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268 Pope St Dionysius
418 Pope St Zosimus
795 St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1135 Coronation of King Stephen of England.
1198 French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1481 Battle at Westbroek, Dutch army beats Utrecht
1492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1568 Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada
1620 Elizabeth Báthory's crimes are uncovered.
1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
1659 Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1748 France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1776 In the Battle of Trenton of the American Revolutionary War, George Washington and the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries.
1790 Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
1792 The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris.
1793 Battle of Geisberg, French defeat Austrians.
1793 Second Battle of Wissembourg, France defeat Austria.
1793 The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1799 Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
1805 Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg.
1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1806 Battles of Pultusk and Golymin, Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon.
1809 English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1811 A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.
1813 Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1825 Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
1825 Erie Canal opens
1830 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
1846 Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism.
1848 First gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1848 The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
1848 William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1860 Maiden voyage of first steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter
1860 The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom.
1861 The Trent Affair of the American Civil War, Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
1862 Battle of Dumfries, VA of the American Civil War
1862 First US navy hospital ship enters service
1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minnesota, due to their uprising
1862 The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou of the American Civil War begins.
1862 Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
1862 The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
1870 The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1871 Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
1872 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
1878 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
1879 John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres
1883 The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.
1890 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1892 Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899 Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1900 A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes 1st black heavyweight champion
1916 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1917 First NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1918 First day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
1924 Judy Garland, 2½, billed as Baby Frances, makes her show business debut
1925 First East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1, NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
1925 The Communist Party of India is founded.
1925 Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax ,  Hooker) NSW v Vic
1931 George & Ira Gershwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing," premieres on Broadway in NYC
1933 Bradman scores 187* NSW v Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours
1933 FM radio is patented.
1933 US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1934 Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1935 Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1936 Israel Philarmonic Orch forms
1938 Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out
1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa
1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
1940 First-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
1940 JA Fields & J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
1941 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1941 Winston Churchill becomes First British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1943 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1943 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
1943 German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces in World War II.
1944 Battle of Bastogne of World War II, US General George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago
1945 CFP franc and CFA franc are created.
1946 "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances
1946 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 perfs
1946 35th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1947 "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
1947 British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84°F
1948 Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1950 Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1954 "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
1954 Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10
1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Los Angeles Rams 38-14
1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1957 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1960 Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
1960 Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
1963 "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
1963 US furnishes cereal to USSR
1964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim
1965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1965 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
1965 Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
1966 Jimi Hendrix writes "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club
1966 The first Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1967 BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's Madison Square Garden
1968 Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in NYC
1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1972 As part of Operation Linebacker II of the Vietnam War, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
1973 "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres
1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1975 First supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
1975 A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket
1976 "Music Is" closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
1976 The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded.
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1979 Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1980 Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
1981 One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Aust v WI
1982 Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, v Pakistan MCG
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, v India at the MCG
1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1986 Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1988 "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
1988 Anti African student rebellion in China PR
1989 ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
1990 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
1991 NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1993 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 Floyd, Nicklaus & Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn
1994 Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
1994 French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
1995 Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG)
1995 Paul Adams becomes S Afr's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 yrs 340 ds
1996 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
1996 Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1996 The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
1997 The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
1998 Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
1998 Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.
1999 Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar).
1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
2003 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
2004 A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.
2004 The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny (Orange Revolution).
2005 Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto.
