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1124 David I becomes King of Scotland.
1296 Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice
1518 Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors/Bourgondisch covenant
1521 Battle of Mactan, Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1522 Battle at Bicacca, Charles I & Pope Adrianus VI beat France
1526 Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1539 Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1565 Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1576 Peace of Beaulieu & Paix de Monsieur
1578 Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1643 Tirso de Molina's "Bellaco Sois, Gomez," premieres in Madrid
1646 King Charles I flees Oxford
1650 Scottish general Montrose defeated
1650 The Battle of Carbisdale, A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1662 Netherlands & France sign military covenant
1667 The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1694 Frederik August I "the Strong" becomes monarch of Saksen
1749 First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
1773 The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1777 The Battle of Ridgefield, A British invasion force engages and defeats Continental Army regulars and militia irregulars at Ridgefield, Connecticut, The American Revolutionary War.
1805 United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn), First Barbary War.
1810 Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
1813 United States troops under Gen Pike capture the capital of Upper Canada, York (present day Toronto, Canada) Pike is killed, War of 1812.
1828 Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens
1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
1840 Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1841 Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening
1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited
1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1860 Thomas Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1863 Battle of Streight's raid, Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL
1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1865 Steamboat "Sultana", carrying 2,400 passengers explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 1,547. 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" blows up
1865 The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
1867 Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)
1870 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
1877 Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)
1877 President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends
1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1890 French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out, Phila A's win 6-0
1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
1904 The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
1905 World Exposition opens in Luik
1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1909 Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1911 Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1912 Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in Netherlands
1914 Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1921 Hadjememaar, [Corn de Gelder] elected in Amsterdam
1922 Fritz Langs "Dr Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin
1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
1923 Benito Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1924 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
1926 In the Giants' 9-8 win over Phillies, Mel Ott, 17, 1st appearance
1927 Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmery) are created.
1931 100°F (38°C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)
1933 Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London.
1933 Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Wash DC
1935 Brussel's World Expo opens
1935 Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8
1936 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1937 1st US social security payment made
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 German troops occupy Athens Greece in World War II
1941 The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.
1942 Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars
1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
1943 Lou Jansen & Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland
1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London
1944 Boston Brave Jim Tobin no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-0
1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
1945 US 5th army enters Genua
1945 Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo, while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier, World War II.
1945 German troops are finally expelled from Finnish Lapland, World War II.
1945 The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication, World War II.
1946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed
1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US
1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
1950 "Tickets, Please" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 245 performances
1950 In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races, Apartheid.
1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 15 perfs
1953 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP
1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins term "Pencil neck geek"
1956 Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1959 "Today" show goes abroard 1st time (Paris France)
1959 Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China PR
1959 The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
1960 South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns
1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
1961 Sierra Leone declares its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1962 Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything," premieres in London
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname
1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in US
1965 "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert
1967 Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 perfs
1968 Baltimore Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0
1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1972 Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
1973 KC Royal Steve Busby no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1974 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 "So Long 174th St" opens at Harkness Theater NYC for 16 performances
1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
1977 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
1977 Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa
1977 HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1978 14th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 4-3 in 11
1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
1978 Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1978 Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
1980 Barbara Barrow wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1981 1st female soccer official is hired by NASL
1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach [Goldbach]
1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1982 Nordiques 1-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson
1984 Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
1986 "Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances
1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
1989 "Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances
1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
1990 Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
1990 Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10
1991 "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1991 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio
1992 "Small Family Business" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1992 NY Mets trade David Cone to Toronto Blue Jays for Jeff Kent
1992 Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1993 All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
1994 "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
1994 7th longest NHL game: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec)
1994 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
1994 President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif
1994 South African general election of 1994, The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
1994 Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
1995 "Indiscretions" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1995 Coors Field in Colo opens Denver Rockies beats Mets 11-9 in 14
1996 Brunswick World Tournament of Champions won by Dave D'Entremont
1996 The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
1997 "Little Foxes," opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 56 performances
1997 "Stanley," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 Frank Nobilo wins Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic at Forest Oaks
1997 Las Vegas Senior Golf Classic by TruGreen-ChemLawn
1997 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chick-fil-A Charity Championship
2002 The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
2004 Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry files for divorce from her second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet, six months after the couple separated
2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
2006 Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2007 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2011 The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history
2012 Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people
2013 10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan
2014 Ariana Grande's first single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released

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HIDE

1410 John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia
1495 Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1566)
1623 Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)
1650 Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1714)
1701 Charles Emanuel III, King of Sardinia (d. 1773)
1707 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens
1718 Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (d. 1790)
1724 Col. Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier (d. 1775)
1724 Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
1737 Edward Gibbon, English historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Emp) (d. 1794)
1748 Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (d. 1833)
1755 Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher and early feminist, author of  (Female Reader, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) (d. 1797)
1767 Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock)
1791 Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code)  (d. 1872)
1802 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer
1803 Alfred Julius Becher, composer
1806 Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1812 Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)
1812 William W. Snow, American politician (d. 1886)
1820 Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (Social Darwinism) (d. 1903)
1822 Ulysses S. Grant (Hiram), Civil War general and 18th President of the United States (1869-77) (d. 1885)
1824 William Richard Bexfield, composer
1828 Gerben Colmjon, Dutch Frisian linguist/publisher
1835 John Murray Corse, Pitts, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers) [or 9/27]
1840 Edward Whymper, English mountain climber, 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865) (d. 1911)
1848 King Otto I of Bavaria (d. 1916)
1850 Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
1853 Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (d. 1914)
1861 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer
1861 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte)
1865 Emile Erens, Dutch Hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
1869 William Victor Harris, composer
1871 Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer
1873 Harry M O'Connor, Chicago IL, actor (Stranger than Fiction)
1875 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)
1875 Freddie Fane, cricketer (Hobbs' 1st Test opening partner)
1875 Lumsden Hare, Ireland, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess)
1878 Frank Alvin Gotch, American professional wrestler (d. 1917)
1883 Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter
1884 Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], actor (Bluejackets)
1888 Florence La Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917)
1891 Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer (d. 1953)
1892 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)
1893 Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1893 Dragoljub Mihailovic, commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (d. 1946)
1893 Norman Bel Geddes, Adrian Mich, theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End)
1894 George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist (d. 1975)
1894 Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer (d. 1995)
1896 Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, 2nd baseman (St Louis Cards) (d. 1963)
1896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)
1899 Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker's creator) (d. 1994)
1902 Kitty Kelly, NYC, actress (Ladies of the Jury, Behind Office Doors)
1903 Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown)
1903 Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist
1903 Horace Stoneham, American Major League Baseball team owner (d. 1990)
1904 Arthur F Burns, economist/chairman (Federal Reserve Board)
1904 Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet, writer, and detective (Nicholas Blake) (d. 1972)
1904 Nikos Zachariadis, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1973)
1904 Ragnar Skrede, Norwegian poet (Lauvfall)
1905 Julian Stryjkowski, writer
1905 Philip Radcliffe, composer
1906 Mark Alexander Abrams, market researcher
1906 Yórgos Theotokás, Greek novelist (d. 1966)
1909 Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place)
1910 Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
1911 Colin Gordon, Ceylon, actor (John-Baron)
1911 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Tintin)
1912 Franz Weyergans, Belgian literary (Les Gens Heureux)
1912 Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist
1912 Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome, Secrets of Santa Vittoria)
1912 Zohra Segal, Indian stage and film actress
1913 Luz Long, German athlete (d. 1943)
1913 Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist (d. 2004)
1914 Albert Soboult, French historian
1916 Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1916 Jan Rychlik, composer
1918 John Alfred Scali, journalist/correspondent (ABC)
1918 Kirby Stone, NYC, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads)
1918 Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
1918 Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist of Concert building (Oh, Lady! Lady!)
