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May 12th

Holidays and Festivals

Fatigue Syndrome Day
Limerick Day
Library Legislative Day
National Nutty Fudge Day
International Nurses Day, commemorating the birthday of Florence Nightingale in 1820. (International)

Christian Feast day of Blessed Imelda
Christian Feast day of Blessed Joan of Portugal
Christian Feast day of Crispoldus
Christian Feast day of Dominic de la Calzada
Christian Feast day of Epiphanius of Salamis
Christian Feast day of Modoald
Christian Feast day of Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras
Christian Feast day of Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (Eastern Church)
Christian Feast day of Philip of Agira

Fête de la Bourrache Translation: Borage Day (French Republican) The 23rd day of the Month of Floréal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here's to the wonderful days of my life
when I slept in the arms of another man's wife
My mother!"

- Happy Mother's Day

Drink of The Day

Old Etonian

1.5 oz. gin
1.5 oz. Lillet blanc
2 dashes Orange bitters
2 dashes Crème de Noyaux
Shake with ice and strain into a Stemmed Cocktail Glass.

Wine of The Day

Prejean (2008) Estate Grown
Style - Riesling
Finger Lakes
$15

Beer of The Day

Smuttynose IPA “Finest Kind”
Brewer - Smuttynose Brewing
Style - American IPA
ABV - 6.9%

Joke of The Day

A man is out, driving happily along in his car late one
Saturday evening. Before too long, the cops pull him over.
The policeman walks up to the man and asks, “Have you
been drinking, sir?”
“Why? Was I weaving all over the road officer?”
“No,” replied, the policeman, “You were driving splendidly.
It was the ugly fat chick in the passenger seat that gave you away.”

Quote of The Day

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
- Aristotle - Happy Mother's Day!!

- Alternatives -

"If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?"
George Carlin (born George Denis Patrick Carlin, May 12th, 1937 - June 22nd, 2008), an American stand-up comedian and social critic.
"If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?"
- George Carlin
"Drinking and driving simply do not mix, so do your drinking early and get it out of the way, and then go driving."
- George Carlin
"Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?"
- George Carlin

"Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?"
- George Carlin

Whisky of The Day

Old Pulteney 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
$40

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

National Stuttering Awareness Week, Second Week in May
National Hospital And Healthcare Week, Second Week in May
National Running and Fitness Week, Second Week in May
National Nursing Home Week, Second Week in May or Starts Mother's Day to Saturday

Dystonia Awareness Week (UK), May 5th through May 13th
National Nurses Week, May 6th through May 12th
Salvation Army Week, May 8th through May 15th

National Women's Health Week, 7 Days beginning with Mother's Day
Reading Is Fun Week, Second Full Week in May
Universal Family Week, Second Full Week in May
Food Allergy Awareness Week, Second Full Week in May
National Return To Work Week, Second Full Week in May
Salute to Moms 35+ Week, Second Full Week in May
Work At Home Moms Week, Second Full Week of May
National Stuttering Awareness Week, Second Full Week of May

Public Service Recognition Week, Full Week of May 15th
National Police Week, Full Week of May 15th
American Craft Beer Week, 7 Days Starting the Second Monday in May
World Trade Week, 12 Days Starting Second Monday in May
Children's Book Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Etiquette Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May

National Police Week, Full Week of May 15th
American Craft Beer Week, 7 Days Starting the Second Monday in May
World Trade Week, 12 Days Starting Second Monday in May
Children's Book Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Etiquette Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Transportation Week, Full Week of the Third Friday in May

