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69 Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem
462 Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1067 Boudouin VI becomes earl of Flanders
1181 Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1355 Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1482 Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev
1511 Council to Pisa opens
1532 Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1535 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1547 Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)
1598 Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments
1609 Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies
1614 Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses
1638 French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
1644 Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1647 French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan
1661 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1689 Russia began taxing men's beards
1695 Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1730 Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read
1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1752 Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
1763 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1785 Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1797 2nd National Meeting in Hague
1798 England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1804 Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1821 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1831 Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
1836 Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1859 A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1859 R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861 Skirmish at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
1862 Battle of Chantilly Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly (Ox Hill), Virginia during the American Civil War (2100 casualties).
1862 Federal tax levied on tobacco
1863 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
1863 Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
1863 RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
1864 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
1864 Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman in the American Civil War.
1864 Battle of Petersburg VA
1864 Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate
1867 Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
1870 Battle of Sedan of the Franco-Prussian War is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.  Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1874 Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office of the 28th Postmaster General.
1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1875 A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1878 Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she was recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1886 Neth's New Code of Criminal law enforced
1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
1890 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1894 Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1898 Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
1898 Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan
1901 Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
1902 A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1902 Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time
1905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
1906 Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs)
1906 Papua placed under Australian administration
1906 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1911 The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1913 George Bernard Shaws "Androcles & the Lion," premieres in London
1913 Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
1914 34th US Mens Tennis, R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1914 Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1914 St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1914 Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army
1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1919 Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich
1920 France creates Lebanon
1920 New townhall of Rotterdam opens
1921 Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1923 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000
1923 18th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1923 The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1923 US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1924 Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee
1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1926 Turkey allows civil marriage
1928 Ahmet Zogu I declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1930 NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
1931 Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games
1932 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1933 Soccer team DVS '33 forms
1934 SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1934 Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
1936 Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1937 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
1937 Battle of Gijon in Spain begins
1938 Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
1939 Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years
1939 Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality
1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland and takes Danzig, beginning of World War II in Europe.
1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of US army
1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1942 Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942 German troops land on Taman peninsula
1944 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1944 King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal
1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1945 Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 First US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg
1946 Greece votes for monarchy
1947 NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six
1948 Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 UN's World Health Organization forms
1949 First network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres
1949 KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2)
1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1950 West Berlin granted a constitution
1951 PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1952 Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
1953 101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
1953 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
1953 WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast
1953 WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins
1954 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68
1954 Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cin Red to hit 40 HRs en route to 49
1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1955 KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
1956 KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1957 WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1958 St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1960 Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London
1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1962 KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
1963 St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate
1963 WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 Indian Oil Corporation forms after the merger of Indian Oil Refineries and Indian Oil Company.
1964 Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets)
1965 India & Pakistan border fights
1966 KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1967 WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
1968 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
1968 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
1969 A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.
1969 Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1969 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1970 Attempted and Failed assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
1970 Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador
1971 John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open
1971 Qatar declares independence from Britain
1971 Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1972 Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1972 Egypt & Libya form federation
1972 In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1973 George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
1974 Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1974 Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
1975 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
1975 Gunsmoke resigns the air
1975 Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1975 KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS
1975 NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
1975 NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-197
1976 NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1976 Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1978 #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
1978 Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt)
1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
1978 Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV
1979 Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1979 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1979 The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km, discovers new moon, rings.
1980 Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1980 Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
1980 Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1980 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1981 A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1981 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1981 Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, Pres Dacko flees
1981 RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show, offers 2 separate overnight services.
1982 Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
1982 Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," premieres in London
1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
1982 Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1982 The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 Korean Air Flight 007 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
1985 A joint American–French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1985 Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1986 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1986 Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
1986 Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1987 Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
1988 Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good," premieres in London
1989 "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
1989 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
1990 "Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs
1990 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs
1990 Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02)
1990 Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43
1990 The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
1991 Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57)
1991 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
1992 NYC police commisioner Brown resigns
1992 The Constitution of Slovakia is ratified
1992 Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
1993 "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs
1993 Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis
1995 Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
1995 NYC reinstates the death penalty
1995 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio
1996 Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
1997 "Doll's House," closes at Belasco Theater
1997 Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
1997 Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic
1997 Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2005 Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation.
