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307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1504 France & Spain signs ceasefire
1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1547 Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France
1644 Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 France/England signs anti-Dutch military accord
1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
1774 American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar
1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1849 Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
1865 Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
1865 Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
1877 British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
1877 Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Aust v Eng MCG
1877 The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigo army in Oita Nakatsu, rebels.
1878 Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
1883 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
1885 The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1900 Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in a monoplane several hundred yards (NZ)
1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
1906 GB Shaws German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin"
1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
1909 Construction begins on the RMS Titanic.
1909 Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent
1912 Construction is completed on the RMS Titanic.
1916 Dutch government ends all milt engagements
1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis was committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims were killed. The day is observed in Azerbaijan as Day of Azerbaijani Genocide
1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule" law
1921 British coal miners goes on strike
1921 The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1923 Stanley Cup, Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edm Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games
1924 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established at Croydon Airport.
1924 London public transport strike ends
1925 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
1931 An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps, established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment.
1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1935 Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49)
1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, SF
1942 Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession, World War II.
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie," premieres in NYC
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima, begins firing on Okinawa
1946 Belgian government of Acker, forms
1946 The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1951 US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea
1953 Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjoeld secretary-general
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
1954 USSR offers to join NATO
1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut WI v Aust, Kingston
1955 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in NYC
1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
1963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
1964 Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military, The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
1965 An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open
1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
1968 Seattle's AL club is named Pilots
1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
1970 Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1972 Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down
1973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots
1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55
1975 John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff bearth
1976 NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
1977 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box," premieres in NYC
1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires
1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
1978 Wings release "London Town" album
1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards, Can't Stop the Music wins
1981 53rd Academy Awards "Ordinary People," R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win
1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in NYC
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, Old Dominion beats Ga 70-65
1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
1985 El Salvador's Pres Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
1986 A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
1988 NY Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"
1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
1990 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
1990 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
1991 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az
1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact dissolves.
1991 Musical "Will Rogers Follies," premieres in NYC
1991 St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal
1991 The Islamic Constitutional Movement (Hadas) is established in Kuwait.
1992 Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
1994 The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
1994 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
1995 1st game at Coors Stadium Colo (replacement Rockies beat Yanks 4-1)
1995 Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 perfs
1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 perfs
1996 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
1996 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Georgia 83-65
1996 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1996 Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1996 Wrestlemania XII Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
1997 59th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Ariz beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT)
1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission
1998 Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and is eventually spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers
2002 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Antonio
2004 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
2007 In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
2008 Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service
2012 Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
2013 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
2013 11 people are killed in flooding at Port Louis, Mauritius
2013 14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid

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250 Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
1360 Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
1425 Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
1499 Pius IV (Gianangelo de' Medici), Italian lawyer/pope (1559-65) (d. 1565)
1504 Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
1519 Henry II, King of Germany (1547-59) (d. 1559)
1536 Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
1576 Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644)
