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2 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
573 Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
636 Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines , Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 Battle at Anchialus (Acheloos), Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines.  Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
1000 The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1083 Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric. Celebrated as a National Day in Hungary, commemorating the foundation of the state in the year 1000.
1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1391 Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1534 Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1566 Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1585 English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1597 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1604 Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1619 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1641 Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1672 Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
1741 Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1775 The Spanish establish a presidio (fort) in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1781 George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1791 Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers (Ohio), American troops under Gen Mad Anthony Wayne force a defeated and force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
1795 Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition: the "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1828 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
1852 Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1856 Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1858 Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1861 Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
1864 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
1865 President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1879 Government Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow.
1888 Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1888 Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile.
1893 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
1896 Dial telephone patented
1900 Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1900 Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1901 Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1908 Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1910 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 Battle of Bounderies, Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons in World War I
1914 Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia, Russian beat Germans in World War I
1914 Battle at Morhange, German troops chase French, killing 1000s in World War I
1914 Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France in World War I
1914 German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp, German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians in World War I
1915 White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1920 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting
1920 Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920 Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
1920 The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1921 35th US Womens Tennis, Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1922 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1923 London harbor strike ends
1925 WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is established.
1926 Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1929 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
1930 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1931 45th US Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
1934 Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1935 Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd & last grand slam career grand slam a record that still stands.
1939 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
1940 In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramon Mercader. He dies the next day.
1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1944 26th PGA Championship, Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash
1944 General de Gaulle returns to France
1944 Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1944 World War II, the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
1945 Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR (17)
1945 Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
1945 Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947 Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948 US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1952 Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1953 The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1955 In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1957 Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 USAAF balloon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1959 Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring its independence.
1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 President Lyndon B Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
1964 Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1965 Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1967 Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1968 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1970 Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation, Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars, soft landing.
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 spacecraft towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1979 India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1979 The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1980 Cleveland Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1980 Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 Pittsburgh Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1982 Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
1982 A multinational force including US marines lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO's withdrawal from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War.
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 NY Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1986 In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1988 "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 A cease-fire of the Iran–Iraq War is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1988 Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1989 The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed.
1990 Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup, more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares it's independence from USSR.
1991 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
1991 Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1992 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1992 Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
1993 After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1993 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993 Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
1993 Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1994 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
1994 Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994 Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1995 "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
1995 Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995 Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1997 Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA
1997 Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.
1999 Tony Martin confronts two burglars in his farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk. Martin shoots both Brendon Fearon and Fred Barras with a pump-action shotgun, with Barras later dying of his injuries.
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2008 Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, 8 more die afterwards. Only 18 people survive.
2011 Socialite and model Kim Kardashian weds basketball player Kris Humphries at a private estate in Montecito, California
2012 20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela
2012 South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
2013 9 Islamist militants are killed by Russian police in North Caucasus
2015 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight

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1517 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader, Cardinal, Viceroy of Naples (1571-75) (d. 1586)
1526 Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)
1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
1625 Thomas Corneille, French playwright (d. 1709)
1632 Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
1637 Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam
1665 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)
1666 Alphonse d' Eve, composer
1702 Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal
1710 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rules of Simpson) (d. 1761)
1719 Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1719 Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1720 Bernard de Bury, composer
1756 Bernardo Bittoni, composer
1764 Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
1776 Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary, won independence for Chile (d. 1842)
1779 Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1788 Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
1799 Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician
1802 Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1867)
1811 Gilman Marston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1890)
1820 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
1824 Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1905)
1832 Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor (d. 1913)
1833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893) (d. 1901)
1842 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
1845 St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
1847 Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
1847 Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1856 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania)
1856 Jakub Bart-Cišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
1860 Raymond Poincaré, French President (1912) (d. 1934)
1865 Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911)
1868 Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
1873 Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
1873 William Henry Bell, composer
1881 Edgar Albert Guest, English poet, newspaperman (d. 1959)
1881 Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
1885 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
1886 Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (Die sozial Entscheidung) (d. 1965)
1888 George Sklavos, composer
1889 Witold Friemann, composer
1890 H(oward) P(hillips) Lovecraft, American Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness) (d. 1937)
1897 Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author (Det Store Spelet) (d. 1970)
1898 G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
1898 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love)
1898 Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
1899 Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist (Church und Welt)
1900 Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer (Nobel Prize laureate 1959) (d. 1968)
1902 Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club owner
1904 Jaap (Jacob AW) Burger, chairman (PvdA)
1905 Duncan Macrae, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped)
1905 Jack (Weldon J) Teagarden, American musician, trombonist, and actor (Meet Band Leaders) (d. 1964)
1905 Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1907 Alan Reed, American actor (Mr Adams & Eve), voice actor (Fred Flintstone) (d. 1977)
1907 Anatole Fistoulari, conductor
1907 Stanley Devon, photographer
1908 Alfonso Lopez, American baseball player and manager (AL Manager of the year 1959) (d. 2005)
1908 Jeanne Stern, writer
1908 John Reginald Bevins, politician
1908 Kingsley Davis, sociologist/demographer, coined (population explosion)
1909 Albert Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1978)
1909 Andre Morell, London England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
1910 Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel) (d. 1961)
1911 Ronald Udell, England, production designer (Pinewood Studios)
1912 Philip Kapleau, founder (Rochester Zen Center in New Haven)
1913 Conrad Hermann Hubertius Maria Apollinaris Josten, jazz guitarist
1913 Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
1914 Kitei Sohn, Korean marathon runner/coach (Olympic-gold-1936)
1916 Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1984)
1918 Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (Valley of the Dolls) (d. 1974)
1921 Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
1924 George Zuverink, American baseball player
1924 Jim Reeves, American country singer and actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim) (d.1964)
1926 Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1927 Geriatric1927, English video blogger
1927 Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
1929 Kevin Heffernan, Gaelic footballer
1929 Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
1930 Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1931 Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)
1931 Don King, American boxing promoter with wacky hair (Mike Tyson)
1932 Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
1932 Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (d. 2009)
1933 Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)
1933 George John Mitchell, United States Senator (Maine 1980-94), Senate Whip (1989)
1933 Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
1934 Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1935 Charles Shere, composer
1935 J J Malone, US soul singer (It's a shame)
1935 Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1935 Ron Paul, US Congressman, Presidential Candidate (1988, 2008, 2012), Author (End the Fed)
1936 Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina
1936 Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
1937 Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1937 George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1937 Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host and comedian
1938 Alain Vivien, French politician
1938 Jean-Loup Jaques Marie Chretien, France, cosmonaut (T-6, TM-7, STS 86)
1939 Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
1940 John Lantree, rocker
1940 Rex Sellers, Australian cricketer
1940 Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
1940 Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
1941 Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
1941 Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
1941 Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941 Robin Oakley, British journalist
1941 Slobodan Miloševic, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1941 William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-PA, 1978)
1942 Fred Norman, American baseball player
1942 Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter (Shaft), actor (Shaft), voice actor (Chef - South Park) (d. 2008)
1943 Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 Graig Nettles, American baseball player, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
1944 John Povey, rocker
1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984-89) (d. 1991)
1946 Connie Chung, American journalist, TV news anchor (NBC, CBS)
1946 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1946 Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1947 Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
1947 James Pankow, Chicago IL, rocker (Chicago)
1948 John Noble, Australian actor
1948 Robert Plant, British Musician, vocalist (Led Zeppelin)
1949 Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter
1949 Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1949 Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1949 Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951 Greg(ory Dale) Bear, American sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)
1951 Phil Lynott, Dublin Ireland, rock bassist (Thin Lizzy)
1951 Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1952 Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack)
1952 John Emburey, English cricketer
1952 John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter (Have a Little Faith in Me)
1952 Rudy Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1953 Gerry Bertier, American wheelchair Olympian (d. 1981)
1953 Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
1954 Al Roker, American television personality, weatherman (NBC, Today "Now let's see what's happening in your neck of the woods").
1954 Don Stark, American actor
1954 Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach
1954 Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
1954 Theresa Saldana, Bkln NY, actress (Rachel Scali-Commish)
1954 William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
1955 Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
1955 Ned Overend, Taipei Taiwan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1955 Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist (Bob Color)
1956 Alvin Greenidge, West Indian cricketer
1956 Joan Allen, American actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country)
1956 Rick Olsen, rock guitarist (Berlin-Take My Breath Away)
1957 Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer (swam English Channel 19 times)
1957 Doug Fleger, rocker
1957 Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
1957 Mike Dodd, Manhattan Beach CA beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)
1957 Scott Ayakatubby, beach volleyball champ
1958 John Stehr, American journalist
1958 Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
1958 Patricia Rozema, Canadian film director and screenwriter
1959 Missie McGeorge, Pueblo CO, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One)
1959 Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
1960 Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
1960 Mark Langston, San Diego CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1960 Troy Young, horse trainer
1961 Greg Egan, Australian author
1961 Joe Pasquale, English comedian
1961 Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
1961 Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
1962 Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
1962 Duffy James Joseph Waldorf Jr, LA CA, PGA golfer (1995 LaCantera Tx)
1962 James Marsters, American actor
1962 Loretta Alderete, LA CA, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-14th)
1962 Robert Meyer, Sacramento Cal, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morningstar)
1962 Sophie Aldred, English actress
1963 Bruce Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1964 Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
1965 Joe Durigon, jockey
1965 KRS-One, American rapper
1966 Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
1966 Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) (d. 2004)
1966 Greg Jackson, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1966 Steven Finn, Laval, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1967 Andy Benes, American baseball player, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 Colin Cunningham, American actor
