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359 Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
361 Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
384 St Damasus I dies and ends his reign as Catholic Pope. Began reign 366
969 Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
1282 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd-Llywelyn the Last, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, south Wales (1259-1282).
1419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
1477 Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie
1572 Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
1602 A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. Commemorations & celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11th or the closest weekend.
1618 Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
1665 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
1688 King James II arrested
1710 Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
1730 Voltaire's "Brutus," premieres in Paris
1789 The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1792 King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention, accused of treason
1812 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
1815 The U.S. Senate created a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
1816 Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
1816 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
1868 Brazilians defeat Paraguayans at the Battle of Avay during the Paraguayan War.
1872 1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1882 Victorien Sardous "Fedora," with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
1888 French Panama Canal company fails
1893 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
1901 Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
1903 British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
1905 120°F (49°C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
1905 A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
1905 British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms
1906 US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1907 The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1908 Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden," premieres
1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1914 Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
1916 David Lloyd George forms British war government
1917 13 black soldiers hanged for participation in Houston riot
1917 British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
1920 Irish War of Independence: In revenge for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
1925 Roman Catholic papal Pope Pius XI publishes  encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
1926 Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW
1927 Guangzhou Uprising, Communist militia and worker Red Guards launch an uprising in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
1928 National League President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
1930 Bank of the United States closes in New York City
1931 Japan leaves the Golden Standard
1931 The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
1932 San Francisco's (USA) coldest day (27°F), it snows
1934 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
1934 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
1934 Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
1934 Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
1934 NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.
1937 25th CFL Grey Cup, Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1937 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
1938 NY Giants win NFL championship
1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
1940 Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
1941 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
1941 Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000
1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941 Japanese occupy Guam
1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy in World War II.
1942 Australian-Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia.
1944 Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
1945 Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
1946 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
1946 Spain suspended from UN
1946 The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established (Nobel 1965).
1947 "Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
1947 Bob Hilliar & Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in Wings," premieres in NYC
1947 Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
1948 The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, which established and defined the role of the United Nations Conciliation Commission as an organization to facilitate peace in the British Mandate for Palestine.
1948 WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Chicago Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
1949 Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
1949 WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
1950 Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement
1953 KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
1954 Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1954 USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
1956 Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
1958 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls
1958 Archibald MacLeish's "JB," premieres in NYC
1958 French Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) and French Dahomey gains self-government autonomy from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin) respectively, joining the French Community.
1959 Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
1960 Black Sunday Riot in Algiers, 114 die
1960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
1960 Coleman & Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC
1960 French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.
1961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
1961 JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1962 Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
1964 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1965 "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
1965 "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
1967 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1967 Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
1967 People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967 SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
1968 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1968 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus featuring The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull (band), The Who, Taj Mahal (musician), Marianne Faithfull, The Dirty Mac, Yoko Ono, Sir Robert Fossett's Circus and the Nurses is filmed at the Intertel (V.T.R. Services) Studio, Wycombe Road, Wembley
1968 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
1969 Libya adopts constitution
1970 John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
1970 Start of the first Test match at the WACA, v England
1970 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
1971 The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed.
1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
1972 Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
1973 Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
1973 North American Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
1973 Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
1973 West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
1975 First class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
1975 Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
1979 Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
1979 Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1980 Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 Argentine president General Roberto Viola flees
1981 El Mozote massacre, Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
1981 Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
1981 Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
1981 Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
1981 United Nations Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
1981 Washington Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
1983 First visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1983 72nd Australian Mens Tennis, Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)
1983 Jan Stephens & Fred Couples win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1984 "Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
1984 Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb
1985 Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
1985 NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
1986 South Africa censors press.
1987 Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
1989 "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
1990 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
1991 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
1992 Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
1992 WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
1993 59th Heisman Trophy Award, Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
1993 Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1993 Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1994 A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
1994 Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya during the First Chechen War.
1994 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1994 Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenie
1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
1997 "Sunshine Boys," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
1997 Fed judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
1997 The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opens for signature.
1998 Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Thai Airways Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
2001 The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2005 Cronulla riots, Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2005 The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom when it is is rocked by explosions.
