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1002 German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1242 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris
1391 Inhabitants of Seville Spain massacres 5,000 Jews
1508 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.
1513 Battle of Novara (Habsburgers vs Valois), Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored, Italian Wars.
1520 France & England sign treaty of Scotland
1523 Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union (Swedish National Day).
1536 Mexico begins it's inquisition
1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1644 The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established.
1654 Queen Christina of Sweden resigns & converts to Catholicism, cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
1660 Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1664 New Amsterdam renamed NYC
1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
1673 France & Brandenburg sign peace treaty
1674 Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire is coronated.
1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1716 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana
1744 France & Prussia sign peace treaty
1752 A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow. 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks, 1/3 of city destroyed including 18,000 homes.
1772 Haitian explorer Jean Baptiste-Pointe Dusable settles Chicago
1795 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured
1797 Napoleon forms Ligurische Republic
1801 Peace of Badajoz: Spain-Portugal
1808 Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established. Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
1813 Battle of Stoney Creek A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler, US invasion of Canada halted in the War of 1812.
1816 10" snowfall in New England, "year without a summer" (Mount Tambora)
1831 2nd national black convention (Phila)
1832 The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard. The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end.
1833 U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
1844 The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
1850 Levi Strauss make his 1st pair of blue jeans
1857 Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
1859 Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers
1862 Battle of Memphis Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates in the American Civil War.
1862 Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 Skirmish at Harrisonburg, PA
1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA & Williamsport, MD
1864 Battle of Lake Chicot, AR (Dutch Bayou)
1875 Netherlands goes on the gold standard
1882 Electric iron patented by Henry W Seely, NYC
1882 More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay, India are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
1882 The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
1885 19th Belmont, Paul Duffy aboard Tyrant wins in 2:43
1885 Opera "Lakmé" is produced (Paris)
1889 The Great Seattle Fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington (25 blocks).
1890 United States Polo Association forms, NYC
1892 Chicago El begins operation
1894 Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
1896 21st Preakness, Henry Griffin aboard Margrave wins in 1:51
1896 George Samuelson leaves NY harbor to row across Atlantic
1904 National Tuberculosis Association organized, Atlantic City, NJ
1905 French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request
1906 Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
1911 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
1913 Rabbit Maranville, is thrown out trying to steal home 3 times
1914 1st air flight out of sight of land (Scotland to Norway)
1916 Voters in East Cleveland approves women suffrage
1918 Battle of Belleau Wood The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry, 1st US victory of World War I.
1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
1919 The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
1920 Gen Wrangel opens offensive against red Army
1921 Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0
1921 The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
1924 28th US Golf Open, Cyril Walker shoots a 297 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1925 The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler (Lee Iacocca is 8 months old).
1926 Egyptian government of Adly Pasha forms
1931 "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
1931 Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
1932 Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile
1932 Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
1932 US Federal gas tax enacted.  The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
1933 The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
1933 US Employment Service created
1934 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Part of the New Deal).
1934 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
1936 40th US Golf Open, Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1936 68th Belmont, James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30
1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ
1937 Phillies trailing 8-2 to St Louis, forfeit game
1938 Sigmund Freud arrives in London
1939 German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War.
1939 Judge Joseph Force Crater is declared legally dead.
1939 NY Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 HRs in 4th inning
1939 NY supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead
1941 1st navy vessel constructed as mine layer Terror launched
1941 Giants use plastic batting helmets for 1st time
1942 1st nylon parachute jump (Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray)
1942 74th Belmont, Eddie Arcaro aboard Shut Out wins in 2:29.2
1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1942 Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers, Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway in World War II.
1944 Alaska Airlines commences operations.
1944 Baseball cancels all games honoring D-Day invasion
1944 Nazi troops executed 96 prisoners by firing squad
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1944 U-955, U-970, U-629, U-373 sink in Gulf of Biskaje
1944 Battle of Normandy begins, World War II. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied Expeditionary Force troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
1945 "Free People" premieres in Amsterdam
1946 11 Basketball of America Association teams meet to schedule 1st season
1946 Henry Morgan is 1st to take off shirt on TV
1946 Martin Kresses begins publishing "Eric the Viking" comic strip
1946 Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with Argentina.
