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1185 Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family
1449 Anti-pope Felix V resigns
1507 Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
1541 Liege flooded after heavy down pour
1604 Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
1607 The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at the Battle of Gibraltar during the Eighty Years' War.
1614 Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
1626 Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld
1660 London Convention Parliament begins, meets & votes to restore Charles II
1678 French troops conquer Ypres
1684 Patent granted for thimble
1707 The Habsburg army (Anglo-Portuguese) is defeated by Bourbon army (Franco-Spanish forces) at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1719 Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
1747 Prince Willem V appointed viceroy of Zealand
1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 The Thornton Affair, Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1847 The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1850 Paul Julius Reuter, use 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices
1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1861 The Union Army (7th NY) arrives in Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War
1861 Battle of Lavaca, TX
1862 The Battle of New Orleans, Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana in the American Civil War.
1864 The Battle of Marks' Mills, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) in the American Civil War.
1867 Tokyo opens for foreign trade
1875 Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")
1876 Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1881 French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
1886 Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1891 Pres Benjamin Harrison visits SF
1896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
1896 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical premieres in London
1898 The United States declares war on Spain over Cuba, start of the Spanish-American War.
1901 Erve Beck hits American League's 1st home run
1901 In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates ($1 fee).
1902 Erwin Harvey becomes 1st Cleveland ballplayer (Cleveland Bronchos) to have six hits in one game
1904 NY Yankee Jack Chesbro's 1st of 41 wins this year
1905 Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Aust season (NSW v Qld)
1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa
1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
1915 The Battle of Gallipoli begins, World War I. The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.  Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1916 The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland, Easter Rebellion.
1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany
1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1926 Persian cossack officer Reza Chan crowns himself Shah Palawi
1927 Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1932 Rose Franken's "Another Language," premieres in NYC
1933 NY Yankee Russ Van Atta shuts out Washington Senators 16-0
1933 US & Canada drop Gold Standard
1938 1st use of seeing eye dog
1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1939 DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
1941 Operation Merkur, Hitler orders conquest of Kreta
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath
1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF
1945 Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1945 British troops reach Grebbe line Neth
1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
1945 Elbe Day, United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945 Last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin
1945 The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
1946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48
1946 Christopher Fry's "Phoenix too Frequent," premieres in London
1947 Lou Thesz beats Whipper Watson in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1947 Trial against WW II mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voete begins
1949 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Romulus der Grosse," premieres in Basel
1949 Michael Brown, rocker (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1950 Ambon (proclaims RMS (Republik Maluku Selatan)
1950 Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
1952 6th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
1952 American Bowling Congress approves use of an automatic pinsetter
1952 German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms
1953 Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids, a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC)
1954 British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmospher
1954 WDEF TV channel 12 in Chattanooga, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1
1956 Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London
1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 perfs
1961 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
1961 Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo
1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to NY Mets for a player to be named later, on June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
1962 Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
1964 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1965 19th NBA Championship, Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1
1965 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational
1966 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium
1966 The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1967 Abortion legalized in Colorado
1967 Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland
1967 Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," premieres in NYC
1968 "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances
1969 BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th & last episode
1969 Last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBS
1970 "Park" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1970 Freda Payne releases "Band of Gold"
1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 US canal rights in Nicaragua & rights to Corn Islands expire
1972 Hans-Werner Grosse glides 907.7 miles (1,461 km) in an AS-W-12
1972 Nguyen Hue Offensive The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum during the Vietnam War.
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Carnation Revolution, A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrow the Estado Novo regime.
