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May 3rd

Holidays and Festivals

World Press Freedom Day (International)
Constitution Day (Poland) * (see below)
Constitution Day (Japan)
Constitution Day (Lithuania)
Garden Meditation Day

Paranormal Day
Lumpy Rug Day
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day
Christian Feast Day of Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Christian Feast Day of Antonia and Alexander
Christian Feast Day of Juvenal of Narni
Christian Feast Day of Philip and James the Less
Christian Feast Day of Pope Alexander I
Christian Feast Day of Sarah the Martyr (Coptic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Moura (Coptic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Theodosius of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Discoflux (Discordianism)
Earliest date on which National Teacher's Day can fall, celebrated on the Tuesday of the first full week of May. (United States)
Roodmas, or Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross (Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church)
* The Big Copenhagen Beer Festival (Denmark)takes place every year in May
* Creamfields Australia - Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, and Melbourne - May 1st-3rd and 8th (3of4) (2010)
* Festival of Nations 4/29/2010 - 5/3/2010 St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (5of5) (2010)
* Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival 4/29/2010 - 5/2/2010 Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA (5of5) (2010)
* Towsontown Spring Festival 5/1/2010 - 5/3/2010 Towson, Maryland, USA (3OF3)(2010)

* Constitution Day (Poland), one of the two most important national holidays in Poland (the other being National Independence Day on 11 November). It commemorates proclamation of Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe)

Fête de la Chamerisier Translation: Fan Palm tree Day (French Republican) The 14th day of the Month of Floréal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here's to you and here's to me,
Friends may we always be!
But, if by chance we disagree,
Up yours! Here's to me!"

- Traditional

Drink of The Day

Absolut Stress

3/4 shot Vodka
3/4 shot Malibu
Splash of Cranberry Juice
1/2 shot Peach Schnapps
Splash of Pineapple Juice
Shake with ice, Pour in a Highball glass with Ice

Wine of The Day

Truth 2006 Lindsey's Cuvee
Style - Selected Blend
California
$20

Beer of The Day

Hitachino Nest Beer XH (Japan)
Style - Belgian-style brown ale brewed
Attributes - Aged for three months in shochu casks
Flavor - Strong, spicy, frothy complex flavors of cinnamon and wood, gin-like aroma
- In celebration of Constitution Day (Japan), May 3rd, 1947.

Joke of The Day

A fat girl served me food at a fast food restaraunt during lunch time. She said, 'sorry about the wait.'
I said, 'don't worry, with some dedication, you’re bound to lose it eventually.'

Quote of The Day

"I never knew my father was an alcoholic until he came home sober that one night..."
- Anonymous

Whiskey of The Day

Origine Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
$20

May Observances

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) Awareness Month
APS (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) Awareness Month
American Wetlands Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Bicycle Safety Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Carrots and Cauliflower Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Clean Air Month
Community Living Month (Ontario, Canada)
Creative Beginnings Month
Date Your Mate Month
EcoDriving Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Gardening for Wildlife Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
Good Car-Keeping Month, Natl
Grapefruit and Kiwi Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
High Blood Pressure Education Mont
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Internal Audit Awareness Month, Intl
International Audit Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness Month
International Multiple Sclerosis Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Better Hearing and Speach Month
National Bike Month
National Blood Pressure Month
National Cancer Research Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Egg Month
National Electric Safety Month
National Family Month (5/12 to 6/16)
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Lupus Awareness Month
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Motorcycle Safety Month
National Moving Month
National Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Photograph Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Prepare To Buy a Home Month
National Preservation Month
National Recommitment Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa (Food) Month
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
National Teen Self-Esteem Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month
National Vinegar Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
National Youth Traffic Safety Month
Personal History Month
Potatoes and Limes Month
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/12-6/16)
REACT Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Month, Natl
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Awareness Month
Teen CEO Month
Teen Self Esteem Month
Tennis Month
Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15)
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
Young Achiever Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month