1946 The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
1947 Treaty drawn for establishment of Intl Patent Institute
1949 "It Pays To Be Ignorant," game Show, debut on CBS-TV
1949 WKY (now KTVY) TV channel 4 in Oklahoma City, OK (NBC) 1st broadcast
1950 German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1950 The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1956 David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1960 South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums
1963 Gasunie established
1964 96th Belmont, Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1964 Beatles arrive in netherlands
1964 Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1965 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive HRs beating White Sox 12-0
1966 Claus Von Bulow & Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966 James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot and wounded while trying to march across Mississippi by white sniper.
1966 NFL & AFL announce their merger
1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1968 Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his record 58th consecutive scoreless inning, a major league record until 1988.
1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.
1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1970 102nd Belmont, John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
1971 "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
1971 John Lennon & Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in NYC
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1971 Soyuz 11 launches, takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, GA (CBN) begins broadcasting
1971 Willie Mays hits record 22nd & last extra inning HR
1972 David Bowie releases "Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust"
1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 US bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam, 1000s killed
1974 47th National Spelling Bee:, Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1974 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1976 30th NBA Championship, Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1976 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1977 "Washington Post" reports US has developed neutron bomb
1977 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic & Concert for United Way
1977 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%
1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1979 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
1980 Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
1981 51st French Womens Tennis, Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
1981 113th Belmont, George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1981 A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 36th Tony Awards, Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby & Nine win
1982 52nd French Mens Tennis, Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
1982 1982 Lebanon War begins, Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
1982 Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic
1983 17th Music City News Country Awards, Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff
1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
1983 Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1983 Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats
1983 Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
1984 The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualties are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. A total death count adds up to almost 6,000.
1985 55th French Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1985 58th National Spelling Bee, Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1985 The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February, 1979.
1986 Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
1987 57th French Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
1987 119th Belmont, Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1987 NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1988 22nd Music City News Country Awards, Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
1988 George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II
1988 Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1990 2nd International Rock Awards
1990 For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game
1990 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as NY Yankee manager
1990 U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law, he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."
1991 Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball
1991 Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store
1991 NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992
1991 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley
1992 62nd French Womens Tennis, Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (62 36 10-8)
1992 124th Belmont, Eddie Delahoussaye aboard AP Indy wins in 2:26
1992 Ben Vereen suffers injuries when hit by a car
1992 David Bowie & model Iman marry in Switzerland
1992 NY Met Eddie Murray sets RBI record by a switch hitter
1992 WLAF World Bowl 2, Sacramento beats Orlando 21-17 (Montreal)
1993 6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1993 47th Tony Awards, Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win
1993 63rd French Mens Tennis, S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63)
1993 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1993 Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections. Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president.
1993 Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala
1994 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
1994 28th Music City News Country Awards, Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
1994 Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
1994 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
1994 Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
1995 1st Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1998 68th French Womens Tennis
1998 130th Belmont
1999 At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
1999 In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
2002 Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
2004 Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
2005 The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
2007 A German man jumps on to the Popemobile in Vatican City, Rome. It is a possible attempt to injure or kill Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope was not injured and Bodyguards wrestled the man to the ground
2012 Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert & Luke Bryan win at the 46th CMT Music Awards
2012 The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
2012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs
2013 American Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged by a US government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia
2013 Kevin Barry's City of Bohane wins the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2015 Barcelona beats Juventus 3-1 at Berlin in the 23rd UEFA Champions League Final
2015 Convicted killers Richard Matt and David Sweat break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York
2015 Golden Horn ridden by Frankie Dettori wins the 236th Epsom Derby
2015 Serena Williams beats Lucie Safarova (6-3, 6-7, 6-2) at the 114th Women's French Open
2015 Victor Espinoza aboard American Pharoah wins the 147th Belmont in 2:26.65, 1st horse in 37 years to win the Triple Crown

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1236 Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
1296 Wladyslaw of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (d. 1352)
1436 Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), German mathematician, prepares astronomical tables (d. 1476)
1502 King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
1519 Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
1542 Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (d. 1591)
1576 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
