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326 Old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Stood 4th 16th century. Replaced by current St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
794 Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
1105 Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV
1302 Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people.
1424 Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1477 William Caxton produces "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres", the first book printed on a printing press in England.
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1494 French king Charles VIII occupies Florence
1497 Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope
1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated. Replaced an earlier basilica. Largest Christian basilica
1667 Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar & VOC
1686 Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1718 Voltaires "Oedipe," premieres in Paris
1730 Frederick II (Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
1738 France & Austria sign peace
1742 Prussia & England sign anti-French military covenant
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
1755 Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1787 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1793 Louvre officially opens in Paris
1803 The Battle of Vertières, in which Haitians defeat French, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1804 Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape
1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America
1809 In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
1820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
1833 Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1835 Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti
1852 Rose Philippine Duchesne dies in St. Charles, Missouri. She would be canonized on July 3, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
1852 State funeral of Duke of Wellington (London)
1863 King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.
1865 Mark Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1871 American suffragette Susan B Anthony arrested after voting on the 5th November in Rochester NY
1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883 American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1883 Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska," premieres
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1893 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World), 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault
1899 Trumper scores 208 in 185 mins (1 five 25 fours) NSW v Qld
1902 Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
1903 The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1904 General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
1905 George Bernard Shaws "Major Barbara," premieres in London
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1906 Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea," premieres in NYC
1909 Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya, they later overthrow Zelaya.
1911 Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1911 Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1916 World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1917 Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1918 Brussels free Stofnar
1918 Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1919 H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in NYC
1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
1922 Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief
1926 George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
1928 Release of the animated short "Steamboat Willie", the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1929 1929 Grand Banks earthquake, Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1929 Dr Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope"
1929 Stalin routes troops to Manchuria
1930 Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
1930 Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
1930 Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1932 "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1932 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March
1936 Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1938 Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1939 Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die
1940 George Matesky, New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1940 German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece in World War II.
1941 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa
1941 Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in NYC
1941 Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia, Ethiopia
1942 Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in NYC
1943 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 Battle of Berlin of World War II, 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1945 Arnold Schoenberg's Prelude for orch & mixed choir, premieres
1947 The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 (New Zealand's worst ever fire).
1949 NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP
1950 South Korea Pres Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
1951 British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
1953 Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage
1954 Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1956 Morocco gains independence
1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1958 Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay
1959 Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1960 Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
1961 "Kwamina" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 32 performances
1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1963 Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
1963 England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens
1963 King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco)
1964 Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1965 Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP
1966 Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow
1966 US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1967 The United Kingdom government devalued the Pound sterling from $2.80 to £2.40.
1970 Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 Johnny Bench wins NL MVP
1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1970 Netherlands & Albania form diplomatic relations
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1971 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1973 Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests
1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to US
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1976 NY Yankees sign free agent Don Gullett
1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Jonestown incident, In Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1980 "Heaven's Gate" premieres
1980 Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP
1980 Honduras & El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969)
1981 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1982 Duk Koo Kim dies unexpectedly from injuries sustained during a 14-round match against Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, Nevada, prompting reforms in the sport of boxing.
1982 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
1984 "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1984 72nd CFL Grey Cup, Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17
1984 Browns set team records for most sacks (11)
1984 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 NJ Devils shutout NY Rangers 6-0
1985 Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
1985 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
1986 Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1987 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1987 Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP
1987 The U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
1987 King's Cross fire, In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.
1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
1989 Pennsylvania is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
1990 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 perfs
1990 1st Solheim Cup, US beats Europe 11½-4½ at Lake Nona CC FLA
1990 NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 After the siege of Vukovar, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
1991 Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations & is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92
1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
1992 "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US
1992 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
1993 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993 In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution (Black & white).
1993 In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
1993 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
1994 "Star Trek VII Generations," premieres
1995 Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World
1995 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen
1996 Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder
1997 Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
1997 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
1997 Gary Glitter arrested by British police in child porn probe
1997 Mavericks' A C Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games
1997 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
1997 Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500
1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59 foot tall Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
2002 United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 In a 50-page, 4–3 decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that the state may not "deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry."
