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69 Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria
70 Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
251 The Battle of Abrittus is won by the Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
649 Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1097 Battle of Dorylaeum, First Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army under Sultan Kilidj Qilich Arslan I of Nicea.
1200 In China, sunglasses are invented
1233 Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252 King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon crowned
1253 Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre
1347 Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390 French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1517 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1517 Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1520 La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
1535 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1543 England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 Union of Lublin, The Kingdom of Poland (Polish Crown) and Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union, the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1600 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth
1656 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1674 Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1690 Battle of Colors, French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle (OS)
1747 Battle at Lafeld, France beat English/Dutch army
1770 Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1776 1st vote on Declaration of Independence
1782 American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1798 Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810 Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1816 Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1823 9th Postmaster General, John McLean of Ohio takes office
1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1831 Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1837 A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1839 Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin & 10 cent Washington, NYC
1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1855 Quinault Treaty signed, Quinault and Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)
1858 The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1861 War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign of the American Civil War, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi, Confed superior power driven out
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 Battle of Malvern Hill, VA (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm)
1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time).
1862 Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Day 7 of Seven Days US15,249 CS17,583
1862 Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1862 The Russian State Library is founded.
1863 Battle at Baltimore, Crump's Crossroads Virginia
1863 The Battle of Gettysburg begins in the American Civil War, Lee's northward advance halted.
1863 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz
1863 Keti Koti, Emancipation Day in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles
1864 Battle of Petersburg, VA
1867 The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec), John A. Macdonald is sworn in as first Prime Minister.
1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1871 The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1873 Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
1873 Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation, becomes 7th Canadian province.
1874 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1877 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1878 Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1879 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, comes into effect.
1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1883 ANWB forms in Utrecht
1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1890 Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1892 The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.
1893 SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1896 Harbor of Ymuiden opens
1896 Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier
1897 Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 Spanish-American War, The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1907 World's 1st air force established (US Army)
1908 SOS is adopted as the international Distress signal.
1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens St Louis Browns beat Chicago White Sox 2-0
1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion=
1911 German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911 Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
1915 Leutnant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 Battle on the Somme, British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916 British court martial (Easter uprising)
1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1916 Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1916 Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR
1916 World War I, First day on the Somme On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1917 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
1917 Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn
1919 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
1919 Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen
1920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1921 The Communist Party of China is founded.
1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass)
1924 Light Brigade forms
1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
1925 NY Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7
1925 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1926 Canada restores gold standard
1929 US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1929 US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1930 Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
1931 Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
1931 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1931 Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)
1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1932 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (63 61)
1932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago
1932 NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1933 German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work
1933 Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
1933 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1935 General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam
1935 Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1936 AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens
1936 Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
1937 Britain begins using an emergency phone number (999)
1937 Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937 Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists
1938 58th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1941 Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1941 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1941 WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1942 Australian Federal Government becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
1942 German troops conquer Sebastopol
1942 World War II, First Battle of El Alamein.
1943 "Pay-as-you-go" 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1943 Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo". (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
1944 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1944 General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
1944 US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy
1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel, "Signs peace, idiots!"
1945 1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers
1945 55th Postmaster General, Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
1945 Allies troop land on Balikpapan
1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown
1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1947 Brittish Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1947 The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 Bradman scores 128 Australia v Surrey, 141 mins, 15 fours
1948 Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher
1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents
1948 Quaid-i-Azam inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 63rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1949 Merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore to become the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in Indian Union.
1949 WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 perfs
1950 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents
1950 WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
1953 KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins
1954 Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 HRs for record 3 HRs in his 1st 2 days
1954 Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 yrs 352, then world record
1954 WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis, Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (63 75 61)
1955 KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1956 Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1957 International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.
1957 WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.,
1959 Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany
1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S., U.K. and other commonwealth countries.
1959 The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
1959 WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
1959 World Refugee Year begins
1960 Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1960 Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
1960 Independence of Somalia.
1960 Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960 No passports needed inside Benelux
1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961 16th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1961 Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1961 KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1962 Algeria votes for independenc
1962 Independence of Burundi, gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
1962 Independence of Rwanda, gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
1963 Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"
1963 Pres Kennedy arrives in Rome
1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1963 US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1963 ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1965 FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1965 KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Kinderstraf trial starts
1966 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966 Explorer 33 launched
1966 Medicare goes into effect
1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1966 VVV soccer team forms in Venlo
1967 "Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1348 perfs
1967 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2
1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967 Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1967 Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867.
