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467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1065 Pilgrims under bishop Gunther of Bamberg reach Jerusalem
1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Henry V, Roman emperor
1204 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1229 Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace
1385 John without Fear marries Margaretha of Brabant
1385 Willem van Oostervant weds Philip the Stouts daughter Margaretha
1545 French king Francois I orders protestants of Vaudois to be killed
1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
1583 William of Orange marries Louise de Coligny
1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
1633 The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
1648 University of Harderwijk Neth solemn opens
1654 Ordinance of Union between England and Scotland passed by the Council of State
1709 1st edition of Tattler magazine in England
1713 Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Neth loses Orange Princedom
1770 Townsend Acts repealed
1776 With the Halifax Resolution, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1782 Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French
1787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
1811 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1826 Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London
1831 Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1844 Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
1857 Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published
1858 1st US billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit)
1859 Hibernia Savings & Loan Society of SF incorporates
1861 The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.
1862 James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, GA
1862 Union troops occupy Fort Pulaski Georgia
1863 Gunboat battle at Bayou Teche Louisiana
1864 The Fort Pillow massacre, Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tn then Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, The American Civil War: .
1864 Battle of Blair's Landing LA
1865 Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army in the American Civil War.
1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
1872 Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500)
1877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1883 French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal
1887 Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo
1892 George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
1893 Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi
1894 British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
1896 Stamasia Portrisi is 1st woman to win a marathon (5:30 in Athens)
1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
1905 French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1905 Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)
1907 Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns
1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
1911 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
1917 Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)
1917 Domenico Scarlatti & Jeab Cocteaus ballet premieres in Rome
1917 Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans during World War I.
1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1926 Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
1927 The April 12th Incident, Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1928 Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
1930 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
1930 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
1931 Joe McCarthy debuts as NY Yankee manager
1931 Spanish voters reject the monarchy
1932 Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
1933 Moffatt Field commissioned
1934 The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1935 "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio
1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
1935 Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1935 Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)
1938 Stanley Cup, Chicago Blackhawks beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1938 US began requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
1940 Italy annexes Albania
1940 NFL cuts clipping penalty from 25 yards to 15 yards
1941 Stanley Cup, Boston Bruins sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1941 Vichy-France's head of government Admiral Dalarn consults with Hitler
1942 9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280
1942 Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1943 Allies conquer Soussa, North-Africa
1943 Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
1944 Lillian Hellman's "Searching Wind," premieres in NYC
1945 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Neth
1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres
1945 Richard Strauss completes his "Metamorphosis"
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
1945 US liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
1946 Syria gains independence from France
1951 Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Houston Weathervane Golf Tournament
1952 Salaheddine Baccouche forms Tunisian government
1953 17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274
1953 KFDX TV channel 3 in Wichita Falls, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Keizo Yamada runs fastest marathon to date, at Boston
1954 8th NBA Championship, Min Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 4 games to 3
1954 18th Golf Masters Championship, Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289
1954 Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
1954 Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City.
1954 Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
1955 1st game in KC, KC A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2
1955 Salk polio vaccine safe & effective
1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective, funded by 4 billion from the March of Dimes.
1956 Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon
1957 Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 12th NBA Championship, St Louis Hawks beat Bost Celtics, 4 games to 2
1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
1959 13th Tony Awards, J B & Redhead win
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria
1960 Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
1960 Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard"
1961 3rd Grammy Awards: Theme From a Summer Place, Ray Charles wins 4
1961 Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space, orbits Earth in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
1962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (SF Bay area)
1963 Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK
1963 Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
1963 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1964 28th Golf Masters Championship, Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276
1964 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational
1965 1st NL game at Houston's Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0)
1966 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1966 Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2
1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
1969 Simon & Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
1970 Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle & Joe DiMaggio
1973 France recognizes North Vietnam
1973 Sudan adopts constitution
1973 Swaziland suspends constitution
1975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
1976 India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
1980 BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms
1980 Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1981 45th Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1981 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia launched
1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle, Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
1982 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
1983 Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 16th Shuttle Mission (51D)-Discovery 4 launched-with Senator Jake Garn
1985 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
1986 20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines
1987 51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285
1987 Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1987 Texaco files for bankruptcy
1988 Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round
1988 Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Balt Orioles
1988 Harvard U patents genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)
1988 Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs Calif
1989 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss
1990 Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers
1990 James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
1990 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
1991 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs
1991 Nepalese Congress party wins general elections
1991 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
1992 "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore NYC for 137 perfs
1992 2nd lowest NBA scoring game Detroit Piston 72, NY Knicks 61
1992 53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino
1992 56th Golf Masters Championship, Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275
1992 Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz
1992 Earthquake rocks Germany
1992 Euro Disney opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
1992 Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
1992 Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1
1992 NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
1992 The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name were subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1992 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 62nd Golf Masters Championship:
1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 A Palestinian female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104 (among them 9 Arabs).
