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618 Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
860 Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
1155 Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1178 Five Canterbury monks report explosion on moon (only known observation), see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance from the earth (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1316 Peace of Fexhe: prince-bishop Adolf II of Mark & Luikse towns
1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1529 Blackfriars begin: Henry VIII & Catharina of Aragon
1538 Treaty of Nice: ends war between Emperor Charles V & King French I
1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1574 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland
1580 States of Utrecht forbid catholic worship
1583 Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was £383
1629 Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape
1639 Treaty of Berwick: End 1st Bishop war
1643 Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies
1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1757 Battle of Kolín Bohemia Austrian army beats Prussia, between Prussian Forces under Frederick the Great of Prussia and an Austrian Army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Year's War.
1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1778 British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the American Revolutionary War.
1779 French fleet occupies St Vincent
1812 The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom in the War of 1812.
1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon is defeated by Wellington & Blucher. Leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for the second and last time.
1821 Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1822 Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
1822 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1830 French invasion of Algeria
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-Africa
1837 Spain gets new Constitution
1839 Dutch prince Willem Alexander PFL weds niece Princess Sophia
1858 Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
1859 First ascent of Aletschhorn, second summit of the Bernese Alps.
1863 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
1864 At Petersburg, Grant ends 4 days of assaults
1872 Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1879 W H Richardson, a black inventor, patents the children's carriage
1887 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1892 Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1894 Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ
1898 4th US Golf Open, Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1900 Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders I-Ho-Chuan (Boxers) to have all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1900 Gen Luigi Pelloux resigns as premier of Italy
1903 1st transcontinental auto trip begins in SF, arrives NY 3-mo later
1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
1908 The University of the Philippines is established.
1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1910 16th US Golf Open, Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
1915 21st US Golf Open, John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1916 Yanks score in every inning but 8th to beat Indians 19-3 in baseball
1923 Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1924 Pope Pius XI's encyclical Maximam gravissimamque
1926 Theodor Lessing laid-off "because he is a Jew" in Hanover
1927 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000 m: 5:24.6
1928 Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1930 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI
1936 Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 Gen Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy nazi occupiers
1940 German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens
1940 "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill, urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
1941 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 Turkey signs peace treaty with nazi-Germany
1942 Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st black ensign in US Navy
1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944 Farewell concert of Willem Mengelberg in Paris
1944 U-767 sinks
1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.
1946 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1947 Cincinnati Red Ewell Blackwell no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0
1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts Intl Decl of Human Rights
1949 "Along Fifth Avenue" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 perfs
1950 Cleve Indians score 14 runs in 1st inning, beat A's 21-2
1951 De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1953 A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
1953 Egypt proclaimed a republic and the monarchy is abolished, General Neguib becomes president
1953 Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1954 Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
1955 "3 for Tonight" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 85 performances
1956 Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal
1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as PM of Canada
1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1959 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1960 "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs
1960 60th US Golf Open, Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
1961 CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1961 KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1964 African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar
1965 The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1967 67th US Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1967 Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1967 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing
1972 72nd US Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 290 at Pebble Beach Calif
1972 Staines air disaster 118 are killed when a BEA Trident plane crashes 2 minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1972 US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
