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(48 BC) Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
378 Battle of Adrianople of the Gothic War, A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
681 Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
1173 Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
1329 Quilon the first Indian Diocese was erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus was appointed the first Bishop
1378 Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil)
1483 Opening of the Sistine Chapel
1559 Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
1596 Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond
1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx
1655 Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts
1666 Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1673 Dutch under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge recaptures NY from the English, regained by English in 1674.
1726 Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover
1757 English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops
1778 Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits
1790 Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world
1803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
1810 Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
1814 The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
1829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
1830 Louis-Philippe formally accepts crown of France, following abdication of Charles X
1831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1832 King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria
1841 Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1848 Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire
1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president
1849 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1855 Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
1859 Elevator patented
1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain At Cedar Mountain (Slaughter Mountain, Southwest Mountain), Virginia of the American Civil War, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope. Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
1862 Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict," premieres in Baden-Baden
1864 Battle of Ft Morgan AL
1877 Battle of Big Hole A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
1890 1st 44 Javans arrive in Suriname, to work 5 year on sugar plantations
1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1893 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
1901 34-35°N/98-99°W open for US colonization
1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after death of Edwards mother Victoria.
1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
1910 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
1914 German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
1918 Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, & suspends him "for indifferent play"
1920 Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
1923 NY State Golf Association formed
1925 Kakori train robbery took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, India
1925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out
1930 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
1930 Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1930 Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
1936 Summer Games of the XI Olympiad, Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
1941 Winston Churchill reaches Newfoundland for 1st talk with FDR
1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
1942 Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay by British forces after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
1942 Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
1942 Battle of Savo Island of World War II, Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1943 Bertolt Brecht's "Leben des Galilei," premieres in Zurich
1944 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw," executed at Camp Vught
1944 Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive of the Continuation war, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during Second World War, ends to strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
1944 The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear as spokeman for fire prevention for the first time.
1944 US 79th/90th division enter Le Mans
1945 Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright, World War II.
1946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
1950 Lusty Song wins Hambletonian
1951 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
1953 Premier Mohammed Abdullah of Kashmir, fired
1956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws
1957 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
1963 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
1963 NY Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends
1964 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands
1964 Bunning continues pitching perfectly to NY Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings
1964 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1965 A fire at a Titan II silo missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army
1967 KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague
1969 "Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances
1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders, Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
1970 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
1971 British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison. Twenty people die in the riots that follow.
1971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
1973 Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell quit Wings
1973 USSR launches Mars 7
1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes the 38th U.S. president.
1975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7
1975 Dodger Davey Lopes steals record 32nd consec base without being caught
1975 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Colgate European Ladies Golf Open
1976 Clive Lloyd scores double-ton in 120 mins, WI v Glamorgan
1976 Pittburgh Pirate John Candelaria no-hits LA Dodgers, 2-0
1976 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1977 Chris Old completes a century in 37 mins, Yorks v Warwicks
1977 NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs
1977 The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
1978 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
1978 Yanks score 5 in bottom of 9th beat Brewers 8-7
1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
1980 Belgian constitution revised
1981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17)
1981 52nd All Star Baseball Game, NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland.  All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
1981 63rd PGA Championship, Larry Nelson shoots a 273 at Atlanta AC Ga
1981 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1984 Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal
1984 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
1987 69th PGA Championship, Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA Natl Palm Beach
1987 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
1987 Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1988 Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field
1988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
1988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1992 "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 perf
1992 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
1992 Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt
1992 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
1992 Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
1993 King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
1993 The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1994 Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
1994 Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
1997 Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
1997 Yanks break Minnesota Twins Brad Radke's string of 12 straight wins
1999 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
1999 The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
2007 Emergence of the Financial crisis of 2007-2008 when a liquidity crisis resulted from the Subprime mortgage crisis
2012 The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70
2012 Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
2013 8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan
2015 At Ferguson anniversary of the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, a man is shot and a state of emergency declared