2003 In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
2003 The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal's CPI(ML).
2004 Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
2012 Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup
2012 Czech Republic beats Spain in Prague (3-2) at the 101st Davis Cup
2012 Katy Perry & Justin Bieber win at the 39th American Music Awards
2012 Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
2012 Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
2013 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2014 Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup in football
2015 2 female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano, Nigeria, killing 15 and injuring over 100
2015 French police raid terrorist cell in Saint Denis, killing 2 including the leader of the Paris terror attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud

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1522 Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
1527 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor
1630 Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
1647 Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1727 Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
1736 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1742 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1756 Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1837)
1772 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, composer (d. 1806)
1774 Wilhelmine of Prussia, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
1781 Felice Blangini, composer
1785 David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1786 Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826)
1786 Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer, conductor
1787 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
1787 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist
1803 Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet
1804 Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
1808 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1810 Asa Gray, American botanist (Flora of North America) (d. 1888)
1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1875)
1812 Jesse Johnson Finley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1904)
1824 Franz Sigel, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1902)
1824 Isham Nicholas Hayne, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1868)
1832 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
1835 Americus Vespucius Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1904)
1835 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist, criminologist
1836 William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan) (d. 1911)
1839 August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt) (d. 1894)
1845 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde)
1846 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician
1856 Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer, 1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1861 Dorothy Dix (Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), American journalist  (d. 1951)
1863 Richard Dehmel, writer
1869 James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)
1871 Amadeo Vives, composer
1874 Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116)
1874 Clarence Shepard Day, American author (Life with Father) (d. 1935)
1874 Riccardo Martin, composer
1877 Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Wealth & welfare)
1881 Percy Lesueur, hockey player, inventor (large goalie glove)
1882 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (Cave of the Winds) (d. 1963)
1882 Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (exponent of St Thomas) (d. 1973)
1882 Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter (Tarr, Apes of God)
1883 Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
1886 Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian Communist politician (d. 1967)
1888 Frances Marion, American screenwriter, actress (Pollyanna)
1889 Maria Realino (Frederikus Janssen), teacher (Botany of Curacao)
1895 Ernst Levy, composer
1897 Jules Buffano, American pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
1897 Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction) (Nobel Prize laureate 1948) (d. 1974)
1898 Joris Ivens, Dutch director (Rain) (d. 1989)
1898 Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
1899 Eugene Ormandy (Blau), Hungarian conductor (Phila Orch) (d. 1985)
1900 Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters)
1900 Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger)
1901 George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (Gallup Poll) (d. 1984)
1901 V. Shantaram, Indian film producer, director, writer & actor (d. 1984)
1902 Barbara Giuranna, composer
1902 Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels)
1903 Lillian Fuchs, composer
1904 Guido Santorsola, composer
1904 Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1904 Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer
1906 Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
1906 George Wald, American physiologist, biologist (eye) (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1967) (d. 1997)
1906 Klaus Mann, German author (Mephisto), son of Thomas Mann (d. 1949)
1907 Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1907 Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (d. 1998)
