1923 37th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla B Mallory (62 61)
1924 France begins retracting troops out of Ruhrgebied
1925 Belgian & US sign treaty about war debts
1925 Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
1926 England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1926 Weather map televised for 1st time
1930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
1931 Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
1932 Auguste Piccard and Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon
1932 Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
1934 48th US Womens Tennis, Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64)
1934 Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six
1934 Ponsford & Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes v Eng
1936 106.5°F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa
1937 1st FM radio construction permit issued (W1X0J (WGTR) in Boston MA)
1938 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1941 Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests.
1941 German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1941 Phillies commit 8 errors in a game
1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
1943 Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd & final game, all with Giants
1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1944 Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 US 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris
1944 US 20th Army corp conquers Chartres
1945 Scheduled demonstrations at Polo Grounds & Ebbets Field to end segregation in organized baseball are called off
1946 Golf Writers Associaton of America forms
1947 Naval torpedo & mine factory explodes at Cadiz, Spain killing 300
1949 Hungary adopts constitution
1949 Ralph Flanagan & his orchestra records "You're Breaking My Heart"
1950 Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth
1954 James E Wilkins is 1st black to attend a US cabinet meeting
1955 Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1955 Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
1956 Cin Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½")
1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
1958 Fidel Castro makes a speech on Cuban pirate radio Rebelde
1958 Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1958 Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1958 Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1959 Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be pres of Continental League
1960 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Richardson, Texas
1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1960 Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
1962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1963 James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1964 Beatles arrive in SF, 2nd US visit
1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1964 USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1965 Hank Aaron loses a HR, because he hit it out of batter's box
1965 Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
1965 Operation Starlite of the Vietnam War, begins United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 The Battle of Long Tan of the Vietnam War occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
1967 Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1967 Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1967 WCBS radio in NYC goes all-news
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1969 Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of the Woodstock festival.
1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act
1971 Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam, Vietnam War.
1972 Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession
1973 Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1974 Joanne Carner wins LPGA St Paul Keller Golf Open
1976 In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom, the Axe Murder Incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
1976 USSR's Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1977 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1977 Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1977 Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1978 Memphis Tenn settles with striking police officers & firefighters
1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 KC Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400
1981 "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 119 performances
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1981 Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1982 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
1982 Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
1982 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1982 NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1983 Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast (Houston & Galveston), killing 22 people and causing over USD $1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1983 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1985 Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM
1986 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
1987 Manuela Stellmach, Astrid Strauss, Anke Mohring, Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
1989 Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1991 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1991 Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
1991 Pan Am games closes in Havana
1992 "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
1992 Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire
1994 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
1995 Cards reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save
1996 Emilee Klein wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
2000 A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
2005 Dennis Rader is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK serial killings.
2005 Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
2008 President Of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf resigned due to pressure from opposition.
2011 The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
2012 Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
2012 NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan
2013 6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India
2013 14th World Championships in Athletics close at Moscow, Russia

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472 Flavius Ricimer, general of the Western Roman Empire, kingmaker
1414 Jami, Persian poet (d. 1492)
1450 Marko Marulic (Marulus, Splichanin, Pechinich), Croatian poet (d. 1524)
1579 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, Roman Catholic nun, daughter of Willem I of Orange (d. 1640)
1587 Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America
1596 Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
1605 Henry Hammond, English churchman (d. 1660)
1606 Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)
1611 Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, queen of Poland (d. 1650)
1657 Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, designer (d. 1743)
1685 Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem (d. 1731)
