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455 A D Gaiseric & The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
575 Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
657 St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1129 Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis
1615 First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1619 England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies
1625 Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1627 English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1692 Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1697 Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
1746 Russia & Austria sign agreements
1763 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
1774 The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1780 The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
1793 Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
1797 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1834 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
1835 P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1851 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1857 James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1862 Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1862 Raid at Early's, Maryland towards Washington DC
1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1864 Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1869 Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)
1873 Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1875 James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1876 Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
1881 Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1883 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
1883 Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 30th Belmont, Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24.5
1896 Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention - the radio, accepted 2 July 1897.
1899 Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings
1901 Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1902 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1903 Netherlands Korfball League forms
1903 Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1904 Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1908 33rd Preakness, Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
1909 43rd Belmont, Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1913 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
1913 Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
1914 Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1922 Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 Snyder Act, US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1925 Because of a lineup revision by Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995. Exactly 16 years later to the day, in 1941, Gehrig passes away from Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
1928 Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1930 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1932 Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres
1933 FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1933 WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1935 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1936 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1940 Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1941 German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari, World War II.
1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1943 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1943 German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
1944 Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
1944 Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
1946 Birth of the Italian Republic, In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled (National Day).
1947 "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
1947 Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1949 Transjordan renamed Jordan
1950 ST Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones
1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in US
1952 Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1953 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, who was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1954 John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1955 The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
1956 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 US TV interviews Khrushchev
1958 Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958 Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1958 Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1959 Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 32nd French Mens Tennis, Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1964 Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1965 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1966 Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
1967 Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
1967 Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1968 Canadians must get government permission to export silver
1968 WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1969 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1971 Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1
1973 "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
1974 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic
1974 Mali adopts constitution
1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect
1975 1st time snow fell in London in June
1975 James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1976 East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1977 NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1980 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1982 "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
1983 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany
1983 Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
1984 Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy
1984 Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines
1984 Operation Bluestar, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6 with causalities, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
1985 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1985 39th Tony Awards, Biloxi Blues & Big River win
1985 Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985 RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1986 NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1987 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
1988 61st Natl Spell Bee, Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1989 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
1989 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
1990 "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1990 Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
1990 The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
1991 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1991 45th Tony Awards, Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win
1991 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
1991 Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
1992 Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
1992 In a national referendum Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin.
1992 Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light"
1994 67th National Spelling Bee, Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
1994 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
1994 Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
1995 John Valentin hits 3 HRs
1995 United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1996 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1996 50th Tony Awards, Master Class & Rent win
1996 51st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1997 Albert Belle's Chic White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
1997 In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168.
1997 Liberals beat Conservatives in France
1998 The CIH computer virus is discovered in Taiwan.
1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan
2004 Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2009 Switzerland officially enters the global recession
2014 Former Liberation Front guerilla fighter Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 69, is sworn in as president in El Salvador
2014 The unity government is sworn into power in Palestine; it agrees to the following: recognition of Israel, compliance to diplomatic agreements, renunciation of violence
