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778 Battle of Roncevaux Pass, Roland, commander of the rear guard of Charlemagne's army is defeated by the Basques, which Roland is killed.
927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
1018 Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1057 King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1248 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1261 Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
1308 Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
1309 The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1430 Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1457 Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
1534 Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in September 1540.
1537 Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
1548 Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
1549 Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
1549 Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
1599 Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1620 Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1635 1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1653 Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
1658 France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
1668 Rijnbond disbands
1684 Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1741 French troops attack the Rhine
1748 United Lutheran Church of US organized
1760 Battle of Liegnitz of the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great of Prussia's  victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
1785 French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1795 Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
1824 Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1832 Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
1843 National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1848 M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1858 Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1861 Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MO
1863 Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1864 Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1867 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1870 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
1876 US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1886 Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
1891 San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
1892 4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
1893 US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1899 Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
1901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
1905 Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
1906 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1909 A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1911 Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1912 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
1914 13th Davis Cup, Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1914 A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
1914 German assault at Dinant, Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914 Japan joins side of allies
1914 Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1914 The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
1915 Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1918 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1918 Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
1920 Polish-Soviet War, Battle of Warsaw Poles defeat the Red Army.
1923 Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1923 Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1925 Norway annexes Spitsbergen
1925 White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
1931 Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1931 Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
1931 Spakenburg soccer team forms
1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1939 "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors.
1939 In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbour during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1940 Heavy dogfights above England, 75 German aircrafts damaged
1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.
1941 Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1942 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
1942 Operation Pedestal of World War II, The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1943 Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1944 Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
1944 German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
1944 Operation Anvil, Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944 US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1944 US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans
1944 Operation Dragoon of World War II, Allied forces land in southern France (Provence).
1945 A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule, World War II (Korean Liberation Day)
1945 US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1945 Victory over Japan Day Japan surrenders, World War II.
1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
1947 India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth, Islamic part becomes Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan).
1948 3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established south of the 38th parallel north (National Day).
1949 WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950 Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950 Indies Constitution goes into effect
1950 Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1950 Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike begins
1950 Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1952 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
1952 Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people.
1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1954 WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
1955 Hurricane Connie dissipates after killing 43 in NC, SC, Virginia & Maryland
1955 WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1957 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1958 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
1958 Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
1958 Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1960 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
1960 Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
1960 Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0
1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1960 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1961 Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1961 Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan.
1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
1962 Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
1962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1963 Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
1963 Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1964 Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
1964 Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago
1964 Phillies triple-play NY Mets
1964 Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
1964 Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
1965 47th PGA Championship, Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
1965 Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1965 Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.
1966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1967 England's Marine Offense Bill makies pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate station Radio 355 closes down
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1968 40,000 people protest in Mexico City against the repression in the country.
1968 Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
1968 Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1969 Woodstock Music & Art Festival opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1971 Bahrain gains independence from Britain
1971 Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
1971 KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1971 Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1971 President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1973 Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973 David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London
1973 USSR performs nuclear test
1973 The United States bombing of Cambodia ends in the Vietnam War.
1974 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 Hurricane and floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
1975 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1975 Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1975 Military coup in Bangladesh under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman is killed along with all the members of his family except Haseena Wajid.
1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust
1977 SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1977 The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1978 House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
1979 Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
1981 Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
1981 Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1983 Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
1984 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
1985 Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
1985 Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1986 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1987 At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
1988 "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1988 At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1988 NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1989 Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989 Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1989 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, SF Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
1989 US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1990 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1990 Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1990 Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1991 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
1992 Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
1993 "Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
1993 75th PGA Championship, Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
1993 Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
1993 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
1993 Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
1993 Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
1994 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1994 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1995 Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
1997 Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
1997 Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
1997 LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2
1998 Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles
1999 Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2004 Bay of Plenty win Rugby Union's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges. They defeated Auckland. 33-26
2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2012 Seattle Mariner, Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game
