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(3102 BC) Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
1129 Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II
1229 The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 The Livonian Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor.
1332 Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
1536 France & Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel
1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots gen Francois De Guise
1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published
1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao
1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
1745 The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.
1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
1797 Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1814 The Battle of Montereau occurs.
1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar
1834 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
1839 Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists)
1841 The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
1846 Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt.
1849 1st regular steamboat service to California starts (or 02/28)
1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
1861 In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 With the Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC occupied by Federals
1865 Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft Anderson, NC
1873 Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
1878 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jessie Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
1891 Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs
1899 80°F in SF
1899 SF named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
1899 Stanley Cup, Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
1900 Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam
1900 Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1900 British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal
1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
1902 Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
1905 Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich
1906 Edouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1906 Vincent d'Indy's "Jour D'été à La Montagne," premieres in Paris
1908 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1909 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
1911 The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in NYC
1913 Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.
1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
1919 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
1921 British troops occupy Dublin
1922 Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball
1922 WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
1923 In Belgium, Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
1924 US, min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
1924 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
1924 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
1927 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
1929 The first Academy Awards are announced.
1930 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
1930 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1930 Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan
1930 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC
1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1930 While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
1932 The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
1936 NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24)
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island
1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
1943 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
1943 Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
1943 The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 William D Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies
1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
1944 Youngest baseball player, Cin Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall
1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa
1947 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
1948 Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland.
1950 "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 35 performances
1951 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes
1951 Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
1951 Netherlands Radio School forms
1952 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca wins
1953 "Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York
1953 "Maggie" opens at National Theater NYC for 5 performances
1953 KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (NYC)
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
1955 Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series.
1957 Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colo
1960 Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
1962 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1964 Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premieres in NYC
1964 Papandreou government takes power in Greece
1965 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, BC
1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom (National Day).
1967 Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3"
1967 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
1968 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
1968 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
1968 British adopts year-round daylight savings time
1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
1969 Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st
1969 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
1970 The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1970 US president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty, The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, 6 Cal.3d 628 invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash
1973 Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic
1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
1974 US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
1975 2nd American Music Award
1975 Italy broadens abortion law
1977 George Harrison releases "True Love"
1977 Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft & Joel Garner v Pakistan Bridgetown
1977 The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
1979 -52°F (-47°C), Old Forge, New York (state record)
1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1979 Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202
1979 Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
1980 Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
1980 Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections
1983 NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak
1983 Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1984 Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed
