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432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland to support Malcolm Canmore against Macbeth of Scotland, who usurped the Scottish throne from Malcolm's father, King Duncan. Macbeth is defeated at Dunsinane.
1214 Battle of Bouvines, In France, King Philip II of France defeats John of England.
1230 Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1302 Battle of Bapheus, Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines, opens up Bithynia for Turkish conquest.
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan.
1563 French army recaptures Le Havre
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1641 Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1643 Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655 Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty
1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 English parliament accepts Staple Act
1663 The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 Battle of Killicrankie of the Glorious Revolution, Viscount Dundee (Jacobite Scottish Highlanders) defeats Whig General MacKay
1694 A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England for 12 year charter by Act of Parliament.
1713 Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1714 Battle at Hango (Hangut), Russians beat Swedish fleet
1714 English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1720 The second important victory of the Russian Navy the Battle of Grengam.
1778 First Battle of Ushant British and French fleets fight to a standoff, American Revolution.
1789 The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
1794 Coup of thermidor, fall of Robespierre in Paris
1794 Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution", French Revolution.
1795 Spain & France sign peace treaty
1809 Battle at Talavera, British/Spanish army vs French army
1816 US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr
1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1862 Hurricane hits Canton, about 40,000 die
1862 Sailing from San Francisco to Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1864 Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1865 Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time (1,686 miles long).
1880 A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
1880 Battle of Maiwand of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1888 Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1891 Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov of Suriname
1897 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
1897 Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG)
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1913 Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1914 Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1917 The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY
1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1921 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1921 Frederick Banting & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto
1921 Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1924 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
1927 Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1927 Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
1928 Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
1929 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
1930 Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
1931 Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000
1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 The animated short "A Wild Hare" is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1941 103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1941 German army enters Ukraine
1941 Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman, Hill 183 Normandy
1945 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
1945 US Communist Party forms
1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
1947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley
1948 Bradman's 29th & last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1950 Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto
1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, & Bill Klem & Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1953 Korean War ends, The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1954 36th PGA Championship, Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minn
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation. The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1956 Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester
1957 St James' Theater in London closes
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
1959 William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
1960 VP Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
1962 USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1964 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000, Vietnam War.
1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
1965 Pres Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 Helmond Sport soccer team forms
1967 LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
1967 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1968 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1969 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
1970 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, & Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1972 The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1973 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game, Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs
1974 Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1978 Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks)
1978 Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares
1979 "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances
1979 France performs nuclear Test
1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1980 Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1981 On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, proving to be a national event with massive viewer numbers
1982 California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times
1982 Indian PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
1982 Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in NYC
1983 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1983 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days (Black July).
1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
1984 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
1986 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1986 24th Tennis Fed Cup, USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1987 RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvaging of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1987 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma
1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1988 Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1990 Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's
1990 The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
1990 The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus, after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is transferred to June 3.
1990 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
1990 White-Russia declares independence
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
1991 TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep Natl Convention
1992 Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch & Evgueni
1992 Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
1993 Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
1993 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1993 NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
1995 In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alice Hawthorne is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
1996 David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
1997 "Candide," closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
1997 "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
1997 Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship
1997 Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria, about 50 people killed.