1596 René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician (I think, therefore I am) (d. 1650)
1621 Andrew Marvell, English poet (To His Coy Mistress) (d. 1678)
1651 Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
1675 Benedict XIV (Prospero L Lambertini), Italy, Pope (1740-58) (d. 1758)
1684 Francesco Durante, composer
1717 Florian Wrastill, composer
1718 Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
1723 Frederik V, King of Denmark and Norway (1746-66) (d. 1766)
1730 Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian prominent composer of the classical period (The Creation/Die Schopfung) (d. 1809)
1747 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen)
1777 Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
1778 Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
1791 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
1794 Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)
1809 Edward FitzGerald, English poet (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) (d. 1883)
1809 Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General)
1809 Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1819 Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
a 1822 Rafael Hernando, composer
1831 Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
1835 John La Farge, US painter
1837 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1838 Leon Dierx, French poet
1839 Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
1840 John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1844 Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
1847 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
1847 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
1848 John Henry Roberts, composer
1854 Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
1855 Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
1868 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
1871 Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
1872 Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d. 1952)
1872 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet) (d. 1929)
1876 Borisav "Bora" Stankovic, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
1878 Jack Johnson, American boxer, 1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915) (d. 1946)
1884 Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
1885 Jules Pascin (Julius Pincas), Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist
1885 Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
1887 Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
1890 William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1891 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
1891 Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
1891 Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City) (d. 1976)
1892 Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant
1893 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937) (d. 1954)
1895 John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)
1895 Vardis A Fisher, American author (Darkness & Deep) (d. 1968)
1896 Florrie Baldwin, British supercentenarian
1900 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters
1906 Lauri Saikkola, composer
1906 Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1907 Eddie Quillan, American actor (Julia, Hell Town) (d. 1990)
1908 Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1909 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP (GVP)/editor (Neth Daily)
1909 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator
1911 Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
1912 Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter
1912 William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
1914 Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (Salamandra, Topoemas) (d. 1998)
1915 Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
1915 Eliseo Morales Pajaro, composer
1915 Henry Morgan, NYC, comedian/TV panelist (I've Got a Secret, Arena)
1915 Jack Perry, businessman
1915 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1916 John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (d. 1979)
1916 John Vivyan, Chic Ill, actor (Imitation of Life, Mr Lucky)
1916 Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
1918 Ted Post, Dir (Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
1919 Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1920 Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English Duchess, now Dowager Duchess
1920 Marga (Sara Voeten) Minco, Dutch writer (Bitter Herb)
1922 Patrick J G McGee, North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange)
1922 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love) (d. 1999)
1923 Donald Argee Barksdale, Berkley Cal, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1923 Lawrie Miller, NZ cricketer (opening bat in 13 Tests)
1924 Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
1924 Harry Cubitt, 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner
1924 Leo Buscaglia, American author, "Dr Hug", psycholigist (Love) (d. 1998)
1925 Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1926 John Fowles, English author (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman) (d. 2005)
1926 Sydney Chaplin, son of Charlie/actor (Adding Machine, Psycho Sisters)
1927 César Chávez, American labor activist (United Farm Workers) (d. 1993)
1927 William Daniels, American actor (Dr Mark Craig-St Elsewhere, 1776)
1928 Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Detroit Redwings)
1928 Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1929 Bertram Fields, American lawyer
1929 Lee Patterson, Vancouver BC, actor (Dave-Surfside Six, Another World)
1929 Liz Claiborne, American fashion designer, entrepreneur and founder of Liz Claiborne Inc (d. 2007)
1931 Miller Barber, American golfer, PGA tour (1968 Byron Nelson Classic)
1932 Godfrey Lawrence, cricketer (South African fast bowler, 8-53 v NZ 1961)
1932 John Jakes, Chicago, writer (Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters)
1932 Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (Town of Love & Hope)
1933 Bob Simmons, Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond)
1933 Nichita Stanescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
1933 Shirley Jones, Smithton Pa, actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry)
1934 Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate
1934 Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russia, cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup)
1934 John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter (Language of Love, Norman)
1934 Richard Chamberlain, American actor
1934 Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
1934 Wim H Sinnige, Dutch alderman of finance (social democratic)
1935 Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader (Tijuana Brass), CEO (A & M)
1935 Judith Rossner, American author (August)
1935 Richard Chamberlain, Beverly Hills California, actor (Dr Kildare)
1936 Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1936 Marge Piercy, American writer (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers)
1937 Willem Duyn (Mouth), Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal)
1938 Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
1938 Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1938 David Steel, Scottish politician
1938 Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