1986 San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix
1988 Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1989 Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women
1990 Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
1991 Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
1991 The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
1994 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
1994 Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team
1995 Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly
1995 Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
1995 Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle
1996 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup v India
1996 Daytona 500 race
1996 Tendulkar scores 127* in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya
1998 NY Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell
1998 Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
2000 Stjepan Mesić becomes the second president of Croatia.
2001 Dale Earnhardt, Sr. is killed when his stock car crashes on the final lap of the Daytona 500.
2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
2003 Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion, seen by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
2003 Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes
2012 Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint
2013 15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia
2013 $50 million worth of diamond is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium
2014 2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins
2014 Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand
2016 Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border

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1374 Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399)
1404 Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (Della Pittura) (d. 1472)
1486 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali yogi, yoga developer (d. 1534)
1516 Mary I Tudor (Bloody Mary), Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58) (d. 1558)
1516 Queen Mary I of England
1530 Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
1543 Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
1559 Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d. 1614)
1602 Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680)
1609 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and , PM (1660-67) (d. 1674)
1632 Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
1635 Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
1642 Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
1658 Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
1677 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1716 Gaspard Fritz, composer
1745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta, Italian physicist (battery) (d. 1827)
1751 Karl Haack, composer
1770 Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
1771 Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer
1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist
1776 John Parry, composer
1781 Henry Martyn, Truro, missionary
1790 Marshall Hall, Basford Nottinghamshire, physician
1795 George Peabody, South Danvers Mass, merchant/philanthropist
1805 Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
1814 Samuel Fenton Cary, American-born U. S. Congressman (d. 1900)
1815 Henri Leys, Flemish painter
1817 Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1817 Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1818 Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter (d. 1870)
1819 Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer
1829 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 James Deshler, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1836 Ramakrishna, Hooghly Bengal, Hindu saint (preached unity of religions)
1836 Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali guru of Swami Vivekananda (d. 1886)
1836 Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Indian mystic/hindu leader
1838 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)
1841 Samuel Prowse Warren, composer
1844 Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School)
1846 Wilson Barrett, English playwright (d. 1904)
1848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (stained glass windows) (d. 1933)
1849 Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (Garman og Worse) (d. 1906)
1850 George Henschel, composer
1853 August Belmont Jr, breeder (Man 'O War)/founder (NY Jockey Club)
1857 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor
1858 Louise M A, princess of Belgium
1859 Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz), Russian Yiddish humorist author (Fiddler on the Roof) (d. 1916)
1860 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter/etcher/sculptor (Gustavus Vasa)
1870 William Laurel Harris, American mural painter and writer (d. 1924)
1871 Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
1875 Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur)
1877 Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water)
1880 Eric De Lamarter, composer
1883 Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author (d. 1957)
1883 Tom Walls, Kingsthorpe England, actor/producer (Undercover)
1884 Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
1884 Burt Mustin, Pitts Pa, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show)
1887 Nikos Kasandsakis, writer
1889 Sybold van Ravesteyn, architect (Blijdorp, CS Rotterdam, Utrecht)
1890 Adolphe Menjou, American actor (Front Page, Star is Born) (d. 1963)
1890 Edward Arnold, American actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1956)
1890 Lauri SA Haarla, Finnish (stage)writer (Juudas, Sukeltaja)
1891 Chester Clute, NJ, actor (Niagra Falls)
1892 Wendell Willkie, American politician, presidential candidate (R-1940), author (One World) (d. 1944)
1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star (Notre Dame)
1895 Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
1896 Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
1897 Charles Kuentz, German-born French WW1 veteran and centenarian, changed nationality 4 times (d. 2005)
1898 Enzo Ferrari, Racing car manufacturer, Founder of Ferrari (d. 1988)
1898 K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier
1898 Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980)
1899 Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II)
1901 Reginald Sheffield, British actor (Second Chance) (d. 1957)
1902 Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
1903 Nikolaj V Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1965-77) (d. 1983)
1905 Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
1906 Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
1907 Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World)
1907 Harm van Riel, Dutch politician (Dutch Liberal Party)
1907 Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
1909 Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
