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535 St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
609 Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church
641 Eligius (Saint Eloy) becomes bishop of Doornik-Noyon
1106 Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1110 Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1364 Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven
1373 Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations.
1497 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola
1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1559 Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel
1568 Battle of Langside, the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1588 King Henri III flees Paris
1607 English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1624 Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru
1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1643 Battle at Grantham, English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1643 Heavy earthquake strikes Santiago Chile; kills 1/3 of population
1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1652 Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki
1654 Venetian fleet under Adm Adeler beats Turkish
1767 Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg
1777 University library at Vienna opens
1779 War of Bavarian Succession ends, Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from them (the Innviertel).
1780 Cumberland Compact signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to Botany Bay to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derne from the Americans attack the city.
1820 Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed
1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia, with Juan Jose Flores as president.
1835 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
1846 The United States declares war on Mexico 2 months after fighting begins (Mexican-American War).
1848 First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights, American Civil War.
1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1864 Battle of Resaca (Atlanta Campaign) the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia, American Civil War.
1865 Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.  PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed in the American Civil War.
1874 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite"
1876 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
1877 Caesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides," premieres
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1882 Toba-indians killed 20 members of French expedition
1884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms
1887 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25
1888 DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
1888 Princess Isabel of Brazil signs"Lei Auréa". With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1890 18th Preakness, W Martin aboard Montague wins in 2:36.75
1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda & Equatoria
1891 17th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Kingman wins in 2:52.25
1905 James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
1909 The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
1911 37th Kentucky Derby, George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05
1911 NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms in England
1912 The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
1913 Igor Sikorsky becomes the first man to pilot a four-engine aircraft.
1916 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1916 42nd Kentucky Derby, Johnny Loftus aboard George Smith wins in 2:04
1917 Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres
1917 Three shepherd children report the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal.
1918 1st US airmail stamps issued (24 cents)
1922 48th Kentucky Derby, Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6
1922 48th Preakness, L Morris aboard Pillory wins in 1:51.6
1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
1926 German government of Luther falls
1927 "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1927 VVOG soccer team forms in Harderwijk
1930 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
1930 Only known fatality due to hail
1931 Paul Doumer elected president of France
1932 Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
1933 59th Preakness, Charley Kurtsinger aboard Head Play wins in 2:02
1934 Great dustbowl storm
1936 Quiroga government takes office in Spain
1939 65th Preakness, George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8
1939 SS St Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1940 British bomb factory at Breda
1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1940 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees the Nazi invasion in the Netherlands to Great Britain. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1940 Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse River. Winston Churchill makes his "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons, World War II.
1941 Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany
1941 Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins
1941 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1941 Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailovic starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance, World War II.
1942 Helicopter makes its 1st cross-country flight
1942 Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
1943 German occupiers confiscate all radios
1943 German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces, World War II.
1944 70th Preakness, Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 1:59.2
1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1946 Sarwate & Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey
1946 US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1946 Winston Churchill welcomed in Rotterdam
1947 Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1950 Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1950 The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1952 Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
1952 Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1953 NY Giants Willie Mays & Darryl Spencer each hit 2 HRs & a triple
1954 "Pajama Game" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1063 performances
1954 Labour Party wins British municipal elections
1954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1955 Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'
1956 Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
1958 Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation
1958 May 1958 crisis, a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers, demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 Pierre Pflimlin forms French government
1958 Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuela
1958 Stan Musial, is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1959 Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle, last airs on NBC-TV
1960 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1960 Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1960 Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
1960 WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1965 Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1966 Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of Indian Union. He held this position until August 24, 1969.
