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1249 Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
1325 Sheik Ibn Battuta begins 1st world trip, Tangiers to Mecca
1373 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force, signed in London.
1392 Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails
1525 Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1547 King Ferdinand of Austria subjects himself on Turkish sultan Suleiman
1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1625 English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette Maria de Bourbon
1655 Adriana Nooseman-van de Bergh is 1st actress in Amsterdam theater
1665 Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch
1707 Hungary declares itself independent under Ferenc Rákóczi II
1721 England signs Treaty of Madrid
1727 Spain underwrites Preliminairy of Paris
1753 Austria, England & Modena sign secret military treaty
1774 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army for the American Revolutionary War.
1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1792 King Louis XVI fires French government
1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1828 Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator
1837 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 Opera "Les Vêpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 Battle of Winchester VA
1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
1863 Skirmish at Berryville Virginia
1865 Pres Johnson proclaims reconstruction confederate states
1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)
1868 Oscar J Dunn (a black) is elected Lt Governor of Louisiana
1871 In Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
1874 8th Belmont, G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
1878 Congress of Berlin meets to divide African colonization
1881 The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia (nearly 1,000 buildings).
1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
1888 Congress creates Department of Labor
1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1889 23rd Belmont, W Hayward aboard Eric wins in 2:47.25
1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1893 Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1895 Emile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1905 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia
1910 The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1912 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1913 45th Belmont, Roscoe Troxler aboard Prince Eugene wins in 2:18
1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1914 28th US Womens Tennis, Mary K Browne beats Marie Wagner (62 16 61)
1917 Germany bombs London
1917 World War I, the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1918 Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1920 Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post
1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1924 Bene Berak Palestine founded
1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier
1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1925 57th Belmont, Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 1st Nudist Colony opens
1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1931 63rd Belmont, Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
1932 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta
1932 Great Britain & France sign peace treaty
1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo) established
1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
1935 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
1935 In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in 15 in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
1936 2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms
1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1937 Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna & Uberevitch
1938 Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe v England at Trent Bridge
1938 Jews injured & property destroyed in Przemyal Poland
1940 Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head
1942 Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, form
1942 The United States establish the Office of Strategic Services.
1942 The United States opens its Office of War Information.
1944 German counter attack on Villers-Bocage Normandy
1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1944 Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England in World War II. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1944 Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan in World War II.
1945 Heerjansdam soccer team forms
1945 Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates
1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
1952 Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 53rd US Golf Open, Ben Hogan shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont PA
1953 85th Belmont, Eric Guerin aboard Native Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1953 Alec Bedser takes 14-99 (7-55 & 7-44) v Australia
1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1953 KOAA TV channel 5 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx
1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1955 Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
1956 "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 21 performances
1956 After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control
1956 Parliamentary election, Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956 Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup
1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth Mass
1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster Ca
1959 "Sammy Kaye Show," last airs on ABC-TV
1959 59th US Golf Open, Billy Casper shoots a 282 at Winged Foot GC NY
1959 91st Belmont, Bill Shoemaker aboard Sword Dancer wins in 2:28.6
1960 "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
1961 "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
1962 "Bob Newhart Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1962 Norway named ombudsman
1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1964 Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55)
1965 19th Tony Awards, Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1966 The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights (Miranda Rights) before questioning them.
1967 "You Only Live Twice" premieres in US
1967 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones
1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hit #1 in UK
1970 "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 17th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1971 NY Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
1971 The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
1974 Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1976 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi
1976 Bob Marley performs in Amsterdam
1976 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
1978 Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs
1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD
1980 Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
1980 Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1981 At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 28th LPGA Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1982 Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
1983 Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow
1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1988 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"
1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 43rd NBA Championship, Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 Nelson & Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term
1991 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1993 "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs
1993 39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1993 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran
1993 YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1995 French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
