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(597 BC) Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
37 Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
1079 Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1190 Massacre of Jews by christians at Clifford's Tower, York.
1249 The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.
1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence, the Despenser Wars.
1345 Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines, discovers Zamal (Samar).
1527 Battle at Khanua, Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 Native American chief Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1641 General court declares RI a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 English Long Parliament disbands
1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1690 French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III of Sweden by count Ankarstrom at opera, he is shot, he dies on March 29.
1802 The Army Corps of Engineers is established (2nd time) to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 Battle of Badajoz (March 16 April 6) British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War.
1815 Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands  (including Belgium), the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 Second Battle of Cancha Rayada Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
1822 Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
1827 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 Texas approves a constitution
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1861 Edward Clark becomes Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1862 Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 The Battle of Averasborough NC, American Civil War begins as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war, 1,500 casualities.
1867 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
1869 Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 The Wanderers F.C. wins the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1877 Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris
1896 Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in Chicago
1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1907 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
1910 Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)
1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
1912 Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
1915 Brit battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London
1916 The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1916 US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1918 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1919 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg
1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1922 WKY-AM in Oklahoma City OK begins radio transmissions
1923 Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Der Unbestechliche," premieres in Vienna
1924 In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini's fascist regime.
1926 Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts, goes 184' (56 meters).
1929 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
1933 Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1937 All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
1938 Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia, From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1939 Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1939 Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
1939 NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
1940 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
1941 Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1942 The first V-2 rocket test launch. It explodes at lift-off.
1943 Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed & sinks
1944 Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1945 Allies secure Iwo Jima.  The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist, World War II.
1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 77 performances
1947 Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1949 KFMB TV channel 8 in San Diego, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 1st annual National Book Awards
1950 Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asks nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
1952 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record)
1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1952 In Cilaos, Réunion, 1,870 millimetres (74 in) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1953 AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 9th Emmy Awards. Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
1958 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1958 The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1959 EUROAVIA, the European Association of Aerospace students is founded, which is the very first initiative towards European cooperation in Aerospace.
1959 Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
1963 Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing 11,000.
1964 KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Paul Hornung & Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 Launch of Gemini 8 with Armstrong & Scott, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle, aborted after 6.5 orbits.
1966 Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1968 Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1968 n the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops, Vietnam War.
1969 "1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
1969 Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in NYC
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 New English Bible published
1970 WNIN TV channel 9 in Evansville, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1971 Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.
1971 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) suspends broadcasting
1972 John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances
1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
1977 Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1977 US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigade and is later killed by his captors, 5 killed total.
1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
1978 US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1979 Edmer Asama
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1983 Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1983 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
1986 Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1988 Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 Halabja poison gas attack, The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1988 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States in the Iran-Contra Affair.
1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1991 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
1991 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1992 Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1994 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4069.15
1995 Manhattan upsets 4th seeded Oklahoma 77-67
1995 Mississippi House of Representatives formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
1995 World best 7th wkt stand 461 by Bhupinder Singh Jr & P Dharmani
1996 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1997 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
1997 NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International (Sandline affair).
1997 Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
1997 Toshiba Senior Golf Classic
1998 Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
2003 The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2006 The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
2012 George Clooney and other several prominent participants, including Martin Luther King III, are arrested outside the Sundanese Embassy for civil disobedience
2012 Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries
2012 Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 24 Pakistani Army soldiers are killed after their bus falls down a ravine in Rawalpindi
2013 A €10 billion Cyprus bailout plan will wipe out 10% of the citizens bank deposits
2013 Kim Yu-Na of South Korea wins the women’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
2014 Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design
2016 US college student Otto Warmbier is sentenced to 15 years hard labour for trying to steal a political poster, in Pyongyang, North Korea
2016 US President Barak Obama nominates Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice, republicans vow to deny him a hearing

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1338 Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)
1445 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)
1473 Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
1581 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
1585 Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618)
1631 René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
1654 Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1687 Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
1750 Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1848)
1751 James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
1773 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
1774 Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
1789 Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1794 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
1797 Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864)
1800 Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1805 Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
1822 Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
1834 James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907)
1839 John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922)
1839 René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1840 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1846 Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)
