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143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
878 Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Sixteen-year-old Otto III German emperor
1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 French crown prince Louis enters England
1260 Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire sends his envoy Hao Jing and two other advisors to the Song Dynasty court of Emperor Lizong of Song; while attempting to negotiate with the Song in order to resolve their conflict, Hao Jing and his fellow emissaries are imprisoned by order of the high Chancellor of China, Jia Sidao.
1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1471 King Edwards IV enters London
1502 Portuguese admiral João da Nova discovers The island of Saint Helena
1526 Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
1554 A royal Charter is granted to Derby School in Derby, England.
1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1809 The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held, Austrian arch duke Karl eventually beats Napoleon.
1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1832 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1840 NZ became a British colony
1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1861 NC is 10th state to secede from Union
1861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1863 Siege of Port Hudson Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana in the American Civil War.
1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1866 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
1871 French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871 Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1878 4th Kentucky Derby, Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37.25
1879 Battle of Iquiquw
1879 Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique, War of the Pacific.
1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
1881 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1886 14th Preakness, S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1891 Boxers Peter Jackson & Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
1892 Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
1894 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1904 The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1906 Louis H Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1914 39th Preakness, Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1917 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 takes place.
1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 Col Ruppert buys out Col Huston interest in NY Yankees for $1,500,000
1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1925 Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
1929 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 Belgian government of Jaspar falls
1932 1st Curtis Cup, US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England)
1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1937 A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1938 Bradman scores 143 Aust v Surrey, 198 mins, 11 fours
1939 The National War Memorial (Canada) was unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 Reynaud forms French government
1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 Aust Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets
1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
1952 Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 French government of Mayer resigns
1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1955 "House of Flowers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 165 performances
1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
1956 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 French government of Mollet resigns
1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1958 United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, subscriber trunk dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
1959 "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
1960 86th Preakness, Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1961 Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1962 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 Fire in Belgium resort, kills 19
1964 US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
1966 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
1966 92nd Preakness, Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1967 "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 14 perfs
1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1968 Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets
1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1972 "Heathen!" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 1 performance
1972 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 39 perfs
1972 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1975 Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 perfs
1977 103rd Preakness, Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1
1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
1980 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from US service acad
1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O’Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
1981 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
1981 Stanley Cup, NY Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1983 "Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 109th Preakness, Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
1988 "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 114th Preakness, Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1990 Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to a unity, merging into Republic of Yemen.
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1991 Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1992 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1994 "Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs
1994 120th Preakness, Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
1994 Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1994 Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen, war breaks out.
1994 Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1995 Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens NY
1996 Ken Griffey Jr, 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1996 The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000.
1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
1998 Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999 All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2001 French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2004 Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential World War III in 1983.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2006 The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England. She is the last surviving clipper.
2012 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
2012 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
2013 Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One
2014 Russian President Putin signs agreements with China in Beijing in relation to trade and infrastructure
2014 José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau
2014 Thai army declared martial law and closes down several news stations
2016 EgyptAir flight MS804 goes missing over the Mediterranean on route Paris to Cairo
2016 Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Afghan Taliban is reportably killed by a US drone in Pakistan

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1471 Albrecht Durer, German Renaissance painter, print maker (d. 1528)
1527 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) (d. 1598)
1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer
1653 Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1664 Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (d. 1754)
1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1688 Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d. 1744)
1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer
1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1755 Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
1775 Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic, prince of Canino, Musignano (d. 1840)
1780 Elizabeth Fry, British nurse, social reformer (d. 1845)
1792 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union) (d. 1876)
1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1900)
1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1865)
1825 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
1827 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 Joseph Parry, composer
1843 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1843 Louis Renault, French lawyer
1844 Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
1850 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, internationalist (Nobel  laureate 1920) (d. 1925)
1853 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1856 José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan president (d. 1929)
1860 Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor (electrocardiograph), Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1863 Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
1864 Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
1865 C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1867 John James Ferris, cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1872 Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
1873 Everard Verachtert, Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
1873 Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
1878 Glenn (Hammond) Curtiss, American aviation pioneer, inventor (hydroplane) (d. 1930)
