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65 Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
68 The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
452 Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
536 St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
793 Vikings raid the St Cuthbert convent abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
979 Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
1191 Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1551 Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma
1624 Earthquake strikes Peru
1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish
1690 Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1694 English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
1761 British fleet occupies Belle Britain
1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1786 Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1789 James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the United States House of Representatives; 10 of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights
1815 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
1834 HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 Tennessee secedes from the Union, People of Tennessee voted.
1861 US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1862 Battle of Cross Keys Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan, Valley Campaign.
1865 Tristanderl und Zusholde, premieres
1869 Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
1872 Congress endorses penny post card
1878 12th Belmont, L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43.5
1882 16th Belmont, Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1887 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator.
1889 Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1892 Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 1st car is stolen
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1911 Belgium government of Schollaert falls
1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1914 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1920 Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1921 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1927 Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1928 Second Northern Expedition, The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing.
1929 61st Belmont, Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1929 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
1931 Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
1931 Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1933 A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs
1935 39th US Golf Open, Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA
1935 67th Belmont, Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
1935 Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game
1936 1st parking meters are invented
1937 World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1939 British king George VI visits US
1940 72nd Belmont, Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1940 Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1941 English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1941 Allies invade Syria and Lebanon, World War II.
1942 Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1942 Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle, World War II.
1944 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1944 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
1946 "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1948 "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV, hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1948 "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
1948 John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1949 Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
1950 Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
1950 Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open
1953 Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down killing 113 in MI and OH. One tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons, Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden.
1955 Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
1956 Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
1956 WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1959 X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1961 English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
1961 Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)
1961 Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v Eng at Edgbaston, 57
1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
1963 "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances
1963 95th Belmont, Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
1963 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 A's draft Rick Monday #1
1965 USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1965 US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1966 NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1966 One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
1966 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 in the Six-Day War, Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen and wounding 171.
1968 Bermuda adopts its constitution
1968 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1969 "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV
1969 21st Emmy Awards, Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St James
1969 Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
1969 General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar
1969 KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
1969 Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1969 Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1969 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
1971 North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1971 White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
1972 Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
1972 Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)
1973 Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1974 106th Belmont, Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2
1974 An F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
1974 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
1974 US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1976 Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
1977 Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
1978 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
1978 Braves draft Bob Horner #1
1978 Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
1979 "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
1980 "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
1980 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
1980 34th Tony Awards, Children of a Lesser God & Evita win
1980 50th French Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
1981 15th Music City News Country Awards, Mandrell Sisters
1981 Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1982 36th NBA Championship, LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1983 "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres
1983 Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1983 Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81)
1984 An F5 tornado strikes Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 and injuring 200; 90% of the homes, seventeen out of the eighteen businesses, and the three churches are destroyed.
1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales.
1985 117th Belmont, Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1985 Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in same game
1986 "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
1986 40th NBA Championship, Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
1986 56th French Mens Tennis, Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
1986 Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1986 Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, is elected president of Austria.
1986 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
1987 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons (New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987) and nuclear powered vessels, establishes a national nuclear-free zone . This makes New Zealand the first and (as of June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
1987 Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1989 Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broa
1990 "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV
1990 Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991 "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1991 61st French Womens Tennis, Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64)
1991 123rd Belmont, Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
1991 College World Series, Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
1991 Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)
1991 Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title
1992 26th Music City News Country Awards, Alan Jackson & Garth Brooks
1992 NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1992 Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria
1993 Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1994 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1994 Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
1995 "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1995 The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
1996 66th French Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)
1996 128th Belmont, Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96
1996 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire
1996 Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
1996 PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
1996 Panama becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1997 "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 perfs
1997 67th French Mens Tennis, Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62)