1692 Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
1720 Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)
1745 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (Tatare) (d. 1825)
1754 François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
1769 Alexandre Stievenard, composer
1774 Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, solider and public administrator (Lewis & Clark Expedition) (d. 1809)
1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica
1792 John Russell, First Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1846-52, 1865-66) (d. 1878)
1803 Nathan Clifford, American statesman, diplomat, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1881)
1805 Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter (Mutterliebe)
1807 Charles Francis Adams, (Union), died in 1886
1813 Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1884)
1818 William Farquhar Barry, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1879)
1819 Maria Nikolaievna, Grand Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
1822 Isaac P. Rodman, American Union general (d. 1862)
1823 Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian
1830 Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1834 Marshall Field, Conway Massachusetts, owner (Field Dept Store)
1841 William Halford, American naval officer (d. 1919)
1849 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
1855 Alfred Wallis, English artist and mariner (d. 1942)
1856 Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
1856 Jan Karol Gali, composer
1857 Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (d. 1926)
1870 Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer (d. 1954)
1870 Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (d. 1918)
1871 Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)
1873 Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Othello)
1873 Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1875 Johan E Elias, historian (Amsterdam)
1878 Fritz Brun, composer
1879 Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1881 Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
1882 Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor
1882 Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
1883 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel)
1885 Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (d. 1964)
1887 Nico J Polak, Dutch economist
1890 Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960)
1893 Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1893 Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
1896 Alan Mowbray, London England, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack)
1896 Jack Pickford, Canadian-born actor (d. 1933)
1900 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
1900 Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1902 Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1902 Julius Kalas, composer
1902 Margaret Murie, American conservationist, naturalist, and author (d. 2003)
1903 Ake Olof Sebastian Udden, composer
1903 Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1904 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY)
1904 (Francis) Max Factor, Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur (Max Factor Cosmetics) (d. 1996)
1905 Peter Paul Kreuder, composer
1906 Andre Van Gyseghem, England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1906 Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
1907 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, Executive (BBC)
1907 Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1907 Howard Swanson, composer
1907 Otto Mortensen, composer
1908 Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Belenggu)
1908 Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1977)
1908 Edgar Faure, French Prime Minister (1952, 52-56) and historian, thriller author (d. 1988)
1908 Milan Ristic, composer
1909 Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
1909 Miliza Korjus, Warsaw Poland, actress (Great Waltz)
1910 Charles Wegg-Prosser, solicitor
1910 Herman Berlinski, composer
1911 Amelia Boynton Robinson, American leader in the Schiller Institute
1913 Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1915 Max Lanier, baseball player (d. 2007)                                                    
1916 Don Keefer, American actor
1916 Elsa Morante, Italy, writer (L'isola di Arturo)
1916 Moura Lympany, English pianist (OBE-1979) (d. 2005)
1916 Neagu Djuvara, Romanian diplomat
1917 Caspar Weinberger, American politician, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) (d. 2006)
1918 Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961)
1918 Elsa Morante, writer
1919 Walter Joseph Hickel, US Secretary of Interior (1969-71), 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska (Gov-R-Alaska)
1920 Bob Kennedy, baseball player (d. 2005)
1920 Godfrey Evans, England cricketer (d. 1999)
1920 Shelley Winters, American actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Adventure) (d. 2006)
1920 (Thomas) Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper (1950's)
1921 Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943)
1921 Zdzislaw Zygulski, Jr., Polish art historian
1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer (Voyeur) (d. 2008)
1922 Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister
1923 Jenni (Jahangir Khan) Irani, Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper (d. 1982)
1923 Sadu (Sadashiv) Shinde, Indian cricketer (d. 1955)
1924 Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq, pres of Pakistan (1977-88)
1925 Brian Aldiss, English writer
1925 Brian W(ilson) Aldiss, English, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)
1925 Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
1925 Tonny Til, Musician
1927 Rosalynn Smith Carter, First Lady of the United States (1977-1981)
1928 Marge Schott, baseball team owner (Cincinnati Reds) (d. 2004)
1929 Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 Carl Barger, Lewistown Pa, baseball pres (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins)
1930 Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man)
1930 Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1930 Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre (d. 2007)
1931 Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian Salvation Army general
1931 Dick White, English footballer
1931 Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010)
1931 Henricus AFMO "Hans" van Mierlo, Dutch minister of Defense (D66)
1932 William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
1933 Just Fontaine, French footballer
1933 Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates)
1934 Rafer Lewis Johnson, Hillsboro Tx, decathlete (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)  and humanitarian (d. 1972)
1934 Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1934 Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney, author (Helter-Skelter)
1935 Gail Fisher, Orange NJ, actress (Peggy-Mannix)
1935 Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
1935 Lajos Papp, composer
1935 Rafer Johnson, American athlete, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)
1936 Robert Redford, American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby)
