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(539 BC) The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
638 Honorius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; Pope Severinus elected
642 John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1165 Rambam reaches Jerusalem
1216 King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
1279 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon
1285 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
1366 King Frederick III of Siciliy forbids decorations on synagogues
1398 The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1459 Battle at Ludford Bridge: Richard of York defeated
1492 Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached East Asia
1492 Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders
1504 Queen Isabella I of Spain signs her testament
1509 Emperor Maximilian leaves Italy
1518 Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther
1549 John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier
1576 Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as arch duke of Austria
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1609 Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London
1654 Kruittoren van Delft, explodes, 50-100 killed
1654 The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1659 English Rump-government fires John Lambert & other generals
1692 Massachusetts Bay discontinues witch trials.  The Salem Witch Trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
1702 Battle of Bay of Vigo, Dutch & English fleet destroy & occupy Spanish silver fleet & French squadron
1711 Karel VI Habsburg crowned Roman Catholic emperor
1729 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Gelderland
1730 Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
1773 America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia
1775 US Navy forms
1776 British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx
1792 First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York
1793 The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina
1798 Flemish uprising against French occupied Boerenkrijg
1798 Friedrich von Schillers "Wallensteins Lager," premieres in Weimar
1810 First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1815 Ex-king Joachim Murat van Naples sentenced to death
1822 2nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
1822 Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil
1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs).
1833 Charles Darwin begins return trip to Buenos Aires
1836 18" of snow falls in Bridgewater NY
1850 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1853 John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans
1854 Lincoln University founded as Ashmun Institute
1860 British & French troops capture Beijing
1861 Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi
1862 JEB Stuart completes his "2nd ride around McClellan"
1862 Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi
1862 Skirmish at Monocacy, Maryland
1871 Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
1871 Pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
1872 Montreal Foot Ball Club 1st game playing Quebec City to 0-0 tie
1879 British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan
1881 Henry M Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1886 Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
1886 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 2nd Stain" (BG)
1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated
1892 The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
1898 Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.
1899 South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to "The White House".
1903 Lyric Theater opens at 213 W 42nd St NYC
1907 Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
1913 John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series lose, Robertson blames McGraw & is fired
1914 1st battle at Ypres, begins
1915 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile
1915 Theodore Roosevelt criticizes US citzens who identify themselves, with dual nationalities
1915 British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium in World War I.
1916 Boston Red Sox beat Bkln Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 13th World Series
1917 The First Battle of Passchendaele (now Passendale) of World War I takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1918 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1918 A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1918 Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people
1920 Cleveland Indians beat Bkln Dodgers, 5 games to 2 in 17th World Series
1920 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
1920 Man O'War's last race & win
1920 Soccer team Quick '20 forms
1923 NY Giant's Casey Stengel HR beats Yanks 1-0 in World Series
1924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
1925 Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8)
1925 German-Russian trade agreement signed
1927 Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet
1928 An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston
1929 Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning
1931 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform
1933 John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail
1933 The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice.  It becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1935 Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC
1941 Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
1942 Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
1942 Japanese ships retreat after their defeat by USA in the Battle of Cape Esperance of World War II, with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Goto dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack.
1943 US bombs Rabaul, New Britain
1944 German army retreats from Athens
1945 In World War II, Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
1950 "Call Me Madam" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 644 performances
1952 Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s v N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons
1952 KBTV (now KUSA) TV channel 9 in Denver, CO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York
1953 US & Greece signs peace treaty (US bases)
1955 Hurricane Hazel, kills 68 in Haiti
1956 Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
1957 "Mask & Gown" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances
1957 "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 62 perfs
1957 1st commercial flight between California & Antartica
1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1958 CVP wins municipal elections in Belgium
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1958 WJRT TV channel 12 in Flint, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
1960 Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
1960 JFK & Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1961 "Let It Ride" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 68 performances
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities, 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
1962 US and USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 "Student Gypsy" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 16 performances
1963 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
1963 At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck
1964 1st time 3 people in space
1964 KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, CA (PBS) begins
1964 The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) and the first flight without space suits.
1964 WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin
1964 WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience forms with Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell
1967 St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series
1967 US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition in the Vietnam War.
1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore NYC after 17 perfs
1968 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain.