2006 An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260.
2006 The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan
2012 China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou
2015 Floods in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay displace 150,000, blamed on El Nino

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1194 Frederick II, Holy Roman & German Emperor (1212-1250), King of Sicily (d. 1250)
1532 Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576)
1536 Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584)
1542 Tokugawa Ieyasu, unifier of Japan and first Tokugawa Shogun (d. 1616)
1618 Elisabeth, Paltsgravin of Rhine, abbess
1633 Charles E Biset, Flemish painter, baptised
1646 Robert Bolling, English-American merchant settler (Virginia) (d. 1709)
1660 Peter Schenck, German-Dutch engraver, publisher
1666 Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism (d. 1708)
1687 Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (d. 1755)
1716 Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French military officer and poet (d. 1803)
1716 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard) and scholar (d. 1771)
1723 Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German author (d. 1807)
1731 Anthony Ziesenis, architect, sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan)
1737 Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
1738 Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
1751 Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian missionary, priest, and saint (d. 1820)
1762 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
1770 Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba)
1771 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist, poet (Regulus)
1771 Julie Clary, French Queen of Naples, wife of Joseph Bonaparte (d. 1845)
1778 Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
1780 Mary Fairfax Somerville, Scottish polymath and author (d. 1872)
1782 Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867)
1782 Philaret Drozdov, Russian bishop (d. 1867)
1791 Charles Babbage, English mathematician, engineer, inventor (calculating machine, Difference engine) (d. 1871)
1793 Franz Hunten, composer
1797 Hans Skramstad, composer
1805 Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer
1808 Albert Grisar, composer
1809 William Nelson Pendleton, Brigadeer General (Confederate Army) (d. 1883)
1812 Wilhelm Volkmar, composer
1815 Israel Bush Richardson, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1819 E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author (d. 1899)
1820 Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
1820 Gustavus Adolphus Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1885)
1822 Dion Boucicault, Irish- American actor, playwright (Rip van Winkle)
1824 Augustus Louis Chetlain, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1914)
1826 Franz Coenen, composer
1826 Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book, publisher (Van Dale)
1837 George Dewey, American admiral (Manila) (d. 1917)
1837 Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut, baseball commissioner (d. 1922)
1845 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer
1849 Samuel E "Sam" van Beem, actor (Fanfan la Tulipe)
1853 René Bazin, French author (d. 1932)
1855 Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, composer
1859 Johan F van Bemmelen, Dutch zoologist
1859 William Stephens, American politician, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
1861 Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory)
1862 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian-Italian writer
1863 Charles Pathé, French film and record producer, co-founder (Pathé, Pathé Records) (d. 1957)
1867 Phan Boi Chau, Vietnamese activist (d. 1940)
1869 Harry Redman, composer
1872 Norman Angell, English journalist, author, politician (Nobel Prize laureate 1933) (d. 1967)
1873 Hubert Cuypers, Dutch composer, choir conductor (Minstrels)
1873 Karel Moor, composer
1873 Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
1878 Isaiah Bowman, American geography/co-founder (Geographical Review)
1879 Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer
1879 Julius Weismann, composer
1883 Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950)
1883 Frank Debenham, Australian geographer/geologist
1883 Maurice Utrillo, French painter (d. 1955)
1887 Arthur Ernest Percival, English army officer (d. 1966)
1888 Marius Canard, French orientalist and historian (d. 1982)
1890 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992)
1891 Henry Miller, American author and painter (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus) (d. 1980)
1893 Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer
1893 Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong), Chinese Prime Minister (1949-1976), and military leader (d. 1976)
1893 Yury Nikolayevich Tyulin, composer
1894 Antonio Molina, composer
1894 Jean Toomer, American author and poet (d. 1967)
1897 Willie Corsari (Wilhelmina A Schmidt), Dutch writer
1899 Udham Singh, Indian activist (d. 1940)
1901 Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
1901 Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer
1902 Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980)
1903 Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI) (d. 1995)
1904 Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban-French writer (Guerra del Tiempo) (d. 1980)
1905 William Loeb III, American publisher (d. 1981)
1906 Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003)
1907 Albert Gore Sr., American politician (d. 1998)
1908 Ralph Hill, American 5K runner (Olympic-1932)
1910 Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner
1911 Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962)
1911 Steve Kordek, American pinball machine designer, (d. 2012)
1913 Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
1914 Richard Widmark, American actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg) (d. 2008)
1915 Hans (Henri A) Gomperts, Dutch literature (Duck on Attic)
1915 Una Mae Carlisle, American pianist, vocalist (Walkin' at the River)
1916 Helmut Eder, composer
1917 Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
1918 Georgios Rallis, Greek politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1920 Gote Carlid, composer
1921 John Severin, American comic book artist (Hulk, Mad Magazine), (d. 2012)
1921 Steve Allen, American actor, comedian, singer, TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show) (d. 2000)
1922 Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006)