Observances this Week

Maifest, first week of May including the first weekend (May Day and Labour Day festivals)
Cinco de Mayo Week, first week of May. Includes the closest weekend to Cinco De Mayo when most of the festivals occur.
North American Occupational Safety and Health Week, First Week in May
National Safe Kids Week, First Week in May
National Travel and Tourism Week, First Week in May
National Charter Schools Week, First Week in May
Children's Book Week, First Week in May
Brain Tumor Action Week, First Week in May
Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week, First Week in May
National Women's Health Week, First Week in May
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week, First Week in May
National Transportation Week, First Week in May
Choose Privacy Week, First Week of May
National Forest Week (Nova Scotia, Canada), * CLICK HERE

International Wildlife Film Week, 8 Days Usually Starting First Saturday in May

Historical Events on May 3rd

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1294 John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg
1342 Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
1382 Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
1455 Jews flee Spain
1491 Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1494 Christopher Columbus first sights land that will be called Jamaica, he names it "St Iago".
1512 5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1512 Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1515 Portugese fleet occupies Ormuz
1616 Treaty of Loudun kills French civil war
1621 Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1624 Spanish silver fleet sails to Panama
1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain
1640 English Upper house accept Act of Attainder
1654 Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1660 Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg & Austria sign Peace of Oliva
1661 Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
1662 Royal charter granted Connecticut
1678 French conquering fleet at Curacao, 1200 die
1715 "Edmund Halley's" total solar eclipse "Baily's Beads" (the last one visible in London, United Kingdom for almost 900 years).
1722 Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris
1747 Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1765 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1791 The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
1808 Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
1808 Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia during the Finnish War.
1808 The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are fired upon near Príncipe Pío hill, Peninsular War.
1810 Lord Byron swims Hellespont
1815 Battle at Tolentino, Austria beats king Joachim of Naples
1815 Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the Neapolitan War .
1822 Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1830 The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1837 The University of Athens is founded.
1845 1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
1845 Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1849 The May Uprising in Dresden begins the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
1851 Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
1855 Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
1860 Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1861 Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
1863 Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
1863 Battle of Salem Church, VA
1864 3rd day in Battle at Alexandria Louisiana, Confederate assault
1867 The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1877 Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1898 Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
1900 26th Kentucky Derby, Jimmy Boland aboard Lieut Gibson wins in 2:06.25
1901 The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida, destroyed 1,700 buildings.
1902 28th Kentucky Derby, Jimmy Winkfield on Alan-a-Dale wins in 2:08.75
1903 AVC Heracles (SC Heracles '74) soccer team forms in Almelo
1906 British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
1909 35th Kentucky Derby, Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
1913 Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film was released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1915 The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
1916 The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1920: A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1921 West Virginia imposes the first state sales tax.
1922 Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
1922 Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1923 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
1924 Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber.
1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1926 US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1928 Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
1932 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
1933 Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint.
1934 Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours
1936 French People's Front wins elections
1936 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
1937 Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
1938 Concentration camp at Flossenburg goes into use
1938 Lefty Grove defeats Tigers 4-3 for 1st of record 20 consecutive wins at his home field Fenway Park; he doesn't lose there until May 12 1941
1938 Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
1939 The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1941 67th Kentucky Derby, Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01.4
1941 German air raid on Liverpool
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1942 Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
1942 Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia, World War II.
1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 US 1st armour division occupies Mateur Tunisia
1944 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
1944 Meat rationing ends in US
1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen
1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945 British troop join in Rangoon
1945 German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1945 Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay, World War II.
1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1947 73rd Kentucky Derby, Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8
