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(30 BC) Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
768 (Philip) begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1009 Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1200 Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat.
1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1423 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1492 The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England, English fleet beats Spanish Armada.
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1653 Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
1655 Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
1664 Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris
1667 Peace of Breda:
1667 Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War (2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends).ut is pelted with flowers.
1703 Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
1741 Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1751 Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
1771 Paul Potters "Great ossendrift" sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam
1777 The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette (19yo) "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 The First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st US government building: US Mint in Phila
1794 All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
1809 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
1813 British invade Plattsburgh NY
1830 Charles X of France resigns by force
1849 Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
1852 Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4°F (20.2°C) avg)
1855 Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4°C avg)
1856 Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1861 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers
1865 The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
1876 US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1895 The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Basque nationalist leader Sabino Arana.
1899 Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's
1900 Boer Generals Prinsloo & Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
1905 Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa
1909 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1910 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German
1912 RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
1913 The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins
1919 German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence
1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
1925 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1928 1st woman to win a track and field olympic gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland
1929 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
1930 The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
1932 27th Davis Cup, France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1932 In the German Election NSDAP gets 37.3% of the vote.
1934 29th Davis Cup, Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
1934 St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant
1935 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
1936 The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447, executes 193,000 Russians
1938 Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis.
1938 Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"
1940 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
1940 A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1941 Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1941 U boats sink 21 allied ships this month, 94,000 tons
1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 U boats sank 96 allied ships this month, 476,000 tons
1943 Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany
1944 Last deportation train out of Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
1944 Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 US troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
1945 John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
1945 Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances
1948 At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1948 Pres Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills SS & 3rd baseman
1951 Japan Airlines is established.
1953 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
1954 First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1955 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open
1955 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1956 Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
1959 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1959 The Basque separatist organisation ETA is founded.
1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
1960 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game (31st) is stopped in the 9th inning in a 1-1 tie because of rain.
1961 Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1962 Federation of Malaysia forms
1962 Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall
1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
1963 Cleveland  Indians tie a record of 4 consecutive HRS.Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, & Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels)
1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
1964 Ranger 7, takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon, sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1964 Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game, Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
1970 Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car (lunar rover) ride on Moon (first ride).
1971 Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
1972 Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
1972 Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day.
1972 In  Operation Motorman, British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland.
1972 Three car bombs are detonated in Claudy, Northern Ireland, killing nine in what is believed to be a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack.
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets
1973 Delta Airlines jetliner DC-9 crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1973 Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v WI as England lose
1976 Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
1976 Viking 1 NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
1976 Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1977 John F Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1978 Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 NY Yanks now 7½ out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1978 Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
1979 "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
1980 John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1980 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 42-day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends in the United States.
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Association
1981 General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
1982 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria & France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 USSR performs nuclear Test
1983 38th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, & W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
1983 Dutch July avg temp is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852
1984 Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
1987 "Living Daylights" premieres in US
1987 A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR
1987 Guns & Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
1987 Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1988 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1988 Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years
1988 Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan)
1988 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1990 Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1991 Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1991 The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
1992 Georgia joins the United Nations.
1992 Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
1992 Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36)
1992 Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
1993 A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
1993 Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
1993 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
1993 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
1994 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
1994 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994 Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record
1994 Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Netherlands averages 21.4°C; their warmest July since 1783
1994 Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame
1994 Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
1994 Stockholms avgs 21.5°C; their warmest July since 1855
1994 UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
1997 A's trade Mark McGwire to St Louis Cards
1999 In the Discovery Program, NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2006 Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.
