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79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
476 Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1328 Battle of Cassel, French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1328 King Philip VI of France, crowned
1441 Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1514 Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1555 Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1566 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1566 Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1572 Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris St._Bartholomew's_Day_massacre.
1582 French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1614 University of Groningen opens
1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
1708 Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1711 Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1775 King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1793 A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention during the French Revolution.
1796 African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
1821 Mexico declares independence
1833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1858 The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1862 Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1864 The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1866 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1872 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
1873 Albert Bridge creossing Thames in Chelsea, London opened.
1879 Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1896 First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila.
1898 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1900 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
1906 Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1907 Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1910 Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1911 British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1914 German troops plunder Belgium
1914 Battle at Mons of World War I, general von Klucks troops beat Britten, the British Army begins withdrawal
1914 Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China during World War I.
1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1916 Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
1921 British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
1923 Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1926 40th US Womens Tennis, Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1927 Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
1929 Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots, Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1930 44th US Womens Tennis, Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1931 45th US Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1931 Count Gyula Károlyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1933 1st TV boxing match Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1936 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
1938 England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
1939 John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1939 Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations  (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided), World War II.
1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940 Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1942 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 Battle of Stalingrad of World War II, 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1942 British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
1942 The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky during World War II.
1943 Red army recaptures kharkow during World War II,  liberated.
1944 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt
1944 Allied troops capture and liberate Marseilles France during World War II
1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1944 General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944 General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation during World War II. King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 Sammellager Drancy freed
1944 US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1944 Marseille
1944 World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1947 Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1950 Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1950 West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out & is also ejected for arguing
1953 Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3")
1953 USSR performs nuclear test
1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1954 President Getulio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
1958 The Second Taiwan Strait crisis of the Chinese Civil War begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1961 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961 East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
1961 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1962 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
1962 John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1963 Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1963 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1964 St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1968 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1968 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1969 Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno
1969 France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1970 Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1971 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers
1972 Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1974 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
1974 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
1975 Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975 Communists take over Laos
1975 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1975 Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975 Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975 Successful Communist coup in Laos.
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1976 Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1977 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1979 Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
1979 UN's Vienna office opens
1980 Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1985 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985 South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1985 West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1986 "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1986 Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1987 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987 Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1988 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1989 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1989 The last communist government opens the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11).
1989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
1989 Lewis, Everett, Burrell, Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1989 Singing Revolution, two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 East & West Germany announced that they will unite on Oct 3
1990 Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1992 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
1992 Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1993 Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1993 NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1994 Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1995 Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1995 Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2000 Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.
2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becomes a category 5 hurricane
2005 TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2010 Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer took hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals.
