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362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
904 Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli
1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley, Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1014 Battle of Kleidion of the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars, Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack several months later, on October 6.
1030 Battle of Stiklestad (Trondheim) of the Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars, King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1565 The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567 James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht
1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli
1585 Friese academy opens
1588 Battle of Gravelines of the Anglo-Spanish War, English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1693 Battle at Neerwinden, French beats English/Dutch army
1693 Battle of Landen of the War of the Grand Alliance, France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1696 French king Louis XIV & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 mins in England
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1793 John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1830 Abdication of Charles X of France.
1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1844 NY Yacht Club forms
1847 Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.
1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1851 Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty, 1st commercial treaty between US & Japan. US citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan.
1864 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C., American Civil War.
1864 Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid)
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1899 Southern California Golf Association forms
1899 The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1901 The Socialist Party of America founded.
1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms
1907 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
1907 Sir Robert Baden Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
1908 St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics
1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
1914 British fleet leaves Portland, passes Straits of Dover
1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
1916 Postal check & Girodienst establishes
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1920 Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
1921 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1927 Bellevue Hospital in NY installs 1st iron lung
1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants
1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1930 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1932 In Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans, during the Great Depression.
1934 17th PGA Championship, Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin
1937 Tongzhou Incident
1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938 Olympic National Park forms
1940 Urk soccer team forms
1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1944 US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine
1945 The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1948 The Olympic Games of the XIV Olympiad after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin open in London.
1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting
1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1953 US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955 USSR performs nuclear Test
1956 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN
1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1958 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident
1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1967 During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1967 USS Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
1967 Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire during the Vietnam War in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968 Washington DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY Hilton
1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1975 Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired
1976 In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1976 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
1978 On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM
1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981 Marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer.
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire
1986 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issues.
1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling
1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988 The film Cry Freedom is seized by South African authorities.
1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
1990 26th Curtis Cup, US wins 14-4
1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup, USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups & blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1992 Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
1993 Cincinati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible, all charges and he is set free.
1993 Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced
1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)
1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1996 The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad .
1997 US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill
2001 Lance Armstrong wins the 88th Tour de France, but is later disqualified
2005 Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris
2007 Alberto Contador of Spain wins the 94th Tour de France
2012 Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
2013 44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq
2013 300 prisoners are freed after a Taliban attack in Dera Ismal Khan, Pakistan
2013 €103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France
2014 100 Gazans killed overnight by Israeli strikes
2014 France contributes 8 million Euros in aid to Gaza
2015 27 people are killed & 149 are injured after a truck runs into a religious procession in Zacatecas, Mexico
2015 Microsoft launches Windows 10
2015 Mohammed Omar, mullah and Taliban leader is confirmed dead (killed 2013) by the Afghan government
2015 Part of missing airline MH370 is found on the island of Reunion
2015 Over 3,500 immigrants over 2 days attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel at Calais, to cross into Britian