1919 Walter Ritchie, sculptor
1920 Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet
1920 Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
1920 Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
1921 John Stott, British theologian and clergyman
1922 Daphne Anderson, London, actress (Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice)
1922 Jack Klugman, American actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus)
1922 Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor
1927 Connie Kay, jazz drummer
1927 Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 2006)
1927 Joe Moakley, American politician (Rep-D-Massachusetts, 1973) (d. 2001)
1927 Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (d. 1988)
1929 Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60)
1930 Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs
1931 Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist, son of David Oistrach
1931 Krzystzof Komeda, composer
1932 Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 Casey Kasem, American disc jockey (American Top 40)
1932 Charles Adkins, US, light welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 Chuck Knox, NFL coach (Rams, Bills, Seahawks)
1932 Francois Bayle, composer
1932 Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1932 Maxine Brown, rocker (Browns)
1932 Petar Ozgijan, composer
1932 Pik Botha, South African politician
1935 Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer
1936 Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
1936 Khalid Wazir, cricketer (son of S Wazir Ali 2 Tests for Pakistan 1954)
1937 Phil Jones, newsman (CBS)
1937 Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
1937 Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
1938 Alain Caron, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1938 Earl Anthony, American bowler (PBA money champ 1974-6, 1981-3) (d. 2001)
1939 Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer (April Wine from 1973-2008).
1939 Judy Carne, British actress and comedian (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange)
1939 Stanislaw Dziwisz, Polish Cardinal
1941 Friedrich Goldmann, composer
1941 Jan D Blaauw, Dutch MP (VVD)
1941 Jennings Michael Burch, American author
1941 Judith Blegen, Missoula Mont, opera singer (Papagena-Magic Flute)
1941 Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
1941 Pat Choate, American economist
1942 Gordon Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
1942 Jim Keltner, American drummer
1942 Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6, TM-18)
1943 Eugene Polyakov, dancer
1943 Helmut Marko, Austrian racing driver (Le Mans Grand Prix)
1944 Cuba Gooding, Sr., American musician (The Main Ingredient, Everybody Plays the Fool)
1944 Herb Pedersen, Berkley Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1944 Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
1945 August Wilson, American playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987) (d. 2005)
1946 John Maclean, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1978-79)
1947 Ann Peebles, American singer (I Can't Stand the Rain)
1947 George Kenneth Butterfield, American politician
1947 Herbie Murrell, US singer (Stylistics-You are My Everything)
1947 Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1947 Peter Gena, composer
1947 Peter Ham, Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 1975)
1948 Amrit Bohra, Nepalese politician
1948 Frank William Abagnale, Jr., con artist turned security consultant.
1948 Kate Pierson, American singer (The B-52's)
1949 Doug Sheehan, Santa Monica California, American actor (Ben-Knots Landing, Joe Kelly-General Hospital)
1949 Grant Chapman, Australian politician
1949 Yoshiaki Fujiwara, wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF)
1951 Ace Frehley, American musician (Kiss, Frehley's Comet)
1951 Boris Kinberg, rock percussionist (Mink Deville)
1952 Ari Vatanen, Finnish rally driver
1952 George Gervin, American basketball player
1952 Larry Elder, American political commentator
1953 Arielle Dombasle, French singer and actress
1953 Ellen L Shulman Baker, Fayetteville NC, MD/astronaut (STS 34, 50, 71)
1954 Herman Edwards, Pro Football Analyst and Former NFL Player and Head Coach
1955 Cora Ann Mahalick, NJ, news anchor (WNYW-TV)
1956 Bryan Harvey, American musician (d. 2006)
1956 Dennie Shupryt-Knoop, Chicago Ill, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1956 Douglas P., English musician (Death in June, Crisis)
1957 Eric Bristow, English darts player
1957 Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
1957 Rosanna Scotto, American news anchor
1958 Keith Denunzio, rocker
1959 Louis Lortie, French Canadian concert pianist
1959 Marco Pirroni, London, rock guitarist (Adam & The Ants)
1959 Neil Pearson, British actor
1959 Sheena Easton (Shirley Orr), Scottish singer (Sugar Walls)
1960 Mike Krushelnyski, Montreal ice hockey player
1962 Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1962 Denise Baldwin, Atlanta, LPGA golfer (1991 Futures Salisbury Classic)
1962 Im Sang-soo, an award winning South Korean film director and screenwriter
1962 James LeGros, American actor
1962 Patricia Susan Plumer Levere, American runner, 3K 1.5k, 5k
1962 Ángel Comizzo, Argentine footballer
1963 Arther van Dijk, drummer (Ivy Green)