2006 Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
2006 The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
2007 Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional court building in Algiers, Algeria and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
2008 Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2009 Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2010 Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
2012 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
2012 British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world
2012 HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
2013 20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village
2013 Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year
2014 CIA Director John Brennan defends interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were "abhorrent"
2014 World's 1st penis transplant procedure by a team from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
2015 "Playboy" magazine publishes its last nude issue, featuring Pamela Anderson on the cover
2015 Unrest in Burundi leads to clashes between authorities and protesters in Bujumbura, killing at least 87

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1465 Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 Pope Leo X  (Giovanni de' Medici), Italian Pope (1513-21) (d. 1521)
1566 Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer and organist (d. 1650)
1676 Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer
1680 Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736)
1709 Louise Elisabeth of Orléans, French Queen consort of Spain, wife of Louis I of Spain (d. 1742)
1712 Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia) (d. 1764)
1725 George Mason, American politician (d. 1792)
1757 Charles Wesley, composer
1758 Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1832)
1761 Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (d. 1835)
1781 David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor (kaleidoscope) (d. 1868)
1783 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
1793 Pietro Coppola, composer
1797 Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
1801 Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (d. 1836)
1801 Grabbe, writer
1803 Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1810 Alfred de Musset, French poet, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine) (d. 1857)
1823 Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
1830 Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872)
1835 Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite, PM
1836 Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician, ship owner
1838 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
1838 John Labatt, Canadian businessman, Brewer (labatt) (d. 1915)
1838 Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer
1840 Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet, author (Fatherland-1872)
1843 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera) (Nobel Prize laureate 1905) (d. 1910)
1849 Ellen Key, Swedish theorist, author, feminist (Courageous Woman)
1855 Julian Edwards, composer
1856 Georgi V Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and theorist (d. 1918)
1858 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian playwright, theatre director, and producer (d. 1943)
1863 Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer, stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification) (d. 1941)
1867 Antonio Conte, Italian fencer (d. 1953)
1868 Ernst Henrik Ellberg, composer
1872 René Bull, Irish illustrator (d. 1942)
1873 Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician (d. 1967)
1874 Paul Wegener, German actor, director (Student of Prag)
1875 Yehuda Leib Maimon, Bassarabian-Israeli rabbi and politician (d. 1962)
1876 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer
1880 Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1882 Fiorello La Guardia, American politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45) (d. 1947)
1882 Max Born, German physicist (quantum mechanics) (Nobel Prize laureate 1954) (d. 1970)
1882 Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1883 Victor McLaglen, English-American actor (d. 1959)
1884 Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)
1885 Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (d. 1943)
1889 Paul Kornfeld, writer
1889 Walter Knott, American farmer, founded Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981)
1890 Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian tango singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)
1890 Mark Tobey, American painter (d. 1976)
1892 Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
1896 Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense (WW II)
1897 Ronald Skirth, English army officer (d. 1977)
1898 Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish poet (Barfotabarn)
1899 Vera von der Heydt, psychoanalyst
1904 Joe Coral, bookmaker
1904 Marge, American cartoonist (d. 1993)
1905 Eugen Fink, German philosopher
1905 Gilbert Roland (Luis Alonso), Mexican-American actor (Juarez, Barbarosa) (d. 1994)
1905 Koos van de Griend, composer
1905 Robert Henriques, English author, broadcaster, and farmer (d. 1967)
1906 Birago Diop, Senegalees writer, ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
1907 Norbert Rosseau, composer
1908 Amon Goeth, German SS officer (d. 1946)
1908 Elliott Cook Carter Jr, American composer (Tom & Lily) (d. 2012)