2015 Zion Harvey became the first paediatric patient to receive a double hand transplant at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2016 Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic nomination for US President at Democratic convention in Philadelphia - first woman by a major US party

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1166 Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1590 Gilles Hayne, composer
1605 Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1620 Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist and diplomat
1646 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve)
1723 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
1739 Johannes Ritschel, composer
1755 Franz Gotz, composer
1758 Antonius van Gils, Dutch RC theologist (opposed Enlightenment)
1763 Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1778 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
1797 Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian, political scientist, writer (Democracy in America) (d. 1859)
1817 Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian painter (d. 1900)
1817 James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1883)
1820 Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union) (d. 1871)
1828 Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1885)
1830 Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1875)
1843 Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1846 Isabel of Brazil (d. 1921)
1849 Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1853 Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Dutch actress (Kniertje-Hope of Blessing)
1853 Henry Morton Dunham, composer
1854 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)
1861 Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1861 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
1865 Nicola Spinelli, composer
1867 Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
1869 Booth Tarkington, American author (17, Magnificent Ambersons) (d. 1946)
1872 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 August Stramm, writer
1874 James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (Waterloo Bridge) (d. 1949)
1878 Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1878 Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel)
1883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43) (d. 1945)
1883 Manuel Infante, Spanish composer and conductor
1883 Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1884 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist
1884 Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 Rudi Stephan, composer
1887 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born operetta composer (Blossom Time) (d. 1951)
1888 Niles Welch, Hartford CT, actor (Cornered)
1889 Karl Otten, writer
1891 Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist, developer of first reliable pregnancy test (d. 1966)
1892 Charles L Bass, actor (Business in White Slavery)
1892 Ernst van Raalte, lawyer (Seen, heard... wrote)
1892 Karel L Baars, Dutch actor (White Slaves Trade)
1892 William Powell, American actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey) (d. 1984)
1893 Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12-tones music)
1895 Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author
1897 Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (explored atom) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1944) (d. 1988)
1899 Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer
1900 Don Redman, American musician, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times) (d. 1964)
1900 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (Return to Ithaca) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1974) (d. 1976)
1904 J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 Clara Bow, American silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid) (d. 1965)
1905 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1961) (d. 1961)
1905 Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1905 Thelma Todd (Alison Loyd), American actress (Dangerous Female) (d. 1935)
1906 Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 Melvin Mouron Belli, American lawyer and actor (SF's "King of Torts") (d. 1996)
1909 Chester Himes, American author (d. 1984)
1909 Georgy Mushel, composer
1910 Henry Brian Boyne, journalist
1911 Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1911 Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1911 Jan Cikker, composer
1913 Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1913 Stephen McNally, NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)
1914 "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)
1914 Abram Games, graphic artist
1914 Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
1914 Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
1915 Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
1915 Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1916 Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1916 Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1917 Rochus Misch, German courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for Adolf Hitler, the last survivor of the Führerbunker
1918 Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
1918 Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
1920 Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1920 Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw) (d. 1974)
1921 Aled Eames, maritime historian
1921 Richard Egan, American actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna) (d. 1987)
1923 Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
1923 Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
1924 Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire (GEC)
1924 Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1924 Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 Robert Horton, American actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)
1925 Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Greek composer (Raven)
1925 Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1926 Don(ald Carter), American professional bowler, six-time bowler of the year (1953-54, 57-58, 60-61) (d. 2012)
1926 Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
1927 Harry K V Mulisch, Dutch author (Message to King Rat)
1928 Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer
1929 Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company)
1932 Marguerite Empey (Diane Webber), American Model, playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956)
1932 Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979)
1933 Cammie Smith, WI cricket opening batsman (1960-62)
1933 Colin Davis, British racing driver
1933 Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1933 Robert Fuller, American actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)
1934 Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner (son of O C, Test 0-140)
