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(30 BC) Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by means of an asp bite.
3 Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem
1071 Alp Arslan beat Byzantines, emperor Romanos IV Diogenes
1099 Battle at Ascalon of the First Crusade, Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1121 Battle of Didgori, the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1164 Battle of Harim, Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.
1281 The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
1323 Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor of the Wars of Scottish Independence, Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
1336 English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders
1480 Battle of Otranto Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Canary Islands
1499 First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1508 Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico
1530 Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I
1549 French troops occupy Ambleteuse England
1553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation & burning of Jewish Talmud
1588 Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army
1658 1st US police corps forms (New Amsterdam)
1665 English fleet beat Dutch fleet
1676 First war between American colonists & Indians ends in New England.  Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
1687 Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
1759 Battle of Kunersdorf Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
1793 The Rhône départment is created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two: Rhône and Loire (Lêre).
1806 Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion.
1812 Duke of Wellington's troops enter Madrid
1831 Dutch troops conquer Leuven
1831 Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
1833 Chicago is founded.
1851 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora
1851 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1856 Anthony Fass patents accordion
1861 Skirmish at Texas-rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan & his raiders capture Gallatin, TX
1863 1st cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC area)
1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1867 Pres A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton
1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device
1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
1883 The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1884 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
1886 W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, v Aust, The Oval
1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour
1896 Gold discovered at Klondike River at Dawson
1896 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg
1898 Armistice - Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
1898 Hawaii formally annexed to US, The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
1901 Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony
1905 King Leopold II opens Central Station Antwerp
1908 Ford builds the first Model T.
1914 Cavalery battle at Halen, Belgium ("Battle der Zilveren Helmen")
1914 German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
1914 Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary, countries of the British Empire are also included.
1914 Russian troops take East-Prussia & occupy Marggrabowa
1915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published
1916 Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz & Paquerette photographed in Paris
1920 Battle of Warsaw (Vistula) between Poland and Russia begins
1922 Dedication of Frederick Douglas' home in Wash DC as national shrine
1923 Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
1923 Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward
1925 KMA-AM in Shenandoah IA begins radio transmissions
1925 The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, is initiated.
1927 "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens
1928 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam
1931 Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
1933 Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup
1935 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand
1936 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
1936 Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5
1936 Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)
1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts
1940 Netherlands starts rationing textile
1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany
1942 British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
1942 German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe
1942 Lt-gen Montgomery arrives in Cairo
1943 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
1944 Alençon is liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
1944 Churchill & Tito meet in Naples
1944 Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating
1944 Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game
1948 Court of justice sentences Gen Fr Christiansen to 12 years
1949 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)
1950 NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1952 Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
1952 The Night of the Murdered Poets thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
1953 Ann Davison arrives in Miami, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic
1953 Heavy earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, 435 killed
1953 The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon, hydrogen bomb.
1953 The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the richter.
1954 Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1955 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
1955 Pres Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1955 WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Canadain actor William Shatner (Star Trek) marries Gloria Rand
1956 KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
1959 Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
1960 Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched.
1960 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
1962 1st time 2 people in space
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1963 Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
1963 Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
1964 Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.
1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits HR record 10th & final time in a game, one goes 502 feet
1964 Race riot in Elizabeth NJ
1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
1965 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
1965 Race riot in West Side of Chicago
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St Louis 23-14
1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
1969 Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.
1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
1971 Syriam Pres Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs
1972 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances
1972 Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1973 55th PGA Championship, Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury Cleve
1973 Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child & Family Service Golf Opens
1973 WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
1974 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 & walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle & Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
1976 1st approach & lands test (ALT) of orbiter Enterprise
1976 Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp, Between 1,000-3,500 Palestinians killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
1977 For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
1977 Start of Sri Lankan riots of 1977, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people this riot started less than a month after the United National Party came to power, over 300 Tamils are killed.
