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959 Erachus becomes bishop of Luik
1192 Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shogun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (July 12, 1192 - Traditional Japanese date)
1321 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake
1560 Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
1598 Deed of Transfers proclaims Netherlands independence
1673 Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet
1680 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1689 The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1703 Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II
1718 Emperor Karel VI, Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
1760 The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1770 James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1808 Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1810 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion, kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia).
1841 John Hampton patents venetian blind
1842 The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1862 The Vienna Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas, William Quantrill's Raiders, in the Lawrence Massacre.
1864 Battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia, ends after 2500 casualties
1864 Battle of Grubbs Crossroads, KY
1864 Battle of Summit Point, VA
1864 Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
1878 The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, NY
1878 Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match
1879 The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1883 Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0
1887 Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
1888 The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1891 Dutch Mackay government resigns
1897 Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1901 21st US Mens Tennis, William Larned beats Beals C Wright (62 68 64 64)
1901 Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
1912 Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of Univ of British Columbia
1914 20th US Golf Open, Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill
1914 German troops occupy Tamines, Belgium
1914 French offensive in the Ardennen/Sambre
1915 Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1918 The Second Battle of the Somme in World War I begins.
1920 3rd PGA Championship, Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor CC Flossmoor Ill
1922 Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1925 BV Emmen soccer team forms
1926 Uprising against Greek president-dictator Pangalos
1926 White Sox Ted Lyons no hits Red Sox 6-0 in just 67 minutes at Fenway
1927 4th Pan-African Congress meets (NYC)
1928 WRNY began regularly scheduled television broadcasts in New York City.
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1930 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
1931 Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
1932 Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1933 Ruth's homer leads AL to a 4-2 win in 1st All Star Game
1936 Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him
1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
1942 Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus
1942 Transport nr 22 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru of World War II.
1942 A Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, World War II.
1943 Gromyko named USSR-ambassador in Washington
1943 Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1944 Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1944 Germans storm up Hill 262 (Mont Ormel) Normandy
1944 Grieg, Work, and Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
1944 Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secrétan/St-Mandé
1944 US 12nd Army corp occupies Sens
1945 Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945 Pres Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1947 1st Little League World Series Maynard Midgets of Williamsport PA win
1948 Indians 47-inning scoreless streak broken by White Sox Aaron Robinson
1949 Phila fans cause A's to forfeit game when they riot over a trapped line drive by Rich Ashburn, Giants leading 4-2 in 9th declared winners
1953 Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) & Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation
1953 Marion Carl in Douglas Skyrocket reaches record 25,370 m
1953 Sultan Sidi Mohammed Am Joessoef V of Morocco deposed
1956 WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
1958 KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
1961 Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
1962 Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1963 Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win
1963 Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead, Martial law is declared.
1965 Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts)
1965 Romania adopts constitution
1965 The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1967 China reports downing of 2 US bombers
1967 Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent
1967 Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed
1967 Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece
1968 After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
1968 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
1968 James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1968 Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion.  Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring, on the same day, Nicolae Ceausescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement.
