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June 16th

Holidays and Festivals

Bloomsday (James Joyce fans) * (see below)
Bloomsday Youth Day (South Africa)
Father's Day (Seychelles) * CLICK HERE
Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Sikhism)
Sussex Day

Remembrance Day for the 1999 expulsion from Kosovo (Roma people)
Fudge Day
Fresh Veggies Day
Feast of Saint Benno (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint John Regis, patron of medical social workers. (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Julitta and Saint Quiricus (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Lutgart of Tongeren (died 1246, patron saint of the Flemish National Movement
* Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 10 – 23 (7of14) (2010)
* Meltdown Festival London, UK June 11 - 20 (6of10) (2010)
* North by Northeast Music Festival Toronto, Canada June 16 - 20 (1of5) (2010)
* Bloomsday (James Joyce fans - especially Dublin, IE) is based on James Joyce's novel Ulysses. It is a day to celebrate his writings.

Fête de la Thym Translation: Thyme Day (French Republican) The 28th day of the Month of Prairial in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"A little health, a little wealth,
A little house and freedom.
With some few friends for certain ends
But little cause to need ‘em."
- Anonymous

Drink of The Day

Funky Monkey

1 shot green chartreuse
1 shot galliano
1/2 shot lime juice
2 shots orange juice

Shake first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice filled tall glass. Top up with ginger beer.

Wine of The Day

Mazza Chautauqua Cellars (2008) Shiraz
Style - Shiraz
McLaren Vale
$35

Beer of The Day

Unertl Leichte Weisse
Brewer - Weißbräu Unertl GmbH & Co. KG Mühldorf, Germany
Style - German-Style Pale Wheat Ale

Joke of The Day

DEEP QUESTIONS ..

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

If a turtle doesn't have a shell,   is he homeless or naked?

If the police arrest a mime,   do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

If one synchronized swimmer drowns,   do the rest drown, too?

If you throw a cat out a car window does it become kitty litter?

If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they stick Teflon on the pan?

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

What's another word for thesaurus?

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream container?

How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes?

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?

When a cow laughs does milk come up its nose?

Why do they put Braille on the number pads of drive-through bank machines?

How did a fool and his money GET together?

Do they have reserved parking for non-handicap people at the Special Olympics?

Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?

Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Can you be a closet

claustrophobic?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?

Should vegetarians eat animal crackers?

Quote of The Day

"Beer will get you through time of no money better than money will get you through times of no beer."

- Freddie Freak

Whisky of The Day

Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve Whisky
Price: $60

June Observances

African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)

Observances this Week

Universal Father's Week Third Full Week in June
Consumer Awareness Week Third Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week Third Full Week in June
National Health Care Risk Management Week Third Work Week in June
Meet A Mate Week Third Full Week in June
Old Time Fiddlers Week (Weiser, Idaho) Third Full Week in June
National Nursing Assistants Week Week Starting the Second Thursday in June
Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th

