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April 7th

Holidays and Festivals

Mother's Day (Armenia) * CLICK HERE
World Health Day (UN)
National Beer Day
Flag Adoption Day (Albania) * CLICK HERE
Republika Srpska announces its independence (1992)

WHO Day a.k.a. World Health Organization Day, Anniversary of the World Health Organization
The Internet's symbolic birth date (1969)
International Beaver Day
International Snailpapers Day
Metric System Day, Anniversary of the Metric System
Caramel Popcorn Day
No Housework Day
Birthday of Billie Holiday (Singer)
Christian Feast Day of Aibert of Crespin
Christian Feast Day of Blessed Notker
Christian Feast Day of John Baptist de La Salle
* Snowbombing Festival Mayrhofen, Austria, Europe April 5 – 10 (3of6) (2010)

Fête de la Ciguë Translation: Hemlock Day (French Republican) The 18th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here’s to fine wine, women, and song.
And here’s to workdays that aren’t too long.
Here’s to shoes that always fit.
And here’s to you, you silly sh*t!"

- Unknown

Drink of The Day

Manhattan

3 Parts Bourbon
1 Part Sweet Vermouth
Combine ingredients in a Cocktail Shaker, Shake, and Strain into a Cocktail Glass
Garnish with a Cherry

Wine of The Day

Rotta Winery 2005 Heritage
Style - Zinfandel
Paso Robles
$20

Beer of The Day

Caldera Pilot Rock Porter
Brewer - Caldera Brewing Co., Ashland, Oregon, USA
Style - Brown Porter

Joke of The Day

Two guys are out drinking when one of them falls off his barstool and lies motionless on the floor.

"One thing about Fred," his buddy says to the bartender. "He knows when to stop."

Quote of The Day

"You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps."
- Unknown

Whisky of The Day

Speyburn 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
$25

April Observances

ASPCA Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Spirit Days
Confederate History Month
Couple Appreciation Month
Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
DNA, Genomics and Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Facial Protection Month
Fair Housing Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month
Get Yourself Tested Month
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month (Different Sponsor to March)
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Informed Woman Month
Injury Prevention Month
International Cesarean Awareness Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
International Twit Award Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Learn Thai Month
Library Snapshot Month
Math Awareness Month
Month of the Military Child
Month of the Young Child
National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Car Care Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Month
National Garden Month
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Oral Health Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Pest Management Month
National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
National Pet Month
National Poetry Month
National Prepare Your Home To Be Sold Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education and Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness Month
National Welding Month
National Welding Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Patient Safety Awareness Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Procrastination Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Southern Belles Month
Soy Foods Month
Sports Eye Safety Month
Straw Hat Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month

Observances this Week

National Public Health Week, First Week in April
Library Week, First Week in April
Read a Road Map Week, First Week in April
The APAWS Pooper Scooper, First Week in April
Explore Your Career Options, First Week in April
Golden RuleWeek, First Week in April
Laugh at Work Week, First Week in April
Medication Safety Week, First Week in April
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week, First Week in April
National Animal Control Appreciation Week, First Full Week of April
National Blue Ribbon Week, (Child Abuse) First Full Week of April
National Public Health Week, First Full Week of April
National Week of the Ocean, First Full Week of April
National Window Safety Week, First Full Week of April
National Week of the Ocean, Usually the Week of April 6th
Hate Week, April 4th through 10th
NanoDays, 9 Days Starting the Last Saturday in March

