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70 The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
367 Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-August by his father and associated to the throne aged eight
1181 Supernova seen in Cassiopia
1265 Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War, the army of Prince Edward (the future Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
1347 English troops conquer Ft Calais
1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen & English
1532 the Duchy of Brittany was annexed to the Kingdom of France.
1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1578 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese, 10,000 killed. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1598 London's head office of Hanze closed
1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil
1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique & St Christopher, thousands die
1666 Sea battle between Netherlands & England
1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1695 French garrison of surrenders to Willem III
1704 Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet during the War of the Spanish Succession, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1730 Crown prince Frederik of Prussia escapes to England
1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
1753 George Washington becomes a master mason
1760 Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1789 In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
1790 A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1791 The Treaty of Sistova is signed by Austria & Turkey, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
1821 Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper (publishes until 1969).
1824 Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks.
1830 Plans for city of Chicago laid out
1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1855 John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
1862 US government collects its 1st income tax
1864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1870 British Red Cross Society forms
1873 While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1879 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris
1881 122°F (50°C), Seville, Spain (European record)
1886 Colombia adopts constitution
1892 Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
1892 The family of Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Lizzie Borden arrested
1897 Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1906 Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1909 Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment
1910 A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
1914 German army shoots Belgian priests, burns down village of Battice
1914 German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army
1914 Lord Kitchener becomes British minister of War
1914 Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality, World War I.
1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
1916 Liberia declares war on Germany in World War I.
1917 Pravda calls for killing all capitalists, priests & officers
1922 Female 1st baseman Lizzie Murphy plays on AL all-star team
1924 Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1925 1st Dutch Colijn government forms
1925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
1927 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opens
1929 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich
1929 Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yanks 14-6
1929 Jones Beach in NY opens
1930 Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
1934 NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4
1936 Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime, names himself dictator of Greece.
1941 Dodger Mickey Owens is 1st to catch 3 foul flies in an inning (3rd)
1941 Winston Churchill departs on Prince of Wales to US
1942 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
1942 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Cairo
1942 Col-gen Jeremenko arrives in Stalingrad, welcomed by Nikita Khrushchev
1942 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
1943 British premier Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada
1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
1943 USAF bombs Germans in Troina
1944 Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer.  A tip from a Dutch informer, who was never identified, leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.
1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
1945 Golfer Byron Nelson records most tournament wins (18) in a season
1945 Red Sox Tom McBride is 3rd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1946 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake, an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1947 The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1948 5 day Southern States filibuster succeeds in maintaining America's poll tax
1949 NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association
1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
1953 Vic Raschi sets pitcher record by driving in 7 runs & wins 15-0
1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1954 The Government of Pakistan approves Qaumi Tarana, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla, as the national anthem.
1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)
1956 Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
1956 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
1958 Dumont TV Network crumbles
1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 87 perfs
1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1961 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
1961 108°F, Spokane, WA
1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1964 American civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident, United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese torpedos.
1965 Cook Islands Constitution Day, The Cook Islands gain Self Governing status from New Zealand.
1967 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934)
1967 British pirate radio station Radio 355 resigns air
1967 Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open
1968 WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting
1969 At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations of the Vietnam War. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1969 Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium
1970 Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
1971 US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1972 Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
1974 A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1974 Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1975 Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes
1975 The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish chargé d’affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 Hurricane Aline, kills 272 in Texas & Caribbean
1980 John & Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy"
1980 Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
1981 Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank for STS-2 mission
1981 Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
1982 NY Met Joel Youngblood singles in Chicago day game, he is traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
1983 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
1983 France performs nuclear test
1983 Revolution in Burkina Faso
1983 While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull
1984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics
1984 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
1984 Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks
1984 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Faso (National Day)
1984 The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1985 "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
1985 California Angel Rod Carew gets his 3,000th hit
1985 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1985 Phil Rizzuto Day, Yanks retire #10
1985 Rod Carew, is 16th to get 3,000 hits
1985 White Sox Tom Seaver is 17th to win #300, beating Yankees
1986 OPEC lowers oil production 20%
1987 At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
1987 The Federal Communications Commission votes 4-0 to rescind the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1988 Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
1989 Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly
1990 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
1990 European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
1991 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500
1991 Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1991 The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
1993 A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo
1993 Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
1993 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
1994 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
1994 Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
1994 Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
1995 Darryl Strawberry joins the NY Yankees
1995 Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1996 24th du Maurier Golf Classic, Laura Davies
1996 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
1996 J Bunning, E Weaver, B Foster, & N Hanlon inducted in Hall of Fame
1997 "Keenan Ivory Wayan Show," premieres on Fox TV
1997 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
2002 The Soham murders, 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.
2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.