1968 Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame
1969 1st time 5 people in space
1969 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN
1969 KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, CA (IND) begins
1969 Soyuz 7 is launched
1970 Rock Memorabilia Auction at Filmore East
1970 US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops from the Vietnam War before Christmas.
1971 "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 711 perfs
1972 "Hurry, Harry" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 2 performances
1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk
1972 Billy Harris failed in 1st Islander penalty shot
1972 En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk
1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole
1973 Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria
1973 Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as VP
1974 1st time Washington Capitals are shutout as they are beat 6-0 by Minnesota
1975 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett became 1st Irish-born saint in 7 centuries
1975 Jacqueline Hansen runs women's world record marathon (2:38:19)
1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-195
1976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight
1976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1976 The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China.
1977 "Throwaway Game" Catfish Hunter loses WS 6-1 resting Yank pitchers
1977 4th test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 Allan Bakke, white student denied admission to University of California Med School
1977 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van
1977 US Supreme Court heard arguments in "reverse discrimination" case of
1978 Representatives of Israel & Egypt open talks in Washington
1978 Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen
1979 Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa
1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1979 The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1980 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box" closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 perfs
1980 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in LA
1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 "Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances
1981 15th Country Music Association Award:
1982 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon Alaska (state record)
1982 Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor getrs world sereis record 5 hits
1983 5225 Loral & 5424 Covington
1983 Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
1984 Brighton hotel bombing, The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission
1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox
1986 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China
1987 21st Country Music Association Award, Hank William Jr wins
1987 George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
1987 Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
1987 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
1988 George Bush & Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate
1988 Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations
1988 Jaffna University Helidrop, Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
1988 Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1989 Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
1989 Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London
1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll.
1991 Boxer Hector Comacho arrested for driving while getting oral sex
1991 Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-38 in overtime
1991 Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards
1991 Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN
1991 Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw
1991 Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush
1992 5.8 earthquake at Cairo (at least 510 die)
1992 Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets
1992 Brett "Hitman" Hart beats Ric Flair for WWF Heavyweight title
1992 Expo '92 closes in Seville Spain
1992 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Albany NY (WQBK 103.5 & 103.9 FM)
1992 Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life)
1992 Wash Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception
1993 "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1994 Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken
1994 Iranian Fokker's F28 explode between Isfahan & Teheran: 66 killed
1994 NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
1995 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 46 perfs
1997 David Duval wins Michelob Championship at Kingsmill Golf Club
1997 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Samsung World Championship
1997 Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
1997 Transamerica Senior Golf
1999 Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 The Day of Six Billion, The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.
2000 The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
2002 Terrorists explode two bombs in Paddy's Pub and the Sari Club in Bali's nightclub district killing 202 and injuring 209 mostly foreign tourists