1935 Leonard Lee, rocker (Shirley & Lee)
1935 Peter Schreier, German tenor (Dresden State Opera 1961)
1936 Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87), U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1938 Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist, news anchor (ABC Evening News) (d. 2005)
1939 Annea Lockwood, composer
1941 David Warner, English actor (Star Trek VI, Time Bandits)
1941 Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
1942 Sharon Gans, actress (Slaughterhouse 5)
1942 Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter)
1943 David Taylor, English snooker player
1943 Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Roz Kelly, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)
1944 Terry Jarvis, NZ cricket opener (387 partnership w/Turner v WI 1972)
1945 Michelle Angelo, Kingsville Tx, actress (Funny Girl)
1945 Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football manager
1946 Bill Forsyth, director (Local Hero, Breaking In, Housekeeping)
1946 Diane Keen, English actress
1946 Neal Doughty, American musician, keyboardist (REO Speedwagon)
1946 Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
1947 Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1947 Janet LePera, LPGA golfer
1949 Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador
1949 Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
1949 Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist, wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
1949 Stephen Burleigh, Wheeling WV, actor (Love & Betrayal, Afterburn)
1950 Maricica Puica, Romania, 2K runner (world record)
1950 Mike Starr, American actor
1950 Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)
1951 Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1951 Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist
1951 Deborah Pryor, California, actress (The Godson), (Rep-R-Ohio)
1951 Leslie Easterbrook, LA California, actress (Ryan's Hope, Police Acadamy 5)
1952 Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Greek politician
1953 Geddy Lee, Canadian bassist and singer (Rush)
1953 Ken Burns, American producer and documentary maker (Civil War, Baseball)
1953 Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1953 Tim Gunn, American television personality
1954 Flo Hyman, Inglewood California, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1955 "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player (Pogues-Straight to Hell)
1955 Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1955 Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1956 Brenda Hocott, LPGA golfer
1956 Patti Scialfa, singer (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen
1956 Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1956 Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1957 Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1957 Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1959 Brian James Claar, Santa Monica CA, PGA golfer (1991 AT&T-2nd)
1959 Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
1959 Gary Springer, NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)
1959 John Sykes, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
1959 Nelli Kim, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1976)
1959 Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1962 Corinne Dibnah, Brisbane Australia, LPGA golfer (1988 Brit Open)
1962 Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1962 Steve Pelluer, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1962 Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
1963 Alexandra Paul, American actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)
1963 Azeem Hafeez, cricketer (fingerless Pakistani lefty quick)
1963 Damon Allen, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)
1963 Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1963 Michel Boerebach, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1963 Patty Dodd, Bogota Columbia, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-2nd-1988)
1963 Steve Frey, Meadowbrook PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 Lisa Peluso, Phila, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava-Loving)
1965 Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
1965 Doug Burden, Rutland Vt, rower (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)
1965 Henry James, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1965 Karen Doell, Winkler Manitoba, softball 2nd baseman (Olympics-96)
1965 Luis Alicea, Puerto Rican infielder (St Louis Cardinals), coach
1966 Jeff Herrod, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 Martina McBride, American country singer
1966 Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1966 Sally Gunnell, 400m hurdler, (Olympic-gold-92)
1968 Kristen Babb-Sprague, California, US synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-92)
1968 Mike Williams, Radford VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1969 Alison Dunlap, Denver Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 Andi Peters, British TV presenter
1970 John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer
1970 Maria Checca, Bogota Colombia, playmate (Aug, 1994)
1970 Sean LaChapelle, NFL/WLAF receiver (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1970 Steve Wojciechowski, Blue Island IL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1971 Bryan Dattilo, American actor (California Dreaming, Days of Our Lives)
1971 Jayne Fenner, Four Marks England, US sailing (Olympic-92)
1971 Johnny Ruffin, Butler AL, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1971 Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
1971 Monica Calhoun, American actress
1972 Steven Branscombe, WLAF WR (Scotland Claymores)
1972 Wil Wheaton, American actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)
1973 Stephen Dorff, American actor (I Know My Name is Steven)
1973 Wanya Morris (Squirt), American singer (Boyz II Men)
1974 Afroman, American rapper (And Then I Got High)
1974 Derek Wilkinson, Lasalle, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 Josh Radnor, American actor
1975 Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1975 Lanka de Silva, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1975 Seth Greisinger, Kansas City KS, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Sheya Shipanga, Miss Namibia Universe (1997)
1977 Greg Burgess, US, 200m individual medley (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1977 Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, American songwriter and record producer
1979 Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1979 Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1980 Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 Rachel Miner, American actress
1980 Ryan Braun, Canadian baseball player (Milwaulkie Brewers)