2006 The 2006 Trincomalee massacre of NGO workers, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
2006 Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and is replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who is sworn in on 23 August.
2007 NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched
2010 California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, was overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
2012 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
2012 South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics
2014 Hamas and Israel agree to another 72 hour ceasefire
2015 A plague of locusts in Southern Russia prompts a state of emergency to be declared
2015 Muppets Missy Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter
2015 31 people are killed & 100 are injured after floods partially sweep two passenger trains off a bridge in Madhya Pradesh, India.

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1222 Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer
1521 Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1604 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
1664 Louis Lully, composer
1687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz
1701 Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1705 Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
1719 Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721 Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1731 Giuseppe Colla, composer
1748 Maximilian Stadler, composer
1755 Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor (modern pencil) (d. 1805)
1776 Wenzel Sedlak, composer
1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) (d. 1822)
1799 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer
1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1816 Israel Vogdes, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1889)
1818 Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
1821 James White, American theologian (d. 1881)
1821 Louis Vuitton, French designer (d. 1892)
1823 Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877
1825 Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer)
1834 John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1839 Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)
1843 Flor van Duyse, composer
1844 Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (d. 1929)
1846 Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
1848 Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1859 Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer(Hunger) (Nobel Prize Laureate 1920) (d. 1952)
1865 Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
1867 Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
1870 Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin)
1870 Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
1873 Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general, minister of War
1884 Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1888 Philip Greeley Clapp, composer
1888 Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965)
1890 Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
1890 Erich Weinert, writer
1892 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer
1897 Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil)
1899 Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
1900 Arturo Umberto Illia, pres of Argentina (1963-66)
1900 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch)
1900 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, London or Hitchin, The Queen Mother of England, Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
1901 Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (Hello Dolly) (d. 1971)
1902 Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1903 Helen Kane (Schroeder), American actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels)
1904 Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
1904 Theodore Newton, NJ, actor (Ace of Aces, Voltaire)
1904 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (Ferdydurke, Pornography) (d. 1969)
1905 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Jungian analyst/educator
1906 Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
1906 Marie-Jose von Saksen-Coburg, Belgian Princess, queen of Italy (d. 2001)
1908 Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
1908 Leslie Wilkinson, journalist
1908 Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author (Daily Express)
1909 Glenn Cunningham, American middle distance runner (d. 1988)
1909 Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener
1909 Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1910 Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1910 Hedda Sterne, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker
1910 William H Schuman, American composer (Amer Festival Overture, Juilliard) (d. 1992)
1912 Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912 David Raksin, Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
1912 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (WW II), saved 10,000s of Jews (d. 1947)
1913 Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
1913 Wesley Addy, Omaha Neb, actor (Bostonians, Loving)
1914 Rik Slabbinck, Flemish painter
1915 Irving Fields, NYC, pianist (Ilona Massey Show)
1915 Warren Avis, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1918 Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), American author (d. 1992)
1919 Michel Déon, French writer
1920 Helen Thomas, American journalist (starts press conferences)
1921 Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist
1921 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) (MVP-1947) (d. 2000)
1923 Arthur Butterworth, composer
1923 Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
1923 Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
1927 Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1928 Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
1928 Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
1929 Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930 David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader
1930 Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian shia cleric
1930 John Gorman, printer/socialist historian
1931 Narendra Tamhane, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (d. 2002)
1933 Nathan Eugene Brooks, Cleve Oh, flyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1933 Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch choreographer/ballet dancer (Painted Birds)
1934 Dallas Green, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1934 Jonas Savimbi, Angolian leader of Unita
1934 Rutger Kopland, [Rutger van den Hoofdakker], Dutch poet
1936 Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
1936 Elsberry Hobbs, rocker (Drifters)