Historical Events on June 16th

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632 Origin of Persian (Yezdegird) Era
1338 German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant
1487 Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
1624 Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown
1673 Peace of Vossem, Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
1745 British troops under Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, which is now part of Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession, Troops take Cape Breton Island on St Lawrence River, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1746 Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco and Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza during the War of Austrian Succession.
1755 The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians in the French and Indian War.
1774 Formation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually Breed's Hill)
1775 Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
1779 In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
1779 Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1779 Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada
1784 Holland forbids orange clothes
1794 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1815 Battle at Ligny, French army under Napoleon beats Prussia two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras, allies strike French two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1823 King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
1832 Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
1836 The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement.
1846 The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
1858 Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois "A house divided against itself cannot stand".
1858 Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny.
1861 Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
1864 Battle of Lynchburg VA
1864 Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia
1864 Union General Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Va
1871 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1871 The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology.
1873 Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce indians
1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 Salvation Army forms in London
1881 Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty
1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1883 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
1883 The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children
1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1891 John Abbott becomes Canada's third prime minister.
1893 RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1896 Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1898 China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1899 Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's
1903 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
1903 Ford Motors incorporates
1903 Pepsi Cola company forms
1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
1903 The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1904 Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1904 Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
1904 Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; traditionally "Bloomsday".
1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1909 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
1911 A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1913 South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1915 The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1916 Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
1917 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1917 49th Belmont, James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
1922 General election in Irish Free State, large majority to pro-Treaty Sinn Féin.
1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1924 South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
1924 The Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1927 31st US Golf Open, Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa
1929 Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1930 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1931 Austrian government of Ender falls
1932 Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
1932 Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
1932 Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1936 Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1936 Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1938 Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
1938 St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1940 A Communist government is installed in Lithuania.
1940 General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
1940 Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France in World War II.
1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1943 Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1944 Iceland adopts constitution
1944 King George VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
1944 US bombs Kyushu Japan
1945 71st Preakness, Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
1945 Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
1946 "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs
1946 46th US Golf Open, Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve
1947 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1948 The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
1949 Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
1951 51st US Golf Open, Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1951 83rd Belmont, David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1953 Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis Brown 14 game losing streak
1954 Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
1954 Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine President Juan Peron
1956 56th US Golf Open, Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY
1956 88th Belmont, David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
1957 French offensive in Algeria
1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6
1958 "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46
1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
1958 Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
1960 "Psycho," opens in NY
1960 President Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1961 Discoverer 25 launched
1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget airport in Paris
1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1963 Vostok 6 Mission Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) becomes the first woman in space.
1964 Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
1964 Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1966 "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1966 20th Tony Awards, Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
1967 The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival begins in Monterey, California, 50,000 attend.
1968 68th US Golf Open, Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY, Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par
1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
1970 Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1970 Race riots in Miami, Florida and Jacksonville, Florida
1971 Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
1972 Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1972 The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
1973 Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
1974 74th US Golf Open, Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
1974 Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open
1975 Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1975 Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1975 Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
1976 Soweto uprising, a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children (Soweto Day).
1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1977 Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
1977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1977 Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1977 Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1978 Cincinati Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
1979 Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1980 "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
1980 Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
1982 Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
1983 European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1983 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1983 Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1983 USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1984 Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1985 85th US Golf Open, Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1985 T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
1985 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis
1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
1988 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1989 "Ghostbusters II" premieres
1989 Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956, former Hungarian Prime Minister, he is reburied in Budapest.
1989 Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
1990 "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8
1990 Nelson & Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
1991 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs
1991 NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
1991 91st US Golf Open, Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn
1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
1991 Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991 With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
1992 Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
1992 Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
1992 Great Brit postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning
1992 Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1992 Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)
1993 Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's
1994 Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
1995 "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend
1995 Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)
1995 Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
1996 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
1996 50th NBA Championship, Chicago Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
1996 96th US Golf Open, Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1997 31st Music City News Country Awards, Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes
1997 The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.
2002 Tiger Woods shoots a 277 at Bethpage State Park NY to win the 102nd US Golf Open
2010 Cam Neely is named President of his former team, the Boston Bruins
2012 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
2012 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
2012 A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
2012 Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
2013 20 people are killed by a series of car bombings across Iraq
2013 Justin Rose shoots a 281 at the Merion Golf Club, PA to win the 113rd US Golf Open
2015 Golden State Warriors beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 2 to win the 69th NBA Championship
2016 British MP (L) Jo Cox is shot and killed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire
2016 Philadelphia is the first US state to pass a tax on sweetened drinks