2013 20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut
2015 North Korea creates its own times zone -moving its clocks back half an hour to GMT+8.5.

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1171 King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
1195 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
1432 Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (Morgante) (d. 1484)
1575 Bartol Kašic, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)
1613 Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692)
1619 Hubertus Quellinus (Quellien), Flemish cartoonist/copper plate
1688 Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher
1717 Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810)
1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, composer
1727 Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, composer
1740 Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
1741 Thomas Norris, composer
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1804-13, 1814-15) (d. 1821)
1771 Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
1771 Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1776 Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
1776 Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
1782 Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
1785 Thomas De Quincey, English author (Confessions of English Opium Eater) (d. 1859)
1787 Alexander Aliabiev, composer
1788 Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
1794 Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
1803 James Douglas, father of British Columbia
1813 Jules Grévy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891)
1822 Wilhelm Rust, composer
1823 Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 Eduard de Hartog, composer
1839 Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1844 Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908)
1845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1851 (Georgette A) Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
1856 Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916)
1856 J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1857 Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918)
1858 E. Nesbit, English author (d. 1924)
1859 Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)
1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, American First Lady (1921-23) (d. 1924)
1860 Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941)
1860 Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
1863 Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)
1865 Johan(nes) B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
1865 Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (d. 1926)
1872 Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
1872 Rubin Goldmark, composer
1872 Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
1874 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast) (d. 1912)
1876 Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
1876 Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1966)
1878 Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary, general (White Armies, WW II) (d. 1928)
1879 Ethel Barrymore, American actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green) (d. 1959)
1881 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956)
1883 Ivan Meštrovic, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)
1885 Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
1885 Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968)
1885 Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
1886 Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (d. 1974)
1888 Albert Spalding, composer
1888 T E Lawrence Tremadoc (Lawrence of Arabia), Welch soldier and writer
1890 Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006)
1890 Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales) (d. 1962)
1892 Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer
1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, French physicist (Nobel Prize Laureate 1929) (d. 1987)
1893 Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer
1893 Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
1893 Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1896 Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985)
1896 Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957)
1896 Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
1896 Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958)
1897 Marion Eugene Bauer, composer
1898 Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
1898 Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom
1900 Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
1901 Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
1901 Byron Arnold, composer
1901 Hans Lorbeer, writer
1901 Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)
1901 Sulho Ranta, composer
1902 Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead)
1904 Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
1904 George Klein, Canadian inventor (d. 1992)
1905 Emile St. Godard, Canadian dog sled racer (d. 1948)
1906 Finn Videro, composer
1907 Paul Vincze, medallist
1909 Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973)
1909 Raymond O'Malley, teacher
1910 Hugo Winterhalter, composer
1910 Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
1910 Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (QB VII, Taxi 13, Black Bird, Crisis) (d. 2002)
1912 Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
1912 Julia Child, American chef (French Chef) (d. 2004)
1912 Wendy Hiller, England, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
1912 Wijnanda M C "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Reve Sr
1914 Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
1914 Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer
1915 Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese/Dutch folklorist
1915 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg)
1915 Signe Hasso, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Johnny Angel, Double Life)
1916 Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer (d. 1989)
1917 Jack Lynch, Irish politician, fourth Taoiseach (d. 1999)
1917 Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic priest (d. 1980)
1918 Fay Honey Knopp, activist
1918 Florian Zabach, Chicago, American musician and TV personality (Hot Canary, Club Embassy)
1918 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, composer
1919 Benedict Kiely, Irish author (d. 2007)
1919 Huntz Hall, American actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game) (d. 1999)
1922 Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (d. 2005)
1922 Lukas Foss (Fuchs), German-born composer (Prairie) (d. 2009)
1923 Rose Marie, American actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1923 Simon Peres (Persky), premier of Israel
1924 Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
1924 Robert Oxton Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago) (d. 1995)
1925 Bill Pinkney, American baritone singer (Drifters) (d. 2007)
1925 Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section)
1925 Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian), American actor (Mannix)
1925 Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)
1925 Rose Marie, actress, comedienne (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician
1926 Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
1926 Lewis T Preston, banker
1926 Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhn, composer
1927 Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer
1928 Nicolas Roeg, English film director (Aria, Eureka)
1930 Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter
1931 Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
1931 Mario Kuri-Aldana, composer
1932 Robert L(ull) Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake)
1933 Bobby Helms, American pop singer (Jingle Bell Rock) (d. 1997)
1933 Floyd Ashton, US singer (Tams-What Child of Fool)
1933 Jim Lange, American game show host
1933 Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
1934 Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (d. 2007)
1934 Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998)
1934 Reg(inald) Scarlett, West Indian cricketer
