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715 St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1499 Catherine of Aragon, is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
1506 Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
1515 George van Saksen-Meissen sells Friesland for 100,000 gold guilders to arch duke Charles
1517 Philip van Bourgondie installed as bishop of Utrecht
1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1547 Monarch Johan Frederik surrenders to Karel
1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1571 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines
1585 Spain confisquates English ships
1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague
1635 France declares war on Spain
1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1643 French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power, Thirty Years' War.
1649 An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
1652 Spanish troops occupy Grevelingen
1662 Uniformity Act of England goes into effect
1749 King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
1780 New England's Dark Day, A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes near-total darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
1792 Russian army enters Poland
1793 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1796 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1802 Napoleon Bonaparte founds French Order of Legion d'Honneur
1828 U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
1828 US passes Tariff of Abominations
1848 1st department store opens
1848 Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the Mexican-American War and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for $15 million USD.
1853 Dutch prince Henry marries princess Amalia of Saxony-Weimar
1856 Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
1857 William Francis Channing & Moses G Farmer patents electric fire alarm
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1863 Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
1864 The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends, American Civil War
1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)
1864 Skirmish at Cassville Georgia
1865 President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1885 German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland
1886 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Symphony in C, premieres
1891 Rice Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1892 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
1893 Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
1896 1st auto (Benz) to arrive in Netherlands
1897 Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1900 Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy & Switz, opens
1902 Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1905 Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
1906 Dutch King Victor Emmanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1906 Portugal's King Carlos I names Joao Franco premier
1909 Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
1910 Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
1911 Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
1911 Phila Athletics are 12½ games back in AL, & will win World Series
1912 AL Pres Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
1916 Escadrille Américaine (Lafayette) transfered to Verdun
1918 Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings
1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus.
1921 The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act, sharply curbing and establishing national quotas on immigration.
1922 The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
1923 49th Kentucky Derby, Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1926 French air force bombs Damascus Syria
1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
1928 51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
1929 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government
1930 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
1931 Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel
1934 Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
1937 John Murray and Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in NYC
1939 Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
1940 Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
1940 French counter attack at Pronne under Gen De Gaulle
1941 Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis
1941 New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
1942 Braves Paul Waner is 3rd NLer to get 3,000 hits (Anson & Wagner)
1943 Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
1943 Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the cross-English Channel landing (D-Day). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather, World War II.
1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from Westerbork Neth
1944 German defense line in Italy collapsed
1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England & Aust Services
1946 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
1950 NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
1951 77th Preakness, Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St George, Utah)
1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
1955 Atkinson & Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI v Australia
1956 82nd Preakness, Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning HR, 1st HR in 8 straight games
1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian government
1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
1958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1959 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1960 Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
1960 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
1961 Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1962 "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
1962 88th Preakness, John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
1962 A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Happy Birthday.
1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431
1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1965 Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
1967 USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
1967 US bombs Hanoi
1968 20th Emmy Awards, Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain
1968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
1968 Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
1971 Mars probe program, Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
1971 USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
1973 "Smith" opens at Eden Theater NYC for 17 performances
1973 99th Preakness, Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4
1974 Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
1974 Stanley Cup, Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1975 27th Emmy Awards, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake & Jean Marsh
1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
1976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 "Smokey & the Bandit," premieres
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979 105th Preakness, Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
1980 "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 104 performances
1980 Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1982 IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg
1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
1983 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506
1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC
1984 "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
1984 110th Preakness, Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6
1984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Stanley Cup, Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders, 4 games to 1
1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1986 Anti-apartheid activist HClane Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr
1987 1st American Comedy Award
1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1988 Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
1989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1990 116th Preakness, Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6