1878 Louis L H de Visser, Dutch MP (CPN)
1880 Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
1880 Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
1884 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
1885 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d. 1936)
1887 Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
1888 May Aufderheide, composer
1890 Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1892 John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
1893 Arthur Carr, cricket capt (England v Australia 1926)
1893 Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
1898 Armand Hammer, American physician, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum) (d. 1990)
1898 Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (d. 1967)
1898 Karel Haba, composer
1899 Ilse Lagner, writer
1899 Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1901 Horace Heidt, American band leader (Swift Show Wagon) (d. 1986)
1901 Manfred Aschner, German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1989)
1901 Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
1901 Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (Le burlador) (d. 1992)
1902 Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
1902 Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
1903 Manly Wade Wellman, American sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet) (d. 1986)
1903 Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
1904 Fats Waller (Thomas Wright), American jazz pianist, singer, composer (Ain't Misbehavin') (d. 1943)
1904 Robert Montgomery, American actor (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack) (d. 1981)
1905 Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1906 Keith Rigg, cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
1907 John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
1909 François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
1909 Guy de Rothschild, French banker
1912 Akiva Vroman, Dutch-born Israeli geologist and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1989)
1912 John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
1912 Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
1913 Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1916 Harold Robbins, American novelist (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy) (d. 1997)
1916 Joseph Janni, producer
1916 Leonard Manasseh, architect
1916 Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
1917 Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1917 Heather Swift, local councillor
1917 Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
1917 Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla) (d. 1993)
1917 Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
1918 Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
1919 Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
1919 Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
1920 Anthony Steel, British actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse) (d. 2001)
1921 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75) (d. 1989)
1923 Ara Parseghian, American football coach
1923 Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
1923 Bettye Danoff, LPGA golfer
1923 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
1924 Peggy Cass, American actress, TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame) (d. 1999)
1924 Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
1926 Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
1926 Joseph Horovitz, composer
1926 Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
1926 Robert Creeley, American poet, novelist (Island) (d. 2005)
1927 George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
1927 Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
1928 Tom Donahue, American disc jockey (freeform radio) (d. 1975)
1929 Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1929 Paul Winslow, cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 v England 1955)
1929 Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
1930 David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1930 Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, Prime Minister (Liberal, 1975-83)
1930 Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
1931 Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
1931 George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93)
1932 G Wohmann, writer
1932 John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
1932 Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
1933 Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
1933 Maurice André, French trumpeter, (d. 2012)
1933 Yevgeni Minaev, Soviet (Russian) weightlifter (d. 1993)
1934 Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
1934 Phillip King, British sculptor
1935 Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
1936 Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
1936 Günter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel laureate
1938 David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
1938 Urs Widmer, writer
1939 Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician
1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1941 Bobby Cox, Manager of the Atlanta Braves (MLB)
1941 Martin Carthy, English musician
1941 Ronald Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
1942 Danny Ongais, American race car driver
1942 David Hunt, Wales sec of state
1942 Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
1943 Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
1944 Janet Dailey, US, author
1944 Manual Pina, fashion designer
1944 Marcie Blane, rocker
1944 Mary Robinson, President of Ireland (Labour, 1990)
1944 Mike Degett, horse trainer
1945 Ernst Willi Messerschmid, German astronaut (STS 22)
1946 David Hill, Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
1946 Ronald Bear, actor/director (Havana, Make-up)
1947 Bill Champlin, American singer
1947 Dorothy Germain, LPGA golfer
1947 Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
1947 Richard Hatch, Santa Monica California, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Carol Potter, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1948 Leo Sayer (Gerard), English singer (When I Need Love)
1949 Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
1949 Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
1949 Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1951 Al Franken, American comedian and politician (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family)
1952 Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud), American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
1954 Bill Abbott, Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
1954 Marc Ribot, American musician
1954 Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
1955 John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
1955 Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79)
1955 Paul Barber, British field hockey player
1955 Stan Lynch, American drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1956 Sean Kelly, Irish cyclist
1957 Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
1957 Judge Reinhold, American actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 Nadine Dorries, British politician
1957 Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1957 Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 Jefery Levy, American television director
1958 Monte Lynch, cricketer (Surrey batsman, WI Rebel, England ODI player)
1959 Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
1960 Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
1960 Jeffrey Toobin, American writer and political analyst
1960 Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
1960 Mark Kevin Carnevale, Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
1960 Mohanlal, Indian actor
1961 Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1963 Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
1963 Richard Appel, American writer
1963 Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
1964 Annabel Schofield, Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
1964 Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
1964 Danny Bailey, English footballer
1964 Danny Lee Clark, American football player and American Gladiator "Nitro"
1964 Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1964 Tom Harding, Kalamazoo Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Transamerica)
1964 Tommy Albelin, Stockholm Swe, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1966 Lisa Edelstein, American actress
1966 Manon Kelley, Quebec City Canada, actress (Red Lips 2)
1967 Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1967 Cindy Haley, Tyler TX, LPGA golfer (1987 Texas Amateur-2nd)
1967 Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump (Oly-1996)
1967 Todd Doohan, Sarnia Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Western Ont Amateur-92)
1967 Tracy Simien, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1968 Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
1968 Matthias Ungemach, German rower
1969 George LeMieux, American politician and junior senator from Florida
1969 Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian/Georgian journalist
1969 Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
1969 Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1969 Reid Simpson, Flin Flon, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1970 Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
1970 Dorsey Levens, American football player, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Roman Turek, Strakonice CZE, hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep, Oly-98)
1970 Scott "Munnster" Munn, Larkspur California, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