2016 Longest ever hunger strike ends, Indian human rights campaigner Irom Sharmila tastes honey after 16 years.

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232 Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)
1201 Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
1537 Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist (d. 1604)
1544 Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1606)
1593 Izaak Walton, English angler and writer (Compleat Angler) (d. 1683)
1603 Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian
1611 Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Hulst Neth
1631 John Dryden, English Poet Laureate, playwright (Heroic Stanzas) (d. 1700)
1648 Johann Michael Bach, German composer (In Dulci Jubilo) (d. 1694)
1653 John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
1669 Eudoxia Lopukhina, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1731)
1674 František Maxmilián Kanka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1677 Jacob Campo Weyerman, Dutch adventurer, painter, writer
1686 Benedetto Marcello, Venice It, composer (Lettera Famigliare)
1690 Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, composer
1696 Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1772)
1718 Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer
1722 Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
1726 Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (d. 1825)
1757 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
1758 Bruno Dalberg (Anonymus Belga) (Petrus the Wacker van Zon), writer
1776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (Avogadro's Law) (d. 1856)
1781 Michael Umlauf, composer
1783 Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
1788 Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (d. 1850)
1797 Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
1805 Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
1808 William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1809 William Barret Travis, American lieutenant colonel in the Battle of the Alamo (d. 1836)
1819 William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
1823 Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1900)
1824 Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 Elisha Ferry, (Gov-R-Wash, 1872-80, 1889-93)
1834 Elias Alvares Lobo, composer
1845 André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
1845 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator
1847 Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1876)
1861 Wilhelm Berger, composer
1867 Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (d. 1920)
1869 Randle Ayrton, Chester England, actor (Manxman)
1871 Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
1872 Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
1874 Charles Fort, American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
1874 Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
1875 Albert William Ketelbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist (Wonder Worker) (d. 1959)
1875 Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist
1883 George Hoyt, NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
1884 Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Genius against Violence)
1887 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam)
1888 Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter
1890 Cesar Cortinas, composer
1890 Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
1890 Sandor Jemnitz, composer
1891 Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator
1892 Charles Delaney, NYC, actor (Air Police, Lonesome Trail)
1895 Fred Badcock, cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches)
1895 Nat Pendleton, Davenport IA, Olympic wrestler/actor (Reckless)
1896 Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
1896 Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist, pioneer of developmental psychologist (d. 1980)
1896 Leonide Massine, choreographer (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1914-20)
1897 Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1898 David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal)
1899 Armand Salacrou, French playwright
1899 P(amela) L(yndon) Travers, Australian writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996)
1901 Charles Farrell, American actor (Vern-My Little Margie) (d. 1990)
1902 Zino Francescatti, French violinist (NY Phil-1939) (d. 1991)
1903 Tom Tyler (Vincent Markowsky), Port Henry NY, actor (Mummy's Hand)
1905 Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice
1905 Leo Genn, London England, actor (Affair in Monte Carlo)
1907 Berta Waterstradt, writer
1909 Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944)
1909 John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century)
1910 Robert H van Gulik, Dutch diplomat/writer (Judge Ti)
1911 Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
1911 Khurshed Meher-Homji, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper 1936)
1911 Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion)
1911 William A(lfred) Fowler, American Astrophysicist (Nobel Prize Laureate 1983) (d. 1996)
1913 Harry Mills, singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Moon)
1913 Herman Talmadge, (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee)
1914 Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
1914 Gordon Cullen, architect
1914 Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
1914 Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001)
1915 Haim Alexander, composer
1918 Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen)
1919 Joop (Johannes) den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1973-77) (d. 1987)
1919 Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager (Yankees, Tigers)
1920 Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer (d. 2007)
1921 Ernest Angley, American televangelist
1921 J. James Exon, American politician (Sen-D-Nebraska, 1979) (d. 2005)
1922 Philip Larkin, English poet (North Ship, Jill) (d. 1985)