1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy
1947 New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1948 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1949 1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
1951 NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1951 The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time.
1951 The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1952 "Call Me Madam" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 644 performances
1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1952 78th Kentucky Derby, Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Gail wins in 2:01.6
1952 Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1953 WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Westchester conference of American Library Association proclaims "Freedom to Read"
1954 KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
1954 WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances
1956 A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1958 84th Kentucky Derby, Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 2:05
1958 WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1959 Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
1960 Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
1960 The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1960 The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1961 Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
1963 Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1963 The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing newfound attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational
1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1965 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the US
1965 Don Steele, begins a 40+ year radio career at KRTH (LA California)
1965 KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1966 WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
1968 Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs
1969 95th Kentucky Derby, Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8
1970 24th NBA Championship, NY Knicks beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational
1971 All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1971 National Public Radio begins programming
1971 Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1971 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
1973 KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
1973 The Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out as the world's tallest building.
1975 101st Kentucky Derby, Jacinto Vasquez on Foolish Pleasure wins 2:02
1975 Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:40:15.8)
1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
1978 "Sun Day" solar energy events are held in US
1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II
1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston
1978 The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1978 WI all set to lose cricket test v Aust at Kingston till riots end game
1979 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
1979 Martin Sherman's "Bent," premieres in London
1980 106th Kentucky Derby, Jacinto Vasquez on Genuine Risk wins in 2:02
1980 Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits his 521st & final HR
1980 Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
1981 "Can-Can" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1981 "Moony, Shapiro Songbook" opens & closes at Morosco Theater NYC
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International
1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
1982 NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1982 Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1983 Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe
1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
1985 Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
1986 112th Kentucky Derby, Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8
1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR
1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1986 NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
1986 Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1987 Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1991 356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke
1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass
1991 The Declaration of Windhoek is signed.
1992 Balt's Gregg Olson, 25, is youngest to record 100 saves
1992 Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1992 NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
1992 Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
1992 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs
1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards, Garth Brooks wins
1994 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
1995 "My Thing of Love" opens at Beck Theater NYC for 16 performances
1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1995 David Bell debuts for the Indians (3rd generation player, Gus & Buddy)
1996 Martin Moxon & Michael Vaughan make 362 1st wkt Yorks v Glam
1997 123rd Kentucky Derby, Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 2:02.3
1997 ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jason Queen
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
1999 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This is the strongest tornado ever recorded with wind speeds of up to 318 mph.
1999 Stephen Hendry defeats Mark Williams 18-11 to win the World Snooker Championship for a record seventh time.
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2006 Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.
2006 Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia
2007 British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal
2008 Kent Desormeaux aboard Big Brown wins the 134th Kentucky Derby in 2:01.82
2012 "Deool" wins the Golden Lotus at the 59th National Film Awards (India)
2013 Aorun zhaoi, a Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China
2013 "Paan Singh Tomar" wins the Golden Lotus at the 60th National Film Awards (India)
2013 The Palmetto Playground in Brooklyn is renamed after Beastie Boys' rapper Adam Yauch
2014 "Ship of Theseus" wins the Golden Lotus at the 61st National Film Awards (India)
2014 Victor Espinoza aboad California Chrome wins in 2:03.66 at the 140th Kentucky Derby
2015 Chelsea wins the 2014–15 English football Premier League
2015 "Court" wins the Golden Lotus at the 62nd National Film Awards (India)