1924 Frank Broyles, American football player and coach, athletic director (University of Arkansas).
1925 Baron Baker, activist
1926 Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
1926 Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader (17 yrs in Robbeneiland Jail)
1926 Gina Pellón, Cuban-French painter
1926 Zlatko Pibernik, composer
1927 Alan King, American comedian and actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me) (d. 2004)
1927 Denis Gifford, English journalist and historian (d. 2000)
1927 Denis Quilley, English actor (Masada) (d. 2003)
1927 Stu Miller, American baseball player
1929 Régine Zylberberg, French singer, nightclub owner
1930 Donald Moffat, English actor (Kent-Logan's Run)
1930 Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1930 Sayed Mutawli imam ad-Darsh, scholar, broadcaster
1931 Thomas Eden Binkley, musician
1931 Thomas K "Tom" van Brook, actor, interpreter (Soldier of Orange)
1932 Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter
1933 Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, voice actor
1933 Ugly Dave Gray, English-Australian comedian, actor, television personality
1935 Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (Four Tops)
1935 Barbara J Jacket, US athletic coach (Olympics 1972)
1935 Norm Ullman, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 Rohan Kanhai, West Indies cricketer
1936 Kitty Dukakis, wife of Michael Dukakis (Gov-Mass), substance abuser
1937 Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
1937 John Horton Conway, English-American mathematician
1938 Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director (d. 1989)
1938 Bahram Bayzai, Iranian director, scriptwriter, and producer
1939 Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter
1939 Lynn Martin, American secretary of Labor (1991-93)
1939 (Harvey) Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter, producer (The Teddy Bears), inventor  (Wall of Sound)
1940 Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 Harmen Siezen, Dutch TV-journal host
1940 Ray Sadecki, American baseball player
1941 Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director (Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs) (d. 2006)
1942 Barry Wood, English cricketer
1942 Catherine Coulter, American author
1942 Earl Cate, American country singer (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
1942 Ernie Cate, American country singer (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
1942 Gray Davis, American politician, 37th Governor of California
1942 Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, Guatemalan president
1942 Rob de Nijs, Dutch singer (Put a candle in your window)
1942 Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala
1944 Jane Lapotaire, English actress (Spirit of the Dead)
1945 John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist, creator (America's Most Wanted).
1946 Alan Frumin, American politician
1946 Gordon Edwards, rocker
1946 Lisette Hordijk, Dutch TV broadcaster
1947 Carlton Fisk, American baseball player, all star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox)
1947 James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
1947 Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter and musician (The Plastic People of the Universe)
1947 Joyce Jillson, American psychic, actress (Superchick)
1947 Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic
1948 Candy Crowley, American journalist
1948 Chris Chambliss, First baseman (NY Yankee)
1949 Bob Hartman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Petra)
1949 Ira Newborn, American orchestra leader (Manhattan Transfer)
1949 José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
1949 Mikhail Boyarsky, Russian actor and singer
1950 Michael Jones, Musician(BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
1950 Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistani politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1950 Victoria Racimo, American actress (Corene-Falcon Crest)
1951 John Scofield, American guitarist and composer (Trio Beyond)
1951 Richard Skinner, English television and radio host
1952 Andre-Michel Schub, French pianist (Van Cliburn-1981)
1953 Henning Schmitz, German drummer (Kraftwerk)
1953 Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic
1953 Matthew Harding, businessman, soccer supporter
1953 Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia
1953 Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov, Russian cosmonaut
1954 Ozzie Smith, American baseball player, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1954 Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer
1954 Peter Woods, Musician (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble)
1954 Steve Steen, English actor
1954 Susan H Butcher, dog sled driver (Idatarod)
1954 Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor
1954 Ullrich Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 Walter Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 Evan Bayh, American politician, 46th Governor of Indiana
1956 David Sedaris, American comedian, author, and radio host
1956 Gail Tatterson, WBL center (NY Stars)
1956 Karen Smith, WBL forward (NY Stars)
1957 Dermot Murnaghan, English journalist
1957 Mike South, American porn actor and director
1958 Adrian Newey, English engineer
