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579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657 St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
762 Baghdad is founded.
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm the Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members (either 7 or 13) out the windows. They all either died in the fall or were killed by the crowd outside.
1419 First Defenestration of Prague.
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1608 At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1629 An earthquake in Naples, Italy and kills 10,000 people.
1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1678 English troops lands in Flanders
1715 Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
1729 Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 The first Masonic Grand Lodge of the Society of Freemasons in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
1756 Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1775 Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1809 British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren
1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1825 Malden Island is discovered.
1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1844 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
1859 First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1864 Battle of the Crater of the American Civil War, Union forces under General Burnsides fails attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1864 Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania burned by Union forces under McCausland
1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1866 New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1871 The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
1898 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 John French appointed British supreme commander
1916 Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first Football (Soccer) World Cup in Montevideo.
1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1932 Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
1933 28th Davis Cup, Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
1938 Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
1944 US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1945 Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Cruiser Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the Philippines Sea during World War II.
1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1947 Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K 29:59.6)
1948 Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1953 Rikidozan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1959 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1961 43rd PGA Championship, Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game, AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago.  All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1965 Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains," premieres
1965 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple," premieres
1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1967 Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
1969 US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders during the Vietnam War.
1970 Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game, Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1971 An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
1971 AApollo 15 Mission David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1972 "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs
1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1973 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1974 Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets killed and fifty-four injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
1974 US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings of Watergate Scandal after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
1975 Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1975 Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London
1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1978 The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1981 Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London
1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1982 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
1985 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1988 Cincinati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1988 James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
1988 Jordanian King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives, renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1989 Chile amends its constitution
1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1992 Lin Li swims female world record, OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1994 Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1995 Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
1995 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
1995 Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
2002 The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre, Lebanon War.
2006 World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2009 A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.
2012 Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without power
2012 Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
2013 9 children are killed and 20 are injured after a school bus collides with a truck in Hanumangarh, India
2013 28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria
2013 134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan
2013 Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan
2014 Death toll in Gaza reaches 1,346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed
2014 The EU and US extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms; Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine
2015 In Bandar Mahshahr, Iran, the temperature reaches 46C (109F), humidity makes it feel like 73C
2016 Air balloon crashes into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 on board

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1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, author (Vasari's Lives) and architect (d. 1574)
1549 Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1747 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
1751 Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart, Austrian pianist, Wolfgang's sister (d. 1829)
1763 Samuel Rogers, English author (Italy, a poem) (d. 1855)
1793 Josepf Francois Snel, composer
1809 Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1817 Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
1818 Emily Jane Bronte, English novelist (Wuthering Heights) (d. 1848)
1818 John Heemskerk Azn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands , Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88) (d. 1897)
1824 Eugenio Terziani, composer
1825 Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1831 Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
1837 Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1838 Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal)
1855 Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1855 James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1856 Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
1857 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899) (d. 1929)
1859 Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 Henry Ford, American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T) (d. 1947)
1868 Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
1872 Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1955)
1875 James William Tate, composer
1880 Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
1881 Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1882 Holmes Herbert, Mansfield England, actor (The Kiss)
1882 Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian
1886 Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
1887 Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity)
1887 Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants)
1888 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter
1889 Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian physicist, electronics engineer, inventor (TV) (d. 1982)
1890 Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (Yankees 1949-60), (NY Met's 1st) (d. 1975)
1892 Roy Park, cricketer
1893 Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1897 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!)