1967 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
1967 Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle & Georges Pompidou
1969 Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1970 Beatles movie "Let it Be" premieres
1971 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
1972 115 die (Osaka Japan)
1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators cause 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
1973 "Cyrano" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 49 performances
1973 Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in Calif
1973 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1975 "Rodgers & Hart" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 108 performances
1975 Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3
1975 Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn
1976 9th & final ABA championship, NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 2
1977 Howard Stern begins broadcasting at WRNW, Briarcliff Manor NY
1978 "Angel" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 5 performances
1978 "Runaways" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 199 performances
1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1978 Musical "Runaways" with Elizabeth Swados premieres in NYC
1979 "Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC
1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1980 Cincinnati Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
1981 Dinamo Tbilisi wins 21st Europe Cup II
1981 Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1982 Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1982 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
1982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
1982 Terri Lea Utley, 20, (Arkansas), crowned 31st Miss USA
1983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1984 "Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 17 performances
1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1984 Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
1985 Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
1985 Laura Elena Martinez-Herring, 21, (Texas), crowned 34th Miss USA
1985 Police storm MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1987 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
1989 Large groups (Approx 2,000) of students occupy Tiananmen Square, China and begin a hunger strike.
1989 Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
1989 Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 16 perfs
1990 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1991 "Michael Jackson : Magic & Madness" goes on sale
1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
1991 South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
1991 Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco
1992 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time
1992 Ajax wins 21st UEFA Cup
1992 Concrete foundation for ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) is poured
1992 Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
1992 Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
1992 Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1993 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
1993 Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993 CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993 KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
1993 Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
1994 Indians, begin a 18 home game hoome win streak at Jacobs Field
1994 Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.
1995 6.5 earthquake hits Greece
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, of USA, crowned 44th Miss Universe Shanna Lynn Moakler, (19-NY), replaces Chelsi Smith as Miss USA
1995 New Zealand beats US for the America's Cup
1996 OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1997 Eddie Murray is 6th baseball player to play in 3,000 games
1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesian of Chinese descendants are looted and women raped.
2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2001 Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2006 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2007 Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
2007 Republic Protests in Turkey.
2012 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
2012 Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time
2012 Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
2013 Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth
2014 301 miners are killed by an underground explosion and mine fire in Soma Mine, Manisa, Turkey
2014 Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa María, is discovered off the northern coast of Haiti

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1024 Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1254 Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
1314 Sergius of Radonesh, Russian saint
1588 Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
1592 John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist
1638 Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
1655 Innocent XIII (Michelangiolo dei Conti), Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24) (d. 1724)
1699 Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
1707 Carl von Linné, Swedish scientist (d. 1778)
1712 Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
1717 Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress, Empress of Austria (Wife of emperor Franz I) (d. 1780)
1729 Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
1730 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1765-76) (d. 1782)
1730 Marquess of Rockingham, (Whig), British PM (1765-66, 1782)
1735 Horace Coignet, composer
1742 Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1746 Oliver Brownson, composer
1753 Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
1756 Wojciech Zywny, composer
1761 Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
1776 Charles Ots, composer
1776 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
1792 Blessed Pope Pius IX
1792 Pius IX "Pio Nono" (Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti), Pope (1846-78) (d. 1878)
1794 Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
1795 Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1883)
1822 Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
1828 Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer
1830 Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
1831 Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies
1840 (LM) Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin of Tarascon) (d. 1897)
1842 Arthur Seymour Sullivan, English composer (Gilbert & Sullivan) (d. 1900)
1843 Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
1847 Johannes Haarklou, composer
1854 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director (Lost & Found, Silvia Silombra)