1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy
1974 Leo Tindemans forms Belgium government
1974 Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution)
1974 NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff
1975 1st Boeing Jetfoil revenue service, Hong Kong to Macao
1975 As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1975 West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden
1976 Cub centerfielder Rick Monday rescues US flag from 2 fans trying to set it on fire
1976 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1976 India all out for 97 v West Indies
1976 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1976 Portugal adopts constitution
1977 Cin Reds tie record of 12 runs in 5th inning beating Braves 23-9
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 Phillie Phanatic makes 1st appearance
1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more
1979 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres
1979 Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
1980 A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
1980 Announcement of Jimmy Carter hostage rescue bungle in Iran
1980 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Wayne Webb
1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 Mariners mgr Maury Wills is suspended for 2 games after ordering Seattle's grounds crew to enlarge batter's boxes by one foot
1981 Maureen Reagan (40) marries 3rd husband, Dennis Revell (28)
1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orlando Lady Golf Classic
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael
1983 "Nightline" expands from ½ hour to a full hour
1983 American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1983 Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
1983 Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR
1984 Rock group Wings disbands
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 "Big River" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 1005 performances
1985 Philadelphia Flyers 2-Ny Islanders 6-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
1985 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Cup game
1985 Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in NYC
1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5
1986 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
1988 In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1988 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-211
1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1989 Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period
1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black & Kathy Mattea win
1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery
1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's pres
1991 "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances
1991 Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23)
1991 Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment
1991 Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical premieres in NYC
1992 "Shimada" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1992 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marc McDowell
1993 "Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances
1993 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader
1994 14" of snow in Southern Calif
1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
1994 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
1994 Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnap
1994 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
1995 "Month in the Country" opens at Roundabout Theater NYC for 79 perfs
1995 16th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1996 "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk," opens at Ambassador Theater NYC
1997 Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 250th HR
2003 The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
2005 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2011 At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak
2012 The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrunk 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
2013 38 people are killed in a psychiatric hospital fire in Ramensky, Russia
2013 Eric Fisher from Central Michigan first pick by Kansas City Chiefs at the 2013 NFL Draft
2013 The United Kingdom reopens its embassy in Somalia after 22 years
2015 7.8-magnitude earthquake near Kathmandu in Nepal, killing 8000, leaving over 100,000 homeless, destroying many historic sites
2015 100 year anniversary of the Gallipoli Peninsula landings in Turkey by ANZAC forces during WWI

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32 Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 Louis IX, King of France (1226-70) (d. 1270)
1228 Conrad IV of Germany, Roman Catholic German king (1237-54) (d. 1254)
1284 Edward II, King of England (1307-27) (d. 1327)
1287 Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1567 Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1599 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1653-58) (d. 1658)
1608 Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
1608 Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French King Louis XIII/general
1614 Hieronymus van Beverningk, chief Dutch treasurer/maecenas
1614 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
1621 Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1666 Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)
1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
1694 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
1723 Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
1725 Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1730 Fedele Fenaroli, composer
1767 Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor
1770 Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1775 Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
1776 Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder (Oxford Movement)
1818 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
1824 Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, painter
1825 Charles Ferdinand Dowd, US, standardized time zones
1837 William Charles Levey, composer
1840 James Dearing, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1841 Pauline Lucca, soprano
1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il santo/Leila)
1843 Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1849 Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium) (d. 1925)
1850 Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
1851 Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
1862 Edward Grey, English 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British minister of Foreign affairs (d. 1933)
1867 Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist
1868 John Bevins Moisant, American aviator, first to cross English Channel with passenger and a cat, killed in New Orleans whose present day airport was originally name for him. (D. 1910)
1869 Karl Prohaska, composer
1871 Sara Amsel, Indonesian/Dutch actress
1872 Charles Burgess Fry, cricketer/world record long jumper
1873 Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor (Nobel Prize in Physics 1909) (d. 1937)