2005 The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Haishèng for five days in orbit.
2012 The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary
2012 The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali
2013 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
2015 Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalised after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada
2015 First Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadscast by CNN, held in Las Vegas, Nevada
2015 Marlon James becomes first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"

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1008 Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (d. 1036)
1350 Dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, Grand Prince of Moscovy, Monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal (d. 1389)
1490 Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548)
1537 Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53) (d. 1553)
1558 Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
1558 Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)
1576 Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)
1602 William Chillingworth, English religious leader (d. 1644)
1686 Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer
1710 Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and statesman (d. 1785)
1712 William Shippen, American physician and statesman (d. 1801)
1725 Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
1742 Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor
1759 Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer
1762 John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape colony, Dutch-Indies 1811
1763 John Ross, composer
1792 Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
1798 A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Kaiser of Brazil (1822-31)/king of Portugal
1798 Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49)
1798 Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834)
1801 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss statesman (d. 1873)
1807 John Tideman, Dutch Remonstrant theologist
1808 John Liptrot Hatton, composer
1813 Lyman Trumbull, MC (Union) (d. 1896)
1815 William Joseph Hardee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1873)
1822 Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1892)
1832 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer, poet, writer (Aylwin)
1840 Helena Modjeska, Polish Shakespearian actress (Juliet) (d. 1909)
1844 George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
1845 Amintore Galli, composer
1855 Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (Berlin Philharmonic) (d. 1922)
1855 August Sauer, Austria literature historian (Euphorion)
1855 Jacobus of Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Death of My Cat)
1860 Elmer A Sperry, American inventor (gyrocompass) (d. 1930)
1865 Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1866 Antonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer
1866 James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1924, 1929-35)
1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (Hugh the Drover) (d. 1958)
1874 Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942)
1875 Aleister (Edward S) Crowley (75 pseudonames), English occultist and author (d. 1947)
1878 Karl Buresch, Austria politician
1880 Healey Willan, composer
1880 Louis Hémon, French novelist (d. 1913)
1881 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer
1881 William Nigh, Berlin Wisconsin, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr Wong)
1882 Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer
1884 Godfrey Tearle, English/US actor (39 Steps)
1886 Karl Dane, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Son of the Sheik)
1887 Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951)
1890 Luis de Freitas Branco, composer
1891 Edith Stein, German philosopher, Carmelite Catholic nun (d. 1942)
1892 Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975)
1893 Pall Isolfsson, composer
1893 Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
1894 Charles Hodge, California, NYU professor (Answers for Americans)
1894 Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid of Dutch queen
1894 Elisabeth of Romania (d. 1956)
1896 Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, translator (Xenia) (Nobel Prize laureate 1975) (d. 1981)
1902 Dirk A M Binnendijk, critic (Authoritarian Regimes in Transistion)
1903 Grayson Kirk, Jeffersonville Ohio, educator
1904 Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986)
1904 Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959)
1905 Rick Ferrell, baseball Hall of Fame catcher
1906 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer
1906 Joe Cronin, American baseball player (Pirates, Red Sox, Senators, MVP 1930) and executive (AL President) (d. 1984)
1906 John Murray, American playwright (d.1984)
1906 Willy Hess, Swiss musicologist, composer and famous Beethoven scholar
1907 Wolfgang Fortner, composer
1908 Ann Lane Petry, American novelist (Street), journalist (d. 1997)
1908 Paul Engle, American writer (d. 1991)
1909 Josephine Hutchinson, Seattle WA, actress (Story of Louis Pasteur)
1909 Zellig S Harris, US linguist
1910 Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer
1910 Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
1911 Louis M de Guiringaud, French foreign minister (1976-78)
1911 Vijay Merchant, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman)
1913 Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer (d. 2004)
1913 William James Moyce, armaments scientist
1916 Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)
1917 Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train)
1917 Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2004)
1918 Emil Cossetto, composer
1919 Andre Casanova, composer
1919 Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007)
1920 Alice Childress, US playwright/actress (Wedding Band)
1920 Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979)
1921 Art Clokey, American animator (Gumby) (d. 2010)
1921 Jaroslav Drobny, Czech, hockey (Oly-gold-1948), tennis (Wimb-1954)
1923 Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager
1923 Jean Nidetch, Brooklyn, nutritionist founder (Weight Watchers)
1924 Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995)
1925 Bill Parkhouse, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1950-59)
1925 Denis Lazure, Quebec politician (d. 2008)