1972 West Germany wins soccer world championship
1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1974 Gaston Thorn forms Luxembourg government
1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a Red Sox 15-1 victory over Tigers
1975 Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi v England
1975 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1976 A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
1976 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees
1976 St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz hit inside-the-park HRs
1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten & robbed by London pub
1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1978 78th US Golf Open, Andy North shoots a 285 at Cherry Hill CC in Denver
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 Victor de la Torre wins Peru election
1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1979 Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
1979 US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons
1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 Kimberley Ann Smith, of NC, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on high court)
1981 Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, v England at Trent Bridge
1981 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1981 Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
1982 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 "Pump Boys & Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs
1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 STS-7 launched, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 84th US Golf Open, Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY
1984 A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike
1985 Boston Red Sox Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs
1986 De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1986 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
1986 Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55)
1986 Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy
1987 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1988 Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
1989 "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances
1989 89th US Golf Open, Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY
1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989 John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
1989 Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1990 1st ever lose for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, USSR-4 Cameroon-0
1990 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1991 Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US
1991 Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80
1991 SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
1991 Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays
1992 Actor Jameson Parker weds actress Darleen Carr
1992 Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft
1992 Tampa Bay Lightning make goalie Wendell Young their 1st draft
1993 Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games
1993 Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England
1994 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 Gay Games open in NYC
1994 US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1995 95th US Golf Open, Corey Pavin shoots a 280 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1995 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1996 Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2000 100th US Golf Open, at Pebble Beach Golf Links Calif
2001 Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched
2006 Geoff Ogilvy shoots a 285 at Winged Foot GC NY to win the 106th US Golf Open
2012 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
2012 Community wins Best Comedy Series, Homeland wins Best Drama Series at the 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards
2013 27 people are killed and 30 are injured by a suicide bomb in Sher Garh, Pakistan
2013 31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad
2013 Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children
2014 Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters
2015 18 vigilantes are killed & 53 are injured after an accidental detonation of an explosive device in Monguno, Nigeria
2015 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"
2016 Soyuz capsule returns to Earth 1st British International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Timothy Kopra after 186 days

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1269 Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298)
1318 Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
1466 Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
1511 Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
1511 Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence
1517 Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1552 Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
1581 Thomas Overbury, poet (baptized)
1667 Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
1681 Feofan Prokopovich, theologian, archbishop of Novgorod, westernizer
1716 Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
1723 Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
1740 Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
1744 Augustin Holler, composer
1757 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
1757 Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1758 Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch jurist/patriot
1780 Michael Henkel, composer
1794 George Grote, British historian
1799 William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
1809 Sylvanus William Godon, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1879
1812 Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist and travel writer (Oblomov) (d. 1891)
1813 Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian (Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti)
1815 Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
1820 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
1822 Henry David Leslie, composer
