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259 Dionysius elected as bishop of Rome, succeeding Sixtus II
260 St Dionysius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
838 Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
1099 Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem during the First Crusade.
1298 Battle of Falkirk of the Wars of Scottish Independence.  King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
1306 King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar of the Siege of Belgrade, Hungarian army under John Hunyadi of the Ottoman Wars in Europe, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Sultan Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1489 "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed
1489 Treaty of Frankfurt
1499 Battle of Dornach the Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1515 Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
1515 Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire
1515 Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia & succession to Hungarian throne
1535 Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa
1582 Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft
1587 A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted Colony of Roanoke.
1627 English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12]
1632 Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV
1648 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre
1686 City of Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1691 Battle at Aghrim, English/Dutch army beats France
1729 Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil
1731 Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
1739 Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia & threaten Belgrade
1775 George Washington takes command of US troops
1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1805 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition Battle of Cape Finisterre an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 Battle of Salamanca of the Napoleonic Wars Peninsular War, British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1859 V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England v Surrey
1864 Battle of Atlanta of the American Civil War. Outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill, 8449 conf, 3641 US die.
1865 V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancs
1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful," in Colorado
1894 First ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by comte Jules-Albert de Dion.
1898 Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1905 Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1916 In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1919 De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London
1921 25th US Golf Open, Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD
1922 Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top
1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1925 Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1926 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
1926 108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record)
1926 Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
1933 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
1933 Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida," NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
1933 Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1936 Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1937 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
1937 The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1939 1st black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC)
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1940 Jacqueline Kennedy's parents divorce
1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
1942 Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 The systematic deportation of (300,000) Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.  They are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp.
1942 The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1943 Allied US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
1944 The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 King David Hotel bombing, Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1946 Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1947 -8°F (-13°C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)
1950 Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1950 King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium
1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed pres of Portugal
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1954 Virgin Islands (US) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1954 WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1955 Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1959 Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D, premieres
1959 Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
1960 Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
1961 WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1962 44th PGA Championship, Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA
1962 Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
1962 Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1962 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
1963 Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party
1967 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)
1967 Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning
1967 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open
1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour
1968 Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit
1969 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1971 Sudan military counter coup under premier Numeiry
1972 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1973 28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1975 House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee
1976 "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
1976 Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed in Japan's imperial conquest of the country in the Second World War
1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1979 Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome to life
1982 Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
1982 Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC
1983 -128.6°F (-89.2°C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1983 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 Poland's PM Januzelski officially revokes Martial law
1984 22nd Tennis Fed Cup, Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1984 113th British Golf Open, Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews
1984 Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
1984 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
1987 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1989 Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
1990 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
1990 119th British Golf Open, Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1990 Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1992 Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1992 Soyuz TM-15 launches
1993 Great Flood of 1993, Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1993 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
1993 Soyuz TM-17 lands
1994 23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
1994 Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center
1994 Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired
1994 Military coup in Gambia, Pres Dawda Jawara flees
1994 OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder
1994 William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53)
1995 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her 2 children in SC
1997 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
1997 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
2002 Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
2003 Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2012 At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
2012 Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq 2012 Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
2012 Ernie Els shoots a 273 at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club to win the 141st British Golf Open
2012 Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain wins the 99th Tour de France
2013 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China
2013 Mike Babcock is again named head coach of Team Canada, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists)
2014 Both the United Arab Emirates and the USA announce aid packages to besieged Gaza