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612 Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1415 Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1428 Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
1446 Margaret of York, English princess, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)
1469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (Prince) (d. 1527)
1514 Bartholomaeus a Martyribus (Fernandez), primate of Portugal
1535 Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer
1647 John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Bellone aen bant)
1649 Johann Valentin Meder, composer
1662 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736)
1692 Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51)
1695 Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1708 Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer
1713 Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
1737 Friedrich Schwindl, composer
1742 Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer
1744 Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
1752 Braz Francisco de Lima, composer
1761 August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1764 Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, sister of Louis XVI, guillotined (d. 1794)
1768 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1773 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1815 Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist
1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army) (d. 1892)
1819 Nicola De Giosa, composer
1826 Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), Poet (d. 1872)
1835 Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
1844 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (Ivanhoe) (d. 1901)
1849 Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1849 Jacob August Riis, American journalist (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun) (d. 1914)
1857 George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1859 Andy Adams, American author (Log of a Cowboy) (d. 1935)
1860 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1860 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
1861 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
1867 J(ack) T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
1870 Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1873 Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1873 (Nicoline) Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den)
1874 François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1874 V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
1876 Bert Hopkins, cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's)
1876 John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer, cricketer (Sussex)
1877 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950)
1886 Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1887 Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
1888 Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
1890 B Traven, writer
1891 Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
1892 George Paget Thomson, English physicist, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel Prize laureate 1937) (d. 1975)
1893 Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
1893 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1895 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
1895 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
1896 Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1896 Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
1897 V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
1898 Golda Meir (Meyerson), 4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969-74) (d. 1978)
1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
1899 Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
1901 Gino Cervi, Italian actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja) (d. 1974)
1902 Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1902 Hugo Friedhofer, composer
1902 Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
1902 Seton I Miller, Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
1903 Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (White Christmas, Going My Way) (d. 1977)
1904 Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1904 John Breeden, SF CA, actor (Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street)
1905 Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1905 Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades, Caste)
1905 Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
1906 Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1975)
1906 Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky) (d. 1987)
1907 Dorothy Young, American entertainer
1907 Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
1910 Alceo Galliera, composer
1910 Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
1911 John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1912 Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1913 Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
1913 William Inge, American playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953) (d. 1973)
1915 Evencio Castellanos, composer
1915 Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
1916 Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961)
1916 Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
1916 Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
1917 Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006)
1917 James Penberthy, composer
1917 Kiro Gligorov, Macedonia, President of the Republic of Macedonia 1991-1999 (d. 2012)
1918 Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003)
1919 John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
1919 Pete Seeger, American singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
1920 John Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001)
1921 Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007)
1921 Sugar Ray Robinson (Walter Smith), American boxer, middle/welterweight (1946-52, 55, 58), (d. 1989)
1921 Vasco dos Santos Goncalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
1922 Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1922 Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
1923 George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
1923 Ralph M Hall, American politician (Rep-D-TX, 1981)
1924 Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001)
1924 Mary Carver, LA California, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
1924 Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1925 Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (d. 2007)
1925 Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
1926 Ann B. Davis, American actress Alice on The Brady Bunch
1928 Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
1928 Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica California, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
1929 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
1929 Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1930 David Evatt Tunley, composer
1931 Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer
1932 Robert Osborne, American film historian
1933 Alex Cord, American actor
1933 Collie Smith, cricketer (exciting WI all-rounder all too briefly)