2015 100 volunters in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
2015 FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election, amid FIFA's involement in a bribery scandel
2015 US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records.

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926 Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
1504 George/Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1535 Leo XI (Alessandro O de' Medici), Italian Pope (d. 1605)
1577 Giovanni Righi, composer
1614 Benjamin Rogers, composer
1624 Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96)
1715 Herman-Francois Delange, composer
1731 Martha Washington, First American first lady (1789-97) (d. 1802)
1740 Marquis de Sade, French author (Justine), 1st known sadist (d. 1814)
1743 Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
1751 Antoni Weinert, composer
1758 Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer
1759 Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter
1773 John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
1774 William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
1777 Christian Traugott Tag, composer
1802 Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic
1806 Isaac Strauss, composer
1807 Robert Fuhrer, composer
1815 Philip Kearny, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1821 Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
1823 Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
1828 James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
1830 Olivier Metra, composer
1831 Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brigadier General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law
1831 Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
1835 Pius X (Giuseppe Sarto), 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14) (d. 1914)
1838 Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
1840 Thomas Hardy, England, poet, novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) (d. 1928)
1842 Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher
1849 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme)
1857 Edward (William) Elgar, English composer (Pomp & Circumstance) (d. 1934)
1857 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (Poutnici Svetem) (Nobel Prize laureate 1917) (d. 1919)
1858 Harry Rowe Shelley, composer
1863 Paul Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (Zara, Dalmatia) (d. 1942)
1864 Ben Webster, London England, actor (Old Curiosity Shop)
1865 George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
1869 Jack O'Connor, baseball player (d. 1937)
1876 Hakon Borresen, composer
1879 Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
1883 Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author (Lock of Hair)
1887 Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1890 Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry), PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
1891 Ernst Kunz, composer
1891 Takijiro Onishi, Japanese "father of the kamikaze" (d. 1945)
1891 Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
1899 Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
1899 Royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)
1900 David Wynne, composer
1901 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
1904 Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
1904 Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer (100m Oly-5 gold-1924, 28) and actor (Tarzan) (d. 1984)
1907 Dorothy West, American writer (Living is Easy) (d. 1998)
1908 Gordon Weir, cricketer (NZ batsman in 11 Tests 1930-37)
1909 Robin Orr, composer
1911 Xia Hong, writer
1913 Barbara Pym, English romantic author (Very Private Eye) (d. 1980)
1913 Bert Farber, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone)
1913 Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1915 Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992)
1915 Florence Holway, Massachusetts, 75 year old rape victim and activist, (d. 2012)
1915 Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars)
1915 Robert Moffat Palmer, composer
1915 Walter Tetley, American voice actor (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show) (d. 1975)
1917 Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
1917 Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)
1918 Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
1918 Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
1919 Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
1920 Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1920 Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
1920 Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist
1920 Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
1920 Yolande Donlan, NJ, actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess)
1921 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
1922 Charlie Sifford, American golfer
1922 Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1923 Del Simmons, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1924 June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
1926 Milo O'Shea, Irish actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
1927 Andre Vandernoot, Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
1927 Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles)
1927 W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
1928 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher
1929 Alcides Lanza, composer
1929 Frederic Devreese, composer
1929 Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player
1929 Norton Juster, American author and architect
1929 Willaim Brown, television executive
1930 Bob Lillis, baseball player
1930 Charles Pete Conrad Jr, Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)
1930 Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
1931 Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
1931 William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
1932 Barry Levinson, Baltimore MD, director (Rainman)
1932 Sammy Turner, American singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
1932 Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovyanov, cosmonaut
1933 Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orchestra leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
1933 Jerry Lumpe, baseball player
1934 Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (Give your baby a standing ovation) (d. 2009)
1935 Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
1935 Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
1935 Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
1936 Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School)
1936 Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68)
1937 Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter
1937 Sally Kellerman, American actress
1938 Frits Wols (Eugene W Wong Loi Sing), Suriname sec-gen (UNESCO)
1938 Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger (NY Yankees)
1938 Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
1939 Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist (War)
1940 Christopher Bernau, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Guiding Light)
1940 Constantine II, deposed King of Greece (1964-73)
1940 Horace Clarke, baseball 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1940 Jim Maloney, baseball pitcher