1909 Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer and English rugby union player (d. 1990)
1909 Wallace Stegner, American writer (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose) (d. 1993)
1913 Artur Axmann, nazi youth leader
1913 Dane Clark, Bkln, actor (Wire Service, Bold Venture, Perry Mason)
1914 Edward George Edwards, chemist
1914 Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (Pee Wee King Song) (d. 2000)
1915 Marcel Landowsky, composer
1915 Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
1916 Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator
1916 Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (1954) (d. 1999)
1917 Phyllis Calvert, London, actress (Man in Grey)
1918 Jane Loevinger, American psychologist (d. 2008)
1919 Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
1920 Bill Cullen, American game show host (over 20 different games) (d. 1990)
1920 Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)
1920 Jack Palance, [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer Pa, actor (City Slickers)
1921 Barbara Hale, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1922 Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008)
1922 Eric Gairy, premier (Grenada)
1922 Helen Gurley Brown, American editor (Cosmopolitan)
1922 Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
1923 Allan Melvin, KC Mo, actor (Brady Bunch, Barney-All in Family)
1924 Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist (d. 1999)
1924 Louis Laberge, Quebec labour union leader (d. 2002)
1925 George Kennedy, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Airport, Blue Knight)
1925 Marcel Barbeau, Quebec artist
1926 Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat, Homer & Eddie)
1926 Len Ford, NFL end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers)
1926 Nalini Jaywant, Indian actress
1927 Fazal Mahmood, cricketer (Pakistani medium-pace workhorse 1952-62)
1927 John W Warner, American politician, (Sen-R-VA, 1979), married Liz Taylor
1927 Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player
1927 Peter Fryer English Marxist writer and journalist (d. 2006)
1927 Tabe Bas, actor/opera vocalist (Leiser Wolf in Anatevka)
1928 Jim McElreath, auto racer (1970 Ontario 500)
1928 Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 André Mathieu, Quebec composer (d. 1968)
1929 Len Deighton, British author
1929 Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author (Ipcress File, Fighter)
1930 Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
1930 Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
1931 Bob St. Clair, American football player
1931 Dieter Schonbach, composer
1931 Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1931 Maxwell Thurman, US General
1931 Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo)
1931 Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
1932 Miloš Forman, Czech film director (Cuckoos Nest, Amadeus)
1933 Bobby Robson, British soccer coach (PSV)
1933 Elisabeth S "Elly" Belder-Ameling, Dutch soprano
1933 Mary Ure, Scottish actress (Reflection of Fear, Windom's Way) (d. 1975)
1933 Sir Bobby Robson, English football player and manager (d. 2009)
1933 Yoko Ono (Mrs John Lennon), Japanese-American singer
1934 Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77)
1934 Audre Lorde, Caribbean poet and activist (d. 1992)
1935 Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister
1936 Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 Jean Auel, American writer
1936 Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist
1936 Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher
1937 Jeff Farrell, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1960)
1938 Barry Knight, cricketer (England all-rounder mid-60s)
1938 Elke Erb, writer
1938 István Szabó, Hungarian film director
1938 Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player (LA Dodgers)
1939 Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist
1939 Dal Maxvill, American baseball player
1939 Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
1939 Marlos Nobre, composer
1939 Petronella CM "Carletta" Banning, actress (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1940 Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1941 David Blue, [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow)
1941 Herb Santiago, vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall)
1941 Irma Thomas (Lee), American singer (It's Raining)
1943 Graeme Garden, Scottish writer
1944 Pat Bowlen, American sports team owner (Denver Broncos)
1945 Judy Rankin, American golfer (Vare Trophy 1976-77)
1945 Michael Nader, St Louis Mo, actor (Peter-Gidget, Dex Dexter-Dynasty)
1946 Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
1946 Michael Buerk, British newsreader
1947 Carlos A Lopes, Portuguese athlete (Olympic-gold-1984)
1947 Dennis DeYoung, American musician (Styx)
1947 Eliot Lance Engel, American politician (Rep-D-NY)
1947 Princess Maria Christina (Marijke), of the Netherlands
1948 Bruce Francis, cricketer (Australian opener in 3 Tests 1972)
1948 Carolyn B Maloney, (Rep-D-NY)
1948 Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005)
1948 Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress (Waterland, Revenge)
1949 Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1950 Cybill Shepherd, American actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show)
1950 John Hughes, American director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller) (d. 2009)
1950 Michel Gauthier, Quebec politician
1951 Isabel Preysler, Philippines-born Spanish socialite
1952 Juice Newton (Judy Cohen), American singer (Angel of the Morning)
1952 Maurice Lucas, American basketball player
1952 Veronica "Randy" Crawford, US vocalist (One Day I'll Fly Away)
1953 Derek Pellicci, rock drummer (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way)
1953 Nico Arzbach, rock guitarist/singer (Stampei, Dike)
1953 Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1954 John Travolta, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction)
1955 Miles Tredinnick, English playwright
1955 Raymond Rougeau, Canadian professional wrestler
1956 Paul Reed Smith, American luthier, founder and owner of PRS Guitars
1956 Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)
1957 Marita Koch, German athlete, 400m sprinter (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 Vanna White (Rosich), American game show presenter (Wheel of Fortune)
1958 Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999)
1958 Giovanni Lavaggi, Italian racing driver
1958 Peter Koech, Kiliburani Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-silver-1988)
1960 Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988)
1960 Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter
1960 Greta Scacchi, Australian actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief)
1960 Roger Wijesuriya, cricketer (bowling avg 294 in 4 Tests for Sri Lanka)
1961 Alycia Moulton, Sacramento CA, tennis star
1961 Cosmo Wilson, American concert lighting designer
1961 Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer
1962 Gary Reasons, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1962 Julie Strain, American actress (Witchcraft IV)