Historical Events on May 12th

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254 Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
919 Duke Henry of Saxon becomes king Henry I of Oostfrankische rich
1082 Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
1191 Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
1215 English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country
1264 The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
1328 Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as anti-Pope Nicolaas V, a claimant to the papacy, he is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1364 Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
1459 Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1525 Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers
1534 Wurttemberg becomes Lutherian
1551 National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris. Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city.
1604 Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
1640 Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1641 Prince Willem II (14) marries Engl princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg. William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France (King William's War).
1695 English king Willem III departs to Netherlands
1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
1743 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1776 Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns
1777 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1780 Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces, American Revolutionary War.
1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses
1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1797 In the First Coalition Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
1832 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan
1835 Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1849 Willem Alexander PFL crowned king Willem III in Amsterdam
1862 U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1863 Battle of Raymond, two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign, American Civil War.
1864 The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle", American Civil War.
1864 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling), Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
1864 Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
1864 US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigade-general
1865 The Battle of Palmito Ranch, the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory, American Civil War.
1870 The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, KY
1873 Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.
1874 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
1875 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
1877 Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia
1881 Treaty of Bardo In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1885 Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1885 North-West Rebellion, the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1890 The first-ever official County Championship match begins. Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname
1894 Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente Neth
1897 Battle at Thessalie, Turkish army beats Greece
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1900 Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupies Crown city
1901 Pres McKinley visits SF
1908 George Bernard Shaws' "Getting Married," premieres in London
1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield
1909 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
1910 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
1910 Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
1913 Harry Green runs world record marathon (2:38:16.2)
1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
1915 Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
1917 42nd Preakness, E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
1917 43rd Kentucky Derby, Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
1919 Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
1923 49th Preakness, Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
1924 7th PGA Championship, Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind
1924 50th Preakness, John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
1925 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
1926 British general strike ends
1926 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1926 Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
1926 UK General Strike 1926, In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
1926 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
1928 Benito Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 Opium laws enforced
1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
1932 Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
1934 "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1
1934 60th Preakness, Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2
1936 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss," premieres in London
1937 Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey. George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1937 St Louis Cards beat Philadelphia Phillies, 15-3
1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 French mariners occupy St Maarten
1940 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
1940 Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
1941 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
1942 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1942 Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
1942 Second Battle of Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later, World War II.
1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender
1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in US
1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender
1944 900+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Zwikau, Bohlen & Brux
1944 Krim purged of nazi troops
1944 Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
1945 Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
1948 Queen Wilhelmina resigns
1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1949 The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state the Federal Republic of Germany.
1950 Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1952 Charlton Playground named in Bronx
1952 Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
1953 KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1955 The last section of the IRT Third Avenue Elevated in Manhattan closes.
1956 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open
1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Dont's hits #40
1958 A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1959 "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances
1959 Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
1962 Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "Duty, Honor, Country" valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
1962 Grevelingendam closes
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed Sullivan Show"
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open
1963 Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO
1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
1965 The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1966 St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
1967 At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.
1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
1967 Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC
1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1968 WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
1970 Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
1970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall
1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
1972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1973 6th ABA championship, Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3
1973 Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92
1974 28th NBA Championship, Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3
1974 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1975 Mayagüez incident, the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
1976 Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1
1977 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
1978 Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
1978 In Zaïre, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The local government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
1980 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1980 West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header.
1981 "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 perfs
1981 Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
1981 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
1982 During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
1982 FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II
1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1982 US Football League forms
1983 Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA
1983 Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
1984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
1984 France performs nuclear test
1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole
1984 S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1984 White Horse by Laid Back hits #26
1984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in NY as 1st woman Conservative rabbi
1985 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif
1986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
1988 "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances
1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
1989 Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1989 Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)
1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
1990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
1991 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
1992 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
1993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands
1993 Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1993 Last broadcast of "Knots landing" on CBS
1993 Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II
1994 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)
1995 Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
1995 Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4
1996 "Inherit the Wind" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 45 performances
1996 "Night of the Iguana" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1996 42nd McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1996 Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8
1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
1997 Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox
1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
1999 David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament.
2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2003 The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26.
2006 Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo, Brazil, leaving at least 150 dead.
2007 Karachi riots , which killed over 50 people in Karachi and above 100 injured, on the arrival of Chief Justice of Pakistan; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi city.
2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2010 An Afriqiyah Airways Flight crashes and kills everyone but one person on board
2012 The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
2013 Paris Saint-Germain win the Ligue 1 French football title
2013 Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints
2013 "The Revolution Will Be Televised" Best Comedy, "Last Tango in Halifax" Best Drama at the 59th British Academy Television Awards
2014 Voters in Ukraine reject rule from Kiev
2016 Michel Temer, former vice-president, becomes Brazilian interim President after a vote to impeach Dilma Rousseff