2002 Pedro Carmona becomes interim President of Venezuela during the military coup against Hugo Chávez.
2007 A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2009 President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue
2009 U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth.
2010 A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
2012 A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
2012 Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be made available across the internet
2012 Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
2013 11 people are killed and 30 are injured in mosque attacks across Iraq
2013 A man-made 32-foot and 60 tonne monument that is dates around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of Galilee
2014 The new drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C, is announced
2015 Hillary Clinton announces she will run for the Democratic nominee for US President for the 2nd time
2015 Jordan Spieth wins the 79th Masters Golf Tournament, shooting a 270
2016 scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerburg, announce interstellar project 'Breakthrough Starshot' to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri

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599 BC Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam (d. 835)
1484 Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
1500 Joachim Camerarius (Liebhard Kammerer), German classical scholar and humanist (d. 1574)
1526 Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
1550 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
1577 Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
1579 Francois de Bassompierre, marshal of France
1626 Paul Hainlein, composer
1692 Giuseppe Tartini, composer, Istria
1695 Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht Neth)
1705 William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
1713 Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (d. 1796)
1716 Felice de' Giardini, composer
1722 Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793)
1724 Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)
1726 Charles Burney, English music historian (d. 1814)
1727 Gaspare Gabellone, composer
1748 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
1760 Juan Manuel Olivares, composer
1764 Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland
1769 Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
1777 Henry Clay (the Great Compromiser), American statesman (d. 1852)
1788 Johann Erik Nordblom, composer
1791 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
1792 John George Lambton, London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham)
1793 Ferdinand I KLJM, the Good Natured, Emperor of Austria/king of Hungary
1794 Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (geometry) (d. 1847)
1796 George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861)
1799 Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855)
1801 Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader
1801 Josef Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist
1802 Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader (Congregation of Heart)
1815 Henry Hugo Pierson, composer
1823 Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (Artists & Admirers) (d. 1886)
1827 Edward Mollenhauer, composer
1831 Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor
1831 George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 Grenville Mellen Dodge, Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 John Shaw Billings, US, librarian/army physician
1839 Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888)
1839 Victorin de Joncieres, composer
1840 Edmond Audran, composer
1848 José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880)
1851 Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer (d. 1928)
1851 Emil Liebling, composer
1852 (Carl L) Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (d. 1939)
1856 William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (Spitzbergen) (d. 1937)
1863 Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding School)
1866 Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
1869 Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
1871 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (1936-41) (d. 1941)
1878 Richard B Goldschmidt, German/US zoologist
1879 Frederick G Melcher, US, publisher/editor/founded children book week
1883 Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959)
1883 Imogen Cunningham, photographer (1965 ASMP award)
1884 Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1922) (d. 1951)
1884 Tenby Davies, Welsh world champion runner (d. 1932)
1887 Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
1888 Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964)
1892 Johnny Dodds, American musician, jazz clarinettist (d. 1940)
1893 Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
1894 Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (1951-58) (d. 1964)
1898 Grantley H Adams, president of Barbados
1898 Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976)
1901 Lowell Stockman, American representative (d. 1962)
1902 Louis J M Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-48, 58-59) (d. 1977)
1903 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, UN advisor (Nobel laureate 1969) (d. 1994)
1904 Harald James Penrose, pilot
1907 Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
1907 Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979)
1908 Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia
1908 Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer
1908 John T Hughes, Bishop to Forces
1908 Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American Air Force pilot (d. 2006)
1908 Virginia Cherrill, actress (Lake Extra, Brat, City Lights, Delicious)
1910 Jorgen Rausch, German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys)
1911 Darrell A Amyx, US archaeologist (Greek Ceramics)
1911 Geoff Chubb, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler v England 1951-52 aged 40)
1911 Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (d. 1976)