1995 Indians' Dennis Martinez no-hits Balt 11-0
1995 NJ Devils beat Phila Flyers, to go to their 1st Stanley Cup finals
1996 Freeman in Montana give up to FBI after 81 days
1996 The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
1997 51st NBA Championship, Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
1997 A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
1997 American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years.
1997 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 Red Wings Vladimir Konstantinov & Slava Fetisov hurt in car crash
1997 Uphaar cinema fire, in New Delhi, India, killed 59 people, and over 100 people injured.
2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2000 President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2002 The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
2007 The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a third time.
2011 Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
2012 A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
2012 San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
2014 Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers in 5 games to win the Stanley Cup
2015 Floods in Tbilisi Georgia kill 12 people and free animals from the city's zoo including bears and hippos to roam the city
2015 Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months

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40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general; conquered Wales, No England
823 Charles II, the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of France (843-77), emperor (875-77) (d. 877)
1539 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator
1584 Miyamoto Musashi, Legendary Samurai warrior, artist, and author of The Book of Five Rings (d. 1645)
1592 Tobias Michael, composer
1612 Karel van Croij, prince of Chimay/Duke of Aarschot
1627 Fidel Molitor, composer
1649 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
1701 Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
1736 Henryk Klein, composer
1752 Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (Camille, Evelina) (d. 1840)
1757 Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer
1761 Anton Wranitzky, composer
1763 José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman, premier of Brazil (d. 1838)
1765 Anton Eberl, composer
1773 Thomas Young, British philologist, physician (light interference) (d. 1829)
1775 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Polish politician, composer (d. 1833)
1786 Winfield Scott, army general (Union), presidential candidate (d. 1866)
1790 Jose Antonio Peez, president of Venezuela
1795 Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome)
1806 Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian
1809 George Philip St Cooke, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1895)
1809 Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter, author of Struwwelpeter (d. 1894)
1820 WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral
1821 Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
1821 Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union) (d. 1883)
1822 Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1823 Gustave Paul Cluseret, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1900)
1824 Julius Eichberg, composer
1825 Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1880)
1827 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
1829 Antonio Zamara, composer
1831 James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (electromagnetic theory, speed of light) (d. 1879)
1854 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
1863 Josef Venantius von Woss, composer
1863 Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
1864 Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (d. 1939)
1864 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
1865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole) (Nobel Nobel laureate 1923) (d. 1937)
1866 Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Trade scholarship)
1869 Ede Poldini, composer
1870 Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1874 Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer
1875 Max d' Ollone, composer
1876 William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1879 George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30)
1879 Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar
1884 Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942)
1884 Etienne Gilson, French philosopher (d. 1978)
1884 Gerald Gardner, British occultist (d. 1964)
1887 Bruno Frank, German author (d. 1945)
1888 Fernando A Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet (d. 1935)
1891 Nell Craig, NJ, actress (Calling Dr Kildare, Queen of Sheba)
1892 Basil Rathbone, English actor (Sherlock Holmes) (d. 1967)
1893 Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers, English author (9 Taylors) (d. 1957)
1894 Dr. Leo Kanner, Austrian-American physician (d. 1981)
1894 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Konarmija, Marija)
1894 Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (d. 1986)
1894 Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic, Transients)
1897 Paavo Johannes Nurmi, Finnish 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1920/24/28) (d. 1973)
1898 Eva J C Beck, actress (Resurrection)
1899 Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (Sinfonia India) (d. 1978)
1900 Ian Hunter, Capetown South Africa, actor (Dr Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn)
1901 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist (Obscure Blood)
1901 Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946-69) (d. 1985)
1903 Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football (Illinois Bears)
1903 Philipp Kutev, composer
1903 Red Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
1905 Doc Cheatham, jazz musician
1905 Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31)
1905 Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
1906 Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician (d. 1985)
1909 E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician (d. 1998)
1910 Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Galician writer (d. 1999)
1910 Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910 Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
1911 Albert Cleage, famous African
1911 Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German-born physicist (d. 1977)
1911 Luis W Alvarez, American physicist (Nobel laureate 1968) (d. 1988)
1912 Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
1912 Mary Wickes, St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc)
1913 Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author.