1981 Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1981 Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
1981 Jennie Thompson, Wichita Falls TX, gymnast (Jr Natl-champ-93, Oly-96)
1981 Troy Perkins, American soccer player
1982 Allison Mack, American actress
1982 Janez Aljancic, Slovenian footballer
1982 Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1983 Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1984 Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
1985 Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
1987 Sabra Johnson, American dancer
1991 Miki Ishikawa, American actress

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238 Marcus Clodius Maximus,  Roman Emperor
238 Decimus Caelius Calvinus, Roman Emperer
1030 Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies in battle (b. 995)
1095 Ladislaus I Arpad de Heilige, King of Hungary (b. c. 1040)
1099 Urban II (Odo van Lagery), French Pope (1088-99) (b. 1042)
1108 Philip I, King of the Franks (1059, 1060-1108) (b. 1052)
1164 Olaf, King of Norway
1507 Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1573 John Caius, English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (b. 1510)
1573 Spanish prince of Eboli
1596 Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias)
1612 Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1632 Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures)
1644 Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), Pope (1623-44) (b. 1568)
1649 David Teniers I, Flemish painter (altaar stukken)
1669 Christopher Simpson, composer
1752 Peter Warren, British admiral (b. 1703)
1781 Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1786 Franz Asplmayr, composer
1792 René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1797 Christoph Rheineck, composer
1808 Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808)
1813 Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1825 Micah Hawkins, composer
1833 William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1838 Jonathan Huntington, composer
1839 Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1856 Robert A Schumann, German pianist and composer (Humoresque) (b. 1810)
1857 Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino
1857 Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1859 Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer
1863 Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1886 Adolf Muller, composer
1886 Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch)
1887 Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1897 Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97)
1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci (b. 1844)
1906 Alexandre Luigini, composer
1913 Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist (Nobel Prize Laureate 1911) (b. 1838)
1918 Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1922 Edward Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist
1930 Alexander von Fielitz, composer
1933 Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
1934 Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1938 Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1941 James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End)
1950 Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1954 Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (Study of Graves)
1958 Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse)
1960 Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster)
1963 Dave Smith, cricketer (2 Tests in 1912 Australian side)
1963 Dorian Le Gallienne, composer
1964 Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1966 Pal Jardanyi, composer
1970 John G B Barbirolli, English conductor and composer (b. 1899)
1970 Jonel Perlea, composer
1973 Eileen Percy, silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage)
1973 Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1973 Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 Cass Elliot, American musician (Mamas & Papas) (b. 1941)
1974 Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1975 James (Benjamin) Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader)
1976 Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1977 Austin Matthews, cricketer (Test Eng v NZ 1937)
1978 Wesley La Violette, composer
1979 Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1979 Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (Eros & Civilization) (b. 1898)
1980 Jan Tausinger, composer
1981 Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
1982 Cor(nelis R J) Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord
1982 Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (Kenji-Sarge) (b. 1920)
1982 Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant
1982 Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
1983 David Niven, English actor (Rugues) (b. 1910)
1983 J B Charles (Willem Nagel), Dutch criminologist/writer
1983 Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (Monk) (b. 1900)
1983 Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (Dr Kildare) (b. 1896)
1984 Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (Fred Waring Show) (b. 1900)
1984 Woodrow Parfey, actor (Time Express)
1985 James F Nolan, actor (Dante)
1987 Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia)
1987 Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1988 Ellin Berlin (MacKay), Mrs Irving Berlin
1990 Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1992 Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
1992 Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
1993 AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer
1994 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist (B-12) (Nobel laureate 1964) (b. 1910)
1994 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered
1994 John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill
1995 Les Elgart, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1917)
1996 Aruna Asaf Ali, politician
1996 Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1996 Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
1996 Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
1998 Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
2007 Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2007 Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2007 Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2007 Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
2008 Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)
2009 Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Indian state Jaipur (b. 1919)
2008 Eric Varley, British politician and cabinet minister
2013 Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer
2014 Idris Muhammad, American jazz drummer
2015 Peter O'Sullevan, Irish horse racing commentator 'the voice of racing'
2016 Marta Marzotto, Italian countess and designer

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