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1085 King Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo on Moren, Spain back from the Moors.
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther & his followers outlaws.
1522 Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1660 English King Charles II lands in Dover
1661 King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca
1720 "Le Grand St Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1784 Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
1793 Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1809 A group of patriots in Chuquisaca (Today's Sucre) revolt against Joseph Bonaparte's reign, starting the South American Independence War with the Chuquisaca Revolution.
1810 In the May Revolution, Citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the Semana de Mayo. Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day)
1825 American Unitarian Association founded
1837 The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
1862 Battle of Winchester VA
1864 Battle of New Hope Church, GA
1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1868 Aust Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
1870 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec
1876 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
1876 4th Preakness, G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75
1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "HMS Pinafore," opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 20th Preakness, Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 1:50.5
1895 Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1898 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
1899 33rd Belmont, R Clawson aboard Jean Beraud wins in 2:23
1900 Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
1904 38th Belmont, George Odom aboard Delhi wins in 2:06.6
1906 After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
1914 The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1915 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1915 Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0
1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump
1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1925 John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution (Scopes Trial).
1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1934 Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer," premieres
1935 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth in one hour at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
1938 Spanish Civil War, The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1939 Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
1940 German troops conquer Boulogne
1940 Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
1940 The Battle of Dunkirk begins, World War II.
1941 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1941 Ted Williams raises his batting avg over .400 for 1st time in 1941
1943 Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
1943 Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day). The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
1947 Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
1948 30th PGA Championship, Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis
1948 SF receives its 1st telecast
1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1951 NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1953 Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row
1953 At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston, Texas (1st non-commercial educational television station).
1955 First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition.
1955 In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas
1957 "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
1959 Khrushchev visits Angola
1959 Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
1960 George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 "Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances
1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1963 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 16th Emmy Awards, Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
1964 Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses," premieres in NYC
1964 Ground is broken for a new stadium in St Louis
1964 Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut
1965 Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
1965 India & Pakistan border fights
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar & Rob Faado align in Provo
1966 Explorer 32 launches.
1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1966 The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon, Celtic Football Club become the first Scottish, British and northern European team to win the European Cup, beating Inter 2–1 in the Estádio Nacional, in Lisbon, Portugal.
1967 John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
1968 BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich
1968 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill
1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
1968 Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1969 "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating
1969 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1969 Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1970 3rd ABA Championship, Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president
1973 Borussia Minchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Enschede
1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
1973 US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1975 29th NBA Championship, Golden Warriors sweep Wash Bullets in 4 games
1975 Cleve's Dennis Eckersley, debuts shuting out the A's 6-0
1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA American DefenderGolf Classic
1977 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
1977 "Brady Bunch Hour," last airs on ABC-TV
1977 Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977 Liverpool wins 22nd Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1977 Original "Star Wars" movie released
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1979 American Airlines Flight 191 (McDonnell Douglas DC-10) crashes on takeoff from O'Hare International Airport, Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground
1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1979 Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
1979 Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears from the street just two blocks away from his New York home, prompting an International search for the child, and causing President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25th as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1980 "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
1981 Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)
1981 Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1981 Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits
1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1982 Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1982 STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
1983 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
1983 France performs nuclear test
1983 Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs
1984 Det Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins
1984 Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner
1985 Allan Border scores 4th successive 1st class 100 (v Derbyshire)
1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 7,000,000 Americans form "Hands Across America" from California to NY
1986 30,000,000 watch "Live Aid," a massive benefit concert
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
1986 KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1986 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1986 Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia
1988 PSV wins Europe Cup
1989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
1989 Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 Stanley Cup, Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1989 Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35
1991 Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1991 Stanley Cup, Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minn North Star, 4 games to 2
1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
1992 NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected president of Italy
1994 Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci not nominated
1995 The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1997 Bell Atlantic Senior Golf Classic
1997 David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Fort Worth Texas
1997 Indianapolis 500 race
1997 Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform #
1997 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Classic
1997 Todd & Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father & son to win 100 games
1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611, A Boeing 747-200, breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2003 Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