1923 Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch literary
1923 Hillevi Lagerstam, Kurikka, Finnish actress
1925 David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1925 Robert Heppener, composer (Hymns & Conversations, Movie Music)
1926 Denis Atkinson, cricketer (WI all-rounder, 219 v Australia 1955)
1926 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch jazz historian (Mister Jazz)
1927 Daniel Keyes, American author
1927 Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT)
1927 Robert Shaw, English acto (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)r (d. 1978)
1928 Bob Cousy, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, 1957 MVP)
1930 Betty Boop, animation
1930 Jacques Parizeau, Quebec economist and politician
1931 Chuck Essegian, American baseball player
1931 Mark Weinberg, South African/British fiancier/multi-millionaire
1931 Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
1932 John Gomery, Canadian jurist
1933 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
1935 Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (d. 2008)
1935 George S Leotsakos, composer
1936 Julián Javier, American baseball player
1936 Patrick Tse Yin, Hong Kong film director
1938 Dick Anthony Williams, Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
1938 Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
1938 Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
1938 Rod Laver, Australian tennis player (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
1939 Billy Henderson, rocker (Spinners-That's What Girls Are Made For)
1939 Brito, Brazilian footballer
1939 Claude Osteen, baseball pitcher (Cin Reds)
1939 Max Neuhaus, composer
1939 Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
1939 Tony Budge, English contractor/tank maker/multi-millionaire
1940 Beverlee McKinsey, Oklahoma, actress (Iris-Another World, Guiding Light)
1941 Way Bandy, American make-up artist (d. 1986)
1942 David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, director (End)
1942 Miguel Littin, actor (Promised Land, Alsino & Condor)
1942 Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1943 Ken Norton, American boxer
1944 Gerrit Jan Wolffensperger, Dutch MP (D66)
1944 Sam Elliott, American actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
1944 Smokey the Bear, named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin
1944 Terry Jenner, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1971-75)
1944 Viv Prince, rocker (Pretty Things)
1945 Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
1945 Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
1946 Jim Kiick, American football player
1946 Rinus Gerritsen [Marinus], Dutch rock bassist/keyboardist (Golden Earring)
1947 Barbara Mason, American soul singer (Yes, I'm Ready)
1947 Roy Hodgson, English football manager
1948 Bill Campbell, American baseball player
1949 Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
1950 Roelof S "Roel" Bakker, Dutch actor/director (Love Potion)
1952 Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
1952 Vicki Morgan, Colo Springs Colo, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl)
1954 Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach
1955 Doug Williams, Louisiana, NFL QB (Tampa Bay Bucaneers, Wash Redskins)
1955 John E. Sweeney, American politician
1955 Peter Schmuck, American sportswriter
1957 Melanie Griffith, American actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then)
1958 Amanda Bearse, American actress (Marcy Rhodes-Married With Children)
1958 Greg Chaisson, heavy metal rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1959 Diane Williams, Hahn AFB Ger, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1959 Kurtis Blow, American rapper (Krushgroove-The Breaks)
1959 Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
1961 Amy Stiller, American actress
1961 Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
1961 John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1962 Jim Johnson, New Hope, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1962 John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player, NBA center, forward (Phoenix Suns)
1962 Kevin Mack, American football player
1962 Louis Lipps, American football player
1962 Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker
1963 Lonnie Quinn, Cheshire Conn, actor (Will Cooley-All My Children)
1963 Whitney Houston, American diva and actress (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard) (d. 2012)
1964 Brett Hull, Canadian-born ice hockey player, NHL right wing (St Louis Blues, USA)
1964 Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor
1964 Yuri Khmylev, Moscow Russia, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1965 Ezra Polley, Georgetown Kentucky, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1965 John Smith, Del City Oklahoma, 62kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-2 gold-88, 92)
1965 Kyle Kyle, American bassist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1966 Pat Petersen, LA California, actor (Michael-Knots Landing)
1966 Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs) and head coach
1967 Debbie Spence, San Jose Cal, tennis star
1967 Deborah Lee, Hamilton Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 National Amat France)
1967 Deion Sanders, American football, NFL cornerback and wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys) and baseball player (Atlanta Braves)
1967 Elexa Wills-Orrange, Orange Texas, long jumper/triple jumper
1968 Eric Bana, Australian actor
1968 Gillian Anderson, American actress (X-Files)
1968 Jay Stacy, Aust field hockey midfielder (Oly-4th/silver-88, 92, 96)
1968 Joseph McGinty Nichol, American film producer and director
1968 Sam Fogarino, American musician (Interpol)
1969 Divine Brown, American convicted felon
1969 Smaragda Karydi, Greek singer
1969 Troy Percival, American baseball player, pitcher (California Angels)
1970 Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
1970 Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