1912 Eric Feldary, Budapest Hungary, actor (16 Fathoms Deep)
1912 Georges Franju, France, director (Judex, L'homme sans visage)
1912 Harold Maguire, British air marshal
1912 Herbert Mills, singer, (Mills Brothers)
1912 Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Second Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1988)
1912 Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
1913 Gabor Jodal, composer
1913 Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist
1914 Armen Alchian, American economist
1915 Emil (Theodore) Petaja, US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane)
1916 Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007)
1916 Beverly Cleary, American writer
1916 Brian Connell, writer/broadcaster
1917 Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999)
1917 M Marie Widlow, St Louis Mo, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957)
1917 Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time)
1918 18th earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire
1919 Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991)
1919 Istvan Anhalt, composer, (d. 2012)
1919 Lady Ricketts, CEO (Natl Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux)
1919 Maurice Girodias, French publisher
1919 Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero
1920 H R Hewitt, CEO (Johnson Matthey)
1920 Robert Fizdale, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Misia)
1921 A W Mabbs, archivist
1921 Robert Cliche, Quebec politician and magistrate (d. 1978)
1923 Ann Miller (Lucille Ann Collier), American actor and dancer (On the Town) (d. 2004)
1923 E C Meade, British chartered accountant
1924 Julius Moormann, student/resistance fighter (WW II)
1924 Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003)
1924 Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1924 Sergiu Natra, composer
1925 Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker & master showman (d. 2009)
1925 Johnny Jordan, England, cameraman (You Only Live Twice) [or Feb 7]
1927 Jane Withers, Ga, actress (All Together Now, Josephine the plumber)
1927 Patrick Meehan, petty criminal
1928 Brooklyn Supreme, Belgium, stallion, heaviest known horse (1450 kg)
1928 Earl of Limerick
1928 Hardy Krüger, German actor
1928 Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
1928 Uwe Kitzinger, Pres (Templeton College-Oxford)
1929 Elspet Gray (Lady Rix), actress (4 Weddings & a Funeral, Solo, Tenko)
1930 Betty Clooney, Maysville Ky, singer (Jack Paar Show)
1930 Bryan Magee, writer
1930 Earl of Limerick
1930 Lou A de Graaf, Dutch asst secretary of Social Affairs (VDA)
1930 Manuel Neri, American artist
1930 Michal Zyczkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006)
1930 Uwe Kitzinger, Pres (Templeton College, Oxford)
1931 Billy Vaughn, Glasgow Ky, singer (Chapel by the Sea)
1931 Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
1931 Martin Boykan, composer
1932 Dennis Banks, American activist
1932 Henri Lazarof, composer
1932 Jack Gelber, US, playwright (Connection, Apple)
1932 Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
1932 Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury), American musician (d. 1996)
1933 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano
1934 Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer
1935 Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (d. 2007)
1935 Wendy Savage, obstetrician/gynaecologist
1936 Charles Napier, actor (Night Stalker, Rambo)
1936 Kennedy A Simmonds, premier (St Kitts & Nevis, 1983-95)
1937 Igor Petrovich Volk, Soviet astronaut(Soyuz T-12)
1937 Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian world champ billiards player
1939 Alan Ayckbourn, English writer
1939 Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer
1940 Herbie Hancock, American musician and composer (I Thought it Was You)
1940 John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist
1941 Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993)
1941 Julio B Euson, Aruban singer (I Use the Soap)
1942 Bill Bryden, theatre director
1942 Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician
1942 Daniel Winslow Schmidt, composer
1942 Frank Bank, Hollywood California, actor (Lumpy-Leave it to Beaver)
1942 Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa
1943 Charles Ludlam, NYC, playwright/actor (Big Easy)
1944 Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher
1944 John Kay
1944 John Kay (Joachim F Krauledat), German-born musician, vocalist (Steppenwolf)
1944 Karel Kryl, folk singer
1945 Hilary Nicolle, educationist
1945 Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006)
1946 Ed O'Neill, American actor (Al Bundy-Married with Children)
1946 Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor/director/playwright (Leonce & Lena)
1946 René Krijnen, Dutch keyboardist (Les Baroques)
1947 Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-born American photographer
1947 Dan Lauria, American actor (Jack Arnold-Wonder Years) (1947 approx)
1947 David Letterman, American talk show host (Late Night with David Letterman)
1947 Tom Clancy, American author
1947 Woody Johnson, sports team owner
1948 Jeremy Beadle, English television presenter (d. 2008)
1948 Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of Germany (1998-2005)
1948 Raphick Jumadeen, cricketer (WI slow left-armer of the 70's)
1948 Sandra "Lois" Reeves, American singer
1949 Scott Turow, American writer
1950 David Cassidy, American singer and actor (Keith-Partridge Family)
1950 Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman and F1 team principal (Renault F1)
1950 Kari Palaste, Finnish architect
1950 Tom Werner, owner (SD Padres)/producer (Roseanne, Cosby Show)
1951 Jackson Spires, rock drummer (Blackfoot)
1951 Tom Noonan, American actor
1952 Alexis Arguello, Managua Nicaragua, featherweight boxer (1974 champ)
1952 J D Nicholas, English guitarist (Heatwave, Commodores)
1952 Ralph Wiley, American sports journalist (d. 2004)
1952 Reuben Gant, American professional football player
1954 Jon Krakauer, American author