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1401 Emperor Shoko (d. 1428)
1496 Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1622 Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
1626 Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)
1662 Jan F van Bloom (Orizonte) Flemish painter, baptized
1670 August II, the Strong One, King of Poland (355 children)
1670 Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1679 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
1700 Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)
1725 Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)
1739 Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer
1739 Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer
1751 Gaetano Manna, composer
1754 Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
1767 Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
1776 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
1790 (Johannes) Carsten Hauch, Danish writer
1797 Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1803 Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics) (d. 1873)
1804 Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (L), helped establish government in Canada (d. 1858)
1806 Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1877)
1806 Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)
1812 Edward Lear, British author, poet, landscape painter (Complete Nonsense Book) (d. 1888)
1812 Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1813 Johann Czerski, German chaplin
1820 Florence Nightingale, British nurse (Crimean War) (d. 1910)
1828 D G Rossetti, writer
1828 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British painter (d. 1882)
1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
1829 Paul Karrer, composer
1829 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
1840 Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean miltary, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (d. 1912)
1842 Jules Emile Fred Massenet, French composer (Manon, Le Cid) (d. 1912)
1845 Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem, Ballade) (d. 1924)
1850 Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
1863 Charles Bordes, composer
1867 Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
1868 Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
1874 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet) (d. 1929)
1876 Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria
1880 Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights (d. 1951)
1880 W Hupkes, engineer/director (Dutch Rail 1938)
1885 Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist (d. 1969)
1886 Albert Saverys, Flemish painter
1886 Hermann Grabner, composer
1886 Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
1887 Nandor Zsolt, composer
1889 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
1892 Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)
1894 Cleo Ridgely, NY, silent screen actress (I Remember Mama)
1895 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Songs of Life) (d. 1986)
1895 William Giauque, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1899 Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
1900 Helene Weigel, German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage) (d. 1971)
1900 Joseph Rochefort, American Naval officer and cryptanalyst (d. 1976)
1901 Hyam Greenbaum, composer
1902 Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor
1903 Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
1903 Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place) (d. 1991)
1906 William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
1907 Katharine Hepburn, American actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond) (d. 2003)
1907 Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (Enter the Saint) (d. 1993)
1910 Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
1910 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist (penicillin/B12) (Nobel laureate 1964) (d. 1994)
1910 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1912 Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
1912 Marshall Royal, jazz sax/clarinet
1914 Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)
1914 Dan Daniel, (Rep-D-VA, 1969)
1914 Howard K. Smith, American journalist (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate) (d. 2002)
1914 James Bacon, American entertainment columnist and reporter
1915 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
1916 Albert Murray, American writer
1916 Ellis Bonoff Kohs, composer
1917 Andre A Rieu, Dutch conductor
1917 Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d. 2005)
1918 Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
1918 Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungary, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City)
1921 Edvard Mikcaeli Mirzoyan, composer
1921 Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
1921 Giovanni Benelli, archbishop (Florence)/Papal candidate
1921 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
1921 Joseph Beuys, German avant-garde painter and politician (d. 1986)
1922 Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter
1922 Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
1923 Ewart G Abner, record company executive
1923 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
1923 Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire
1924 Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician
1924 Maxine Cooper Gomberg, American actress (d. 2009)
1924 Tony Hancock, British comedian (d. 1968)
1925 John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
1925 Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, catcher/coach/manager (NY Yankees, Mets)
1925 Tony Hancock, Birmingham England, actor (Rebel, Wrong Box)