1937 William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist (TW3)
1938 Joe Frank, American radio personality
1939 Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1939 Joe Azcue, baseball player
1939 Johnny Preston, American singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1939 Molly Bee, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Pinky Lee Show)
1939 Robert Horton, British businessman
1940 Frankie Avalon, rocker (Venus, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1940 Joan Joyce, Waterbury CT, LPGA golfer (1984 S&H Golf Classic-6th)
1941 Christopher Jones, Jackson TN, actor (Wild in the Streets)
1941 Matt Snell, NFL running back (NY Jets, Super Bowl III)
1942 Judith Keppel, first British winner of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1943 Carl Wayne, English singer (d. 2004)
1943 Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1943 Martin Mull, American comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial)
1943 Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rock vocalist (Patti LaBelle & Bluebirds)
1944 Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
1944 Robert Hitchcock, Australian Sculptor
1945 Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
1945 Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1948 Carol O'Neal, playmate (July, 1972)
1948 Joseph Marcell, British actor
1948 Rudy Hartono Kurniawan, Indonesia, All-England tennis champ
1949 Nigel Griggs, rocker (Split Enz)
1949 Rudy Hartono, Indonesian badminton player
1950 Candice Earley, Ft Hood TX, actress (Donna Tyler-All My Children)
1950 Dennis Elliot, London, rock drummer (Foreigner)
1950 Lynn Adams, Kingsville TX, LPGA golfer
1951 Greg Pruitt, NFL running back (LA Raiders, Super Bowl XVIII)
1952 Elayne Boosler, American comedian (Broadway Baby, Party of One)
1952 Nicholas John, dramaturge
1952 Patrick Swayze, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse, Ghost) (d. 2009)
1952 Ricky Villa, Argentine former footballer
1953 Louie Gohmert, American politician
1954 Angela Dimitriou, Greek singer
1954 Umberto Guidoni, Rome Italy, PhD/astronaut (STS 75)
1955 Taher ElGamal, Egyptian scientist
1956 John Debney, American composer
1956 Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1956 Sandeep Patil, Indian cricketer
1957 Carole Bouquet, French actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1957 Denis Leary, American comedian (No Cure for Cancer) and actor (Rescue Me)
1957 Ron Strykert, Australia, rock guitarist (Men At Work-Who Can it Be)
1958 Madeleine Stowe, American actress (Tropical Snow, Bad Girls)
1959 Tom Prichard, American wrestler
1960 Fat Lever, American basketball player
1960 Mike LaValliere, baseball player
1960 Sonny Skinner, Porstmouth VA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Shreveport Open)
1961 Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor
1961 John Viscardi, NYC, actor (Father Tony-One Life to Live)
1962 Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico
1962 Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Sandra Marie Miller Farmer-Patrick, Kingston Jamaica, 400m hurdler
1963 Luiz Mattar, Brazil, tennis star
1964 Craig Bierko, American actor
1964 Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1964 Kenny Walker, American basketball player
1965 Jim Florentine, American comedian
1965 Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1966 Cees Lock of hair, soccer player (NEC)
1966 Gustavo Charif, Argentine artist
1966 Kang Soo-yeon, South Korean actress
1966 Steve Avery, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 Brian Michael Bendis, American comic-book writer
1967 Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1967 Dan Peters, American musician
1967 John Jurkovic, defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 Julie Kristen Smith, Nuhremburg Germany, choreographer (Showgirls)
1967 Tracy Tracy, Musician (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1968 Brian Mitchell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1968 Carolyn Crudgington, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 Greta Lind, Goshen NY, actress (Katie Kennicott-All My Children)
1968 Griffin Drew, Hazelhurst Georgia, actress (Dinosaur Island)
1968 John Coyle, West Bloomfield Mich, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 Justin Strzelczyk, NFL guard/offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Lee Seung-yeon, South Korean actress
1969 Christian Slater, American actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)
1969 Edward Norton, American actor
1969 Everlast, American musician
1969 Isaac Austin, American basketball player, NBA center (Miami Heat)
1969 Masta Killa, American rapper
1970 Greg Dean Schmitz, American online film journalist
1970 Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
1970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor (Theodore-Cosby Show)
1970 Richie Cunningham, kicker (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 Robert Higginson, Philadelphia PA, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1971 Jacob Vargas, American actor
1971 Jada Pinkett, actress (Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society)
1971 Jonathan David Winter, Wellington NZ, 100m backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 Kevin Bouie, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Ariz Cardinals)
1971 Mindy Czuleger, Inglewood Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Myrtle Bch-17th-1994)
1971 Richard D James, Irish musician (Aphex Twin)
1971 Trey Ames, Canton Oh, actor (David-A Year in the Life)
1972 Derrick Harris, running back (St Louis Rams)
1972 Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1972 Loraine Lambert, Ipswich Queensland, golfer (NZ champ 1991, 92)
1972 Masahiro Nakai, Japanese singer
1972 Nate Jones, Chicago Ill, heavyweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 Ray Jacobs, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1972 Shaun Wilson, Australian artist
1973 Alex Pijper, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1973 Clarence Benford, NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Luke Fickell, defensive tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1974 Sekou Soumah, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, cricketer (WI left-handed batsman 1994-)
1975 Kaitlin Olson, American actress
1976 Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
1976 Daphnee Duplaix Samuel, American actress and glamor model
1976 Daphnee Lynn Duplaix, Manhattan NY, playmate (July 1997)
1976 Paraskevas Antzas, Greek footballer
1976 Tom Malchow, US, 200m butterfly/free (Olympics-silver-96)
1977 Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician Arcade Fire
1978 Andy Samberg, American comedian
1978 Luke Williams, Welsh musician (Quinoline Yellow)
1979 Selena Silver, pornographic actress
1979 Stuart Dew, Australian rules footballer
1980 Athina Papayianni, Greek race walker
1980 Bart Scott, American football player
1980 Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer
1980 Jeremy Shockey, American football player, Tight End (NY Giants, NO Saints)
1980 Preeti Jhangiani, Indian actress
1980 Rob Nguyen, Australian racing driver
1981 Carla Khan, Pakistani Squash Player
1981 César Delgado, Argentine footballer
1981 Dimitris Salpigidis, Greek footballer