1959 Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director
1959 Lesley Tomlinson, English cyclist (Olympics-96)
1959 Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer
1960 Christian Müller, German footballer
1960 Jim Toomey, American cartoonist
1960 Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones)
1960 Tina Wesson, American reality show contestant (winner of Survivor: The Australian Outback)
1961 Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer
1961 John Lynch, Irish actor (Sliding Doors)
1961 Storm Davis, American MLB Baseball Player, pitcher (KC Royals)
1961 Tahnee Welch (La Tahn Renee Welch), American actress (Cocoon)
1963 Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player
1963 Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Metallica)
1964 Colleen Dion, American actress (Search for Tomorrow)
1964 Elizabeth Kostova, American author
1964 Jeff King, American baseball player, MLB infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1965 Ben Husaby, American cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1965 Nadia Dajani, Actress (Happy Accidents)
1966 Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Gob Iron)
1966 Jay Yuenger, American guitarist and producer (White Zombie)
1966 Sandra Taylor, American model and actress (L.A. Confidential)
1966 Tim Legler, American basketball player, NBA guard (Washington Wizards, Bullets)
1967 Tony Covington, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 Darren Barber, Canadian rower (Olympics-96)
1968 Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler
1968 Tricia Leigh Fisher, American actress and singer
1970 Graham Shiels, Actor (Yes Man)
1970 James Mercer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Shins, Broken Bells)
1970 Krissada Terrence (Sukosol Clapp), Thai singer and actor
1970 Lisa Gathright, American WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1993)
1970 Radka Zrubakova, Bratislava Slovakia, tennis star (1994 Futures-GER)
1970 Willie Williams, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Seahawks)
1971 Alexandra Rapaport, Actress (The Hunt)
1971 Jared Leto, American singer-songwriter (30 Seconds to Mars), actor (Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club), producer, and director
1971 Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director
1971 Mark Lathwell, English cricketer
1971 Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer
1971 Tatiana Sorokko, Russian-American model and journalist
1972 Burnell Roques, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Derrick Cullors, running back (New England Patriots)
1972 Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer
1972 Jared Leto, Bossier City LA, actor (Jordan-My So Called Life)
1972 Robert Muchamore, English children's author
1972 Shane Meadows, English director, producer, and actor
1973 Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player
1973 Paulo Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer
1973 Reichen Lehmkuhl, American model, actor, television personality
1973 Ryan Berube, American 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Zach Blair, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hagfish, Gwar, Rise Against, and Only Crime)
1974 Joshua John Miller, American actor
1974 Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actress (Contagion)
1974 Tiffany Brissette, American actress (Vicki-Small Wonder)
1974 Tony Brackens, defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1975 Marcelo Rios, Santiago Chile, tennis star
1975 Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
1976 Lea De Mae, Czech porn actress, model (d. 2004)
1976 Nadia Litz, Canadian actress and director
1976 Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer
1977 Adrienn Hegedűs, Hungarian tennis player
1977 Brandee Layne Loving, American Model, Miss Mississippi Teen USA (1996)
1977 Sofia Bekatorou, Greek sailor
1978 Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
1979 Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Daughtry)
1979 Craig Wing, Australian rugby player
1979 Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
1979 Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
1979 Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
1980 Serena Phillips, Corvallis Ore, figure skater (1997 Pruetten champ)
1980 Todd Dunivant, American soccer player
1981 Pablo Canavosio, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1982 Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
1982 Kenneth Darby, American National Football League player
1982 Shun Oguri, Japanese actor and model
1983 Kelly Sharbaugh, Reality TV Star (Survivor)
1984 Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer
1984 Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
1984 Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player
1985 Beth Behrs, American actress (Monsters University)
1985 Steven Hartman, American actor (Rick Forrester-Bold & Beautiful)
1985 Yu Shirota, Japanese-Spanish actor and singer (D-Boys)
1986 Hugo Lloris, French footballer
1986 Jacqueline Steiger, Actress (Matilda)
1986 Kit Harington, Actor (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D)
1987 Adam Walker, English flute player
1988 Ayaka Morita, Actress (Shoujotachi no rashinban)
1989 Ben Schumann, Australian actor
1989 Jennica Garcia, Filipino actress