1997 Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
1997 Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
2002 Ukraine airshow disaster, A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 NASA grounds the Space Shuttle STS-114, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 Phoenix News Helicopter Collision, News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history
2008 Carlos Sastre of Spain wins the 95th Tour de France
2012 Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
2013 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
2013 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
2013 First Przewalski’s horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds
2014 Liberia shuts down most of its borders with fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
2014 President Obama reaffirms Israel's "right to defend itself", but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza
2014 Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins the 101st Tour de France
2015 Fiat Chrysler fined record $105 million by Us regulators over their number of car recalls
2015 The Shanghai Composite Index drops 8.5% in one day

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1452 Ludovico Sforza (il Moro), Italian Duke of Milan (1494-1508) (commissioned The Last Supper) (d. 1508)
1502 Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1518 Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses
1609 Heinrich Pape, composer
1612 Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1625 Edward Montagu, England
1667 Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1733 Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734 Jakob Zupan, composer
1740 Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1741 Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer
1752 Samuel Smith, American politician (d. 1839)
1768 Charlotte Corday d'Armont, French aristocrat who murdered Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1773 Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (d. 1853)
1777 Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic) (d. 1844)
1781 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
1784 Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
1784 Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1801 George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
1802 Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman, American Confederate general (d. 1897)
1820 John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 Alexandre Dumas, French author (Camille) (d. 1895)
1833 Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1848 Vladimir de Pachmann, painter
1853 Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
1857 José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician, found Federalist Party (1900) (d. 1921)
1866 António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1867 Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
1870 Hilaire Hilaire Pierre Belloc, English writer (Path to Rome) (d. 1953)
1872 Stanislav Binicki, composer
1877 Erno Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878 Th to de Weeme, painter
1879 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1879 Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880 Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
1881 Hans Fischer, German chemist, physicist (Nobel laureate 1930) (d. 1945)
1882 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1889 Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972)
1890 Judith Lowry, Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays ...)
1894 Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1896 Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1899 Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (20's)
1900 Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
1900 Hans Haug, composer
1903 Clive Martin Douglas, composer
1903 Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1903 Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (Ivan the Terrible) (d. 1966)
1904 Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987
1904 Anton Dolin (Patrick Healey-Kay), dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1904 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
1905 Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
1906 Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1906 Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1907 Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee
1907 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1908 Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
1908 Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour)
1909 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1910 Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer
1910 Julien Gracq (Louis Poirier), French writer (Andre Breton) (d. 2007)
1911 Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1911 Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman
1912 Hilde Domin, writer
1912 Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1912 Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
1913 Eva Jones, poet/novelist
1913 George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1913 Gérard Côté, Quebec marathon runner (d. 1993)
1913 Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School)
1913 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria)
1915 Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner (late 40's)
1915 Josef Priller, German fighter pilot (d. 1961)
1915 Mario Del Monaco, Italian singer (d. 1982)
1916 Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi
1916 Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player
1916 Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
1916 Keenan Wynn, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor) (d. 1986)
1916 Siegfried Reda, composer
1917 Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1917 John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 Moses Rascoe, blues Singer
1917 Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace)
1918 Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer
1918 Leonard Rose, American cellist (NY Phil 1943-51) (d. 1984)
1920 Beatrice Pearson, Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1920 James Munn, commissioner (British University)
1921 Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 Adolfo Celi, Italian actor, director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue) (d. 1986)
1922 Bob Thiele, record producer
1922 Lillian Hayman, Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
1922 Norman Lear, American television writer and producer (All in The Family)
1923 Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer
1924 Vincent Canby, American film critic (NY Times) (d. 2000)
1925 Doc Pomus, rocker
1926 Peter Coker, captain
1927 Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1928 Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1928 Sakari Mononen, composer
1929 Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
1929 Jack Higgins (Harry Patterson), British novelist
1929 Marc Wilkinson, composer
1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office)
1930 Shirley Williams, British politician, co-founder (Social Democratic Party), labour minister
1931 Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1931 Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1932 Beverly B Byron, (Rep-D-MD, 1979)
1932 Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
1932 Robert Cowan, CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises)
1933 Nick Reynolds, American folk singer (Kingston Trio)
1933 Roger Harris, cricketer (NZ opening batsman vs England 1959)