1876 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
1881 Hans Windisch, German new testament expert
1883 Elsa Maxwell, Keokuk Iowa, writer (Jack Paar Show)
1889 Charles Kellaway, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder of 1920's)
1895 Stanley Rous, British soccer official
1897 Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer
1897 Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
1897 VAA Mary, English princess
1898 Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
1900 Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat
1900 Lord Gladwyn, MP (Liberal)
1900 Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist (Pauli inhibition) (Nobel Prize laureate 1945) (d. 1958)
1901 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
1902 Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1903 Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Polterabend, Matinee Idol)
1903 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
1905 George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
1905 Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant
1905 Walter Hassan, engineer
1906 Sally Salminen, writer
1906 William J Brennan Jr, 92nd Supreme Court Justice (1956-90) (d. 1997)
1906 Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
1907 Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy)
1907 Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
1908 Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (Person to Person) (d. 1965)
1909 Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
1909 William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
1912 Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis
1913 Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
1913 Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer in World War II (d. 1944)
1913 Russ Conway, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Richard Diamond Private Eye)
1914 Claude Mauriac, writer
1914 Marcos Perez Jimenez, president/dictator Venezuela
1914 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1915 A J A Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
1915 William Goyen, writer
1917 Ella Fitzgerald, American jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex) (d. 1996)
1918 Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (Met Opera 1941-56) (d. 2006)
1918 Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1919 Heinz Wunderlich, composer
1920 Jean Carmet, actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic)
1920 Marre, reformer of the bar
1921 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet
1921 Karel Appel, Dutch painter (Vragende Children) (d. 2006)
1923 Aafje J R Bouber (Blom), actress (Traveller Without Baggage)
1923 Albert King, American musician (Bad Look Blues) (d. 1992)
1923 Anita Bjorak, actress (Miss Julie, Loving Couples, Night People)
1923 Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer
1923 Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (1961 Silver Bowl) (d. 2006)
1924 Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
1924 Franco Mannino, Italian composer (d. 2005)
1925 Anthony Christopher, British trade unionist
1925 Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1925 Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
1926 Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1926 Paul Walter Furst, composer
1927 Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1927 Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
1927 Ernst Widmer, composer
1929 Jose Angel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza)
1929 Yvette Corlett, athlete, long jumper (Oly-gold-52), first woman New Zealander to go to Olympics
1930 Dotty Mack, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
1930 Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer (Moscow on the Hudson)
1930 Roy Marshall, cricket opener (prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for WI)
1931 David Shepherd, painter
1931 Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1932 Lia Manoliu, Romania, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1968)
1932 Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotter)
1932 William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
1933 Helen Paling, British circuit judge
1933 Jerry Leiber, American composer (Leiber & Stoller)
1934 David de Peyer, cancer research campaigner
1934 Denny "Scott" Miller, Bloomington Ind, actor (Wagon Train)
1934 Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
1935 April Ashley, English model
1937 Bo Brundin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange)
1937 Thomas Faber, publisher
1938 Roger Boisjoly, Lowell, Massachusetts, aerodynamicist (anticipated challenger disaster), (d. 2012)
1938 Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
1939 Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer
1939 Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1939 Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat
1940 Al Pacino, American actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio)
1940 Marian Norrie
1940 O B McClinton (Burnett), country singer (Keep your arms around me)
1941 Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor (Capt Conan, L627, Daddy Nostalgie)
1941 Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1941 Lawrence J Smith, (Rep-D-FL, 1983)
1941 Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
1942 John Martin Dalby, composer
1942 Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
1942 Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
1944 John Bryant, editor (Europeans)
1945 Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1945 Michael Kogel, rocker
1945 Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 Walt Wesley, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers)
1946 Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter
1946 Peter Sutherland, CEO (Allied Irish Banks)
1946 Ronnie Gilbert, rocker (Lifeline, Harp)
1946 Talia Shire (Coppola), American actress (Adrienne-Rocky)
1946 Vladimir Zhirinovsky (Edelstein), Russian nationalist and anti-semite
1947 Bill Fontana, composer
1947 Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City)
1947 Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and coach (Ajax/Barcelona)
1948 Mike Selvey, cricketer (England pace bowler of late 70's)
1948 Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
1949 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
1949 James Fenton, British poet
1949 Michael Brown, NYC, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1949 Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
1950 Peter Jurasik, American actor
1950 Steve Ferrone, English drummer (Average White Band)
1951 Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
1951 Linda Stone, pharmacist
1952 Cory Day, Bronx NY, rock vocalist
1952 Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1952 Vladislav Tretiak, USSR hockey player (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1953 Gary Cosier, cricketer (Australian batsman 1975-78, 109 on debut v WI)
1953 Ron Clements, American animation director
1954 Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural)