2014 European Union claim that Israel 'has the right to defend itself', but say civilian casualties in Gaza are unacceptable
2014 News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force
2015 'Oldest' Qur'an fragments discovered in collection of Birmingham University, radiocarbon testing dates to AD568 - AD645
2016 Hillary Clinton announces Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her Vice Presidential running mate

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1210 Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 Philip I, (the Handsome), First Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06) (d. 1506)
1510 Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1597 Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer
1621 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, English politician, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, minister (1660-73) (d. 1683)
1642 Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1647 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint
1649 Clement XI, (Giovanni F Albani), Italian Pope (1700-21)
1651 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer
1711 Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1721 Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer
1722 Jean-Noel, Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
1733 Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 Friedrich W Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846) (star parallax, Bessel Function)
1807 Karolina Pawlowa, writer
1820 Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union) (d. 1862)
1822 Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1897)
1822 John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1893)
1830 Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer
1830 William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1916)
1833 Benjamin Hanby, composer
1834 Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1864)
1844 William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar, inventor (spoonerisms) (d. 1930)
1848 Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1849 Emma Lazarus, American poet ("New Colossus"-base of Statue of Liberty) (d. 1887)
1853 Victor Roger, composer
1863 Alec Hearne, Former England cricketer (brother of George & Frank, Kent 1884-1910) (d. 1952)
1871 Akos Buttykai, composer
1872 David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
1873 Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1878 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)
1879 Gustaf Heintze, composer
1882 Edward Hopper, American painter (House by the Railroad) (d. 1967)
1887 Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel laureate 1925) (d. 1975)
1888 Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1888 Selman Waksman, Ukrainian/American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1889 Frederick Preston Search, composer
1889 James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1890 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted (d. 1995)
1892 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s)/war criminal
1892 Jack MacBryan, Former England cricketer and Olympic gold medallist (d. 1983)
1893 Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1893 Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1894 O M Graf, writer
1895 León de Greiff, Colombian poet (d. 1976)
1898 Alexander Calder, American sculptor (mobiles, stabiles) (d. 1976)
1898 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1901 Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)
1902 Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1905 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
1905 Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1907 Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
1908 Amy Vanderbilt, American author, authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette) (d. 1974)
1909 Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1910 Edith Abbo, daughter of Mien Wenneker/Dutch Prince Henry
1913 Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1913 Licia Albanese, American opera singer, soprano (NY Met Opera)
1914 Cecil Effinger, composer
1915 Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (d. 2000)
1916 Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter
1916 Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1918 Pim (Albrecht W) Lyre, Dutch lawyer/son of prince Henry
1920 Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1921 William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971) (d. 2003)
1923 Bob (Robert J) Dole, American politician, Presidential Candidate (R-1996) (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)
1923 Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1923 Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 Margaret Whiting, American singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
1926 Bryan Forbes, director/producer (Endless Games, King Rat)
1926 Peter Michael Grayson, showman
1927 George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948)
1928 Georg Dreyfus, composer
1928 Orson Bean, American film actor (To Tell the Truth)
1929 John Barber, British racing driver
1929 Vivien Merchant, Manchester England, actress (Under Milk Wood)
1930 Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
1930 Marcia Henderson, Andover Mass, actress (Kathleen-Aldrich Family)
1931 Charles Huxtable, General commander (English ground armies)
1931 Perry Lopez, NYC, actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4)
1932 Oscar De la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)
1932 William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist
1933 Chuck Cassey, Chicago, choral director (Jimmy Dean Show)
1934 Louise Fletcher, American actress (One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest)
1935 Tom Cartwright, England cricket medium pacer (5 Tests 1964-65) (d. 2007)
1936 Harold "Dusty" Rhodes, England cricket pace bowler (1959)
1936 Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer
1936 Tom Robbins, American author
1937 John Price, England cricketer (1964-72)
1937 Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer
1937 Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1939 Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1939 Terence Stamp, English actor (Collector, Alien Nations)
1940 Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host (High Rollers, Jeopardy)
1940 Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
1940 Stan Ross, NYC, actor
1940 Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1941 George Clinton, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1941 Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1941 Susie M Berning, Pasadena CA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1972, 73)
1941 Thomas Wayne, rocker (Tragedy)
1943 Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor (Seattle)
1943 Jimmy Castor, rocker
1943 Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1943 Yoran Ben Ami, Israel, producer/president (Triumph Pictures)
1944 Anand Satyanand, Governor-General of New Zealand
1944 Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1944 Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes) (d. 2009)
1944 Guich Koock, Austin Tx, actor (Harley Puckett-Carter Country)
1944 Rick Davies, British musician, vocalist and keyboardist (Supertramp)
1944 Sparky Lyle, American baseball player, relief pitcher (NY Yankees, Cy Young)
1946 Danny Glover, American actor (Lethal Weapon, Predator 2)
1946 Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes)
1946 Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau
1946 Mireille Mathieu, French singer (So Ein Schone r Abend)
1946 Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter (American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore)
1946 Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1946 Steve Friedman, TV news executive/actor (American Anthem)
1947 Albert Brooks, American comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America)
1947 Curt Weldon, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1947 Don Henley, American musician, drummer and vocalist (Eagles)
1947 Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1948 Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1948 S. E. Hinton, American author
1949 Alan Menken, American composer (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast 8 Oscars)
1949 Dianne Dailey, LPGA golfer
1949 Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete, 5K and 10K runner (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and PM of UAE
1950 S. E. Hinton, American novelist
1951 J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1951 Tisa Farrow, LA California, actress (Zombie, Fingers, Grim Reaper)
1952 Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman (1979)
1952 Madeleine Collinson, Malta, twin playmate (Oct, 1970)
1952 Mary Collinson, Malta, twin playmate (Oct, 1970)
1953 Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.
