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451 The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
961 German King Otto II crowned
1135 Alfonso VII of León and Castile was crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of All the Spains".
1293 An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1538 Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1596 England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1637 A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans, Pequot War.
1647 Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
1670 In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.
1736 Battle of Ackia (La), British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
1770 The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1781 Bank of North America incorporates in Philadelphia
1783 A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut to celebrate the end of the American Revolution.
1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805 Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1805 Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1822 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1824 Brazil is recognized by US
1828 Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830 The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
1857 Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
1861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia
1864 Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas, American Civil War.
1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
1868 The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1869 Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1874 2nd Preakness, William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56.5
1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
1879 Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1883 11th Preakness, G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42.5
1884 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours
1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state
1889 Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
1894 Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1896 1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1896 Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94).
1896 James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
1898 32nd Belmont, F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32
1898 SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities
1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms
1906 Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1907 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
1908 At Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
1911 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
1913 Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate.
1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
1917 A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 people and injuring 689. It is the world's longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles.
1917 Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
1918 Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
1918 The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1922 Lenin suffers a stroke
1923 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run
1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1924 German government of Marx resigns
1924 Pres Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
1925 Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139)
1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
1928 A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
1928 The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece.
1930 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
1933 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms
1933 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards
1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
1936 1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends
1936 In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
1938 The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US, Vought-Sikorsky US-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky
1940 Battle of Dunkirk In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France (Operation Dynamo), World War II.
1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim, African corps vs British army, World War II
1943 1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
1944 82nd Airborne div D-day-landing at La Haye du Puits to Ste Mere Eglise
1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
1946 2-for-42 & hitting .048 for 1946, Mel Ott stops playing baseball
1946 Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague
1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
1948 The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1951 Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress," premieres in London
1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1955 "7th Heaven" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 44 performances
1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
1956 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
1959 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix retires the first 36 Milwaukee Braves batters to face him, only to lose his bid for a perfect game in the 13th inning.
1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
1962 "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 perfs
1963 15th Emmy Awards, Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1963 Organization of African Unity forms
1963 Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a doubleheader
1964 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 perfs
1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
1965 Revised Intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1969 Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal)
1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, Tupolev TU-144, makes its 1st appearance, becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
1972 The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.
1972 The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution
1973 Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1
1973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28)
1973 Funky Worm by Ohio Players hits #15
1973 Super Fly Meets Shaft by John & Ernest hits #31
1973 Tippett's 3rd Piano sonata, premieres
1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
1974 Joanne Carner wins Hoosier LPGA Golf Classic
1975 Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
1977 George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1979 Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45
1980 Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
1980 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
1981 Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1982 Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam
1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor & Coventry were hit in Falkland war
1983 29th Walker Cup, US, 13½ 10½
1983 A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
1983 Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
1983 LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
1983 NASA launches Exosat
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
1984 Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die
1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
1985 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1986 The European Community adopts the European flag.
1987 Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
1987 William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA
1988 Stanley Cup, Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1989 Arsenal win the First Division league title against Liverpool, with a goal from Michael Thomas in the last minute of the last game of the season.