1933 James Brown, American soul singer (Hot Pants, Living in America) and originator of funk music (d. 2006)
1933 Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1934 Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
1934 Georg Kroll, composer
1934 Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
1934 Henry Cooper, English boxer
1935 Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
1935 Ron Popeil, American inventor
1936 Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnolde Dorsey), Indian singer (EH Show)
1937 Frankie Valli (Castelluccio), Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1937 Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer
1938 Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
1939 Jonathan David Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
1939 Jose Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
1939 Samantha Eggar, London England, actress (Collector)
1940 Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
1940 Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician
1941 Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president
1941 Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78)
1942 C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho
1942 Dave Marash, American journalist
1942 Lynn Farleigh, Bristol England, actress (Lovers of Their Time)
1942 Vera Cáslavská, Czech gymnast
1943 Jim Risch, American politician, junior senator of Idaho
1943 John Costello, historian
1944 Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist
1944 Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1945 Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach
1945 Sadiq Mohammad, cricketer (attacking Pakistan opening batsman 1969-81)
1946 Greg Gumbel, American broadcaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1946 Norm Chow, American football coach
1946 Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
1947 Doug Henning, Canadian magician (Broadway play-Magic) (d. 2000)
1948 Chris Mulkey, American actor
1949 Albert Sacco Jr, Boston Mass, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 Ken Hom, Chinese American Chef
1949 Ron Wyden, American politician, senior senator of Oregon (Rep-D-OR, 1981)
1950 Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
1951 Christopher Crossc (Geppert), American musician, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
1951 Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
1952 Allan Wells, British athlete, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
1952 Caitlin Clarke. American actress (d. 2004)
1952 Charles Baldwin, American political figure
1953 Bruce Hall, Champaign Ill, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
1953 Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
1954 Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
1955 David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1955 Timmy Cappello, rock & sax player (played with Tina Turner, Ringo Starr & The Lost Boys)
1956 Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 Cactus Moser, Montrose Co, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1957 Rod Langway, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps)
1958 Kevin Kilner, American actor
1958 Sandi Toksvig, Danish comedian and radio presenter
1958 Susanna Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1959 Ben Elton, British comedian and author (Stark, Friday Night Live)
1959 David Ball, English musician, keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1959 Uma Bharati, Indian politician
1960 Amy Steel, American actress
1961 David Vitter, American politician, junior senator of Louisiana
1961 Joe Murray, American cartoonist
1961 Steve McClaren, English football manager
1962 Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
1962 Anthony Gilligan, Penrith NSW, Australasia golfer
1963 Jamie Reeves, British strongman
1963 Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player, NBA guard (Utah Jazz)
1963 Sally Whittaker, English actress
1964 Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Phila Flyers, NY Islanders)
1965 John Jensen, Danish footballer
1965 Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian self-made businessman
1965 Nina Garcia, Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality
1965 Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian
1966 Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1966 Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
1966 Paul Stevenson, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1966 Peter Abbay, American actor
1968 Deborah Caprioglio, Miestre Italy, actress (Big Game Hunter)
1968 Jay Darlington, London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
1968 Shane Minor, American singer
1969 Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor
1969 Karen Kraft, San Mateo California, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1970 Alexia Dechaume-Ballert, La Rochelle France, tennis star (1992 Aust)
1970 Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
1970 Ted Crowley, Concord Mass, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1971 Damon Dash, American label executive
1971 James Roberson, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1971 Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva)
1972 Brett Hayman, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Josh Taves, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1972 Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter
1972 Suzi Suzuki, former Japanese adult actress
1972 Vyacheslav Kozlov, Voskresensk Russia, NHL forward (Detroit Red Wings)
1973 Brad Martin, American musician
1973 Dominique Monami, Verviers Belgium, tennis star
1973 Michel Traveller, soccer player (Ajax)
1973 Rea Garvey, Irish musician
1974 Peter Everitt, Australian football player
1974 Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan
1975 Christina Hendricks, American actress
1975 Dulé Hill, American actor
1975 Eva Santolaria, Spanish actress
1975 Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
1975 Willie Geist, American television personality
1976 Brad Scott, Australian rules footballer and coach
1976 Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
1977 Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail
1977 Ryan Dempster, American baseball player
1977 Tyronn Lue, American basketball player
1978 Autumn Phillips, member of the British royal family
1978 Christina Hendricks, American actress
1978 Lawrence Tynes, American football player
1978 Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol)
1979 Steve Mack, American professional wrestler
1980 Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef)
1980 Zuzana Ondrášková, Czech tennis player
1981 Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny's Child)
1982 Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born American football player
1983 Joseph Addai, American football player
1983 Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer
1983 Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer
1983 Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
1984 Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
1984 Nam Sang-mi, South Korean actress and model
1985 Greg Raposo, American pop/rock singer
1989 Katinka Hosszu, Hungarian swimmer
1990 Levi Johnston, American subject of scrutiny during the 2008 United States presidential election