1846 Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book-smuggler (d. 1918)
1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1851 Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1856 Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879)
1857 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1859 Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906)
1865 Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1953)
1869 F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936)
1871 Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (d. 1951)
1873 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)
1876 Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
1877 Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iranian shah (d. 1944)
1878 Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (d. 1946)
1878 Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)
1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
1883 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
1884 Harrison Ford, Kansas City, Missouri, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires, Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)
1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
1885 Sydney Chaplin, South Africa, actor (Limelight)
1889 Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
1890 Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
1892 Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros) (d. 1938)
1892 James Petrillo, American president of the musicians union (d. 1984)
1893 Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)
1897 Conrad Nagel, American actor (Celebrity Time) (d. 1970)
1901 Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988)
1901 Potti Sreeramulu, an Indian revolutionary (d. 1952)
1902 Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
1902 Lucie Rie, potter
1903 Mike Mansfield, American politician, and diplomat (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip (d. 2001)
1903 Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)
1903 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)
1904 Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1905 Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977)
1905 Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986)
1906 Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009)
1906 Henny Youngman, English-American comedian (Take my wife please) (d. 1998)
1908 René Daumal, French writer (d. 1944)
1908 Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo) (d. 1966)
1910 Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
1910 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1910 Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
1911 Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
1911 Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician (d. 2009)
1912 Patricia Nixon (Thelma Catherine), First Lady of the United States (1968-74) (d. 1993)
1916 Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1916 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
1916 Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings (d.2010)
1917 Louis C. Wyman, American politician (d. 2002)
1917 Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1918 Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)
1918 Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1918 Howard Boatwright, composer
1919 Erno Kiraly, composer
1920 Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947)
1920 John Addison, British composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award) (d. 1998)
1920 Leo McKern, Australian actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared) (d. 2002)
1920 Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)
1920 Sid Fleischman, American author
1920 Traudl Junge, German secretary to Adolf Hitler (d. 2002)
1922 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
1922 Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright (Another World)
1923 George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)
1925 Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)
1925 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
1926 Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987)
1926 Jerry Lewis (Levitch), American comedian and fund raiser (MDA)
1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American senator (Sen-D-NY, 1977), US ambassador to UN (d. 2003)
1927 Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)
1927 Olga San Juan, American comedian (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus) (d. 2009)
1927 Vladimir M Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1) (d. 1967)
1928 Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (Vienna State Opera)
1928 Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
1928 Ramon Barce, composer
1929 Edwin London, composer
1929 Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
1930 Minoru Miky, composer
1930 Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (d. 2001)
1931 Betty Johnson, American singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
1931 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1932 Baruch Modan, Israeli scientist (d. 2001)
1932 Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1932 Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer
1932 Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1932 Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
1933 Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
1934 Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
1935 Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
1936 Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1936 Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian American practitioner of MRI
1936 Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)
1937 Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
1937 Constanca Capdeville, composer
1937 David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
1939 Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach
1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (Last Tango in Paris)
1940 Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1940 Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
1940 Keith Rowe, English painter and guitarist (AMM)
1941 Chuck Woolery, American game show host
1941 Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
1942 James Soong, Taiwanese politician
1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, American musician (Sangria Wine)
1942 Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1996)
1943 Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
1943 Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, professor and Evolutionary Scholar
1946 Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
1946 Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor
1946 Michael Basman, English chess master
1947 Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor
1947 Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
1948 Margaret (Edith) Weis, American sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
1948 Michael Bruce, American musician (Alice Cooper)
1948 Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer, songwriter and film director
1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women
1949 Elliott Murphy, American Singer-Songwriter
1949 Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
1949 Joe Pilato, Italian-American actor
1949 Victor Garber, Canadian actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)
1951 Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
1951 Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)
1951 Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)
1951 Ritchie Teeter, musician
1952 Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur
1952 Scott Simon, American journalist and radio personality
1953 Isabelle Huppert, French actress
1953 Richard Stallman, American free software activist
1954 Colin Ireland, English serial killer ('Gay Slayer'/ Coleherne killer), (d. 2012)
1954 Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)
1954 Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)
1954 Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer (Evita, Spender, Howling II)
1954 Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer and actress (Heart)
1955 Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director
1955 Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)
1955 Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
1956 Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end (Cleveland Browns)
1957 Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1958 Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor
1958 Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004)
1959 Flavor Flav, American rapper, and reality tv star
1959 Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
1959 Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1959 Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1960 Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1961 Todd McFarlane, Canadian comic book artist, writer and media entrepreneur
1962 Marcel Brands, soccer player (RKC)
1963 Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer (F5)
1963 Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
1963 Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1964 Gore Verbinski, American movie director
1964 Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist
1964 Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
1965 Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
1965 Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)
1965 Richard Daniel Roman, English songwriter and record producer
1966 Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1966 David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)
1966 Hans Peter Geerdes, German musician (Scooter)
1966 Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)
1967 John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1967 Lauren Graham, American actress
1968 Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
1968 Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 Aggelos Koronios, Greek basketball coach and retired player
1969 Ottis Gibson, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995)
