HIDE

64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
711 Battle of Guadalete, Muslim Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1524 Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest
1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1544 Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.
1551 Treaty of Karlsburg, arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
1572 Battle at Saint-Ghislain, Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries
1575 Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
1588 Battle of Gravelines of the Anglo-Spanish War, The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
1590 King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
1692 Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow
1760 The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1799 A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.
1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1848 The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.
1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's 1st raid
1863 Morgan's Raid At Buffington Island (St George Creek) in Ohio of the American Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
1864 Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot)
1864 Third Battle of Nanking, determined battle at last.
1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1867 Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 Dutch Red Cross forms
1870 France declares war on Prussia, Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1900 Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
1902 NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1904 Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 Cy Young registers his 500th career victory
1912 A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning
1916 Battle of Fromelles
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1918 Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1933 Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers.  1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game
1936 Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1937 Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood
1939 Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films
1940 Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army, World War II.
1940 Battle of Cape Spada of World War II, The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash, the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign, BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory), 5th of Beethoven
1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US
1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1942 Battle of the Atlantic of World War II, German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Munich, Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago
1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 General Bradley flies to England
1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho-Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
1947 Prime minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw, which resulted in the political chaos in the country lasting until now.
1948 French government of Schuman, resigns
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1950 French-Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes
1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs
1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs
1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1956 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1960 Italian government Tambroni, resigns
1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1962 Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1964 46th PGA Championship, Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1964 At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the Vietnam War into North Vietnam.
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1966 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 Race riots in Durham NC
1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC
1974 Soyuz 14 lands
1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1975 NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are
1975 Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 48th All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
1977 All star MVP, Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day, Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow, US & others boycott
1980 David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
1981 110th British Golf Open, Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 1st Old Timer's All star classic AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC
1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
1982 Bolivian government resigns
1982 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1985 The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 116th British Golf Open, Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 Cleve Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
1989 United Airlines DC-10 flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
1991 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1991 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
1992 "Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
1992 30th Tennis Fed Cup, Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1992 Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, together with five police officers.
1992 Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
1992 Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1992 Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1992 NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1993 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
1993 Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1996 Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
1996 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
1996 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
1998 127th British Golf Open, at Royal Birkdale
1998 JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
2007 The first episode of "Mad Men" debuts. Jon Hamm stars as Don Draper
2009 138th British Golf Open: Stewart Cink shoots a 278 at Ailsa Course
2009 17th ESPY Awards: Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin win
2013 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq
2015 World Health Organization puts world's Ebola death toll at 11,284