1968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
1969 An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on fire
1971 A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1972 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1972 British harbor strike ends
1972 Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
1972 Republican convention opens in Miami Beach
1972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
1975 Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
1975 US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1976 Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1976 Battle East Sussex, Mary Langdon becomes 1st British firewoman
1976 Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 Donna Patterson Brice sets high speed water skiing rec (111.11 mph)
1978 1st gay theme telefilm Matlovich vs US Air Force
1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
1980 Linda Ronstadt opens in "Pirates of Penzance" on Broadway
1982 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
1982 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1983 "La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances
1983 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
1983 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1983 Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
1985 Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
1985 NY Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
1986 "Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
1986 Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1986 Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval)
1986 Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746
1986 With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs, Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians
1986 Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials
1987 "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
1987 Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
1988 Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
1991 Communist coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev is crushed in USSR in 2 days
1991 Latvia declares it's independence from USSR
1991 Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1992 Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
1993 Lyricist Bernie Taupin weds Strephanie Haymes
1993 NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1994 Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
1994 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
1994 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge
1994 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
1995 US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1996 "Hughie," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1996 Christie Lee Woods, 18, of Texas, crowned 14th Miss Teen USA
1996 Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
1997 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
1997 US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
2000 Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff
2001 NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph (266 km/h). Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
2012 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
2013 21 people are killed in flash floods in Qinghai province, China
2013 37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia
2014 Israeli airstrike in Rafah kills Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed al Atar and Mohammed Barhoum - 3 of Hamas's top commanders
2015 1st British unmanned drone hit on UK citizen outside a conflict - ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria
2015 European Refugee Crisis: Germany makes it easier for Syrian refugees to claim asylum by suspending their Dublin Regulations
2015 Oldest "message in a bottle" - more than 108 years after put in sea by UK Marine Biological Association announced found on beach in Amrum, Germany
2015 Terrorist attack on train between Amsterdam and Paris thwarted by 4 passengers overpowering gunman
2017 Total solar eclipse visible from North America

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1165 Philip II Augustus, First great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) (d. 1223)
1535 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 Francis de Sales,  French Bishop of Geneva, writer, and saint (d. 1622)
1597 Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1642 Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
1643 Afonso VI, King of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) (d. 1683)
1660 Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer, wrote first book on bridge building (d. 1737)
1665 Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1689 Jose Pradas Gallen, composer
1721 Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet
1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1751 Johann Georg Witthauer, composer
1754 Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1754 William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1765 William IV, king  of the United Kingdom (d. 1837) (1830-37)
1780 Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)
1789 Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) (d. 1874)
1800 Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician, historian (d. 1876)
1806 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
1809 Francesco Schira, composer
1810 Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1821 William Barksdale, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
1824 John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1897)
1825 Kate Fanny Loder, composer
1826 Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1829 Otto Goldschmidt, composer
1847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
1852 Benedetto Junck, composer
1858 Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889)
1869 William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish/Australian poet (d. 1963)
1871 Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)
1872 Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome) (d. 1898)
1874 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27)
1875 Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo
1879 Henry Ainley, Leeds England, actor (As You Like It)
1880 Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader (OD)
1891 Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 Charles Vanel, French actor (Wages of Fear) and director (d. 1989)
1893 Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer
1893 Lili Boulanger, composer
1896 Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family)
1896 Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Rose of Jericho)
1896 Roark Bradford, writer/humorist (Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun)
1900 Eileen Percy, Belfast Ireland, silent film actress (Let's Go)
1902 Renato Fasano, composer
1903 Yannis Constantinidis, composer
1904 William "Count" Basie, American bandleader, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles) (d. 1984)
1905 Isadore I Friz Freleng, American movie animator (Warner Bros cartoons) (d. 1995)
1906 Joachim Homs, composer
1906 Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate
1907 Miguel Torga (Adolfo Correia da Rocha), Portuguese author
1907 Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon Ill, TV scientist (Nature of Things)
1908 David Farrar, Forest Gate England, actor (Beat Girl, I Accuse)
1908 M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1908 Oversight (nom de plume), American philosopher
1909 C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65)
1909 Jon William Jr Haussermann, composer
1909 Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 Bruce Trent, singer
1912 Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1913 Cornelius Johnson, LA California, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913 Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop, Housemaster)
1913 Victor Rosow, writer
1914 Dallas Pratt, collector
1914 Doug Wright, cricketer (England's leg-spinning genius of 30's & 40's)
1915 Jack Weston (Morris Weinstein), American actor (4 Seasons, Rad)
