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580 Chinese invents toilet paper
1071 Battle of Manzikert, Byzantine Armenia (modern Malazgirt, Turkey). Fought between Byzantine Empire and Seljuq Turks. The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I van Habsburg of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1303 Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.
1346 Battle at Crécy of the Hundred Years' War, England's longbows defeat France, cannons used for 1st time in battle, a combination of crossbows and armoured knights is established.
1466 A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1541 Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Buda/annexes Hungary
1545 Pope Paul III names his son Pierluigi Farnese, duke of Parma
1549 Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1629 Cambridge Agreement, Mass Bay Co stockholders agree to emigrate
1634 Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1641 West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1648 People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin
1652 Sea battle at Plymouth: Ayscue vs De Ruyter
1745 England, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
1748 The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.
1778 The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by National Assembly at Palace of Versailles.
1791 John Fitch grants US patent for his working steamboat
1794 French troops occupy Lock
1839 The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1846 Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
1846 W A Bartlett appointed 1st US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF)
1858 First news dispatch by telegraph.
1862 American Civil War: the Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1863 Battle of Rocky Gap WV (White Sulphur Springs)
1873 1st free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
1874 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
1883 The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1894 Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1895 Electric central at Niagara Falls gives 1st steam
1896 Armenian revolutionairy assault on Ottoman Bank Constantinople
1903 Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1909 Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs
1909 Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day
1912 32nd US Mens Tennis, M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
1912 Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
1913 33rd US Mens Tennis, M E McLoughlin beats R N Williams (64 57 63 61)
1914 Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 Battle of Tannenberg 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1914 The British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau of World War I that briefly checks the German advance.
1914 The German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces in World War I, who take it after 5 days.
1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1916 Philadelphia A's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleve, 5-0
1916 Yanks turn triple-play beating Browns 10-6
1918 W Smith & F Bacons "Lightnin'," premieres in NYC
1920 Percy Fender (Surrey v Northants) scores 100 in 35 mins
1920 The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1924 (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
1929 1st US roller coaster built
1930 Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
1935 CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
1937 Franco's troops conquer Santander
1937 Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished
1938 British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1938 Montreal Maroons dropped from NHL
1939 First major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Bkln Dodgers (W2XBS NY)
1939 Belgium mobilizes
1939 Kroatia gets autonomous status
1939 The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1940 RKC soccer team forms in Waalwijk
1942 7,000 Jews are rounded up in Vichy-France
1942 Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children murdered on the spot.
1942 Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942 Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 Transport nr 24 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed
1944 De Gaulle marches to Champs-Elysees
1944 US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris
1944 Charles de Gaulle enters Paris in World War II.
1945 Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
1946 George Orwell published "Animal Farm"
1947 1st black baseball pitcher Don Bankhead (Hit a HR on 1st at bat)
1950 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1)
1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1952 Fluoridation of SF water begins
1955 1st color telecast (NBC) of a tennis match (Davis Cup)
1956 KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open
1956 Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC
1957 The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS.
1961 Official Intl Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
1962 Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
1963 W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy
1964 Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman
1964 LBJ nominated at Democratic convention in Atlantic City, NJ
1966 Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1966 KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, & Twins sweep Cleveland
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands US stop bombing North Vietnam
1970 The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women's Strike for Equality.
1971 Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1971 NY Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for NJ in 1975
1971 Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
1971 The United States Congress declares August 26th as an annual Women's Equality Day.
1972 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972 NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 10-year-old Mary Boitano is 1st woman to win 6.8-mile Dipsea Race in Marin County, CA, beating a field of 1,500 runners
1973 David Eisenhower writes his last sports column
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 U of Tx (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1974 Guinee-Bissau becomes independent of Portugal
1974 Soyuz 15 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1977 Frank Martinus Arion forms Surinamese Writers group 77
1977 The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I
1978 Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
1978 Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1979 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1980 Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
1981 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission
1981 Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan
1982 NASA launches Telesat-F
1983 Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
1984 Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record)
1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
1986 Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38)
1987 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
1987 President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1988 Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
