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655 Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 Battle of Morgarten, the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I of Austria, Swiss beat duke Leopold I.
1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1491 Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle"
1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews & 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1515 Thomas Cardinal Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1527 Treaty of Beautiful garden (emperor-ecclesiastical goods)
1532 Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
1532 Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1577 Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
1583 Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees
1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam)
1679 English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
1688 Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England
1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1727 NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
1763 Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland
1777 After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation, during American Revolutionary War.
1791 The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1806 Pike expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
1813 Allied troops occupies Groningen
1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti
1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
1845 Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1859 The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1864 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War.
1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1882 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1884 Colonization of Africa orgainized at Intl conference in Berlin
1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1889 Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup and Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca.  
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill & wife captured in Natal
1901 James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in San Francisco
1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1903 Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
1914 Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1920 Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
1920 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1920 Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1922 British Conservative wins election, Labour 2nd party
1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations. 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1935 Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
1936 Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1937 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, NY
1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1939 In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
1940 NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1941 Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219 during World War II.
1942 The Battle of Guadalcanal of World War II ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
1945 Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1946 House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) interrogates astronomer Harlow Shapley
1946 Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1947 Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 v Indians at the SCG
1947 Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as PM of Canada, Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds him as Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in Commonwealth of Nations history.
1949 KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1949 WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed (Atl City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League)
1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI v MCC, Lahore
1951 Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
1953 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1955 Poland & Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1956 "Li'l Abner" opens at St James Theater NYC for 693 performances
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in NYC
1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
1959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1959 Robert White & Perry Smith murder four members of the Herbert Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
1960 Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
1960 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1961 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1961 Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1961 UN bans nuclear arms
1962 Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
1964 Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
1964 KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1966 A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1966 Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth, splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1967 Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert, reaches 80 km.
1967 WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"
1969 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
1969 1st commercial ad on English TV, Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War
1969 The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant.
1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla
1969 In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1972 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1972 White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
1973 Egypt & Israel exchange prisoners of war
1974 Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" & "Only You" in UK
1975 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1976 René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favour of independence.
1976 Syrian army conquerors Beirut
1977 Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1978 A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1978 Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage crisis.
1979 A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1979 Brittish government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
1981 "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1983 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1986 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Kinison hosts)
1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1987 Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1987 In Braov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu.
1987 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
1987 NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
1988 In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.
1988 An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council. PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
1989 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1989 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 Sachin Tendulkar makes his debut as an international cricketer.
1989 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1990 Pres Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Space Shuttle Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1992 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 v SA, Durban)
