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388 Battle at Aquileja, Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis
754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1364 Battle of Cascina
1402 Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I
1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1540 Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1609 Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English ship Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
1683 Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark
1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1741 Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska
1742 Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty
1794 Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
1808 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1809 Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain (National Day).
1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification first used.
1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864 Battle of Ezra Church of the American Civil War, Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1864 Battle of Atlanta, GA (Ezra Church) second sortie US700 CS4642
1865 Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1868 The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
1886 English Salisbury government forms
1896 The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
1911 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt Netherlands
1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, beginning of World War I.
1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
1915 US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1926 US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
1930 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
1932
1932 U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops ensues, 4 die
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
1933 Spain recognizes the USSR, Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
1934 118°F (48°C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
1935 Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France
1935 First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
1937 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1938 Bradman scores 202 Aust v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours
1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1940 Radio Orange, London begins
1940 Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
1942 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union in World War II. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so were to be immediately executed.
1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
1943 Operation Gomorrah of World War II, The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
1945 A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
1945 US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1948 The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 perfs
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
1955 The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1957 Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kill 992.
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1964 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 during the Vietnam War.
1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down
1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game, Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1973 Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
1973 Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1976 The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
1977 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY
1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
1978 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
1979 France performs nuclear Test
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president
1983 AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows
1983 George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)
1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
1983 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic, Pat Bradley
1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1987 42nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1988 Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1989 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
1990 Blackout hits Chicago
1991 "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances
1991 12th US Seniors Golf Open, Jack Nicklaus
1991 29th Tennis Fed Cup, Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
1991 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history
1991 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
1992 Ground breaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
1993 Andorra joins the United Nations.
1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1994 Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1994 Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 14th perfect game
1995 Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
1996 Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1996 NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
1996 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
1997 Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1997 NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs
1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
2002 Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham&Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
2012 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
2012 Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
2013 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2014 UN Security Council hold emergency meeting calling for an immediate and indefinite humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
2014 Israel criticizes John Kerry's proposed ceasefire, stating that no ceasefire deal will be accepted without the destruction of tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip
2014 Missiles strike near Gaza's main hospital and a nearby refugee camp Monday, leaving 10 dead and many wounded; Israeli Defence Force say they are not responsible
2016 Earliest evidence of cancer found in 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in "South African Journal of Science"
2061 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

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1165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher
1347 Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1456 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia)
1514 Maximilian of Burgundy, viceroy of Holland
1609 Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised
1659 Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1719 Jan Nepveu, governor-general of Suriname (1769-79)
1745 Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor (St Petersburg)
1746 Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
1750 Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
1778 Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) (d. 1869)
1796 Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats) (d. 1872)
1808 Charles Lucas, composer
1809 Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 Alberto Mazzucato, composer
1815 Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1825 William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
1833 James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 Jose Garcia Robles, composer
1837 Christian Barnekow, composer
1844 Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (Windhover) (d. 1889)
1857 Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1859 Balington Booth, founder (Volunteers of America)
1860 Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) (d. 1943)
1867 Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1868 George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
1868 Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran)
1870 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1927-31)
1872 Albert P Sarraut, Fren gov-gen of Indo-China (1911-1919), PM (1933, 1936) (d. 1962)
1874 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher and educator (Essay on Man) (d. 1945)
1879 Lucy Burns, American suffragist (d. 1966)
1887 Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase) (d. 1968)
1890 Marie Lohr, Sydney Australia, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel)
1891 Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
1892 Joe E Brown, Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour)
1892 Petro Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite)
1893 Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer
1896 Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1897 Emmy Arbous (Emilia J Henke), Dutch actress (Little Rascal)
1898 Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
1900 Maurice Johnstone, composer
1901 Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1901 Rudy Vallee, American entertainer, singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time) (d. 1986)
1901 Sandor Vandor, composer
1902 Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (Logic of Forschung) (d. 1994)
1902 Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning)
1903 Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), Louisville KY
1904 (John) Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statsman
1905 Charles William Hutton, architect
1906 Gottlob Frick, singer
1907 Earl S Tupper, American inventor (Tupperware) (d. 1983)
1908 Zbigniew Turski, composer
1909 Aenne Burda German publisher and founder of Hubert Burda Media(d. 2005)
1909 Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano) (d. 1957)
1910 Bill Goodwin, SF California, announcer (Jolson Story, Burns & Allen)
1910 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot
1911 Ann Doran, Amarillo Tx, actress (Longstreet, Shirley)
1911 Gerhard Stoeck, Germany, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1915 Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 David Brown, American film producer (Jaws, Planet of the Apes)
1916 Laird Cregar, Phila, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square)
1922 Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste) (d. 2008)
1923 Kent L Lee, US vice-admiral (WW II-Marianas/Palau)
1923 Mary Jane Odell, Iowa, secretary of state
1923 Michio Watanabe, politician
1924 C.T. Vivian, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1924 Fred Fisher, cricketer (one Test for NZ v SA 1953)
1924 Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London)
1925 Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1925 Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive
1925 Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West
1925 Larry Pruden, composer
1926 Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 John Ashbery, American poet
1928 Adrian Ratiu, composer
1929 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, NY, First Lady of the United States (1961-63) (d. 1994)
1929 Remco (Wouter) Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert
1930 Darryl Hickman, Hollywood Cal, actor (Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy)
1930 Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1930 Ramsey Withers, Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
1931 Johnny Martin, Australian cricket left-arm chinaman bowler (60's) (d. 1992)
1932 Natalie Babbitt, American author
1933 Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Company)
1934 Norman D Shumway, (Rep-R-California, 1979)
1935 Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1936 Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1937 Anthony Ward, writer
1937 Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1937 Peter Duchin, NYC, pianist/bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch)
1938 Alberto Fujimoro, President of Peru (1990)
1938 Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
1938 George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1938 Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1938 Robert Hughes, [Studley Forrest], Australia, writer/critic (Barcelona)
1939 Clem Cattini, rock drummer (Tornados London)
1940 Philip Proctor, American comedian (Firesign Theater)
1941 Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor (Philadelphia Orch)
1941 Susan Roces, Filipino actress
1942 Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1942 Tonia Marketaki, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1943 Bill Bradley, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and US Senator (1979-1997)
1943 Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers)
1943 Mike Bloomfield, American blues guitarist and singer (Analine) (d. 1981)
1943 Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
1944 Daniel Morelon, France, 1K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1945 Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
1945 Richard William Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd)
1946 Douglas H Bosco, (Rep-D-CA, 1983)
1946 Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1946 Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
1946 Linda Kelsey, American actress (Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Day)
1947 Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 Barbara Ann Ferrell Edmondson, Miss, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 Elena Novikova-Belova, USSR, foils (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 Miguelina Cobian, Santiago Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 Sally Struther, Portland Oregon, actress (Gloria-All in the Family)
1948 Andy Fraser, Musician
1948 Georgia Engel, American actress (Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1948 Gerald Casale, American musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1948 Sally Struthers, American actress
1948 Sergei Bodrov, Khabarovsk Russia, director (Katala, Somebody to Love)
1949 Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1949 Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1949 Simon Kirke, rock drummer (Bad Company)
1949 Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (T-Rex) (d. 1980)
1949 Vida Blue, American baseball player (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971)
1950 Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 Doug Collins, American basketball player and head coach
1951 Greg Gluffria, Wash DC, rock keyboardist (House of Lords-Sahara)
1951 Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 Monique Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince, Heir Apparent to Thailand throne
1952 Monique van de Ven, Dutch actress (Turkish Fruit)
1952 Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1953 Steve Duncan, Knoxville Tn, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1954 Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1954 Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
1954 Ken Margolis, rocker (Mink DeVille)
1954 Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1954 Steve Morse, American guitarist
1955 Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
1958 Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1958 Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist, one-legged marathoner (1980 Marathon of Hope) (d. 1981)
1960 Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
1960 Yoichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1961 David Huff, rocker (Giant)
1961 Scott E Parazynski, Little Rock Ark, MD/astronaut (STS 66, 86, sk:95)
1961 Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
1962 Rachel Sweet, American singer
1963 Patrizia Pellegrino, Naples Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager 1980)
1964 Bruce Wilkerson, NFL tackle (Jaguars, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 Dave Alexander, NFL center (NY Jets)
1964 Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1965 Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1966 Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1967 Alex Galtcheniouk, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1967 Lori Loughlin, Queens, actress (Edge of Night, New Kids, Full House)
1969 Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 Corey Raymond, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1969 Dana White, UFC President
1969 Frank Lickliter, Middletown OH, Nike golfer (1993 White Rose-24th)
1969 Garth Snow, American ice hockey goaltender (Olympics-1994, Flyers)
1969 Jaimie Dawson, Geneva Switz, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 Jarrod Hanks, Lafayette LA, US gymnist (Olympic-92, 96)
1969 Wendi Simmons, Santa Rosa California, heptathlete
1970 Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
1970 Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1970 Paul Strang, Zimbabwian cricketer
1971 Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
1971 Larry Kennedy, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1971 Stephen Lynch, American comedian and musician (Special Ed)
1972 Brenda Schultz, Netherlands, tennis star
1972 Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 Elizabeth Berkley, American actress (Jessie-Saved by the Bell, Showgirl)
1972 Manley Woods, NFL/WLAF receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Rhein Fire)
1972 Robert Chapman, English cricketer
1972 Stacy Evans, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1972 Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
1973 Nixon A McNamara McClean, West Indies cricket fast bowler (ODI 1996)