1898 Henry Moore, English sculptor (Vertebrae) (d. 1986)
1899 Gerald Moore, English pianist (Am I Too Loud) (d. 1987)
1899 Henricus Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP)
1899 John Woods Duke, composer
1901 Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1906 L'udovit Rajter, composer
1906 Serafin Pro, composer
1909 Cyril Northcote Parkinson, English historian (Pursuit of Progress) (d. 1993)
1909 Magda Schneider German actress (d. 1996)
1910 Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1913 Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
1913 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)
1914 Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1916 Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter
1918 Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
1919 Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy)
1921 Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1921 Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs
1922 Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1922 Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
1923 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65)
1923 John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner
1924 Christopher Shaw, composer
1924 William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
1925 Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
1925 Antoine Duhamel, composer
1925 Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy)
1926 Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1926 Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
1927 Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
1927 Richard Johnson, actor (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door)
1927 Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1928 Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1929 Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1929 Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
1930 Thomas Sowell, author/activist
1931 Joan Vohs, St Albans NY, actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina)
1933 Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, LA, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 Andre Prevost, composer
1934 Ben Piazza, Little Rock Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
1934 Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball, owner (Milwaukee Brewers)
1935 Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
1936 Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
1936 George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1936 Infanta Pilar of Spain
1936 Istvan Zelenka, composer
1936 John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain (QE2)
1936 Ralph Taeger, Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
1936 Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
1938 Hervé de Charette, French politician
1938 Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988)
1939 Eleanor Smeal, American feminist, leader (National Organization for Women)
1939 Peter Bogdanovich, American film director, producer (Last Picture Show)
1940 Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and computer inventor (ZX Spectrum)
1940 Pat Schroeder, American politician
1940 Patricia Schroeder, (Rep-D-Colorado, 1973)
1940 Reva Rose, Chicago Ill, singer/actress (Temperature's Rising)
1941 Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower
1941 Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1943 Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1944 Frances de la Tour, actress (Bejeweled, Wombling Free)
1944 Teresa Cahill, opera singer
1945 David Sanborn, American jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)
1945 Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1946 Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
1946 Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
1947 Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1947 Margo Sappington, Baytown TX, actress (Oh Calcutta)
1947 William Atherton, American actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44)
1948 Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 Duck Baker, American guitarist
1949 Joyce Jones, US singer (1st Choice)
1950 Frank Stallone, American singer and actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force)
1950 Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
1951 Alan Kourie, former South African cricketer
1953 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-9)
1954 Ken Olin, American actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something)
1956 Anita Hill, American author, professor of law
1956 Delta Burke, American actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
1956 Phil Fearon, rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You)
1956 Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 Soraida Martinez, American Painter, Creator of Verdadism.
1957 Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch bicyclist
1957 Bill Cartwright, American basketball player (NY Knicks, Chicago Bulls)
1957 Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1957 Mark Tymchyshyn, Minneapolis, actor (Gavin-As The World Turns)
1957 Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 Rat Scabies (Chris Miller), English drummer (The Damned)
1958 Daley Thompson, English Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984)
1958 Kate Bush, English singer and songwriter (Wild Things)
1958 Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian
1958 Richard Burgi, Montclair NJ, actor (Chad Rollo-Another World)
1959 Petra Felke, German DR, javelin thrower (world record 1988)
1960 Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 Laurence Fishburne, American actor (Red Heat, School Daze)
1961 Reggie Roby, NFL punter (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1962 Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1962 Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land
1962 Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1962 Monique Gabrielle, KC Mo, actress (Flashdance, Night Shift)
1962 Tom Pagnozzi, Tucson AZ, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1962 Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov, Rus lt-colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-21)
1963 Chris Mullin, American basketball player, NBA forward (Warriors, Pacers, Olympic-gold-92)
1963 Ingrid Butts, Denver Colo, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1963 Lisa Kudrow, American actress (Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)
1963 Monique Gabrielle, LA Cal, actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on Moon)
1964 Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1964 Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1965 Tex Axile, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1965 Tim Munton, English cricketer
1966 Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player, (Brisbane Broncos & Warrington Wolves)
1968 Charles Gordon, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 Michael Brandon, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1968 Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1968 Terry Crews, American football player, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins) and actor
1969 Duane Bock, Southampton NY, golfer (1991 Low Amateur NY State Open)
1969 Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
1969 Robert Porcher, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1969 Simon Baker, Australian actor
1970 Christopher Nolan, English film director
1970 Dean Edwards, American comedian
1970 Ed Hawthorne, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 Joe Montford, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 Tom McManus, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Werner Hippler, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Carl Vaughn, NFL/CFL Defensive Back (Redskins and Argos)