Historical Events on April 7th

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30 Scholars' estimate Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
451 Attila's Hun's plunder Metz
529 First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1118 Pope Gelasius II excommunicated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor
1348 Charles University is founded in Prague, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV.
1456 Louis van Burbon becomes prince-bishop of Luik
1498 Crowd storms Savonarola's convent San Marco Florence, Italy
1509 France declares war on Venice
1521 Ferdinand Magellan's fleet arrives at Cebu.
1521 Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1541 Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1584 Ieper surrenders to duke Van Parma
1625 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1652 Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1655 Fabio Chigi replaces Pope Innocent X as Alexander VII
1712 Slave revolt (NYC)
1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1776 Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
1788 American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1795 France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1798 The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 In the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
1805 Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1818 Gen Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
1827 John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 Dom Pedro abdicates to son, Dom Pedro II crowned emperor of Brazil
1860 Grand duke Frederik I liberalizes laws in Bathe
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
1863 Battle of Charleston SC, failed Federal fleet attack on Fort Sumter
1865 Battle of Farmville VA
1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face"
1890 Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day
1901 SDAP demands general voting right/abolishing First Chamber
1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1906 Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking business
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1917 De Falla's ballet "El Sombrero de tres Picos," premieres in Madrid
1917 James Barries' "Old Lady Shows Her," premieres in London
1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1922 The Teapot Dome scandal, United States Secretary of the Interior leases Naval Reserve #3 (Teapot Dome petroleum reserves) in Wyoming to Harry F Sinclair.
1923 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1923 Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
1926 Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose
1927 First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1927 Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1928 44-yr old NY Ranger GM Lester Patrick replaces his injured goaltender in a Stanley Cup game, & beats Montreal Maroons 2-1
1931 Seals Stadium opens in SF
1933 1st 2 NAZI anti-Jewish laws, bars Jews from legal & public service
1933 Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment. Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1933 University Bridge, Seattle opens for traffic
1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1939 Italy invades Albania, World War II.
1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1940 7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280
1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1941 British generals O'Connor & Neame captured in North Africa
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
1943 British and US troops make contact at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1943 In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
1943 Lt colonel Claus von Stauffenberg seriously wounded at allied air raid
1943 NFL adopts free substitution rule
1944 General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan
1945 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945 US B-17's bombs range at Luneburg
1945 The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, & four destroyers are sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa. They were intercepted while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go, World War II.
1945 Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces, World War II.
1946 10th Golf Masters Championship, Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1948 The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1949 "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1951 15th Golf Masters Championship, Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1954 German government refuses to recognize DDR
1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference in Indo-China.
1954 WALB TV channel 10 in Albany, GA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1
1956 Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco
1957 21st Golf Masters Championship, Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
1957 Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run
1958 Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
1959 Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun, Stanford Calif
1962 Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes
1962 Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail
1963 27th Golf Masters Championship, Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1963 Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life.
1964 IBM announces the System/360.
1965 Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man NZ v Pakistan
1966 US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights
1967 Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1968 Jim Clark, two-time F1 World Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500, dies in a racing accident during a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany.
1969 Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4
1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date, publication of RFC 1.
1970 "Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds," premieres in NYC
1970 42nd Academy Awards "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne & Maggie Smith win
1970 Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0
1971 Dismissal of Curt Flood's suit against baseball is upheld by
1971 Pres Nixon orders lt Calley (Mi Lai) free
1971 President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1971 WCJB TV channel 20 in Gainesville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 3-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals
1973 Cleveland sets day-game & opening-game attendance records of 74,420
1973 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 v WI Georgetown
1974 Herb Gardner's "Thieves," premieres in NYC
1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1976 Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
1977 Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1977 German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1977 Toronto Blues Jays 1st game, they beat Chicago 9-5
1978 Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 President Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1978 US Court of Appeals upholds Commissioner Kuhn's voiding of attempted player sales by A's owner Charlie Finley in June 1976
1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water
1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
1979 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers
1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1981 Belgium Eyskens government forms
1981 Willem Klein mentally extracts 13th root of a 100-digit # in 29 sec
1982 Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested
1982 Penguins 1-Isles 8-Preliminary-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1
1983 During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1983 STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk
1983 WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event
1984 Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1985 1st live telecast of Easter Parade
1985 14th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Alice Miller
1985 NJ General Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards
1985 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1986 Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy
1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
1988 Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1
1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested
1988 Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1989 Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 BPAA US Open by Ron Palombi Jr
1990 Farm Aid IV concert
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1990 John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) is found guilty of five charges for his part in the Iran Contra Affair (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
1990 Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary
1991 "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances
1991 "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs
1991 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus
1991 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1991 George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00
1991 Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24
1992 Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1993 Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY)
1994 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
1994 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
1994 Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
1994 NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
1994 Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1996 8th Seniors Golf Tradition, Jack Nicklaus
1996 Jayasuriya hits fastest ODI fifty off 17 balls v Pak, Singapore
1996 Kelly Robbins wins Sacramento 12 Bridges LPGA Golf Classic
1996 Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Myers FL on WRXK 96.1 FM
1999 The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2005 The Head of government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, faces an impeachment process at the Mexican Congress.
2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2012 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
2012 Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
2013 15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force
2013 Sweden wins the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship defeating Canada
2014 Connecticut beats Kentucky 60-54 in the 76th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
2015 Connecticut beats Notre Dame 63-53 in the 34th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
2016 Longest-ever captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)