2011 5.8 earthquake occurrs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia
2011 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2012 At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
2012 Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
2013 26 people are killed and 55 are injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon
2013 UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre
2015 12 year old boy trips and rips 17th-century painting "Flowers" by Paolo Porpora worth $1.5m at exhibition in Taiwan
2015 Destruction by ISIS of the 1st century AD temple of Baalshamin in ancient ruins of Palmyra confirmed by Syrian officals
2015 English Indycar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania

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686 Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
1486 Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
1524 François Hotman (Hotomanus), French lawyer, writer, and diplomat (Anti-Tribonien) (d. 1590)
1593 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
1623 Stanislaw Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist, astronomer (d. 1675)
1724 Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
1727 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer
1740 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
1741 Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
1751 Louis-Francois Beffara, lexicographer
1754 Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) guillotined (d. 1793)
1769 Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
1773 Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
1783 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
1785 Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (d. 1819)
1805 Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
1809 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
1814 James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1877)
1818 Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1893)
1829 Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1920)
1832 Alexander Chambers, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1888) 
1836 Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (d. 1902) 
1843 William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846 Alexander Milne Calder, American sculptor (d. 1923)
1847 Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)   
1849 William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)                                
1852 Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d. 1883)
1852 Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia. (d. 1913)
1854 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish composer (d. 1925)
1864 Eleftherios K Venizalos, Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 28-32) (d. 1936)
1867 Marcel Schwob, Frans writer/journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants)
1868 Edgar Lee Masters, American author (Spoon River Anthology) (d. 1950)
1869 James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
1875 Eugene Lanceray, Russian artist (d. 1946)
1875 William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
1879 Alfreds Kalnins, composer
1880 Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
1881 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1883 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, American general (d. 1953)
1884 Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1927-1932) (d. 1937)
1884 Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
1885 Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
1886 Gottfried Rudinger, composer
1887 Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland)
1889 A Lichtenstein, writer
1893 Roy Agnew, composer
1894 Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl)
1900 Ernst Krenek, Austrian composer (Johnny Spielt Auf) (d. 1991)
1900 Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
1901 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist, policeman
1901 Guy Bush, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1985)
1901 John Sherman Cooper, American politician (Sen-Ky) (d. 1991)
1903 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator
1903 William Primrose, Scottish violist (Method for Violin & Viola) (d. 1982)
1905 Leonard Constant Lambert, English composer (King Pest) (d. 1951)
1908 Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)
1908 Ben Barnett, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1938 England tour)
1908 Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP
1908 Hannah Frank, Scottish Artist, Sculptor (d. 2008)                       
1909 Syd Buller, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1910 Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
1910 Lonny Frey, American baseball player
1911 Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle)
1911 Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski-jumper, 90m (Olympic-gold-1932, 36) (d. 1998)
1911 Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
1911 Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928)
1912 Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way) (d. 1996)
1912 Jara Ribnikar, writer
1912 Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
1913 Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orchestra leader (Bob Crosby Show)
1913 Luis-Felipe Ramon y Rivera, composer
1913 Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
1917 Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
1918 Guus (August CM) Hermus, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Soldaat van Oranje)
1919 James Quinn, film producer/actor (Joey, Hammett, Overlord)
1919 Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
1919 Vladimir Rokhlin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1984)
1920 Aart Verstegen, ballet dancers/choreographer (Jolly Joker's Last Joke)
1921 Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
1921 Sam Cook, England cricketer (d. 1996)
1922 Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
1922 George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1922 Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
1922 Jean Darling, American child actress
1922 Pierre Gauvreau, French Canadian painter, television writer and producer
1923 Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
1923 Humphrey Fisher, TV producer
1923 Kenneth Rickards, cricketer (WI batsman two Tests 104 runs)
1923 Richard Adler, composer/songwriter (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
1924 Denis Sargan, econometrician
1924 Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer
1924 Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
1924 Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel laureate
1924 Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia
1925 Robert Mulligan, American film director (d. 2008)
1925 Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze, composer
1925 Wlodzimierz Kotonski, composer
1926 Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist, (d. 2006)
1927 Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1927 Houari Boumedienne, president of Algeria (1965-78)
1927 John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
1927 Martial Solal, French jazz pianist and composer
1928 Gerd Natschinski, composer
1928 Marian Seldes, American actress
1929 Peter Thompson, golfer
1929 Vera Miles, American actress
1930 Andy Ireland, (Rep-R-FL, 1977)
1930 Jack Bannister, cricketer (Warwickshire stalwart)/commentator (BBC)
1930 John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
1930 Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
1930 Vera Miles (Ralston), Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
1931 Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1931 Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
1932 Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
1932 Mark Russell, American comedian, pianist, and political commentator (Real People)
1933 Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
1933 Pete Wilson, American politician (Sen-R-CA, 1983-88/Gov-R-Ca 1991)
1933 Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 Barbara Eden (Huffman), American actress (Dream of Jeannie) and singer