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612 Constantine III, Byzantine Emperor (d. 641)
1010 Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint
1152 Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England (b. 1105)
1160 Peter Lombard, Italian scholar and bishop (b. c.1100)
1270 King Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
1294 Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet
1410 Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10)
1415 Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1495)
1428 Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (d. 1495)
1442 Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg
1446 Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1503)
1469 Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (d. 1527)
1481 Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1432)
1567 Leonhard Paminger, composer
1598 Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
1606 Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
1614 Sasbout Vosmeer, RC theologist/apostole vicar
1622 Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1564)
1654 Francois van Kinschot, treasurer-gen/chancellor of Brabant
1662 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736)
1679 James Sharp, English archbishop (assassinated) (b. 1613)
1693 Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1695 Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
1703 Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Austrian violist/composer
1707 Michiel de Swaen, South Netherlands physician/poet
1713 Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
1724 John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)
1737 Abraham Patras, gov-gen of East-Indies (1735-37)
1750 John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
1752 Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland (b. c. 1692)
1758 Benedict XIV (Prospero L Lambertini), Pope (1740-58)
1761 August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1763 George Psalmanazar, British impostor (b. 1679)
1764 Elisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI, guillotined (d. 1794)
1764 Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist
1768 Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1779 John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
1783 Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor
1792 Carlo Zuccari, composer
1826 Charles, Crown Prince of Sweden-Norway (d. 1872)
1835 Alfred Austin, English poet (d. 1913)
1839 Ferdinando Paer, composer
1841 Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English theatrical impresario (d. 1901)
1849 Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1849 Jacob August Riis, American journalist (d. 1914)
1854 William Beale, composer
1856 Adolfo Fumagalli, composer
1856 Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle)
1857 George Gore, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1859 Andy Adams, American author (d. 1935)
1860 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
1860 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
1861 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
1861 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw (d. 1937)
1863 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, US Confederate brig-gen
1867 J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
1868 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer
1870 Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1873 Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1874 François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
1874 V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
1877 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
1879 Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (d. 1950)
1881 Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
1886 Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1887 Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
1888 Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
1891 Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet (d. 1969)
1892 George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1893 Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, composer, dies at 73
1893 Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (d. 1975)
1895 Cornelius Van Til, philosopher and Christian apologist (d. 1987)
1896 Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (d. 1990)
1896 Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917)
1898 Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
1901 Gino Cervi, Italian actor (d. 1974)
1902 Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1902 David R Capriles, Curacaos director of psychiatric
1903 Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
1905 Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1988)
1906 Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (d. 1975)
1906 Mary Astor, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1987)
1907 Dorothy Young, American entertainer
1910 Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
1912 Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
1913 William Inge, American playwright (d. 1973)
1915 Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer (d. 2003)
1916 Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
1917 Betty Comden, American lyricist (d. 2006)
1917 Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies
1918 Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
1918 Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003)
1919 John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
1919 Pete Seeger, American singer
1920 John Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2001)
1921 Joe Ames, American singer (d. 2007)
1921 Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1921 Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (b. 1883)
1922 Len Shackleton, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1923 George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist and conductor
1923 Ralph Hall, American politician
1924 Ken Tyrrell, English founder of eponymous F1 racing team (d. 2001)
1924 Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1925 Jean Séguy, French sociologist of religions (d. 2007)
1926 Ann B. Davis, American actress Alice on The Brady Bunch
1926 Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
1928 Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
1931 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
1931 Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1932 Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
1932 Robert Osborne, American film historian
1933 Alex Cord, American actor
1933 James Brown, American singer and dancer (d. 2006)
1933 Steven Weinberg, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1934 Frankie Valli, American singer (The Four Seasons)
1934 Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
1934 Henry Cooper, English boxer
1935 Ron Popeil, American inventor
1937 Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer
1938 Chris Cannizzaro, American baseball player
1939 (Karl Eduard) Wilhelm Groener, German general
1940 Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
1940 Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician
1941 Edward "Monk" Malloy, American university president
1942 C.L. Otter, American politician, governor of Idaho
1942 Dave Marash, American journalist
1942 Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
1942 Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1942 Vera Cáslavská, Czech gymnast