1913 Ralph Edwards, Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1915 J Don(ald) Budge, American tennis player (1st to hold world's 4 major titles) (d. 2000)
1916 Mary Wickes, character actress (Sister Act)
1917 Teddy Turner, comedian (d. 1992)
1918 Ben Johnson, American actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger) (d. 1996)
1918 Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1919 Leif Kayser, composer
1920 Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American)
1920 Knut Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1922 Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author, (d. 1989)
1922 Mel Parnell (Melvin), New Orleans, Louisiana, Major League Baseball pitcher (Boston Red Socks, 1947-56), (d. 2012)
1924 Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor (Brainwaves) (d. 2007)
1925 Hans Fellner, bookseller
1926 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician
1926 Paul Lynde, American actor (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched) (d. 1982)
1927 Knut Wiggen, composer
1928 Jean Villain, writer
1928 John Forbes Nash, American mathematician, Nobel laureate
1929 Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
1929 Ralph McQuarrie, Gary, Indiana, conceptual designer (Star Wars, E.T.), (d. 2012)
1929 Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
1930 Ryszard Kuklinski, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
1931 Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University
1931 Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot
1931 Nora Kovach, Hungarian-born American ballerina (d. 2009)
1933 Bob Litty, US
1933 Tom King, British politician
1934 Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite
1935 Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 Christo (Javacheff), Bulgarian artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
1935 Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
1935 Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (d. 2009)
1937 Eleanor Holmes Norton, Wash DC, lawyer/(Rep-D-DC)
1937 Erich Ribbeck, German football player/manager
1938 Carole Jo Callison, LPGA golfer
1938 Gwynne Howell, British opera singer
1938 Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer (UEI, Paintbox)
1939 Don "Sugarcane" Harris, rocker/actor (Soup for 1, Greeased Lightning)
1939 Tom Cheek, American baseball player, broadcaster (d. 2005)
1940 Bobby Freeman, American soul singer (Do You Want to Dance)
1941 Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1941 Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player
1941 Robert Forester, Rochester NY, actor (Banyon, Nakia)
1941 Tom Hallick, Buffalo NY, actor (Search)
1942 James Carr, US, gospel singer (To Love Somebody)
1943 Edward Skorek, Poland, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1943 Jim Guy Tucker, American politician, governor of Arkansas
1943 Malcolm McDowell, English actor (Clockwork Orange, Caligula)
1944 Ban Ki-moon, South Korean United Nations Secretary-General
1944 Joe Amato, NHRA top fuel drag racing champion (1991)
1945 Ronald J Grabe, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-J, 30, 42, 57)
1945 Whitley Strieber, American author
1946 Danny Klein, rocker
1947 A. G. Lafley, American executive director
1947 Daniel P A "Danie" Schutte, South African underminister of Justice
1947 Jerrold Nadler, (Rep-D-NY)
1947 Peter Holm, boyfriend of Joan Collins
1948 Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 2001)
1948 Joe Roth, American executive, producer and film director
1949 Dennis Locorriere, American singer and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
1949 Ulla Schmidt, German politician
1950 Gerd Zewe, German footballer
1950 Michael Stark, Australian actor
1951 Jonathan Hogan, Chicago IL, actor (House on Carroll St)
1951 Liz Phillips, composer
1951 Richard Thomas, American actor (John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda)
1951 Robert P. Young, Jr., Michigan Supreme Court justice
1951 Stellan Skarsgard, Swedish actor (Breaking the Waves)
1952 Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian politician and former judoka
1952 Tony Bruno, American talkshow host
1953 Bo Donaldson (Billy Don't Be a Hero)
1953 Tim Allen, American comedian and actor (Tim-Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle)
1954 Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician
1954 Bo (Robert) Donaldson, rock vocalist (Billy Don't Be a Hero)
1954 Daniel Seemiller, Pitts, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1954 Jorge Santana, rocker (Malo)
1954 Rita Cadillac, Brazilian dancer
1955 Alan Hansen, Scottish football pundit
1955 Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice Georgia Supreme Court
1959 Lance Kinsey, Canadian actor
1959 Steve Georganas, Australian politician
1961 Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
1962 Ally Sheedy, American actress
1962 Davey Hamilton, American racing driver
1962 Glenn Michibata, Canadian professional tennis player
1962 Hannah Storm, American television personality (CNN, NBC)
1962 Karen Kurreck, Urbana Ill, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 Mark Frankel, actor (Leon the Pig Farmer)
1963 Bettina Bunge, German tennis player (Virginia Slims of California 1983)
1963 Catarina Lindqvist, Sweden, tennis player (Swedish Open 1986)