1934 Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, American football player, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles), sportscaster
1934 Lojze Lebic, composer
1935 Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
1935 Loren Rush, composer
1935 Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
1936 Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
1936 Rudy Lewis, rocker (Drifters)
1938 Roger Greenaway, composer
1938 Ronny Cox, actor/singer (Robocop, Dr John Gideon-St Elsewhere)
1939 Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
1939 Ronald (Ronny) A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
1940 Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
1940 Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
1940 Tony Bill, SD Cal, actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
1941 Gloria Ehret, LPGA golfer
1942 Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
1942 Patricia McBride, Teaneck, NJ, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1943 Bobby Diamond, LA California, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1943 Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
1943 Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1943 Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
1944 Antonia Novello, 14th United States Surgeon General (1990-92)
1944 Lena Tabori, Stockholm Sweden, model/daughter of Viveca Lindfors
1945 Rayfield Wright, American football player
1946 Keith Moon, English musician, drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
1947 David Robb, British actor
1947 Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1947 Terje Rypdal, composer
1947 Willy Russell, British playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita)
1948 Andrei Plesu, Romanian writer, essayist
1948 Daniel Ruettiger "Rudy", University of Notre Dame football legend, American motivational speaker
1948 Ernst Jansz, Dutch keyboardist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
1949 Christopher Blake, actor (Alexa)
1949 Geoff Capes, English strongman, shot putter
1949 John Bauldie, music journalist/dylanologist
1949 Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer
1949 Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot (Flying Tigers)
1949 Pieter J Biesheuvel, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1949 Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
1949 Shelley Long, American actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
1949 Woody Paul (Paul Chrisman), American singer (Riders in the Sky)
1951 Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
1951 Allan Bristow, American basketball head coach
1951 Barbra Mizrahie, LPGA golfer
1951 Jimi Jamison, American singer (Survivor)
1951 Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1951 Queen Noor of Jordan
1952 Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
1952 Dalton Reed, singer
1952 Mac Cone, Memphis Tenn, Canadian equestrian jumper (Olympics-96)
1952 Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
1953 Bobby G(ubby), British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1953 Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German FR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1954 Charles Busch, American director, writer, actor and drag queen
1956 Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
1956 David A Wolf, Indianapolis Ind, MD/astronaut (STS 58, sk: 89/91)
1956 Skipp Sudduth, American actor
1956 Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian politician
1957 Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician
1958 Julio Franco, Dominican baseball player, infielder (Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves), oldest regular position player in MLB history
1959 George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
1960 Chris Potter, Canadian actor
1960 Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
1960 Rodney Alan Greenblat, American graphic artist
1961 Dean DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1961 Gary Mabbutt, English footballer
1962 Glenn Healy, Pickering, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1962 Kyle Clifton, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1962 Martin Cauchon, Canadian politician
1962 Shaun Ryder, Frontman of Happy Mondays
1963 Blaine Schmidt, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1963 Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
1963 Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
1963 Park Chan-wook, Korean director and screenwriter
1963 Richard Illingworth, England cricketer
1964 Cam Emerson, Hamilton Ont, Canadian golfer (1989 Canadian Long Drive)
1964 Johan Bruyneel, Belgian cyclist
1964 Kong Hee, Singaporean pastor, Founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia
1964 Wendy Pepper, American designer
1964 Yoshikazu Taru, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 Anne Minter, Austratia, tennis star
1965 Roger Avary, Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer
1966 Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
1966 Rhonda Cator, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1966 Rik Smits, Dutch-American basketball player, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1967 Karen Noble, Morristown NJ, LPGA golfer (1995 Dinah Shore-32nd)
1967 Markus Ketterer, Helsinki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
1967 Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
1967 Richard Petrie, New Zealand cricketer
1968 Christian Dean DiMarco, American golfer, PGA tour (1994 Deposit-3rd)
1968 Cortez Kennedy, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 Scott Kowalkowski, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1969 Amanda Hope, Austin Texas, playmate (Jul, 1992)
1969 Clayton Holmes, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 Geneviève Brouillette, Quebec television and film actress
1969 Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
1969 Keith Tyson, English artist
1970 Andrew Henry, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 Brad Mehldau, American pianist
1970 Fabian Wilnis, Dutch soccer player (NAC, De Graafschap)
1970 Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
1970 LaMark Carter, Shreveport Louisiana, triple jumper
1970 Lawrence Frank, American basketball coach
1970 River Phoenix, American actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me) (d. 1993)
1971 BoneCrusher, American rapper
1971 Demetrio Albertini, Italian footballer
1971 Hugh Douglas, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
1972 Anthony Calvillo, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 Mark Butcher, England cricketer
1972 Martin Grainger, English footballer
1972 Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 Sheldon Benoit, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 Tony Carter, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1973 Casey Blake, American baseball player
1973 James Roe, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 Jason Clemett, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
1973 Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
1974 Benjamin Limo, Kenyan runner
1974 Christian Beranek, American graphic novelist and actor
1974 Paula Gaye Montgomery, Cabot Ark, Miss America (Arkansas-3rd-1996)
1974 Ray Park, Scottish actor
1974 Seth Binzer, aka Shifty Shellshock, American musician (Crazy Town)
1974 Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
1975 Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
1975 Jarkko Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 Joe Andruzzi, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 Sean Marks, New Zealander-born basketball player
1976 Kate Sobrero, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1976 Linette Smith, Miss Universe-British Virgin Islands (1996)
1976 Pat Garrity, American basketball player
1976 Scott Caan, American actor
1977 Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer
1977 Nicole Bobeck, Chic, figure skater (US Champ 1995)
1978 Julian Casablancas, American singer (The Strokes)
1978 Kobe Bryant, American basketball player, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1979 Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