1990 General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC
1991 "Buddy The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs
1991 Croatians vote for independence at their independence referendum.
1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1991 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge
1991 Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500
1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary
1992 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa LI
1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches
1992 Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title
1992 VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family values
1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132
1993 Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03)
1993 Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino
1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run
1994 Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
1995 Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 15th time
1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai
1996 STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit
2009 Sri Lanka announces victory in its 27 year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
2012 Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League
2012 Mario Gutierrez aboard Ill Have Another wins the 137th Preakness in 1:55.94
2013 Sweden defeats Switzerland to win the 2013 World Ice Hockey Championship
2013 Taylor Swift, Red win at the 21st Billboard Music Awards
2015 Historic first handshake between Prince Charles and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at the National University of Ireland in Galway
2015 UK inflation is recorded as a negative for the first time since 1960
2161 Syzygy, 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun

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1469 Giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor
1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
1611 Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)
1616 Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer
1700 José de Escandón, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1770)
1724 Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
1744 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
1746 Johann Friedrich Peter, composer
1755 Gabriele Prota, composer
1762 Johann G(ottlieb) Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre) (d. 1814)
1770 Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
1773 Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854)
1795 Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University (d. 1873)
1797 Maria Isabel of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1818)
1808 Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1883)
1812 Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
1815 John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1882)
1827 Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896)
1828 Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 Alice Mary Smith, composer
1858 Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller (Surinam)
1859 Nellie Melba (Heal Mitchell), Australian soprano (Peach Melba)
1860 Victor E Orlando, Italy's premier (1917-19)
1861 Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931)
1862 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
1864 Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process
1869 Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State
1870 Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
1871 Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
1873 Federico Gerdes, composer
1874 Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (The Croucher) (d. 1955)
1878 Adam von Ahn Carse, composer
1879 Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, American-born politician, Eng's feminist, ex of Waldorf Astor (d. 1964)
1880 Allard R Hulshoff, architect of Amsterdam (1924)
1880 Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (d. 1964)
1881 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1882 Mohammed Mosaddeq, Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1967)
1883 Henricus WJM Keuls, Dutch lawyer/poet (Dancing Lamp)
1884 Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer (Adriaan Brouwer) (or 5/10)
1890 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (1946, 1969) (d. 1969)
1891 Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916)
1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Povestj Zjizni) [OS]
1895 Albert Hay Malotte, composer
1895 Cecil Gray, composer
1896 Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon
1897 Frank Luke, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1898 Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
1899 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright
1901 Ivo Cruz, composer
1904 Anthony Bushell, Kent England, actor (Journey's End)
1904 Sven Thofelt, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1928)
1906 Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007)
1908 Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)
1908 Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
1909 Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
1909 Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
1909 Schlomo Joffe, composer
1910 Alan Melville, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1948, (d. 1983)
1910 Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
1913 Albert Hardy, photographer
1913 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India
1914 Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1914 Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
1914 Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
1918 Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
1918 Florence Chadwick, San Diego, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways), (d. 1995)
1919 Betty Jameson, Norman OK, LPGA golfer (1947 US Women's Open)
1919 Mitja Ribicic, Slovenian Communist politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
1920 Tina Strobos, Netherlands, physician and resistor to Nazi occupation, (d. 2012)
1921 Charles van de Reve, slavic (Belief of Kameraden)
1921 Daniel Gélin, French actor (Obsession), Maria Schneider's dad (d. 2002)
1921 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (Comrade's Religion) (d. 1999)
1921 Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist
1922 David McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate)
1922 Joe Gilmore, Irish, longest running Head Barmen at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar.
1924 Sandy Galbraith Wilson, composer
1925 Guy Provost, French Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1925 Malcolm X (Little), American civil rights activist, founder (Black Muslims) (d. 1965)
1925 Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1926 Paul Cooper, composer
1926 Peter Zadek, German theatre director (d. 2009)
1926 Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
1928 (Anthony) Colin B Chapman, England, sports car builder, founder of Lotus Cars, autoracer (Formula 1) (d. 1982)
1928 Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
1928 Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
1929 Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)
1929 John Stroger Chicago politician (d. 2008)
1929 Michael Adamis, composer
1930 Hans Kox, composer
1930 Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (Raisin in the Sun) (d. 1965)
1931 Bob Anderson, British racing driver (d. 1967)
1931 Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter
1931 Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
1931 Ruben Radica, composer
1932 Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
1932 Claude Blanchard, French Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006)
1932 Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
1934 Bill Fitch, American basketball head coach