1977 The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
1978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
1978 ICE is launched
1978 Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
1979 "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
1979 Iran press censors start massive book burnings
1979 Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
1980 Signature of the Montevideo Treaty establishing the Latin American Integration Association.
1981 Jon Erikson (US) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)
1981 The IBM Personal Computer is released, introduces PC & PC-DOS version 1.0.
1982 Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
1984 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif
1984 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections
1984 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame
1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1985 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1985 Balt Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1985 Japan Airlines Boeing 747SR Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
1987 Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
1988 Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
1988 Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
1990 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania
1990 72nd PGA Championship, Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala
1990 Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic
1990 Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories
1991 Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan
1991 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon & Marshall
1992 Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1993 Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
1994 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition SF vs Denver)
1994 Major League Baseball players Association goes on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
1994 Panic in church of Brazzaville, 142 killed
1994 Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1995 Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge
1996 "Breakfast on Fox" premieres
2000 The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2004 New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey comes out publicly as a gay man.
2005 An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
2005 An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.
2005 Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
2005 Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by an LTTE sniper at his home.
2007 Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games

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1503 Christian III, king of Denmark and Norway (1534-59) (d. 1559)
1566 Isabella C(lara) E(ugenia), infante of Spain, Governess of the Netherlands (d. 1633)
1592 Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov (Fort Emmerik/Heusden)
1604 Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1620 Pieter Cuypers, S Neth lawyer
1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, composer
1629 Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 Afonso VI, King of Portugal (d. 1683)
1644 Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer
1644 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)
1647 Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1686 John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
1696 Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
1720 Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1720 Martin Gerbert (von Hornau), Prince-abbot, music historian
1744 Rowland Hill, preacher
1751 Johann Baptist Lasser, composer
1753 Thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
1757 ALF, alien life form (ALF)
1762 George IV, king of the United Kingdom (1820-30) (d. 1830)
1774 Robert Southey, English poet laureate, biographer of Nelson (d. 1843)
1778 Francis Horner, politician
1781 Robert Mills, US, architect (Washington Monument)
1819 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1864)
1820 Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
1825 Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer
1829 John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1902)
1831 H. P. Blavatsky, Russian theosophist (d. 1891)
1832 Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor
1833 William Price Sanders, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1838 Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
1848 Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile)
1849 Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist
1853 Jean Louis Nicode, composer
1854 Alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith
1854 Johannes P Kelly, Dutch [Kellij], actor/operetta writer
1856 "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1859 Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (America the Beautiful) (d. 1929)
1866 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel laureate 1922) (d. 1954)
1867 Edith Hamilton, American writer (Mythology) (d. 1963)
1868 Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
1872 Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1956)
1875 Ettore Panizza, composer
1875 Mezio Agostini, composer
1876 Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton) (d. 1958)
1880 Christy Mathewson, American baseball player, HOF pitcher (Won 37 in 1908) (d. 1925)
1880 Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author
1880 Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
1881 Cecil B. DeMille, American film director, directed God (10 Commandments, Cleopatra) (d. 1959)
1881 Vaclav Vackar, composer
1883 Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder (Daily Trouw)/chairman (ARP)
1883 Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
1883 Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1884 Frank Arthur Swinnerton, England, novelist (Summer Storm, Sanctuary)
1885 Alexander Albrecht, composer
1885 Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
1885 Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
1886 Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1887 Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1888 Marion Lorne, Phila, actress (Strangers on a Train, Girl Rush)
1888 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder (AVRO)
1889 Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
1890 Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1891 C.E.M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster (d. 1953)
1892 Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1893 Howard Smith, Attleboro Mass, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel)
1897 Manuel Blancafort, composer
1897 Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese West Indies cricketer (d. 1981)
1897 Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald observatory)