1953 Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1954 Henriette Allais Jacksonville FL, playmate (Mar, 1980)
1954 Lonette McKee, American actress
1954 Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
1955 Willem Dafoe, American actor (Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning)
1956 Michael Spinks, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Mick Pointer, rock drummer (Marillion)
1957 Dave Stieb, American baseball player, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1958 David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1958 Sandra Elizabeth Greenberg, Spokane Wash, playmate (June, 1987)
1958 Tatsunori Hara, Japanese professional-baseball player and coach
1960 Denyse Julien, Rouyn Quebec, badminton player (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1960 Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 Calvin Fish, English racing driver
1961 Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 Alvin Robertson, American basketball player, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1962 Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
1962 Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1963 Eddie Anderson, NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1963 Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1963 Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1963 Joanna Going, actress (Lisa Grady-Another World)
1963 Rob Estes, American actor
1964 Adam Godley, British actor
1964 Bonnie Langford, English actress (Wombling Free)
1964 David Spade, American actor and comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep)
1964 Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1964 John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
1964 Rafael Addison, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1965 Alondra Johnson, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1965 Doug Riesenberg, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
1965 John Leguizamo, Columbian-American actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark)
1965 Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
1965 Shawn Michaels (Mike Hickenbottom), American professional wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1966 Anna Wood, Roeumond Neth, Dutch/Australian canoeist (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 Daniel Nowak, Schwennigen GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 Shaun Cohen, South African professional wrestler
1966 Tim Brown, American football player, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1967 Andreas Motzkus, WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire)
1967 Lauren Booth, British journalist
1967 Pat Badger, American musician, bassist (Extreme)
1967 Shawn Wilbourn, US decathlete
1968 Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1968 Sean Vanhorse, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1969 Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 Craig Baird, New Zealander racing driver
1970 Dan Jones, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1970 Jason Becker, American musician
1970 Melvin Aldridge, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Pittsburgh)
1970 W R Tillman, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Charlotte Gainsbourg, London England, actress (Little Thief)
1971 Kristine Lilly, American soccer player, midfielder (Olympics-96)
1971 William Bell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1972 Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972 Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1972 Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d. 2006)
1973 Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1973 Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1973 Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1974 Franka Potente, German actress
1974 Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
1975 Sam Jacobson, American basketball player
1977 Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1977 Maria Jose Lopez, Miss Ecuador Universe (1997)
1978 A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1978 Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1978 Heather Noelle Jones, Miss Oregon Teen USA (1996)
1978 Martyn Lee, English radio presenter
1978 Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, (d. 2012)
1979 James Mason, British professional wrestler
1979 Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1979 Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1980 Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1980 Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
1980 Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1982 Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 Arsenie Todiras, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1983 Steven Jackson, American football player
1984 Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
1984 Stewart Downing, English footballer
1985 Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1985 Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean/American rugby player
1988 Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
1989 Caroline Giuliani, daughter of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994)
1991 Matthew James, English footballer
1992 Selena Gomez, American actress and pop singer
1993 Amber Beattie, English actress
1993 Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn (78)
1997 Field Cate, American actor
1998 Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 Prince Felix of Denmark

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1035 Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy
1362 Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1387 Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman, Ghent rebel, leader of Reisers, murdered  (b. 1330)
1461 Charles VII, King of France (1422-61) (b. 1403)
1477 Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle
1497 Francesco Botticini, Italian painter
1499 Neithart Fox (Jonker Fox), German passage leader, slain in battle
1525 Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1540 John Zápolya, King of Hungary