1940 King Constantine II of Greece
1941 Charlie Watts, English musician, drummer (The Rolling Stones)
1941 Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006)
1941 Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist (Green Gulch Zen Center)
1941 Stacy Keach, American actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer)
1941 William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1942 Maree Cheatham, American actress (Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light)
1943 Charles Haid, American actor (Andy Renko-Hill St Blues, Altered States)
1943 Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
1943 John Lilipaly, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1943 Maarten B Engwirda, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66)
1944 Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1944 Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and pianist (Sting, Chorus Line), (d. 2012)
1944 Poul Jensen, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1945 Bob Benrit, rocker
1945 Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician
1945 Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
1946 Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
1946 Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
1946 Roger Freed, baseball player
1946 Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer
1947 Jan Ferraris, LPGA golfer
1947 Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
1948 Albert Innaurato, Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho)
1948 Jerry Mathers, American actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
1949 Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
1949 Heather Couper, British astronomer
1950 Joanna Gleason, Toronto Canada, actress (Morgan-Hello Larry)
1950 Toni Alessandrini, Chicago Ill, actress (Vice Academy Part 2)
1950 (Antone) Chubby Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1951 Larry Clark Robinson, Canadian hockey player, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Norris-77, 80)
1951 Steve Brookins, rocker (.38 Special)
1952 Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
1953 Craig (Robert) Stadler, American golfer, PGA tour (Masters 1982)
1953 Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
1954 Dennis Haysbert, American actor
1954 Michael Steele, rocker (Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian)
1955 Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
1955 Dana Carvey, American actor and comedian (SNL, Garth-Wayne's World)
1955 Dennis Haysbert, San Mateo California, actor (Code Red)
1955 Gary Grimes, SF, actor (Summer of '42, Class of '44)
1955 Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
1956 Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
1956 Mani Ratnam, Indian director
1956 Mark L Polansky, Paterson NJ, pilot/astronaut
1957 Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker
1957 King Lizzard, American entertainer
1957 Mark Lawrenson, English Football Pundit
1958 Lex Lugar (Lawrence Pfohl], American professional wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA)
1959 Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1959 Lydia Lunch, American singer (Teenage Jesus, Jerks)
1960 Kyle Petty, American race car driver
1960 Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
1961 Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
1961 John Cameroon, guitarist (Claw Boys Claw)
1961 Kerry Junna-Saxby, Australian 10k walker (Olympics-15th-1992, 96)
1962 Darnell Coles, baseball player
1962 Laura Witvoet, Alberta Canada, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning-52nd)
1963 Brian Harvey, baseball umpire (NL)
1963 Jay B Cooper, Coral Gables Fla, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Jamaica)
1963 Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
1963 Tim Balmer, Milwaukee Wis, Canadian Tour golfer (Bermuda Open-1990)
1964 Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
1965 Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
1965 Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
1965 Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
1966 Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
1967 Mike Evans, WLAF DL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 Mike Stanton, baseball player (NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox)
1967 Randy Hilliard, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1968 Beetlejuice, American radio personality, member of Howard Stern's Wack
1968 Jon Culshaw, British comedian
1969 Cy Chadwick, English actor
1969 David Wheaton, Minneapolis Minn, tennis star (1987 US junior boys)
1969 Kurt Abbott, Zanesville OH, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1970 Andy McCollum, American football player, NFL center and guard (New Orleans Saints)
1970 B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
1970 Eric Riley, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 Marty Mcinnis, Weymouth, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1970 Mike Kelly, baseball player
1970 Randy Fuller, NFL defensive back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 Anthony Montgomery, American actor
1971 Katerina Jacques, Czech politician
1971 Martin Suji, cricketer (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1971 Steve Brooks, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy, London Monarchs)
1972 Brad Ottis, tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 Dwayne Joseph, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears)
1972 Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
1972 Renee Heiken, Peoria IL, LPGA golfer (1994 Florida Women's Open)
1972 Simon Staho, Danish film director
1972 Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian (The Wayne Brady Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
1972 Wentworth Miller, American actor
1973 Jayantha Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test left-arm spinner 1995)
1973 Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
1974 Gata Kamsky, American chess player
1974 Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
1974 Tammy Holmes, Berkeley California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1975 Dontae' Jones, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1975 Sally Newmarch, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Adrian Carlos Olivares, Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1976 Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 Earl Boykins, American basketball player
1976 Elly Hutton, Australian 100m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1976 Josef Marha, Havl-brod Cze, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 Martin Cech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1976 Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho
1976 Rachel White, Columbus Nebraska, Miss America-Nebraska (1997)
1976 Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1977 Zachary Quinto, American actor
1978 A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
1978 Dominic Cooper, English actor
1978 Justin Long, American actor
1978 Nikki Cox, American actress (Unhappily Ever After)
1980 Abby Wambach, American Soccer player
1980 Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
1980 Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Strokes)