1970 Chris Gedney, NFL tight end (Chic Bears, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Rod Brind'Amour, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Phila Flyers, Team Canada 98)
1970 Thomas Lennon, American actor
1971 Alan Allen, NFL/WLAF wide receiver (NY Jets, London Monarchs)
1971 David Merritt, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
1971 James Kim, American technology reporter (d. 2006)
1971 Mack 10, American rapper
1971 Mary Joe Fernandez, Dom Rep, tennis player (US National 16s)
1971 Nikki Schieler, Norwalk California, playmate (Sep, 1997)
1971 Scott Karl, Fontana CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1972 A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
1972 Elizabeth Vassey, Raleigh NC, actress (Emily Martin-All My Children)
1972 Eric Zomalt, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Juanes, Colombian singer
1972 Robert Peal, Chicago Ill, dance skater (& Margot Contois)
1972 Silvia Ramon-Cortes, Barcelona Spain, tennis star (1994 Futures-Vigo)
1973 Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1973 James McKeehan, tight end (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 Jay Hagood, tackle (NY Jets)
1973 Jimmy King, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1973 Jochen Molling, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1973 Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
1973 Larry Stallworth, WLAF wide receiver (London Monarchs)
1974 Derek Fisher, American basketball player, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1974 Kirill Reznik, American politician
1974 Mahesh Babu, Indian film actor
1974 Matt Morris, American baseball player
1974 Nicola Stapleton, English actress
1974 Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor, director
1974 Tremayne Allen, tight end (Chicago Bears)
1975 Mathew James Coad, Wellington NZ, 100m/200m runner (Olympics-96)
1975 Mike Lamb, American baseball player
1975 Robbie Middleby, Australian footballer
1976 Aled Haydn Jones, British Radio Producer, Radio 1's The Chris Moyles show Producer
1976 Jessica Capshaw, American actress
1976 Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
1976 Rhona Mitra, English actress
1977 Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
1977 Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
1977 Jason Frasor, American baseball player
1977 Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
1978 Audrey Tautou, French actress
1979 Alizah Allen, NYC NY, figure skater (1997 North Atlantic Sr champ)
1979 Jessica Gregory, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA (1997)
1980 Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
1980 Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
1981 Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player
1981 Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
1982 Danieal Manning, American football player
1982 Tyson Gay, American sprinter
1983 Ashley Johnson, American actress (Chrissy-Growing Pains)
1983 Shane O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
1984 Saori Horii, Japanese gravure idol
1985 Anna Kendrick, American actress
1985 Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
1985 JaMarcus Russell, American football player
1985 Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
1986 Vanessa Morley, American actress
1989 Jason Heyward, American baseball player
1989 Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
1990 Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
1991 Hansika Motwani, Indian actress

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117 Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
378 Flavius Valens, Roman Emperor , Emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle (b. 328)
803 Irene, Byzantine empress, wife of emperor Leo IV (b. 752)
1048 Pope Damasus II (Poppo), reigns for only 23 days
1107 Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1173 Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
1250 King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1420 Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal
1516 Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten)
1534 Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1601 Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect
1613 Giovanni Righi, composer
1634 Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher
1634 William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1652 John Both, landscape painter/etcher
1668 Francois Anguier, French sculptor
1672 Jose Ximenez, composer
1694 Johann Michael Bach, German composer
1710 Gabriel Schutz, composer
1720 Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1727 Johann Philipp Treiber, composer
1738 Pierre Drevet, French engraver
1744 James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1763 John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek)
1806 Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer
1816 Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
1835 Claus Nielsen Schali, composer
1837 Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1848 Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy)
1854 Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54)
1862 Joseph Bennett Plummer, US Union-brig-gen
1886 Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1888 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poe
1888 Isaac Strauss, composer
1892 Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling)
1896 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test
1904 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
1910 Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
1915 Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle
1919 Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism)
1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci) (b. 1857)
1924 Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries)
1928 Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18)
1929 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus)