1973 Scott Bloom, Manhasset NY, actor (Keys, Stuff)
1973 Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1977 Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1978 Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1978 Jacob Oram, New Zealand Cricketer
1979 Alena Popchanka, French swimmer
1979 Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1979 Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1979 James Piotr Montague, British Writer
1979 Kimberly Whiting, Miss Idaho Teen USA (1997)
1979 Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1980 Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
1981 Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1981 Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 Nancy Alexiadi, Greek singer
1982 Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1982 Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1984 DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 John David Washington, American actor and football player
1984 Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1985 Sharifah Sofia, Malaysian actress of Scottish descent
1985 Tynisha Keli, American singer
1986 Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 Shana Swash, English actress
1990 Soulja Boy, American rapper
1992 George Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland
1993 Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

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450 Theodosius II de Jongere, Emperor of the Austrian Empire (b. 401)
1057 Victor II (Gebhard), Pope (1055-57)
1101 Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher
1128 William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1330 Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle
1527 Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
1540 Thomas Cromwell, English 1st Earl of Essex, King Henry VIII's chief minister (b. 1495)
1631 Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1641 John Amner, composer
1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet and novelist (b. 1619)
1655 Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author
1655 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism
1667 Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress, Sex libri plantarum) (b. 1618)
1675 Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1711 Gerard Lairesse, painter
1718 Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1723 Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese)
1741 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1746 John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight
1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue) (b. 1685)
1762 George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1778 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1794 Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded
1794 Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1794 Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader, guillotined (b. 1758)
1794 Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers
1802 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia)
1809 Richard Beckett, English soldier (b.1772)
1811 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan)
1818 Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1837 John Ross, composer
1838 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer
1842 C(lemens) Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, Brother of Napoleon I (b. 1768)
1849 Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49) (b. 1798)
1850 Stefano Pavesi, composer
1863 James Deshler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer
1864 Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1869 Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher
1869 Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1872 Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass)
1878 George Law Curry, American Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1895 Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89)
1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage)
1915 Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched
1930 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1934 Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1934 Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie) (b. 1868)
1937 Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer
1937 Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement
1939 William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic
1940 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
1942 William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist
1957 Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1957 Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (b. 1876)
1965 Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1965 Maurice Yvain, composer
1965 Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid)
1967 Karl W. Richter, American aviator, USAF Lieutenant (b. 1942)
1968 Charles W Mayo, US surgeon
1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist (Nobel laureate 1944) (b. 1879)
1969 Ernst Tittel, composer
1969 Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls)
1969 Gabriel von Wayditch, composer
1969 Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1970 John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch)
1971 Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1971 Diane Arbus (Nemerov), photographer (Vogue), commits suicide
1971 Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian soldier and diplomat (b. 1890)
1971 Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1972 Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1972 Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1973 Royal Butler, actor
1974 Jack Ellis, cricketer (Victorian WK, Ashes tourist 1926)
1974 Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)
1976 Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi
1976 Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps)
1978 Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer
1979 Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1979 Don Miller, American college football player (b. 1902)
1980 Cecil Burleigh, composer
1981 Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 George Kleinsinger, US composer (Tubby the Tuba)
1982 Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1983 Alec Marks, cricketer (good NSW batsman 1928-37)
1984 Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head)
1985 Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning
1986 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower)
1986 Syd Curnow, South African cricketer (168 runs in 7 Tests)
1987 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1989 Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water)
1990 Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec)
1990 Jill Esmond, British actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1) (b. 1908)
1990 Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come)
1991 Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands
1993 Herbert Joeks (van Hugten), Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown)
1994 Bernard Delfont, Rus/Brit impresario (Thorn EMI)
1994 Colin Turnbull, anthropologist
1994 Selwyn Powell, art Editor
1996 Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician
1996 Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist
1996 Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997 Louis Cohen, physicist
1997 Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
1997 Seni Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76) (b. 1905)
1998 Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004 Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2006 David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2006 Patrick Allen, British actor and voice actor (b. 1927)
2007 Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2007 Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2008 Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)
2009 Jim Johnson, NFL Assistant Coach, Eagles Defensive Coordinator from 1999-2009 (b. 1941)
2010 Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (b. 1905)
2011 Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b. 1944)
2013 William Scranton, American politician
2013 George Scott, American MLB player
2013 Rita Reys, [Maria Reijs], Dutch jazz singer
2013 Frank Castillo, American MLB player, drowned
2013 Eileen Breenan, American actress
2014 Margot Adler, American journalist
2015 Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder
2015 James Jude, American thoracic surgeon (developed CPR)
2016 Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali writer and activist

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