1997 BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland
1997 Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel
1997 Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic
2001 Mamoru Takuma stabs 8 elementary school pupils to death during the Osaka school massacre.
2004 Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
2007 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2008 The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street.. Tomohiro Kato drives a two-ton truck into a crowded pedestrianised area before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten
2011 Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton win at the 45th CMT Music Awards
2012 A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
2013 Chicago Blackhawks beat Los Angeles Kings, 4 games to 1 in the NHL Western Conference Finals
2013 Mike Smith aboard Palace Malice wins the 145th Belmont in 2:30.70
2013 Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova (6-4, 6-4) in the 112th Women's French Open
2014 Maria Sharapova beats Simona Halep (6-4, 6-7, 6-4) in the 113th Women's French Open
2014 Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei win the women's tennis doubles at the French Open
2014 Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic (3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4) in the 113th Men's French Open

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1318 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II
1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) (d. 1712)
1652 William Dampier, English explorer, pirate
1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor) (d. 1751)
1717 John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
1722 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
1724 John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794)
1740 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
1743 Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
1745 Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
1753 Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
1756 Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar
1757 Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
1759 Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
1772 Robert Stevenson, Glasgow, civil engineer
1783 Joseph Lincke, composer
1804 Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC)
1805 Luigi Ricci, composer
1806 Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1810 Robert Schumann, German composer (Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik) (d. 1856)
1812 Spyridon Xyndas, composer
1813 David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) (d. 1891)
1814 Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
1821 John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1897)
1821 Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
1824 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1824 William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1901)
1829 John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
1831 Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
1834 George Garrett, composer
1837 Jan Kleczynski, composer
1837 Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
1842 John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
1847 Ida Sazton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (1897-1901) (d. 1907)
1849 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument)
1851 Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
1854 Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
1855 George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (d.1924)
1856 Natalia Janotha, composer
1858 Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
1859 Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1860 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (Guggenheim) (d. 1959)
1872 Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1881 Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1885 Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
1888 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
1889 Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
1894 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
1896 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
1897 John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
1900 Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general)
1901 Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
1902 Albe (Renaut A Joostens), Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary)
1903 Gerrit C Berkouwer, Dutch theologist (Dogmatic Studies)
1903 Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
1903 Ralph (Webster) Yarborough, politician, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
1903 Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara)
1905 Brian Coffey, poet
1906 Charles Janssens, Belgium, actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
1906 S Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932)
1909 Maria M van de Berg, actress (It was April 1st)
1909 William Odling, major-general
1910 Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor
1910 Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
1910 John W. Campbell, American publisher, editor, and sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell) (d. 1971)
1911 Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
1911 Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
1912 Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
1912 Ian Morrow, company director
1912 Maurice Bellemare, French Canadian politician (d. 1989)
1913 Graham Watson, literary agent
1913 Janos Jagamas, composer
1913 Peter Diamand, artistic administrator
1914 Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
1914 KuBa, writer
1915 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, (mayor-Maarn Neth)
1915 Julian Ridsdale, MP
1916 Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel laureate 1962) (d. 2004)
1916 Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
1917 Byron R (Whizzer) White, American athlete (NFL) and Supreme Court Justice (1962-93) (d. 2002)
1918 John D. Roberts, American chemist
1918 Robert Preston, American actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter) (d. 1987)
1919 Guy Overton, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 3 Tests on 1953-54 SA tour)
1920 A J Mottram, tennis player
1920 Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV)
1920 Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
1921 Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies) (d. 1993)
1921 Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)
1921 LeRoy Neiman, American painter, (d. 2012)
1921 Lord Campbell of Croy
1921 Sheila Ryan, KS, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury)
1921 Suharto, President of Indonesia (1967) (d. 2008)
1922 Myron Healy, Petalumus California, actor (Wyatt Earp)
1923 Alice Coleman, geographer
1923 Jean Maxwell-Scott, Lady-in-Waiting (Prin Alice Duchess Gloucester)
1923 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
1923 Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
1924 George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show)
1924 Glidewell, Lord Justice
1924 Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper (NZ vs England 1954-55)
1924 Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
1924 Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World)
1924 William Barlow, CEO (BICC)
1925 Barbara (Pierce) Bush, First Lady of the United States (1989-93)
1925 Del Ennis, baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player, 3'7" St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked) (d. 1961)
1926 Anatol Vieru, composer
1926 Cranley Onslow, MP
1926 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
1927 Dame Anne Warburton, President (Lucy Cavendish College-Cambridge_
1927 David Hobman, director (Age Concern England)
1927 Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld)
1927 Michael Levey, director (British National Gallery)
1928 Jiri Dvoracek, composer
1928 Kat(i)e (Gertrude) Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap)
1929 Earl Ferrers, British minister of state (Dept of Environment)