1943 Jim Risch, American politician, junior senator of Idaho
1943 Leslie Heward, composer
1945 Davey Lopes, American baseball player and coach
1945 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
1946 Greg Gumbel, American broadcaster
1946 Norm Chow, American football coach
1946 Silvino Francisco, South African snooker player
1947 Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
1948 Chris Mulkey, American actor
1949 Ken Hom, Chinese American Chef
1949 Ron Wyden, American politician, senior senator of Oregon
1951 Christopher Cross, American musician
1951 Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian writer
1952 Allan Wells, British athlete
1952 Caitlin Clarke. American actress (d. 2004)
1952 Charles Baldwin, American political figure
1953 Gary Young, American drummer (Pavement)
1955 David Hookes, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
1955 Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow
1956 Marc Bellemare, French Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 Rod Langway, American ice hockey player
1958 Frank Foster, cricketer (England all-rounder, 11 Tests 1911-12)
1958 Kevin Kilner, American actor
1958 Sandi Toksvig, Danish born writer and broadcaster
1958 Susanna Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1959 Ben Elton, British comedian and author
1959 David Ball, English musician (Soft Cell)
1959 Uma Bharati, Indian politician
1960 Amy Steel, American actress
1961 David Vitter, American politician, junior senator of Louisiana
1961 Joe Murray, American cartoonist
1961 Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher
1961 Steve McClaren, English football manager
1962 Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
1963 Jamie Reeves, British strongman
1963 Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player
1963 Sally Whittaker, English actress
1964 Diana Wynyard
1964 Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us)
1965 John Jensen, Danish footballer
1965 Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian self-made businessman
1965 Nina Garcia, Colombian-American fashion expert and television personality
1965 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist
1965 Rob Brydon, Welsh comedian
1966 Darren Morgan, Welsh snooker player
1966 Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
1966 Peter Abbay, American actor
1966 Wylie Watson
1968 Leonid Leonidovich Sabaneyev, composer
1968 Shane Minor, American singer
1969 Daryl F. Mallett, American writer/editor
1969 Imre Vincze, composer
1969 Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1970 Candelario Huizar, composer
1970 Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
1971 Damon Dash, American label executive
1971 Josey Scott, American singer (Saliva)
1972 Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
1972 Les Harvey, rocker, dies
1972 Shonie Carter, American MMA fighter
1972 Suzi Suzuki, former Japanese adult actress
1973 Brad Martin, American musician
1973 Rea Garvey, Irish musician
1974 Peter Everitt, Australian football player
1974 Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan
1975 Christina Hendricks, American actress
1975 Dulé Hill, American actor
1975 Maksim Mrvica, Croatian pianist
1975 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
1975 Willie Geist, American television personality
1976 Brad Scott, Australian rules footballer and coach
1976 David Bruce
1976 Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford)
1976 Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
1977 Mashima Hiro, Japanese Mangaka of Rave Master and Fairy Tail
1977 Ryan Dempster, American baseball player
1977 Tyronn Lue, American basketball player
1978 Autumn Phillips, member of the British royal family
1978 Lawrence Tynes, American football player
1978 Paul Banks, American vocalist (Interpol)
1978 Wim van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF)
1979 Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place)
1979 Steve Mack, American professional wrestler
1980 Marcel Vigneron, American chef (Top Chef)
1980 Zuzana Ondrášková, Czech tennis player
1981 Farrah Franklin, American singer (former member of Destiny's Child)
1982 Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1982 Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-born American football player
1983 Joseph Addai, American football player
1983 Myriam Fares, Lebanese singer
1983 Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer
1983 Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
1983 Vaughn Taylor, act (Jailhouse Rock)
1984 Cheryl Burke, American dancer
1986 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain)
1987 Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one run, 0-12)
1987 Yolande Christina Dalida
1988 Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
1989 Christine Jorgensen, 1st transsexual
1989 Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1989 Katinka Hosszu, Hungarian swimmer
1989 Muriel Ostriche, dies
1990 Levi Johnston, American subject of scrutiny during the 2008 United States presidential election
1990 Pimen (Sergei Irzyekov), patriarch of Rus-orthodox church
1991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66)
1991 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There)
1991 Margaret Tallichet, actress (Stranger on the 3rd Floor)
1991 Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (b. 1907)
1992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer
1992 George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71)/actor
1992 Peter Bruni
1994 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn
1994 Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA)
1994 Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1994 Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books
1995 Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop)
1996 Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba)
1996 Timothy Gullikson, tennis player/coach
1997 Narciso Yepes, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1927)
1999 Joe Adcock, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1999 Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
2000 John Joseph Cardinal O'Connor, Catholic Archbishop of New York (b. 1920)
2001 Billy Higgins, American drummer (b. 1936)
2002 Barbara Castle, British politician (b. 1910)
2002 Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1928)
2003 Suzy Parker, American actress (b. 1932)
2004 Anthony Ainley, British actor (b. 1932)
2004 Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2004 Ken Downing, British racing driver (b. 1917)
2006 Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)
2006 Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
2006 Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2007 Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2007 Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2008 Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)
2009 Ram Shewalkar, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.(b.1931)
2011 Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
2011 Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)
2011 Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (b. 1927)
2013 Joe Astroth, American MLB player
2014 Gary Becker, American economist & Nobel laureate
2014 Jim Oberstar, American politician
2016 Tomas Libous, US politician (Senate-R-New York 1989-2015) brought down by scandal
2016 Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Swedish artist (knotted-gun sculpture)

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