1937 David Bedford, English musician
1937 David Vickerman Bedford, composer
1937 Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, S Afr attorney, CP parliament leader
1938 Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
1939 Frank Vincent, American actor
1939 Frankie Ford (Frank Guzzo), American  vocalist (Sea Cruise)
1940 Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
1940 Karel Vachek, director (Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities)
1940 Rosemarie "Timi" Yuro, US singer (Hurt)
1940 Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004)
1941 Martin Jarvis, English actor
1941 Quincey Daniels, Biloxi Miss, boxer (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1941 Ted Strickland, American politician and current Governor of Ohio (Rep-D-Ohio)
1942 Cleon Jones, American baseball player
1942 David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005)
1942 David Russell Lange, PM (L) NZ (1984-89)
1942 Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (d. 2008)
1943 Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
1943 David Carr, rock keyboardist (Fortunes Leyton, London
1943 Michael J McCulley, San Diego California, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS-34)
1943 Rodney Stuart Pattison, British yachtsman (Olympics)
1943 Tina Cole, Hollywood, singer (King Cousins)/actress (Katie-My 3 Sons)
1943 Vicente Alberto Álvarez Areces, President of the Government of the Principality of Asturias in Spain
1944 Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
1944 Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian (How to be a Stand Up)
1945 Alan Mulally, American businessman, chairman of Ford Motor Company
1945 Fred Hansen, US, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist
1946 Maureen Cox Starkey, 1st wife of Beatle Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
1947 Kenneth Dryden, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens, 6 Stanley Cups)
1947 Klaus Schulze, German composer
1947 Paul Leyton, rocker (Seekers)
1948 James C Slattery, (Rep-D-Kansas, 1983)
1948 Johnny Grubb, American baseball player
1949 John Riggins, American football player, NFL running back (NY Jets, Wash Redskins)
1951 Lane Evans, (Rep-D-IL, 1983)
1952 Bobby Buntrock, Denver Colo, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel)
1952 Daniel Bautista, Mexico, 20k walker (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
1952 Kristoffer Tabori, [Siegel], LA California, actor (Rappaccini's Daughter)
1952 Moya Brennan, Irish singer
1954 François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer
1954 Janet Coles, LPGA golfer
1955 Alberto Gonzales, 80th U.S. Attorney General (2005-2007)
1955 Andrew M Allen, Phila Pa, Captain USMC/astronaut (STS 46, 62, 75)
1955 Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer (Sling Blade, Bad Santa)
1955 Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton SD, army/astronaut (STS 38, 48, 62)
1955 Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer
1956 Gerry Cooney, American boxer
1957 Brooks D. Simpson, American historian
1957 John Wark, Scottish footballer
1957 Robert E Andrews, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
1958 Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer
1958 Greg Foster, Maywood Ill, 110m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 Ian Broudie, English music producer and Lightning Seeds vocalist
1958 Kym Karath, American actress
1958 Mary Decker, American athlete, olympic track star (mile record 4:16.71)
1959 Deedee Lasker, LPGA golfer
1959 John Gormley, Irish politician
1959 Robbin Crosby, American musician (Ratt) (d. 2002)
1960 Bernard Rose, English director
1960 Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1960 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
1960 Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rock guitarist/vocals (Ratt-Round & Round)
1960 Tim Winton, Australian author
1961 Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, first African--American president (Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
1961 Lauren Tom, American actress
1962 Paul Reynolds, British musician
1962 Paul Williams, rock guitarist (Flock of Seagulls)
1962 Roger Clemens, American baseball player, pitcher (Red Sox, Blue Jays, Cy Young, MVP)
1964 Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
1964 B J Surhoff, Bronx NY, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1964 Clyde Simmons, NFL defensive end (Az Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 Gary King, British radio presenter
1965 Crystal Chappell, Silver Spring Md, actress (Carly-Days of our Lives)
1965 Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
1965 Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden
1965 Trena Trice, WNBA forward/center (NY Liberty)
1966 Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler (WCW/NJPW/Calgary, Power Warrior)
1967 Carrie Flemmer, Stettler Alberta, softball catcher (Olympics-96)
1967 Kembra Pfahler, Hermosa Beach Ca, actress (Gotham Gold)
1967 Marcelo Filippini, Uruguay, tennis star
1967 Michael Lawrence Marsh, American athlete, 200m sprinter (Oly-2 gold/silver-92, 96)
1967 Timothy Adams, American actor
1968 Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1968 Darcy Arreola, La Mesa California, 1.5k runner
1968 James Francis, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1968 Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model (Calvin Klein)
1969 Lee O'Leary, Compton CA, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1969 Max Cavalera, Brazilian vocalist and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly)
1969 Michael DeLuise, American actor
1969 Norm Casola, CFL slot back (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
1970 John August, American screenwriter
1970 Orlando Trustfull, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 Owen McMahon, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1970 Steven Jack, South African cricketer
1971 Greg Frers, CFL safety (BC Lions)
1971 Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1972 Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
1973 Alex Molden, cornerback (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Eddie Cade, NFL full safety (NE Patriots)
1973 Eva Amaral, Spanish singer and songwriter
1973 Peter Tsekenis, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1974 Canute Curtis, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 Keenan Milton, Professional Skater
1974 Kily González, Argentine footballer
1975 Andy Hallett, American actor (d. 2009)
1975 Beau Morgan, running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
1975 Kaipo Spenser, Wailuku HI, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1976 Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