1989 Lecabela Quaresma, São Toméan runner
1989 Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
1990 Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
1990 Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides)
1991 Eden Sher, Actress (Stuck)
1992 Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
1992 Kätlin Aas, Estonian model
1993 Sara Tough, Actress (Godsend)
1994 Samantha Boscarino, American actress
1994 Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
1995 Zach Mills, American actor (Super 8)
1996 Kristen Devine, Actress (Tryst of Fate)
1997 Lisa-Marie Koroll, Actress (Gift)
2000 Samuel Sevian, American chess player
2003 Alfie Mortimer, Actor (Emmerdale)

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268 Pope Dionysius
418 Pope Zosimus
1350 Jean de Marigny, French bishop
1458 Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Italian duke of Milan, husband of Bona of Savoy, murdered (b. 1444)
1530 Babur, Mongolian emperor (b. 1483)
1530 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty
1574 Charles Guise, Archbishop and Cardinal of Lorraine, Reims (b. 1524)
1624 Simon Marius, German astronomer (b. 1573)
1627 Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua, Monferrato
1658 Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois, Sorbonne)
1676 Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter
1679 John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter
1731 Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
1736 Antonio Caldara, composer
1740 Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children)
1771 Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1715)
1776 Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel, mercenary, dies in battle (American Revolutionary War).
1780 John Fothergill, English physician (b. 1712)
1784 Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
1786 Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
1797 John Wilkes, English journalist, Higher & Lower house leader
1827 Jan David Holland, composer
1836 Hans Georg Nageli, composer
1837 Martinus van Marum, chemist, physicist (giant salamander)
1861 Philip St George Cocke, Confederate Brigadeer General, commits suicide
1866 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-majo
1869 Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (b. 1797)
1887 Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist, composer
1890 Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War) (b. 1822)
1909 Frederic Remington, American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
1916 Bernhard Scholz, composer
1916 Frank Penn, English cricketer
1917 Louise J Gautier, French poetess, daughter of Theophile G
1918 Bertram Luard-Selby, composer
1923 Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and Nazi politician (b. 1868)
1925 Jan Letzel, Czech architect (Hiroshima Peace Memorial) (b. 1880)
1931 Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, creator (Dewey Decimal Classification System) (b. 1851)
1933 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist, literary critic, and politician (b. 1875)
1933 Henry Watson Fowler, English educator and lexicographer (b. 1858)
1933 Lunatscharski, writer
1937 Ivor Gurney, composer
1942 Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of adm Darlan, executed
1950 Emile Enthoven, composer
1950 James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold)
1952 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso)
1956 Holmes Herbert, actor (The Kiss)
1957 Artur Malawski, composer
1958 Harry Redman, composer
1960 Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin)
1960 Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
1961 Charlie Frank, South African cricketer
1963 "Gorgeous" George Wagner, American wrestler (b. 1915)
1965 Anthonie Donker (Prof N Donkersloot), Dutch literary
1966 Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1966 Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty)
1966 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, singer (Armoede, Finale)
1966 Noel Gallon, composer
1967 S F Barnes, English cricketer (27 Tests for England, 189 wickets)
1969 Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet, author (History d'aimer)
1970 Lillian Board, South African-English runner (b. 1948)
1971 Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1972 Harry S. Truman, American army officer and politician, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953) (b. 1884)
1973 Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The (Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1973 Steven Geray, actor (French Line)
1973 William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney)
1974 Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player,  actor (b. 1915)
1974 Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish navy officer (b. 1890)
1974 Jack Benny, American comedian and actor (Jack Benny Show) (b. 1894)
1974 Knudage Riisager, composer
1974 Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1976 Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich)
1977 Howard Hawks, American director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!) and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1977 Ivan Rezak, composer
1980 Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
