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257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
1363 Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang, the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1574 Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1682 William Penn left England to sail to New World
1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1751 Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776 US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1791 The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 Bataafse fleet surrender to English, Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre of the Creek War.
1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1843 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run of the American Civil War, Confederates beat Union
1862 Battle of Richmond of the American Civil War, nConfederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas, Pope defeated by Lee
1862 Battle of Altamont, Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1862 Battle of Richmond, KY
1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1884 Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1893 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
1894 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1896 Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1905 Pogoro, Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
1906 Hal Chase became 1st NY Yankee to hit 3 triples in a game
1906 NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1909 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1910 NY Yankee Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918 Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin after speech. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1919 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1922 Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
1927 41st US Womens Tennis, Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1932 Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
1933 Air France forms
1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1939 Poland mobilizes
1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1941 Siege of Leningrad of World War II begins.
1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1942 Battle of Alam Halfa of World War II begins.
1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944 Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in NYC
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base in Japan.
1949 Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1949 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1956 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1956 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1958 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1961 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 Hot Line communications link between Moscow and Washington, DC (U.S. and Soviet leaders) installed
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1968 John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden
1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1974 A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976 Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1979 Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
1979 Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) Discovery 1 takes off on its maiden voyage. (6 days)
1984 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984 Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½")
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1990 Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
1991 Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1992 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
1994 Gund Arena in Cleve opens
1994 Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1995 Cable News Network joins internet
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1995 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
1997 1st WNBA Championshion, Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1999 East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2012 A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
2012 Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
2013 "12 Years a Slave" based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2014)
2015 15th World Championships in Athletics close at Beijing, China
2015 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years
2015 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad calls for the removal of current Prime Minister Najib Razak during 2nd day of street protests
2015 Rap artist Kanye West announces he will run for President in 2020 at the MTV Video Music Awards

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580 Mohammed, Arabic prophet, founder (Islam)
1334 Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon (d. 1369)
1377 Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1609 Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1687 Francesco Maria Vallara, composer
1693 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist
1705 David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1748 Jacques-Louis David, French Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat) (d. 1825)
1767 Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
1768 Joseph Dennie, American writer (d. 1812)
1769 Bonifacio Asioli, composer/music writer
1772 Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader
1797 Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein), (d. 1851)
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1804 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka)
1805 Michael Sars, Norwegian zoologist
1808 Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
1809 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer
1811 Thomas Gautier, writer
1813 Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1862)
1818 Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1820 George Frederick Root, composer
1821 Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
1837 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
1839 Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1842 Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1842 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer
1844 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
1848 Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1849 Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher
1850 Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino writer, journalist and revolutionary (d. 1896)
1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1901) (d. 1911)
1856 Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1866 Georges Minne, Flemish sculptor
1870 Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1871 Ernest Rutherford, First Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (atomic nucleus) (Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate 1908), (d. 1937)
1878 Paul Hazard, French literature historian
1882 Meijer de Hond, Dutch rabbi/writer
1883 Theo Van Doesburg, [Christian EM Kupper], painter/architect (Style)
1884 Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel Prize laureate 1926) (d. 1971)
1887 Adam Kuckhoff, writer
1889 Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor (You Can't Escape Forever)
1890 Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, British fighter ace (d. 1918)
1893 Huey P Long, American politician (gov/sen-D-La) (d. 1935)
1896 Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare) (d. 1983)
1898 Shirley Booth, American actress (Hazel) (d. 1992)
1900 Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
1901 John C Stennis, (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
1901 John Gunther, American writer and host (John Gunther's High Road) (d. 1970)
1901 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (NAACP) (d. 1981)
1902 Arnold Maria Walter, composer
1906 Countess of Longford, biographer/historian
1906 Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 Fred MacMurray, American actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons) (d. 1991)