1925 Fons Jansen, news reader/Dutch cabaretier (court jester of beliefs)
1925 Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones, singer, guitarist
1925 William Steinkraus, equestrian (Oly-gold/2 sil/br-52/56/60/64/68/72)
1926 Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer (Nardo, Italy)
1927 Antonia Rey, Cuban actress (True Colors, Wise Guys)
1928 Al Held, US painter, sculptor (hard edge-style)
1928 Thomas Burnett Swann, US, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur)
1929 Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter (d. 2007)
1929 Robert Coles, American psychologist and author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973)
1930 Jack S Gottlieb, composer
1930 Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian
1931 Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (d. 2002)
1931 Raoul Pleskow, composer
1932 Dick Gregory, American comedian, political activist, dietician (Bahamian Diet)
1932 Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director (Man is Not a Bird)
1932 Jake Edwin Garn, (Sen-R-Utah, 1974)/astronaut (STS 51D)
1932 Mayer Joel Mandelbaum, composer
1932 Ned Jarrett, American race car driver (50 Grand National victories), announcer
1933 Broos van Erp, Dutch MP (VVD)
1933 Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004)
1934 Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician
1934 Richard Meier, American architect
1935 Don Howe, English football player and manager
1935 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor (Oh Giorgio, 3 Tenors) (d. 2007)
1935 Sam Moore, American R&B singer (Sam & Dave)
1936 Tony Kubek, shortstop (NY Yankees)/sportscaster (NBC-TV, Madison Square Garden)
1937 Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (d. 1969)
1937 Robert Mangold, American artist
1938 Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster
1941 Craig A Washington, (Rep-D-Texas)
1941 Michael Mansfield, English barrister
1942 Daliah Lavi, Shavel Zion Israel, actress (Casino Royalle, Lord Jim)
1942 Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995)
1944 Angela Rippon, British television personality
1945 Aurore Clément, French actress
1945 Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler
1946 Ashok Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78)
1947 Chris Wallace, American journalist, newscaster (NBC Weekend News)
1947 George Lam, Hong Kong singer
1948 Rick Parfitt, British musician, guitarist and singer (Status Quo)
1949 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Venezuelan international terrorist
1949 Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler
1950 Caroline Ellis, English actress
1950 Dave Freudenthal, American politician
1950 Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
1950 Robin Askwith, English actor
1950 Susan Anton, American actress (Golden Girl, Spring Fever)
1951 Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton)
1951 Ed Royce, American politician (Rep-R-California)
1951 Sally Little, Cape Town South Africa, LPGA golfer (1982 Dinah Shore)
1952 Danielle Proulx, Quebec actress
1953 Les Dennis, British comedian and presenter
1953 Serge Lepeltier, French politician
1954 Tom Blomberg, Dutch radio host/producer (Evening Rush Hour)
1955 Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
1955 Jane Siberry, Canadian musician
1955 Pat Dinizio, rock vocalist (Smithereens)
1956 David Vanian, British singer, (The Damned)
1957 Kristen Bjorn, British film director
1958 Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned)
1958 Jeff Keith, rock vocalist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1959 Abigail Kingsley Alling, American executive (Biosphere 2)
1959 Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
1960 Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor
1960 Lionel Washington, American Football Player, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1960 Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham AL, PGA golfer (1994 Sprint)
1962 Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian President
1962 Carlos Bernard, American actor
1962 Chris Botti, American jazz musician
1962 Deborah Foreman, American actress
1962 Dhammika Ranatunga, cricketer (bro of Arjuna Sri Lankan batsman 1990)
1962 Sid Fernandez, Honolulu Hawaii, pitcher (NY Mets, Philadelphia Phillies)
1963 Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2012)
1963 Lane Frost, American professional bull rider (d. 1989)
1963 Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player
1963 Michael Zordich, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1963 Randy Wood, Princeton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director
1964 Darrick Heath, Hempstead NY, team handball left back (Olympics-1996)
1964 Fanie De Villers, cricketer (great South African pace bowler 1993)
1964 Jo Ann Willette, actress (Constance-Just 10 of Us, Real Genius)
1965 Chris Chandler, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 J(ean-Jacques) Daigneault, Canadian hockey player, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1965 Larry Silveira, American golfer (NIKE Knoxville Open-2nd)
1965 Scott O'Grady, American military officer
1965 Todd Krygier, Chicago Heights, NHL left wing (Anaheim, Washington)
1966 Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author
1966 Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor
1966 Mel Rojas, Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1966 Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer (Ajax)
1967 Becky Iverson, Escanaba MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's Classic)
1967 Paul Laine Canadian singer composer
1968 Adam Rich, American actor (Nicholas-8 is Enough, Code Red, Gun Shy)
1968 Bill Auberlen, American race car driver
1968 Charles Anthony, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer (X-men, Real Steel)
1968 Leon Lett, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 Mike Trombley, Springfield MA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1969 Alison Peek, Australia, field hockey halfback/midfielder (Olympics-96)
1969 Dave Chaytors, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1969 David Collins, Bethpage NY, rower (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1969 Dwayne Roloson, Canadian hockey player
1969 José Valentín, American baseball player, Puerto Rican infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Kimberly Ann Grimm, Mt Lake Park Md, Miss Maryland-America (1991)
1969 Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1969 Nancy Ann Kerrigan, American figure skater (Olympics-silver-1994)