1955 Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
1955 Buster Mottram, tennis player
1955 Christopher Tyng, American composer
1955 Joanne Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
1955 John Nunn, British chess player
1955 Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
1956 Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
1957 Eric Bristow, "Crafty Cockney
1958 Chris Johnson, Arcata CA, LPGA golfer (1990 Atlantic City Classic)
1958 Fish (Derek William Dick), Scottish vocalist (Marillion)
1958 Flab, Musician
1959 Billy Rankin, Glasgow, Scotland, rocker
1959 Dominique Blanc, French actress
1959 Tony Phillips, Atlanta GA, baseballoutfielder: Chicago White Sox
1960 Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
1961 Dinesh D'Souza, American author
1963 David Moyes, Everton Football Club manager
1964 Andy Bell, English singer and songwriter (Erasure)
1964 Hank Azaria, American actor (The Birdcage) and voice actor (The Simpsons - Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson)
1964 Jackie Campbell, LA Cal, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-5th-1993)
1964 Jamie Siddons, cricketer (Victorian & SA batsman ODI for Aust 1988)
1964 Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1965 Denis Perez, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1965 Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1965 Mark Bryant, American basketball player, NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets)
1965 Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
1966 Darren Holmes, Asheville NC, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1966 Erik Pappas, Greek-American baseball player
1966 Isabelle Pasco, France, actress (Ave Maria)/model (Elle, Vogue)
1966 James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
1967 Angel Martino, Americus GA, 50m/100m freestyle (Oly-gold/2 br-92, 96)
1969 Darren Woodson, American football player, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 Gavin Bruk-Jackson, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman 1993)
1969 Gina Torres, American actress
1969 Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
1969 Jon Olsen, US, 100m freestyle/400m/800m medley (Olymp-gold-1992, 96)
1969 Marisa Pedulla, Bellefonte PA, half-lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1969 Nir Shental, Israel, Men's 470 yachter (Oly-15th-1996)
1969 Renée Zellweger, American actress
1969 Sanjeeva Ranatunga, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test batsman 1994)
1969 Travis Fryman, Lexington KY, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1970 Corwin Brown, NFL safety (NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1970 Jason Lee, American actor
1970 Jason Wiles, American actor
1970 Steve Tovar, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1970 Tionne Watkins, American singer
1971 Andrew Grigg, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Brad Clontz, Stuart VA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1971 Eric England, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Michelle Harris, Newark Delaware, Miss America-Delaware (1996)
1971 Pam Schaffrath, Chicago IL, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 Tomoko Kawakami, voice actress, Japanese Seiyuu
1972 Percell Gaskins, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1972 Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
1973 Alek Stojanov, Windsor, NHL right wing (Pitts Penguins)
1973 Barbara Rittner, Krefeld German FR, tennis star (1992 Schenectady)
1973 Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1973 Paige Gordon, North Vancouver BC, diver (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1973 Wes Martin, Calgary Alta, golfer (1990 Alberta Jr Masters-2nd)
1974 Brad Hassell, Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 Dean Phoenix American gay pornographic actor
1974 Libor Prochazka, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1974 Tricia Dunn, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1974 Twan Russell, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1975 Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
1975 Emily Bergl, English-American actress
1975 Jacque Jones, American baseball player, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1976 Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
1976 Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
1976 Tim Duncan, American basketball player, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1977 Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1977 Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
1977 Jonathan Angel, SF California, actor (Tommy Delucca-Saved By The Bell)
1977 Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer
1977 Marguerite Moreau, American actress (Connie-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1977 Matthew West, American Christian singer
1977 Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
1978 Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
1978 Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer
1980 Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
1980 Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
1980 Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor
1980 Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese basaball player
1981 Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
1981 Dwone Hicks, American football player, NFL running back
1981 Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
1981 John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
1982 Brian Barton, American baseball player
1982 Monty Panesar, English cricketer
1983 DeAngelo Williams, American football player, NFL running back
1983 J.P. Howell, American baseball player
1983 Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
1984 Andre' Woodson, American football quarterback
1984 Melonie Diaz, American actress
1984 Robert Andino, American baseball player
1985 Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
1985 Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter
1985 Jonathan Halyalkar, Ramsey NJ, actor (Billy-Who's the Boss)
1987 Johann Smith, American soccer player
1988 James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 Sara Paxton, American actress
1989 Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1989 Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player
1996 Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress

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68 Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
974 Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot
1077 Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040)
1185 Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
1265 Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
1295 King Sancho IV of Castile
1295 Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar, king of Castile, Leon
1342 Benedict XII, [Jacques Fournier], Pope (1334-42)
1472 Leon Battista degli Alberti, Italian artist (Dinner Pieces), poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
1482 Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI)
1516 John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1566 Louise Labé, French poet