1908 Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
1908 Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director and screenwriter
1909 John Wyer, English sports car racing team manager and engineer (d.1989)
1909 Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991)
1910 Noel Rosa, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1937)
1910 Robert Grieve, civil servant
1911 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author (Nobel Prize laureate 1988) (d. 2006)
1911 Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (d. 2009)
1911 Val Guest, English director (d. 2006)
1911 Vincent Henry Kemp, poet
1912 Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer, director, married to Sophia Loren (d. 2007)
1913 Jean Marais, French actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus) (d. 1998)
1915 Anna van Beers (Graeve), actress (A Woman like Eve)
1916 Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban singer, pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian soldier and author (Cancer Ward) (Nobel Prize laureate 1970) (d. 2008)
1918 Clinton Adams, American painter (d. 2002)
1919 Marie Windsor (Emily Marie Bertelson), American actress (Double Deal) (d. 2000)
1920 Eddy Firestone, American actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
1921 Liz Smith, English actress
1921 Maila Nurmi, Finnjish actress (Vampira)
1922 Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
1922 Grace Paley, American author and poet (1970 Arts & Letters Award) (d. 2007)
1922 Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1922 Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (d. 2008)
1922 Pauline Jewett, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
1922 Peter Birch, American choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1923 Betsy Blair, American actress (Marty) (d. 2009)
1924 Doc Blanchard, American football player (d. 2009)
1925 Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman
1925 James Sullivan, American politician (d. 2012)
1925 Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist (Nobel Prize laureate)
1926 Big Mama Thornton, American blues singer-songwriter (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt) (d. 1984)
1927 John Buscema, American comics illustrator (d. 2002)
1927 Stein Eriksen, Norweigan giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952)
1928 Tomas Gutierrez Alea, filmmaker
1929 Axel Anderson, German-Puerto Rican actor (d. 2012)
1929 S P "Fergie" Gupte, Indian cricketer
1930 Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress/
1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor and director (Man & a Woman, Z)
1930 Leonard Friedman, violinist
1931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic, guru, educator, leader B-sect (d. 1990)
1931 Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 Richard Devon, American actor (Battle of Blood Island)
1931 Rita Moreno (Rosita Dolores Alverío), Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer (West Side Story)
1931 Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar
1932 Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian modern pentathlete (d. 2010)
1932 Anne Heywood (Violet Pretty), English actress (Brain) (1949)
1932 Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan army officer, founder and leader of the Contras (d. 1991)
1932 Wynn Irwin, American actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time)
1933 Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines
1933 Earnest P van Altena, author, interpreter (Chansons van Earnest)
1934 Salim Durani, Indian cricketer
1935 Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1935 Femke Boersma, Dutch actress (Verjaring, Pastorale 1943)
1935 Ferdinand A. Porsche, Germany car designer (Porsche 911) (d. 2012)
1935 Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, 13th President of India
1935 Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
1936 Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister (1992)
1936 Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937 Adrian J Vlok, South African Minister of Law & Order (1986)
1937 Jim Harrison, American author
1938 Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist and composer
1938 Reg Livermore, Australian actor and singer
1939 David Gates, American rock vocalist (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You)
1939 Thomas McGuane, American author (Colf Feet, Tom Horn, Missouri Breaks)
1939 Tom Hayden, American politician and activist, Mr Jane Fonda (Rep-D-Ca)
1940 David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bread)
1940 Donna Mills, American actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
1941 J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)
1941 J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 Max Baucus, American politician (Sen-D-Mont)
1941 Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
1942 Donna Mills, American actress
1942 Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1962)
1943 John Kerry, American politician and 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party
1944 Booker T Jones, US organist (Booker T & MGs-Green Onions)
1944 Brenda Lee (Brenda Mae Tarpley), American singer (I'm Sorry)
1944 David Ashley White, composer
1944 Jon Garrison, American tenor
1944 Juan E. Méndez, Argentinian activist
1944 Lynda Day George, American actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
1944 Teri Garr, American film actress
1945 Robert Pickett, Musician
1946 Diana Palmer, American author