1962 Moe Lemay, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Simon Fletcher, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1963 Henry Winter, English football journalist
1963 John Gesek, NFL center (Washington Redskins)
1963 Rob Andrew, English rugby player
1964 Kevin Tapani, Des Moines IA, pitcher (Chic White Sox, Minnesota Twins)
1964 Lisa Elaine Comshaw, Akron Ohio, actress (Scanner Cop, Lukas' Child)
1964 Matt Dillon, American actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Kansas)
1964 Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1965 Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young), American record producer and rapper
1965 Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (d. 2005)
1965 Peter Martini, journalist
1966 Guy Ferland, American television director
1966 Kris King, Bracebridge, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1966 Phillip De Freitas, cricket pace bowler (in Dominica England 1986-95)
1967 Colin Jackson, Cardiff Wales, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
1967 Harry Van Barneveld, Belgian judoka
1967 Marco Aurélio, Brzilian footballer
1967 Matt Turner, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1967 Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
1967 Tracey Edmonds, American film and television producer
1967 Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Thai film director and producer
1968 Molly Ringwald, American actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)
1969 Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player, NHL (Sabres)
1969 Igor Larionov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Team Russia, Detroit)
1969 Jason Sutter, American drummer (Smash Mouth, American Hi-Fi)
1969 Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (d. 2009)
1970 Andy Williams, British musician (Doves)
1970 Jez Williams, British musician (Doves)
1970 Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace)
1970 Susan Egan, American actress
1970 Tyler Green, US baseball pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 Constantin Popa, Romanian-Israeli basketball player
1971 George Teague, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers)
1971 Merritt Gant, American thrash metal guitarist
1971 Reggie Holt, WLAF safety (London Monarchs)
1972 Lubomir Rybovic, Kosice CZE, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
1972 Marc Lillibridge, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Shani Lynn Nielsen, New Albany IN, Miss America (Indiana-Top 10-1997)
1973 Claude Makélélé, French footballer
1974 Jamey Carroll, American baseball player
1974 Jillian Michaels, Personal trainer
1974 Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmental activist
1974 Ruby Dhalla, Canadian politician
1974 Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
1975 Gary Neville, English footballer
1975 Keith Gillespie, Irish footballer
1975 Sarah Brown, American actress
1975 Scott Tucker, Birmingham Ala, 400m/800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1975 Simon Kvamm, Danish singer and comedian
1976 Chanda Rubin, American tennis player (1996 Australian Open doubles)
1976 Jason Podollan, Vernon, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1976 Leilani Munter, American race car driver
1976 Volker Schenk, WLAF RB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1977 Chrissie Wellington, British triathlete
1977 Ike Barinholtz, American actor
1977 Kátia, Brazilian footballer
1977 Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter
1978 Josip Šimunic, Croatian footballer
1979 Julia Greville, Perth Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1980 Alison Rachel Fitch, Hamilton NZ, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1980 Nikolai Antropov, Kazakh ice hockey player
1980 Regina Spektor, Russian-born singer and songwriter
1981 Alex Rios, American baseball player
1981 Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
1981 Ivan Sproule, Irish footballer
1981 Jasmine Fiore, American model (d. 2009)
1981 Kim Jae Won, South Korean actor
1981 Larry Sweeney, American professional wrestler
1982 Juelz Santana, American rapper
1983 Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
1983 Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983 Juelz Santana, American rapper
1983 Troy Bienemann, American football player
1984 Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)
1985 Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
1985 Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
1986 Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
1988 Maiara Walsh, American actress
1988 Max, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
1988 Shane Lyons, American actor and chef
1990 Cody Hodgson, Canadian hockey player
1991 Henry Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2009)
1991 Malese Jow, American actress and singer
1992 Logan Miller, American actor

HIDE

HIDE

806 Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 730)
814 Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne
901 Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)
999 Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope (b. 972)
1139 Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
1217 Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist
1294 Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
1379 Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
1397 Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons
1405 Tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (b. 1336)
1455 Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)
1478 George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed - forced drowning in a wine barrel) (b. 1449)
1535 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer and alchemist (b. 1486)
1546 Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
1564 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist and sculptor (David) (b. 1475)
1583 Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
1587 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded
1654 Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
1660 Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried
1683 Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1712 Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies
1712 Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (b. 1682)
1718 Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
1743 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
1745 Nicola Fago, composer
1748 Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
1772 Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
1778 Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
1780 Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
1788 John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
1790 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1799 Maurus Haberhauer, composer
1803 Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719)
1807 August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary
1807 S von Laroche, writer
1817 Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater)