1934 Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
1935 Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
1935 Jim Dale, English actor (Barnum, My One & Only)
1935 Lionel Taylor, American football player
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, American presidential advisor, Civil rights activist (National Urban League)
1937 Ronnie G Flippo, (Rep-D-NY, 1977)
1938 Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer
1938 Maxine Waters, American politician (Rep-D-California)
1938 Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice
1939 H Onno C R Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
1939 Herman van Keeken, Dutch singer (Daddy don't run so fast)
1940 Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist (d. 1977)
1940 Rita Shane, American soprano
1941 Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
1941 Manolis Mavrommatis, Greek politician
1941 Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1942 Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007)
1942 Peter York, Cleve, rock drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
1943 Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
1943 Eni F H Faleomavaega, (Rep-D-American Samoa)
1943 María Rojo, Mexican actress and politician
1944 Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician
1944 Frederick Knight, US singer (I've been lonely so long)
1944 Linda Ellerbee, American journalist (Weekend, NBC Overnight)
1944 Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer
1944 Tom Murphy, American politician
1945 Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
1945 Charlemagne Palestine, composer
1945 Gene Upshaw, American football player, NFL guard (Oakland Radiers), union leader (NFLPA) (d. 2008)
1945 Thomas C Sawyer, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1946 Jimmy Webb, American musician and songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
1946 Kathryn Jean Whitmire, Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
1946 Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter
1947 Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman
1947 Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1947 Jenny Hanley, British TV presenter
1947 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
1947 Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
1948 George Ryton, British engineer
1948 Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer
1948 Uschi Digard, American pornographic actress and model
1949 Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
1949 Beverly Lynn Burns, Americna pilot, first woman captain in the world on the Boeing 747
1949 Carlien Brouwer, translator/missing since Jan 6, 1994
1949 Garry Disher, Australian author
1949 Kate Taylor, rocker
1949 Mark B. Rosenberg, President of Florida International University
1949 Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor
1950 Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, Engl, Princess/olympic equestrian
1950 Billy Griffin (William), US singer (Miracles-Love Machine)
1950 Tess Harper, Mammoth Sp AR, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
1950 The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
1950 Thomas Aldrich, country drummer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950 Tom Kelly, American baseball manager
1950 Tommy Aldridge, American musician
1951 Ann Biderman, American film and television writer
1951 Bobby Caldwell, American singer and musician
1951 Daba Diawara, Malian politician
1951 John Childs, England cricketer
1951 Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
1952 Ger Hoeymakers, Dutch rock guitarist (Franc Boeijen Group)
1954 Mary Jo Salter, American poet
1954 Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (d. 2004)
1955 Kenneth Carr, Clearwater Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 Larry Mathews, Burbank California, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1956 Gordon Bruks, England, Dr/cosmonaut
1956 Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer
1956 Vinny Denunzio, rocker
1957 Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor (Mass Appeal)
1958 Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player/coach
1958 Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian
1958 Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist
1959 Scott D Altman, Lincoln Ill, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1960 Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
1960 Ron van de Berg, soccer player (Sparta)
1960 Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
1961 Ed Gillespie, American White House counsel to George W. Bush
1961 Gary Kubiak, American football coach
1961 Joan Delk, Tampa FL, LPGA golfer (1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th)
1961 Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
1962 Bubby Brister, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1962 Igor Dorokhin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1962 Tom Colicchio, American chef
1963 Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director
1963 Greg Adams, Nelson, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 Jack Russell, England cricketer, wicket-keeper
1963 Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1964 Debi Mazar, American actress
1964 Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates
1965 Jon Evans, Nottimgham England, Australasia golfer
1965 Rob Thomas, American writer
1966 Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player
1966 Fred Strickland, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 Leo Goeas, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1966 Scott Brosius, American baseball player
1966 Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1967 Mike James, Ft Walton FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1967 Moulay Brahim Boutaib, Morocco, 10k runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 Neil Wilkinson, Selkirk, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1967 Peter Hermann American actor
1968 Debra Messing, American actress
1968 Luciana Bemvenuti, Porto Alegre Brazil, golfer (1994 Jamie Farr-36th)
1968 Vassili Pankov, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1969 Bernard Fanning, Australian singer/songwriter, lead singer of multi-award winning Australian rock bandPowderfinger
1969 Cris Judd, American actor/choreographer
1969 Eric Bieniemy, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1969 James Black, Regina, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1969 Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
1969 Mark Heese, Toronto Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 Pavel Kamentsev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1969 Yancey Thigpen, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor
1970 Ben Silverman, American TV executive
1970 Dawn Ponte, Kent RI, dance skater (& Frey-1995 Eastern Jr champ)
1970 Maddie Corman, American actress
1971 Perry Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1971 Priscilla Taylor, Miami FLA, playmate (Mar, 1996)
1972 Ben Affleck, American actor (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor)
1972 Chris Morrissey, American film director and actor
1972 Freddie Solomon, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Jason Maniecki, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1972 Ken Walter, punter (Carolina Panthers)
1972 Matthew Wood, American actor and sound editor
1972 Mikey Graham, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1973 Adnan Sami, music composer, singer
1973 Marcus Jones, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
1974 Ramon Morel, Villa Gonzalez Dom Rep, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1975 Bert Berry, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1975 Bertrand Berry, American football player
1975 Brendan Morrison, Canadian hockey player
1975 Jurgen Dirkx, soccer player (PSV)
1975 Kara Wolters, American basketball player
1975 Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer
1976 Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football (soccer) player (PSV)
1976 Ger Unterluggauer, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1977 Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
1977 Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1977 Nicole Paggi, American actress