1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio
1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1990 Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
1991 Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1991 Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
1991 Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1992 Carlos Martinez hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a HR
1992 Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California and is held hostage for a ransom of $650,000 in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour
1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 14th time
1993 Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head & goes over fence for a home run
1993 Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich
1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 66 perfs
1996 Indianapolis 500 race
1996 Laura Davies wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
1996 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1997 Sammy Sosa (Cubs) & Tony Womack (Pirates) hit inside the park HRs
1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs Pres Clinton
1998 The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2002 Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
2003 Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
2004 The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2006 The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
2009 Pittsburgh Penguins beat Carolina Hurricanes, 4 games to 0 in the NHL Eastern Conference Final 2012 A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink
2012 Loreen for Sweden wins the 57th Eurovision Song Contest singing "Euphoria" in Baku
2012 Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents
2013 "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" directed by Abdellatif Kechiche wins the Palme d'Or at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The two main actresses in the film, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux also awarded
2013 Golfer Matteo Manassero wins the BMW PGA Championship
2013 Indianapolis 500: Tony Kanaan wins in 2:40:03.4181 (301.644 km/h)
2013 The Mumbai Indians defeat the Chennai Super Kings to win the Indian 20/20 Premier League
2014 Protests across Thailand in response to military coup; General Prayuth warns of a crackdown in demonstrations continue
2014 Narendra Modi becomes the 15th Prime Minister of India
2014 World Health Organization confirms that Ebola has reached Sierra Leone
2015 Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA Eastern Conference

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1264 Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici), Italian Pope (1523-34) (d. 1534)
1566 Mohammed III, Ottoman Emperor (1595-1603) (d. 1603)
1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer
1602 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1650 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
1667 Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem) (d. 1754)
1669 Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
1689 Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric (d. 1762)
1700 Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, German evangelist and social reformer (d. 1760)
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
1764 Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
1771 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author
1773 Hans Georg Nageli, composer
1782 Joseph Drechsler, composer
1799 Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (d. 1837)
1806 Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy) (d. 1880)
1822 Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
1825 Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
1835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1846 Arthur Coquard, composer
1850 Christine (Elizabeth C) Poolman, Dutch actress (Stupid force)
1853 Monroe A Althouse, composer
1856 George Templeton Strong, composer
1859 Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
1863 Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
1865 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter, graphic artist, illustrator
1865 Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
1866 John Eigenhuis, writer (Tough Workers)
1867 Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
1867 Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1871 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47)
1873 Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder (New Taalgids)
1873 Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
1876 Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
1877 Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
1877 Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
1883 Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1884 Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
1886 Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), American jazz singer, silent actor (Mamie, Swanee) (d. 1950)
1890 Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits)
1893 Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (Perseus) (d. 1962)
1893 Norma Talmadge, American actress (Sign on Door, Camille) (d. 1957)
1895 Dorothea Lange, American documentary photographer (d. 1965)
1895 Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (Watch on the Rhine, Sphynx) (d. 1971)
1898 Ernst Bacon, composer
1898 Gerard Bertouille, composer
1899 Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
1899 Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian
1899 Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal
1903 Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)
1904 George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
1904 Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
1905 Hans Holewa, composer
1907 Carleton Young, NY, actor (Reefer Madness, Pride of the Bowery)
1907 Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
1907 John Wayne, American actor (Green Berets, True Grit) (d. 1979)
1908 Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
1908 Robert Morley, English actor (High Road to China, African Queen) (d. 1992)
1909 Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969)
1909 Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
1909 Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
1909 Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (Manchester United) (d. 1994)
1910 Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico
1910 Laurance S Rockefeller, NYC, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
1911 Ben Alexander, American actor (Dragnet, Outer Gate, Mr Doodles Kicks Off) (d. 1969)
1912 Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
1912 János Kádár, Prime minister of Hungary (1956-58) (d. 1989)
1913 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician
1913 Peter Cushing, English actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who) (d. 1994)
1913 Robert Shaw, town planner
1914 Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1914 Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer (d. 2009)
1915 Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
1915 Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
1916 Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1916 Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
1917 Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary (d. 2009)
1918 Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
1919 Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger)
1919 Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist
1920 Jack Cheetham, cricketer (South African batsman, Test capt early 50's)
1920 Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
1921 Frank Mooney, cricketer (dependable wicket-keeper for NZ in 13 Tests)
1923 Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick)
1923 James Arness, American actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing)
1923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)
1923 Roy Dotrice, British actor (Wizard)
1924 Cooper Evans, (Rep-R-IA, 1981-87)
1925 Alec McCowen, English actor (Never Say Never Again)
1926 Dirch Passer, Danish actor
1926 Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer
1926 Miles Davis, American jazz bandleader, trumpeter and composer (d. 1991)
1926 Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
1927 Jacques Bergerac, France, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun)
1928 Jack Kevorkian, Former American pathologist and right-to-die advocate
1929 Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
1930 Karim Emami, Iranian Translator (d. 2005)
1932 Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
1934 Abdulah M "Dulah" Omar, South African attorney/UDF-leader
1935 Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
1937 Yehuda Yannay, composer
1938 Jackie Liebesit, rocker (Can)
1938 Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
1938 Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess
1938 Teresa Stratas (Anastasia Stratakis), Canadian soprano (Salome)
1938 William Elden Bolcom, American composer (Oracles)
1939 Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster (CBS-TV)
1939 Gerald Ronson, English multi-millionaire
1939 Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader
1940 Levon Helm, American musician (The Band), (d. 2012)
1940 Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician
1941 Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player
1941 Imants Kalnins, composer
1941 John Kaufman, sculptor
1941 Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)
1942 Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Spiritual Leader
1942 Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1943 Erica G Terpstra, Olympic swimmer, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee (VVD)
1944 Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author
1944 Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
1945 Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
1945 Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician
1946 Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
1946 Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach.
