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1223 Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
1520 Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes & Tlascala's vs Aztecs
1535 Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
1544 English troops attack The Canal
1581 English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1698 The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama.
1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1769 The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
1789 Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille.  Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
1790 Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1791 The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
1798 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1798 The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or scandalous & malicious statements about the United States government.
1822 Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas
1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
1845 Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 1st US World's fair opens (Crystal Palace NY)
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1853 Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1861 Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Mont
1865 First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom (Hudson, Croz, Douglas & Hadow) die on the descent.
1868 Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
1877 General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
1881 Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
1891 John T Smith patents corkboard
1900 Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
1902 The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1909 Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Dr R Goddard)
1914 NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
1916 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1916 Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action in the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
1921 Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's paymaster
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party - NSDAP. (Gleichschaltung).
1933 Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton
1934 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
1934 NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 Ruth hits 700th career home run
1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1938 Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
1941 Jam rationed in Holland
1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1943 In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 US assault on Coutances Cotentin
1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8 RBIs
1946 Dr Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1948 Israel bombs Cairo
1948 Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1949 USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
1951 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs
1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 20th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 Communist offensive in Korea
1954 117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1956 Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1958 Iraqi Revolution, in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces lead by Abdul Karim Kassem and Col Saddam Hussein.  General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq and becomes the nation's new leader.
1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th & last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Mass
1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 Finland's Miettunen government forms
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 The Mariner 4, 1st Mars probe, flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet at 6,100 miles (9,800 km).
1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon, explodes just before landing
1967 The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a US tour
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 Football War (Soccer war), after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers (1000 dead).
1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 41st All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinati.  All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic Natl Committee
1972 Plate umpire & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, KC Royals win 1-0
1972 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1973 102nd British Golf Open, Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
1974 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
1976 USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1977 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1977 US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1978 Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1979 USSR performs nuclear Test
1981 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
1983 Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1984 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
1986 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 41st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1987 58th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stadium.  All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1990 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
1990 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 46th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 Failed military coup in Mali
1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD.  All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners)
1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.
1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY
1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1995 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Florida Marlins.
1996 "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf
1996 "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
1996 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Raymond Floyd
1996 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1996 NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves.  NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
2000 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
2002 French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
2003 The United States Government admits to the existence of "Area 51".
2007 Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
2012 Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
2012 Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
2014 After 7 days, Israel has struck Gaza 1320 times, while Gaza has fired 940 rockets at Israel
2014 The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops
2014 The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500
2014 The Egyptian government propose a cease fire in the Israel–Gaza conflict
2015 AL wins 86th All Star Baseball Game 6-3 at Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati
2015 Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
2015 Harper Lee's 2nd novel "Go Set A Watchman", an early 1957 version of "To Kill A Mocking Bird" goes on sale in 70 countries
2015 Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark

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1454 Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)
1486 Andea del Sarto, Italy, painter (Recollets)
1602 Jules Mazarin, French Cardinal, First Minister (1642-61) (d. 1661)
1608 George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610 Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671 Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676 Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696 William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1707 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer
1721 John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter, cartoonist, etcher
1785 Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
1794 John G Lockhart (Scorpion), biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
1801 Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1804 Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
1816 Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1818 Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1861)
1829 Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
1830 Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1888)
1834 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter (Whistler's Mother) (d. 1903)
1839 Edward Sydney Smith, composer
1854 Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
1855 Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
1857 Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette, founder (Women's Social & Political Union) (d. 1928)
1859 Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1860 Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)
1862 Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
1862 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (Art Nouveau) (d. 1918)
1865 Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
1865 Arthur Capper, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)
1868 Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
1869 Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
1872 Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939)
1874 Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
1874 Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1874 Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)
1880 Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
1883 Alexandru Zirra, composer
1884 Charles Meldrum Daniels, Dayton Oh, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1904, 08)
1885 King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1888 Scipio Slataper, Italian writer and essayist (d. 1915)
1890 Ossip Zadkine (Zadkin), Russian-French sculptor (Destroyed City)
1891 Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)
1891 Henry Oscar, London England, actor (Saint in London)
1893 Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1893 John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58)
1893 Spencer Williams, Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy)
1895 Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
1896 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1898 Ivan Triesault, Estonia, actor (Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute)
1901 George Tobias, NYC, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched)
1901 Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)
1901 Gerald Raphael Finzi, composer
1902 Paul Guilfoyle, Jersey City NJ, actor/director (Curiosity Kills)
1902 Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
1902 Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WW II)
1903 Irving Stone, American writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life) (d. 1989)
1903 Ken Murray, NYC, comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show)
1904 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
1906 Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings, composer
1906 Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (Carvel ice cream) (d. 1990)
1908 Chaim Raphael, writer
1909 Annabella (Suzanne G Charpentier), French actress (Dinner at Ritz)
1910 Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic
1910 William Hanna, American animator (Hanna-BarberaTom and Jerry, Scooby Doo) (d. 2001)
1911 J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church & Peace)
1911 Terry-Thomas, British actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) (d. 1990)
1912 Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1912 (Woodrow Wilson) "Woodie" Guthrie, American folk musician (This Land Is Your Land) (d. 1967)
1913 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913 Gerald R Ford (Leslie King), 38th President of the United States (R-1974-77), 41st Vice President of the United States (1973-74) (d. 2006)
1913 Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician
1914 Sidney George Gray, company secretary
1916 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary)
1916 Phyllis Stedman, politician
1917 Arthur Leavins, violinist
1917 Douglas Edwards, Alda Oklahoma, newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI)
1918 Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director (West Side Story, Gypsy)
1918 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (Cries & Whispers) (d. 2007)
1918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory
1919 Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--) (d. 1987)
1920 Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 2004)
1921 Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1921 Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1922 Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
1922 Peter Andrew Tranchell, composer
1922 Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1923 Dale Robertson, American actor (Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty)
1923 Frances Lear, Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears)
1923 Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)
1924 James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
1925 Luis Antonio Escobar, composer
1926 Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)
1926 Jan Krenz, composer
1927 John William Chancellor, American television commentator, news anchor (NBC, VOA) (d. 1996)
1928 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
1928 Nancy Olson, American actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna)
1928 Ole Schmidt, composer
1928 Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 Charles Anthony (Caruso), American tenor (2,928 performances at Metropolitan Opera) (d. 2012)
1929 George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer, teacher
1930 Eric Norman Stokes, composer
1930 Polly Bergen, American actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
1931 Donald Eugene Webb, Oklahoma City, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1931 Robert Stephens, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust)