1829 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
1830 Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels)
1833 Georg Johann Schinn, composer
1833 Ignac Ruzitska, composer
1842 Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779)
1845 Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
1846 Giovanni Liverati, composer
1851 Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
1861 Louis C Luzac, Dutch minister of Internal affairs
1873 Vasil Levski, Bulgarian Revolutionist (b. 1837)
1878 Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht)
1885 Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer
1890 Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71)
1893 Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
1895 Albrecht FR, arch duke of Austrian (Battle at Custozza)
1895 Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
1898 Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance)
1899 M Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician
1900 Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
1902 Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
1905 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
1906 John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
1906 Willem Doorenbos, literary/critic
1911 Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1917 Charles E Barber, US chief engraver (1879-1917), dies
1923 Alois Rašín, Czechoslovak politician, Minister of Finance (b. 1867)
1925 James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible)
1931 Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879)
1932 Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
1933 James J. Corbett (Gentleman Jim), American boxer, heavyweight champ (1892-97) (b. 1866)
1938 Alida JM Tartaud-Little, actress (Rotterdam Stage)
1938 David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
1938 Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail
1939 Ludwig Bonvin, composer
1942 Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
1943 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1945 Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
1949 Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier of Spain (1931-36)
1950 Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamnica)
1951 Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Crusade)
1955 Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
1956 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise) (b. 1860)
1957 Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
1957 Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (temperature-luminosity graph) (b. 1877)
1959 Alfred Alessandrescu, composer
1959 Eric Zeisl, composer
1959 Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
1963 Monte Blue, silent film actor (Apache)
1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party
1964 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
1966 Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1966 Casimir von Paszthory, composer
1966 Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
1967 Dragiša Cvetkovic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (b. 1893)
1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, American physicist (b. 1904)
1967 Manuel Palau Boix, composer
1968 Sigurd Erixon, etnologist (Atlas "ver Svensk Folkkultur)
1969 Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premier of (Yugoslavia 1939-4.)
1970 Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian
1973 Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (b. 1891)
1975 Chivu Stoica, [Stoica Chivu), premier of Romania (1955-61)
1975 Luigi Dallapiccola, composer
1975 Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt "Brain Trust"
1975 Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets)
1976 Anton Betzner, writer
1976 Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA)
1976 Joseph Henabery, actor/director (Cobra)
1977 Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz), American actor (Andy's Gang) (b. 1905)
1977 Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curacao)
1977 Ralph Graves, actor (Extra Girl)
1978 Charlotte Greenwood, actress (Oklahoma, Moon over Miami)
1978 Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man)
1978 Maggie McNamara, American actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal) (b. 1928)
1980 Gale Robbins, actress (Fuller Brush Girl, Mr Hex)
1981 John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
1982 Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ detective writer/producer
1982 Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
1982 Tina Carver, actress (Inside Detroit, Uranium Boom), dies at 58
1985 Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbruggen], Dutch singer
1990 Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
1993 Edward S "Ted" Haworth, US set designer (Sayonara, Marty), dies at 76
1993 Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
1993 Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk)
1993 Michael David Morrison, actor (Caleb-As the World Turns)
1994 Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community
1995 Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b. 1959)
1995 Calder Willingham, US scriptwriter (End as a Man)
1995 Denny Cordel, rock music producer-Laverack
1995 Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist
1995 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1995 Yank Lawson, US jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather)
1996 Brian Daley, writer
1996 Jack Thieuloy, writer
1996 Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
1996 Richard Leslie Hill, historian
1997 Emily Hahn, American writer (b. 1905)
1997 Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt pres of Guatemala in (1963-66)
1997 Eric William Fenby, musician
1998 Harry Caray, American baseball broadcaster (Chicago Cubs) (b. 1914)
1998 Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author
1998 Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957)
1998 Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide
1999 Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
2000 Willy Maltaite, Belgian comics creator (b. 1927)
2001 Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908)
2001 Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver, Crash (b. 1951)
2001 Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2003 Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
2004 Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
2006 Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
2008 Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)
2008 Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (b. 1955)
2008 Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
2009 Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (b. 1929)
2010 John Babcock, Last known Canadian veteran of World War I (b. 1900)
2013 Kevin Ayers, English rocker
2013 Elspet Gray, Scottish actress
2013 Damon Harris, American soul singer
2014 Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-born American singer

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