1929 Ventappa Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61)
1930 Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malmö Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan)
1930 Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1930 Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
1930 Michael Codron, theatrical producer
1930 Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician, Nobel laureate
1930 Yannis Ioannidis, composer
1931 Dana Wynter, German-born American actress
1931 Ivan V Lali, poet
1931 James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul
1932 Hans Gunter Helms, composer
1932 Lady Littler, CEO (Gaming Board for Great Britain)
1932 Ray(mond) Illingworth, cricketer
1933 Dr Robert Stevens, Master (Pembroke College, Oxford)
1933 Eric Parker, deputy CEO (Trafalgar House)
1933 Joan Rivers (Molinsky), American comedian and author (Late Show, Hollywood Sq)
1934 Millicent Martin, English singer and actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best)
1936 James Darren, American actor and singer (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs)
1936 Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1937 Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31)
1937 Norma Shaw, bowler
1939 Bernie Casey, American football player and actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop)
1939 Herb Adderley, Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys)
1940 Jim Wickwire, American mountaineer
1940 Nancy Sinatra, American singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
1940 Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
1941 Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P Funk)
1941 Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1941 Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (d. 1981)
1942 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1942 Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night)
1942 Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
1942 Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander (HQ Aldershot Garrison)
1942 Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician
1942 Willie D Davenport, Troy Alabama, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 Colin Baker, actor (Dr Who, Swallows & Amazons)
1943 J C A Barrett, Headmaster (Leys School-Cambridge)
1943 Vicki Stangroome, campaigner
1943 William Calley, American war criminal
1943 Willie Davenport, American athlete, bobsledder and hurdler (Olympics-gold-68) (d. 2002)
1944 Annie Haslam, English painter and singer (Renaissance)
1944 Boz Scaggs (William Royce), American singer and songwriter (Steve Miller Band)
1944 Don Grady (Agrati), actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons) (d. 2012)
1944 Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
1944 Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1945 Derek Underwood, cricketer ("Deadly" Maybe the best post-war SLA)
1945 Donna Deitch, director (Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place)
1946 Alan Scarfe, British-born Canadian actor
1946 Dudley Fishburn, MP
1946 Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk)
1946 Richie Robinson, cricketer (Victorian keeper, Australian batsman 1977)
1947 Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1947 Joan La Barbara, composer
1947 Julie Driscoll, rocker/actress (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee)
1947 Mick Box, rock guitarist (Uriah Heep)
1949 Emanuel Ax, Polish pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974)
1949 Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
1950 Elmar Oliveira, Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978)
1950 Kathy (Whitton) Baker, American actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles)
1950 Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
1951 Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins), Welsh singer and guitarist (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1951 Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist
1952 Lindka Cierach, fashion designer
1952 Martin Taylor, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1953 Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
1953 Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1954 Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
1955 Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
1955 Griffin Dunne, American actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl)
1955 James Jonathan Sylvers, rocker
1955 Tim Berners-Lee, English internet developer
1956 Udo Bullmann, German politician
1957 Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress
1957 Don Robinson, American baseball player
1957 Scott (Raymond) Adams, American cartoonist (Dilbert)
1958 Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director (In Living Color)
1958 Stan Brock, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1960 Linda Hanley, Laguna Beach California, beach volleyballer (Olympics-4th-96)
1960 Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
1960 Thomas Steen, Swedish hockey player
1961 Kevin Gross, Downey CA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 Ursula Buchfellner, Munich Ger, playmate (Oct, 1979)/actr (Bloodline)
1962 John Gibbons, American Baseball Player/Manager
1962 Kristine W, American musician
1962 Nick Rhodes (Bates), English musician, keyboardist (Duran Duran)
1963 John Restino, Westchester NY, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Tommy Armour)
1963 Keti Garbi, Greek singer
1963 Kino Haitsma, pianist/arrangeur (Josephine)
1963 Susan Smith, LPGA golfer
1964 Butch (Harry Lee) Reynolds Jr, American 4X400m runner
1964 Nelli (Antoinette HC) Fiere-Cooman, Netherlands runner (WR 60 m in 7.00)
1965 Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler
1965 Kevin Farley, American actor
1965 Kevin Ritz, Eatonstown NJ, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1965 Rob Pilatus, German-American "singer" and dancer, lip syncher (Milli Vanilli) (d. 1998)
1966 Brian Williams, NFL center (NY Giants)
1966 Doris Pearson, English singer (Five Star)
1966 Julianna Margulies, American actress (Carol Hathaway-ER)
1967 Kathryn Marshall, Dundee Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr)
1967 Neil Mitchell, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1967 Stephane Simian, France, tennis star
1967 Willie Williams, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 Dave Mlicki, Cleveland Ohio, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 Rob Ray, Canadian hockey player, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1969 David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
1969 Glenn Rogers Jr, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 J.P. Manoux, American actor
1969 Laurel Martin, Hummelstown PA, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1969 Marcos Siega, American director
1970 Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
1970 Kelli Williams, American actress
1970 Seu Jorge, Brazilian musician and actor
1970 Teresa Strasser, American Morning Radio Host
1970 Troy Vincent, American footballer, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Amanda Jahn, Miss USA-Missouri (1997)
1971 Elena Brioukhovets, Odessa Ukraine, tennis star (finalist 1990 Moscow)
1971 Jamie Morgan, Australia, tennis star
1971 Mark Feuerstein, American actor
1971 Tom Nutten, CFL/NFL centers (Hamilton Tiger Cats, Buffalo Bills)
1972 Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
1972 David Sloan, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1972 P(eter) J(ason) Farley, Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1973 Bryant Reeves, American basketball player, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
1973 Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
1973 Michael Sheldon, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1974 Gabe Northern, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1975 Bryan McCabe, Canadian hockey player, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1975 Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
1976 Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
1976 Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 Trish Goff, American model