1946 Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 Rick McCosker, Australian cricketer
1946 Teri Garr, American actress (Mr Mom, Young Frankenstein)
1947 Tom Fuccello, American actor (Dave-Dallas)
1948 Elizabeth Baur, American actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer)
1948 Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek composer
1949 Noel Campbell, Irish footballer
1950 Christine Onassis (Andreadis), American businesswoman, heiress, Aristotle's daughter (d. 1988)
1950 Nino Frassica, Italian actor
1951 Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower
1951 Robert Cochran, American skier (Olympics-1972)
1952 Peter Geyer, German footballer
1952 Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
1953 Bess Armstrong, American actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws)
1953 Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
1953 Peter Isacksen, American actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie)
1954 Brad Bryant, American golfer
1954 Bradley Dub Bryant, American PGA golfer (1995 Walt Disney)
1954 Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, engineer, and mathematician
1954 Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Jackson 5)
1954 Santiago Creel, Mexican politician
1954 Sylvester Clarke, West Indian cricketer
1955 Christian Sackewitz, German footballer
1955 Stu Jackson, American basketball coach, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90)
1956 Andrew Lansley, English politician
1956 Lani Brockman, American actress and director, founded Studio East
1957 Peter Bagge, American illustrator and writer
1958 Isabella Hofmann, American actress
1958 Nikki Sixx, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Mötley Crüe, Sixx:A.M., Brides of Destruction, London, 58, Sister)
1958 Regina Marsikova, Czechoslovakian tennis player
1958 Tom Shadyac, Producer (Bruce Almighty) and Documentarian (Happy)
1959 David Iwasaki-Smith, Australian golfer
1959 Jean-Louis Lamarre, Quebecois golfer (Quebec PGA-1982, 85)
1959 Lisa Gastineau, American reality show star
1959 Tina Gayle, Cowboy cheerleader, actress (Kathy-Chips)
1960 Danny Mijovic, Yugoslavian-Canadian Tour golfer (1984 Mexican)
1960 Mary Beth Zimmerman, American LPGA golfer (1987 Henredon Classic)
1960 Rachel Portman, English film composer
1961 Dave King, Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Flogging Molly and Fastway)
1961 Macky Sall, Senegalese politician, 4th President of Senegal
1961 Marco Pierre White, English chef and restaurateur
1961 Mike Henneman, American pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1962 Ben Browder, American actor (Stargate: Continuum)
1962 Curtis Williams, rocker
1962 Ejo Elburg, Dutch soccer player (Pax, NEC)
1962 Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record)
1962 Nele Karajlić, Bosnian singer
1962 Nele Karajlić, Serbian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (Zabranjeno Pušenje)
1962 Paul Haslinger, Austrian-American composer (Tangerine Dream)
1963 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis star
1963 John Lammers, Dutch footballer, manager, player (NAC)
1963 Jon Brion, American singer-songwriter, composer, and producer
1963 Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force)
1963 Mark Greatbatch, New Zealand cricketer
1964 Alexis Reich, American who falsely confessed to the murder of JonBenét Ramsey
1964 Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer
1964 Cosy Sheridan, American singer-songwriter
1964 Dave Gagner, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1964 Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Widespread Panic, Stockholm Syndrome, J Mascis + The Fog)
1964 John Mark Karr, American who claimed involvement in JonBenét Ramsey case
1964 Justin Currie, Scottish singer-songwriter, bassist, and guitarist (Del Amitri, The Uncle Devil Show)
1964 Michel Courtemanche, Canadian comedian and actor
1964 Thomas Howard, American outfielder (Cin Reds)
1965 Giannis Ragousis, Greek economist and politician
1965 Jay Bell, American baseball player, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1965 Laurie Carr, American playmate (Dec, 1986)
1966 Gary Dourdan, American actor (Alien: Resurrection)
1966 Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (d. 2002)
1966 Leon Lai, Chinese (Cantonese) singer and actor
1966 Terry Sharpe, Musician (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
1967 DJ Yella, American DJ and music producer (N.W.A, World Class Wreckin' Cru)
1967 Davidson Matyczuk, Canadian golfer (Thunder Bay-1986, 87)
1967 Jackie Gallagher-Smith, LPGA golfer
1967 Katy Steding, American basketball forward (Oly-gold-96)
1967 Mo'Nique, American comedian and actress (Precious)
1967 Richard Stemp, English cricketer
1968 Derek Bell, American outfielder (Houston Astros)
1968 Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer
1968 Mark Dailey, American 1.5k runner
1969 Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
1969 Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker
1969 Max Martini, Actor (Pacific Rim)
1969 Sean Grande, American sportscaster
1969 Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer
1969 Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess player
1970 Danan Hughes, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1970 Doug Nussmeier, NFL quarterback (NO Saints)
1970 Errict Rhett, NFL running back (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 Victoria Fuller, American playmate (Jan, 1996)
1971 Cedric Ihalauw, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 Willie McGinest, American football player, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1972 Dana Macsim, Romanian television news reporter