1925 Yogi Berra, American baseball player
1926 Earl Hutto, Panama City Fla, (Rep-D-FL, 1979)
1926 Mervyn M Dymally, (Rep-D-CA, 1981)
1928 Burt Bacharach, American composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
1928 Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
1928 Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969)
1929 Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
1929 Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
1930 Jesús Franco, Spanish film director
1930 Pat McCormick-Keller, Lakewood California, diver (Oly-4 gold-1952, 56)
1931 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One
1933 Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet
1935 Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager
1935 Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 Frank Stella, American painter
1936 Guillermo Endara, President of Panama (d. 2009)
1936 Tom Snyder, American television personality (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News) (d. 2007)
1937 Beryl Burton, British cyclist, won record (7) women's cycling titles (d. 1996)
1937 George Carlin, American comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash) (d. 2008)
1937 Gerry E Studds, (Rep-D-MA, 1973)
1937 Susan Hampshire, British actress
1938 Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident
1938 Millie Perkins, American film actress (Jane-Knots Landings)
1938 Susan Hampshire, London England, actress (Vanity Fair, Living Free)
1939 Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish politician
1939 Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician
1939 Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league footballer
1939 Ron(ald) Ziegler, White House Press Secretary (Nixon) (d. 2003)
1941 Anthony Newman, LA California, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
1941 Little Jayotis Washington, US R&B singer (Persuasions)
1941 Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1942 Barry B(rookes) Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)
1942 Billy Swan, American songwriter and singer (I Can Help)
1942 Dumitru Dediu, Romania, cosmonaut (Soyuz 40 backup)
1942 Ian Dury, British musician (Blockheads), actor (Judge Dredd) (d. 2000)
1942 Michel Fugain, French singer and songwriter
1942 Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic
1943 David Walker, rock keyboardist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1943 Linda Dano, LA California, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
1944 Eva Demski, writer
1944 James Purify, US singer (I'm Your Puppet)
1945 Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (d. 2007)
1945 Ian McLagan, British keyboardist (Small Faces)
1945 Jayotis Washington, rocker
1945 Linda Carlson, Knoxville Tn, actress (Bev-Newhart, Katie-Kaz)
1945 Nicky Henson, British actor
1945 Patrick Ricard, French businessman
1945 Willie Parnell, US singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1946 Daniel Libeskind, American architect
1946 Ian McLagan, rocker (Faces)
1946 L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author
1946 Leonard Baichan, cricketer (WI opener, 103 v Pakistan on debut 1975)
1947 Catherine Yronwode, American writer and editor
1947 Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
1947 Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter
1948 David Heineman, American politician, current governor of Nebraska
1948 Joe Tasker, British mountaineer (d. 1982)
1948 Lindsay Ann Crouse, NYC, actress (Slapshot, Iceman, Places in Heart)
1948 Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic)
1948 Steve Winwood, England, rock bassist (A Higher Love)
1950 Billy Squier, American singer
1950 Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
1950 Bruce Boxleitner, American actor
1950 Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
1950 Gabriel Byrne, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)
1950 Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
1950 Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1950 Renate Stecher-Meissner, German DR, sprinter (Oly-gold-72)
1950 Shozo Fujii, judoka
1951 George Karl, American basketball player and head coach
1951 Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 Kid Creole (August Darnell), rocker/actor (Obsession A Taste of Fear)
1953 Kevin Grevey, American basketball player
1955 Kix Brooks, Shreveport La, singer (Brooks & Dunn-Brand New Man)
1956 Asad Rauf, Pakistan Cricket Umpire
1956 Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian
1956 Homer Simpson, fictional character from the long running television show "The Simpsons"
1957 Lou(is Rodman) Whitaker, American baseball player, 2nd baseman (Detroit Tigers)
1958 Andreas Petroulakis, Greek political caricaturist
1958 Beth Maitland, actress (Traci-Young & Restless)
1958 Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend
1958 Eric Singer, American drummer
1958 Kim Greist, Stamford CT, actress (CHUD, Brazil, Payoff, Manhunter)
1959 Dave Christian, Minn, NHL right wing (Wash Caps, Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 Ving Rhames, American actor
1960 Ian Khan, British racing driver
1960 Lisa Martin, Australian marathoner (Olympic-silver 1988)
1960 Lisa Ondieki, Australian marathoner (Olympics-7th-84, 88, 96)
1960 Paul Arcand, Quebec radio host, journalist and film director
1961 Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult)
1961 Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor
1961 Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
1961 Paul Begala, American political commentator
1961 Thomas Dooley, German-American Soccer Player
1962 Amy Benz, Rochester NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile Classic-3rd)
1962 Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph)