1990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville Florida
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic
1990 Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive HRs
1991 Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0
1992 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
1992 Václav Klaus and Vladimír Meciar signed agreement of split of Czechoslovakia in Brno.
1995 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs v Glamorgan
1995 Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval
1996 Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
1997 Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2002 Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2008 Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2011 The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
2012 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969
2012 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
2012 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an,China
2012 A Legionellosis outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104
2013 25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination
2014 Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry informs the WHO of an outbreak of Ebola; later confirmed as a different strain to that affecting west Africa
2014 Israel and Hamas accept another ceasefire
2015 WDBJ TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward are fatally shot live on TV by an ex-colleague in Moneta, Virginia

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1469 Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1596 Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
1627 Thomas Bullis, composer
1676 Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1721-42) (d. 1745)
1687 Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph)
1694 Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)
1726 Karl Kohaut, composer
1728 Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)
1736 Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1740 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, aeronaut (ballooning) (d. 1810)
1743 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen) (d. 1794)
1745 Francois Guichard, composer
1749 Johann Ernst Rembt, composer
1775 William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1788 Aloys Schmitt, German music theory, composer, royal pianist
1789 Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)
1792 Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)
1811 Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1866)
1813 Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle of Guilder Tracks)
1819 Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, husband of queen Victoria (d. 1861)
1820 James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)
1823 Wilhelm Troszel, composer
1825 Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian
1826 Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)
1828 Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1833 Charles Jackson Paine, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1842 Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie)
1843 George August Lumbye, composer
1845 Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1850 Charles Richet, French physiologist (anaphylaxis) (Nobel Prize laureate 1913) (d. 1935)
1854 Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)
1862 Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)
1864 Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935)
1865 Arthur James Arnot, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)
1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7]
1873 Lee DeForest, American inventor (Audion vacuum-radio tube) (d. 1961)
1874 Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
1875 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist (Battle of Somme), Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
1880 Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (Alcoola) (d. 1918)
1882 James Franck, German-born physicist (Nobel laureate 1925) (d. 1964)
1882 Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian (Neth Archives)
1884 Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)
1885 Jules Romains, French author (Men of Good Will) (d. 1972)
1887 Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer
1890 Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970)
1891 Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author
1891 Ferdinand Bruckner, [Theodor Tagger], Austrian playwright (Races)
1894 Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)
1896 Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)
1896 Richard Hammond, composer
1897 Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)
1898 Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
1899 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
1900 Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
1901 Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1901 Gen Maxwell D Taylor, American general, US Army chief of staff (d. 1987)
1901 Hans Kammler, German engineer and SS officer (disappeared in 1945)
1901 Jan de Quay, Dutch minister of war/premier (KVP, 1959-63)
1901 Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer (Fiat)
1903 Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer
1904 Christopher W Bradshaw-Isherwood, English-born writer (Goodbye to Berlin) (d. 1986)
1906 Albert B Sabin, Russian-American microbiologist (oral polio vaccine) (d. 1993)
1908 Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999)
1908 Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983)
1908 W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1909 Eric Quail Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976)
1909 Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81)
1909 Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
1909 Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
1910 Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Yugoslavian Christian missionary (Nobel Peace Prize 1979) (d. 1997)
1911 Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
1913 Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier
1913 Robertson William Davies, novellist essayist/dramatist
1913 Tschakowski, writer
1914 Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
1915 Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
1915 William Bardwell, composer
1916 Allan Leslie Merson, historian
1917 Jan Clayton, Tularosa NM, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie)
1917 William French Smith, Attorney General (1981-85)
1918 Louis W "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor (Residence Orchestra)
1919 Ronny Graham, Phila Pa, actor (Bob Crane Show, Chico & the Man)
1920 Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1920 Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai soldier and politician
1921 Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist and executive (Washington Post)
1921 David Begelman, film producer
1921 Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1994)
1921 William Preston, Columbia Penn, actor (Fisher King, Waterworld)
1922 Irving R. Levine, American journalist (d. 2009)
1922 Lazar Nikolov, composer
1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
1924 Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)
1925 Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
1925 Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order
1927 B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
1927 Francois Leydet, sierra club (Last Redwoods)
1927 Sam Massell, (Mayor-Atlanta)
1928 Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1928 Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1930 Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer
1931 Dane Skerl, composer
1931 Gordon Greig, journalist
1931 Guy Vander Jagt, (Rep-R-MI, 1966)
1932 Joe H Engle, Abilene Ks, Brig Gen USAF/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 51I)
1932 Luis Salvadores, Chilean basketball player.
1934 Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist
1934 Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator
1935 Cornelis B Vaandrager (Cor Vaan), Dut poet (Long Live Joop Massaker)
1935 Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (Rep-D-NY) 1st female dem VP candidate (1984)
1936 Yvette Vickers, American actress (Attack of 50' Woman), playmate (Jul 1959)
1937 Tom Heinsohn, NBA star/coach (Boston Celtic)
1938 Francine York, Aurora Minn, actress (Slattery's People)
1938 Jet Black, English drummer, one of the founding members of The Stranglers
1938 Maurice Williams, rocker
1939 Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1940 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
1941 Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1941 Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director (Barfly, Single White Female, More)
1941 Chris Curtis (Chris Crummy), English singer and drummer (The Searchers, Deep Purple) (d. 2005)
1941 Jane Merrow, British actress
1942 Dennis Turner, British politician
1942 John E Blaha, San Antonio, USAF/astronaut (STS 29, 33, 43, 58, 79/81)
1942 Vic Dana, American singer and dancer (Talent Scouts)
1943 Ulf Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 Cornelia J "Corry" Arends, Dutch actress (Fool's Hat)
1944 Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1944 Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, British prince
1944 Richard A W G, English prince/duke of Gloucester
1944 Stephen Greif, English actor
1945 Jo Freeman, American feminist scholar
1945 Melvin Watt, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1945 Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1946 Alison Steadman, Liverpool England, actress (Life is Sweet)
1946 Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1946 Mark Snow, American composer
1946 Valerie Simpson, American singer
1946 Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People's Republic of China
1947 Candy Moore, Maplewood NJ, actress (Lunch Wagon, Tomboy & Champ)
1947 Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor
1947 Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (d. 2007)
1948 Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
1949 John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1950 Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 Richard Cowsill, Newport RI, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
1951 Robert G Torricelli, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1983)
1952 Billy Rush, Musician (Asbury Jukes)
1952 Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 John Kinsella, USA, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1952 Michael Jeter, American actor (Fisher King) (d. 2003)
1952 Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1953 Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
1954 Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player
1954 Michael Chetwood, rocker
1954 Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
1954 Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ/actor (Funny Man)
1954 Wally Murphy, rocker
1956 Brett Cullen, American actor
1956 Mark Mangino, American football coach
1957 Alex Trevino, catcher (LA Dodgers)
1957 Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1957 Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete
1958 Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
1959 Jim Rutledge, Victoria, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Indian Open)
1959 Joanne Gail Abbott, executive (MTV)
1959 Kathryn P Hire, Mobile Alabama, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1959 Stan Van Gundy, American basketball coach
1960 Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader (Bring on the Night, Tonight Show)
1960 Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer
1960 Ola Ray, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jun, 1980)/actress (Thriller)
1960 Wanda De Jesus, American actress
1961 Daniel Lévi, French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
1961 Jeff Parrett, American baseball player, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1961 Jimmy Olander, Palos Verdes Cal, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in Middle)
1962 Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
1962 Roger Kingdom, US 60m hurdler (world record)
1962 Tariq Ramadan, Geneva, Switzerland, Islamic scholar
1963 David Byas, English cricketer
1964 Bobby Jurasin, CFL defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1964 Chad Kreuter, Marin County CA, catcher (Chic White Sox)
1964 Dave Boyes, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1964 Karla Karch-Gailus, Vancouver BC, basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1965 Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)
1965 Carolina Arregui, Chilean actress
1965 Chris Burke, American actor with down syndrome (Corky-Life Goes On)
1965 Jon Hensley, American actor
1966 Avner Ben-Gal, Israeli artist and painter
1966 Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
1966 Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1967 Myron Guyton, NFL full safety (NE Patriots)
1968 Byron Lawson, Canadian actor
1968 Courtney Hall, NFL center (San Diego Chargers)
1968 Gavin Stratfold, Darwin NT, Australasia golfer
1969 Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Allentown Penn, wife of John Cougar
1969 Mike Gisler, NFL guard/center (NE Patriots)
1969 Nicole Arendt, Somerville NJ, tennis star (1996 Aust doubles finalist)
1969 Ricky Bottalico, New Britain CT, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
1970 Jacco Eltingh, Heerde Neth, tennis star (1993 ATP World Doubles)
1970 Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete
1971 Jocelyn Borgella, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1971 Sharon Tina Jenkins, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 Thalía, Mexican singer
1972 Sherell Ford, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1973 Barret Robbins, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1974 Eric D. Snider, American humor columnist / movie reviewer
1974 Freddie Scott, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 Kelvin Cato, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers)
1975 Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player
1975 Shea Seals, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1975 Tyler Connolly, Canadian Singer
1976 Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1976 Carey Tally, Memphis Tenn, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 Zemfira, Russian singer
1977 Liam Botham, Hampshire cricketer and rugby league player
1977 Morris Peterson, American basketball player
1977 Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyu
1978 Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1979 Allison Robertson, American musician (The Donnas)
1979 Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 Jamal Lewis, American football player
1979 Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer
1979 Yagmur Sarigül, Turkish Musician (maNga)
1980 Brendan Harris, American baseball player
1980 Chris Pine, American actor
1980 Macaulay Culkin, American actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich)
1980 Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player
1981 Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1981 Demetria McKinney, American actress
1981 Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