1915 Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1916 William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist
1918 Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 Christopher Robin Milne, son of Alan A Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1924 Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist, sportscaster (Monday Night Fights) (d. 2005)
1924 Gerald D Lascelles, son of English princess Mary
1924 Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1925 Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1925 Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1926 Ben-Zion Orgad, composer
1927 Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church)
1927 Wilhelm Jr Killmayer, composer
1928 Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1928 Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006)
1928 Gillian Sheen, England, foils (Olympic-gold-1956)
1928 Zdenek Lukas, composer
1929 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
1929 Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist
1929 X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
1930 Margaret Rose, Princess of England, Countess of Snowdon (Sister of Queen Elizabeth) (d. 2002)
1931 Gregg Smith, composer
1931 Nancy Hadley, LA California, actress (Love That Jill, Joey Bishop Show)
1932 Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and director (Sophisticated Gent)
1933 Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano (Owen Wingrave)
1934 Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1934 Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician( d. 2001)
1935 Ken Taylor, cricketer (England opening batsman three times 1959-64)
1936 Mart Crowley, playwright (Boys in the Band)
1936 Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia
1936 Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player, NBA center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP) (d. 1999)
1937 Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador
1937 Robert Stone, American novelist (Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA)
1938 Kenny Rogers, American singer (The Gambler) and actor
1939 Clarence Williams III, American actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain)
1939 Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1939 Harold W Reid, Augusta County Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
1939 James Burton, American guitarist
1940 Ana Isabel Anderson-Imbert, physician, rheumatologist
1940 Robert Camac, horse trainer
1943 Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 Jackie DeShannon, American singer (What the World Needs Now)
1944 Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1944 Peter Weir, Australian film director and writer (Witness, Dead Poets Society)
1945 Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1945 Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 Patty McCormack, American actress (Mama, Peck's Bad Girl, Ropers)
1946 Lev Alburt, USSR, International Chess Master (1976)
1947 Carl Giammarese, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (Buckinghams)
1948 Taurean Blacque, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1949 Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972.
1950 Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1951 Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1951 Char Margolis, American medium
1951 Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 Harry Smith, American television journalist, TV co-anchor (CBS Morning Show)
1951 Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers, Trapeze, Deep Purple)
1952 Jirí Paroubek, former Czech prime minister
1952 Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1952 Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1953 Ivan Stang, American writer
1954 Archie Griffin, American football player, NFL runningback (Only to win 2 Heisman Trophies, Ohio State)
1954 Steve Smith, LA California, rock drummer (Journey)
1956 Carol Charbonnier, LPGA golfer
1956 John Tester, US Senator from Montana
1956 Kim Cattrall, English-born actress (Mannequin, Star Trek VI)
1957 Budgie, rock drummer (Slits, Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
1957 Janice Thomas, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 Kim Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1958 Dom Mamzi, horse trainer
1959 Anne Hobbs, England, tennis star
1959 Bud Schultz, Meriden Conn, tennis star
1959 Jim McMahon, American football player, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 Richard Zokol, Kitimat BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1982 BC Open)
1961 Danny Sheaffer, Jacksonville FL, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1961 David Morales, American disc jockey
1961 Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower (Olympics-silver-96)
1961 Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1961 V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1962 Jeff Stryker, American actor
1962 John Korfas, Greek basketball player
1963 King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 Melvin Douglas, Topeka KS, 198 lbs/90 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1963 Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
1965 Jim Bullinger, American baseball player, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1966 John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player, pitcher (NY Yanks, Rangers, Expos)
1967 Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1967 Michael Bendetti, actor (Officer Tony McCann-21 Jump Street)
1967 Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 Tuineau Alipate, NLF/WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Barbara Ann Moore, Spokane WA, playmate (Dec, 1992)
1968 Shinichi Iwasaki, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1969 Andujar Cedeno, La Romana Dom Rep, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1969 Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater (Olymp-9th-1994)
1970 Bill Roth, Yonkers NY, gymnast (Pan Am-gold-1995, Olympics-96)
1970 Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1970 Mark Hatfield, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1970 Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler
1970 Paulo Barrancos Guerra, Portugal, 10k runner
1970 Steve Everitt, NFL center (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese Soccer player
1971 Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1971 Shayne Edge, NFL/WLAF punter (Steelers, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Johnnie Harris, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1973 Ben Mann, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1973 Ismael Valdes, Ciudad Victoria Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 Nikolay Valuev, Russian boxer
1973 Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1973 Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Amy Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco
1974 Pietra Gay, WNBA guard/forward (Houston Comets)
1975 Alicia Witt, American actress
1975 Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
1976 Alicia Witt, actress (Cybill)
1976 Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
1976 Nikos Vertis, Greek singer
1976 Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 Alan Lee, Irish footballer
1978 Bhumika Chawla, Indian Actress
1978 Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 Peter Buxton, English rugby union player
1978 Reuben Droughns, American football player
1979 Aiesha Lee Hendrick, Miss New York Teen USA (1996)
1979 Ashley Whitney, Nashville TN, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1979 Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer
1980 Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1980 Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1981 Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1981 Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
1981 Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer
1983 Brody Jenner, American actor
1983 Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1983 Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 Scott McDonald, Australian footballer (Celtic F.C.)