2007 The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.
2009 North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests bulding tensions in the international community.
2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
2012 Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province
2012 New Jersey Devils beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 2 in the NHL Eastern Conference Finals
2013 17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan
2013 Bayern Munich beats Borussia Dortmund 2-1 at London in the 21st UEFA Champions League Final
2013 Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80
2014 Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania
2014 Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine
2014 Ryan Hunter-Reay wins the Indianapolis 500 in 2:40:48.2305 (300.244 km/h)
2014 "Winter Sleep" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan wins the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival

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1048 Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 Emperor Suko (d. 1398)
1458 Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1494 Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Sepulture of Christ)
1550 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint
1606 Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1688 Christian August Jacobi, composer
1713 John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1760-63) (d. 1792)
1725 Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1726 Giuseppi Paolucci, composer
1729 Jean de Neufville, Dutch/US merchant (started 4th English war)
1767 Ferdinand Franzl, composer
1767 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer
1779 Henry M Baron de Kock, Dutch officer/politician
1781 Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/gov-gen (Sicily)
1783 Philip Pendleton Barbour, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1841)
1803 Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (Concord Hymn) (d. 1882)
1818 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian (d. 1897)
1821 Diederich Krug, composer
1830 Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
1839 John Eliot, English meteorologist
1845 Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
1845 William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)
1846 Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
1846 Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
1847 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer
1847 John Alexander Dowie (Elijah the Restorer), US, evangelist
1848 Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher (d. 1924)
1852 William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
1856 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
1860 James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1865 Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
1865 John (Raleigh) Mott, American YMCA leader (recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1946) (d. 1955)
1865 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect) (Nobel Prize laureate 1902) (d. 1943)
1877 Billy Murray, American singer (Denver Nightengale) (d. 1954)
1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American entertainer (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel) (d. 1949)
1879 (W) Max(well) Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (d. 1964)
1880 Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 Harry Fox, entertainer
1882 Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1886 Philip Murray, Scottish-born labor leader, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) (d. 1952)
1886 Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1887 Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
1888 Miles Malleson, English actor (Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock) (d. 1969)
1889 Gilardo Gilardi, composer
1889 Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor, pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft (d. 1972)
1889 Sverre Jordan, composer
1891 Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
1892 Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later president (d. 1980)
1894 Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Verschaeve Gives Evidence)
1896 Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
1897 Alan Kippax, cricketer (22 Tests for Australia 1924-34, brilliant bat)
1897 Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
1898 Bennett Cerf, American publisher (Random House), TV personality (What's My Line) (d. 1971)
1898 Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
1898 Gustav Regler, writer
1898 Mischa Levitzki, composer
1899 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1900 Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
1901 Milenko Zivkovic, composer
1902 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer
1903 Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
1904 Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer
1905 Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Adv of Marco Polo, Diamond Jim)
1905 Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
1907 Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs)
1907 U Nu, Burmese politician, premier (1948-58, 1960-62) (d. 1995)
1908 David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
1908 Theodore Roethke, American poet (Words for the Wind) (d. 1963)
1909 Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1909 Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
1910 Ernest Anderson, publicist
1912 Eddie Maxwell, singer (Yes We Have No Bananas)
1912 Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 Joseph Peter Grace, businessman
1913 Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1915 Daniel Wolf, journalist
1916 Lou van Rees, Dutch impresario [or May 29]
1916 Virginia Ginny Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band)
1917 Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
1917 Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist
1917 Steve Cochran, American actor (Mozambique, Gay Senotiys, Dallas) (d. 1965)
1917 Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian
1918 Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
1918 Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
1919 Gino Negri, composer