2006 Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2012 Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
2012 Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
2012 Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATo base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district
2012 US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan
2015 Google changes their logo, biggest redesign since 1999
2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Hungary closes Keleti Railway Station in Budapest to try and stop migrants travelling
2015 Pope Francis tell priests to pardon women who have had an abortion, in a letter released by the Vatican

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1286 Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1529 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1549 Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc
1566 Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1608 Giacomo Torelli, Fano, Italy, stage designer, engineer and architect
1651 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer (Canon in D) (d. 1706)
1689 Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Czech Baroque architect (Prague) (d. 1751)
1711 Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch Prince of Orange-Nassau (d. 1759)
1712 Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator
1724 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General)
1732 Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer
1732 Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer
1751 Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer
1758 Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant
1768 Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
1787 John Bake, classical composer
1789 Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
1791 Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1795 James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1798 Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1873)
1803 Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter
1816 Gustav Schmidt, composer
1818 José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
1824 Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1827 Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen)
1829 James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1845 Paul S Methuen, English fieldmarshal/governor of Natal/Malta
1848 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1849 Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer (Parisfal) (d. 1921)
1856 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet and interpreter (Laodania) (d. 1909)
1856 Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1862 Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
1862 Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
1864 Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)
1866 James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, American heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97) (d. 1933)
1868 Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1870 Timotei Popovici, composer
1871 J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1873 Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)
1874 Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer
1874 Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) (d. 1950)
1876 Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 Alexandra, Princess of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
1887 Blaise Cendrars (Frederic Sauser-Hall), Swiss poet and writer (d. 1961)
1887 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar
1888 Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1893 Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japaneese-US painter, etcher, lithographer
1895 Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1895 Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel)
1895 Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955)
1896 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, the Hare Krishna Movement (d. 1977)
1897 Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898 Marilyn Miller (Renolds), US actress (Sunny), wife of Jack Pickford
1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian writer and general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) (d. 1951)
1900 Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer
1900 Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)
1904 Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail) (d. 1974)
1904 Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1905 Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1905 Gervase Hughes, composer
1906 Eleanor Burford Hibertt (Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr...), English writer (d. 1993)
1906 Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1906 Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1907 Miriam Seegar, American actress
1907 Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (UAW & CIO) (d. 1970)
1908 Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1908 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist
1909 E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1910 Jack Hawkins, London, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
1911 Komei Abe, composer
1911 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
1913 Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1913 Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
1916 Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
1916 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist, campaigner
1919 Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
1919 Roy John Britten, Washington, molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes), (d. 2012)
1920 Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)
1920 Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (d. 2010)
1920 Richard Farnsworth, American actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester) (d. 2000)
1921 Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer
1921 Matt Higgins Doran, composer
1921 Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid) (d. 1995)
1922 Melvin R Laird, US Secretary of Defense (Rep-R-Mich) (1969-73)
1922 Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (War & Peace) (d. 2000)
1922 Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (10 Commandments, Munsters) (d. 2007)
1923 Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1923 Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56) (d. 1969)
1923 Theo H Joekes, journalist, Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 Art(hur E) Pepper, American alto saxophonist (d. 1982)
1925 Ruth S White, composer
1926 Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1926 Gene Colan, American comic book artist
1927 Tommy Evans, rocker (Drifters)
1927 Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1928 Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1928 George Maharis, American actor (Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66)
1929 Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)
1931 Cecil Parkinson, British politician
1931 Matthew J Rinaldo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1973)
1932 Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician
1932 Sunny von Buelow, American socialite (d. 2008)
1933 Ann Richards, American politician (Gov-D-Tx) (d. 2006)
1933 Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
1933 Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins), American country singer (Hello Darlin') (d. 1993)
1933 Tom Vreugdenhil, Dutch MP (CDA)
1934 Terepai Maoate, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (1999-2002), (d. 2012)
1935 Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1937 Al Geiberger, American PGA golfer (1962 Ontario Open)
1937 Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and actor (Superfly) (d. 2004)
1938 Alan Dershowitz, NYC, attorney (Claus Von Bulow, OJ Simpson)
1938 Art Agnos, US, politician(?)
1938 George Maharis, Astoria NY, actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game)
1939 Heinrich Messner, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1939 Katie Webster, [Swamp-Boogie Queen]/US R&B pianist/singer
1939 Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me)
1941 Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1941 Sid Pye, drummer
1942 C(arolyn) J(anice) Cherry, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy)
1943 Don Stroud, American actor
1943 Pat Connolly-Daniels-Winslow-Banks, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1968)
1944 Archie Bell, US singer (& the Drells-Tighten up)
1944 Don Stroud, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story)
1944 Leonard Slatkin, American conductor (Concert Orch, Neth)
1945 Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 Barry Gibb, English singer, guitarist (Bee Gees)
1946 Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 Greg Errico, US drummer (Sly & Family Stone)
1946 Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 Al Green, American politician
1948 Józef Zycinski, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host
1950 Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1951 David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1951 Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1951 Timothy Zahn, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Cobra Strike)
1952 Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
1953 Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
1953 Chuck Orton, US sysop, (Emerald BBS, Oregon)
1953 Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 Gabor Ormai, viola Player
1955 Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
1956 Bernie Wagenblast, American broadcaster and editor
1956 Philece Sampler, American voice artist
1956 Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player
1957 Duško Ivanovic, Montenegrin basketball coach
1957 Gloria Estefan (Fajardo), Cuban-American singer (Miami Sound Machine)
1958 Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 Keith Allen Clearwater, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1987 Colonial Natl)
1959 Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1960 Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
1961 Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler, WWF (Wrestlemania XI) (d. 2007)