1908 Leonor Fini, painter
1908 Willie Bryant, New Orleans La, singer (Sugar Hill Times)
1909 Barry Appleby, cartoonist
1909 (Rose) Joan Blondell, NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides)
1910 Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes)
1912 Edward M(ills) Purcell, American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1952) (d. 1997)
1912 Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
1913 Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)
1913 Richard Stone, British economist Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1913 Thomas Torrance, theologist
1914 Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)
1914 Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
1915 Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor
1915 Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
1916 John Thoday, geneticist
1916 Kornelis M R van der Beek, reformed vicar (Arnhem)
1916 Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
1917 Denis Healey, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1918 Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918 Ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47) (d. 2002)
1919 Kitty Wells, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry) (d. 2012)
1919 Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (d. 2010)
1920 Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud)
1921 Angelo Dundee [Angelo Mirena], Philadelphia, boxing trainer and cornerman (Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman), (d. 2012)
1922 Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
1922 Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)
1923 Barbara Mary Ansell, UK founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
1923 Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist (d. 1969)
1923 (Elias) Vic(tor) Seixas, American tennis player, mixed double tennis player (Wimbeld 1953-56)
1923 Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove)
1924 Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
1924 Kenny Dorham (McKinley), Fairfield, Texas, jazz trumpeter, (d. 1972)
1925 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea)
1925 Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1926 Olgerts Gravitis, composer
1927 Geoffrey Beene, Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
1927 Pieter Willem Kee, composer
1928 Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
1928 Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
1928 Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
1928 Ruth Westerheimer, sex therapist (Dr Ruth)
1930 Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1930 Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
1930 Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008)
1930 Warren Burger, US, author (The Midas Touch)
1931 Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Hartford CT)
1931 Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
1931 John Leonard Swigert Jr, Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)
1933 Arne Mellnas, composer
1933 Don Getty, Canadian politician
1934 B. P. Baloo Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
1934 Eric Schneider, Dutch actor (Drop Out, Family, Flanagan)
1935 John Phillips, American singer and songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
1936 Fabrizia Ramondino, writer
1937 Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
1938 Steve Delaney, Dobbs Ferry NY, newscaster (Monitor)
1939 Elizabeth Ashley (Cole), American actress (Coma, Evening Shade)
1939 John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1941 Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1941 John McNally, Liverpool, rock guitarist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 Sue MacGregor, BBC-radio hostess
1942 Jonathan Aitken, English MP
1942 Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
1943 David Henry Maslanka, composer
1943 Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
1943 Robert Crumb, American cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat, Keep on Truckin')
1944 Charles Colbert, Chicago Ill, rocker (American Breed)
1944 Freek de Jonge, Dutch comedian (Neerlands Hoop)
1944 John Surman, jazz musician
1944 Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
1944 Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1945 David Schiff, composer
1946 Anne-Marie, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
1946 Peggy Lipton, American actress
1946 Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1947 Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
1947 Peggy Lipton, Lawrence NY, actress (Julie-Mod Squad, Twin Peaks)
1948 Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
1948 Fred Hampton, Black Panther leader, murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1948 Lewis Black, American comedian
1949 Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
1949 Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1949 Peter Maffay, German musician
1949 Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
1950 Antony Gormley, English sculptor
1951 Dana, Irish singer, actress (Flight of the Doves), and politician
1951 Timothy Bottoms, American actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden)
1953 Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public)
1953 Robert Parish, American basketball player, NBA center (Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets)
1953 Robin Harris, American comedian (d. 1990)
1953 Ron George, American politician
1954 Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1954 David Paymer, American actor (Love Mary, Mr Saturday Night)
1954 Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer (1991 children stamp)
1955 Martin Jackson, rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
1955 Richard "Butch" Johnson, Worcester Mass, archer (Olymp-gold-1992, 96)
1956 Jayne Irving, English TV hostess (Live at 3)
1958 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1958 Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
1959 Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
1960 Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
1960 Gary Gordon, Master Sgt., Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960 Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
1960 Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hizbollah
1960 Vic Wilk, Los Angeles CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Knoxville Open)
1962 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian KGB officer (d. 2006)
1962 Ricky Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
1963 Michael Chiklis, American actor
1963 Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1964 Gavin Fisher, British engineer
1964 Joan Bennett, Chicago Ill, playmate (January, 1985)
1964 Michael Chiklis, actor (the Sheild, Wired, the Commish, Fantastic Four)
1964 Stephen Baker, NFL receiver (NY Giants)
1964 Steve Smith, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 John Terry, CFL tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 Michael Michele, American actress (Nikki-Central Park West)
1966 Simon Wheeldon, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1967 Barbara Anne Kendall, Auckland NZ, mistral yachter (Oly-g/s-92, 96)
1967 Catrin Nilsmark, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1995 PING Welch's-14th)
1967 Frederique (Van derWal), Dutch model (Victoria Secrets)
1967 Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1968 Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1969 Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
1969 Jerold Jeffcoat, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1970 Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
1971 Aubrey Beavers, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Rhein Fire)
1971 Joseph Fitzgerald, Bkln NY, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1971 Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
1971 Tre Johnson, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1972 Cameron Diaz, American actress (Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding)