1962 Emilio Estevez, American actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)
1962 Mark Bradshaw, Happy Camp California, diver (Olympics-96)
1963 Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
1963 Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress
1963 Gavin Hood, South African film director
1963 Jerry Trimble, American actor
1963 Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player, Mayor of Piraeus
1963 Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver
1963 Vanessa A. Williams, American actress
1964 Joy Ellen Kitzmiller, LA California, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
1965 Stacy Wilson, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1965 Steve Finley, Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1966 Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1966 Rafael Bournigal, Azua Dom Rep, infielder (Oakland A's)
1966 Stephen Baldwin, American actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)
1966 Steven Conran, Lithgow NSW, Australasia golfer
1967 Cara Coughenour, Sioux City IA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1967 Joe McKinney, Irish actor
1967 Lawrence Rucchin, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1967 Paul D'Amour, American bass guitarist (ex-Tool)
1967 Robert Blackmon, defensive back (Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks)
1967 Warren Rychel, Tecumseh, NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1968 Catherine Tate, British comedian
1968 Mark Clark, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 Scott Schwartz, American actor
1968 Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
1969 Cesar Millan, professional dog trainer
1969 Kevin Nalty, American YouTuber
1969 Kim Fields, American actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
1970 Andreas Hestler, Victoria BC, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 Andrew Coltart, Dumfries Scotland, Australasia golfer
1970 James Michael Furyk, American golfer, PGA tour (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
1970 Mark Foster, British swimmer
1970 Mike Malizia, Utica NY, Nike golfer (1993 Doral-Ryder Open-61st)
1970 Mike Weir, Canadian golfer (Ontario Amateur-1990, 92)
1970 Samantha Mathis, American actress
1970 Steve Palframan, South African cricketer
1970 Stevie Anderson, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Todd Hallett, Shelburne Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-7-92, 96)
1971 Craig Novitsky, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
1971 Doug Basham, American professional wrestler
1971 Jamie Luner, American actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
1971 Tommy Johnson, WLAF cornerback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Annette Albertson, Reno Nevada, Miss America-Nevada (1997)
1972 David Oaks, 100m/200m runner
1972 Jason Kyle, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Michelle Kahn, Miss Universe-Trinidad & Tobago (1996)
1972 Paul Stout, Saugus California, actor (Phillip-Scarecrow & Mrs King)
1973 Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress
1973 MacKenzie Astin, LA California, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
1973 Robert Tinkler, Canadian voice actor
1973 Stefano Margoni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1973 Travis Lutter, American Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
1974 Anna Ozolins, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Tiffany Stoker, Clovis California, Miss America (California-4th-1996)
1975 Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1975 Lawrence Phillips, American football player, running back (St Louis Rams)
1976 Matthew P Newmark, actor (Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
1977 Graeme Dott, British snooker player
1977 Iva Majoli, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1977 Monique de Bruin, Porland Oregon, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 Rebecca Herbst, American actress
1978 Amy Wheaton, actress (Curse)
1978 Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1978 Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter
1978 Jason Biggs, American actor
1978 Josh Phelps, American baseball player
1978 Malin Akerman, Swedish-Canadian actress and model
1978 Thomas Odoyo, cricketer (Kenyan all-rounder 1996 World Cup)
1978 Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Canadian singer
1979 Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor
1979 Andre Carter, American football player
1979 Callum Chambers, Australian rules footballer
1979 Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician
1979 Robert Key, English Cricketer
1979 Steve Smith, American football player
1980 Felipe Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1980 Keith Bogans, American basketball player
1981 Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor and singer
1981 James Graham Founder HistoryOrb.com
1981 Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer
1981 Lorena Bernal, Spanish model and actress, Miss Spain 1999
1981 Rami Malek, American actor
1983 Alina Kabayeva, Russian gymnast
1983 Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
1985 Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer
1985 Tally Hall, American soccer player
1986 Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
1986 Mouhamed Sene, Senegalese basketball player
1988 Marcelo (Vieira da Silva Júnior), Brazilian footballer
1988 Marky Cielo, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 2008)
1989 Matthew Hann, American basketball player
1990 Jacory Harris, American football player
1992 Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
1995 Luke Benward, American actor
1995 Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten, American actors