2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2012 A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power
2012 Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 Israel and Hamas agree to a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire
2014 The US agree to resupply arms to Israel - including rocket launchers, mortar rounds, grenades - despite condemnation of civilian casualties in Gaza
2015 It is announced that creative director Alexander Wang will leave Balenciaga
2016 “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" a play by Jack Thorne, with contributions by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide at midnight
2016 Jimmy Walker wins the 98th PGA Championship, his first major, by 1 shot at Baltusrol Golf Club
2016 Yuriko Koike is the first woman to be elected Tokyo Governor

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1143 Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 Philip III, the Good, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1443 Albrecht III of Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon
1527 Maximilian II, German King, Holy Roman Emperor (1564-76) (d. 1576)
1550 Jakob Handl (Petelin), Austrian composer/bandmaster
1578 Catharina Belgica of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange
1597 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized
1598 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1629 Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer
1654 Jacob Hop, Dutch politician/diplomat
1702 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer) (d. 1752)
1718 John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1724 Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 Princess Augusta Charlotte of Wales (d. 1813)
1743 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist
1748 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter, cartoonist
1767 Amelie Julia Candielle, composer
1777 Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
1803 John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (screw propeller), engineer, shipbuilder-USS Monitor (d. 1889)
1808 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer
1816 George Henry Thomas, American general (Union Army) (d. 1870)
1817 Philip Cook Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1894)
1818 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1901)
1825 William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
1828 Francois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin)
1830 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer
1834 Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder (Free Parish)
1835 Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
1835 Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1837 William Clarke Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (Confederate Army) (d. 1865)
1841 George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
1843 Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
1844 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
1847 Ignatio Cervantes, composer
1848 Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville)
1854 Jose Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12)
1858 Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
1860 Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
1867 Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1875 Harry Northrup, Paris France, actor (Who's That Knocking at My Door)
1880 Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1882 Grete Gulbransson, writer
1883 Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
1884 Karl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician, mayor (Leipzig), "July 20th Plot" (d. 1945)
1886 Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
1887 Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1889 Donald Foster, PA, actor (Scaramouche)
1892 Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author and publisher (d. 1986)
1892 Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
1893 Charles Wilfred Orr, composer
1894 Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
1894 Roy Bargy, Mich, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
1900 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll)
1900 Erich Katz, composer
1901 Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages) (d. 1985)
1902 G O "Gubby" Allen, cricketer (in Sydney England non-bodyline quickie)
1904 Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
1904 Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
1905 Trenchard Cox, museum director
1909 Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian writer and polyglot (d. 1999)
1911 George Liberace, American musician, violinist (Liberace Show) (d. 1983)
1912 Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1912 Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark) (d. 2003)
1912 Milton Friedman, American economist (Nobel laureate 1976) (d. 2006)
1913 Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL hall of famer (NY Rangers) (d. 1984)
1914 Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker
1914 Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (I Tartassati, Fantomas) (d. 1983)
1914 Raymond Aubrac, Paris, French resistance leader, (d. 2012)
1915 Robert Steel, academic
1916 Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
1916 Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and official (d. 2006)
1916 Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist
1916 Sydney Tafler, London England, actor (Too Many Crooks)
1916 Verdun Scott, NZ cricketer/rugby player
1918 Hank Jones, American pianist
1918 Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1919 Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (ABC) (d. 2006)
1919 Hemu Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer (Indian righty batsman 1947-59)
1919 Norman Del Mar, composer
1919 Primo Levi, Italian author (Survival in Aushchwitz) and chemist (d. 1987)
1920 James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007)
1920 Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer
1921 Donald Malarkey, American World War II hero
1921 Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1921 Whitney M Young Jr, American civil rights activist, head of Urban League (d. 1971)
1922 Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1922 Lucy Killea, (assemblywoman-California)
1923 Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive, CEO (Atlantic Records) (d. 2006)
1923 Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1926 Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
1927 Walter Vogt, writer
1928 Bill Frenzel, (Rep-R-MN, 1971)
1929 Don Murray, American actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
1929 Gilles Carle, Canadian film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1929 José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
1929 Lynne Reid Banks, British author
1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist
1930 Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931 Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008)
1931 Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1931 Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1932 John Searle, American philosopher
1932 Morey Carr, rocker (Playmates)
1932 Robert W Davis, (Rep-R-MI, 1979)
1932 Sam Coppola, Jersey City, New Jersey, actor (Saturday Night Fever), (d. 2012)