1977 Belvilyn Ada Tenorio, Miss Universe-Northern Marianas (1996)
1977 Kanye West, American rapper and record producer
1977 Yvette Basting, Breda Neth, tennis star (1994 Futures-Flensberg-GER)
1978 Maria Menounos, American actress and television host, Teen USA (1996)
1979 Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
1979 Derek Trucks, American guitarist (Derek Trucks Band)
1979 Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican football player
1979 Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
1981 Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
1981 Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
1981 Jess Weixler, American actress
1981 Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver
1981 Sara Watkins, American fiddle player
1982 Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
1982 Irina Lazareanu, Romanian-Canadian model
1982 Katy Morgan-Davies, British politician
1982 Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
1983 Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
1983 Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
1983 Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor
1983 Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1984 Andrea Casiraghi, Monagasque royalty, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
1984 Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
1985 Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
1986 Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player
1987 Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
1989 Gary Wilson, Scottish Musician
1994 Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert & Andy Mills

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218 Opellius Macrinus, Emperor of Rome (217-8) dies in battle (b. 165)
632 Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) (b. 570)
1042 Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (1040-42) (b. 1018)
1115 Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64
1376 Edward "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England (b. 1330)
1383 Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
1384 Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
1476 George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
1505 Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
1611 Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
1612 Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
1621 Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
1628 Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1661 John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1688 Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant
1695 Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn)
1711 Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess
1714 Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
1716 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
1727 August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
1742 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius
1768 Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
1771 George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
1790 Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1794 G A Borger, writer
1795 Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95) (b. 1785)
1796 Felice de Giardini, composer
1803 Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
1806 George Wythe, US attorney (signed Decl of Indep)
1809 Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense) (b. 1737)
1814 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
1831 Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth)
1835 Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1845 Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (1828-37) (b. 1767)
1857 Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1865 Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace)
1870 Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer
1871 Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death
1874 Cochise, Apache leader
1876 George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo) (b. 1804)
1884 Henry Clay Work, composer
1885 Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet (b. 1844)
1906 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer
1908 Johan Lindegren, composer
1913 Emily Wilding Davison, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse
1919 Jacob Fabricius, composer
1924 Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)
1924 George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)
1929 Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
1940 Frederick Shepherd Converse, US composer
1945 Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
1947 Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool)
1948 Franz Carl Bornschein, composer
1948 Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Aust, caught 44 stumped 21)
1951 Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
1953 Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die)
1956 Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
1965 Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
1966 Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
1967 Elliot Griffis, composer
1967 Laverne Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister)
1969 Robert Taylor, American actor (Death Valley Days) (b. 1911)
1970 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
1972 Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b. 1901)
1973 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer
1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
1979 Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions)
1979 Louis Salvador Palange, composer
1980 Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
1982 Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
1982 (Leroy) Satchel Paige, US baseball pitcher
1984 Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
1987 Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide
1988 Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk)
1988 Russell Harty, broadcaster
1988 Virgil Oliver Jr, entertainer
1990 Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79)
1990 Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74)
1991 Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter)
1991 Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun
1992 Beverly Carter, entertainer
1992 Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered
1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500)
1992 William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI)
1993 René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews
1993 Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
1994 William Marshall, actor/director (Santa Fe Trail)
1995 Juan Carlos Ongania, pres of Argentina (1966-70)
1995 Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
1995 Sheikh Iman, singer
1996 Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft)
1996 Gerry Gomez, cricketer (West Indian captain played 29 Tests)
1996 Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads)
1996 Percy Edwards, animal imitator
1996 Phyllis Stedman, politician
1997 George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
1998 Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
1998 Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
2000 Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
2003 Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
2004 Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
2006 Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2006 Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
2007 Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
2007 Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
2008 Šaban Bajramovic, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
2009 Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
2012 Frank Cady, American actor
2013 Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer (b. 1930)
2013 Paul Cellucci, American politician
2015 Marie-Louise Grog-Carven, French fashion designer (Ma Griffe perfume)
2016 Michael Manser, English architect

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