1981 Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 Tino Best, West Indian cricketer
1981 Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer
1982 David Long, New Zealand musician
1982 Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
1983 Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver
1986 Cassie, American singer
1986 Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer
1988 Danielle Savre, American actress
1988 Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
1988 Evan Ross, American actor
1988 Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
1990 Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter and TV personality
1992 Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast
1993 Keke Palmer, American actress

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1214 Michael IV, Patriarch of Constantinople
1278 Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle
1346 Charles II of Alençon, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1297)
1346 Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle
1346 Killed in the Battle of Crécy: Charles II of Alençon (b. 1297); John of Bohemia (b. 1296); Louis I of Flanders (b. 1304); Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
1346 Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine, killed in the Battle of Crécy (b. 1320)
1349 Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury
1368 Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies
1486 Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45
1518 Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara
1551 Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
1572 Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515)
1595 Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
1616 Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66
1661 Louis Couperin, composer, dies
1666 Frans Hals, Dutch painter (b. c. 1580)
1683 Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76
1712 Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80
1714 Edward Fowler, English Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1632)
1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist, inventor (microscope) (b. 1632)
1770 Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright/poet
1785 George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1813 Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer
1813 Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen)
1832 Henryk Klein, composer
1849 Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
1850 Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1773)
1860 Friedrich Silcher, composer
1860 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
1863 John Buchanan Floyd, US min of War (1857-60)/Confederate general
1865 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke) (b. 1791)
1865 Marcellus Monroe Crocker, US attorney/Union brig-general
1869 Henri Leys, Flemish painter
1873 Carl Wilhelm, composer
1894 PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok
1908 Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (b. 1837)
1910 William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
1915 John Bunny American comedian (b. 1863)
1921 Ludwig Thoma, writer
1921 Matthias Erzberger, German min of Finance, murdered
1921 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21)
1930 Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3) (b. 1883)
1944 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (b. 1909)
1945 Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (Mirror Man) (b. 1890)
1946 Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1948 Oscar L Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
1949 Nico van Suchtelen, publisher
1956 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (b. 1881)
1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (b. 1872)
1960 Mark Hambourg, composer
1963 Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed)
1966 Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It)
1967 Andres Sas, composer
1967 Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicketkeeper in the 1930's)
1968 Kay Francis, American actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl) (b. 1899)
1971 Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1972 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist
1974 Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
1975 Cullen Landis, entertainer
1976 Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing) (b. 1888)
1976 Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place)
1977 HA Rey, author of popular constellation book
1977 Heinz Rottger, compose
1977 Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity)
1978 Charles Boyer, French actor (Gaslight, Rogues) (b. 1899)
1978 Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer
1978 José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
1979 Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908)
1980 Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz)
1980 Rosa Albach-Retty, German actress (b. 1874)
1980 Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
1981 Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (b. 1914)
1981 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (American Civil Liberties Union) (b. 1884)
1983 Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste)
1984 Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
1985 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily)
1986 Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park
1986 Ted Knight (Tadeus Konopka), American actor (Mary Tyler Moore) (b. 1923)
1987 Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1987 John Goddard, West Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
1988 Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1988 Paul Francis Lloyd, entertainer
1989 Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname
1989 Irving Stone, American author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life) (b. 1903)
1990 Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1992 Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
1992 Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje) (b. 1925)
1993 Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
1994 Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers)
1995 David James Moore, educationalist
1995 Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru
1995 John Costello, historian
1995 Omukama Patrick D Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro
1995 Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer
1996 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician
1996 Baron Baker, activist
1996 Catherine Mary Hall, nurse
1998 Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2000 Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)
2001 Louis Muhlstock, Canadian painter (b. 1904)
2003 Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2004 Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
2005 Robert Denning, American interior designer (b. 1927)
2006 Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
2006 Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2007 Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
2007 Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (b. 1935)
2009 Dominick Dunne, American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent (b. 1925)
2011 George Band, British mountaineer (b. 1929)
2011 John McAleese, British SAS Trooper, Team leader during 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege (b. 1949)
2015 P J [Patrick Joeseph] Kavanagh, English poet, actor and journalist (The Perfect Stranger)

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