1954 Marvin Johnson, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1954 Pat Travers, Canadian musician, guitarist (Puttin' it Straight)
1956 Alexander Briley, vocalist (YMCA-Village People)
1956 Andy Garcia, Cuban-born actor (Stand & Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die)
1956 Doris EHP Baaten, Dutch actress (Sesame Street, Fien)
1956 Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer
1957 Greg Child, Australian mountaineer
1957 Vince Gill, American musician
1958 Howard Stableford, English actor and host
1958 Tony James, rock bassist (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1958 Will Sergeant, English musician, guitarist (Echo & Bunnymen-Killing Moon)
1959 Elissa Leeds, NYC, actress (Cissy-Dorothy)
1960 Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster
1961 D D Verni, heavy metal rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
1961 Julius Kariuki, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-gold-1988)
1961 Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
1961 Magda Szubanski, Australian actress
1962 Art Alexakis, American musician
1962 Takada Nobuhiko, Japanese wrestler
1964 Amy Ray, American musician
1964 Mike Macfarlane, Stockton CA, catcher (KC Royals)
1965 Elaine Zayak, NJ, figure skater (Olympics-6th-1984)
1965 Kim Bodnia, Danish actor
1965 Tom O'Brien, American actor-producer
1966 Jeffrey Hunter, WLAF DE (London Monarchs)
1966 Lorenzo White, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1966 Theo Blanco, WLAF receiver (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 Bobby Abrams, NFL outside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1967 Donna Andrews, Lynchburg VA, LPGA golfer (1994 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1967 Kirk Everist, Houston Texas, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1967 Mellow Man Ace, Afro-Cuban rapper and actor (Only the Strong)
1967 Sarah Cracknell, English singer
1968 Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1968 Alicia Coppola, American actress (Lorna Devon-Another World)
1968 Neal Fort, CFL tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1969 Lucas Radebe, South African footballer
1969 Michael Jackson, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1970 Nick Hexum, American musician
1970 Patrick Brugnoli, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1971 Fernando Meligeni, Argentina, tennis star
1971 Kent Manderville, Edmonton, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 Nicholas Brendon, American actor
1971 Shannen Doherty, Memphis Tn, actress (Little House, Bev Hills 90210)
1971 Tyrone Chatman, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper
1972 Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player
1972 Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer
1973 Antonio Osuna, Mexican baseball player, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 Claudia Jordan, American model, Miss USA-Rhode Island (1997, top 10)
1973 J. Scott Campbell, American comic book artist
1973 Pamela Polk, Berlin Wisconsin, Miss America-Wisconsin (1996)
1974 Belinda Emmett, Australian actor (d. 2006)
1974 Kabir Khan, cricketer (Pakistani slow left-armer 1994)
1974 Marley Shelton, American actor
1974 Roman Hamrlik, Czech ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Lightning, Oly-gold-98)
1974 Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
1975 Marcie Alberts, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1975 Sofie Rahman, Miss Universe-Hong Kong (1996)
1976 Brad Miller, American basketball player
1977 Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 Glenn Rogers, Scottish Cricket Player
1977 Jason Price, Welsh footballer
1977 Jordana Spiro, American actor
1977 Sarah Jane Morris, American actor
1978 Eddie Robinson, actor (Neil Atwater-Swan's Crossing)
1978 Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay)
1978 Riley Smith, American actor
1978 Victor Cruz, Argentino developer
1979 Claire Danes, American actress (Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet)
1979 Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer
1979 Elena Grosheva, Russian Olympic gymnast
1979 Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model
1979 Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
1979 Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer
1979 Paul Nicholls, English actor
1980 Brian McFadden, Irish Singer
1980 Erik Mongrain, Canadian musician
1981 Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist
1981 Jaspreet Singh, businessman
1981 Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer
1982 Deen, Bosnian singer
1982 Nicholas Mohammed, Trinidadian, FIU Graduate
1983 Dwayne Smith, West Indian cricketer
1983 Jelena Dokic, Serbian/Australian tennis player
1985 Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
1985 Jeisa Chiminazzo, Brazilian supermodel
1985 Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer
1985 Paul Murphy, Irish footballer
1985 Ted Ginn Jr., American football player
1986 Blerim Džemaili, Swiss footballer
1987 Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1994 Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
1994 Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
2000 Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish child actress

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45 BC Gnaeus Pompeius, the Younger, Roman general
65 Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
238 Gordian I, Roman Emperor (suicide)
238 Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire (killed in battle)
352 Julius I, 35th Pope (337-52)
434 Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
1125 Vladislaus I of Bohemia (b. 1065)
1443 Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
1550 Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, French soldier (b. 1496)
1555 Johanna de Wanzinnige, Queen of Castilie (1504-20)
1555 Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
1605 Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605)
1675 Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1684 Nicolò Amati, Italian luthier from Cremona, a member of the Amati family (b. 1596)