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912 Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912)
1003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
1003 Sylvester II (Gerbert van Aurillac), 1st French Pope (999-1003)
1012 Sergius IV (Pietro Crescentii), Italian Pope (1009-12)
1382 Johanna I, Queen of Naples, Provence (b. 1327)
1465 Thomas Palaeologus, Titular Byzantine emperor, Despot of the Morea (b. 1409)
1634 George Chapman, English dramatist, interpreter
1641 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded (b. 1593)
1649 Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered
1684 Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1699 Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1700 John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
1708 Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1737 Cornelis van Alkemade, historian
1748 Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1759 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1792 Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1796 Johann Peter Uz, German poet (Theodicee) (b. 1720)
1801 Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1811 Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer
1814 Robert Treat Paine, US judge (signed Decl of Ind)
1825 Elias Mann, composer
1825 Stanislao Mattei, composer
1842 Walenty Wankowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799)
1843 Johann Georg Lickl, composer
1845 August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet, interpreter, critic
1845 János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1852 John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812)
1856 Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1859 Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
1860 Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1861 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer
1864 Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
1867 Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1871 Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795)
1871 Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer
1871 John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae)
1876 Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple)
1884 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows) (b. 1824)
1889 John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
1896 Juan Morel Campos, composer
1897 Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright
1897 Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer
1907 Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
1908 Melesio Morales, composer
1916 James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1921 Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra)
1924 Charles Henri Marechal, composer
1925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister
1925 Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1925 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
1930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader
1931 Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer
1931 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)
1932 Lindbergh baby, found dead
1935 Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35) (b. 1867)
1943 Albert Stoessel, composer
1944 Arthur T Quiller-Couch, British author, critic (b. 1863)
1944 Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
1948 Isidor Achron, composer
1951 Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill)
1956 Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education
1956 Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
1956 Vladimir Ambros, composer
1957 Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1957 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian film director and actor (Grand Illusion) (b. 1885)
1960 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer
1962 Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers)
1963 Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1963 Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer
1965 Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite)
1966 Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1967 Julius Kalas, composer
1970 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966)
1970 Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1970 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
1971 Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1971 J M Taylor, cricketer (20 Tests 1920-26, 997 runs)
1973 Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1973 Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille)
1980 Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice)
1981 Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore
1982 Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
1984 Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy)
1985 Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901)
1986 Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
1986 Lee Bonnell
1987 Victor Feldman, pianist, drummer
1989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell
1989 Marcelle de Manziarly, composer
1990 Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 Joe Burke, president (KC Royals)
1992 Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1992 Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911)
1992 Robert Reed, American actor (Brady Bunch) (b. 1932)
1994 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur
1994 David Brooks, psychologist
1994 Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
1994 Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress
1994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94) (b. 1938)
1994 Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for South Africa, 22 wkts)
1995 Arthur Lubin, film director
1995 Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion
1995 Mia Martini, real name: Domenica Bertè, Italian singer and song-writer (b. 1947)
1995 Reza Abdoh, theatre Director
1996 Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist
1996 Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman
1999 Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
1999 Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2000 Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2001 Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2002 Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
2002 Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
2003 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
2005 Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
2005 Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
2006 Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
2006 Hussein Maziq, former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918)
2007 Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
2007 Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
2008 Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)
2008 Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
2009 Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
2014 H. R. Giger, Swiss Oscar-winning surrealist artist
2016 Julius La Rosa, American singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air)
2016 Delbert L. Latta, American politician (Rep-R-OH, 1959-89 )

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