1932 Roosevelt Grier, American football player, NFL (NY Giants) and actor (Movin' On)
1933 Del Reeves, singer/guitarist
1933 Robert Bourassa, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (1970-76, 1985) (d. 1996)
1934 Leo Joseph Koury, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1934 (Robert) Lee Elder, American PGA golfer (1974 Monsanto Open)
1936 Gloria Lambert, Worcester Mass, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1936 Pema Chodron, American-born Buddhist nun
1936 Robert F Overmyer, Lorain Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B)
1937 Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner (took 2-116 at 16 in only Test)
1937 Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1938 Bob Scholl, rocker (Mellow Kings)
1938 Jerry Rubin, American activist (Chicago 7) and stockbroker (d. 1994)
1938 Richard Rust, American actor (d. 1994)
1939 George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1939 Karel Gott, Czech singer
1939 Sid Haig, American actor
1940 Susan Howatch, English author
1941 Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1941 Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
1941 Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova, cosmonaut
1942 Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1943 Christopher Priest, English novelist
1943 Lynn Loring, NYC, actress (Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI)
1944 Billy McCool, American baseball player
1945 Peter James Leonard Klatzow, composer
1946 John Wood, Australian actor
1946 Maureen O'Connor, Mayor (San Diego)
1946 Vincent Pastore, American actor
1947 Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
1947 Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius
1947 Nick Benedict, Los Angeles CA, actor (Pistol-Birth of a Legend)
1947 Steve Stone, Cleveland Ohio, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1948 Tommy Matola, rock manager/CEO (CBS records)
1949 Joyce Benson, LPGA golfer
1949 Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS)
1950 Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer
1950 Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
1951 Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1951 Esther Dyson, Zurich Switz, computer publisher (Release 1.0)
1951 Judi Brown, E Lansing Mich, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1952 Bob Casale, AKA Bob 2, American Musician (Devo)
1952 Chris Cross (St John), singer (Arthur)
1952 Eric Laneuville, American director, Actor, Producer (Larry-Room 222, St Elsewhere)
1952 Franklin Graham, American evangelist
1952 George Louis Francis Lewis, composer
1952 Jerry Houser, LA California, actor (Slapshot, Summer of '42, Class of '44)
1952 Joel Silver, American film producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard)
1952 Stan Shaw, Chic Ill, actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation)
1953 Martha Coakley, American politician
1954 Bebe Buell, Norfolk Va, wife of Todd Rundgren/playmate (Nov, 1974)
1954 Jos Zoomer, Amsterdam Neth, rock drummer (Vandenberg)
1954 Ralph D'Amico, jockey
1955 L. Brent Bozell, American author and pundit
1956 Julio Chavez, Argentinian actor
1956 Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
1957 Peter Webb, NZ cricketer (batsman against West Indies 1980)
1958 Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.
1958 Robert Jensen, American journalist and activist
1959 Rodney Rash, horse trainer
1960 Angelique Kidjo, Beninese singer
1960 Anna Bligh, Australian politician
1960 Jane Lynch, American actress
1960 Kyle Gass, American musician and actor (Tenacious D)
1960 Ray Herndon, Scottsdale Ar, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
1961 Jackie Earle Haley, American actor (Breaking Away)
1962 Diane Ratnik, Toronto Ontario, volleyball setter (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1962 Jeff Olson, American musician
1963 Bel Le Harper, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1963 Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1964 Barbara Chiu, Canton China, Canada table tennis player (Oly-33-92, 96)
1964 Brett J Ogle, Paddington Austral, PGA golfer (1993 AT&T Pebble Beach)
1964 Jack Kay Jr, Montreal Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Singapore Open)
1965 Reina Olea, female jockey
1966 Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1966 D J Johnson, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 Juliet Cesario, American actress
1966 Matthew Fox, American actor (Party of 5, Fredhman Dorm)
1966 Owen Coyle, Football Manager
1966 Tanya Donelly, American musician (Belly)
1967 Glen Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 Hashan Tillekeratne, cricketer (Sri Lanka wicket-keeper/batsman)
1967 Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
1967 Leonardo Lavalle, Mexico, tennis star
1967 Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
1967 Robin Ventura, American baseball player, MLB infielder (Chic White Sox)
1968 John Maginnes, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Texarkana Open-5th)
1968 Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler
1968 Mark Lenz, US, 3m spring diver (Olympic-gold-1992)
1969 Jose Hernandez, Puerto Rican baseball player, MLB infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 Mark Brandenburg, American MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 Mark Strickland, NBA forward (Miami Heat)
1970 Michelle Sawatzky, Steinbach Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 Missy Gold, Great Falls Mont, actress (Katie-Benson)
1970 Nina Siemaszko, American actress
1970 Todd Rucci, NFL guard (NE Patriots)
1971 Howard Webb, British Football Referee
1971 Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1971 Marie-Chantal Toupin, French Canadian singer
1971 Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
1971 Nick McCabe, British musician (The Verve)
1972 Ben Talley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1972 Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
1972 Joe Aska, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1972 Lou Roe, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1972 Matthew Campbell, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
1973 Candela Peña, Spanish actress
1973 Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1973 Kieren Perkins, Brisbane QLD Aust, 1500m swimmer (Olymp-2 gold-92, 96)
1973 Paul Methric, American musician
1974 David Mitchell, English comedian and actor
1974 Erick Dampier, American basketball player, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1975 Jamey Johnson, Country Music Artist
1975 Matthew Kessinger, American fig skater (1995 Gt Lakes Jr champ)
1975 Taboo, American rapper
1975 Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1976 Geraint Jones, English cricketer
1976 Kirsten Sheridan, Irish film director and screenwriter
1976 Ranj Dhaliwal, Canadian Author
1976 Yesim Cetin, Miss Turkey Universe (1997)
1977 Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1979 Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
1979 Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player