1967 Michael "Sean" Hall, Williamsburg Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 Terri Poch, American yogini and professional wrestler
1968 Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer
1968 Sandy Brondello, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969 Bart Spark, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1969 Francisco Torres, jockey
1970 Els Callens, Belgian tennis player (1996 quarterfinalist Essen)
1970 Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1970 Jay McNeil, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 John D. Carmack, American computer game programmer
1971 Bernard Whittington, defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Brad Avery, American musician (former guitarist for Third Day)
1971 Brett Bech, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1971 David Walliams, British comedian
1971 Jonathan Ke Huy Quan, Vietnamese actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
1971 Kevin Hickman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1971 Oronde Gadsden, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 Steve Stone, English footballer
1972 Chaney Kley, American actor
1972 Derrick Alston, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1973 Todd Helton, American baseball player
1974 Amy Adams, American actress
1974 Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1974 Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
1974 Denesha Reid, Miss USA-Georgia (1997)
1974 Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
1974 Misha Collins, American actor and producer
1974 Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer
1975 Marcus Mastin, American author
1975 Marianne Garvey, American reporter
1976 Chris Drury, American hockey player
1977 Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 James Ormond, England cricketer
1977 Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
1978 Sanna Lankosaari, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1979 Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1979 Haha, South Korean entertainer
1979 Jamie Cullum, British musician
1979 Tara Shaffer, Miss Ohio Teen USA (1996)
1980 Corey Carrier, American actor (Young Indiana Jones)
1980 Rochelle Gadd, British actress
1981 Ben(jamin) Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
1981 Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1981 Lauri Illy, Virginia Beach Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1982 Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
1982 Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1984 Golan Yosef, Dutch actor
1984 Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
1986 Robert Clark, Canadian actor
1987 Catalina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
1988 Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player
1990 Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
1990 Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1991 Marko Ðokovic, Serbian tennis player
1992 Demi Lovato, American actress and singer
1992 Matej Delac, Croatian footballer
1994 White buffalo, Janesville Wisconsin
1995 Liana Liberato, American actress
2003 Gabriel, Prince of Belgium

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535 Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
917 Constantine Lips, Byzantine Admiral
984 John XIV (Petrus Canepanova), Italian Pope (983-84)
1153 Bernard(us) van Clairvaux, French saint
1384 Geert Groote, (Gerardus Magnus), Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, theologist (Getijdenboek) (b. 1340)
1538 Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake
1572 Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1580 Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1611 Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
1632 Valentin de Boulogne, French painter
1639 Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet and historian (Troerinnen) (b. 1597)
1643 Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
1672 Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician, lynched (b. 1623)
1672 Johan de Witt, Dutch politician, advisor of Holland, lynche (b. 1625)
1679 Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist
1680 William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
1707 Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1799 Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer
1804 Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1811 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1813 Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer
1823 Pius VII (Luigi B Chiaramonti), Pope (1800-23) (b. 1740)
1825 Richard Wainwright, composer
1825 William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1854 Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher
1856 Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
1864 Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general
1864 John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1885 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
1887 Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1904 René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
1908 Louis Varney, composer
1910 Arthur Coquard, composer
1912 William Booth, English minister, founder (Salvation Army, Leader des Heils) (b. 1829)
1914 Pius X (Giuseppe M Sarto), Pope (1903-14) (b. 1835)
1915 Paul Ehrlich, German geneologist (Chemotherapy) (Nobel laureate 1908) (b. 1854)
1917 Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel laureate 1905) (b. 1835)
1919 Greg MacGregor, England cricketer, wicketkeeper (b. 1869)
1930 Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1931 Waldemar von Baussnern, composer
1932 Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
1932 Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut)
1932 Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
1935 Otakar Ostrcil, composer
1945 A Roda Roda, writer
1947 Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian
1948 David John de Lloyd, composer
1952 Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD)
1959 Alfred Kubin, writer
1959 William Halsey, Jr, American Admiral (b. 1882)
1960 Rudolf Moser, composer
1961 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1961 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer
1963 Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
1965 Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939)
1968 Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby)
1970 Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor
1971 Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1974 Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico)
1976 Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game)
1978 Ivan Jirko, composer
1978 Petros John Petridis, composer
1980 Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
1982 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu) (b. 1929)
1983 Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist
1985 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1986 Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea)
1986 Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1986 Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter
1986 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet)
1989 George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (b. 1906)
1990 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1991 Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel)
1991 Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin
1992 Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut
1992 William Taylor, chairman (FDIC)
1993 Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (Johnson murderer!) (b. 1912)
1994 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director
1994 Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel
1995 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist
1995 John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist
1995 Paul Foster, singer
1995 Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
1995 Von McDaniel, baseball player
1995 William Kennedy, baseball player
1996 George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
1996 Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer (b. 1950)
1997 Léon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (b. 1922)
1997 Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1998 Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2001 Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
2001 Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2005 Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2005 Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2006 Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2006 Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
2006 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
2007 Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
2007 Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
2008 Ed "Too Tall" Freeman Former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
2008 Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
2008 Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Mao Zedong in 1976 and being replaced by Hu Yaobang in 1981 (b. 1921)
2008 Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)
2009 Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bassist (b. 1940)
2012 Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister
2012 Phyllis Diller, American comedienne and actress
2012 Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84)
2013 Marian McPartland, English-born American Jazz musician
2013 Elmore Leonard, American author
2015 Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician (Ostpolitik policy)
2015 Melody Patterson, American actress (F Troop)

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