1897 Ramon Gonzalez Barron, composer
1898 Oscar Homolka, Vienna Austria, actor (I Remember Mama)
1899 Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Diary)
1899 Ben Sealey, Trinidadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1963)
1900 Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer
1902 Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
1903 Frances Clode, CEO (WRVS)
1904 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II [OS=July 30]
1904 Frank Ervin, harness racer (Hambletonian 1959, 66)
1904 Kay Campbell (Catherine Hibben), actress (All My Children)
1904 Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
1905 Joan (Jacobus J) Remmelts, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Twee Vorstinnen)
1906 Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
1906 Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
1907 James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop
1907 Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1908 Lord Renton, QC/British government minister
1909 Maurice Heath, air marshal
1909 Richard Bare, American director
1910 Baroness Phillips, pres/general secretary (Natl Association of Women)
1910 Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo & Juliet)
1910 Jane Wyatt, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek) (d. 2006)
1910 Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (d. 1970)
1911 Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), Mexican actor (Around World in 80 Days) (d. 1993)
1912 Samuel Fuller, American film director, actor (Return to Salem's Lot) (d. 1997)
1913 Kurt Kaszner, Vienna Austria, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants)
1914 Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
1914 Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
1914 (Hendrik) Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist (Parool)
1915 Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
1915 Michael Kidd, American choreographer (d. 2007)
1917 Douglas Gunsekera, banker
1918 Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)
1919 Michael Kidd, [Milton Greenwald] choreographer (7 Brides for 7 Bros)
1919 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright
1919 Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1920 Percy Mayfield, US singer (Please Send Me Someone to Love)
1920 Peter West, British sports commentator
1921 Marjorie Reynolds, [Goodspeed], Buhl Id, actress (Peggy-Life of Riley)
1921 Patrick Howard-Dobson, president (Royal British Legion)
1922 Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader (NVV/VARA)
1922 Lord Colinbrook, British government minister
1923 John Holt Jr, Jamaican West Indies cricketer (d. 1997)
1924 Derek Shackleton, England cricketer, pace bowler (d. 2007)
1924 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
1925 Dale L Bumpers, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1975)
1925 Earl Coleman, singer
1925 George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)
1925 Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder, author (Guinness Book of World Records) (d. 2004)
1925 Robin Nicholson, metallurgist
1925 Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder, author (Guinness Book of World Records) (d. 1975)
1926 Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
1926 John Derek, American actor and director (10, Annapolis Story) (d. 1998)
1926 Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
1927 Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, cellist/conductor
1927 Porter Wagoner, American singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come) (d. 2007)
1927 Ralph Waite, White Plains NY, actor (John-Waltons, Roots)
1928 Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1928 Charles Blackman, Australian artist
1928 Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director (d.2006)
1929 Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar), American country singer (Hee Haw) (d. 2006)
1929 Charles Moore, Coatsville Pa, 400m hurdler (Oly-gold/silver-52)
1929 Joji Yuasa, composer
1930 George Soros Hungarian-American financier and political activist
1930 Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
1930 Ronald James Herron, architect
1931 William Goldman, American screenwriter
1932 Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
1932 Dallin H. Oaks, LDS apostle and former Utah Supreme Court Justice
1932 Queen Sirikit, Queen of Thailand (Queens Day)
1932 Sergey Mikhaylovich Slonimsky, composer
1933 Parnelli Jones, American race car driver and team owner
1934 Kenneth Eaton, Controller (British Navy)
1935 John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
1935 Karl Mickel, writer
1936 Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist
1936 Gerard Masson, composer
1936 Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist (Right to Life, Dripper Boxes)
1936 John Poindexter, US Chief of Staff
1937 Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
1938 Anthony Joliffe, mayor of London
1938 Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian Mayor of Quebec
1939 George Hamilton, American actor (Love at 1st Bite, Where the Boys Are)
1939 Michael D. Antonovich, American politician
1939 Pam Ryan-Kilborn, Australia, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968)
1939 Roy Romanow, Canadian politician
1939 Skip Caray, American TV/radio baseball announcer (Atlanta Braves) (d. 2008)
1940 Alexander Yossifov, composer
1940 Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (d. 2005)
1940 Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster/actor (Never Say Die)
1941 Deborah Walley, Bridgeport Ct, actress (Mothers-in-Law, Beach Blanket)
1941 Jennifer Warren, NYC, actress (Slap Shot, Fatal Beauty, Mutant)
1941 Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
1942 Elizabeth Appleby, QC
1943 Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
1943 William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter
1944 Donna Michele, playmate (Dec, 1963)/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
1944 Peter Hofmann, German tenor
1946 Terry Nutkins, British TV presenter
1947 Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
1948 Cliff Fish, rocker (Paper Lace)
1948 Graham Zellick, principal (Queen Mary & Westfield College London)
1948 Ron Mael (J Ronald Day), American musician, keyboardist (Sparks)
1949 Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director
1949 Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil (1990-92)
1949 Mark Knopfler, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dire Straits)
1949 Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek politician
1950 Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
1950 Kid Creole (August Darnell), Musician, actor (Obsession A Taste of Fear)
1951 Charles E Brady Jr, Pinehurst NC, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 78)