1580 Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
1606 Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace) (d. 1684)
1622 Claude-Jean Allouez, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d.1857)
1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
1671 Stenka-Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader
1676 Georg Reidel, composer
1695 Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41), killed 8,000 Chinese
1714 King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
1722 Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
1735 Anton Schweitzer, composer
1755 John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1755 Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot (d. 1776)
1755 Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1756 John Trumbull, American painter (Declaration of Independence) (d. 1843)
1765 Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
1772 Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress consort (d. 1807)
1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Literature
1799 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (Eugene Onegin) (d. 1837)
1804 Petter Conrad Boman, composer
1807 Adrien Francois Servais, composer
1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
1813 Israel Washburn, gov (Union) (d. 1883)
1815 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
1819 William Howard Glover, composer
1826 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1888)
1829 Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1840 John Stainer, composer
1840 William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d. 1910)
1842 James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
1844 Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
1847 Gerben Postma, Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
1850 Karl F(erdinand) Braun, German physicist, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel laureate 1909) (d. 1918)
1857 Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
1860 William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
1862 Henry John Newbolt, English author, sea historian (d. 1938)
1867 David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (d. 1931)
1868 Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer, leader of ill-fated south pole expedition (d. 1912)
1869 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
1872 Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
1872 Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
1875 Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel laureate 1929) (d. 1955)
1878 Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
1879 L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
1880 William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
1886 Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
1890 Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
1890 Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
1891 Istvan Kardos, composer
1891 Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright (d. 1986)
1891 Vladislac Vancura, writer
1892 Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
1893 Ludovic Feldman, composer
1894 Sabin V Dragoi, composer
1896 Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran, and supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1896 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
1896 Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
1898 Ninette de Valois (Edris Stannus), Irish ballerina (Royal Ballet) (d. 2001)
1898 Walter Abel, American actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl) (d. 1987)
1900 Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
1900 Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
1901 Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
1901 Sukarno, Indonesian politician (d. 1970)
1902 Avraham Daus, composer
1902 Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
1902 Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
1903 Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Armenian musician and composer (Gayane) (d. 1978)
1905 John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader (Paul Winchell Show)
1906 Max (August) Zorn, German-born mathematician (lemma of Zorn) (d. 1993)
1906 Stefan Andres, writer
1907 Bill Dickey, American baseball player, hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43) and manager (1946) (NY Yankees) (d. 1993)
1909 Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
1909 M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
1910 Ben Aerden (John Mikkelsen), actor (Hamlet)
1910 Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
1913 Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
1913 Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
1915 Vincent Persichetti, American composer (Sibyl) (d. 1987)
1916 Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1917 Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, CEO (MGM, UA)
1917 Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
1918 Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, Nobel laureate
1918 Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights)
1918 Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
1918 Tom Scott, poet/editor
1919 Charles Pringle, British air marshal
1922 Ian Hamilton, composer
1923 V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
1924 Jinyong, Chinese novelist
1924 Serge Nigg, composer
1926 Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (Fidelio) (d. 1998)
1926 Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
1926 Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009)
1928 George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
1929 Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
1929 Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
1929 Viktor Konezki, writer
1930 Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)
1931 Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
1932 Billie Whitelaw, English actress (Omen, Adding Machine)
1932 David R Scott, American astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15)
1933 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope) (Nobel laureate 1986)
1934 Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1934 Albert II, king of Belgium (1993)
1934 Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch)
1934 Roy Innis, American civil rights activist
1935 Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back/wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
1935 Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar
1935 Misja Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist/composer (Reconstruction)
1936 A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician
1936 Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops) (d. 2008)
1938 Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
1939 Ed Giacomin, Canadian hockey player
1939 Gary "US" Bonds (Anderson), American singer and songwriter (New Orleans)
1939 Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician
1939 Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (Reconstruction)
1939 Marian Wright-Edelman, American activist, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund)
1939 Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement)
1940 Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
1940 Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
1940 Phillip Rhodes, composer
1940 Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1940 Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
1941 Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, (d. 2012)
1942 Howie Kane, rocker
1942 Larry "The Mole" Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat)
1942 Sandra Morgan, US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1943 Asif Iqbal, cricketer (elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80)
1943 José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, Mexican jurist
1943 Ken Hatfield, American football coach,  N.C.A.A
1943 Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1944 David Penhaligon, British politician (d. 1986)
1944 Edgar Froese, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