1932 Ted Cassidy, American actor (Lurch-Addams Family) (d. 1979)
1933 Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
1935 Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy)
1935 Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
1936 Bonnie Brown, rocker (Browns)
1936 Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1937 Isabelle F Daniels, Jakin Georgia, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-56)
1939 France Nuyen, French actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1939 John R West, rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1939 Roger Prideaux, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1968-69)
1940 Carol J. Clover, American academic
1940 Stanley Jaffe, producer (Fatal Attraction)
1941 Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (d. 2004)
1943 Carla Glasgow, LPGA golfer
1943 Lobo (Kent Lavoie), American singer and songwriter
1943 Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1943 Stephanie Forrester (Bold & the Beautiful)
1943 Susan Flannery, American actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas)
1943 William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education (1985-88), drug tsar
1944 Geraldine Chaplin, American actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1944 Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter
1944 Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
1944 Sherry Lansing, Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain)
1945 Bob Welch, rock vocalist/guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well), (d. 2012)
1945 Gary Lewis, American vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1945 Tomas Vackar, composer
1945 William Floyd Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1946 Bob Welch, American musician
1946 Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1946 Karen Zerby, American religious leader
1947 Dennis Greenslade, rocker
1947 Karl Greene, Manchester, rock bassist, (Herman's Hermits)
1948 Leaveil Degree, rocker (Whispers)
1950 Lane Davies, American actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts)
1950 Steve Miller, American writer
1951 Barry Van Dyke, American actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)
1951 Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1971)
1951 Gerald Anthony, actor (Marco Dane-General Hospital, One Life to Live)
1952 Alan Autry, American football player and politician
1952 Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
1952 Helmuts Balderis, Latvian hockey player
1952 João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
1952 Pritawi Sudarmo, Indonesia, astronaut
1953 Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)
1953 James Read, American actor
1953 Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer
1953 Ted Baillieu, Australian Politician
1954 Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 Jakie Quartz, French singer
1956 Bill Callahan, American football coach
1956 Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 Michael Biehn, American actor (Rampage, Hog Wild, Aliens, Abyss)
1957 Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 Dirk Blocker, American actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
1957 Irina Nazariva, USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Leon Durham, American baseball player
1957 Victoria E Cooke, Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980)
1958 Bill Berry, American musician, drummer  (R.E.M.)
1958 Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner (Dallas Mavericks)
1958 Wallace Kurth, actor (Days of Our Lives, Ned/Ed-General Hospital)
1959 Mike Bielecki, Baltimore MD, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1959 Peter Senior, Singapore, Australasia golfer
1959 Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1960 lva Budarova, Czechostovakia, tennis star
1961 Chris Hinton, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1961 Susan Sanders, LPGA golfer
1962 John Chiang, American politician
1962 Kevin Greene, American football player, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1962 Kym Malin, Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982)
1962 Rhonda Reilly, Indianapolis IN, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-48th)
1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1962 Troy Murray, Calgary, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1962 Wesley Snipes, American actor (Passenger 57, Money Train, Blade trilogy)
1963 Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1963 Norman Cook, British musician (The Housemartins, Freak Power, Beats International, Fatboy Slim)
1964 Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 J. K. Rowling, British writer (Harry Potter)
1965 John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler
1965 Julian Richards, British film director
1965 Scott Brooks, American basketball player, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks)
1965 Tom Stankowski, Paris France, Nike golfer
1966 Dean Cain, American actor (Clark-Lois & Clark)
1966 Julie Forbes, Torphins Scotland, golfer (Aberdeenshire champ 1989)
1966 Marina V A Mowatt (Ogilvy), daughter of English princess Alexandra
1966 Tylin John, Encino CA, playmate (Mar, 1992)
1967 Elizabeth Wurtzel, NYC, actress (Prozac Nation)
1967 Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1967 Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyu
1967 Rodney Harvey, actor (Salsa)
1967 Sean O'Neill, Toledo OH, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1967 Tim Wright (musician), Composer
1967 Tony Massenburg, American basketball player, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1968 Andre Ware, CFL quarterback (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 David Bradley Stockton Jr, Redlands CA, PGA golfer (1994 Canon-3rd)
1968 Saeed-Al-Saffar, UAE cricketer (batsman 1996 World Cup, later captain)
1969 David Cash, American professional wrestler
1969 Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1969 Langa Sibanda, Miss Universe-Zimbabwe (1996)
1969 Loren Dean, American actor (Billy Bathgate, Say Anything)
1969 Richard Griffith, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor (Anton-All My Children)
1970 Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer
1970 Ben Chaplin, English actor
1970 Dave Wedge, American journalist
1970 David Sacco, Malden MA, NHL left wing (Oly-94, Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 Giorgos Sigalas, Greek basketball player
1970 Knut Holmann, Norway, rower (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Gus Frerotte, American football player, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1971 John Lowery, American guitarist
1972 Antonio Langham, NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1972 Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Greek screenwriter and actor
1972 Jason Gildon, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Ray McElroy, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Tami Stronach, Teheran Iran, actress (Neverending Story)
1973 Chandra North, American supermodel
1973 Fabulous Flournoy American basketball player and coach Newcastle Eagles
1973 Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer
1973 Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player
1974 Emilia Fox, English actress
1974 Jonathan Ogden, American football player
1975 Allan von Schenkel, American musician