1967 The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1968 Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch
1968 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1968 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
1968 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1968 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 John & Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash
1969 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1970 Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
1970 FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
1970 Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
1970 President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1971 British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
1971 Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off
1971 State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
1972 "Follies" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 524 performances
1972 "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1972 Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
1972 Ms. magazine begins publishing
1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1973 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 perfs
1973 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1973 Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1974 1st Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF)
1974 General Pinochet becomes president of Chile
1974 Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina
1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1975 Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1977 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis, Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
1977 FC Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam Neth
1977 Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec)
1978 "Act" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances
1978 Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.
1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
1979 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1980 O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1980 Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
1981 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981 NEC soccer team forms in Nijmegen
1981 Nell Dunn's "Steaming," premieres in London
1981 Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1981 The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
1982 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY Madison Square Garden
1982 PEC Swells '82 soccer team forms in Swells
1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1983 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
1984 "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1987 WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF
1989 Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play
1990 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
1990 11th US Seniors Golf Open, Lee Trevino
1990 18th du Maurier Golf Classic, Cathy Johnston
1990 Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0
1990 Dordrecht '90 soccer team forms in Dordrecht
1990 FC Swells soccer team forms in Swells=
1990 East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus re-uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1990 NY Yankee Andy Hawkins throws no-hitter in Comiskey Park, losing 4-0
1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1992 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
1992 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992 Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 1 second is added to the clock
1993 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
1994 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994 Soyuz TM-19 launches
1994 Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 906 perfs
1995 Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
1996 Kevan James scores 103 & takes 4 wkts in 4 balls, Hants v Ind
1996 NHL Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes
1996 Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1996 WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
1997 Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit
1997 The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1997 UK returns Hong Kong to China
1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2000 The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
2000 Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
2002 A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2003 Over 500,000 people protested against China's brutality in Hong Kong.
2004 Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
2008 Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2009 Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigns giving no specific reason. Jadranka Kosor is announced as the next Prime Minister, the first woman ever to hold the post.
2012 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
2012 Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win UEFA Euro 2012
2013 47 people are killed and 90 are wounded in two bomb blasts in Pakistan
2013 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union
2013 Demonstrations occur across Egypt with 15 million people calling for the resignation of their President, Mohammed Morsi
2014 Jennifer Love Hewitt joins the CBS series "Criminal Minds"
2014 Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament
2014 The US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of 'Obamacare' on religious grounds
2015 Greece becomes 1st developed country to default on debt to the International Monetary Fund (1.7 billion)
2015 Misty Copeland becomes the 1st African American principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre
2015 US and Cuba announce agreement to re-open embassies and establish full diplomatic ties
2016 Islamic militants storm a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 20 hostages and 2 police, country's worse terror attack

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1381 Laurentius Justitianus (Lorenzo Giustiniani), saint
1481 Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26) (d. 1526)
1511 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist=
1534 Frederik II, King of Denmark, Norway (1559-88) (d. 1588)
1560 Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/duke of Aarschot
1574 Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
1633 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 G(ottfried) W. Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (postulated monads) (d. 1716)
1663 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer
1676 Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1688 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer=
1723 Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish economist, historian, and literary (d. 1802)
1725 Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1735 James Lyon, composer
1742 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and writer (types of Lichtenberg) (d. 1799)
1764 Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer
1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician, founded projective geometry (d. 1867)