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Born on April 7th

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1506 Francis Xavier, Spanish co-founder of the Society of Jesus, Saint, Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan (d. 1552)
1534 Jose de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
1539 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584)
1613 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School) (d. 1675)
1622 Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
1629 Juan Jose, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
1644 François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
1648 Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
1648 John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
1652 Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
1718 Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800)
1727 Henri Hardouin, composer
1727 Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806)
1745 Georg Druschetzky, composer
1748 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
1756 Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
1763 Domenico Dragonetti, composer
1768 Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
1770 William Wordsworth, English poet (Prelude) (d. 1850)
1772 F M Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
1775 Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
1780 William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842)
1786 William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
1801 Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1882)
1803 Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)
1803 James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
1805 Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy) (d. 1869)
1819 Hubert Leonard, composer
1822 Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Johann Hermann Berens, composer
1841 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanicus
1841 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
1847 J P Jacobsen, writer
1848 Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
1851 Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
1853 Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (d. 1884)
1858 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
1859 Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football" (Yale) (d. 1925)
1860 Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
1867 Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
1869 David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
1870 Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
1870 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
1872 William Monroe Trotter, famous African
1873 John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
1878 C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
1878 Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
1882 Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger, cricketer (belated Australian rep 1928-33)
1882 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
1883 Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
1884 Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
1884 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
1886 Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
1890 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (1st Lady of Everglades) (d. 1998)
1891 Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
1893 Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
1893 Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
1894 Gerald Brenan, English writer
1895 Eduardo Toldra, composer
1895 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
1896 Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
1897 Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918)
1897 Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer
1897 Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (Untouchables) (d. 1972)
1899 Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1903 Edwin T. Layton, American Naval officer (d. 1984)
1905 Queenie Leonard, American actress (d. 2002)
1908 Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
1908 Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (Summer Place) (d. 1976)
1909 Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
1911 Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
1912 John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman
1913 Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
1914 Ralph Flanagan, American big band leader (d. 1995)
1914 Sydney Thompson, rock climber
1915 Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan), American singer (Aint Nobodys Business) (d. 1959)
1915 Henry Kuttner, American sci-fi writer (Dark World, As You Were) (d. 1958)
1915 Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
1916 Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
1917 R.G. Armstrong, American actor (T.H.E. Cat)
1918 Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
1918 C B Bertie Clarke, cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
1918 Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1918 Peter Aryans (PCJ Vander), Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
1918 Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
1919 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (6x Olympic gold, 1936-1960), (d. 2012)
1919 Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orchestra leader (Let's Dance)
1919 Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
1920 Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player (Sounds of India)
1920 Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
1922 Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
1922 Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1924 Ikuma Dan, composer
1924 Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
1924 Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orchestra leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
1926 Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
1927 Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
1928 Alan J. Pakula, American film producer and director (All the President's Men, Klute) (d. 1998)
1928 James Garner, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
1928 James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (Star Surgeon, Star Healer) (d. 1999)
1929 Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
1930 Andrew Sachs, English actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
1931 Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
1931 Donald Barthelme, American author (Snow White, Sadness) (d. 1989)
1932 Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger
1933 Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs)
1934 Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (Montgomery-Ike) (d. 2007)
1934 Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts
1935 Bobby Bare, American country musician (Detroit City)
1935 Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
1935 Yvonne Fedderson, co-founder (Childhelp USA)
1936 Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
1937 Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
1938 Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey) (d. 2008)