1993 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
1993 Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
1994 "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
1994 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
1994 Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1995 "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1996 "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1997 19th ACE Cable Awards, HBO wins 32 awards
1997 William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd
1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
2000 A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
2000 New Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
2002 Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the Communist Party of China.
2003 The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2005 Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
2012 At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
2012 BP settles for 4.5 Billion from the Deep Horizon Oil Spill
2012 The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter
2013 5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India
2013 Sony launches the Playstation Four, selling one million units on the first day
2014 The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case
2014 A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning
2014 World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth
2014 Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense
2015 France launches air strikes on Isis stronghold Raqqa in Syria in wake of terror attack on Paris
2015 Holly Holm defeats UFC Champion Ronda Rousey in an upset in Melbourne, Australia

HIDE

HIDE

1316 Jean I, King of France (Nov 15-19, 1316) (he lived only 5 days) (d. 1316)
1397 Nicholas V (Tommaso Parentucelli), Italian Pope (1447-55) (d. 1455)
1498 Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
1511 Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
1556 Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
1559 Albrecht, arch duke of Austria, Cardinal-Archbishop of Toledo, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)
1604 Davis Mell, composer
1607 Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
1619 Philips Koninck, Amsterdams painter, etcher
1640 Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer
1660 Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
1661 Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
1688 Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
1692 Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
1696 Gerhardus Havingha, composer
1705 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer
1708 William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister (Whig, 1756-61, 66-68), `Great Commoner', 1st Earl of Chatham(d. 1778)
1731 William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (John Gilpin) [OS]
1738 F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus) (d. 1822)
1741 Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
1746 Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
1755 Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer
1757 Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
1774 William Horsley, composer
1775 Georges-Julien Sieber, composer
1784 Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
1793 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry) (d. 1880)
1800 George Rodwell, composer
1814 Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1815 John Banvard, American painter, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1816 Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1829 Petrus A S van Limburg Brouwer, MP, critic (Akbar)
1835 Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young, Major Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1896)
1840 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet, friend of Tsjaikovski
1852 Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)
1859 Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
1862 Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer
1862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German author (Before Dawn) (Nobel laureate 1912) (d. 1946)
1872 Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert)
1874 August Krogh (Schack), Danish zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries) (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1920) (d. 1949)
1874 Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
1878 Bela Reinitz, composer
1879 Lewis Stone, American actor (Prisoner of Zenda) (d. 1953)
1881 Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (Information Please) (d. 1960)
1882 Felix Frankfurter, 80th U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1939-62) (d. 1965)
1886 René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe, American sculptor, painter (Cow's Skull) (d. 1986)
1887 Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician
1887 Marianne Moore, American poet (Pulitzer 1951) (Collected Poems) (d. 1972)
1887 René Maran, Martinique, author (Batouala, Prix Goncourt)
1888 James Morrison, Mattoon IL, actor (Little Detectives)
1890 Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
1891 Averell Harriman, American businessman (d. 1986)
1891 Erwin Rommel, German field marshal "The Desert Fox" (WW II-African campaign) (d. 1944)
1891 W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1895 Antoni Slonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
1895 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 Ina Claire, actress (Claudia, Ninotchka, Rebound)
1897 Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
1897 Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet, author (People's Palace) (d. 1988)
1898 Willy Alfredo (Willem Jue), Dutch entertainer, poet (Fish-Trap)
1899 Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
1899 Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
1902 Frederico Freitas, composer
1903 Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
1904 Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress (Garden of Allah)
1905 Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
1906 Curtis E Le May, U.S. Air Force general, VP candidate (d. 1990)
1907 Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)
1909 Don Large, Canada, choral director (Wayne King)
1913 Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
1913 Guy Green, English film director (d. 2005)
1913 Rick Schagen, Dutch actress (Saartje-Swiebertje)
1914 Gheorghe Dumitrescu, composer
1914 Jorge Bolet, Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka)
1916 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados
1917 Gerardus H de Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67)
1919 Carol Bruce (Shirley Levy), American actress (Lillian-WKRP)
1919 Joseph Albert Wapner, American judge (People's Court)
1920 Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
1922 David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
1922 Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano)
1922 Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
1922 Giorgio Manganelli, writer
1922 Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz)
1923 Peter Hammond, London England, actor (Buccaneers)
1925 Howard Baker, American political advisor, presidential chief of staff (Sen-R-Tenn)
1925 Jurriaan Andriessen, [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
1925 Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
1927 Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
1928 C. W. McCall, American singer