1824 Johannes Heykamp, Catholic archbishop of Utrecht
1834 Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, philosopher (d. 1895)
1839 William Henry Seward Jr., Brigadier General (Union volunteers) in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
1845 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
1850 Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic, and teacher (d. 1914)
1854 E(dward) W(yllis) Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
1857 Henry Clay Folger Jr, US, businessman/Shakespeare fan
1858 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
1860 Hugo Loudon, CEO (Royal Dutch Oil [Shell])
1861 Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores)
1863 George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
1868 Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral and regent (1910-44) (d. 1957)
1870 Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1954)
1877 James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam) (d. 1960)
1881 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader
1882 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (1946-49)  (d. 1949)
1884 Édouard Daladier, French politician, premier (1933..40) (d. 1970)
1886 Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
1886 George Mallory, English mountaineer ("because it is there") (d. 1924)
1887 Blanche Yurka, St Paul MN, actress (Taxi, Tale of 2 Cities)
1888 Margarita Xirgu, Barcelona Spain, actress (Bloody Wedding)
1888 S S Van Dine (William Huntingdon Wright), author (Canary Murder Case)
1889 Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
1891 Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian
1891 Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
1892 Edward Steuermann, composer
1895 Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
1895 Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1896 Blanche Sweet, Chicago, actress (Home Sweet Home, Avenging Conscience)
1896 Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
1896 Philip Barry, US, dramatist (Philadelphia Story)
1898 Carleton Percy Hobbs, Farnborough England
1898 M C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
1899 James Ralph Darling, teacher
1901 Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia (d. 1918)
1901 Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher)
1901 Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor (Invisible Creature)
1902 Henry Wadsworth, Maysville KY, actor (Applause, Fast & Loose)
1903 Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (When I'm Calling You), (d. 1965)
1903 Raymond Radiguet, French author (Le diable ouch corps) (d. 1923)
1904 Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (Across the Pacific, Yangtse Incident) (d. 1991)
1904 Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (Bootleggers) (d. 2003)
1905 Eduard Tubin, composer
1905 John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer
1906 Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 Benny Payne, Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show)
1907 Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
1907 Froelich Rainey, Wisc, quiz moderator (What in the World)
1908 Bud Collyer, American game show host (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth) (d. 1969)
1908 Maria E Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Infinite Passage)
1908 Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1910 Avon Long, Balt Md, actor (Roots: Next Generation)
1910 Dick Foran, American actor (OK Crackerby) (d. 1979)
1910 E.G. Marshall, American actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope) (d. 1998)
1910 Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (Glenn Miller Time) (d. 1995)
1912 Glen Morris, MO, Olympic champion/actor (Tarzan)
1912 Henry Brandon, Berlin Germany, actor (Drums of Fu Manchu)
1913 Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (3 Coins in a Fountain) (d. 1993)
1913 Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (Sylvia Porter's Money Book) (d. 1991)
1914 Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper (South African in 11 Tests 1938-50)
1915 Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
1915 Red Adair, American firefighter (fought oil fires in Kuwait) (d. 2004)
1915 Victor Legley, composer
1916 John Young, actor/TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1916 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
1917 Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
1917 Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1917 Richard Boone, American actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel) (d. 1981)
1918 Bob Carroll, singer/actor (Stage Two Revue, Stranger)
1918 Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1918 Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1919 Edward Leadbitter, politician
1919 Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist
1919 Mel Brandt, Bkln NY, actor (Faraway Hill)
1919 Ted Leadbitter, British MP (Lab)
1920 Aster Berkhof, [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ)
1920 Ian Carmichael, English actor (Lucky Jim, I'm Alright Jack) (d. 2010)
1922 Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1922 Donald L Keene, NYC, Japanese translator/critic
1923 Herman Krebbers, Dutch violist/concert master
1924 George Mikan, American basketball player, NBA center (6-time all-pro) (d. 2005)
1924 Liesbeth den Uyl-van Vessem, feminist/wife of Joop den Uyl
1925 Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer
1925 Rex Collings, writer/publisher
1925 Robert Arthur, Aberdeen Wash, actor (12 O'Clock High, Just For You)
1926 Patricia Hutchinson, British ambassador (Uruguay)
1926 Tom Wicker, American journalist (NY Times)
1927 Dennis Landau, CEO (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
1927 Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress (d. 1998)
1927 John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher
1927 Paul Eddington, English actor (Devil Rides Out, Devil's Bride) (d. 1995)
1927 Simeon Pironkov, composer
1928 David T. Lykken, American scientist (d. 2006)
1928 Maggie McNamara, NYC, actress (3 Coins in a Fountain, Cardinal)
1928 Michael Blakemore, British theater director (Country Life)