1962 Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer
1962 Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord, PSV, AC Milan)
1962 Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 Carola Smit, Dutch singer (BZN-Bad bad woman)
1963 David Zhuang, China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1964 Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1965 Aldo Swager, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1965 Hardy Nickerson, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1966 Katja Bienert, Berlin Germany, actress (Praxis Bulowbogen)
1966 Stephane Talbot, Greenfield Park Que, golfer (1992 Quebec PGA)
1966 Tim Hardaway, American basketball player, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1967 David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Australia, LPGA golfer (1994 McDonald's-17th)
1968 Michelle Buckingham, LA California, Canadian 61 kg judoka (Olymp-20-92, 96)
1968 Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1969 Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 Barbara Paulus, Vienna Austria, tennis star
1970 Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star
1970 Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 Jodi Lambert, Australian 100m/200m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1970 Mitsou, Quebec singer, television and radio host, actress
1970 Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1970 Vanna, Croatian singer
1971 Gabe Wilkins, NFL defensive end (GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1971 Hakan Sükür, Turkish footballer
1971 Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1971 Joe Enochs, American soccer player
1971 Lââm, French singer
1971 Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan 3K runner (world record)
1971 Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1972 Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
1972 Eiman Thakeb, Miss Egypt Universe (1997)
1972 Josh Davis, US, 800m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 Louise Dobson, Shepparton Aust, field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1972 Matt O'Dwyer, NFL guard (NY Jets)
1973 Gillian Boxx, Fontana CA, softball catcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1973 Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 Trent Bray, NZ, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1973 Zach Thomas, American football player
1974 Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1975 Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
1975 Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 R. Kan Albay, Flemish film director
1975 Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1976 Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1976 Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 Jada Fire, American porn actress
1976 Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1976 Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1977 Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 Arsalan Iftikhar, American attorney and Muslim advocate
1977 David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1977 Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1978 Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1978 Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1979 James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 Chris Riggott, English footballer
1980 Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 Sean Stewart, American songwriter, musician, model and the son of Rod Stewart
1981 Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1981 Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 Matthew McGuire, Australian Rower
1981 Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian voice actor
1982 Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1982 Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1983 Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1984 Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 Nick Noble, American soccer player
1984 Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1985 Larsen Jensen, American swimmer
1986 Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1986 Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1987 Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
1988 Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 Bill Kaulitz, German lead singer for Tokio Hotel
1989 Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1989 Tom Kaulitz, German guitarist for Tokio Hotel
1993 Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 Bianca Ryan, American singer

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1067 Baldwin V of Flanders
1067 Boudouin V, earl of Flanders/guardian of king of France, dies
1159 Adrian IV (Nicole Breakspear), only English pope (1154-59) (b. 1100)
1215 Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht
1256 Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1406 Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry)
1414 William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1581 Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne) (b. 1588)
1666 French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait)
1671 Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome
1685 Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1715 Louis XIV, The Sun King of France (1643-1715) (b. 1638)
1731 Pierre Danican Philidor, composer
1777 Johann Ernst Bach, composer
1780 Reynier de Klerk, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800)
1801 Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong)
1814 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1818 Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
1838 William Clark, American explorer, 2nd lt of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
1862 Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle
1862 Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle
1867 Edward Hodges, composer
1880 Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker
1896 Johannes Habert, composer
1903 Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism)
1912 Sam(uel E) van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess)
1912 Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer
1914 Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1930 Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician (b. 1878)
1941 Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire
1943 Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1945 Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On)
1947 Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1951 Wolfgang Schulze (Wols), German artist, painter
1953 Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1955 Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs)
1957 Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black)
1961 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport)
1961 William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57)
1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
1963 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor
1964 George Georgescu, composer
1967 Ilja Ehrenburg, writer
1967 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1967 James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law)
1967 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet, author (Counterattack) (b. 1886)
1968 Granville English, composer
1969 Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (Drew Pearson) (b. 1897)
1969 William Flanagan, composer
1970 François Mauriac, French writer (Nobel laureate) (b. 1885)
1972 May Aufderheide, composer
1977 Ethel Waters, American singer (Beulah, Stormy Weather) (b. 1896)
1978 Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina
1979 Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton)
1981 Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect, Nazi minister of Army (b. 1905)
1981 Ann Harding, American actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion) (b. 1901)
1981 Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash
1982 Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist
1982 Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
1983 Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (Sen-D-Wash) (b. 1912)
1983 Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1983 Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa)
1984 Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup)
1985 Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1985 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1986 Murray Hamilton, American actor (Rich Man Poor Man) (b. 1923)
1988 Leonor Sullivan, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77)
1988 Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
1989 Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1990 Seub Nakhasathien, Thai conservationist (b. 1949)
1991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl)
1991 Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (b. 1922)
1991 Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur
1992 Morris Carnovsky, US actor (Dead Reckoning)
1993 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist
1993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor
1993 Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant)
1994 Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1994 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector
1994 Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan)
1995 Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer
1995 Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner
1996 Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper
1996 Charles Daniels, archaeologist
1996 George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
1996 Vagn Holmboe, composer
1998 Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1998 Józef Krupinski, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1999 W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005 Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2008 Jerry Reed, American musician and actor (b. 1937)
2009 Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
2010 Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister
2012 Hal David, American Lyricist
2013 Tommy Morrison, American heavyweight boxing champion and actor
2015 Dean Jones, American actor (Company, The Love Bug)

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