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Born on June 16th

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1139 Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)
1332 Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)
1514 John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557)
1583 Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl, chancellor, and regent (d. 1654)
1591 Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
1606 Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
1612 Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640)
1613 John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658)
1633 Jean de Thévenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667)
1633 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1644 Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orléans (d. 1670)
1713 Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786)
1723 Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790)
1738 Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816)
1752 Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1754 Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800)
1792 John Linnell, English artist (d. 1882)
1792 Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855)
1801 Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1806 Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1813 Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1820 Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
1821 Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
1826 Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897)
1829 Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909)
1836 Wesley Merritt, American soldier, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1910)
1837 Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1903)
1837 Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885)
1838 Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900)
1840 Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913)
1843 David Popper, composer
1843 Jan Malat, composer
1853 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1858 Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50) (d. 1950)
1861 Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
1863 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1874 Arthur Meighen, Ninth Prime Minister of Canada (1920-21, 1926) (d. 1960)
1879 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
1879 Theo(dorus J) Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy)
1880 Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-born American chemist and historian (d. 1963)
1888 Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925)
1888 Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
1888 Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
1890 Stan Laurel (Arthur S Jefferson), English actor and comedian (Laurel & Hardy) (d. 1965)
1892 Lupino Lane, London England, actress (Love Parade)
1894 Norman Kerry, American actor (Phantom of the Opera) (d. 1956)
1896 Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1896 Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976)
1896 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
1897 Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
1897 Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1899 Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1900 Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62)
1901 Arthur Pierson, Oslo Norway, actor/director (Hat Check Girl)
1901 Conrad Beck, composer
1902 Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes) (Nobel laureate 1983) (d. 1992)
1902 George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984)
1902 Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist
1903 Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
1903 Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)
1904 Gerard Holt, Dutch architect
1906 Alan Fairfax, cricketer (Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's)
1907 Jack Albertson, American actor (Thin Man) (d. 1981)
1907 John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
1909 Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
1909 Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
1910 E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
1910 Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1910 Juan Velasco, President of Peru (d. 1977)
1910 Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1910 Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1912 Enoch Powell, British politician, professor (d. 1998)
1912 John Peel, MP
1914 Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer, secretary (MCC)
1915 John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000)
1915 Joseph Kagan, businessman
1915 Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1916 Francis Lopez, composer
1916 Hank Luisetti, American basketball player, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot) (d. 2002)
1917 Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari (d. 1989)
1917 Irving Penn, American photographer
1917 Katherine Graham, American publisher (Wash Post) (d. 2001)
1919 Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
1920 John Howard Griffin, American writer (Black Like Me) (d. 1980)
1920 José López Portillo, President of Mexico (d. 2004)
1920 Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian scientist (d. 2002)
1921 Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1923 Ake Hermanson, composer
1923 Henryk Czyz, composer
1923 Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962)
1924 Faith Domergue, American actor (House of 7 Corpses) (d. 1999)
1924 Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1925 Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
1927 Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001)
1927 Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
1927 Tom W "Tom" Graveney, English cricketer
1928 Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
1928 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
1928 Speedy O. Long, American politician (d. 2006)
1929 James Kirtland Randall, composer
1929 Pauline Yates, English actress
1929 Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001)
1930 Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (d. 1998)
1930 Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
1930 David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
1930 Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born American cinematographer
1931 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1931 Ivo Petric, composer
1931 Robert F (Bob) Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983)
1932 David Keylsey, actor/director
1932 Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1933 Joachim Nowotny, writer
1934 Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress
1934 Eileen Atkins, London England, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
1934 Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
1934 Janet Pilgrim, playmate (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956)
1934 Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
1934 Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
1934 Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1934 Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
1934 William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
1935 Bill Cobbs, American actor
1935 Jim Dine, American pop artist (St John the Divine)
1936 August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator
1936 Fred Oster, Dutch TV host
1937 August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 Erich Segal, American author (Love Story, Oliver's Story) (d. 2010)
1937 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria
1938 James Bolam, English actor (Crucible of Terror)