1687 Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
1690 Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1704 Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
1704 John Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam
1748 William Kent, English sculptor and architect (Kensington Palace)
1760 Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer
1782 Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
1788 Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer
1788 Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (b. 1719)
1795 Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
1795 Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian literary
1797 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1814 Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
1817 Charles Messier, French astronomer, "comet ferret" & catalogs famous "M objects," (b. 1730)
1828 Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance
1845 Henry M baron the Kock, officer/politician
1850 Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)
1859 John Emde, German evangelist
1864 Thomas Green, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1872 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
1878 William M "Boss" Tweed, American politician (New York) (b. 1823)
1896 Alexander Ritter, composer
1898 Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
1902 Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
1909 Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
1910 William G Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways)
1912 Clara Barton, American nurse and Red Cross advocate (b. 1821)
1914 Josef Nesvera, composer
1922 Frantisek Ondricek, composer
1933 Adelbert Ames, American general, 27th and 30th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1835)
1938 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man & Mark) (b. 1873)
1942 Johannes E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (D) (1933-1945) (b. 1882)
1946 August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed
1946 F Guicciardi, writer
1947 Christian F L Leipoldt, South African writer (Die Moormansgat)
1951 Harold Vincent Milligan, composer
1954 Pim (Willem J H) Mulier, Dutch journalist/sports-organizer
1959 Ernest Willem Mulder, composer
1959 James Gleason
1961 Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer
1961 Philippine "Pine" Belder (Mary de Klerk), actress
1962 Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861)
1965 Linda Darnell, US actress (Dakota Incident)
1966 Sumokil, president of Republic South Moluccas, executed
1968 Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899)
1971 Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1971 Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1972 C W Ceram, [Kurt Marek], German/US writer (1st American)
1972 Henri Potiron, composer
1974 Carl Jaffe
1975 Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
1975 Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere)
1976 Paul Ford, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1977 Phil Wrigley, American manufacturer and baseball executive (Chicago Cubs) (b. 1894)
1980 Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
1980 Stanley De Silva, cricketer (motor bike Sri Lanka '79 World Cup)
1980 William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia, killed in coup with 27 others (b. 1913)
1981 Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1981 Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Te Deum)
1981 Joe Louis (Brown bomber), American heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49) (b. 1914)
1983 Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1984 Edwin T. Layton, American naval officer (b. 1903)
1984 Ruth Taylor, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1986 Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (b. 1897)
1987 Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security)
1987 Mike Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1964)
1988 Alan Stewart Paton, South African writer (b. 1903)
1989 Abbie Hoffman, American political leader, peace activist of the 60's (b. 1936)
1989 Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
1989 Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer, heavyweight champ (b. 1921)
1990 Henry Kendrick
1991 James Schuyler, US poet (Pulitzer 1980)
1992 Joe Medwick, vocalist
1993 Isaac Rojas, vp of Argentina (1955-58)
1993 Patience Jarvis
1994 Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer
1994 Jean Carmet
1994 Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar
1995 Chris Pyne, trombonist
1996 Marthe Robert, essayist/translator
1996 Nancy Sheehan, writer
1996 William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist
1997 George Wald, scientist
1999 Boxcar Willie, American singer (b. 1931)
2001 Harvey Ball, American inventor (b. 1921)
2002 George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist, Harvard professor. (b. 1908)
2003 Cecil H. Green, British-born American geophysicist and manufacturer (b. 1900)
2003 Sydney Lassick, American actor (b. 1922)
2006 Dr. Rajkumar, Indian film actor and singer (b. 1929)
2006 Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
2006 William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (b. 1924)
2007 Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
2008 Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
2008 Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
2008 Paddy Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
2009 Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
2010 Palito, Filipino comedian (b. 1934)
2013 Robert Byrne, American grand chess master
2013 Michael France, American screenwriter
2014 Hal Smith, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals)
2015 Sheila Kitzinger, British author, anthropologist & child birth educator
2016 David Gest, American television producer
2016 Anne Jackson, American stage actress (Twice Around the Park)
2016 Arnold Wesker, British playwright (Chips with Everything)
2016 Alan Loveday, New Zealand and British violinist

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