1951 Hector Rodriguez, Cuba, lightweight judo (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
1952 Chen Kaige, Chinese film director
1954 Pat Metheny, American jazz guitarist (As Wichita Falls)
1954 Sam J. Jones, American actor (Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man)
1955 Ann M. Martin, American author
1955 Heintje (Hendrik Simons), Dutch singer (Mama)
1955 Terry Taylor, American professional wrestler
1956 Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor (Spy, Another Chance, Malibu Bikini Shop)
1956 Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
1956 Terry Taylor (Paul Klause), wrestler (WCW/WWF/NWA, Red Rooster)
1958 Jürgen Dehmel, German bass player and songwriter (Nena)
1959 Amanda Redman, English actress
1959 Lynette Woodard, Wichita Ks, (Olympic-gold-1984, Harlem Globetrotter)
1960 Eduardo Tokeshi, Peruvian artist
1960 Greg Thomas, England cricketer
1960 Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
1960 Lonny Chin, Liverpool England, playmate (Jan, 1983)
1960 Morty Black, heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas)
1961 Lawrence Hayward, English musician (Felt, Denim, Go Kart Mozart)
1961 Mark Priest, New Zealand cricketer
1961 Pete De Freitas, rocker (Echo & the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1961 Roy Hay, British guitarist and keyboardist (Culture Club)
1962 Miss Cleo, American psychic
1963 Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper
1965 Angeliki Kanellopoulou, Greece, tennis star
1965 Barry Manuel, Mamou LA, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1965 Peter Krause, American actor
1966 Bruce Covernton, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1966 Dean Hartgraves, Bakersfield CA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1966 Gordy Morgan, Minneapolis MN, 163 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1966 Greg Manusky, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1966 Les Ferdinand, English footballer
1967 Andrew Glover, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
1967 Andy Hui, Hong Kong actor and singer
1967 Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
1967 Tom Holkenborg, drummer (Weekend at Waikiki)
1968 Andras Jones, American actor
1968 Viktor Karatchoun, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1969 Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor
1969 Kitty G (Katia Geiger), Leningrad Russia, cable tv actress
1969 Lincoln Coleman, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 Nate Gwynne, Davis California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 Stuart Williams, Nevisian West Indies cricketer
1969 Tanita Tikaram, British singer
1970 Alison Inverarity, Australian high jumper (Olympics-8th-92, 96)
1970 Anthony Swofford, American novelist
1970 Charles Mesure, British actor
1970 Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach
1971 Jim Walker, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1971 Michael Ian Black, American comedian
1971 Pete Sampras, American tennis player (14 grand slam titles)
1971 Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
1971 Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress
1972 Allison Cook, Australian basketballl player (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 Del "The Funkee Homosapian", American hip hop artist
1972 Grey DeLisle, American singer
1972 Gyanendra Pandey, Indian cricketer
1972 John Jones, WLAF guard (Rhein Fire)
1972 Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
1972 Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Hannah Mayberry-Loving)
1972 Takanohana, Sumo yokozuna
1973 Grey DeLisle, American voice actress
1973 Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive
1973 Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
1973 Latasha Byears, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs)
1973 Moses Ware, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi theologian and political leader
1973 Richard Reid, British Islamist terrorist (the "Shoe Bomber")
1973 Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr son of Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
1973 Todd Marchant, American ice hockey player, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers)
1974 Matt Clement, American baseball player
1974 Peter Pucher, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1974 Wendy Palmer, WNBA forward (Utah Starzz)
1975 Anders Myrvold, Lorenskog Nor, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1975 Casey Affleck, American actor
1975 David Filmore, American actor
1975 Paul Gaudoin, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1975 Raegan Scott, WNBA forward/center (Utah Starzz)
1975 Regan Upshaw, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1975 Robyn Hancock, Grand Rapids Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1997)
1976 Antoine Walker, American basketball player, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1976 Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Henry Tuilagi, Samoan rugby player
1976 Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
1976 Pedro Collins, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1976 Richard McCourt, English children's television presenter
1976 Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
1977 Iva Majoli, Zagreb Croatia, tennis star (1996 Pan Pacific)
1977 Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
1977 Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
1977 Plaxico Burress, American football player
1978 Chris Chambers, American football player
1978 Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player, forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1979 Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
1979 D.J. Houlton, American baseball player
1980 Dominique Swain, American actress
1980 Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter
1980 Maggie Lawson, American actress
1980 Matt Thiessen, Canadian/American musician (Relient K)
1981 Djibril Cissé, French footballer
1981 Tony Capaldi, Northern Irish footballer
1982 Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
1982 Iza Calzado, Filipino TV actress
1983 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
1984 Marian Rivera, Filipino actress
1988 Leah Pipes, American actress
1990 Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
1993 Imani Hakim, American actress

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(30 BC) Cleopatra VII, Thea Philopator (b. 69 BC)
875 Louis II, king of Italy, Emperor of France (b. 825)
1158 Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55)
1350 Philip VI, king of France
1424 Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1360)
1484 George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
1484 Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere), Pope (1471-84) (b. 1414)