1907 Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author/poetess
1908 Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (Your Show of Shows, Grindl) (d. 2001)
1909 Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic) (d. 1976)
1910 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist
1911 Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
1912 Arthur Peterson, Mandan ND, actor (Major-Soap, Crisis)
1912 Jaap Meijer (Saul van Messel), Dutch historian, rabbi in Paramaribo
1913 Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter (d. 1999)
1915 Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
1916 James L Lyons, jazz promoter
1917 Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
1918 Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
1919 Jocelyn Brando, American actress (Ugly American) (d. 2005)
1920 Alfred William Bedford, test pilot
1920 Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
1920 Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
1921 Peter Pocklington, NHL team owner (Edmonton Oiler)
1922 Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
1922 Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (1956-63) (d. 1967)
1922 Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1936)
1922 Viktor Afanasiev, editor (Pravda)
1923 Alan B Shepard Jr, American astronaut (Merc 3, Ap 14) (d. 1998)
1923 Ted Stevens, American politician
1924 Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
1924 Les Lye, Canadian actor (You Can't Do That on Television) (d. 2009)
1925 Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
1925 Gene Mauch, American baseball manager (d. 2005)
1925 William Robert Mayer, composer
1926 Dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain, 301 matches for Barcelona), (d. 2012)
1926 Kim Besly, activist
1927 Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
1927 Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer
1928 Mickey Mouse, cartoon strip
1928 Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
1928 Salvador Laurel, Filipino politician (d. 2004)
1929 William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot (X-15)
1932 Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
1933 Jacques Charpentier, composer
1934 Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
1935 Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher, writer
1935 Rodney Hall, Australian author
1935 Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
1936 Don E Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
1936 Ennio Antonelli, Italian cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
1936 Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker (The Twist (pre Chubby Checker)
1937 Rajinder Pal, Indian cricketer
1938 Karl Schranz, Austria, slalom (Olympic-1968)
1939 Brenda Vaccaro, American actress (Cactus Flower, Sara, Paper Dolls)
1939 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate
1939 Margaret E Atwood, Canadian author, poet
1939 Tom Johnson, composer
1940 Qaboos bin Sa'id, Sultan of Oman
1941 David Hemmings, British actor (Blow-up, Barbarella) (d. 2003)
1942 Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph)
1942 Linda Evans, American actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1942 Susan Sullivan, American actress (Dharma & Greg, Falcon Crest, My Best Friend's Wedding)
1943 Leonardo Sandri, Argentine Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
1944 Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer
1945 Glen Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Leave it to Larry)
1945 Wilma Mankiller, first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 2010)
1946 Alan Dean Foster, American sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
1946 Amanda Lear, French singer
1947 Jameson Parker, American actor (American Justice, Simon & Simon)
1948 Andrea Marcovicci, American singer and actress (Gloria-Berrengers, Fran-Trapper John)
1948 Jack Tatum, American football player, NFL defensive back (Raiders)
1948 Ural Nazibovich Sultanov, Russian cosmonaut
1949 Ahmad Zaki, Egyptian Actor
1949 Bonnie St Claire (Cornelia Swart), Dutch singer (Tame me Tiger)
1949 Ted Sator, American NHL coach (NY Rangers, Buffalo Sabres)
1950 Dennis Haskins, American actor
1950 Eric Pierpoint, American actor
1950 Graham Parker, English singer (Live Sparks, Mercury Poisoning)
1950 Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist (Quiet Riot)
1951 Justin Raimondo, American author
1951 Marga Stubblefield, LPGA golfer
1951 Mark N Brown, Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, 48, 66)
1952 Delroy Lindo, British actor (Get Shorty, Ransom)
1952 Peter Beattie, Australian politician
1953 Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1953 John McFee, rock guitarist (Doobie Brothers, Clover)
1953 Kevin Nealon, American comedian and actor (SNL, Hot Shot, Coneheads)
1954 Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
1954 Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe, English large landowner
1954 John Parr, British pop singer
1955 Carter Burwell, American composer
1956 Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
1956 Sinbad (David Adkins), American actor (1st Kid, Vibe)
1956 Tony Franklin, NFL kicker (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots)
1956 Warren Moon, American football player, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Seahawks, Vikings)
1957 J.C. Watts (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district, in office Jan 3, 1995 Jan 3, 2003