1944 Monty Alexander, Jamaican pianist
1944 Peter Albin, SF California, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
1944 Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1944 Tommie Smith, American track and field athlete
1945 David Dukes, American actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War) (d. 2000)
1945 David E. Bonior, American politician (Rep-D-MI, 1977)
1946 Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln)
1946 Lasse Hallstrom, director (Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA)
1947 Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
1947 David Blunkett, English politician
1947 Marion Coakes, England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 Terry Williams, rocker (First Edition)
1948 Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
1948 Tony Levin, American bassist (King Crimson)
1949 Edgar Warren Williams, composer
1949 Holly Near, American folksinger
1949 Robert Englund, American actor (Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V)
1950 Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle)
1951 Dwight Twilley, American country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
1951 Marietta Giannakou, Greek politician
1951 Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
1952 Harvey Fierstein, American actor
1952 Jean Hamel, Canadian hockey player
1952 Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
1953 Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
1953 Ken Calvert, (Rep-R-California)
1954 Cynthia Rylant, American author
1954 Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn NY, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4)
1954 Randall Bailey, First non-native Arabic instructor in the U.S. Air Force
1955 Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian (King of Comedy, Nancy-Roseanne)
1956 Andy Pycroft, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1956 Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player, champ (Wimbledon 1976-79)
1956 Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer and songwriter
1956 Jay C Buckey, NYC, physician/astronaut (STS 58 alt, sk: 90)
1956 Marilyn Jones, Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
1957 Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1957 Mike Gatting, cricketer (England batsman 1977-95 & captain)
1958 Danny Webb, English actor, LPGA tour (1989 Mazda Japan Classic)
1959 Amanda Pays, English actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
1959 Colin Quinn, American comedian
1959 David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
1959 Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
1959 Jimmy Jam, American record producer
1960 Gary Graham, American actor (Money on the Side)
1960 Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak athlete
1960 Lola Forner, Spanish actress, Miss Spain (1979)
1960 Steve Vai, American musician, guitarist (Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band, Whitesnake)
1961 Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
1961 Bill Bates, American football player, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 Nir Brand, Israeli composer
1961 Sydney Walsh, actress (Mo-Hooperman)
1961 Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
1963 Dannette Leininger, Kailua HA, team handball wing (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 Eric Cantor, American politician
1963 Jason Isaacs, English actor
1963 Vladimir Ruzicka, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1963 Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
1964 Dee C Lee (Diane Sealey), Musician (Style Council-You're Best Thing)
1964 Konnan, Mexican professional wrestler
1964 Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
1965 Cam Neely, Canadian hockey player
1965 David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1965 Sally McDermid, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1965 Wendy Wiebe, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1966 Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
1966 Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie)
1966 Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
1967 Max Casella, American actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
1967 Michael Timpson, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Paul Giamatti, American actor
1967 Wasim Haider, cricketer (member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad)
1968 Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist
1968 Brian Wright, Stillwater Oklahoma, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 NM Open-2nd)
1968 Craig Roberts, Everett WA, Canadian 68 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1968 Edwin Vurens, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1968 François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
1969 Brian Greenfield, WLAF punter (London Monarchs)
1969 Douglas Lee Mitchell, Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang)
1969 Mike Croel, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1969 Sunil Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996)
1970 Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
1970 Anthony Norris, American professional wrestler
1970 Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
1970 James Shaffer, American rock musician (Korn)
1970 Randy Jordan, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Sarah Dessen, American author
1971 Mike Craig, St Mary's, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1972 Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil)
1972 Dulip Liyanage, cricketer (Sri Lanka righty fast-medium Test bowler)
1972 Erin Woodley, Mississauga Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olympic-silver-96)
1972 Frankie King, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1972 Gary Downs, running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Jeff Williams, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1972 Marko Kiprusoff, Turku FIN, NHL defenseman (Team Finland, Montreal)
1972 Natalie Morales, American television journalist
1973 Ashfaq Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan pace bowler 1993-)
1973 Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Jon Hesse, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 Kat Swift, American politician (Green Party)
1973 Olindo Mare, kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1974 Brooke Wilkins, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 Danny Strong, American actor
1974 Patrick Hape, tight end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 Sonya Walger, British actress
1974 Uncle Kracker, American musician
1975 Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician
1975 Niklas Sundström, Swedish hockey player, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1975 Nina Kaczorowski, American actress
1975 Staci Keanan (Anastasia Love Sagorsky), American actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads)
1976 Geoff Rowley, British skateboarder
1976 Lukas Hass, actor (Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box)
1976 Melanie Sibetang, Miss Northern Marianas Universe (1997)
1976 Z-Ro, American rapper
1976 aKido, Canadian musician
1977 Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
1977 David Connolly, Irish footballer
1978 Andrew Reynolds, American professional skater
1978 Carl Barât, English musician (The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things)
1978 Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
1978 Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
1979 Summer Newman, Miss Georgia Teen USA (1996)
1980 Martin Devaney, English footballer
1980 Matt Belisle, American baseball player
1981 Johnny Pacar, American film actor
1981 Philip McGinley, English Actor
1983 Gemma Bissix, British actress
1983 Gianna Michaels, American porn actress
1983 Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player
1984 Noor Sabri, Iraqi football player
1984 Shannon Stewart, American model
1985 Chris Henry, American football player
1985 Drew Galloway, Scottish professional wrestler
1986 Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1986 Gin Wigmore, New Zealand singer/songwriter
1986 Kim Hyun Joong, Korean singer (SS501)