1981 Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
1981 Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player
1981 Tucker Rountree, American guitarist and composer.
1982 Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish Researcher
1982 Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
1983 Brooke White, American singer
1983 Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
1983 Leela James, American singer-songwriter
1985 Ana Cristina, Cuban American singer, composer, and actress
1987 Darin Zanyar, Swedish Singer
1988 Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
1988 Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
1989 Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
1990 Brittany Curran, American actress
1994 Jemma McKenzie-Brown, British actress
1994 Prima Sellecchia Tesh, daughter of John Tesh & Connie Sellecca

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657 Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7)
829 Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
910 Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia (b. 845)
1418 Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
1564 Gellius Faber (Jelle Smit), Fries theologist
1567 Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain (b. 1530)
1572 Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed
1575 Pieter Aertsen (Long Worm), painter
1581 James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
1597 Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter
1632 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesland
1639 Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician
1678 Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat
1693 John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
1701 Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
1716 Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
1720 Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
1750 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer
1754 Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
1761 Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
1785 Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
1806 William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
1812 John W de Winter, Dutch vice-adm, dies at battle at Kamperduin
1833 Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
1839 Wijnand YY Nuijen, painter/lithographer (Wrecked)
1853 Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
1864 George Pierce Doles, US businessman/Confed brig-general
1865 John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church),
1865 Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
1873 Francois Hainl, composer
1875 Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
1876 Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1848)
1879 E Louis JJ Napoleon Bonaparte, crown prince, dies in battle
1881 Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
1882 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
1896 Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia)
1901 George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
1901 James A Herne (J Aherne), US playwright (Margaret Fleming)
1908 Redvers H Buller, English general
1927 Eduard GHH Cuypers, architect (De Hooge Vuursche)
1927 Freidrich Hegar, composer
1927 Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer
1929 Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889)
1933 Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
1937 Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1940 Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist
1941 Lou Gehrig, American baseball player, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), dies of ALS (b. 1903)
1947 Hermann Darewsky, composer
1948 Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
1948 Karl Gebhardt, German Nazi doctor (b. 1897)
1948 Viktor Brack, German Nazi physician (b. 1904)
1948 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
1948 Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer, physician (b. 1905)
1949 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
1949 Ernest Ford, composer
1950 Stanislas Bizot, French checker player (world champ 1925)
1951 Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier), French philosopher
1951 John Erskine, US writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess)
1956 Jean Hersholt, Danish actress (Emma, Grand Hotel, Greed) and humanitarian (b. 1886)
1961 George S. Kaufman, American playwright, pulitzer prize winner (b. 1889)
1961 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Dutch Comedy)
1962 Franc S Finzgar, Slovic writer (Service Girls)
1962 Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
1967 Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
1967 Zamah Cunningham, actress (Menosha the Magnificent)
1968 André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
1970 Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1970 Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and founder of eponymous race team (b. 1937)
1970 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
1971 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)
1972 Franz Philipp, composer
1974 Elliott Sullivan, actor (Sergeant)
1974 Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
1974 Waldemar F Eric Marx, cricketer (3 Tests South Africa v Aust 1921-22)
1975 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974)
1976 Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time)
1976 Bartoes (Albertus J Wijstma), cabaret performer/comic
1976 Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor (b. 1920)
1977 Forrest Lewis, actor (Great Gildersleeve, Ichabod & Me)
1977 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer
1977 Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur, Lisa) (b. 1931)
1979 Jim Hutton, American actor (Ellery Queen) (b. 1934)
1982 Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
1983 Stan Rogers, Canadian musician, dies in aircraft fire (b. 1949)
1984 Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
1986 Aurèle Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
1986 Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Elegie)
1987 Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1987 Anthony de Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
1987 Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (Sammy Kaye Show) (b. 1910)
1988 Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
1989 Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
1990 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood
1990 Jack Gilford, American actor (Cracker Jacks) (b. 1908)
1990 Rex Harrison, English actor (My Fair Lady) (b. 1908)
1990 Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor), founder (Intel)
1990 Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
1990 Stuart Hall, actor (Cavalcade, Dawn Patrol)
1992 Phillip Dunne, American film director, founder (Screen Writers Guild) (b. 1908)
1993 French JFM of Thiel, Dutch 2nd chamber chairman (1963-72)
1993 Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1994 David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
1996 Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1996 John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
1996 Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
1996 Peter Bird, ocean rower
1996 Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
1997 Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
1998 Sylvester Ritter, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
2000 Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
2000 Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
2001 Frank Stagg, Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
2001 Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
2001 Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
2003 Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
2004 Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
2005 Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
2005 Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and sports official (b. 1930)
2005 Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
2005 Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
2006 Keith Smith, English professional rugby player (b. 1952)
2006 Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2007 Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier (b. 1938)
2007 Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
2008 Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
2008 Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
2009 David Eddings, American fantasy writer. (b. 1931)
2011 Willem Duys, Dutch commentator and music producer (b. 1928)
2012 Kathryn Joosten, american actress
2012 Richard Dawson, English-American actor
2013 Douglas Engelbart, American scientist and inventor
2013 John Gilbert, British politician and Minister (L)
2015 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004)

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