1963 Edward Sturing, soccer player (Vitesse)
1963 Jeff Brehaut, Mountain View CA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Alabama-3rd)
1963 Josef Heiss, Garmisch GER, hockey goaltender (Team Germany 1998)
1963 Paul De Lisle, American musician (Smash Mouth)
1963 Randy Gilhen, Zweibrucken Ger, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1964 Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer
1964 Jennifer Gillom, WNBA center/forward (Phoenix Mercury/Oly-gold-1988)
1964 Kathy Burke, English actress
1964 Sarunas Marciulionis, Lithuanian basketball player, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1965 Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
1965 Lisa Vidal, American actress
1965 Lukas Ligeti, Austrian composer and drummer
1965 Maninder Singh, cricketer (Indian leftarm spinner in 35 Tests 1982-93)
1965 Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
1966 Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
1966 Naoki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1966 Thyme Lewis, SF California, actor (Jonah-Days of our Lives)
1967 Darren Baker, Chambersburg PA, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 Bruce Beaton, CFL corner (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 David Gray, British musician
1968 Denise Pearson, British singer (Five Star)
1968 Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
1968 Marcel Theroux, British writer and broadcaster
1968 Spike Breakwell, British comedian
1969 Jamie Walters, actor/singer (Heights, Beverly Hills 90210, Shout)
1969 Robert Harris, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1969 Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian athlete
1969 Søren Nystrøm Rasted
1970 Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1970 Lance Ringnald, Des Moines Iowa, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1970 Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
1970 Rivers Cuomo, American musician (Weezer)
1970 Shaun Young, cricketer (Tasmanian all-rounder, Young Aust 1995)
1971 Broderick nonuplets, Sydney Australia
1971 David Mendenhall, actor (Over the Top, Space Raiders, Witchfire)
1971 Lauri Marie Gapp, Miss USA-North Dakota (1997)
1972 Natalie MacMaster, Canadian musician
1972 Sale Isaia, OL (Baltimore Ravens)
1973 Ines Gorrochategui, Cordoba Arg, tennis star (1991 Futures-Brindisi)
1973 Kano Hills, tackle (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer
1973 Mattias Hellberg, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1973 Sam Adams, American football player, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Ville Laihiala, Finnish musician (Sentenced, Poisonblack)
1974 Brande Roderick, American actress
1974 Elli Overton, Canada, Australian swimmer (Olympics-5th-92, 96)
1974 Harvey Esajas, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1974 Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer
1974 Steve-O, American stunt performer and television personality
1974 Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
1974 Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-S-98)
1975 Ante Covic, Australian footballer
1975 Dave Roche, Lindsay, NHL left wing (Pitts Penguins)
1975 Johannes Grenzfurthner, Austrian artist, writer, curator and director
1975 Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
1976 Jason 'J' Brown, English Singer
1976 Kym Marsh, English singer, actress and T.V. presenter
1977 Alexei Kariozhny, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1978 Allison Dickey, Miss Iowa Teen USA (1996)
1978 Ethan Embry, American actor
1978 Jason Michael Carroll, country musician
1978 Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
1978 Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1979 Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
1980 Darius Vassell, English footballer
1980 Florent Malouda, French footballer
1980 Jamario Moon, American basketball player
1980 Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver
1980 Sarah Connor, German singer
1981 Chris Evans, American actor
1981 David Madden, 4th-ranked Jeopardy! champion of all-time
1982 Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian athlete
1983 Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
1983 Matt Allison, British racing driver
1983 Ryan Conferido, American dancer
1984 Nautica Thorn, American adult film actress
1984 Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
1985 Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese racing driver
1985 Lela Star, American pornstar
1985 Raz-B, American singer (B2K)
1986 Ashley Fuller Olsen, American twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
1986 Kat Dennings, American actress
1986 Mary-Kate Olsen, American twin actress (Michelle-Full House)
1989 Lisa Tucker, American singer
1989 Tommy Searle, professional motocross racer
1990 Aaron Johnson, British actor
1992 Tyler Davison, was world's smallest baby at 6 inches, 11 ounces

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1036 Ali az-Zahir, caliph (b. 1005)
1142 Godfried II, duke of Brabant/Neth-Lotharingen
1231 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (b. 1195)
1256 Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
1371 Jan V of Virneburg, bishop of Utrecht (Pledge Vollenhove)
1550 Johann Spangenberg, composer
1550 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet
1612 Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay
1636 George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
1645 Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1665 Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle
1665 Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral, dies in battle  (b. 1604)
1665 Jacob van Wassenaer (Foggy Obdam), lt-admiral, dies in battle
1713 Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist/composer
1749 Jan F van Bloemen, [Orizonte], Flemish painter
1760 Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (b. 1696)
1784 Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
1810 J G Seume, writer
1821 (Izaak J) Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot
1825 Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor
1839 Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
1865 Cleaveland J Campbell, Union brig-general
1873 Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
1881 Josef Skoda, Czech physician (b. 1805)
1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1886 Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, drowns
1898 Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1840)
1904 Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
1905 Theodoros Delyannis, premier Greece, murdered
1905 Tippo-Tip (Hamed ben Mohammed), Zanzibar merchant
1918 Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered  (b. 1878)
1920 Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer
1927 Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94)
1928 Damaso Ledesma, composer
1930 Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
1931 Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1939 Arthur Coningham, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1894)
1939 Volter A Kilpi, Finnish writer (Suljetuilla Porteilla)
1943 Koco Racin, Macedonian poet (b. 1908)
1944 Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96)
1946 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1951 Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1952 Max Pulver, writer, dies
1954 Nikolai Obouhov, composer
1958 Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1961 Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway)
1962 Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus)
1965 David Drummond, Australian politician (b. 1890)
1965 Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher and theologist (b. 1878)
1972 Clyde L Mcphatter, American  singer (Drifters-Without Love) (b. 1932)
1972 Dündar Taser, Turkish nationalist (b. 1925)
1972 Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1972 Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891)
1973 Alvin Derold Etler, composer
1973 Frantisek Suchy, composer
1976 Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona)
1977 Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1977 Tom C Clark, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-67)
1979 Darla Hood, American actress (Our Gang 1935-45) (b. 1931)
1979 Demetrio Stratos, Italian musician (b. 1945)
1980 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
1982 Abdul Aziz Khaled, King of Saudi-Arabia, dies at 69
1982 Ken "Slasher" Mackay, cricketer (Aussie all-rounder 1956-63)
1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
1982 Peter Maivia, wrestler (b. 1935)
1982 Riccardo Paletti, Formula One driver (b. 1958)
1984 António Variações, Portuguese hairdresser and musician (b. 1944)
1984 Marinus de Jong, Dutch composer, dies at 92
1986 Benny Goodman, American musician (King of Swing) (b. 1909)
1987 Geraldine Page, American actress (Blue & Gray) (b. 1924)
1989 Fran Allison, American, early television personality (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (b. 1907)
1993 Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924)
1993 Donald "Deke" K Slayton, US major/astronaut (Apollo 18)
1993 Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
1994 Anne Aitken, student of Zen
1994 Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1994 James Pollack, US room designer
1994 Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide)
1995 David Parry, guitarist
1996 David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1998 Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
2002 John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
2003 Malik Meraj Khalid, Former caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
2004 Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
2004 Ralph Wiley, American journalist and writer (b. 1952)
2005 David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
2005 Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
2005 Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
2005 Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer (b. 1913)
2006 Charles Haughey, Taoiseach (b. 1925)
2007 Walid Eido, Lebanese MP (b. 1942)
2008 Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
2008 Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
2009 Fathi Yakan, Lebanese leader and Muslim cleric (b. 1933)
2009 Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2012 William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate
2014 Chuck Noll, NFL head coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
2015 MC Supreme (Dewayne Lawrence Coleman), rapper (Black in America)

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