1963 Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
1963 Grant Show, actor (Jake-Melrose Place, Rick-Ryan's Hope)
1963 Russell T. Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
1963 Schae Harrison, Orange California, actress (Darla-Bold & Beautiful)
1964 Lisa Wilcox, American actress
1964 Michael Mahonen, Canadian actor, director and screenwriter
1964 Paul Osbaldiston, CFL kicker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 Courtenay Becker-Dey, Greenwich Conn, Europe yachter (Oly-bronze-1996)
1966 Matt Reeves, American film writer, director and producer
1966 Peter McIntyre, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1995)
1967 Aki Avni, Israeli entertainer
1967 Bridgette Gordon, WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs, Olympic-gold-88)
1967 Erik Thomson, Australian actor
1967 Jason Whitlock, American sportswriter
1967 Tommy Smith, Scottish jazz musician
1967 Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, son of Queen Beatrix of Neth, Dutch heir apparent
1968 Adrian Cooper, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Brett Steven, Bermuda, NZ tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1969 Darcey Bussell, British ballerina
1969 Francine "Frankie" McRae, Australian softball outfielder (Oly-br-96)
1969 Grahame Cheney, Australian boxer
1969 Mica Paris, British singer and presenter (So Good)
1969 Tyrone Rodgers, CFL defensive linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 Kylie Travis, English actress and model
1970 Mikiko Hagiwara, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1970 Tim Hanshaw, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1971 Craig Keith, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Hayley Carr, Salzburg Austria, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)
1971 James Burton, cornerback (Chicago Bears)
1971 Ricky Sutton, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 Tess Daly, British television presenter
1972 Alison McKnight, Bakersfield California, 100m hurdler/heptathlete
1972 David Lascher, American actor (Josh-Clueless, Kidz in the Wood)
1972 Ethan Brooks, NFL/WAFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Rhein Fire)
1972 Maura West, American actress
1972 Mehmet Kurtulus, German-Turkish actor
1972 Nigel Barker, English fashion photographer
1972 Silvia Farina, Milan Italy, tennis star (1995 Maria Lankowitz doubles)
1972 Tim Ruddy, NFL center (Miami Dolphins)
1972 Tommy Thompson, NFL punter (SF 49ers)
1973 Andre Govan, American actor (Monster Squad)
1973 Sébastien Lareau, French Canadian professional tennis player
1974 Carlos Fortes, soccer player (Sparta)
1974 Frank Catalanotto, American baseball player
1974 Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
1974 Pete Chryplewicz, tight end (Detroit Lions)
1974 Richard Johnson, Australian footballer
1975 Andre Gower, actor (Baby Makes 5, Fathers & Sons, Mr President)
1975 Chris Carpenter, American baseball player, pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals)
1975 Kenny Harris, safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1975 Michael Booker, cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 Pedro Feliz, Dominican baseball player
1975 Rabih Abdullah, former National Football League player
1976 Faisal Saif, Indian Director, Writer
1976 Isobel Campbell, Scottish singer and composer
1976 Olaf Tufte, Norwegian rower
1976 Sally Hawkins, English film actress
1976 Walter Pandiani, Uruguayan footballer
1977 Jerry Trainor, American actor
1977 Khalid Zoubaa, French runner
1978 Adamantia Kontogiorgi, Greek actress
1979 Natasha Chokljat, Australian netballer
1979 Will Boyd, American musician
1980 Ananda Mikola, Indonesian racing driver
1980 Christian Lara, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 Sybille Bammer, Austrian tennis player
1980 Talitha Cummins, Australian journalist
1981 Fabrizio Faniello, Maltese singer
1981 Joey Gathright, American baseball player
1981 Patrik Gerrbrand, Swedish footballer
1982 Katrina Johnson, American actress
1983 Ari Graynor, American actress
1984 Daniel Holdsworth, Australian Rugby League player
1984 Frank Carter, British musician (Gallows) and tattooist
1984 Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 Pierre-Marc Bouchard, hockey player
1986 Dinara Safina, Russian Tennis player
1986 Elena Risteska, Macedonian singer
1987 Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
1987 Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
1987 Kellen Baptiste, Famous Canadian Douche Bag
1987 Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player
1987 William Moseley, British actor
1989 Emily Rios, American actress
1992 Allison Iraheta, American singer
1992 James Duke Mason, son of singer Belinda Carlisle & Morgan Mason

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630 King Ardashir III of Persia
1076 Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I
1124 Alexander I, king of Scotland (1107-24)
1272 Zita, Patron Saint (b.1212)
1404 Philip II (the Stout,), Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1521 Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer, killed by Filipino natives  (b. 1480)
1530 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
1599 Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
1605 Leo XI (Alessandro O de' Medici), Italian Pope (1605) (b. 1535)