1987 Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor (Boba Fett-Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones)
1987 Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician
1987 Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
1989 Paula Brancati, Canadian actress

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840 Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite)
1134 Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder
1393 Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
1480 Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect (b. 1412)
1548 João de Castro, Portuguese noble and explorer (b. 1500)
1563 Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1583 Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1671 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed
1686 Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth
1710 Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV
1730 Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
1735 Georg Osterreich, composer
1740 Alexander Spotswood, British Crown Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (b. 1676)
1747 Jean Barriere, composer
1784 Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, leader of democratic Patriots, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
1785 Johann Michael Demmler, composer
1799 Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
1813 Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (b. 1739)
1815 Samuel Whitbread, English Politician (b. 1758)
1816 Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe
1832 Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
1836 Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36)
1840 Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
1843 Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1852 Tommaso Marchesi, composer
1861 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1861 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher
1862 Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA
1865 William Quantrill, American confederate raider (b. 1837)
1877 Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear
1878 Gottfried Herrmann, composer
1878 Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
1881 Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
1883 Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
1891 John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
1898 Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian
1914 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin)
1916 Yuan Shikai, president of China, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
1917 Iacob Moresianu, composer
1922 Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
1926 Henry Tate, composer
1928 Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer
1934 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
1935 Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
1937 Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell)
1939 Ford Madox Ford, writer
1940 E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall)
1941 Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1943 Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1900)
1944 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed
1945 Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
1946 Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1947 Norman Reid, Austrailian cricketer
1948 Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
1951 Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921)
1951 Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
1955 Max Meldrum, Scottish-born painter (b. 1875)
1956 Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia)
1958 Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
1961 Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist
1961 Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
1962 Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning
1962 Yves Klein, French sculptor and painter (b. 1928)
1964 Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva)
1965 Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
1966 Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
1967 Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash
1968 Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church)
1968 Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
1968 Robert F. Kennedy, 64th United States Attorney General and politician (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan (b. 1925)
1971 Arnold Elston, composer
1974 Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf)
1974 Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 Larry Blyden, American actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line) (b. 1925)
1976 J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, oil magnate (b. 1892)
1976 Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings) (b. 1891)
1977 Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It)
1979 Jack Haley, American actor (Wizard of Oz) (b. 1898)
1981 Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
1982 Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
1984 A(rthur) Bertram Chandler, Australian author (Empress of Outer Space) (b. 1912)
1984 Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
1985 Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
1986 Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
1988 Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66
1991 Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
1991 Stan Getz, American musician, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima) (b. 1927)
1991 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book)
1992 Larrey Riley, American actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing) (b. 1952)
1992 Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1993 James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase)
1993 Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina
1994 Barry Sullivan, American actor (Great Gadsby) (b. 1912)
1994 John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer
1994 John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede
1994 Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Ned Kelly) (b. 1935)
1994 Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton)
1994 Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist
1995 Imam Elissa, singer
1995 James Anderson, writer
1996 George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1996 Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
1996 Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner
1996 Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer
1999 Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
2000 Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
2002 Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
2003 Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
2003 Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
2005 Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
2005 Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
2006 Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)
2006 Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
2006 Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
2009 Jean Dausset, French immunologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2009 Jim Owens, American college football head coach (b. 1927)
2009 Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (b. 1913)
2010 Marvin Isley, American Musician The Isley Brothers (b. 1953)
2013 Jerome Karle, American Nobel chemist (b. 1918)
2013 Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
2013 Tom Sharpe, British satirist and author
2015 Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer (The Weavers)
2015 Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer (Two Thousand Words)
2015 Vincent Bugliosi, American attorney/author (Helter-Skelter)
2016 Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus)
2016 Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-born chess grandmaster
2016 Kimbo Slice (Kevin Ferguson), American mixed martial artist
2016 Theresa Saldana, American actress (Raging Bull)

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