1971 Eric Nies, actor (MTV Real World, Grind)
1971 Jeff Stavroff, Columbus OH, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Space Coast-4)
1972 Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1972 Alesha Oreskovich, American model, playmate (Jun, 1993)
1972 Liliko Ogasawara, Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1972 The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), American rapper (Life After Death), (d. 1997) (d. 1997)
1973 Noel Fielding, British comedian
1974 Fairuza Balk, American actress (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
1974 Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
1976 Aditi Gowitrikar, Indian model, actress and a physician
1976 Deron Miller, American rock musician
1976 Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
1977 Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
1977 Ricky Williams, American football player
1978 Adam Gontier, Canadian singer (Three Days Grace)
1978 Briana Banks, German-American pornographic actress
1978 Jamaal Magloire, Canadian professional basketballer
1978 Kandy Marshall, Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
1979 Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
1979 Gaspard Augé, French DJ
1979 James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
1979 Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament
1979 Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
1979 Scott Smith, American mixed martial arts fighter
1980 Chris Raab, American actor
1981 Belladonna, American pornographic actress
1981 Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
1981 Edson Buddle, American soccer player
1981 Josh Hamilton, American baseball player, MLB
1981 Max(imilian Mutzke), German singer
1982 Brian Klemm, American musician (Suburban Legends)
1984 Brandon Fields, American football player, NFL punter
1984 Lorena Ayala, Spanish-Dutch model and beauty queen
1985 Andrew Miller, American baseball player, MLB
1985 Frustaci Septuplets, California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
1985 Isa Guha, English cricketer & World Cup Winner
1985 Kano, British rapper
1985 Marco Carta, Italian singer
1985 Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
1985 Mutya Buena, English singer (Sugababes)
1986 Alexander Noyes, American drummer for the band Honor Society
1986 Mario Mandžukic, Croatian footballer
1986 Myra, Mexican-American singer
1987 Ashlie Brillault, American actress
1988 Jonathan Howson, English footballer
1991 Sarah Ramos, American actress
1992 Hutch Dano, American actor
1992 Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
1994 Tom Daley, English diver

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987 Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987) (b. 967)
1254 Conrad IV of Germany, RC-German king (1237-54) (b. 1228)
1481 Christian I, king of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1426)
1512 Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena (b. 1452)
1524 Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier (b. 1443)
1542 Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer, dies while searching for gold near Mississippi River
1607 John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher, poet, theologian (b. 1568)
1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet, playwright (Warenar) (b. 1581)
1650 James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged (b. 1612)
1664 Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman (b. 1588)
1670 Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)
1686 (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
1690 John Eliot, English Puritan missionary in Massachusetts (b. 1604)
1703 Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle
1719 Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)
1724 Robert Harley, First Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English Whig-premier (1710-4) (b. 1661)
1742 Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
1771 Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
1786 Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
1790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage) (b. 1728)
1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy
1812 Joseph Wolfl, composer
1815 Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
1844 Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775)
1860 Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer
1862 John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
1879 Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer
1894 August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt) (b. 1839)
1894 Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
1895 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer) (b. 1819)
1897 Karol Mikuli, composer
1911 Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
1915 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
1919 Victor A D Segalen (Max Anely), French ship's doctor, writer
1919 Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
1920 Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
1924 Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb
1926 Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer
1926 Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger)
1929 Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
1929 V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879)
1933 John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer)
1935 Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung
1935 Jane Addams, American social worker, a founder of ACLU (Nobel laureate 1973) (b. 1860)
1949 Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
1952 John Garfield, American actor (Juarez, Air Force) (b. 1913)
1954 Janos Hammerschlag, composer
1956 Harry Bensley, English rake and Adventurer (b. 1877)
1957 Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1957 Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31)
1964 James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1965 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1966 Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man)
1968 Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist)
1970 E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist and writer (b. 1885)
1970 Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie)
1971 Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother)
1973 Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary)
1973 George Breakstone, actor/director (Great Expectations)
1973 Vaughn Monroe, American singer, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show) (b. 1911)
1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter
1980 Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street)
1981 Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1981 Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
1981 Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar)
1983 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer
1983 Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
1984 Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound)
1984 Ann Little, American actress (Roaring Road) (b. 1891)
1985 Julie Vega, Philippine Actress (b. 1968)
1987 Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
1988 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations
1988 Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
1990 Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field)
1990 Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930
1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
1991 Bobby Dale, dies at 92
1991 Jean Van Joutte, PM of Belgium (1952-54)
1991 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984-91), assassinated (b. 1944)
1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter
1992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer
1992 Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
1992 Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People)
1993 John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944)
1993 John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain)
1994 Cliff Wilson, snooker player
1994 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer
1994 Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88)
1994 John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter
1995 Kieron Walsh, academic
1995 Les Aspin, American politician, US sec of Defense (1993-95) (b. 1938)
1995 Patrick Bowles, writer/translator
1996 Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West)
1996 Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
1996 Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist
1996 Lash LaRue, American actor (b. 1917)
1996 Laurence Dowdall, lawyer
1996 Mary Perot Nichols, journalist
1996 Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957)
1996 Peter Fletcher, music teacher
1999 Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
2000 Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
2000 Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
2000 Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
2002 Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
2003 Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)
2003 Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
2005 Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)
2006 Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
2006 Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
2006 Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
2006 Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
2015 Louis Johnson, American bassist and vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
2016 Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
2016 Jim Ray Hart, American baseball player (Giants)

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