1802 Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union) (d. 1878)
1804 George Sand,  (female) French writer (Valentine, Le Figaro) (d. 1876)
1807 Thomas Green Clemson, American university founder(Clemson University) (d. 1888)
1810 Walter White, secretary (NAACP)
1812 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist, heraldicus
1818 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army)
1834 Jadwiga Luszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1840 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1844 Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)
1857 Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)
1861 Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)
1863 William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 Louis Blériot, French aviator, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel (d. 1936)
1873 Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1874 Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
1879 Leon Jouhaux, French labor leader, socialist, co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel Peace Prize 1951) (d. 1954)=
1881 Piet(er) L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)
1883 Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)=
1887 Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)
1892 James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1893 Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia
1896 Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS]
1898 Andre-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium
1899 Cavan O'Connor, singer
1899 Charles Laughton, English actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus) (d. 1962)
1899 Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones"
1899 Konstantinos Tsatsos, 2nd President of Greece (d. 1987)
1899 Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
1901 Irna Phillips, Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light)
1901 Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist
1902 Jose Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect
1902 William Wyler, French-born film director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver) (d. 1981)
1903 Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1903 Beatrix Lehmann, England, actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase)
1904 Mary Calderone, physician/founder (planned parenthood)
1906 Edward Lansing Gordon Jr, Jackson Miss, long jumper (Olympic-gold-32)
1906 Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1906 Frank Parker, NYC, actor (Shawn-Days of our Life)
1906 Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
1907 Bill Stern, American sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights) (d. 1971)
1908 Estee Lauder, CEO (Estee Lauder's cosmetics)
1908 Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture)
1908 Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1908 Peter Anders, German opera singer
1909 Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1909 Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist
1909 Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1911 Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orchestra leader (King Family)
1911 Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1912 David R. Brower, American environmentalist, president (Sierra Club) (d. 2000)
1912 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1912 Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 Frank Barrett, baseball player (d. 1998)
1913 Jo Sinclair, writer
1913 Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (d. 1979)
1914 Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 Earle Warren, alto sax player
1914 Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
1915 Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter)
1915 Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1915 Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner (Unilever)
1915 Willie Dixon, American musician, blues(Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy) (d. 1992)
1916 Olivia de Havilland, British actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1917 Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1919 Hans Bender, German poet
1920 Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (Bechuanaland) (d. 1980)
1923 Constance Ford, actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)
1925 Farley Granger, American actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask)
1926 Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1926 Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster
1926 Hans Werner Henze, German composer
1926 Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1927 Alan J. Charig, British palaeontologist (d. 1997)
1927 Hans Eklund, composer
1927 Ruben Gomez, baseball player
1928 Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World)
1928 Volker Wangenheim, composer
1929 Gerald M Edelman, American biochemist (Nobel laureate 1972)
1930 Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)
1930 Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
1930 Carol Chomsky, American linguist, (d. 2008)
1930 Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 Leslie Caron, French actress (Lili, Father Goose)
1931 Tab Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust)
1932 Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1932 Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1933 Frank Baumann, baseball player
1933 Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer
1934 Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1934 Jamie Farr, American actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH)
1934 Jean Marsh, English actress (Dark Places, Eagle has Landed)
1934 Sydney Pollack, American film director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent) (d. 2008)
1935 James Cotton, blues vocalist
1935 Seiji Ozawa, [Fentian Shenyan], Manchuria, orchestra conductor
1937 Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader
1938 Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler (early 60s)
1938 Craig Anderson, baseball player
1938 Don Pavletich, baseball player
1939 Charles Hatcher, (Rep-D-GA, 1981)
1939 Delaney Bramlett, Oklahoma, rocker (Shindogs, Delaney & Bonnie)
1939 Karen Black, American actress
1940 Jack Acker, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1940 Kenneth Clarke, British minister
1941 Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 John Gould, British composer/musical comic
1941 Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1941 Rod Gilbert, Canadian hockey player, NHL wing (NY Rangers)
1941 Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)
1941 Twyla Tharp, American choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
1942 Andraé Crouch, American singer
1942 Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me, Coma)
1942 Karen Black (Ziegler), Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Pyx)
1942 Mike Malloy, American talk radio host
1942 William Carney, (Rep-R-NY, 1979-86)
1943 Jeff Wayne, American musician
1945 Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
1945 Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1946 June Montiero, US, vocalist (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1946 Ron Silver, NYC, actor (Gary-Rhoda, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends)