1928 John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
1928 William Heirens, Evanston, Illinois, serial killer (Lipstick Killer), (d. 2012)
1929 Ed(ward) Asner, American actor (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant, Up)
1930 J(ames) G(raham) Ballard, British sci-fi author (Drowned World) (d. 2009)
1930 Whitman Mayo, American actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
1931 Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP (D-66), author (Winters in Wartime)
1931 John Kerr, American actor (South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit & Pendulum)
1931 Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
1931 Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician
1932 Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
1932 Clyde L McPhatter, American singer (Drifters) (d. 1972)
1932 Petula Clark, English singer (Downtown, My Love)
1933 Barbara Carson, American actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country)
1933 Jack Burns, American comedian (Burns & Schreiber)
1934 Joanna Barnes, American actress (Parent Trap, Spartacus, Goodbye Charlie)
1934 Peter Dickinson, composer
1935 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician, businessman
1935 Peter John Welding, record producer
1936 H. B. Bailey, American NASCAR driver (d. 2003)
1936 Wolf Biermann, German writer
1937 Jimmy Ellis, American soul singer (The Trammps) (d. 2012)
1937 William E "Little Willie" John (Woods) American R&B singer (Fever) (d. 1968)
1937 Yaphet Kotto, American actor (Brubaker, Alien, Raid on Entebbe, Homicide)
1939 Erik Hansen, Danish 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Thalmus Rasulala (Jack Crowder), American actor (Blacula, Roots)
1939 Yaphet Kotto, Actor (Alien)
1940 Sam Waterson, American actor (Law and Order, Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate)
1940 Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
1941 Daniel Manus Pinkwater, US, sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
1942 Daniel Barenboim, Argentine conductor and pianist
1943 Roger Donaldson, director (Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands)
1945 Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad (Fryeda Anderson), Sweedish singer (ABBA)
1945 Bob Gunton, American actor (The Shawshank Redemption)
1945 Roger Donaldson, Australian producer/director
1946 Janet Lennon, Culver City California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1947 William B Richardson, American politician (Rep-D-New Mexico, 1983)
1948 Roy P Dyson, (Rep-D-MD, 1981)
1950 Mac Maurice Wilkins, discus thrower (1st to break 70m)
1951 Beverly D'Angelo, American actress (National Lampoon's Vacation, American History X)
1951 Dave Zelmon, rocker
1952 "Macho Man" Randy Savage (Poffo), American professional wrestler (WWF, SMW, ICW)
1952 Zoltán Buday, Hungarian born actor
1953 Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut
1954 Ab Bryant, bassist, vocalist (Chilliwack)
1954 Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland
1954 Beverly D'Angelo, American actress (Vacation, European Vacation)
1955 Georgie Born, English academic, anthropologist and musician (Henry Cow)
1955 Henry Corra, American documentarian
1955 Oliver Conant, American actor (Summer of '42)
1956 Ashley Cox, American playmate (December, 1977)
1956 Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (d. 2003)
1956 Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
1957 Harold Marcuse, American historian
1957 Joe Leeway, Musician (Thompson Twins)
1957 Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist, bandleader (Tonight Show)
1957 Ray McKinnon, American film actor (O Bother Where Art Thou, The Blind Side), director
1958 Marty Davis, San Jose Cat, tennis star
1961 Ian Reid, Australian educator
1963 Andrew Castle, English television presenter and former tennis professional
1963 Benny Elias, Australian rugby league footballer
1963 Gideon Joe Ng, Canadian table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1963 Kevin J. O'Connor, Actor (The Mummy)
1963 Michele McAnany, American female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1964 Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer
1965 Nigel Bond, English snooker player
1965 Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
1966 Petra Huber, Austrian tennis star
1966 Rachel True, American actress (The Craft)
1967 E-40, American rapper
1967 François Ozon, French film director
1967 Greg Anthony, American basketball player
1967 Greg Anthony, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics)
1967 Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
1967 Harvey Franklin, WLAF WR (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 Laura Garrone, Italian tennis star
1967 Michiyoshi Ohara, wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1967 Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1967 Scott Schrader, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Golden State)
1968 Brenda Alyce Bassett, American Miss Indiana-America (1991)
1968 Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
1968 James Brady, American columnist (NY Post)
1968 Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter
1968 Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
1969 Helen Kelesi, Canadian tennis star
1969 Peter Martin, English cricketer
1969 Shane Mack, American politician
1970 Cecil Doggette, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Jack Ingram, American singer and songwriter
1970 Karin van Breeschoten, Dutch playmate (Sept, 1989)
1970 Lesley Reddon, Canadian ice hockey goalie (Canada, Oly-98)
1970 Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
1971 Jay Harrington, American actor (Better off Ted, American Reunion)
1971 Natalia Medvedeva, Ukrainian tennis star (1993 Prague Essen)
1971 Rohan Robinson, Australian hurdler (Olympics-96)
1971 Sandra Kim (Caldarone), French singer (J'aime la Vie)
1972 Christian van der Weerden, Dutch soccer player (NEC, Vitesse)
1972 Greg Bloedorn, NFL center (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Jessica Hynes, Actress (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
1972 Jonny Lee Miller, English actor (Trainspotting)
1973 Jason Dunn, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Jesse Merz, American actor
1973 Jorge Diaz, guard (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Rachel Kathleen English, American Miss America-Georgia (1996)
1973 Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress (Death Proof)
1974 Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer (Nickelback)
1974 Fred Brock, wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1975 J.C. Brandy, Actress (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers)
1975 Scott Henshall, British fashion designer
1975 Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian
1976 Jessica Amey, Montreal Quebec, 100m butterfly/4 x 100 (Olympics-96)
1976 Virginie Ledoyen, French actress (The Beach)
1977 Logan Whitehurst, American musician (d. 2006)
1977 Peter (Mark Andrew) Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II
1977 Sean Murray, American actor (Hocus Pocus)
1979 Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
1979 Josemi, Spanish footballer
1980 Ace Young, American singer
1981 Drew Hodgdon, American football player
1981 Jordan Buckley, American heavy metal guitarist, Every Time I Die
1981 Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
1981 Natalie Lacuesta, Chicago Ill, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1982 D. J. Fitzpatrick, NFL kicker