1854 Paul Klengel, composer
1856 Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
1856 Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1857 Ronald Ross, English physician, pathologist (Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902) (d. 1932)
1859 Eugust Enna, composer
1866 Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1867 Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
1868 Paolo Gallico, composer
1874 Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
1876 Raoul Laparra, composer
1881 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
1882 Georges F Broque, French cubist painter (Bike) (d. 1963)
1883 Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (d. 1962)
1883 Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
1886 Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1891 Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl)
1894 Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
1895 Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-born psychologist and parapsychologist (d. 1964)
1896 Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Dutch equestrian (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1898 Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
1900 Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer)
1903 Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
1903 Paul Page, Birmingham AL, actor (Girl From Havana, Moth)
1904 Alfred Earle Birney, poet
1904 Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
1904 Tim Wall, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia 1928-34)
1906 Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer
1907 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist
1907 Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites) (d. 1989)
1907 Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
1908 Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
1911 Maxine Sullivan (Marietta Williams), US singer/actress (Going Places)
1911 Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (Barney-Monroes) (d. 1977)
1912 Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
1912 Helen Craig, San Antonio TX, actress (Snake Pit, They Live by Night)
1912 Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
1913 Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1913 Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
1913 William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian president (1971-80) (d. 1980)
1914 Joe Louis, American boxer, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49) (d. 1981)
1915 John Habakkuk, principal (Jesus College in Oxford)
1917 Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
1917 Wilhelmus C Wijen (Broeder Pius), social worker (Curacao)
1918 John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
1918 T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984)
1920 Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
1920 Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM of Fiji (1960-70, 70)/pres (1994)
1921 Syd(ney G) Vincent, British mine workers leader
1922 Beatrice Arthur, American actress (d. 2009)
1922 Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
1922 Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (d. 1991)
1923 Red Garland, American hard bop jazz pianist (d.1984)
1924 Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat (Ambassador to the US) (d. 2010)
1924 Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
1926 Beatrice Arthur (Frankel), NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
1926 Wallace Breem, British author (d. 1990)
1927 Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1927 Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
1927 Herbert Ross, American director, choreographer (Footloose) (d. 2001)
1928 Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
1928 Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1928 Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
1930 José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
1930 Mike Gravel, Americn politician (Sen-R-Alaska)
1930 Vernon Shaw, former President of Dominica
1931 Eileen Diss, theatrical designer (August, Secret Places, Betrayal)
1931 Jim Jones, American cult leader, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre) (d. 1978)
1931 Sydney Lipworth, CEO (Monopolies & Mergers Commission)
1931 William Utting, chief inspector (British Social Services)
1933 Alden Ashforth, composer
1933 Sid Morrison, (Rep-R-WA, 1981)
1933 Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1934 Adolf Muschg, writer
1934 Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 Dominic Cossa, American baritone
1935 Nigel Butterley, composer
1935 Yizhak Sadai, composer
1936 Alan Rayfield, governor (Long Latin Prison)
1936 Rafael Campos, Santiago Dominican Republic, actor (Tonka)
1937 John Cope, MP/Paymaster General
1937 Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
1937 Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
1937 Roger (Joseph) Zelazny, American sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber) (d. 1995)
1937 Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
1937 Zohra Lampert, American actress (Doctor's Hospital)
1938 Buck Taylor, Hollywood California, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
1938 Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
1938 Laurent Beaudoin, French Canadian businessman (Bombardier)
1939 Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer
1939 Harvey Keitel, American actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
1939 Hildrun Claus, German athlete
1939 Terry Dill, Forth Worth TX, PGA golfer (1992 Bank One Senior Classic)
1939 William W Cobey Jr, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-87)
1940 Bruce Chatwin, British writer (On the Black Hill) (d. 1989)
1940 Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1941 Jody Conradt, American basketball coach
1941 Joe Brown, British singer
1941 Ritchie Valens, American singer (Donna, La Bamba) (d. 1959)
1941 Senta Berger, Austrian actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
1942 Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
1942 Roger Young, American television director
1942 Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, USSR, cosmo (Soyuz 27, 39, T-6, T-12, T-13)
1943 Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist
1943 Mary Wells, American singer (My Guy) (d. 1992)
1944 Armistead Maupin, American author
1944 Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer
1944 Carolyn Franklin, US singer/songwriter (Baby Baby Baby, Angel)
1944 Clive Radley, cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1978)
1944 Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist
1945 Magic Dick (Richard Salwitz), American musician, harmonicaist (The J. Geils Band)
1945 Sam Anderson, American actor
1946 Danny Klein, NYC, rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Sweet William, Jewel in Crown)
1946 Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (d. 1998)