1947 Glenn Turner, cricketer (masterful NZ opening batsman)
1947 Piers Gray, critic/writer
1947 Sherry Bain, California, actress (Pipe Dreams)
1948 Geoff Greenidge, cricketer (no relation to Gordon, WI opener 1972-74)
1948 Stevie Nicks, American rocker and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac, Bella Donna)
1949 Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Raiders) [or Dec 25]
1949 Dayle Haddon, Montreal Quebec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes)
1949 Hank Williams Jr., American country singer (Honky Tonk)
1949 Joe Alaskey, American voice actor
1949 Pam Grier, American actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough)
1949 Philip Michael Thomas, American actor (Miami Vice)
1949 Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
1951 Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
1951 Muhammed Ahmad Faris, Syria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3)
1951 Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G) (d. 2012)
1952 David Meece, Christian musician
1953 Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1953 Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
1954 Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)
1954 Marian Gold, German singer (Alphaville)
1955 Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979)
1955 Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1955 Wesley Walker, American football player
1956 Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
1957 François Legault, French Canadian politician
1957 Kristina Olsen, American musician
1957 Margaret Colin, American actress (Independence Day, Three Men & a Baby)
1957 Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
1957 Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver
1959 Beverly Lee, rocker
1959 Brian Peaker, London Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1959 Nancy White-Brophy, Montague PEI, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's-25th)
1959 Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer
1959 Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1959 Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
1960 Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver
1960 Rob Murphy, American baseball player
1961 Stephen Robert Pate, Ventura CA, PGA golfer (1987 Southwest Classic)
1961 Tarsem Singh, Indian film director
1962 Bob(cat) Goldthwait, American actor, comedian (Police Academy)
1962 Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
1962 Genie Francis, American actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence)
1963 Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)
1963 Eddie Martin Jr, jockey
1964 Argiris Pedoulakis, Greek basketball coach and former player
1964 Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer
1964 Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager (Texas Rangers)
1964 Lenny Kravitz, American musician
1965 Greg Lloyd, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 Hazel Irvine, British television presenter
1965 Jacqueline Mary Nelson, Upper Hutt NZ, points race cyclist (Oly-96)
1966 Anthony Edwards, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1966 Billy Downes, Camden NJ, Nike golfer (1994 New England Classic)
1966 Grant Bradburn, cricketer (son of Wynne NZ off-spinner 1990)
1966 Helena Bonham Carter, English actress (Fight Club, Howards End)
1966 Zola Budd, South African athlete, track star (Oly-1988)
1967 Igor Zemlyanoy, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1967 Jean Bartholomew, Queens NY, LPGA golfer (1989 Duke U Champ)
1967 Kevin Moore, American musician (OSI)
1967 Phil Doyle, Australian writer
1968 Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1968 Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director
1968 Frederik, Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark
1968 Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler
1968 Rachael Sporn, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 Steve Sedgley, English footballer
1969 John Baird, Canadian politician
1969 Musetta Vander, South African actress
1970 Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
1970 Sam Mack, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets, Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 Sebastian Barrie, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1971 Darwin Ireland, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1971 Lewis Capes, WLAF defensive tackle (London Monarchs)
1971 Matt Stone, American animator and filmmaker
1971 Steven Rice, Kitchener, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)
1971 Timothy Allen, British photojournalist
1972 Patsy Palmer, British actress
1974 Kelly Jones, Welsh Musician
1974 Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
1975 Christopher Lindsey Donaldson, Dunedin NZ, 100m/200m runner (Oly-96)
1975 Nicki Aycox, American actress
1975 Travis Lee, American baseball player, 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Benji Gregory, Encino California, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
1976 Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 Kenny Florian, American Mixed Martial Artist
1976 Markus Wieland, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1976 Scott Humphries, Greely Colo, tennis star (1995 doubles Binghampton)
1977 Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1977 Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
1977 Misaki Ito, Japanese actress and model
1977 Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
1977 Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
1978 Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
1979 Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler
1979 Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1979 Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player
1981 Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1981 Isaac Slade, American musician (The Fray)
1981 Jason Manford, British comedian
1981 Robert Copeland, Australian Australian rules footballer
1982 David Reed, British writer and comedian
1982 Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
1987 Bangs Garcia, Filipina actress
1987 Josh Thomas (comedian), Australian comedian
1988 Joel Selwood, Australian footballer
1990 Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
1991 Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress
1996 Austin Michael Luciano, actor (Dante Carlino-Another World)

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604 Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, apostle of England
735 Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian
818 Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
1055 Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21) (b. 1389)
1512 Bajezid II, governor of Amasja, 8th sultan of Turkey
1536 Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 Philippus Nerius (Filippo Neri), Italian churchman, merchant, saint (b. 1515)
1609 Cornelis Claesz, mapmaker, buried
1647 Alse Young, American "witch"
1648 Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 Samuel Pepys, English marine expert and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
1753 Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies
1762 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1814 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
1818 Manuel Rodríguez, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. (b. 1785)
1818 Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
1824 Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1831 Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1831 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
1832 Francois-Louis Perne, composer, dies at 59
1840 Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1864 Ch Sealsfield, writer
1868 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
1871 Aime Maillart, composer
1873 August Conradi, composer
1876 Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP
1880 John Curwen, composer
1881 Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1883 Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1891 Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer
1902 Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1905 Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
1907 Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indies theologist, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
1912 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea)
1914 Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and social reformer (b. 1849)
1924 Johann Heinrich Beck, composer, dies at 67
1924 Victor Herbert, Irish composer, cellist, conductor (b. 1859)
1926 S V Petlura, Ukrainain ataman, assassinated by Shalom Schwarzbard
1933 Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 Jimmie Rodgers, American country singer (b. 1897)
1939 Charles H(orace) Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1939 Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies
1943 Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (b. 1864)
1943 Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Company) (b. 1893)
1944 C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies
1944 Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp (b. 1885)
1946 Friedrich A H von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies
1948 Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
1950 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
1951 Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist, artic explorer (b. 1880)
1952 Damaso Alonso, Spanish linguistic/poet (Hombrey Dios)
1954 Franz Pfemfert, writer
1954 Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1918)
1956 Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334
1959 Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA)
1959 Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids)
1963 Sharon Lynn, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
1966 Don Castle, actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed)
1966 Neal Dodd, actor (Only Women, You Belong to Me)
1967 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician
1967 George E Stone, actor (5 Star Final, Front Page)
1968 William E "Little Willie" John, American R&B-singer (Fever) (b. 1937)
1969 Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation) (b. 1889)
1969 Kathryn Minner, entertainer
1969 Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1971 John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol)
1973 Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor
1974 Kitty Gordon, entertainer
1974 Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
1976 Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg) (b. 1889)
1977 Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family)
1977 William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
1978 Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
1979 George Brent, British actor (Baby Face, Dark Victory, 42nd St) (b. 1899)
1989 Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
1991 Tom Cassidy, anchor (CNN)
1991 Tom Eyen, playwright (Dreamgirls)
1993 Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family)
1993 Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage)
1993 Marvin Young, producer/child actor (Player)
1994 George Wildman Ball, under minister of Foreign affairs
1994 Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, American jazz Guitarist
1995 Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester)
1995 Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
1995 Severn Darden, comedian (Second City)
1996 Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician
1996 Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician
1997 Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer
1999 Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
1999 Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
2001 Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2001 Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
2001 Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2002 Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
2004 Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2005 Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
2005 Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2006 Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
2006 Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2007 J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
2008 Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2008 Zita Urbonaite, Lithuanian road cyclist (b. 1973)
2009 Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (d. 1941)
2009 Peter Zezel, Canadian professional hockey player (b. 1965)
2009 Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (b. 1925)
2010 Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (b. 1912)
2010 Christopher Moran, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1956)
2010 Jarvis Williams, American football player (b. 1965)
2010 Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
2010 Kieran Phelan, Irish senator (b. 1949)
2011 Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright (b. 1920)
2013 Jack Vance, American novelist (b. 1916)