1979 Ritchie Neville, British musician
1980 Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
1980 Rex Grossman, American football player
1981 Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
1981 Carmen Luvana, American pornographic actress.
1981 Ozzy Lusth, American Survivor contestant
1981 Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer
1982 Bryce Case, Jr., American musician and computer hacker
1982 Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
1982 Scott Palguta, American soccer player
1982 YTCracker, American musician
1983 Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player
1983 Tony Moll, American football player
1984 Glen Johnson, English footballer
1986 Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player (St. George Illawarra Dragons)
1986 Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player (St. George Illawarra Dragons)
1986 Neil Cicierega, American cartoonist and musician
1987 Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer
1988 Daniel Schwaab, German footballer

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93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40)
634 Abu Bakr Abd Allah (al-Siddik), Arabian caliph, Successor of Mohammed (b. 578)
1106 Magnus, Duke of Saxony (b. 1045)
1176 Emperor Rokujo of Japan (b. 1164)
1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded (b. 1272)
1328 Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle
1387 King Olav IV of Norway (b. 1370)
1507 Jean Molinet, French historian (Chroniques) (b. 1435)
1519 Philibert Berthelier, Swiss patriot (b. 1465)
1540 Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
1591 Luis Ponce de León, Spanish poet and mystic (b. 1527)
1618 Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (Moortje) (b. 1585)
1628 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman, assassinated by Felton (b. 1592)
1652 John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician (b. 1600)
1668 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall)
1706 Colonel Edward Nott, Esq., British Crown Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
1723 Antoine Mouque, composer
1723 Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (b. 1639)
1777 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1802 Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer
1806 Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (coulometrie) (b. 1736)
1813 Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist (b. 1766)
1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
1825 Amos Bull, composer
1831 August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal
1839 Charles Philippe Lafont, composer
1853 Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1867 Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
1878 Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer
1892 Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
1898 Joseph Robinson, composer
1903 Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher
1914 Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
1914 George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico
1926 Rudolph Valentino, Italian silent movie actor (Sheik) (b. 1895)
1927 Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist, executed (b. 1888)
1927 Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist, executed (b. 1891)
1929 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea)
1933 Adolph Loos, Austrian architect
1937 Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
1939 Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925)
1941 Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts)
1943 Johann P Zilcher, German composer
1944 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer
1955 Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1956 Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
1958 Martin du Gard, writer
1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist, Broadway librettist (b. 1895)
1962 Hoot Gibson, American silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw) (b. 1892)
1962 Irving Fine, composer (Toccata)
1962 Walter Anderson, German folklorist (b. 1885)
1963 Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (b. 1900)
1965 John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer
1966 Francis Xavier Bushman, American actor (Ben-Hur) (b. 1883)
1967 Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
1970 Nel Rose, dancer
1971 Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
1971 Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach)
1971 The original Shamu, Sea World orca
1972 Balis Dvarionas, composer
1974 Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1975 Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres)
1977 Naum Gabo, Russian artist (b. 1890)
1977 Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair)
1979 Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49)
1979 Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
1980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech)
1982 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila)
1982 Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1977) (b. 1913)
1986 Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
1987 Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
1987 Siegfried Borris, composer
1989 Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer
1989 Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
1989 Ronald D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry) (b. 1927)
1989 Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst
1990 David Rose, American composer and orchestra leader (Holiday for Strings, Stripper) (b. 1910)
1991 Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB)
1992 Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River)
1992 Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer
1992 Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of Lung Cancer
1993 Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys)
1993 Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch)
1993 Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker
1994 Henri Rousselot, admiral
1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale)
1994 Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered
1994 Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer
1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist
1995 Arthur Holt, politician
1995 Dwayne (Rudolph) Goettel, Canadian musician (Skinny Puppy)(b. 1964)
1995 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1995 James Pilditch, designer
1995 Johnny Carey, soccer star
1995 Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon
1997 Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79)
1997 John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
1999 James White, Northern Irish writer (b. 1928)
1999 Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
2000 John Anthony Kaiser, Roman Catholic priest (b. 1932)
2001 Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 Peter Maas, American novelist (b. 1929)
2002 Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2003 Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
2003 Jack Dyer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1913)
2003 John Geoghan, American Catholic priest (b. 1935)
2005 Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
2006 Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1928)
2007 Robert Symonds, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 John Russell, British-born American art critic and author (b. 1919)
2012 Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
2012 Steve Van Buren, American Hall of Fame NFL halfback
2013 William Glasser, American psychiatrist
2013 David Garrick, English singer
2015 Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang)

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