1947 David Hughes, cricketer
1947 Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
1947 Pete "Overend" Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
1947 Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
1949 Franklin Ajaye, BKln NY, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
1949 John Glover, conductor
1949 Overend Watts, rock bassist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1949 Zoë Wanamaker, American actress (Raggedy Rawney)
1950 Bobby Valentine, baseball manager
1950 Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor (Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man)
1950 Manning Marable, American academic and author
1950 Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)
1951 James Whale, English radio personality
1951 Jim Douglas, American politician, governor of Vermont
1951 Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1951 Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
1951 Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
1952 John Kasich, U.S. Congressman (Rep-R-OH, 1983)
1952 Manfred Langer, Austrian/Dutch disco builder
1952 Mary Walsh, Canadian comedian and actress
1952 Sew Shivnarine, cricketer (3 Tests for WI 1978, later USA captain)
1954 Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
1956 Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kaleri, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1956 Kirk Thornton, American voice actor
1956 Richard Madeley, Television presenter
1956 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
1957 Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1957 Andrea Klump, German terrorist
1957 Claudie Andre-Deshays, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-24)
1957 Eloise Broady, Houston Tx, playmate (Apr, 1988)
1957 Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
1957 Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II, Philippine Senator
1958 Frances Barber, Wolverhampton England, actress (Castaway)
1959 Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer
1960 Richard M "Dick" van de Toorn, actor (Pastorale)
1960 Shannon Vessup-Millen, LA California, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1991)
1961 Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1962 Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
1962 Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
1962 Paul McDermott, Australian comedian
1962 Sean McDonough, American sports newscaster
1963 Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1963 Wally Masur, Australian tennis player
1964 Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 Sam Randolph, Santa Barbara CA, Nike golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1964 Sara Gomer, England, tennis star
1964 Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor (Colbert Report)
1964 Tom Verica, American actor
1965 Chris Washburn, NBAer
1965 Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1965 José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
1965 Lari White, American country music singer
1965 Tasmin Little, English violinist
1966 Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1966 Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
1966 Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host
1967 Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
1967 Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001)
1968 Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1968 Annette DeLuca, North Bergen NJ, LPGA golfer
1968 Buckethead, Guitarist
1968 James Harris, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
1968 PMD, American rapper
1969 André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
1969 Buckethead, American musician
1969 Lyle Mouton, Lafayette Louisiana, outfielder (Chic White Sox)
1970 Doug Evans, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Giuseppe Busillo, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1970 Mark Beaufait, Royal Oak Mich, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1970 Mitch Lyons, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 Selwyn Jones, NFL defensive back (Seahawks, Den Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1971 Hamish Pepper, Auckland NZ, laser single handed yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 Michael Sirotka, Chicago IL, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1971 Rob Fredrickson, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1971 Tom Nalen, American football player, NFL center (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Darryl Sydor, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 Josh Heinrich, NFL/WLAF defensive end (Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
1973 Brooke Jennifer Gambrell, Boise Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1996)
1973 Michelle Mouser, Miss USA-Ohio (1997)
1974 Albert Connell, wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1974 Brian Geraghty, American actor
1974 Lisa Jacob, 800m freestyle relay (Olympics-96)
1974 Tim McMahon, American hardcore singer (Mouthpiece, Hands Tied, Triple Threat)
1975 Chris Crawford, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1976 Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
1976 Trajan Langdon, American basketball player
1977 Diane Halber, Torrance California, fig skater (1996 Natl Collegiate champ)
1977 Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
1977 Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 Robby Hammock, American baseball player
1977 Samantha Morton, English actress
1977 Sara DeCosta, ice hockey goalie (USA, Oly-98)
1978 Barry Zito, American baseball player
1978 Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1978 Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
1978 Steve Mildenhall, English football player
1979 Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1979 Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
1980 Chris Barker, American bassist (Anti-Flag)
1980 Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1980 Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1981 James Yun, American professional wrestler
1981 Jimmy Yang, American wrestler
1981 Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
1981 Sunny Leone, Canadian model, pornographic actress
1982 Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
1982 Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
1983 Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
1983 Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1983 Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1984 Benny Dayal, Indian singer
1984 Caitlin Murphy, Australian actress and Model
1985 Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 Alexander Rybak, Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest winner
1986 Giuliana Marino, German glamor model, Playboy Playmate of the Year, Germany 2005
1986 Robert Pattinson, English actor, musician and model (Cedric Diggory-Harry Potter, Edward Cullen-Twilight)