1942 Edith Stein, German philosopher (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
1945 Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1945 Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
1946 A E E Vogler, cricketer (South Africa, 15 Tests, 64 wkts)
1946 Bert Vogler, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1949 Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (b. 1874)
1949 Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy & Lady, Enchanted Forest)
1955 Marion Eugene Bauer, composer
1957 Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
1958 Felipe Boero, composer
1959 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1961 Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff
1962 Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, poet (Nobel Prize Laureate 1946) (b. 1877)
1965 Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat & Canary)
1966 Gosta Nystroem, composer
1967 Anton Walbrook, actor (Laura, I Accuse)
1967 Joe Orton, English writer, actor, and playwright (Leaf, Murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 Abigail Folger, American heiress, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered (b. 1943)
1969 Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1969 George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins)
1969 Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969 Robert Lehman, US multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art)
1969 Sharon Tate, American actress (Valley of Dolls), murdered by Manson family (b. 1943)
1969 Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
1969 Wojciech Frykowski, Polish director, writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1972 Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine)
1972 Richard Elsasser, composer
1973 Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
1973 Dean Corll, shot, Murder and Rapist, raped & killed 26 boys
1974 Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
1975 Dimitri D Shostakovitch, composer (Sun Over Motherland)
1975 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist
1976 Max Vredenburg, composer
1977 Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt)
1978 James G Cozzens, US writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer)
1978 Johan Daisne (Thiery), Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore)
1979 Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz)
1979 Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips
1979 Walter O'Malley, baseball executive, CEO (Dodgers) (b. 1903)
1980 Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance)
1980 Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
1980 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut
1980 P K "Perker" Lee, cricketer (Australian bowler 1931-33, 2 Tests)
1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director
1985 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
1986 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist
1987 Kees de Galan, Dutch economist
1988 Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman)
1988 Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
1988 Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor, played the character Don Ramón, in the TV Series El Chavo
1990 Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express)
1990 Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
1991 Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer
1992 Christopher Todd (Todd Wangberg)
1992 Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Singer (b. 1938)
1992 Jan van Baal, antropologist/gov Dutch New-Guinea
1992 Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords
1992 Thomas J McIntyre, (Sen-NH, 1963-79)
1993 Mohamed M Tabet, commissar of Casablanca, raped 518, executed
1994 Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author
1994 Clarence Ford, sax player
1994 Toby Rowland, theatrical manager
1995 Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
1995 John Schofield, journalist
1995 Willem Noordhoek, photographer
1996 James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1996 Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer
1996 Ruth Holland, journalist
1996 Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
1999 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
2000 John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
2000 Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
2002 Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
2002 Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003 Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
2003 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2003 Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
2003 Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2004 David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
2004 Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
2004 Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
2005 Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
2005 Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2006 Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
2007 Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (b. 1922)
2008 Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor (b. 1957)
2008 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (b. 1941)
2010 Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
2013 John Logan, American MLB player
2013 Glen Hobbie, American MLB player
2014 Michael Brown, an 18 year old black man is shot dead by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. His death provoked nationwide protests and civil unrest
2014 Ed Nelson, American actor
2015 Frank Gifford, American NFL player and broadcaster
2015 David Nobbs, English comedic writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)
2016 Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist (New York, London)
2016 Gerald Grosvenor, English 6th Duke of Westminster and 3rd richest Britain

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