1977 Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
1977 Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1978 Kurt Busch, American race car driver
1979 Brandi Siegel, Miami Fla, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
1980 Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
1980 Richard Dawson, English cricketer
1981 Abigail Spencer, American actress
1981 Ben Scott, English cricketer
1981 Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
1981 Marques Houston, American singer and actor (IMx)
1984 Mardy Collins, American basketball player
1985 Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
1985 Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1985 Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1987 Jang Geun Suk, Korean actor
1989 Ashley Biggin, American actor
1989 Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer (Young Divas)
1992 Cole Sprouse, Identical twin Italian-American child actor (Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1992 Dylan Sprouse, Identical twin Italian-American child actor (Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1992 Tiffany Evans, American singer
1994 Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress

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1060 Henry I, King of France (1027-60) (b. 1008)
1113 Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
1204 Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
1265 Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, killed in the Battle of Evesham (b. 1223)
1265 Killed in the Battle of Evesham: Henry de Montfort (b. 1238); Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223); Peter de Montfort; Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
1306 Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1338 Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg
1476 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
1526 Juan Sebastián El Cano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief)
1578 Sebastiaan, King of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle (b. 1554)
1578 Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
1584 John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist
1598 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English premier (b. 1520)
1612 Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury
1639 Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza, Mexican dramatist
1666 Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer
1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
1718 René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741 Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1778 Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
1792 John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
1795 Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
1821 William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence)
1844 Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
1850 Frantisek Tucek, composer
1856 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1859 Jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786)
1873 Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer
1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
1886 Samuel Jones Tilden, Governor of New York and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1876 (b. 1814)
1889 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro)
1900 Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1904 Arnold Krug, composer
1914 Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
1915 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa)
1919 D(ave) W Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1845)
1920 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer4
1922 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician
1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician
1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader
1930 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer
1931 Daniel H Williams, American heart surgeon (pioneer in surgery)
1936 Henry Schoenfeld, composer
1938 L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer
1938 Pearl White, American actress, stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) (b. 1889)
1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer
1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism
1942 Alberto Franchetti, composer
1957 Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1958 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
1967 Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show)
1975 John Baragrey, actor (Gamera)
1976 Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (b. 1923)
1976 Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1977 Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces)
1981 Melvyn Douglas (Hesselberg), American actor (Woman's Face, Hud) (b. 1901)
1982 Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster)
1984 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate)
1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer)
1985 Don Whillans, British mountaineer (b. 1933)
1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer
1987 Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (Hodyne) (b. 1912)
1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal
1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo)
1992 Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
1993 Bernard Barrow, American actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope) (b. 1927)
1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert)
1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist
1994 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
1994 Sol Adler, economist Sinophile
1995 Dick Bartell, baseball player
1995 J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon
1996 Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
1997 Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, world's oldest human on record, 122yo (b. Feb 21st 1875)
1998 Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999 Rodney Ansell, Australian who was the inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953)
1999 Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
2000 Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
2001 Lorenzo Music, American actor (b.
2002 Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991)
2003 Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005 Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2007 Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2008 Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer. (b. 1985)
2009 Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
2011 Naoki Matsuda, Japanese Soccer player (b. 1977)
2013 Art Donovan, American football player

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