1981 Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English feminist author and scholar (b. 1887)
1981 Savitri, Indian actress, director, and producer (b. 1937)
1983 Violet Carson, English actress (b. 1898)
1985 Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered
1985 Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928)
1985 Margarete Schön, German actress (b. 1895)
1986 Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (Bride of Frankenstein) (b. 1902)
1988 Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon, businessman, founder (the Shamrock Hotel) (b. 1907)
1988 John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head)
1988 Pablo Sorozábal, Basque-Spanish composer (b. 1897)
1989 Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
1989 Lennox Berkeley, composer
1989 Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island)
1990 Gene Callahan, American production designer (b. 1923)
1990 Nancy Cruznan, accident victim, right-to-die case
1991 Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise)
1991 Sam Cresson
1992 Bert (Lambertus H) Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes)
1992 Constance Carpenter, actress (2 Worlds)
1992 John G Kemeny, American computer pioneer (BASIC)
1992 Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (b. 1912)
1993 Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy)
1994 Asta ER Elstak, Suriname-Dutch welfare worker
1994 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Dutch-South African economist, author
1994 Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72)
1994 Parveen Shakir, Pakistani civil servant and poet (b. 1952)
1994 Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World)
1994 Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post)
1994 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian-Italian actress (Hercules)
1996 Kostas Palios, Greek actor (b. 1926)
1997 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (b. 1922)
1997 John Hinde, photographer, circus promoter
1997 John Whitley, air-Marshal
1999 Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Impressions) (b. 1942)
1999 Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
2000 Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
2001 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
2002 Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer, founder (Avedis Zildjian Company) (b. 1921)
2002 Herb Ritts, American photographer (b. 1952)
2004 Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish singer, died in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)
2004 Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928)
2004 Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (b. 1959)
2004 Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1945)
2004 Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nasum, Genocide Superstars), died in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)
2004 Poom Jensen, American son of Ubolratana Rajakanya (b. 1983)
2004 Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
2004 Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer, died in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)
2004 Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (b. 1928)
2004 Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, died in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)
2005 Erich Topp, German submarine commander (b. 1914)
2005 Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (b. 1937)
2005 Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1937)
2005 Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)
2006 Gerald R Ford, American politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
2006 Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (b. 1951)
2006 Munir Niazi, Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
2007 Joe Dolan, Irish singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
2007 John A. Garraty, American biographer (b. 1920)
2007 Stu Nahan, American Sportscaster (b. 1926)
2008 Gösta Krantz, Swedish actor (b. 1925)
2009 Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
2010 Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b. 1934)
2010 Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1956)
2011 Fred Fono, Solomon politician, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Solomon Islands (b. 1962)
2011 Houston Antwine, American football player (b. 1939)
2011 James Rizzi, American painter (b. 1950)
2011 Joe Bodolai, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
2011 Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (b. 1940)
2011 Sam Rivers, American flute player and composer (b. 1923)
2011 Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932)
2012 Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed, Pakistani politician (b. 1927)
2012 E. Porter Hatcher Jr., American politician (b. 1936)
2012 Fontella Bass, American singer (b. 1940)
2012 Gerry Anderson, English director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
2012 Ibrahim Tannous, Lebanese military commander (b. 1929)
2012 Jean Perrot, French archaeologist (b. 1920)
2012 Paul T. Bateman, American theorist (b. 1919)
2012 Rebecca Tarbotton, Canadian-American activist (b. 1973)
2013 Paul Blair, American baseball player
2014 Leo Tindemans, Belgian statesman, Prime Minister of Belgium (1974-78)

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