1938 Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938 Mickie Finn, Hugo Oklahoma, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
1938 Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer
1940 Billy "Crash" Craddock, American country singer
1940 Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1940 Neil Goldschmidt, American-born Governor of Oregon
1941 Aldrich Ames, CIA officer and spy for the Soviet Union
1941 Lamont Dozier, American record company executive (Holland-Dozier)
1941 Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist
1942 Eddie Levert, American singer (The O'Jays)
1942 Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist, world race champion
1942 John Rostill, rocker
1943 Joan Van Ark, American actress (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing)
1944 Henri Richelet, French painter
1944 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1944 Takamiyama (Jesse Kuhaulua), Hawaiian Sumo Wrestler, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
1945 Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician
1946 Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 Jodi Rell, American politician, governor of Connecticut
1946 Lord Astor, of Hever
1946 Mark Ritts, American actor (d. 2009)
1946 Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
1946 Rick Adelman, American basketball player & head coach
1946 Simon Williams, US, actor (Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu)
1947 Minu, Swiss columnist and writer
1947 Tom Wyner, British-born American voice actor and writer
1948 Ron LeFlore, American baseball player
1949 Kale Browne, San Rafael California, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World)
1949 Paulo César, Brazilian footballer
1949 Peppy Castro (Emil Thielhelm), American vocalist (Balance)
1950 James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1950 Jesse Dizon, Oceanside California, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat)
1951 Charlie Dominici, American singer (Dominici)
1951 John Salthouse, British(?) actor (American Werewolf in London)
1951 Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut
1951 Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
1951 Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1951 Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler
1952 Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician
1952 Gino Vanelli, Canadian singer and songwriter (Living Inside Myself)
1952 Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1953 Ian Mosley, British drummer (Marillion)
1953 Valerie Mahaffey, American actress
1954 Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1954 Jeffrey S Ashby, Dallas Tx, astronaut (sk: STS 85)
1955 Laurie Metcalf, American actress (Jackie-Roseanne)
1955 Simon Bailey, priest
1957 Adri van Tiggelen, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
1957 Ian Buchanan, Scottish actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show)
1958 Darrell Griffith, American basketball player
1958 Jóhannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (Þeyr)
1958 Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer
1959 Desirée Rogers, American public relations executive, and current Social Secretary for the White House
1960 Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 Robbie Kerr, cricketer (Queensland opener 2 Tests for Australia 1985)
1961 Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Hong Kong composer and producer
1962 Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
1962 Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
1962 Wally Joyner, American baseball player
1963 Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler
1963 Mohsin Kamal, cricketer (Pakistani fast bowler 1984)
1963 Scott Alexander, American screenwriter
1965 J J Birden, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 Johannes Harisch, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1966 Jan Zelezny, Czech javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 (Eric) Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96)
1967 John Franklin, American actor
1968 Alton Montgomery, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Matt Turk, NFL punter (Washington Redskins)
1968 Nehemiah Perry, cricketer (fine Jamaican off-spinner)
1968 Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children)
1969 Kevin Young, Alpena MI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer
1970 Clifton Collins Jr., American actor
1970 Cobi Jones, American soccer player
1970 Michael Husted, NFL place kicker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 Phil Mickelson, American golfer, PGA tour (1991 Northern Telecom)
1970 Younus AlGohar, British spiritualist, author, poet, sufi & humanitarian
1971 Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Chris(topher) Gomez, American baseball player, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1971 Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet), murdered (d. 1996)
1972 Ann Shoket, American magazine editor
1972 John Cho, Korean-American actor
1972 Shawnelle Scott, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 Simon Khan, English golfer
1973 Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer
1973 Shannon Myers, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1974 Paul Lee, British sculptor
1975 Anthony Carter, American basketball player
1975 Asa Carlsson, Vasteras Sweden, tennis star (1995 Futures-Stockholm)
1975 Maria Sinigerova, Miss Universe-Bulgaria (1996)
1976 Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
1976 Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1977 Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 Kerry Wood, American baseball player, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1977 Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer
1977 Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster, former USC football player
1978 Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player
1978 Daniel Brühl, German actor
1978 Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer
1978 Lyndsey Marshal, British actress
1980 Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
1980 Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player
1980 Daré Nibombé, Togolese footballer
1980 Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
1980 Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer
1980 Nehir Erdogan, Turkish actress
1980 Phil Christophers, German rugby player
1981 Ben Kweller, American singer/songwriter
1981 Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
1981 Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Miguel Villalta, Peruvian Footballer
1982 Chris Wingert, American soccer player
1982 Fraser Cartmell, British triathlete
1982 Jodi Santamaria, Filipina actress
1982 Matt Costa, American singer/songwriter
1982 May Andersen, Danish supermodel
1982 Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress
1983 Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer
1984 Jonathan Broxton, American Baseball Player
1984 Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers)
1984 Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer
1986 Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi Cricketer
1986 Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer
1986 Robert Rothbart, Bosnian-Israeli Basketball Player
1986 Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer
1986 Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer
1987 Abby Elliott, American comedienne
1987 Diana DeGarmo, American singer
1987 Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer
1988 Keshia Chante, Canadian singer
1988 Leeland Dayton Mooring, American musician (Leeland)
1989 Elena Glebova, Estonian figure skater
1991 Joe McElderry, X Factor Winner 2009
1993 Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy

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956 Hugo, the Great, duke of France
1216 Innocent III, pope
1246 Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint
1361 John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde)
1397 Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1468 Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. c. 1395)
1492 Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
1575 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian
1620 Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith)
1622 Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1644 Johannes a Sancto Thoma (Poinset), Portuguese theologist
1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer
1666 Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow (b. 1630)
1707 Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1722 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general strategist (b. 1650)
1749 Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal, minister (b. 1664)
1752 Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
1793 Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland
1804 Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1808 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
1812 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
1815 Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15)
1824 Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1831 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer
1837 Valentino Fioravanti, composer
1849 Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1850 William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
1855 John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1866 Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1880 James Southerton, cricketer (appeared in England's 1st 2 Tests)
1881 Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1892 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
1901 Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian
1902 Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1905 Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer and governor of E Africa
1910 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
1925 Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
1929 Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (gyroscope compass) (b. 1860)
1930 Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1932 Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass)
1936 Leib Malach, Yiddish writer
1939 Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 DuBose Heyward, American writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin) (b. 1885)
1940 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer
1941 Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate
1944 Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1946 Ludwig Winder, writer
1946 Miloje Milojevic, composer
1947 Jean-Francois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis)
1952 Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
1953 Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1958 Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer
1959 George Reeves, American actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind) (b. 1914)
1961 Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1961 O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests)
1963 J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
1967 Reginald Denny, English stage, film, and television actor (b. 1891)
1969 Harold Alexander, 1st Earl of Tunis, British military commander (b. 1891)
1969 John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe)
1969 Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1970 Elsa Triolet, writer
1970 Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
1970 Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
1971 Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1975 Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer
1976 Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
1976 Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live
1977 Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (V1/V2) (b. 1912)
1979 Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965)
1979 Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer
1979 Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1981 John S Knight, US newspaper magnate
1981 Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders), overdoses on drugs (b. 1956)
1984 Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
1990 Eva Turner, British soprano
1990 Gertrude Baniszewski, murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
1990 Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
1991 Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love)
1992 Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World)
1993 John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963
1993 Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1994 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble
1994 Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings)
1994 Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (b. 1967)
1994 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
1995 Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World)
1996 Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
1996 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
1996 Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (NY Yankees) (b. 1913)
1997 Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
1999 David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 Empress Kojun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2004 Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2006 Igor Smialowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2007 Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
2007 Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
2008 Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2010 Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)
2013 Josip Kuže, Croatian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
2013 Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
2013 Hans Hass, Austrian diving pioneer
2014 Tony Gwynn, American Hall of Fame baseball player
2015 Charles Correa, Indian architect (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT)

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