1919 Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
1921 Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter(Promises Promises-Grammy 1969)
1921 Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
1922 Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
1923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places)
1924 István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 Aldo Clementi, composer
1925 Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
1925 Jeanne Crain, American actress (Man Without a Star) (d. 2003)
1925 Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
1926 Claude Akins, Nelson GA, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
1926 Kitty Kallen, rocker
1927 Robert Ludlum, American writer (Bourne Identity) (d. 2001)
1928 Frigyes Hidas, composer
1928 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant
1929 Beverly Sills (Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman), American soprano (d. 2007)
1929 David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
1929 Warren Frost, American actor
1931 Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
1931 Georgi Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
1931 Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
1931 John Gabriel, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Cat Gang, Fantasies)
1932 Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
1932 John Gregory Dunne, American writer (Up Close & Personal, True Confessions) (d. 2003)
1932 K. C. Jones, Professional basketball player and coach (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 W. P. Kinsella, Canadian writer
1933 Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
1933 Ray Spencer, English footballer
1933 Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob, Petulia)
1934 David J Burke, Liverpool England, writer
1934 Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
1935 Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1935 Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
1936 Rusi Surti, cricketer (Indian slow lefty, hat-trick for Qld 1969)
1936 Tom T. Hall, American country singer and songwriter (Harper Valley PTA)
1938 Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1938 Raymond Carver, American writer (Furious Season) (d. 1988)
1939 Dixie Carter, American actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
1939 Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)
1941 Vladimir Voronin, President of Moldova
1942 Bill Young, rocker
1942 Brian "Blinky" Davison, rocker
1943 Jessi Colter, American singer
1943 John "Poli" Palmer, British musician (Family)
1943 Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots)
1943 Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
1943 Wynand C Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician
1944 Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director (Sesame St, Muppet Show)
1944 John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
1944 Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1944 Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
1944 Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate
1945 Dave Lee Travis, DJ
1946 David A. Hargrave, RPG designer
1946 Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner (1968 Olym Gold)
1946 Janet E(llen) Morris, US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus)
1946 Tommy Cecil, ferryman
1947 Jessi Colter (Miriam Johnson), Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
1947 Karen Valentine, American actress (Love American Style, Room 222)
1947 Mitch Margo, Bkln, rocker (Tokens)
1948 Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1948 Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1949 Jamaica Kincaid (Elaine P Richardson), Antiguan-born novelist, journalist (NYer)
1949 Lalith Kaluperuma, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1982)
1951 Bob Gale, American screenwriter
1951 Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1952 Al Sarrantonio, American writer
1952 Gordon Smith, American politician and U.S Senator from Oregon
1952 Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
1953 Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
1953 Donald Albert Weibring Jr, Quincy IL, PGA golfer (1979 Quad Cities)
1953 Eve Ensler, American playwright
1953 Jane Priest, Perth Australia, Prince Charles' lover
1953 Rich Alves, Pleasanton California, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1953 Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
1954 Alison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern (Private Parts)
1955 Alistair Burt, British politician
1955 Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress (Hotel, Capt America II)
1956 David P. Sartor, American music composer
1956 Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
1956 Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
1956 Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler (WAR/NJPW)
1957 Edward Lee, American writer
1957 Hillary Bailey Smith, Boston MA, actress (Nora-One Life to Live)
1957 Robert Picard, French Canadian ice hockey player
1958 Aikaterini Batzeli, Greek politician
1958 Carrie Newcomer, American folksinger
1958 Claus Minah, singer (Scorpions)
1958 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How World Begun)
1958 Klaus Meine, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
1958 Paul Weller, British musician, guitarist (Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council)
1959 Cathryn Harrison, London England, actress (Old Woman in Black Moon)
1959 Julian Clary, British television personality
1959 Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
1959 Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 Amy Klobuchar, American politician and U.S Senator from Minnesota
1960 Anthea Turner, British television personality
1961 Hiro Saito, wrestler (All-Japan/NJPW/Calgary)
1962 Amy Read, Birmingham MI, golfer (1994 Healthsouth Palm Beach-15th)
1962 Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Zulqarnain, cricketer (last person in alphabetical order to play Test)
1963 Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian (Austin Powers, SNL, Wayne's World)
1964 David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
1965 George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