1957 Jenny Burton, American musician (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do)
1957 Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
1958 Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine football manager
1958 Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor
1958 Plamen Krastev, Bulgarian hurdler
1959 Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1960 Elizabeth Perkins, American actress (About Last Night, Big, Pittsburgh)
1960 Kim Wilde (Smith), English vocalist (You Keep Me Hanging On)
1961 Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, American rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 Jamie Moyer, American baseball player, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1962 Jill Briles-Hinton, American LPGA golfer (1995 Women's Open-16th)
1962 Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)
1962 Tim Guinee, Actor (Iron Man)
1962 Vladimir Vladimirovich Karashtin, Russian cosmonaut
1963 Dante Bichette, American baseball player, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1963 Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986)
1963 Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1964 Mike Withycombe, CFL corner (BC Lions)
1964 Rita Cosby, American journalist
1964 Seth Joyner, NFL linebacker (Ariz, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1965 Mark Petkovsek, American pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 Matt Kabayama, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 Darren Flutie, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 Gwendolyn Hajek, American  playmate (September, 1987)
1966 Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
1966 Ron Coomer, Crest Hill IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1966 Tommie Stowers, WLAF tight end (Rhein Fire)
1967 Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Calgary Flames)
1967 Tom Gordon, Sebring FL, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1968 Gary Sheffield, American baseball player, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1968 Lubomir Sekeras, Liptovsky CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia)
1968 Mel Stewart, NC, 200m butterfly swimmer (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 Milica Vukadinovic, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1968 Owen Wilson, American actor (Bottle Rocket, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
1968 Romany Malco, American actor (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and music producer
1969 Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
1969 Cheryl Bachman, Jacksonville Fla, playmate (October, 1991)
1969 Duncan Sheik, American singer
1969 Lee Anne Ketcham, Tallahassee Fla, female pitcher (Silver Bullets)
1969 Raghib Ismail, NFL wide receiver, kick returner (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Sam Cassell, American basketball player, NBA guard (NJ Nets, Houston Rockets)
1970 Allen Watson, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
1970 Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1970 Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
1970 Mike Epps, American actor
1970 Peta Wilson, Australian actress (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
1970 Phil Buckman, Queens NY, actor (Slash-Drexell's Class)
1970 Toby Wright, safety (St Louis Rams)
1971 Kylie Hanigan, Australian 200m/400m runner (Olympics-96)
1972 Jason Arnberger, cricketer (NSW opening batsman 1994-95 -)
1972 Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
1972 Robert Shapiro, American politician/humorist
1973 Nic Pothas, South African/English wicket-keeper
1973 Steve Christopher Petree, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 Autumn Smith, Miss USA-Alabama (1997, top 10)
1974 Chloë Sevigny, American actress (American Psycho)
1974 Christian Schmidt, actor (Mullers Baro)
1975 Anthony McPartlin, British actor, television presenter and musician
1975 David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
1975 Jason Williams, American basketball player
1975 Pastor Troy, American rapper
1975 Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1976 Matt Welsh, Australian swimmer
1976 Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
1976 Sandy Zubrin, Tamuning Guam, US diver (Olympics-96)
1976 Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
1977 Charles A. Lee, American Athlete
1977 Fabolous, American rapper
1977 Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
1979 Nate Parker, Actor (The Great Debaters)
1980 Denny Hamlin, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver
1980 Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
1980 François Duval, Belgian rally driver
1980 Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
1980 Luke Chadwick, English footballer
1980 Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress/singer
1981 Christina Vidal, American actress
1981 Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
1981 Nasim Pedrad, Iranian-American comedienne (Saturday Night Live, Despicable Me 2)
1981 Shin Ji, Korean singer
1982 Daniel Gilchrist, Actor (Andre: Heart of the Giant)
1983 Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
1983 Robert Kazinsky, Actor (Pacific Rim)
1983 Travis Buck, American baseball player
1984 Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 Nayantara, Indian actress
1984 Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer (w-inds.)