HIDE

HIDE

1592 Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1735 Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1750 Alessio Prati, composer
1759 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1782 Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1789 John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
1797 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1800 Juan José Flores, military and first President of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1811 Vincenz Lachner, composer
1814 Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (Colt 6 shot revolver), industrialist (d. 1862)
1817 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
1819 Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
1822 Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
1823 George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1828 Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1919)
1833 John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1899)
1834 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter (Bouquet) painter (d. 1917)
1838 Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
1846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1848 Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
1849 F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849 Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1851 Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1854 Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
1860 Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
1863 Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
1865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1873 Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1876 John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1876 Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1877 Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1878 Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
1879 Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)
1881 Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
1881 Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1883 Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1886 Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
1888 Enno Lolling, German SS Standartenführer (d. 1945)
1888 Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1892 Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (Ode to Revolution) (d. 1930)
1894 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1894 Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1894 Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1895 Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
1896 Archibald J Cronin, England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory)
1896 Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
1898 Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
1898 Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1899 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900 Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
1900 Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier
1900 Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1902 Gerard(us M) Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
1904 Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (d. 1985)
1905 Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1905 Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1906 Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
1907 Gunter Bialas, composer
1907 Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1909 Jeno Vecsey, composer
1912 Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 Josef Palenicek, composer
1914 Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)
1916 Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)
1917 William W Scranton, American politician (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 Dallas McKennon, American actor (d. 2009)
1919 Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1919 Patricia Medina, Liverpool England, actress (High-Low), (d. 2012)
1919 Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1920 Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)
1920 Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1921 Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1922 George McGovern, American politician (Sen-D-SD), pres candidate (D-1972)
1922 Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1922 Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson
1923 Pat Hingle, Denver Colo, actor (Baby Boom, Norma Rae, Bloody Mama)
1923 William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 Arthur Rankin, Jr., American writer, producer and director
1924 Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
1924 Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1924 Sybren Polet (Sijbe Minnema), Dutch writer, poet (Mannekino)
1925 Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 Helen Gallagher, American actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1926 Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
1926 Sue Thompson (Eva Sue Mckee), Musician
1927 Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1928 John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
1929 Sofia Muratova, USSR gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1932 Buster Benton, singer, guitarist
1932 Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photografer (d. 1987)
1934 Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1934 Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)
1935 Mercedes Sosa, Argentine folk singer (d. 2009)
1935 Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 George Hamilton IV, American country singer, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
1938 Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1938 Richard Jordan, American actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors) (d. 1993)
1940 Dennis Cole, American actor (Felony Squad, Brackens's World)
1940 Vikki Carr (Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona) El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)
1941 Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington)
1941 Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977)
1941 Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1941 Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch EU Commissioner for Competition (VVD), minister of Traffic
1941 Vikki Carr, American singer
1943 Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor
1943 Roy Dunbard Bridges Jr, Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-F, 61-F)
1944 Commander Cody, singer-pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1945 George Dzunda, Rosenheim Germany, actor (Deer Hunter, Law & Order)
1946 Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician, bassist and singer (Average White Band)
1946 Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 Bernie Leadon, Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 Brian May, English musician, guitarist (Queen)
1947 Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1947 Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1947 Mike Dutfield, documentary prodcuer
1948 Beverly Archer, American actress (Iola-Mama's Family)
1948 Keith Godchaux, American musician, keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
1949 Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1950 Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1950 Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 Simon Cadell, English actor (Hi-Di-Hi, Pride & Extreme Prejudice)
1951 Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker
1951 Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
1952 Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
1952 Dominic Muldowney, composer
1952 Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 John Griesheimer, American politician
1952 Robert A. Ficano, American politician
1954 Srda Trifkovic, Serbian-American journalist
1955 Roger Binny, Indian cricketer
1956 Great (Yoshiaki) Yatsu, wrestler (NJPW/WCCW/WWF)
1956 Joe Mohen, American Internet Entrepreneur
1956 Nikki Sudden, English musician (d. 2006)
1956 Peter Barton, Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1956 Yoshiaki Yatsu, Japanese professional wrestler
1957 Cathy Reynolds, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1981 Golden Lights)
1958 David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1958 Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1959 Juan Jose Campanella, Argentinian filmmaker
1959 Terri Treas, KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1960 Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker (Adjuster, Next of Kin)
1961 Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
1961 Campbell Scott, American actor
1961 Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
1961 Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian
1961 Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1961 Suzi Schott, Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1962 Anthony Edwards, American actor (It Takes Two, Dr Greene-ER)
1962 Aya Kito, Japanese Writer (d. 1988)
1962 Brad Wilson, Pomona California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 9 Pro-Am)
1962 Campbell Scott, NYC, actor (Singles, Dying Young, Sheltering Sky)
1962 Craig Muni, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 Garth Nix, Australian author
1963 Mark Carreon, Chicago IL, outfielder (SF Giants)
1963 Marla Duncan, Fairfield California, Miss Northern California fitness (1990)
1963 Sandor Wladar, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1964 Alexandra Curtis, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1964 André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
1964 Gina Procaccio, Drexel Hills Pennsylvania, 5k runner
1964 Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
1964 Teresa Edwards, Cairo GA, basketball forward (Oly-gold-1984, 88,92,96)
1965 Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1965 Kathleen Raine, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1966 David Segui, American baseball player, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 Kate Rogerson, Pitts PA, LPGA golfer (1990 Circle K LPGA Tucson-2nd)
1966 Nancy Walls, American actress
1967 Christian Bergstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1967 Dale Hurley Jr, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 Stuart Howe, Canadian Operatic Tenor
1967 Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
1968 Carolie DeVonne Howe, Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1968 Jim Norton, American comedian and radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1968 Leroy Butler, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31)
1968 Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1969 David Goldsmith, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Eric-Models Inc)
1969 Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1970 Bill Chen, American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer
1970 Brooks Thompson, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1970 Kengy Gardiner, Providence RI, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1970 Rhona Susan Robertson, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 Michael Modest, American professional wrestler
1971 Rick Walters, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1971 Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971 Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1972 Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper)
1972 Andrew Kavovit, actor (Paul-As the World Turns)
1972 Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1972 John Paci, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1972 Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1973 Angeline Putt, Miss Universe-Singapore (1996)
1973 Laurits Munch-Petersen, Danish film director
1973 Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1973 Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
1973 Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby union footballer
1974 Preston Wilson, American baseball player
1974 Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 Vincent Spadea, Chicago Ill, tennis star
1975 Alexi Komarov, Yekaterinburg Russia, dance skater (& Carr-1995 Pac Champ)
1976 Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1976 R J Williams, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1976 Vinessa Shaw, American actres
1977 Ed Smith, English cricketer
1977 Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
1977 Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1977 Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
1978 Nené, Brazilian footballer
1979 Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1979 Luke Young, English footballer
1979 Michelle Heaton, British pop singer
1979 Rick Ankiel, American baseball player, pitcher, outfielder
1980 Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
1980 Mark Webber, American actor
1980 Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1981 Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1981 David Bernard, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1981 Didz Hammond, English bass guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981 Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 Naomi Grabow, lake Arrowhead California, pairs skater (& Benjamin Oberman)
1981 Nenê, Brazilian footballer
1981 Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
1982 Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982 Jess Vanstrattan, Australian soccer player
1982 Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1983 Helen Skelton, British TV presenter
1984 Adam Morrison, American basketball player
1984 Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
1984 Andrea Libman, Canadian actress and voice actress
1984 Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
1984 Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
1984 LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
1984 Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
1984 Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1984 Ryan O'Byrne, Canadian hockey player
1987 Marc Murphy, Australian rules footballer
1990 Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