1975 Andrew Hall, Former South African cricketer
1975 Mike Lincoln, American baseball player
1975 Poesy Liang, Founder of Helping Angels
1975 Randy Flores, American baseball player
1975 Ruben Patterson, American basketball player
1975 Sergei Gusev, Nizhny Tagil Russia, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1975 Simon Hirst, British radio DJ
1976 Annie Parisse, American actress
1976 Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1977 Tim Couch, American football player
1978 Justin Wilson, English race car driver
1978 Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1978 Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress, model and TV presenter
1979 B. J. Novak, American actor
1979 Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
1979 Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1979 Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
1980 Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish Rally Driver
1980 Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1981 Eric Lively, American actor
1981 Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 J.Son Dinant, American comedian
1981 Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 DeMarcus Ware, American football player for the Dallas Cowboys
1984 Glenn Holt, American football player
1986 Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
1987 Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress
1987 Michael Bradley, American soccer player
1988 Krystal Meyers, American Christian singer/songwriter/musician
1989 Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1990 Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler
1992 Curtis James, American runner
1997 Ezra Gans, American multi-instrumentalist

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855 Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader
1396 William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish Saint and knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest, theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus (b. 1491)
1566 Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa
1648 Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis),
1653 Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1693 Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter,
1726 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 Johan V, King of Portugal (b. 1689)
1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia)
1784 Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (b. 1713)
1790 Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer
1795 Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay)
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
1864 Louis Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1886 Franz Liszt (Ferencz), Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1811)
1891 Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter
1911 Jack Edwards, cricketer (1888 Ashes tourist)
1914 A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered
1914 Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
1917 Charlie Finlason, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test)
1917 Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1917 Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1919 R G Barlow, cricketer (591 runs/34 wickets/17 Tests for England)
1920 Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (b. 1878)
1932 Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
1940 Udham Singh, Indian Extremist Freedom Fighter(b. 1899)
1940 Whitney Krakower, US gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel
1942 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
1943 Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer, dies in POW camp (b. 1905)
1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
1948 Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue)
1951 J of Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences)
1952 N B F "Tufty" Mann, cricketer (South African slow lefty 1947-51)
1953 Robert Taft "Mr Republican", U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
1954 Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1960 Karl Hasse, composer
1963 Sir Robert Chapman, British soldier and politician (b. 1880)
1964 Jim Reeves, American country singer, dies in air crash (b. 1923)
1965 James Rennie, actor (Wilson, Skylark, Illicit),
1966 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general,
1966 Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
1967 Mario Varvoglis, composer
1967 Richard Kuhn, German chemist,
1968 Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus)
1970 Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1972 Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium, Secratary General (NATO, 1957-61) (b. 1899)
1977 Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam
1978 Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places)
1978 Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1979 Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Psyche '59, Rat, Staircase)
1980 Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh)
1980 Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1980 Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1981 Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1984 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1984 Paul Le Flem, composer
1985 Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches
1985 Murray Chapple, cricketer (14 Tests for NZ, 497 runs)
1986 Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
1988 Trinidad Silva, American actor, killed in auto accident (b. 1950)
1990 Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1990 Fernando Sancho
1992 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970
1992 Joseph L George
1992 Ralph Strait
1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland)
1993 Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93)
1993 Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze)
1993 Baudouin I, King of Belgium (b. 1930)
1993 Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader
1994 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band)
1994 Caitlin Thomas, dies
1994 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode
1994 Pieter C Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands)
1995 Genevieve Tobin Keighley, actress (Zaza, Great Gambini)
1996 Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter
1996 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer
1996 Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
1997 Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55)
1997 Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam
1997 Edith Fore, pitchwoman (I've fallen and I can't get up!)
1997 Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian
2001 Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2001 Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2003 Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
2004 Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
2006 Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2009 Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2009 Sir Bobby Robson, English professional football player and manager (b. 1933)
2012 Gore Vidal, American author
2013 Michael Ansara, American actor
2016 Seymour Papert, South African mathematician

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