1978 Kerri Walsh, American beach volleyball player
1978 Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast
1978 Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer
1978 Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot)
1979 Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver
1980 Nathalie Press, English actress
1981 Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
1981 Oliver Perez, American baseball player
1981 Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress
1982 Casey Burgener, American weightlifter
1988 Tiffanie Anderson, American performer (Girlicious)
1989 Belinda (Belinda Peregrín Schüll), Mexican singer, songwriter and actress
1989 Joe Jonas, American singer (Jonas Brothers)
1989 Tiffanie Anderson, American singer, dancer
1995 Runa Ogata, American Girl

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69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
423 Flavius Honorius, Emperor East Roman Republic (395-423) (b. 384)
778 Roland, Frankish commander
1038 Stefanus I (Arpad), 1st king of Hungary
1040 King Duncan I of Scotland
1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
1118 Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (1081-1118) (b. 1048)
1196 Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274 Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)
1369 Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
1464 Pius II (Aenea S Piccolomini), Italian Pope (1458-64)
1528 Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1552 Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1576 Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer
1600 Johann Baptista Serranus, composer
1615 Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles)
1619 Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow
1621 John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
1666 Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary, astronomer (b. 1591)
1714 Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
1725 Gerard Noodt, lawyer
1728 Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)
1729 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie) (b. 1698)
1798 Felice Alessandri, composer
1799 Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician
1848 Timothy Olmstead, composer
1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium) (b. 1760)
1853 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1859 Nathaniel Claiborne, U.S. politician (b. 1777)
1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major
1880 Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848)
1901 Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist
1907 Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1831)
1909 Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
1914 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga)
1915 Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
1917 Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
1918 Peter Gast, composer
1925 Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
1931 Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani WWI nurse (b. ca. 1878)
1935 Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
1935 Wiley Post, American aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash (b. 1898)
1935 Will Rogers, American humorist and actor, killed in plane crash (b. 1879)
1936 Grazia Deledda, Italian writer (Nobel Prize Laureate 1926) (b. 1871)
1936 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
1942 Mahadev Desai, personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi (b.1892)
1945 Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
1951 Artur Schnabel, Austrian pianist (Reflections on Music) (b. 1882)
1953 Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1956 Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister
1958 William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer and guitarist
1959 Blind Willie McTell, American ragtime singer and guitarist (b. 1901)
1962 Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
1963 John Powell, composer, dies at 80
1966 Gerhard Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau)
1966 Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night)
1966 Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly)
1967 René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (b. 1898)
1968 Edward Kilenyi, composer
1969 Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard)
1970 Karl August Andersen, composer
1971 Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (Kim, Berlin Express) (b. 1887)
1972 Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer
1973 Adam Willard, Offspring drummer
1974 Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang)
1974 Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered
1975 Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. 1913)
1975 Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, President of Bangladesh, killed in a military coup (b. 1920)
1976 Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist
1978 Harrison Kerr, composer
1982 Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1982 Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon)
1983 Anthony Costello, actor (Blue)
1983 Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation
1985 Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit)
1988 Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher
1988 Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1988 Ray Buchanan, US blues gitarist
1989 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG)
1989 Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek Army officer who served in World War I, the Minor Asia Campaign and World War II (b. 1897)
1990 Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon)
1990 Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
1991 Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights)
1992 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals)
1992 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews)
1992 Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
1992 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press)
1992 Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice
1993 Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia
1994 Shepherd Mead, London England
1994 Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident
1994 Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957)
1995 Erbie Bowser, pianist
1995 Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist
1995 Ismay Thomas, teacher
1995 John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
1996 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1996 Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver
1996 Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1996 Scott Redding, actually redmond(b. 1910)
1999 Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
2001 Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
2003 Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
2004 Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
2004 Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
2004 Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005 Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (b. 1927)
2006 Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1937)
2006 Doug White, American news anchor
2006 Faas Wilkes, Dutch international footballer (b. 1923)
2006 Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (b. c. 1955)
2006 Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931)
2007 Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
2007 John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
2007 Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (b. 1944)
2007 Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
2008 James Orthwein, American businessman (b. 1924)
2008 Jerry Wexler, music producer and coiner of the term "Rhythm & Blues" (b. 1917)
2008 Leroy Sievers, American journalist (b. 1955)
2008 Vic Toweel, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion (b. 1929)
2011 Rick Rypien, Canadian hockey player (b. 1984)
2012 Harry (Maxwell) Harrison, American author
2014 Licia Albanese, Italian-born American operatic soprano
2014 Jerry Lumpe, American baseball player
2015 Julian Bond, American civil rights leader and politician (D-Ga)

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