HIDE

HIDE

514 Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514)
931 Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 Bernold(us) Benno Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54), saint,
1234 Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer, poet
1374 Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
1415 Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrech
1543 Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 Samuel Besler, composer,
1627 Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar
1631 Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered
1692 Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft as a result of the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1653, 1621)
1700 Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer
1730 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1740 Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname)
1742 John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor
1742 William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, wife of Frederik Willem III (b. 1776)
1811 Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
1814 Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1814 Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast)
1838 Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer
1838 Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
1844 Heinrich Domnich, composer
1847 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
1850 Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 (Sarah) Margaret Fuller, American feminist writer, revolutionary (b. 1810)
1852 Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp)
1857 Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
1892 Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau)
1895 Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory)
1895 Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1896 Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World)
1913 Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
1918 Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa)
1922 Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist
1930 Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87)
1939 Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1939 Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs)
1940 Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1943 Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet female flying ace (b. 1916)
1944 Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
1944 Will Marion Cook, composer
1945 George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
1947 Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 Max Ettinger, composer
1954 Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
1955 Koos (Jacobus J) Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA)
1957 Curzio Malaparte (Kurt E Suckert), Ital author (Kaputt)
1958 Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg)
1964 Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby)
1965 Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60) (b. 1875)
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car
1969 Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster
1970 Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1972 Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 Clarence White, Musician (Byrds)
1973 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1974 Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68)
1974 Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1974 Joe Flynn, American actor (McHale's Navy) (b. 1924)
1975 Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall)
1976 Sal Tas, Dutch journalist
1977 John R Powers, US director model bureau
1980 Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (b. 1904)
1980 Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
1981 Louis Cheslock, composer
1981 Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby)
1984 Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1984 Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee)
1985 Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger)
1989 Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 Eddie Quillan, American actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic) (b. 1907)
1990 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light)
1990 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster)
1992 Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater)
1992 Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1992 Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia (b. 1940)
1993 Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street)
1993 Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor
1994 Christian-Jaque (Christian Maudet), French director (Nana)
1994 Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian
1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer
1994 Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish)
1994 Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive
1995 Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up)
1995 James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins)
1995 Michael Andrews, painter
1995 Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin
1995 Yusef Bedri, educationist
1996 David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician
1996 Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician
1996 Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest
1996 Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist
1996 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer
1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher
1998 Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2005 John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005 Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, Iranian teenagers
2006 Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2007 Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2008 Anastasia Blue, American porn actress (b. 1980)
2008 Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
2009 Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
2009 Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)
2010 Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2012 Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer
2013 Phil Woosnam, Welsh footballer and manager
2013 Bert Trautmann, German footballer
2013 Mel Smith, English comedian and author
2013 Poncie Ponse, American actor
2014 James Garner, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
2014 Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
2015 Van Alexander, American composer and band leader (A-Tisket, A-Tasket)
2016 Garry Marshall, American TV and film director (Happy Days, Pretty Woman)
2016 Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite and fashion leader

HIDE

Tweet

< July 18th      Calendar     July 20th >

©partypossum.com                          Privacy Policy