1933 Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1934 John Pardoe, CEO (Sight & Sound Education), Liberal MP
1935 Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances)
1937 Chuck Jackson, Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry)
1937 Don Galloway, American actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside) (d. 2009)
1937 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
1938 Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1938 Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 Shirley Anne Field, England, actress (Alfie, War Lover) [or Jun 27]
1939 Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 James McGee, pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford)
1939 James Victor, Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA)
1939 Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
1940 Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1941 Christian Boesch, Austrian baritone
1941 Johannes Fritsch, composer
1942 Barbara Ferris, London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
1942 Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1942 John Pleshette, American actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue)
1942 Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician
1942 Édith Butler, Canadian singer and songwriter
1943 Al Ramsey, NJ, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1943 Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
1944 Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut
1944 Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)
1944 Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1944 Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
1946 Gwynne Gilford, LA California, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders)
1946 Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1946 Ricardo Anasagasti (Ricardo M Meul), Curacao, dancer/actor
1946 Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1947 Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
1947 Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
1947 Wayne Dowdy, (Rep-D-MS, 1981)
1948 Betty Thomas, American actor and film director
1948 Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 Peggy Fleming, American figure skater (Olym-gold-1968)
1949 André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1949 David Muse, rocker (Firefall)
1949 Jeremy Thomas, actor (Family Life)
1949 Maureen McGovern, American singer (Got To Be a Morning After)
1949 Robert Rankin, English novelist
1950 Michael Vaughn, rocker (Paper Lace)
1950 Simon Jones, English actor (News is the News)
1951 Janet Eilber, Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy)
1952 Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1952 Roxanne Hart, American actress
1953 Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1953 Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1954 Philippe Alliot, French racecar driver
1955 Allan Border, Australian cricketer
1955 Cat Bauer, American novelist
1956 Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 Allan Simmons, British scrabble player
1957 Bill Engvall, American comedian
1957 Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress (Composer)
1957 Hansi Muller, skier
1957 Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 Christopher Dean, English figure skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 David East, cricketer
1959 Hugh Green, American football player
1959 Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1959 Yiannos Papantoniou, Greek politician
1960 Christina Singer, Geoppingen Germany, tennis star
1960 Jo Durie, England, tennis player
1960 Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival King
1961 Daniel C Burbank, Manchester Ct, Lt cmdr USCG/astronaut
1962 Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 Donnie Yen, Hong Kong film actor
1963 Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1963 Karrin Allyson, American Jazz musician & songstress
1964 Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1966 Al Charron, Rugby Union forward (Canada)
1967 Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 Emiel van Eijkeren, soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
1967 Jeff Novak, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 Julian McMahon, actor (Ian Rain-Another World, John Grant-Profiler)
1967 Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1967 Neil Smith, Former England cricketer (Warwickshire & England A all-rounder)
1967 Sasha Mitchell, American actor (Spike of Bensonhurst)
1968 Christina Singer, Goeppingen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures GBR)
1968 Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
1968 Julian McMahon, Australian actor
1968 Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Messina Sicily, actress (Postman)
1968 Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1968 Tom Goodwin, American baseball player, outfielder (KC Royals)
1969 Jason Woolley, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1969 Linda Burgess, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1969 Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
1969 Timo Maas, German electronica DJ
1969 Triple H, American professional wrestler
1970 Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1970 Tom Europe, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1971 Brennon James Dowric, Australian gymnast (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 Alph Browning, NLF/WLAF receiver (Redskins, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Bryce Bevill, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Clint Robinson, Brisbane QLD Australia, K-1 1k canoeist (Oly-bron-96)
1972 Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972 Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1972 Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
1972 Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1973 Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 Amy Linn Duncan, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Miss America-Oklahoma (1997)
1973 Erik Nijs, Belgian long jumper
1973 Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 Niki Jenkins, Selkirk Manitoba, 72 kg judoka (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Sami Alalampi, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons)
1974 Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
1974 Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975 Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player, shortstop (Seattle Mariners), third base (NY Yankees)
1975 Fred Mascherino, American musician
1975 Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1976 Mwadi Mabika, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
1976 Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1977 Jason Michael Zimbler, Queens NY, actor (Clarissa Explains it All)
1977 Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
1978 Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork Hurler
1979 Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1979 Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1979 Sidney Govou, French footballer
1980 Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1980 Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1981 Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1981 Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1983 Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1984 Iekeliene Stange, Dutch high fashion model
1985 Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
1985 Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1990 Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1994 Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