1613 Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
1625 Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1656 Gerard van Honthorst, painter, dies at 65
1656 Jan J van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter (b. 1596)
1682 Theodorus III, czar of Russia (1676-82)
1694 John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1691-94) (b. 1668)
1695 John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
1695 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, [Asbaje], Mexican poetress/nun
1702 Jean Bart, French admiral (Escape out of Plymouth) (b. 1651)
1758 Jan Francisci, composer
1764 Jaime de Casellas, composer
1782 William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
1794 William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist
1813 Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle (b. 1779)
1871 Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, composer
1872 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author
1873 William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
1881 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (Representive Men) (b. 1803)
1893 John Murray Corse, US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
1896 Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
1901 Richard Redhead, composer
1902 Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day
1915 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) (b. 1872)
1921 Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
1932 Harold "Heart" Crane, US poet (Bridge), commits suicide
1932 Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
1936 Frederik A Stoett, linguist (Dutch Proverbs)
1936 Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
1937 Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1938 Edmond Rubbens, Belgian minister to Colonies
1941 Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
1950 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, composer
1950 Karl Straube, German organist/conductor
1951 Philip Albert Myburgh Hands, cricketer (7 Tests for South Africa)
1952 Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1957 Mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry)
1959 Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator)
1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere)
1962 A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)
1964 Georg Britting, writer
1965 Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert)
1965 Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (Person to Person) (b. 1908)
1967 William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
1969 Dino Terranova, actor (Young Dillinger)
1969 René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1970 Arthur Shields, Irish actor (Your Show Time) (b. 1896)
1972 Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana (b. 1909)
1972 Phil King, rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head while gambling
1973 Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
1973 Jim Sims, cricketer
1973 Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant
1975 Nicholas Soussanin, actor (Last Command)
1977 Stanley Adams, American actor (Lillies of the Field, Thunder Alley) (b. 1915)
1978 Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered
1982 Tom Tully, actor (Line-up, Shane)
1984 Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player
1988 David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
1988 Fred Bear, American bow-hunter
1989 Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Lost, Freckles, California Gold Rush)
1991 Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore)
1992 Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (b. 1927)
1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
1993 Hans Sahl, German/US writer (Tie Exil im Exil)
1994 Jerome Lejeune, physiologist
1994 John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book)
1994 Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther)
1995 Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
1996 Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
1996 William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
1997 Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite)
1998 Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
1998 Dominique Aury, French novelist (b. 1907)
1998 H. Browning Ross, American long-distance running Olympian (b. 1924)
1998 John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
1999 Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
2000 Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
2002 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
2002 George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
2002 Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
2006 Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
2007 Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2008 Marios Tokas, Cypriot songwriter (b. 1954)
2009 Feroz Khan, Indian actor (b. 1939)
2009 Frankie Manning, an American dancer, instructor, choreographer, and one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. (b. 1914)
2009 Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (b. 1983
2011 Marian Mercer, American actress (b. 1935)
2012 Bill Skowron, American MLB player

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