1971 Christine Taylor, American actress
1971 Elvis Crespo, Puerto Rican singer
1971 Ron Blazier, Altoona PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1971 Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1972 Clif Groce, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Damon House, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 Jim McIlvaine, NBA center (Washington Bullets, Seattle Supersonics)
1972 Olga Chernyak, Kiev Ukraine, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1973 Andrea Gaudenzi, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1990 French Open junior)
1973 Cara Jackson, Chandler Arizona, Miss America-Arizona (1996)
1973 Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1973 Sonu Nigam, Indian singer and actor
1974 Hilary Swank, American actress (Karate Kid 4)
1974 Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1974 Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 Sandra Diaz-Twine, Winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands
1975 Cherie Priest, American writer
1975 Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 Tifini Hale, Palm Springs California, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1976 Julio Gonzalez, Baja California, Mexico, light heavyweight boxer (WBO Champion 2003-2004), (d. 2012)
1977 Diana Bolocco, Chilean television presenter
1977 Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1977 Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1977 Jayme Dickman, South Bend Ind, 3x20 rifle (Olympics-1996)
1977 Suangsuda Rodprasert, Miss Thailand Universe (1997)
1979 Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1979 Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1979 Show Luo, Taiwanese Singer,Host, Dancer and Actor
1980 Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1980 James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 Justin Rose, British golfer
1980 Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1981 Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1981 Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1982 James Anderson, English cricketer
1982 Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
1982 Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
1999 Joey King, American actress.
2002 Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

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578 Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79)
1516 Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz
1528 Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter
1540 Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1540 Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1550 Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1652 John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist
1655 Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1680 Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691 Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1712 Abraham Elsevier, publisher
1718 William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown) (b. 1644)
1727 Franz Weichlein, composer
1741 Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria & Netherlands
1771 Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1781 Augustin Ullinger, composer
1796 Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect
1811 Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1832 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister
1863 George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr
1865 George Wright, US Union brig-general
1875 George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 Charlie Absolom, English cricketer (b. 1846)
1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900 Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1903 Servas Daems (Peeter Klein), Flem writer (Wheelbarrows)
1912 Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1912 Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
1914 Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
1914 Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1918 Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar
1918 Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1920 Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (b. 1848)
1927 Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau)
1930 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1936 Adolf Philipp, composer
1943 Benjamin James Dale, composer
1947 George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928)
1947 Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1957 Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor
1958 Alexander Albrecht, composer
1962 Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw)
1965 Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (Key) (b. 1886)
1966 Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre)
1967 Alfried Krupp, German industrialist
1967 John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1968 Jon Leifs, composer
1970 George Szell, Hungarian conductor (Cleveland Orch) (b. 1897)
1971 Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1973 Erich Katz, composer
1973 Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever)
1974 Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer
1977 Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered
1979 Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien)
1980 Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)
1980 Norman Lloyd, composer
1982 Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36)
1982 Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 Howard Dietz, American lyricist, MGM executive (b. 1896)
1983 Lynn Fontanne, English premier actress (Emmy 1965) (b. 1887)
1984 Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49)
1985 Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1987 Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film)
1989 Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990 Karl Weber
1991 Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert
1991 William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando)
1992 Brenda Marshall, American actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost) (b. 1915)
1992 Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (Superman) (b. 1914)
1992 Titti Sotto, latin songwriter
1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86)
1993 Jay Scott (Jeffrey Scott Beaven), Canadian movie critic
1993 John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed
1994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst
1994 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter
1994 Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
1994 Theo van Scheltinga, skater
1995 Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician
1995 Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar
1995 Harry Shorto, linguist,
1996 Alan Cheales, dominican priest
1996 Claudette Colbert, American actress (Happened One Night) (b. 1903)
1996 Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight)
1997 Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
1998 Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (b. 1932)
2001 Anton Schwarzkopf, German amusement ride engineer (b. 1924)
2003 Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2005 John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2006 Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2007 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2008 Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
2009 Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
2012 Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist
2014 Dick Wagner, American rock guitarist (the Frost)
2015 Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden)
2016 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively)

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