1985 Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
1986 Georgia King, Actress (One Day)
1986 Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
1987 Jake Abel, Actor (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)
1988 Jeffrey Jordan, American college basketball player; son of Michael Jordan
1988 Montanna Thompson, English actress
1989 Danielle Aykroyd Actress, Nothing But Trouble, daughter of Dan Aykroyd
1990 Ryan Postal, Actor (Tortured)
1991 Jewel Restaneo, Actress (The Legend of Sasquatch)
1991 Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, Thai tennis player
1992 Nathan Kress, American actor (Babe: Pig in the City)
1994 Forrest Forte, Producer (F+A - A Collab Video)
1995 Collin Thornton, Actor (Beerfest)
1997 Noah Ringer, Actor (The Last Airbender)

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942 Odo van Cluny, 2nd abbott of Cluny (924-42)
1154 Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
1170 Albrecht I "Bear", 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70)
1305 John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
1559 Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1590 George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
1603 Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Juliana
1630 Esaias van der Velde, Dutch painter
1678 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer
1724 Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
1771 Giuseppe de Majo, composer
1785 Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
1797 Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
1814 William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1822 Anton Teyber, composer
1822 George Knowil Jackson, composer
1827 Wilhelm Hauff, writer
1841 Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer
1851 Ernst August, duke of Cumberland/king of Hanover (1837-51)
1852 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer
1852 Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic nun and French saint (b. 1769)
1883 Wilhelm Siemens, German-British physicist (steam engine)
1886 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (1881-1885) (b. 1829)
1887 Eduard Marxsen, composer
1887 Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist, physicist
1887 Heinrich Panofka, German violist, composer
1889 William Allingham, Irish poet (Day & Night Songs)
1904 Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer, author, head of Red Guard
1909 Renee Vivien, Anglo-American poet (b. 1977)
1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
1917 Henry Spiekman, social-democratic politician
1918 Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa)
1919 Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist)
1922 Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu) (b. 1871)
1929 Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929)
1941 Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1920) (b. 1864)
1941 Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
1946 Donald Meek, Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
1946 John King, English cricketer
1950 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education
1951 John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice
1951 Vaclav Kalik, composer
1951 William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1952 Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
1958 Sivert Samuelson, South African cricketer
1962 Luc Haesaerts, Flemish art critic (Flandre)
1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom) (Nobel Prize laureate 1922) (b. 1885)
1965 Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (1941-1945), founder (Progressive Party) (b. 1888)
1966 Bela Tardos, composer
1966 Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer
1968 Walter Wanger, US producer (Cleopatria)
1969 Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician, Father of JFK, RFK, & TMK (b. 1888)
1969 Leon Jongen, composer
1969 Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970 Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
1971 Junior Parker, Musician
1972 Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter, dies of a drug overdose (b. 1943)
1972 Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer
1976 Man Ray, American artist (Dada) (b. 1890)
1977 Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
1977 Victor Francen, Belgian actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio) (b. 1888)
1978 Jim Jones, American pastor, cult leader (Jonestown Cult), commits suicide (b. 1931)
1978 Leo J Ryan, U.S. Congressman (Rep-Cal) (b. 1925) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members
1979 Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
1980 Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
1982 Donald Dillaway, actor (Min & Bill, Platinum Blonde)
1982 Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
1982 H Kipphardt, writer, dies at 60
1984 Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
1986 Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1987 Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (5x Tour de France) (b. 1934)
1989 Henry de Vries, painter, poet (Toovertuin)
1990 Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist, clarinetist
1991 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslovakia (1975-89) (b. 1913)
1992 Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano
1992 Herman Musaph, psychiatrist, sexologist, co-founder (NVSH)
1992 Superman, fictional character, killed by Doomsday
1993 Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises)
1994 Cab(ell) Calloway, American band leader, actor (Missourians) (b. 1907)
1994 Chris Joyce, photographer
1994 Michael (George) Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet)
1994 Peter Ledger, Australian artist (b. 1945)
1995 Miron Grindea, literary editor
1995 Ted Sannella, square dance caller
1996 David Herbert, publisher
1996 John Vassall, spy, civil servant
1999 Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
1999 Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
2002 James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
2003 Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
2005 Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)
2009 Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2010 Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
2012 Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess
2015 Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union player and the youngest ever All Black
2015 Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete
2015 Jim Slater, British financier and writer

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