1969 Pat Harlow, NFL tackle (NE Patriots, Oakland Raiders)
1969 Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)
1970 Joakim Berg, Swedish singer (Kent)
1970 Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, Icelandic singer, songwriter and disc jockey
1970 Reynolds Wolf, American TV meteorologist and journalist
1971 Alan Tudyk, American actor
1971 Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1971 Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Velibor Radovic, Serbian basketball player
1973 Bert Zuurman, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1973 Brant Bjork, American musician (Kyuss)
1974 Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer
1974 Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer
1974 Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)
1974 Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)
1975 Sienna Guillory, British actress
1976 Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
1976 Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)
1976 Nick Spano, American actor
1976 Paul Schneider, American actor
1977 Donal Óg Cusack, Irish hurler
1978 Brooke Burns, American actress
1979 Edison Méndez, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 Rashad Moore, National Football League player
1980 Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
1980 Todd Heap, American football player
1981 Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
1981 Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
1981 Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
1982 Riley Cote, Canadian hockey player
1983 Brandon League, American baseball player
1983 Tramon Williams, American football player
1984 Levi Brown, American football player
1985 Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer
1986 Joe Denly, English cricketer
1986 Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
1986 Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
1986 T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
1987 Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
1989 Blake Griffin, American basketball player
1989 Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
1989 Theo Walcott, English footballer
1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli
1994 Sierra McClain, American actress and singer

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37 Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
455 Heraclius, Western Roman courtier
455 Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)
1021 Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
1037 Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
1072 Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
1322 Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
1410 John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
1457 László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
1485 Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1536 Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered
1559 Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1620 St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing (b. 1576)
1629 Emilia of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59
1649 St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1679 John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
1721 James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater) (b. 1710)
1737 Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
1738 George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden) (b. 1666)
1747 Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright
1806 Giuseppe Colla, composer
1819 Nicolas Sejan, composer
1838 Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert
1841 Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist
1843 Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies
1867 Benjamin Hanby, composer
1878 William Banting, English undertaker
1887 Emanuel Kania, composer
1888 Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
1890 Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
1892 Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
1898 Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, British artist (Salome) (b. 1872)
1899 Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 Roy Bean, American jurist
1909 George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA)
1914 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1914 Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux
1914 John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island
1919 Sigurd von Koch, composer,
1926 Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1930 Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (1923-30) (b. 1870)
1933 Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician
1935 Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
1935 John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Nobel 1923) (b. 1876)
1936 Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
1937 J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel)
1938 Egon Friedell, writer
1940 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1941 John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger)
1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance)
1945 Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1945 Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide
1946 Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed
1955 Mayhew Lake, composer
1955 Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1956 Joseph John Richards, composer
1957 Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
1957 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist)
1958 Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game
1959 John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1961 Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
1962 John Owen Jones, composer
1964 Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady)
1967 James Friskin, composer,
1968 Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (b. 1907)
1968 June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show)
1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1970 Tammi Terrell, American singer (You're All I Need) (b. 1946)
1971 Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past)
1971 Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, cricketer (Vict & Aust)
1971 Thomas E. Dewey, American presidential candidate (R 1944, 48) (b. 1902)
1972 Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City)
1973 M Revis (Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny)
1975 Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
1975 T-Bone Walker, American musician, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done) (b. 1910)
1977 Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
1978 Aldo Moro, 5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1979 Jean Monnet, French politician and CEO (ECSC) (b. 1888)
1980 Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
1983 Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (Arthur Godrey Show) (b. 1903)
1983 Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1984 John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
1985 Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1985 Roger Huntington Sessions, US composer (Black Masks)
1987 Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)
1988 Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands)
1990 Ernst Bacon, composer
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
1991 Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister
1991 Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien)
1992 Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45)
1992 Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (b. 1919)
1992 Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1993 Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon)
1993 Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered
1993 Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl)
1993 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda)
1993 Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (b. 1945)
1993 Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered
1995 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter
1995 Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner
1995 Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish landowner
1995 Sydney Simone, band leader
1996 Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
1996 Joseph Lee Pope, singer
1996 Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's bookshop)
1996 Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar
1998 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1999 Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
2000 Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
2001 Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
2001 Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
2003 Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
2003 Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
2004 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
2005 Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2005 Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)
2005 Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2005 Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)
2005 Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
2006 David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
2007 Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2008 Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
2008 Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham). (b. 1968)
2008 G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
2008 Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
2008 John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
2008 Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
2011 Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan. (b. 1931)
2012 Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer
2013 Bobby Smith, American R&B singer
2015 Andy Fraser, English bass guitarist (Free)
2016 Frank Sinatra Jr, American singer/bandleader

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