1969 Terry Ray, NFL strong safety (NE Patriots)
1970 Amy Beth Keller, Great Bend Kansas, Miss America (Kansas-Top 10-1996)
1970 Charlie Ward, American basketball player, NBA guard (NY Knicks), Heisman Trophy winner (1993)
1970 Herman Arvie, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1970 Julian, American pornographic actor
1970 Karen Courtland, Orange NJ, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1970 Kimberly Hoskins, Yuma Arizona, Miss Arizona-America (1991)
1970 Kirk Cameron, American actor (Mike-Growing Pains)
1970 Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player
1971 Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor, composer and singer
1971 Bronzel Miller, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Pavol Rybar, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
1971 Tony Fiore, American baseball player
1972 Irina Pantaeva, Russian supermodel and actress
1972 Jeroen Egge, WLAF offensive linesman (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver
1972 Mechele Linehan, American convicted murderess
1972 Neriah Davis, Los Angeles CA, playmate (Mar, 1994)
1972 Singor Mobley, safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 Tom Van Mol, Belgian footballer (PSV)
1973 Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player
1973 Martin Corry, English rugby player
1973 Rodney Mack, professional wrestler
1974 Karmyn Tyler, Shreveport Louisiana, Miss America-Louisiana (1996)
1974 Kate Beahan, Australian actress
1974 Marie Wilson, Canadian actress
1974 Miroslav Satan, Czech Hokey Player, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Edmonton)
1974 Rachyl Hoskins, Miss USA-Kentucky (1997)
1974 Stephen Lee, English snooker player
1975 Marion Jones, American track and field athlete (5 forfeited Olympic medals)
1975 Scott Von Der Ahe, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1976 Sarah Lane, American television personality
1977 Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer
1977 Carmen Carrillo Vilanova, Miss El Salvador Universe (1997)
1977 Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
1977 Jay Jenkins, American rapper also known as "Young Jeezy"
1977 Jessica Barker, Canadian actress
1977 Young Jeezy, American Rapper
1978 Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
1978 Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player
1979 Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory)
1980 Ledley King, English footballer
1981 Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer
1981 Shola Ameobi, English footballer
1981 Sneha, Indian actress
1981 Tom Guiry, American actor
1982 Molly Bennett, Irish singer
1983 Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
1985 Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer
1986 Marcus T. Paulk, American actor
1986 Sergio Peter, German footballer
1990 Henri Lansbury, English footballer
1992 Josh Hutcherson, American actor
1992 Taylor Horn, American singer and actress
1997 Prince Boris of Bulgaria
2001 Raymond Ochoa, American child actor

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632 Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 Honorius I (dux plebis), Italian Pope
638 Pope Honorius I
642 John IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42)
1093 Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93)
1095 Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
1176 William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
1320 Michael IX Palaeologus, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1277)
1343 Reinald II, duke of Gelre
1491 Fritz Herlen, German artist
1492 Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1565 Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
1576 Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, Kaiser (1564-76) (b. 1527)
1590 Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1600 Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
1632 Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
1646 François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)
1654 Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General
1654 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, painter, dies in an accident
1672 Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle
1678 Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
1679 William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
1685 Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
1685 Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian
1692 Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
1694 Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet
1730 Frederik IV, King of Denmark, Norway (1699-1730) (b. 1671)
1758 Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
1791 A L Karschin, writer
1794 James Lyon, composer
1797 Pierre de Jelyotte, composer
1817 Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer
1820 Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine)
1829 Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent, patriot
1837 Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands
1844 Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin)
1845 Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1858 Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter
1860 Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1864 Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64)
1865 William Vincent Wallace, composer
1870 Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
1875 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
1898 Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
1915 Edith L Cavell, English nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II) (b. 1865)
1920 Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence fighter (b. 1904)
1922 Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory
1923 A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82)
1924 Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
1924 Monroe A Althouse, composer
1929 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist
1936 B L T Bosanquet, cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England)
1938 Hugh Massie, cricketer (9 Tests for Australia 1881-85, capt)
1940 Tom Mix, American actor (Texan, Hidden Gold) (b. 1880)
1945 Jesse James Payne, lynched in Madison County Florida
1946 Joseph W Stilwell, U.S. general (China) (b. 1883)
1947 Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930)
1948 Alfred Kerr, writer
1948 Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).