1938 Jerry Brown, American politician, California governor
1938 Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
1938 Yvonne Lime, Glendale California, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
1939 David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
1939 Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1939 Francis Ford Coppola, American film director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
1939 Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host
1940 Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
1940 Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
1941 Gorden Kaye, British actor
1941 James Di Pasquale, American composer
1942 Edda Barends, actress (Arthur & Eva)
1942 Jeetendra, Indian actor
1942 Nam Gi-nam, South Korean director of movies
1943 Dennis Amiss, cricketer (prolific English batsman)
1943 Mick Abrahams, Luton, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig)
1943 Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, California, actress/singer (Virginian)
1943 Spencer Dryden, NYC, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
1944 Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
1944 Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
1944 Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
1945 Joël Robuchon, French chef
1945 Martin Lewis, British newsreader
1945 Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
1945 Werner Schroeter, German film director
1946 Barbara Benary, composer
1946 Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
1946 Stan Winston, American special effects, makeup artist and film director (d. 2008)
1947 Charles 'skip' Pitts, Washington D.C., soul and blues guitarist (Shaft), (d. 2012)
1947 Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
1947 Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1947 Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
1948 Carol Douglas, American singer
1949 John Oates, American rock guitarist and lyricst (Hall & Oates)
1949 Mitch Daniels, American politician, governor of Indiana
1951 Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
1951 John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1952 Bruce Gary, Burbank Ca, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
1952 Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
1953 Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
1954 Donna White, LPGA golfer
1954 Jackie Chan, Chinese actor, director, producer, and martial artist (Rumble in the Bronx)
1954 Tony Dorsett, American football player, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
1955 Andrea Fisher, artist
1955 Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and television news journalist
1955 Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
1956 Annika Billström, Swedish politician
1956 Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor
1956 Gail Lee Hirata, LPGA golfer
1957 Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
1958 Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
1958 Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
1960 James "Buster" Douglas, American boxer
1960 Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1961 Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
1961 Thurl Bailey, American basketball player
1962 Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
1962 Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy California, lugist
1962 Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night) (d. 1995)
1963 Jaime de Marichalar, Duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
1964 Helen Wadsworth, S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990)
1964 Jace Alexander, American television director
1964 Joe Durant, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th)
1964 Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)
1964 Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 Alexander Mronz, Cologne Germany, tennis star
1965 Alison Lapper, British artist
1965 Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
1965 Kaushik Amalean, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1986-88)
1966 Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
1966 Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
1967 Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
1967 Steve Wisniewski, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
1968 Don(ald) Smith, North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1968 Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer
1968 Jennifer Lynch, American director
1969 Clark Sheehan, Denver Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1969 Jeremy Lincoln, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1969 Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1969 Ricky Bones, Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers, NY Yanks)
1969 Ricky Watters, American football player, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Alexander Karpovtsev, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
1970 Kevin Smith, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
1971 Cara Kendra Bernosky, Miss USA-Pennsylvania (1997)
1971 Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)
1971 Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress
1971 Mark Thompson, Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 Stephen Brimacombe, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1971 Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater (1995 World Champs-4th)
1972 Greg Clark, tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 Joanne Brown, Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olym-bronze-96)
1972 Lovett Purnell, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
1972 Malcolm Huckaby, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1972 Shana Williams, Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete
1973 Brett Tomko, American baseball player
1973 Carole Montillet, French skier
1973 Ève Salvail, Canadian model
1974 Anita Maxwell, WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 Beverly Peele, super model (Elle)
1975 Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer
1975 Ronde Barber, American football player, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
1975 Tiki Barber, American football player, running back (NY Giants)
1976 Erich Goldmann, Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 Kevin Alejandro, American actor
1977 Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
1978 Siobhan Drake-Brockman, Bunbury Aust, tennis star (1994 Port Pirie)
1978 Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player
1979 Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
1979 Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Patrick Crayton, American football player
1981 Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
1982 Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
1983 Franck Ribéry, French football player
1983 Jon Stead, British football player
1986 Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity
1987 Alexa Demara, American model and actress
1988 Edward Speleers, British model and actor
1989 Alexa Demara, American model
1989 Franco Di Santo, Argentine Footballer
1990 Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer

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30 Jesus Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer. Corresponds to Friday 15th of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, the day of Pesakh or Passover, often considered the date of the flagellation and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
924 Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
1307 Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)
1444 John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV)
1498 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98) (b. 1470)
1524 Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht
1614 El Greco, Greek-born artist (View of Toledo) (b. 1541)
1638 Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1651 Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
1658 Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
1661 Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
1663 Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)
1668 William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
1719 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (b. 1651)
1739 Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
1747 Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
1761 Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1702)
1766 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
1767 Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)
1768 Michel Mathieu, composer
1778 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
1782 Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)
1783 Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
1789 Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
1789 Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
1801 Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
1804 (Francois D) Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian Revolutionary (b. 1743)
1810 Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot
1811 Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
1823 Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)
1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Polish politician (b. 1775)
1836 William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
1842 Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret)
1850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets) and critic (b. 1762)
1858 Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (b. 1781)
1862 Sydney Nelson, composer
1868 D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
1871 Prince Alexander John of Wales , grandson of English queen Victoria, 1 day old (b. 1871)
1871 Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1871 Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus adm (Helgoland/Lissa)
1875 Georg Herwegh, writer
1877 Errico Petrella, composer
1880 Diederich Krug, composer
1881 Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP
1884 Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp)
1885 Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
1891 Phineas T Barnum, American circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey) (b. 1810)
1917 Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer
1920 Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1928 Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1932 Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
1933 Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday
1939 Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
1943 Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
1943 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends) (b. 1871)
1947 Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)
1950 Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
1955 Theda Bara, American film actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans) (b. 1885)
1958 Judge Jackson, composer
1958 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer
1960 Henri Guisan, General of the Swiss Army during World War II (b. 1874)
1961 Jesus Guridi, composer
1961 Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly)
1961 Yusef Greiss, composer
1967 Anne Morrison Chapin
1968 Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1936)
1970 Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel
1971 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
1972 Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
1972 Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong)
1973 Nick Stuart, bandleader
1976 Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride)
1977 Siegfried Buback, German FR procureur-genl, murdered attorney-general
1978 Ernest Kanitz, composer
1979 Bruno Apitz, writer
1981 Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
1981 Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)
1982 Brenda Benet, American actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun (b. 1945)
1982 Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
1983 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy)
1984 Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (1957-81) (b. 1924)
1984 Samuel C Engel, poet
1985 Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1888)
1987 Maxine Sullivan (Williams), American actress (Going Places)
1988 Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist
1989 Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/sain
1990 Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1992 Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
1992 Alix Talton, former Miss Georgi
1992 Antonis Tritsis, Greek politician (b. 1937)
1992 Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress)
1992 Rick Emery
1993 Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant)
1993 Richard Schmiechen
1993 S C (Billy) Griffith, cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC sect)
1994 Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda, assassinated (b. 1953)
1994 Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1994 Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian
1994 Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist
1994 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends
1994 Francois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide
1994 Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
1994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity)
1995 Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
1996 Ian Spurling, ballet designer
1997 Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1997 Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
1997 Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)
2000 Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer (b. 1944)
2001 Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
2001 David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
2002 John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
2003 David Greene, British television director (b. 1921)
2004 Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician (b. 1901)
2004 Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
2005 Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2005 Cliff Allison, British racing driver (b. 1932)
2005 Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
2007 Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
2007 Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2008 Mark Speight, English television presenter (b. 1965)
2009 Dave Arneson, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947)
2011 Duke of Grafton, 11th Duke of Grafton, British peer
2012 Mike Wallace (Myron), American media personality
2013 John St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan, English peer (St Michael's Mount)

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