1982 Joe Kowalewski, American football player
1982 Lofa Tatupu, NFL player
1982 Yaya Alafia, Actress (The Kids Are All Right)
1983 DJ Skee, American DJ, personality
1983 Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
1983 Laura Smet, French actress
1984 Kitty Brucknell, English singer, songwriter and producer.
1985 Lance Paul, Actor (Realm of Souls)
1986 Jeffree Star, American model, fashion designer, make-up artist and singer-songwriter
1986 Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
1987 Ian Hecox, Member of Smosh
1987 Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
1988 Bobby Ray, A.K.A. B.o.B, American recording artist and producer
1988 Zena Grey, American actress
1989 Lucas Zaiden, Producer (Therapy)
1990 Kanata Hongo, Japanese actor
1991 Shailene Woodley, American Actress (The Descendants)
1992 Katherine Rose Riley, Actress (My Letter to the World)
1993 Saaya Irie, Japanese Actress, singer
1994 Emma Dumont, Actress (True Adolescents)
1996 Léora Barbara, Actress (Stella)
2002 Justin Duggar, Reality TV Star(16 Children and Moving In)

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655 Penda, King of Mercia
1028 Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
1136 Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
1194 Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen
1280 Albertus Magnus the Great, German theologian, bishop Regensburg, philosopher
1463 Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
1544 King Jungjong of Joseon (b. 1506)
1579 Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1628 Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
1629 Bethlen Gabor, King of Hungary (1620-29)
1630 Johann Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
1634 Johann Staden, composer
1658 Jacobus Revius (Reefsen), theologist, writer, poet
1670 Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
1670 Jan A Comenius (Komensky), Czech educator, philosopher
1691 Albert Cuyp, Dutch landscape painter (b. 1620)
1706 Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
1712 Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
1712 James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
1787 Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, German composer (Iphigénie Tauride) (b. 1714)
1788 Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1794 John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
1795 Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1812 Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000)
1815 Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer
1819 Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
1831 Vincenc Masek, composer
1832 Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's Law (b. 1767)
1842 Joseph Rastrelli, composer
1848 P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1853 Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
1863 Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless)
1897 John Mercer Langston, US black jurist
1907 Horatio Richmond Palmer, compose
1908 Tz'u-hsi (Dowager Cixi) (the old Buddha), Chinese Empress ruler (b. 1835)
1910 Wilhelm Raabe (Jakob Corvinus), German author (b. 1831)
1916 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
1917 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
1918 Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel laureate 1913) (b. 1866)
1919 Mohammad Farid, Egyptian political figure (b. 1868)
1922 Dimitrios Gounaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
1922 Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek General (b. 1863)
1922 Nikolaos Stratos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
1922 Petros Protopapadakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
1931 Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies
1933 Affie Jarvis, Australian cricketer
1934 Anton CR Dreesmann, Dutch-German manufacturer (Devout & D)
1938 George Glover, South African cricketer
1944 Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
1945 Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864)
1949 Narayan Apte, conspirator against Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
1949 Nathuram Godse, conspirator against Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
1954 Lionel Barrymore (Blythe), American actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo) (b. 1878)
1955 Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street)
1958 Tyrone Power, American actor (Mark of Zorro) (b. 1914)
1959 Alex Kennedy, English cricketer
1959 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist (Nobel laureate) (b. 1869)
1961 Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands)
1961 Elsie Ferguson, American actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages) (b. 1883)
1963 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch) (b. 1888)
1965 Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896)
1966 Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
1967 Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked)
1967 Michael J(ames) Adams, American test pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash (b. 1930)
1969 Roy D'Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress)
1971 Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
1971 Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
1974 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty)
1975 Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist
1976 Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes) (b. 1904)
1978 Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female) (b. 1901)
1980 Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1981 Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization)
1982 Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
1983 Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army) (b. 1912)
1984 Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks old.
1985 Spencer W Kimball, US head of mormon church
1986 Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique)
1988 Billo Frómeta, Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer (b. 1915)
1988 Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games)
1990 Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1990 Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals)
1993 Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader, painter
1993 Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1993 Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren)
1994 Anthony Ward, writer
1994 Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
1994 James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy
1994 Janet Ahlberg, illustrator
1994 Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91)
1995 Eve Perrick, journalist
1995 Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist
1995 Kristian Lundin, record producer
1996 Alger Hiss, American government official, lawyer, and alleged spy (b. 1904)
1997 Saul Chaplin, American composer and musical director (West Side Story) (b. 1912)
1997 William Perrie, prison governor
1998 Ludvik Danek, Czechoslovak discus thrower (b. 1937)
1998 Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2002 Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942)
2003 Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
2003 Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
2003 Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
2003 Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)
2004 Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
2005 Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
2005 Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
2006 Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
2006 David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
2007 Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2009 Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
2009 Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2010 Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2010 Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (b. 1932)
2015 Cynthia Payne, English brothel madam
2015 Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor (The Chess Players, Gandhi)

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