1947 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
1947 Marc Benno, rocker
1947 Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
1948 John Ford, English musician (Strawbs)
1949 John Farnham, Australian singer
1950 David Duke, American politician, K.K.K. member
1951 Anne Feeney, American protest singer
1951 Daryl Anderson, Seattle, actor (Animal-Lou Grant)
1951 Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1951 Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
1951 Trevor Eve, Welsh actor (Shadow Chasers)
1952 Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor (SNL, Dragnet, Blues Brothers)
1952 Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1953 Henry Percy, 11th duke of Northumberland, godchild of Elizabeth II
1953 Jadranka Kosor, Prime Minister of Croatia
1953 Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese Prime Minister
1954 Michael Daniel Reid, Bainbridge MD, PGA golfer (1987 Seiko Tucson)
1955 Keith Whitley, American country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes) (d. 1989)
1956 Adrian Wright, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
1956 Alan Ruck, American actor
1956 Bill Caudill, baseball player
1956 Lorna Patterson, Whittier California, actress (Airplane, Pvt Benjamin)
1956 Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (d. 2009)
1957 Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1958 Nancy Lieberman Cline, Bkln, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury) (Oly-S-76)
1959 Anne Smith, Dallas TX, tennis star
1959 Dale Midkiff, American actor
1960 Alan Ruck, Cleve Oh, actor (Stuart-Spin City)
1960 Evelyn "Champagne" King, American disco singer (Shame, I'm in Love)
1960 Kevin Swords, American rugby player
1960 Lynn Jennings, Princeton NJ, 5k runner
1960 Mike Fitzgerald, baseball player
1961 Carl Lewis (Frederick), American athlete, sprinter and long jumper (Oly-9 gold-84-96)
1961 Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (STS 87) (d. 2003)
1961 Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1961 Michelle Wright, Canadian musician
1962 Andre Braugher, American actor (Frank Pembleton-Homicide)
1963 David Wood (environmental campaigner), American environmental activist
1963 Edward Tsang Lu, Springfield Mass, astronaut (STS 84)
1963 Roddy Bottum, American musician, keyboardist (Faith No More, Imperial Teen)
1964 Bernard Laporte, French rugby player & coach
1964 Mike Twardoski, baseball player
1964 Poi Burton, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1964 Theresa Lynn, Louisville KY, actress (Orgasm Girl-Private Parts)
1965 Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
1965 Luc Rochefort, Trois-Rivieres Que, golfer (1991 Low Amateur Quebec)
1966 Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1966 Eric Ball, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1966 Larisa Savchenko, Neiland Latvia, tennis star
1966 Patrick McEnroe, Manhasset NY, tennis star
1966 Shawn Burr, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1966 Simon Arkell, Australian pole vaulter (Olympics-17th-92, 96)
1967 Dave Richardson, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 Mike Eastwood, Ottawa, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Pamela Anderson, Canadian model, playmate (Feb 90/Home Improvement)
1967 Tony Bennett, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 Charles Wilson, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1968 Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor
1968 Roshumba Williams, Chicago Ill, model (Bride)
1968 Tim Abell, American actor
1969 Gary Brown, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)
1969 Graham Lloyd, cricketer (son of David, Lancashire batsman, Eng ODI 96)
1970 Henry Simmons, American actor
1970 Kevin O'Brien, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 Melissa Peterman, American actress
1970 Nicky Goetze, Milwaukee Wisc, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA Acad)
1970 Van Malone, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1971 Amira Casar, French actress
1971 Darick Holmes, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1971 Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 Missy Elliott, American rapper and singer
1971 Oleg Antonenko, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1971 Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 Wanda Gonzalez, Miss Connecticut USA (1996)
1972 Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1972 Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 Corey Hirsch, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 Darrick Bledose, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 Malina Milson, Australian softball 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
1974 Michele Krasnoo, Culver City California, actress (Kickboxer IV)
1975 Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976 Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1976 Patrick Kluivert, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1976 Plies, American rapper
1976 Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1977 Birgit Schuurman, Dutch musician
1977 Greg Pattillo, American musician
1977 Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
1977 Keigo Hayashi, Japanese music artist
1977 Liv Tyler, American actress and daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven Tyler (Stealing Beauty)
1977 Misty Marriah Esplin, Preston Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1997)
1977 Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer
1978 Eisa Istok, Miss Illinois Teen USA (1996)
1978 Jacqie Turner, west Covina California, figure skater, 1997 SW Pacific-2nd
1978 Shannon Davis, American woman
1978 Vicki Renee Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA (1997)
1979 Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1980 Patrick Aufiero, American hockey player
1981 Amanda Diva, American actress and rapper
1981 Demetria McKinney, American Actress
1981 Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-born Australian Rules footballer
1982 Adrian Ward, American football player
1982 Carmella DeCesare, American glamor model
1982 Hilarie Burton, American actress
1982 Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 Romola Garai, English actress
1983 Leeteuk, Korean singer
1983 Lynsey Bartilson, American actress
1983 Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician (M2M)
1986 Andrew Lee, Australian Australian rules footballer
1988 Evan Ellingson, American actor
1989 Hannah Murray, English actress
1989 Mitch Hewer, English actor
1992 Bryant Jones, Camarillo Ca, actor (Nate Hastings-Young & Restless)
1998 Hollie Steel, Britain's Got Talent finalist

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251 Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
251 Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b.c. 227)
552 Totila, king of the Ostrogoths
868 Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
1109 King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277 Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1378 Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik
1523 Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1523 John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1589 Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher
1592 Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and  violinist (Responsoria)
1614 Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622 William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1627 Nathaniel Bacon, English painter
1662 Simon Ives, composer
1681 Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1691 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
1708 Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1723 Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797)
1742 Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech monk/composer
1774 Henry Fox Holland, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
1776 Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, son of J.S. Bach (b. 1710)
1805 Georg Ritschel, composer
1819 Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1839 Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (1808-39) (b. 1785)
1847 George F Kersting, German painter
1860 Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
1863 John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (Union), dies in battle (b. 1820)
1883 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer
1885 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
1894 Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1894 Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs
1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) (b. 1811)
1905 John Hay, American statesman (b. 1838)
1910 Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette)
1916 William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14)
1922 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia)
1925 Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish) (b. 1866)
1925 Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian
1939 Louis Davids (Simon David), cabaret performer/chorus performer
1942 Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (b. 1857)
1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1943 C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1943 Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1944 Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise)
1944 Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
1947 Clarence Lucas, composer
1948 Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
1949 Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist
1950 Edward Faber Schneider, composer
1950 Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (Chicago Trib building) (b. 1873)
1950 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1953 Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered
1953 Jacob D du Toit (Totius), South African poet/theologist
1958 Apie (Adrian P) Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way)
1958 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A)
1958 Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance)
1961 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1963 Camille Chautemps, premier France
1964 Pierre Monteux, French conductor (Concert Bldg Orch) (b. 1875)
1965 Claude Thornhill, composer
1965 Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (b. 1903)
1967 Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
1968 Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08)
1968 Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
1968 Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too)
1971 Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer (all-rounder & fielder)
1971 William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1973 Mario La Broca, composer
1974 Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74) (b. 1895)
1976 Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1979 Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill)
1980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates)
1981 Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1981 Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1982 John Everett Watts, composer
1982 Vera (A Veronica) Bondam, actress
1983 R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
1984 Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1986 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War)
1987 Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1988 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
1988 Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer
1989 William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House)
1990 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead)
1990 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer
1991 Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure
1991 Michael Landon, American actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven) (b. 1936)
1992 Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies
1994 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
1994 Merriam Modell, American author (b. 1908)
1995 Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies
1995 Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest
1995 Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (Midnight Special) (b. 1938)
1996 Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice)
1996 Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (Lipstick) (b. 1954)
1996 Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator
1996 Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
1996 William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1904)
1997 Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87)
1997 Robert Mitchum, American actor (Winds of War) (b. 1917)
1999 Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
1999 Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
1999 Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
1999 Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000 Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003 Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
2003 N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2003 Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2004 Marlon Brando, actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and "On the Water Front") (b. 1924)
2004 Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2005 Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
2005 Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
2006 Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
2008 Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948)
2009 Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan professional boxer (b. 1952)
2009 Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2009 Marwa El-Sherbini, Egyptian housewife (b. 1977 or 1976)
2009 Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
2009 Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
2010 Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
2011 Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano
2013 William Gray III, American politician
2014 Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
2015 Sir Nicholas Winton, English Humanitarian ('British Schindler' - saved 600 children from Nazis), died at 106 years old
2015 Val Doonican [Michael Valentine], Irish singer and entertainer
2015 Lawrence Herkimer, American "Grandfather of Cheerleading" (founded National Cheerleading Association, patented the pom-pom)

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