1929 Eva Bartok, Budapest Hungary, actress (Assassin, Crimson Pirate)
1929 James Bishop, editor (London News Publications)
1929 Jürgen Habermans, German sociologist and philosopher (Frankfurter Schule)
1930 Peter Phillips, CEO (AB Electronics) [or Feb 10]
1931 Della Smith, cookbook writer/British broadcaster
1931 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil (1995 to 2002)
1931 Peter Batty, TV/movie producer
1932 Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 Geoffrey Hill, English poet
1933 Jean Wicki, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1933 Tommy Hunt, US singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
1934 Brian Kenny, deputy supreme allied commander (Europe)
1934 Carl de Winter, sect-gen (Federation of British Artists)
1934 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
1935 Hugh McColl, American banker
1936 Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)
1936 Ian Spurling, ballet designer
1936 (R) Ronald Venetian (Vene), President of Suriname (1991)
1937 Del Harris, American basketball head coach
1937 Gail Godwin, US, author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman)
1937 John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV, (Sen-D-WV, 1985)
1937 Varbara Ann Teer, US actress/director (Natl Black Theatre Company)
1937 Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
1937 Wray Carlton, American football player
1938 Joop M Worrell, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1938 Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
1939 Jean-Claude Germain, French Canadian author, journalist and historian
1939 Lou Brock, American baseball player, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards)
1939 Lynn Whiting, horse trainer
1940 Bob Duncan, prison warden (Gartree Prison in UK)
1940 Jim Albus, Staten Island NY, PGA golfer (1991 Mazda Senior Players)
1940 Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
1941 Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
1942 Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
1942 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
1942 Nick Tate, Australian actor
1942 Paul McCartney, British singer, songwriter and musician (The Beatles) (Wings)
1942 Roger Ebert, American film reviewer (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
1942 Thabo M Mbeki, South African economist, President of South Africa, 1st vice-president (1994)
1943 Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House, Mind Your Language)
1943 Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
1944 Paul Lansky, composer
1944 Sandy Posey, American singer
1946 Bruiser Brody (Frank Goodish), professional wrestler (d. 1988)
1946 Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
1946 Russell Ash, British author
1947 Bernard Giraudeau, La Rochelle France, actor (L'Annee des Meduses)
1947 Douglas Young, composer
1947 Linda Thorson, Toronto, actress (Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live)
1948 Éva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano
1949 Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
1949 Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Polish Prime Minister (2006-2007)
1949 Jerry Hollendorfer, horse trainer
1949 Lech Kaczynski, Polish President (2005-2010) (d. 2010)
1949 Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1949 William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor
1950 Annelie Ehrhardt, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympics-gold-1972)
1950 Jackie Leven, Scottish singer and songwriter
1950 Mike Johanns, American politician, junior senator of Nebraska
1951 Henny Huisman, Dutch TV host (Playback Show)
1952 Barry Champagne, Louisiana, stunt coorindator (Licence to Kill)
1952 Carol Kane, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi)
1952 Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress (Big Night, Blue Velvet)
1952 Lee Soo Man, South Korean SM Entertainment founder and chairman
1952 Rickey Gazda, rocker
1953 Jerome Smith, US guitarist (KC & the Sunshine Band-Boogie Shoes)
1953 Rick Green, Canadian actor
1953 Vladislav Terzyul, Ukrainian mountaineer
1954 William Beard, rock drummer (Face To Face)
1956 Brian Benben, American actor (Dream On, Gangster Chronicles)
1957 Andrea Evans, actress (Young & Restless, Tina-One Life to Live)
1957 Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish football manager
1957 Tom Bailey, England, rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 Daniels Koran, saxophonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1960 Ralph Brown, British actor
1960 Steve Murphy, Canadian local news anchor
1961 Alison Moyet, English pop singer
1961 Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1961 (Genevieve) Alison Moyet, Essex England, rock vocalist (Yaz, Alf)
1962 Jan(ice) Merrill, track star (US record long distance holder 1979)
1962 Jeff Mills, American techno DJ and producer
1962 Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2009)
1963 Bruce Smith, American football player, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1963 Darren "Dizzy" Reed, US musician, keyboardist (Guns N' Roses)
1963 Joe Walter, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1963 Omar Londono, jockey
1964 Thanh Nguyen, Saigon Vietnam, 141 lbs US weightlifter (Olympics-1996)
1964 Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
1965 Kim Dickens, American actress and model
1966 Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 Doug Bodger, Chemainus BC, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, San Jose)
1966 Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater (Olympic-5-1994)
1966 Luke Jensen, Grayling Mich, tennis star (1993 French Open doubles)
1966 Robert Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Oly-1996)
1966 Sandy Alomar, Salinas Puerto Rico, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
1967 Pasquale Bruno, Italian American entrepreneur
1968 John Lumkes, Chicago Illinois, 3k steeplechase runner
1969 Christopher Largen, American author
1969 Fernando Valenzula, jockey
1969 Jay Leeuwenburg, NFL guard/center (Chic Bears, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Laura Brown, LPGA golfer
1969 Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1969 Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