1951 Simon Kimbangu, Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity
1954 George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
1956 Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
1958 Ed Hinton, actor (Henderson-I Lived 3 Lives)
1958 Gerard Hordijk, Dutch architect/painter
1958 Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1959 Arnoldt Bronnen, writer
1960 Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered  (b. 1898)
1964 J Howard Frazer, USTA pres, dies in office
1965 Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1966 Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
1967 Nat Pendleton, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless)
1967 Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader (b. 1910)
1969 Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter
1969 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (Olympic-gold-1928, 32, 36) (b. 1912)
1970 Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
1971 Dean G Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53) (b. 1893)
1971 Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)
1973 Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, known from Seven Years in Tibet (b. 1899)
1974 Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer
1977 Doris Davenport, actress (Behind the News, Westerner)
1978 Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
1979 Celia Lovsky, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
1982 Chris(tiaan R) Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1983 Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident
1983 The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (b. 1929)
1984 Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
1985 Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (Price is Right) (b. 1910)
1985 Ricky Wilson, American musician, guitarist (B-52's) (b. 1953)
1987 Alf(red M) Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
1987 Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67)
1988 Ken Murray, actor (Bill & Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage)
1988 Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)
1989 Franco (Francis Luambo "Makiadi"), Zaire composer
1989 Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) (b. 1920)
1990 Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist
1990 Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author, philosopher and mountaineer (b. 1899)
1990 Rifaat Maghub, president Egyptian MP, murdered
1991 Aline MacMahon, US actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
1991 Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
1991 Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town)
1991 Sheila Florance, Australian film and television actress (Cactus) (b. 1916)
1992 Alexander Pola (Abraham Polak), actor, writer (Farce Major)
1992 John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love & War)
1992 Ulysses Guimaraes, Brazilian MP (chairman)
1993 Leon Ames, American actor (Father of the Bride) (b. 1902)
1993 Tofik Bakhramov, Azerbaijani footballer (b. 1926)
1994 Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
1995 Eleanor Aller, cellist
1995 Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days)
1996 David Gilroy Bevan, politician
1996 Jack Robertson, cricketer (Midsex & Eng open bat 11 Tests)
1996 Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer
1996 René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
1996 Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
1996 Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer
1996 Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
1997 John Denver, American singer  (Country Boy), dies in plain crash (b. 1943)
1998 Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
1998 Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1999 Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)
1999 Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
2001 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
2002 Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2002 Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
2003 Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
2003 Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003 Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2005 C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
2006 Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
2007 Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
2007 Noel Coleman, British Actor (b. 1919)
2008 Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
2009 Dickie Peterson American musician (b. 1948)
2009 Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
2010 Belva Plain, American novelist (b. 1919)
2010 Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
2011 Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2011 Heinz Bennent, German actor (b. 1921)
2011 Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
2013 Oscar Hijuelos, American author
2015 Joan Leslie, American actress (High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy)
2015 George Mueller, NASA Systems Engineer (managed 1969 Moon landing)

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