1984 Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1984 Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1985 Melissa M, French singer
1986 Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter (World Record Holder 100m, 3x Olympic Gold 2008, Gold 2012)
1986 Wout Brama, Dutch international footballer (FC Twente)
1987 Kim Kibum, singer (Super junior), actor, and singer
1988 Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter
1988 Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 Hayden Panettiere, American actress (One Life to Live), model and singer
1989 Judd Trump, English snooker player
1990 Bo Burnham, American comedic singer-songwriter (Bo Knows, Oh Bo)
1992 Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor
1996 Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

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1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem
1153 Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1157 King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104 or 1105)
1190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war)
1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar
1271 Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1516 John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland
1581 Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher
1673 Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist
1673 John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle
1689 William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1723 Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11
1762 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1772 Alessandro Felici, composer
1772 Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, compose
1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)
1796 John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1798 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp
1812 Silverius Muller, composer
1814 Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1824 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy),
1824 Santiago Ferrer, composer
1836 Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
1854 Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1856 Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, compose
1864 John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1870 Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1888 Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81)
1898 Nicola van Westerhout, composer
1905 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters)
1911 W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859)
1926 Ugyen Wangchuck, first king of Bhutan (b.1862)
1932 Frederick Corder, composer
1935 John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1935 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1940 Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader (b. 1879)
1940 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1942 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II)
1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer (Peter Gelukkige) (Nobel Prize 1917) (b. 1857)
1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1949 Gerhard von Keussler, composer
1951 (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande)
1951 Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces
1957 Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1958 Stevan Hristic, composer
1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show)
1960 David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1963 John Gunn, cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05)
1964 Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Minister of Justice, founder (Communist Italian Party) (b. 1893)
1968 Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide
1970 Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
1971 George Jackson, American prisoner, Soledad Brother, Black Panther, shot to death (b. 1941)
1976 Ken James, cricketer (kept wicket for NZ in 11 Tests),
1977 Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris)
1978 Charles Eames, American designer, architect, chair manufacturer (b. 1907)
1978 Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (44 Tests for India, 2,109 runs)
1979 Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1980 Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5)
1981 Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
1981 Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
1982 Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland, Ngwane (1921-82) (b. 1899)
1983 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed (b. 1932)
1987 Karl Bruck, entertainer
1988 Hans Gunther Adler, German writer
1988 Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
1991 Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
1991 Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die)
1991 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect
1992 Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1992 Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang)
1992 Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian
1994 Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL)
1994 Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire
1995 Anatole Fistoulari, conductor
1995 Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara
1995 James Truitte, dancer
1995 Ken Rickards, cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52)
1995 Len Martin, sports broadcaster
1995 Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer
1995 Nanni Loy, film Director
1995 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist (Nobel laureate 1983) (b. 1910)
1996 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist
1996 Sidney George Gray, company secretary
1997 Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74)
1997 Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2000 Tomata du Plenty, artist and lead singer of The Screamers. (b. 1948)
2001 Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2005 Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2006 Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2006 S. Yizhar (aka Yizhar Smilansky), Israeli author (d. 2006)
2006 Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
2007 Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2008 Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)
2009 Dean Turner, Australian musician (b. 1972)
2009 Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)
2010 Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)
2010 Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean writer (b. 1941)
2012 Georg Leber, German politician
2012 William Thurston, American mathematician
2013 Sid Bernstein, American music producer/promoter
2015 Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
2015 Anna Kashfi [Joan O'Callaghan], Welsh actress and 1st wife of Marlon Barando
2015 Bob Hepple, South African-born academic and Nelson Mandela's lawyer

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