1934 David Sinclair, actor (Love & Hate)
1934 James Charles Lehrer, Wichita Ks, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)
1934 Jan Wijn, Dutch pianist
1934 Jim Lehrer, American television journalist
1934 Ruskin Bond, Indian author
1935 David Hartman, American actor and television personality (Good Morning America)
1935 F R Fries, writer
1936 Elisabeth Schwartz, Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1937 Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
1937 Sanne Sannes, Dutch photographer
1938 James H Bilbray, (Rep-D-Nevada)
1938 Madge Hindle, English actress
1938 Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader (d. 1989)
1939 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director (Emily)
1939 Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1939 Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1939 James Fox, English actor (Greystoke)
1939 Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
1939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress (Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong)
1939 Richard Lowe Teitelbaum, composer
1939 Tomasz Sikorski, composer
1940 Carlos Diegues, actor (Xica)
1940 Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
1940 Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
1940 Joan Staley, playmate (Nov, 1958)
1940 Mickey Newbury, American musician (d. 2002)
1941 Jane Brody, writer/nutritionist
1941 Jimmy Hoffa Jr, son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader
1941 Marc-Antonio Consoli, composer
1941 Nora Ephron, American screenwriter, director (Michael, Heartburn) (d. 2012)
1942 Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (d. 1994)
1942 James Topping, author of CP/M
1942 Robert Kilroy-Silk, British politician and television presenter
1944 Peter Mayhew, British-American actor
1945 Pete Townshend, English musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer (The Who)
1946 André the Giant, French professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1946 Claude Lelièvre, Belgian commissioner for children's rights
1946 Diedre Lenihan, Atlanta Ga, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
1946 Mary Bryan, LPGA golfer
1946 Michele Placido, Foggia Italy, actor (La Lupa, Poliziotti)
1946 Phillip Rudd, Melbourne, rock drummer (AC/DC-Rock 'n Roll Damnation)
1947 David Helfgott, Australian pianist
1947 Jerry Hyman, Bkln, rock singer/trombonist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1947 Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
1947 Paul Brady, Northern Ireland singer/songwriter
1948 Grace Jones (Mendoza), Jamaican singer and actress (Vamp)
1948 Jean-Pierre Haignere, France, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17)
1948 Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
1949 Archie Manning, American football player
1949 Dusty Hill, American singer and bassist (ZZ Top)
1951 Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
1951 Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) American musician, lead singer (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
1952 Barbara Loomis, rocker (BT Express)
1952 Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer and coach
1953 Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997)
1953 Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary
1953 Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
1953 Victoria Wood, English comedian and actress
1954 Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC)
1954 Rick Cerone, Newark NJ, catcher (Yankees/Red Sox/Mets/Expos)
1955 Ed Whitson, pitcher (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
1955 James Gosling, Canadian computer programmer
1955 Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, 62)
1956 Althea Gwyn, WBL center (NY Stars)
1956 Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1956 Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless), son of US President Gerald Ford
1957 Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons)
1957 Sophia Crawford, London England, actress (Power Rangers)
1959 Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim, Mrs OJ Simpson (d. 1994)
1960 Yazz (Yasmin Evans), English singer (Fine Time)
1961 Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director
1961 Lisa Rathgber, Hillsboro Ill, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1980, 3-time LPBT Player of Year, Bowler of Decade)
1962 Iain Harvie, Scottish rock guitarist (Nothing Ever Happens)
1963 Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
1963 Rebecca Bradley, LPGA golfer
1964 Michael Dean Standly, Abilene TX, PGA golfer (1993 Freeport-McMoRan)
1964 Miloslav Mecír, Slovakian tennis player
1964 Sean Whalen, American actor
1965 Boris, French singer
1965 Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean television presenter and Miss Universe 1987
1965 Edward Odumbe, cricketer (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1965 Joshua Rifkind, actor (Marshall Chronicles)
1965 Maile Flanagan, American actress
1966 Jodi Picoult, American writer
1966 Keith Jennings, NFL tight end (Chic Bears)
1966 Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens)
1966 Polly Walker, English actress
1966 Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
1967 John Friesz, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
1967 Turk Wendell, Pittsfield MA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1968 James Parrish, NFL outside linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Jeanne Basone, Brubank California, wrestler (Hollywood-GLOW)
1968 Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician
1968 Mark Janssens, Surrey, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1968 Paul Justin, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Cecile Ulbrich Tucker, Warren Maine, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 David Wharton, Warminster PA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-silver-88)
1969 Kevin Scott, WLAF cornerback (Scotland Claymores)
1969 Richard Dumas, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1970 Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean professional golfer
1970 Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
1970 Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
1971 Darryl Morrison, NFL safety (Washington Redskins)
1971 Lori Ann Mundt, Yorkton Saskatchawan, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1971 Psicosis, Mexican professional wrestler
1971 Ross Katz, American film producer
1972 Claudia Karvan, Australian actress
1972 Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1972 Ronald Williams, CFL running back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Willie Brown, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Seattle Seahawks. Rhein Fire)
1973 Andreas Johansson, Hofors SWE, NHL forward (Pitts, NY Islanders)
1974 Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league footballer
1975 Delma Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer
1975 Josh Paul, American baseball player
1975 London Fletcher, American football player
1975 Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
1975 Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
1976 Ed Cota, American basketball player
1976 Kevin Garnett, American basketball player, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1977 Brandon Inge, American baseball player
1977 Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
1977 Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
1977 Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer and actress
1978 Kim Zolciak, Reality show star and singer
1978 Marcus Bent, English footballer
1979 Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
1979 Barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress
1979 Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
1980 Drew Fuller, American actor and model
1980 Tony Hackworth, English footballer
1981 Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