1970 Greg Yaitanes, American television and film director
1970 Robin Christopher, American actress
1971 Blair Pocock, cricketer (New Zealand opening batsman 1993)
1971 Jason McAteer, England/Irish footballer
1971 Mara Hobel, NYC, actress (Mommie Dearest)
1971 Nathan Morris (Alex Vanderpool), American rapper (Boyz II Men)
1972 Michal Yannai, Israeli actress and model.
1972 Otakar Vejvoda, Kladno CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Rep)
1973 Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 Eddie Cibrian, American actor
1973 Julie Depardieu, French actress
1973 Ray Lamontagne, American singer-songwriter
1973 Rayna Stewart, safety/cornerback (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 Tracy Noonan, Lawrence Mass, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1974 Bumper Robinson, actor (Webster, Night Court)
1974 Keith Poole, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1974 Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
1975 Aleksandrs Kolinko, Latvian footballer
1975 Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
1975 Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
1975 Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
1975 Martin St. Louis, Canadian ice hockey player (UVM, Tampa Bay Lightning)
1976 Alana de la Garza, American actress
1976 Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
1976 Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
1978 Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
1979 Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
1980 Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
1980 Antonio Gates, American football player
1980 Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
1980 Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1980 Tara Platt, American actress
1981 Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1981 Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
1982 Nadir Belhadj Premier League footballer
1982 Sean Conant, Irish-American artist
1982 Vadim Pruzhanov, keyboardist (Dragonforce)
1983 Billy Slater, Australian NRL player
1983 Cameron Smith, Australian NRL player
1984 Janne Happonen, Finnish skijumper
1984 Mateus, Angolan footballer
1986 Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
1988 Jack Barakat, American singer/guitar player
1989 Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
1990 Sandra Izbasa, Romanian gymnast
1991 Rei Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
1991 Willa Holland, American actress
1992 Bob Kempainen, Minneapolis MN, marathoner (Olympics-66)
1997 Max Records, American actor
2006 Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royalty

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741 Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41)
1234 Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291 Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91) (b. 1265)
1464 Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter
1536 Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII (b. 1519)
1580 Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau
1588 Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen
1588 Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1629 Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (Spanish silver fleet and folk hero (b. 1577)
1650 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer
1667 Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederik Hendrik
1669 Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname
1673 Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1680 Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
1686 Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1704 Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
1726 Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
1742 John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749 Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born Austrian physician, painter of Maria Theresia (b. 1700)
1772 Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1788 Adam Gib, Scottish religious figure (b. 1714)
1794 François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary figure (b. 1760)
1794 James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1799 Johann Andre, composer
1815 Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1815 Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1817 Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1801-05)
1821 Charles Hague, composer
1824 Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
1833 Robert Hett Chapman, American religious figure and educator (b. 1771)
1835 William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1850 Antoni Weinert, composer
1853 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
1859 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1866 Jacobus T Abels, painter
1866 Prince Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1864)
1876 August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
1880 John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land)
1884 Juan B Alberdi (Figarillo), Argentine writer (Crime of War)
1886 Joannes A Paredis, Belgian/Neth bishop of Roermond
1889 Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1898 George Ulyett, cricketer (949 runs 50 wkts for England 25 Tests)
1902 Samuel Butler, English writer (Erewhom) (b. 1835)
1909 Learmont Drysdale, composer
1911 Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer
1915 Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho (b. 1873)
1916 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff
1916 Max Immelmann, German flying ace (WW I) (b. 1890)
1917 Titu Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1940)
1921 Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies
1921 Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37
1922 Jacobus (John C) Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
1928 Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer (b. 1872)
1934 Francisco Lacerda, composer
1935 August Reusner, composer
1936 Maxim Gorky (Alexei M Peshkov), Russian writer (Mother) (b. 1868)
1937 Gaston Doumergue, French statesman, president of France (1913..34) (b. 1863)
1939 French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor
1942 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 Arthur Willard Pryor, composer
1942 John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter, killed Heydrich
1943 Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer and resistance fighter (b. 1912)
1945 Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle
1945 Simon B Buckner, US lt-gen/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action
1947 Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1952 Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player
1955 Walter Rein, composer
1955 Willy Burkhard, composer
1958 Douglas Jardine, cricketer (22 Tests for England)
1959 Ethel Barrymore (Blythe), American actress (None but the lonely) (b. 1879)
1962 Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Bruckner)
1963 Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1964 Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
1965 George Melachrino, composer
1967 Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1967 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-67)
1971 Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1971 Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1973 Fritz Mahler, composer
1973 Roger Delgado, British actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June) (b. 1918)
1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO
1974 Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, minister of Defense (b. 1896)
1974 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
1975 Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king
1975 Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
1978 Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 Curd Jürgens, German actor (Disorder) (b. 1915)
1982 Djuna Barnes, writer
1982 John Cheever, American author, Pulitzer prize (b. 1912)
1982 Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself
1984 Alan Berg, American radio talk show host (b. 1934)
1985 Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1986 Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1987 Bruce Marshall, writer
1989 I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1990 Dennis Dyer, cricketer (scored 96 3 Tests for South Africa)
1991 Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1992 Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (b. 1896)
1992 Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (Legs Diamond) (b. 1944)
1994 Jack Harkness, rose grower
1995 Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso)
1995 Charles Martin, cartoonist
1996 Maitland Mackie, farmer
1996 Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist
1997 Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2000 Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
2002 Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
2003 Ernest Martin, American convicted murderer (b. 1960)
2003 Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2005 Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2005 Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
2006 Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
2007 Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
2007 Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
2008 Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2008 Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2008 Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
2010 José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2010 Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (b.1980)
2011 Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
2012 Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
2012 Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor
2013 Gene Freese, American MLB player
2014 Johnny Mann, American Grammy-award winning musician
2016 Paul Cox, Dutch-born Australian director (Lonely Hearts)

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