1938 Nathaniel Taylor, St Louis Mo, actor (Rollo-Sanford & Sons)
1938 Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
1939 Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
1939 Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
1940 Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (Rep-D-MA, 1981)
1940 Jim Criner, WLAF head coach (Scottish Claymores)
1940 Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont (Sen-D-VT, 1975)
1942 Michael Savage, American talk radio host and commentator
1942 Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
1943 Christopher Walken, American actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm)
1944 Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1944 Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
1944 Rod Allen (B Rodney Bainbridge) rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes)
1945 Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
1945 Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995)
1945 Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
1946 Aftab Gul, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in six Tests 1969-71)
1946 Al Nichol, Winston Salem NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles)
1946 Gabe Kaplan, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Welcome Back Kotter)
1946 Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
1947 Al Goodman, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 César Gaviria Trujillo, 36th President of Colombia (1990-94)
1947 Jon-Jon Poulos, Chicago Ill, rocker (Buckinghams)
1947 Kristian Blak, Danish musician, composer and recording executive
1948 Al Gore, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1985-92), 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate
1948 David Eisenhower, Eisenhower's grandson (married Julie Nixon)
1948 Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
1948 Mick Ralphs, rocker
1948 Rhea Perlman, American actress (Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers)
1948 Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
1950 Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner
1950 András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
1950 Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
1950 Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
1951 Ed Marinaro, NYC, actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley)
1951 Frankie Sabath, Puerto Rican performer/singer
1952 Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
1953 Greg Martin, Louisville Ky, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1953 Sean Hopper, California, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis & The News)
1954 Tony Brock, England, rock drummer (Isn't It Time, Every Time I Think of You)
1955 Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
1955 Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
1957 Alan Duncan, British politician
1957 Marc McClure, American actor (Ross-California Fever)
1957 Mary Cadorette, East Hartford Ct, actress (Vicky-3's a Crowd)
1957 Patrick G Forrester, El Paso TX, Lt Col Army/astronaut
1958 Jay Feenan, Windham NH, rower (Olympics-1996)
1958 Pat McGlynn, Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1958 Tony Cox, American actor
1959 Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
1960 Anne Howard, San Diego California, actress (Nicole Love-Another World)
1960 Mark Tuinei, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 Ron Brown, LA California, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1962 John Taylor, American football player, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1962 Mark Begich, U.S. Senator from Alaska
1963 Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
1964 Dave Wyman, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1964 David Diaz-Infante, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1964 Erik Turner, Omaha Nebraska, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 Fez Marie Whatley, American radio host and comedian (The Ron and Fez Show)
1964 Isabelle Ferrari, Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager)
1964 Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1964 Rod Jones, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1965 Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1965 Marlon Vonhagt, cricketer (1 ODI Sri Lanka 1984-85 World Series Cup)
1965 Patty Fendick, Sacramento California, tennis star (1989 Auckland)
1965 Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
1965 Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1965 William McNamara, Dallas TX, actor (Texasville, Beat, Stealing Home)
1966 Natalie Gosselin, Levis Quebec, 52kg judoka (Olympics-96)
1966 Roger Black, English athlete
1966 Thomas Fitzgerald, Bkln NY, team handball left wing (Olympics-1996)
1967 Glenn Montgomery, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks, Oilers)
1967 Nanci Bowen, Tifton GA, LPGA golfer (1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1968 J.R. Reid, American basketball player, NBA forward (NY Knicks, Charlotte Hornets)
1968 Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 Kevin Sargent, NFL tackle/guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
1969 Samantha Brown, American television host
1969 Steve Smith, American basketball player, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1970 Derek Brown, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Oleg Romanov, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1970 Stuart Carruthers, Australian field hockey fullback (Olympics-96)
1971 Craig McCracken, American Animator
1971 Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor (Trainspotting)
1971 Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player, NHL forward (Team Russia Oly-Silver-1998, Vancouver)
1972 Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
1972 Andrew Bowen, American actor
1972 Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
1972 John Godina, Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-silver-96)
1972 Kelly O'Leary, Halifax Nova Scotia, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 Ze Frank, American Internet Personality
1973 Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
1973 Vanessa Mambi, Miss Universe-Curacao (1996)
1974 Anthony Hicks, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
1974 Carol Ann Plante, actress (Sara Henderson-Harry & the Hendersons)
1974 James Burgess, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Jason Odom, tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 Nina Georgala, Miss Universe-Greece (1996)
1974 Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
1975 Adam Green, American film director
1975 Emma Atkins, English actress
1976 Amanda Moody, Orem Utah, Miss America-Utah (1996)
1976 Ashton Moore, American porn actress
1976 Josh Saviano, American actor (Paul Pfeiffer-Wonder Years)
1976 Sugiantoro, Jakarta Youth Socialist Leader
1977 Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
1977 Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1978 Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
1978 Stephen Clemence, English footballer
1978 Tony Yayo, American rapper
1979 Amey Date, Indian playback singer
1979 Josh Kinney, American baseball player
1980 Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
1980 Dean Clark, English footballer
1980 Jenny Smith, Western Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
1980 Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Gerard McCarthy, British actor