1981 Georges St. Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist, UFC (Welterweight Champion)
1981 Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
1981 Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer
1981 Nate Cole, American singer
1982 Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
1982 Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
1983 Eve Angel, Hungarian pornographic actress
1983 Jessica Fox, English actress
1984 Marcedes Lewis, American football player
1986 Eric Lloyd, American actor
1986 Mario Chalmers, American basketball player, NCAA
1987 David Edgar, Canadian football (soccer) player
1987 Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer
1988 Lily Cole, English model/actress
1991 Jordan Pruitt, American singer

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804 Alcuin of York, English scholar, monk (b. c. 735)
988 Dunstan(us), English archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
1102 Stephen, Count of Blois (b. c. 1045)
1125 Vladimir Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053)
1296 Celestine V (Pietro del Murrone), Pope (1294) (b. 1215)
1319 Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
1389 Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1350)
1526 Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
1531 Jan Laski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)
1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, second wife of Henry VIII of England, beheaded
1536 Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1601 Costanzo Porta, Italian composer
1610 Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
1637 Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
1647 Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante)
1653 Carel Reyniersz, gov-gen of Neth East Indies
1715 Charles Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
1786 John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712)
1795 James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
1795 Josiah Bartlett, American physician, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729)
1798 William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueler (b. 1722)
1800 French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged
1801 Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings)
1821 Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
1825 Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French political philosopher (b. 1760)
1845 Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney,
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (Scarlet Letter) (b. 1804)
1865 Sengge Rinchen, Qing Dynasty field Marshal KIA (b. 1811)
1872 Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook)
1876 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801)
1885 Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
1890 Gus Kempis, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test)
1895 Jose J Marti y Perez, Cuban independence leader, poet (Versos sencillos) (b. 1853)
1898 William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
1901 Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Rep South-Africa
1903 Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests)
1904 Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
1907 Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
1912 Boleslaw Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
1915 John Simpson Kirkpatrick stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli during World War I (b. 1892)
1918 Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
1922 Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage)
1924 Billy Zulch, cricketer (S Afr batsman scored 2 Test centuries)
1928 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer
1928 Max Scheler, German philosopher
1935 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, French composer
1935 Thomas E Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia, dies in a motorcycle crash (b. 1888)
1940 Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
1942 (Nicoline) Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken)
1943 Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
1945 Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (b. 1889)
1946 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869)
1953 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War
1954 Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange)
1954 Charles Edward Ives, American composer (Unanswered Question) (b. 1874)
1958 Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927)
1958 Bruno Sturmer, composer
1958 Ronald Colman, English actor (Prisoner of Zenda) (b. 1891)
1961 Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue)
1963 Walter Russell, American polymath (b. 1871)
1965 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia)
1965 Tui Malila, world's oldest tortoise
1966 Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773)
1969 Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b. 1901)
1971 Bernard Wagenaar, Neth/US composer
1971 Ogden Nash, American poet (Masquerade Party) (b. 1902)
1975 Li Tobler, Swiss actress (suicide by firearm) (b. 1948)
1978 George Gladstone, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1930)
1983 Jean Rey, Belgian President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
1984 John Betjeman, English poet and Poet Laureate (b. 1906)
1986 Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)
1987 Alice B(radley) Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)
1987 James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
1988 Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1989 Able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem)
1989 CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
1989 E Galgoczi, writer
1989 Robert Webber, actor (Alex-Moonlighting)
1991 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
1991 Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland)
1993 Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter
1993 Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun)
1993 S W Sohoni, cricketer (4 Tests for India)
1994 Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth)
1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (1961-63) (b. 1929)
1994 Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer
1994 Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide (b. 1945)
1996 Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
1997 Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book)
1998 Sosuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
1999 Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901)
2000 Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2001 Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
2002 John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
2002 Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917)
2003 Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981)
2004 Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
2004 Tony Randall, actor (Felix Unger in The Odd Couple)
2005 Henry Corden, American actor and voice artist (b. 1921)
2006 Freddie Garrity, English lead singer from the band Freddie and the Dreamers (b. 1940)
2007 Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
2008 Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928)
2009 Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921)
2009 Nicholas Maw, British composer (b. 1935)
2009 Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
2009 Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
2011 Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician and former Taoiseach (b. 1926)
2012 Robert Boozer, American basketball player
2014 Michael Aldrich, British inventor
2014 Jack Brabham, Australian racing driver and triple Formula 1 world champion
2016 Morley Safer, Canadian American TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
2016 Alan Young, British actor (Wilbur Post - Mr Ed)

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