1994 Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
2000 Kali Rodriguez, American actress

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82 St Joseph of Arimathea
432 Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32)
916 Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint
1101 Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (1087-98) (b. 1074)
1128 Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle
1214 Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle
1214 Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle
1227 Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27)
1233 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders
1276 King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer
1638 Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle
1656 Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
1689 John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed
1720 Johann Samuel Welter, composer
1759 Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician, biologist, astronomer (b. 1698)
1770 Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1777 William Hayes, composer
1783 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1822 Joseph Supries, composer
1828 Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter
1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint
1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
1844 John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (molecular theorist) (b. 1776)
1863 William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John
1876 Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1811)
1881 Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1883 Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1883 Montgomery Blair, American politician, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford) (b. 1813)
1916 Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans
1917 Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1921 Engelbert Humperdinck, composer
1924 Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1866)
1931 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 Louis H(ubert) G Lyautey, French army general and minister of Defense (1916-17) (b. 1854)
1941 Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1942 William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist
1943 Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (1st Currie Cup-winning captain)
1943 H B G Austin, cricketer (capt of 1923 WI team to England)
1944 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer
1946 Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet (Ida, Tender Buttons) (b. 1874)
1948 Francesco Spetrino, composer
1948 Joe Tinker, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1880)
1948 Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1952 Roland Pope, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885)
1952 W de Basil (US Voskresenski), Russia, ballet dancer
1956 J M M Commaille, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa 1910-28)
1958 Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1961 Theodore Chanler, composer
1962 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer
1962 James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1962 Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
1965 Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 Anton van Duinkerken (Willem J M A Asselbergs), literary
1968 Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1968 Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz)
1970 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Dictator of Portugal (1932-68) (b. 1889)
1971 Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer
1971 Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
1974 Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil)
1976 Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1978 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
1978 (John) Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (Symphonic) (b. 1907)
1979 Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph)
1979 Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies)
1980 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1941-79) (b. 1919)
1981 Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song)
1981 William (Billy) Wyler, French-born film director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl) (b. 1902)
1982 Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again)
1982 Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1983 Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistani left-arm quick 1965)
1984 James Mason, English actor (Lolita) (b. 1909)
1984 Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion
1985 Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox) (b. 1889)
1986 Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57)
1987 Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants) (b. 1903)
1988 Frank Zamboni, American inventor (Zamboni) (b. 1901)
1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father
1990 Bobby Day, American singer (Rockin' Robin) (b. 1928)
1990 Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head)
1990 Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN)
1990 Nick Pippins, actor (Simon)
1991 Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom)
1992 Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns)
1992 Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 Reggie Lewis, American basketball player, NBA star (Boston Celtics) (b. 1965)
1994 H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV)
1994 Kevin Carter, Photographer (b. 1960)
1994 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author
1994 Tatiana Tauer, harpist
1995 Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher
1995 Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter
1995 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora) (b. 1907)
1995 Rick Ferrell, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1905)
1996 Beverly Drew, architect
1996 Ivan V Lalic, poet
1996 Jane Beverly Drew, architect
1996 Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London)
1997 K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier
1998 Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1999 Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
1999 Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2000 Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
2001 Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2001 Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2003 Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)
2003 Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2005 Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
2005 Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
2006 Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
2007 James Oyebola, English Heavyweight Boxer (b. 1961)
2007 Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
2008 Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
2008 Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)
2008 Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
2010 Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
2010 Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (b. 1949)
2011 Bejaratana Rajasuda, Princess of Thailand (b. 1925)
2012 Geoffrey Hughes, British actor
2012 Norman Alden, American actor
2012 R G Armstrong, American actor and playwright
2012 Tony Martin, American singer
2013 Lindy Boggs, American politician
2015 [Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen] Abdul Kalam, 11th President of India
2016 James Alan MacPherson, American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize

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