1972 Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators)
1972 Francisco Rodriguez, American pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1972 Robert Robinson, CFL defensive linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Rusty Joiner, American model and actor
1972 Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer
1973 Erin Moorad, American pairs skater (& Richard Gillam)
1973 Luke Casserly, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Mos Def, American rapper (Black Star and Soulquarians) and actor (The Italian Job)
1973 Ralph Intranuovo, East York, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1974 Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
1974 Kevin Devine, cornerback, kick returner (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 Lisa Ortiz, American actress
1974 Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
1974 Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
1975 Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1975 Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
1976 Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1977 Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1978 Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian and actor
1979 Rider Strong, American actor (Cabin Fever), director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 Arya, Indian actor
1980 Rider Strong, American actor (Shawn Hunter-Boy Meets World)
1981 Hamish Blake, Australian comedian, actor, and author
1981 Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1981 Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator
1981 Nikki Benz, Ukraine-born Canadian pornographic actress
1981 Paul Medhurst, Australian rules footballer
1981 Zacky Vengeance, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine race car driver
1983 Yoh Miyamori, Japanese musician (Orange Range)
1984 Leighton Baines, English footballer
1984 Sandra Echeverría, Actress (Savages)
1984 Spyros Vrontaras, Greek footballer
1985 Aiko Kayō, Japanese singer and voice actress
1985 Yekta Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer
1986 Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
1987 Clifton Geathers, American football player
1987 Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
1988 Ashley Hinshaw, Actress (Chronicle)
1988 Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess prodigy
1988 Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
1989 Dana Stockton, Director (Toby and the Runaway Kite)
1990 George Maguire, Actor (The Royal Variety Performance)
1991 Daniel Fernández Delgado, Spanish singer (Te doy mi voz)
1992 Tiffany Alvord, Singer (Diary of an Ex-Child Star)
1993 Austin Ethridge, Director (Ella: An Experimental Art House Horror Short Film)
1993 Gina Miele, American singer and actress
1996 Hailee Steinfeld, American actress (True Grit)
1997 Timyra-Joi Beatty, Actress (Curious George)
1998 Brianna Rain King, Actress (Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control)
1999 Christopher Li, Actor (Smooth Taste)

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384 Pope Damasus I (b. 305)
711 Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium
861 Al-Mutawakkil, Pakistani caliph (b. 822)
969 Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
1121 Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Israeli political adviser, Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
1226 Robert de Ros, English politician (b. 1177)
1241 Ögedei Khan Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
1282 Llywelyn the Last, Welsh prince (b. 1223)
1282 Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82) (b. 1225)
1524 Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake
1532 Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1455)
1573 Alardus-Eilard de Waterlant, duke of Alva, hanged
1582 Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1508)
1595 Philip III van Croij, Prince of Chimay, general
1610 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist, etcher
1610 Forges Dimitri 2, czar of Russia, murdered
1686 Louis II Condé, French general, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1621)
1694 Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1718 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead invading Norway at Fortress of Fredriksten
1737 John Strype, English clergyman and historian (b. 1643)
1747 Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
1748 Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer, inventor of condensator
1756 Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer, king
1797 Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
1817 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
1826 Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
1831 John George Schetky, composer
1840 Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1847 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet
1857 Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer
1872 Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (b. 1830)
1880 Oliver Fisher Winchester, American businessman and politician (b. 1810)
1891 Johan C J van Schagen, Dutch poet, writer (Narrenwijsheid)
1892 William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
1899 Andrew Wauchope, British Major-General, dies in Battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war, South Africa. Another British Major, The Marquess of Winchester also killed.