1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
1605 Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1607 Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar)
1607 Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia)
1635 Alessandro Tassoni, Ital political writer (Rape of Bucket)
1644 Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
1647 Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna
1660 Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
1663 Heinrich Pape, composer
1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium) (b. 1610)
1728 John Woodward, geologist/physician
1740 Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer) (b. 1701)
1770 Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1792 Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer
1792 Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined
1800 William Cowper, English poet (Olney Hymns) (b. 1731)
1808 Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer
1822 Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer
1828 John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman
1840 Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1845 Thomas Duncan, painter
1853 William Beaumont, physiologist
1862 Charles Ferguson Smith, US Union Gen-Maj
1873 Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer)
1878 Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
1891 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
1892 Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1905 Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70
1906 John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839)
1911 Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1915 Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1915 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer
1919 Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
1923 Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
1925 George Stephanescu, composer
1926 Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child)
1928 Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
1931 A J Y (Bert) Hopkins, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs
1937 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies when his chute fails to open
1937 Michal Drzymala, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
1942 Paul Kornfeld, writer
1943 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
1944 George Herriman, cartoonist (b. 1880)
1944 Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
1946 Albert Knight, cricketer
1946 Joseph Vine, cricketer
1951 Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head)
1955 Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline)
1955 Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer
1960 Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28)
1960 Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
1960 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer
1961 Hans F Blunck, writer, dies
1966 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End)
1968 John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1969 Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding)
1970 Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse)
1971 Max Drischner, composer
1972 George Sanders, British actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe) (b. 1906)
1973 Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (b. 1896)
1975 Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1976 Carol Reed, English film producer and director (Agony & Ecstasy) (b. 1906)
1976 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender)
1976 Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886)
1978 Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
1980 Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
1982 Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed)
1982 Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show)
1982 John Cody, American cardinal, archbishop of Chicago (1965-82) (b. 1907)
1982 Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table)
1982 William R Burnett, US, writer (Asphalt Jungle)
1984 Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa)
1985 Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek)
1985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty)
1988 Boris Kremenliev, composer
1988 Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha
1988 Clifford D(onald) Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station)
1988 Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (b. 1936)
1989 George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85
1990 Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
1991 Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans)
1991 Theo Laseroms (Tank), Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1992 Brian Macleod, Canadian musician
1992 Dany (Daniel S) Tuijnman, Dutch min of traffic & water
1992 Panos Christi, entertainer
1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1993 Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold)
1994 David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs)
1994 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy
1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead
1995 Art Fleming, American game show host (Jeopardy) (b. 1925)
1995 Francis Henry Smith, librarian
1995 Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door) (b. 1911)
1995 Joseph Heifitz, film director
1996 John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
1996 John Lorne Campbell, folklorist
1996 Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
1998 Christian Mortensen, Danish-American supercentenarian (b. 1882)
1998 Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
1999 Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
1999 Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
1999 Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
2000 David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
2000 Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
2001 Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
2002 Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
2002 Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
2002 Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
2003 Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
2004 Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929)
2005 Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
2006 Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
2007 Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
2007 Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
2007 Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
2008 Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician and broadcaster (b. 1921)
2009 Beatrice Arthur, American comedienne, actress, and singer (b. 1922)
2009 John Marchi, American politician (b. 1921)
2010 Dorothy Provine, loving grandmother, (b. 1935)
2010 Alan Sillitoe, English writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
2013 Rick Camp, American MLB pitcher
2013 Virginia Gibson, American actress
2014 Earl Morrall, American football player

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