1512 Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1546 Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies
1577 Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
1588 Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
1612 Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali)
1633 Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer (b. 1561)
1638 Johannes Althusius (Althaut), German lawyer, writer (b. 1557)
1648 Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
1654 Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)
1660 Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect
1674 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
1675 Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader
1676 King Philip (Metacomet), leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1689 Innocent XI (Benedetto Odescalchi), Pope (1676-89) (b. 1611)
1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate
1728 Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1750 Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz
1778 Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
1797 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer
1809 Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
1810 Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
1811 John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples
1812 Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer
1822 Robert Stewart, English politician, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide (b. 1769)
1827 William Blake, English poet and painter (b. 1757)
1830 Franz de Paula Roser, composer
1848 George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
1849 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14)
1857 William Daniel Conybeare, geologist
1861 Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
1864 Sakuma Shozan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865 William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
1877 James Drummond, historical painter
1883 Last Quagga, zebra with less slashes (in Artis)
1885 Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist
1891 James Russell Lowell, American poet, diplomat, and essayist (b. 1819)
1896 Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg (b. 1841)
1900 James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1900 Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
1901 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
1904 William Renshaw, British tennis player (b. 1861)
1911 Jozef Israels, painter
1911 Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht)
1914 John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
1918 Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
1922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist, President (Sinn Fein) (b. 1871)
1928 Leoš Janácek, Czech composer (b. 1854)
1934 Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam) (b. 1856)
1935 Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
1938 Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist
1941 Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1943 Georges Martin Witkowski, composer
1943 Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer (b. 1859)
1944 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)
1948 Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1952 David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
1955 James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus) (Nobel laureate 1929) (b. 1875)
1959 Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
1964 Ian L Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
1967 Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891)
1968 Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52)
1969 Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake)
1973 John Clay, cricketer (Glamorgan offie in only Test 1935)
1973 Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
1973 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1976 Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist
1979 Sir Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist (Nobel laureate) (b. 1906)
1982 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer
1982 Henry Fonda, American actor (On Golden Pond) (b. 1905)
1982 Joe Tex, rocker
1982 Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
1982 Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
1983 Henry Gifford Vivian, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ, 17 wkts)
1984 Lenny Breau, American Jazz Musician (b. 1941)
1985 Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
1985 Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
1985 Marcel Mihalovici, composer
1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist, musician, graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO) (b. 1960)
1989 Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
1989 William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1990 B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
1990 Dorothy Mackaill, British actress (Love Affair) (b. 1903)
1990 Sara Seegar (Stone), actor (Mystery of Room 13)
1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice)
1991 William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan)
1992 Beverley Brooks
1992 John Cage, American avante-garde composer (b. 1912)
1992 Lady Rothermere (Bubbles), wife of British newspaper magnate
1992 Queen Mother of Oman
1993 Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison)
1994 Gene Cherico, bassist
1994 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist
1995 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker
1996 Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
1996 Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (b. 1953)
1996 Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. 1945)
1996 Victor Ambartsumian, Armenian scientist, Astrophysicist (b. 1908)
1997 Luther Allison, American blues musician (Motown) (b. 1939)
1999 Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
2000 Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
2002 Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2004 Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2004 Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2005 John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
2007 Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
2007 Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963)
2008 Christie Allen, British-Australian pop singer (b. 1954)
2009 Les Paul, American musician (b. 1915)
2010 Guido de Marco, 6th president of Malta, 45th President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1931)
2010 Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)
2010 Richie Hayward, American musician (Little Feat) (b. 1946)
2011 Robert Robinson, British television presenter (Ask The Family, Call My Bluff) (b. 1927)
2014 Lauren Bacall, American actress (Key Largo)

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