1980 George Smith, Australian Rugby player
1980 Jed Madela, Filipino singer
1981 Lee Mead, English actor
1981 Yomi, Japanese vocalist (Nightmare)
1982 Dmitry Chaplin, So You Think You Can Dance finalist
1983 Wesley Dening, Australian TV personality
1984 Chris Steele, Canadian musician, (Alexisonfire)
1984 Nansy Stergiopoulou, Greek singer (Hi-5 (Hi-5)
1984 Nilmar, Brazilian Footballer
1984 Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player
1985 Billy Celeski, Australian footballer
1985 Darrelle Revis, American football player, NFL (New York Jets)
1987 Adam Johnson, English footballer
1988 James Vaughan, English footballer
1989 Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor

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664 Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
1223 King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
1223 Philippe II Augustus, King of France (1180-1223)
1298 Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend)
1575 Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint, soldier, monastery founder (b. 1550)
1671 Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1711 Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange (Nassau-Dietz)
1723 Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1744 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry)
1762 Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat
1766 František Maxmilián Kanka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1770 David 't Kindt, Flemish architect (Mammelokker, Ghent)
1774 James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1779 George Ross, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1780 Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1788 Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer
1789 Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the Bastille (b. 1740)
1789 Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1790 Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1793 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle
1803 Esteban Salas y Castro, composer
1812 Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1816 Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter
1816 Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (b. 1750)
1817 Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1830 Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime
1834 Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1873 Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer
1876 Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
1881 Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859)
1895 Alexander Ewing, composer
1902 Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor
1904 S J Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader, president South-Africa (1883-1904) (b. 1824)
1907 William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1908 William Mason, composer
1910 Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
1917 Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1918 Quentin Roosevelt, American Aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1897)
1923 Louis Ganne, composer
1924 Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (b. 1855)
1925 Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1930 W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts)
1938 Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series)
1939 Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1940 Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905)
1942 Neel (Cornelia H) Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model
1943 Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor
1948 Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated
1949 Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr)
1951 Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test)
1954 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1954 Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1956 Jaroslav Ridky, composer
1958 Abdoel Illah, crown prince of Iraq, murdered
1958 Emil Barth, writer
1958 Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad
1958 Franciscus J Feron, vicar-general of Roermond
1958 Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1959 Grock (Adrien Wettach), Swiss clown, circus director
1965 Adlai Stevenson, United States Presidential candidate (D, 1952, 56) (b. 1900)
1966 Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1907)
1968 Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1968 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author
1968 Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time)
1970 Preston S Foster, American stage and film actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger) (b. 1900)
1973 Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
1974 Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (b. 1891)
1974 Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide
1975 Madan Mohan, Indian Bollywood film director (Melodious Music) (b. 1924)
1975 Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1979 George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune)
1982 George Amadee Tremblay, composer
1983 Jack MacBryan, cricketer (Test for England 1924)
1984 Al Schacht (Clown prince of baseball), baseball player
1984 Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1984 Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House)
1984 Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (I'll Be Around)
1986 Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer
1989 Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1990 Dallas Alinder
1990 Philip Leacock
1991 Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet
1993 Léo Ferré, French singer and songwriter (b. 1916)
1993 Robert Strong
1994 César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1940)
1994 Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 Robert Jungk, German philosopher and historian
1994 Taeko Kuwata, Japanese-Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1995 Michael Naylor, insurance broker
1996 Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist
1996 Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1996 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
1996 Kim Besly, activist
1998 Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
2000 Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2000 René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2002 Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
2003 Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
2005 Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer (b. 1918)
2005 Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
2007 John Ferguson Sr, former professional hockey player (b. 1938)
2008 Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
2009 Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
2010 Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (b. 1937)
2010 Mădălina Manole, Romanian pop recording artist (b. 1967)
2012 Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier
2013 Matt Batts, American MLB player

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