1981 Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
1981 Pa Dembo Tourray, Gambian footballer
1982 Jessica Joseph, Royal Oak Mich, dance skater (& Butler-1997 Natl)
1982 Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
1982 Philippe Mexès, French footballer
1982 Ryland Blackinton, American guitarist (Cobra Starship)
1982 Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
1983 Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
1983 Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
1984 David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 James Jones, American football player
1984 Yanin Vismistananda, Thai actress
1985 Jessica Szohr, American actress
1986 Cveta Majtanović, Serbian singer, winner of Pop Idol.
1987 "Baby M" born to a surrogate mother, awarded to her dad William Stern
1987 Georg Listing, German bassist (Tokio Hotel)
1987 Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
1987 Nordin Amrabat , Dutch football player
1988 Hogan Ephraim, English Footballer
2003 Carl Alexander Acosta, Filipino child actor and dancer

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1074 Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
1340 Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
1389 Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, murdered
1547 Francis I of France (b. 1494)
1567 Philip I, the Generous, count of Hessen (b. 1504)
1578 Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1621 Felipe III, King of Spain (1598-1621)
1621 Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
1631 John Donne, English writer and Metaphysical poet (b. 1572)
1656 Pierre de La Barre, composer
1671 Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
1703 Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1722 Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete
1723 Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
1727 Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
1741 Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
1783 Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
1837 John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
1850 John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
1855 Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre) (b. 1816)
1877 Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C) (b. 1801)
1880 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
1881 Gaetano Gaspari, composer
1884 Jan T Beelen, Neth/Belgian catholic bible expert
1885 Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer amd choir conductor (b. 1819)
1885 Philipp Fahrbach, composer
1886 Giovanni Rossi, composer
1892 Adolf Rzepko, composer
1898 Edward Noyes Westcott, US attorney/writer (David Harum)
1900 Frank Milligan, cricketer (Mafeking 2 Tests Eng v South Africa 1898-99)
1901 John Stainer, composer
1913 John Pierpont Morgan, American financier, CEO (US Steel Corp) (b. 1837)
1914 Ch Morgenstern, writer
1915 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
1917 Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
1924 George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855)
1927 Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
1928 Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919)
1928 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
1931 Knute Rockne, American football coach, dies in a plane crash (b. 1888)
1934 Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library,
1935 Georges V. Matchabelli, Russian-born perfumer (b. 1885)
1938 Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide)
1944 Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1945 Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
1945 Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
1945 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel laureate 1930) (b. 1881)
1945 Maurice Rose, 1st US general in Nazi Germany, killed in action
1948 Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Raging Reporter)
1951 Ralph Forbes, actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock)
1952 Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1956 Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
1957 Gene Lockhart, NYC actor (Going My Way)
1959 Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag)
1960 Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse)
1961 Seerp Anema, Dutch poet/writer (Modern Art & Degenerating)
1963 Valeri Spasov, Bulgarian folklore dancer (b. 1963)
1967 Don Alvarado, actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal)
1967 Hieronim Feicht, composer
1968 Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WW II)
1971 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying)
1972 Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1973 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer
1974 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday)
1975 Percy Alliss, English Golfer (b. 1897)
1976 Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)
1978 Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary)
1978 Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1980 Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
1980 Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1981 Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1982 Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor
1983 Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
1983 Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy)
1984 Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
1985 Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
1986 Harry Ritz, comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers)
1986 Jerry Paris, American actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show) (b. 1925)
1986 O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
1988 Talib Rasul Hakim, composer
1988 William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1990 Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight)
1991 John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots & folklore)
1993 Brandon Lee, American actor (Crow), son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot filming (b. 1965)
1993 Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
1993 Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60)
1993 Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
1994 Leon J Ramirez Reine (Degrelle), Belg/Spanish nazi (Rex)
1995 Carl M Story, fiddler
1995 Selena (Quintanilla Perez), Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan (b. 1971)
1996 Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer
1996 Dario Bellezza, poet
1996 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
1996 Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur
1997 Edwin Alberian, TV celebrity (Clarabell)
1997 Laxmishankar Pathak, food retailer
1998 Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
1998 Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
2001 Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2002 Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
2002 Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (b. 1924)
2003 Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
2003 H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
2003 Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
2004 Scott Helvenston, American Navy SEAL and Blackwater Contractor (b. 1965)
2005 Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
2005 Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2005 Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
2006 Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
2006 Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931)
2007 Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-born theoreticist (Communications & Constructivism) (b. 1921)
2008 Bill Keightley (Mr. Wildcat), American basketball equipment manager (University of Kentucky 1962-2008) (b. 1926)
2008 Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
2009 Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (b. 1911)
2009 Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
2009 Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinean president (b. 1927)
2010 Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)
2016 Douglas Wilmer, British actor (Sherlock Holmes)
2016 Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (FDP), worked to re-unify Germany
2016 Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer (Nobel Laureate 2002) and concentration camp survivor
2016 Zaha Hadid, British architect (London Aquatic Centre)
2016 Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (The Two Ronnies)

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