1965 Mark Knight, California, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1965 Remco Prins, Dutch rock guitarist/vocalist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1965 Roef-Ragas, Dutch actor (Missing Link, Red Rain, Juju, Mykosch)
1965 Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria high jumper (world record 1987)
1966 Bill Haselman, Long Branch NJ, catcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 Dave Hollins, Buffalo NY, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1966 Melissa McNamara, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1991 Stratton Mt Classic)
1966 Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1967 Danny Gonzales, jockey
1967 Juan Jimenez, WLAF quarterback/receivers coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1967 Luc Nilis, Belgian soccer player (RSC Anderlecht/PSV)
1967 Poppy Z. Brite, American author
1967 Ruthie Bolton, McClain Miss, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Debbi Miho Koyama, LPGA golfer (1995 US Women's Open-28th)
1968 Kendall Gill, American basketball player, NBA guard and forward (NJ Nets)
1968 Nathalie Schneyder, SF California, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Shawn Bouwens, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Anne Heche, American actress (Donnie Brasco, Juror, Volcano)
1969 Glen Drover, Canadian guitar player (Megadeth)
1969 Matt Borlenghi, LA California, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children)
1969 Stacy London, American fashion consultant
1970 Danni Roche, Melbourne VIC Australia, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 Heather Simmons-Carrasco, Mt View Ca, synchro swimmer (Oly-alt-96)
1970 Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1970 Joey Eischen, American baseball player, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1970 Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American twin actresses (Carrie - Little House on Prairie)
1970 Michael B Enyaer, writer (Pilot One)
1970 Robert Croft, cricketer (Glamorgan off-spinner, England 1996-)
1970 Sandra Dopfer, Lustenau Austria, tennis star (1995 Futures-Lerida)
1970 Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
1971 Alan Kline, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
1971 Justin Henry, American actor (Kramer vs Kramer, 16 Candles)
1971 Keith Hamilton, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1971 Larry Thompson, CFL/NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks, BC Lions)
1971 Marco Cappato, Italian politician
1971 Tim Kroeker, Chilliwack BC, 110m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1972 Antonio Lang, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 Octavia Spencer, American actress
1972 Tony Ronaldson, Adelaide SA Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1973 Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
1973 Demetri Martin, American comedian
1973 Duncan Free, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 Earl Mackey, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Jeff Smith, NFL/WLAF corner (Scotland Claymores/KC Chiefs)
1973 Josee Corbeil, Pointe-Claire Quebec, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1973 Maria Jose Gaidano, Buenos Aires Arg, tennis star (1993 Belgium doubles)
1973 Molly Sims, American model and actress
1973 Racquel Spurlock, WNBA center (Houston Comets)
1974 Dennis Stallings, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 Frank Klepacki, American musician
1974 Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player
1975 Adam Saathoff, Tuscon Ariz, running target (Olympics-1996)
1975 Lauryn Hill, American singer-songwriter (The Fugees, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
1976 Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
1976 Ethan Suplee, American actor
1976 Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
1976 Tarik Glenn, American football player, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1977 Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
1978 Brian Urlacher, American football player
1979 Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer
1979 Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice-hockey player
1979 Jonny Wilkinson, English international and Newcastle Falcons rugby player
1979 Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
1980 David Navarro, Spanish footballer
1980 Jae Hee, South Korean actor
1980 Joe King (guitarist), Co-founder and guitarist for The Fray
1981 Michalis Pelekanos, Greek footballer
1982 Adam Boyd, English footballer
1982 Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
1982 Jason Kubel, American baseball player
1982 Luke Webster, Australian rules footballer
1982 Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
1983 Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
1984 Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
1984 Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer
1984 Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
1984 Shawne Merriman, American football player
1984 Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
1985 Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
1986 Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
1986 Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
1986 Lauren Crace, English Actress
1986 Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
1987 Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
1987 Yves De Winter, Belgian goalkeeper
1990 Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
1993 Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets

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615 Boniface IV, Pope (608-15)
709 Aldhelm of Ealdhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, poet, saint (b. c. 639)
735 Bede, English historian and monk (b. c. 672 or 673)
946 Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England (939-46)
967 Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
992 Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. c. 935)
1085 Gregory VII (Ildebrando), Pope (1073-85)
1125 Hendrik V, last Salische German king
1261 Alexander IV (Rinaldo dei conti di Segni), Pope (1254-61)
1452 John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1510 Georges d'Amboise, French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy
1555 Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer (b. 1508)