1902 Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
1903 Patrick McShane, cricket player, ump
1906 Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)
1909 Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
1911 Thomas Ball, US sculptor, painter, singe
1918 Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author (Hlapec Jernej), poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1920 Olive Schreiner, South African author (b. 1855)
1930 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian
1933 Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster)
1938 Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856)
1941 John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)
1945 Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
1955 Franz Adolf Syberg, composer
1955 Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3 Monument)
1957 Musidora, French actress and director (b. 1889)
1959 Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1964 Percy Kilbride, American actor (Ma & Pa Kettle) (b. 1888)
1964 Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (The Highway Q.C.'s and The Soul Stirrers), shot to death (b. 1931)
1967 Howard Freeman, actor (Double Dynamite)
1967 Richard Stohr, composer
1967 Victor De Sabata, composer
1968 Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
1968 Nadine Riga
1968 Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (b. 1910)
1971 Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer, co-founder (McDonald's)  (b. 1902)
1972 John Mills, New Zealand cricketer
1972 Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka
1974 Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender)
1975 Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1978 Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (b. 1920)
1978 Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1901)
1979 Claire Carleton, American actress (Alice-Cimarron City)
1979 James J. Gibson, American perceptual psychologist (b. 1904)
1983 Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
1983 Szymon Laks, composer
1984 George Waggner, director, writer
1984 Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
1986 Paul Keenan, actor (Summer Fantasy)
1987 G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) author (b. 1923)
1989 Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1990 Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist, banker
1991 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author, critic, Professor (Swedish Academy) (b. 1906)
1991 Daniel Simon Scott
1991 Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
1991 Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, game show host, comic, panel membel (RQL Show) (b. 1921)
1992 Michael Robbins, English actor (Lunch Hour, On the Buses) (b. 1930)
1992 Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel)
1993 Ales Gartner, Slavic ski trainer of Norway
1993 Eliva "Elvire" Popesco, Romanian-French actress (Le roi) (b. 1894)
1994 Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1994 Stanislaw Maczek, Polish-British general-major (WW II)
1994 Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1979)
1995 Arthur Mullard, English actor, comedian (b. 1910)
1995 John Heawood, actor singer, choreographer (Pleasure Garden)
1995 Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist
1996 Herbert Sally Frankel, economist
1996 Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier
1996 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot
1996 Willie George Rushton, English cartoonist, author, actor (TW3), publisher, co-founder (Private Eye) (b. 1937)
1997 Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914)
1997 Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist
1998 André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
1998 Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (Snot) (b. 1968)
2000 David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2000 Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
2003 Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (b. 1927)
2004 Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
2004 José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2006 Elizabeth Bolden, American verified oldest person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)
2007 Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian Actress (b. 1981)
2007 Christie Hennessy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
2007 Grace Paley, American writer (b. 1922)
2008 Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
2008 Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
2010 Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
2011 John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
2011 Susan Gordon, American actress (b. 1949)
2012 Albert O. Hirschman, German-American economist (b. 1915)
2012 Antonie Hegerlíková, Czech actress (b. 1923)
2012 B. B. Nimbalkar, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2012 Colleen Walker, American golfer (b. 1956)
2012 Dindi Gowa Nyasulu, Malawian politician (b. 1944)
2012 Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (b. 1926)
2012 Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi (b. 1933)
2012 Pedro Reginaldo Lira, Argentinian bishop (b. 1915)
2012 Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920)
2012 Toni Blankenheim, German opera singer (b. 1921)
2012 Walter Francis Sullivan, American bishop (b. 1928)
2012 William B. Hopkins, American politician (b. 1922)
2013 Nadir Afonso, Portuguese artist
2013 Barbara Branden, Canadian writer
2015 John "Hot Rod" Williams, American NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns)

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