1619 Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1633 Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b. 1616)
1635 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer
1645 Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, , Premier of Spain (1621-43) (b. 1587)
1676 Clement X (Emilio Altieri), Italian Pope (1670-76) (b. 1590)
1726 Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1786 Vaclav Kalous, composer
1789 Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1794 Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer
1802 Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist, Founder of histology (b. 1771)
1826 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer and mathematician (found 1st asteroid) (b. 1746)
1832 Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte (l'aiglon), king of Rome (b. 1811)
1840 Josef Jawurek, composer
1848 Karl Guhr, composer
1852 Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1861 Barnard Elliot Bee, US Confederate brig-general
1863 Carl Schuberth, composer
1864 James B(irdseye) Mcpherson, American army general, dies in the Battle of Atlanta (b. 1828)
1864 William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle
1868 Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
1869 John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1870 Josef Strauss, composer
1880 Anna Caroline Oury, composer
1902 Mieczyslaw Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1904 Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1906 The Rev William Snodgrass, Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen's College, now Queen's University (b. 1827)
1908 William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1909 D v Liliencron, writer
1915 Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
1920 William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1929 Bror Beckman, composer
1929 Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis)
1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
1932 Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
1932 Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader
1932 Roses Fox, Trade union leader
1934 John Dillinger, American bank robber, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago (b. 1903)
1937 Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash
1950 William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1921-30, 35-48) (b. 1874)
1952 Antonio Maria Valencia, composer
1952 August Balthazar, Belgian politician
1953 Cy Kendall, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1955 Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers)
1958 Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928)
1958 Mikhail M Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 Carl Sandburg, American poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years) (b. 1878)
1968 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author (Don Camillo, Peppone) (b. 1908)
1969 Hammy Love, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, played for Australia)
1970 George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
1972 Hugo Kauder, composer
1972 Pavel Borkovek, composer
1974 Edna Lewis Thomas, US actress (Streetcar Named Desire)
1974 Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
1974 Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
1979 Hope Summers, actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show)
1979 J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
1979 Soschtschenko, writer
1979 Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1979 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer, actor (On the Waterfront)
1980 Fred Kaps (Abram PA Bongers), magician (world champ 1955)
1987 A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India), dies
1988 Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1936)
1988 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1989 Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 George Wood
1990 Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
1990 Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab)
1992 David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover)
1992 Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76)
1992 Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer (b. 1940)
1995 Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter
1995 Harold Larwood, England cricketer (b. 1904)
1995 Percy Humphrey, musician
1996 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1996 Leon Shenandoah, native American leader
1996 Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector
1996 Richard Day, engineer/development expert
1996 Rob(ert) Collins, English musician, keyboard (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
1996 Tamara Danz, singer
1998 Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000 Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
2000 Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2000 Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2001 Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2004 Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2005 Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
2006 José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2007 Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007 Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-born cinematographer (b. 1933)
2007 Mike Coolbaugh former baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
2007 Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2007 Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2008 Estelle Getty American comedic actress (b. 1923)
2008 Greg Burson American Voice Actor (b. 1949)
2009 Peter Krieg, German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1947)
2009 Richard M. Givan Supreme court chief justice (b. 1921)
2011 Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
2012 George A. Miller, American psychologist
2013 Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer
2013 Dennis Farina, American actor
2016 Thomas Sutherland, American hostage (Lebanon) and academic

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