1555 Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1595 Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
1632 Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1741 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
1765 Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer
1786 Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
1789 Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1797 John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
1805 William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1826 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
1848 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
1849 Andreas Michiels, Dutch milt gov of West Sumatra
1849 Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1862 Johann N Nestroy, Aust actor (Einmal Keine Sorgen Haben)
1895 Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice
1899 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French painter
1899 Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
1912 Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1914 Paolo Giorza, composer
1916 Jack Marsh, cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03)
1917 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
1917 Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
1919 Madame C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (cosmetics) (b. 1867)
1924 Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1924 Theodore Morse, composer
1926 Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (pogroms), assassinated (b. 1879)
1927 Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
1930 Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death) (b. 1874)
1935 Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
1936 Jan Levoslav Bella, composer
1937 Henry O Tanner, artist
1940 Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
1942 Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American Cellist (b. 1902)
1943 Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
1949 Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
1951 Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1958 Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa)
1964 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
1965 Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)
1968 Charles K Feldman (Gould), producer (Casino Royale)
1968 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites
1971 Mark Brunswick, composer
1971 Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
1974 Donald Crisp, actor/director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol)
1974 Frank Ward, cricketer (4 Tests for Australia 1936-38)
1974 Pam Morrison, wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose
1977 Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1979 John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
1981 Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1981 Rosa Ponselle, US singer (Metropolitan Opera)
1981 Roy Brown, American boxer/rocker
1982 Larry J Blake, actor (Earth vs the Flying Saucers)
1983 Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
1983 Idris I, Libyan King (b. 1889)
1983 Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1983 Sydney Box, academy award producer
1984 Piet Ketting, Dutch pianist/conductor/composer
1985 Harold Hecht, choreographer
1985 Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie)
1986 Chester Bowles, American politician, senator, ambassador (b. 1901)
1988 Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1990 Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice)
1991 Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer
1992 Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock
1992 Marshall Thompson, US actor (To Hell & Back)
1992 Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstein-Rhoda)
1992 Philip C Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia)
1992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist
1993 Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi)
1993 Louise Tazewell, entertainer
1994 Eric Gale, guitarist
1994 Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
1995 Dany Robin, French actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta) (b. 1927)
1995 Dick Curless, singer/songwriter
1996 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA
1996 Brad(ley) Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
1996 Buck, dog (Married with Children)
1996 David W Howe, test pilot
1996 Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist,
1996 John Morrison, politician/landowner
1996 Laurence Marks, journalist
1996 Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (b. 1929)
1997 Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54)
2000 Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
2002 Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2003 Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
2004 Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
2005 Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
2005 Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
2005 Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
2005 Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
2005 Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2006 Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
2007 Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
2008 J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)
2008 Tero "Camu Tao" Smith, American rapper and producer (b. 1977)
2009 Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
2010 Alan Hickinbotham, Australian businessman, football player, & football coach (b. 1925)
2010 Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
2010 Gabriel Vargas, Mexican cartoonist (b. 1915)
2010 Michael H. Jordan, businessman and former CEO PepsiCo and CBS Corporation (b. 1936)
2010 Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (b. 1914)
2010 Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African opera singer (b. 1975)
2011 Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer (b. 1944)
2012 Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
2013 Marshall Lytle, American Rock bassist
2014 Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general & President
2016 Yang Jiang, Chinese writer (Six Chapters From My Life ‘Downunder’)

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