1972 Jose Herrera, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1972 Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
1972 Ryan Leahy, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Shonte Peoples, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 Jimmy Herndon, offensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1973 Lisa Ling, American journalist
1974 Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
1974 Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
1974 Matt Bongiovi, heavy metal rocker (cousin of Jon Bon Jovi)
1975 Natalia Nadtochey, Miss Ukraine Universe (1997)
1975 Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 Lillo Brancato Jr., American actor
1976 Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1976 Sarah-Jane Potts, English actress
1977 Elden Henson, American actor
1977 Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
1977 Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977 Shaun Alexander, American football player
1978 Cliff Lee, American baseball player (Texas Rangers)
1978 Sinead Kerr, Irish Olympic figure skater/ice dancer
1978 Swizz Beatz, American record producer and rapper
1979 Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
1979 Leon Lopez, British actor
1979 Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
1979 Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
1979 Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1981 Germán Legarreta, American actor
1982 Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1982 Will Davison, Australian racing driver
1983 Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
1983 Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative
1983 Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
1984 Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1985 Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985 Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985 Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1985 Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
1986 Ryan Ross, American guitarist and lyricist (Panic! at the Disco)
1988 Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1988 Laura Põldvere, Estonian singer
1988 Michael Cavanaugh, Professional gamer
1989 Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
1991 Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer (Hull City)

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524 Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans
526 Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454)
1158 King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1181 Alexander III (Orlando Bandinelli), Italian Pope (1159-81)
1428 Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
1482 Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers)
1483 Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) (b. 1423)
1529 Juan del Encina, composer
1580 Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, governor of Netherlands (b. 1528)
1617 Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1666 Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
1745 Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer
1751 Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1808 Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
1809 Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution)
1826 Theodor Zwetler, composer
1844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads)
1856 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (lost Atlanta) (b. 1831)
1886 Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
1896 Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1903 Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile)
1904 Kate Fanny Loder, composer
1906 Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
1907 Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1910 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon)
1914 Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle
1914 Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
1917 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech
1919 Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
1928 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (laws of motion)(Nobel Prize laureate 1911) (b. 1864)
1930 William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13)
1932 Willem M van Rossum, cardinal, prefect of Propaganda Fide,
1934 Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess)
1935 Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (Le feu) (b. 1873)
1938 Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 A(braham) (P) Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)
1943 Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1944 Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter
1946 Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1946 Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1949 Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1952 Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates & Dodgers)
1953 Dimiter Nenov, composer
1956 Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer
1961 Charles Coburn, American actor (Heaven Can Wait, Idiot's Delight) (b. 1877)
1963 Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show)
1963 Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1964 Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason)
1968 William Talman, American actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason) (b. 1915)
1970 Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered
1970 Del Moore, American comedian (Cal-Bachelor Father) (b. 1916)
1971 Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
1974 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek)
1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb (b. 1933)
1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 Vera-Ellen, American actress (Big Leaguer, On the Town) (b. 1921)
1982 Leo(nhard) Pappenheim, conductor
1985 Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1986 Otto Mortensen, composer
1989 Joe De Santis
1989 Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
1991 Alan Wheatley
1991 Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol)
1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (moving objects) (b. 1925)
1993 Richard Jordan, American actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse) (b. 1938)
1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director and film critic (If ...) (b. 1923)
1994 Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike & Spike Festival)
1995 Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian
1995 Fischer S Black Jr, American economist, financial Theorist (b. 1938)
1995 Frank Perry, film director
1995 Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician
1995 Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1995 Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster
1996 Christine Pascal, French actress and director (Smile, Elsa) (b. 1953)
1996 Jose Toribio Merino, admiral/milt junta of Chile (1973-80)
1996 Louise Brown, dancer/teacher
1999 Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
2000 David Haskell, American Actor (b. 1948)
2001 Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
2002 J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
2003 Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
2004 Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
2006 Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
2006 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2006 Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
2007 Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
2007 Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
2008 Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
2010 Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)
2013 Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature)
2015 Oliver Sacks, English Neurologist and author (Awakenings)
2015 Wes Craven, American filmmaker (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
2015 Brad Anderson, American cartoonist (Marmaduke)

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