1986 Scott Sutter, Swiss footballer
1987 Carrie Prejean, American beauty pageant contestant
1987 Charlotte Wessels, Dutch singer (Delain)
1987 Hunter Parrish, American actor
1988 Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1993 Debby Ryan, American actress
1993 Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer

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384 Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren
1162 Géza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
1176 Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
1312 Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
1381 John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland
1390 Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90)
1573 Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1619 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch statesman, lands advocate, beheaded (b. 1547)
1704 Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (b. 1632)
1732 Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1742 Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
1776 Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi
1787 Johann Michael Malzat, composer
1793 Martin Gerbert, composer
1807 Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b. 1721)
1809 Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London (b. 1731)
1812 Johann Matthias Sperger, composer
1831 Christian G Korner, German lawyer
1832 Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
1835 John Nash, English architect (Regent's Park) (b. 1752)
1839 Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815)
1839 Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator
1864 Junius Daniel, Confederate brig-general
1866 Nikolai Brashman, Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
1871 Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
1873 Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
1882 Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered
1884 Cyrus Hall McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
1885 Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809)
1885 Juliana Horatia (Gatty) Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire)
1892 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1896 Nora Perry, writer
1901 Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist and literary critic (b. 1851)
1903 Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
1904 Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician
1914 R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket & soccer
1916 Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (Fiddler on the Roof) (b. 1859)
1921 Jean Aicard, French poet and novelist (b. 1848)
1925 Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer and terrorist (b. 1879)
1926 Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian Catholic prelate (b. 1857)
1930 Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1922) (b. 1861)
1930 Helena Lange, German feminist
1931 Josif Marinkovic, composer
1933 Paul Ernst, writer
1937 Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
1938 Charles Edouard Guillaume, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1942 Hyam Greenbaum, composer
1945 Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1951 Marianne (Goudeket-)Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot)
1956 Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide
1957 Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
1961 Gary Cooper, American actor, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon) (b. 1901)
1962 Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack)
1962 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
1962 Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (introduced fluoridation into water) (b. 1893)
1963 Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (b. 1885)
1966 Henk (Hendrik M) of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal)
1967 Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train)
1971 Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1972 Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza) (b. 1928)
1974 Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican writer (b. 1902)
1975 Bob Wills, American musician (Lone Prairie) (b. 1905)
1977 Mickey Spillane, Irish-American gangster (b. 1934)
1978 Albert Roberts, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 7 wickets)
1979 Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama)
1981 Carl Weinrich, composer
1982 Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer
1982 Renzo Rossellini, Italian compose
1985 Leatrice Joy, American actress, silent screen (b. 1893)
1985 Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)
1988 Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window (b. 1929)
1990 Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer
1991 Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist
1992 F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
1992 Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter
1992 Gisela Elsner, writer
1993 Borolas (Joaquin Garcia), Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre)
1993 Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964)
1993 Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor
1994 Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist
1994 Duncan Hamilton, British racing driver (b. 1920)
1994 Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold)
1995 Cecil Marley, cricketer (WICBC pres 1971-74, Jamaican capt 1946)
1996 John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher
1999 Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
2000 Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
2000 Paul Bartel, American actor (b. 1938)
2001 Jason Miller, American playwright (b. 1939)
2001 R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
2002 Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
2002 Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2005 Eddie Barclay, French record producer (b. 1921)
2005 George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
2006 Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
2006 Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
2008 Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
2008 Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
2009 Frank Aletter, American character actor (b. 1926)
2009 Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer, member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem
2011 Bruce Ricker, American jazz and blues documentarian (b. 1942)
2011 Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
2012 Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bassist
2013 Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
2013 Joyce Brothers, American psychologist
2013 Chuck Muncie, American football running back
2013 Vladimir Romanovsky, Soviet sprint canoer

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