1981 Jon(athan) Schneck, American musician (Relient K, Audio Adrenaline)
1983 Cameron White, Australian cricketer
1983 Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer, hip-hop artist
1983 Kris Boyd, Scottish footballer
1983 Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
1983 Michael Montgomery, American football player
1983 Mika, Lebanese/British musician
1984 Robert Huth, German footballer
1985 Inge Dekker, Dutch swimmer
1985 Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (d. 2006)
1986 Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
1987 Mika Boorem, American actress
1988 Eggert Jónsson, Icelandic football player
1988 G-Dragon, South Korean musician (Big Bang)
1992 Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer
1992 Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love
1992 Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
1994 Jessie Flower, American actress
1995 Parker McKenna Posey, American actress

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353 Decentius, Roman usurper
472 Ricimer, Roman general
849 Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian
1227 Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire
1236 Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren)
1258 Theodore II Lascaris, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea
1276 Adrian V (Ottobono Fieschi), Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276)
1318 Clare of Montefalco, Italian Abbess and religious leader (b. c. 1268)
1430 Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. 1406)
1503 Alexander VI (Rodrigo de Borja), Spanish Pope (1492-1503) (b. 1431)
1559 Paul IV (Giampietro Caraffa), Pope (1555-59) (b. 1476)
1563 Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
1613 Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1620 Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1634 Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642 Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
1645 Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
1652 Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter
1683 Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
1712 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
1765 Francis I Stefanus, German and Holy Roman Emperor (1745-65) (b. 1708)
1803 James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth)
1809 Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
1811 Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
1815 Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
1840 Antony CW Staring, Dutch patriot/poet (Jaromir)
1842 Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
1850 Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
1853 Peter Lichtenthal, composer
1863 Thomas Welsh, US Union brig-general (Antietam)
1870 Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle
1894 William Charles Levey, composer
1896 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer
1901 Richard Kleinmichel, composer
1907 John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect)
1916 Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle
1919 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
1934 Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Oakland Tribune)
1940 Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
1942 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist
1942 Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (b. 1888)
1943 Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1943 Hans Jeschonnek, German air force general/chief-staff, commits suicide
1944 Cecile Chaminade, composer
1944 Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD
1949 Paul J Mares, American jazz trumpetist, composer (Tin Roof Blues) (b. 1900)
1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1952 Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Chilean Jesuit saint (b. 1901)
1952 Ralph Byrd, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)
1957 Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer
1961 Learned Hand, Chief judge of US court of Appeals
1961 Leonhard Frank, writer
1962 Cleo Ridgely, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama)
1963 Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
1966 Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing)
1966 Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing)
1968 Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company)
1969 Laci Boldemann, composer
1969 Mildred Davis, actress (Haunted Spooks)
1969 Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Nobel 1943)
1980 Norman Cazden, composer
1981 Anita Loos, American screenwriter (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) (b. 1889)
1982 Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth)
1983 Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
1988 Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash
1988 Frederick Ashton, British choreographer (Cinderella)
1989 Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist
1989 Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered
1990 B F Skinner, American psychologist (Behaviorism, Skinner Box) (b. 1904)
1990 Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1990 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer)
1992 Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
1992 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO)
1992 John Sturges, American film director (Gunfight at OK Corral) (b. 1911)
1993 Alf Bold, German festival programmer
1994 Gottlob Frick, singer
1994 John Beavan, newspaper Editor
1994 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent
1994 Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
1994 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer
1995 James Ackley Maxwell, actor/director (Traitors, Otley)
1995 Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer
1996 Geoffrey Dearmer, poet
1996 Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi
1996 Thoams Eric Evans, dean of St Paul's
1998 Nelly's, Greek photographer (b. 1899)
1998 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
2001 David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
2002 Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
2003 Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2004 Hiram Fong, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii (b. 1906)
2005 Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2005 Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
2006 Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2006 Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
2007 Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
2009 Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)
2009 Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator (b. 1931)
2010 Benjamin Kaplan, copyright scholar
2010 Hal Connolly, American Athlete and hammer thrower (b.1931)
2010 Scott Davis, American Announcer of Track and Field (b.1943)
2012 Scott McKenzie, American singer
2013 Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player
2014 Don Pardo, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
2015 Bud Yorkin, American producer and director (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
2015 Louis Stokes, American politician (Rep-D-OH, 1969-99 )
2015 Roger Smalley, British-Australian composer

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