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(43 BC) Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
440 St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
1099 Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1263 King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing
1399 King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
1458 Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1477 Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
1493 Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
1504 Battle of Knockdoe.
1524 Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy
1561 Mary Queen of Scots, 18 years old,  arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France
1587 Sigismund III becomes king of Poland
1591 French king Henri IV occupies Rouen
1627 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1666 Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1691 Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
1692 In Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1698 Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
1702 Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia
1768 Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 Gustav III of Sweden stages a Coup d'état and seizes effective control of Swedish government & restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720. He divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1787 W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
1791 Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
1796 Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
1812 US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1812 American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812.
1813 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
1816 Java again in Dutch hands
1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1826 Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1836 HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
1839 Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new practical photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. Details are released in Paris.
1848 California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1849 NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
1861 Confederacy Congress allies with government of MO
1861 First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
1864 Second day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
1888 First beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
1891 William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1895 American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1897 1st electric taxi's drive in London
1900 Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1903 Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
1905 Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1911 NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1912 Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres
1913 Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
1914 Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC
1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914 German fleet bombs English coast
1914 Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
1915 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
1915 The Battle of Van of World War I begins
1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
1918 Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC
1919 Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1921 Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1922 36th US Womens Tennis, Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1927 Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
1931 Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
1932 46th US Womens Tennis, Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
1933 47th US Womens Tennis, Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
1934 48th US Womens Tennis, Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
1934 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1934 The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
1934 The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1939 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
1940 First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
1942 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
1942 Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
1942 Operation Jubilee of World War II, the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy. Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured
1943 Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
1943 US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
1944 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
1944 Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944 Liberation of Paris Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.  Paris police strike against nazi occupiers, Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance
1944 Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
1944 US 90th and Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins
1945 Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1947 J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
1951 Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit, he walks.
1953 The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1953 England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1954 Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1955 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1955 In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives and 1 billion dollars damage.
1955 US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
1955 WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1957 NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
1957 US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1959 Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1959 Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1960 In Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage (U-2 incident).
1960 Sputnik 5 the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants into orbit (later recovered alive).
1961 US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1965 Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey, 2,400 killed
1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
1969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1973 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open
1975 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1976 U.S. President Gerald R Ford won Republican pres nomination at KC convention
1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
1979 Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
1979 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
1980 George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
1980 Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1980 Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London
1981 Gulf of Sidra Incident, United States F-14 jet fighters intercept and shoot down two Soviet-built Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
1983 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
1984 66th PGA Championship, Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
1984 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for pres
1984 Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
1985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
1987 Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as pres of Burma
1988 NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
1989 Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.
1989 Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in North Sea by British and Dutch governments.
1989 Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1990 Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1990 Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
1990 Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
1990 NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat)
1991 August Coup, Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. He is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea.
1991 Hurricane Bob hits the Northeast, United States.
1991 Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
1992 Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
1992 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
1993 34th Walker Cup, US, 19-5
1993 Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
1993 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
1993 George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
1993 Mattel & Fisher Price toys merge
1993 Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
1995 After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
1995 Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1995 Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
1997 NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim
1997 STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
1999 In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
2003 A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2005 A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.
2005 The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2009 A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2012 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan
2013 24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack in Rafah
2013 37 pilgrims are killed in a train accident in India
2013 91 people are killed by floods across China
2014 The 24 hour ceasefire extension renewal between Israel and Palestine is violated as Hamas fire rockets; Israeli Air Force respond, killing 9 Gazans
2015 US Food and Drug administration approves Female Viagra libido pill Addyi

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1342 Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
1398 Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1521 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di Tutti)
1557 Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1558 Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian
1590 Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
1596 Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I
1596 Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 John Dryden, English poet, 1st poet laureate of England (All for Love) (d. 1700)
1646 John Flamsteed, first English Royal Astronomer (d. 1719)
1686 Antonio Tonelli, composer
1686 Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1689 Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (d. 1761)
1711 Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
1737 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer
1743 Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
1743 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV
1756 Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime
1780 Baranger, writer
1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
1813 William Henry Fry, composer
1815 John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1816 Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
1824 Georg Goltermann, composer
1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 Oskar Brefeld, German botanist
1846 Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design and painter (Rue de Paris) (d. 1894)
1849 Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist (d. 1910)
1851 Frans Schollaert, Belgian premier (1908-11)
1853 Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1858 Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
1859 Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
1859 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer
1860 John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
1870 Bernard Baruch, American financier, presidential adviser (Cold War) (d. 1965)
1871 Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (d. 1948)
1873 Fred Stone, Longmont CO, acrobat/Broadway actor (Alice Adams)
1875 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
1878 Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina, 1st president of Philippines (1935-42) (d. 1944)
1881 Georges Enesco (Enescu), Romanian composer (Romanian Dances) (d. 1955)
1883 Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1883 Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
1883 José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
1885 Elsie Ferguson, NY, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages)
1885 Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
1886 Robert Heger, composer
1889 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
1890 Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
1892 Alfred Lunt, American actor (Emmy 1965) (d. 1977)
1895 Andrzejewski, writer
1895 Arnoldt Bronnen, writer
1896 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer
1896 Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
1896 Walter Lang, composer
1899 Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
1899 Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury NH, actor/director (Those We Love)
1899 Olga Baclanova, Moscow Russia, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY)
1900 Colleen Moore, American film actress (Scarlet Letter) (d. 1988)
1900 Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
1900 Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer (d. 1962)
1902 J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
1902 Ogden Nash, American poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself) (d. 1971)
1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory)
1903 Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported)
1903 James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (Guard of Honor) (1949 Pulitzer) (d. 1978)
1903 Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers NY, actress (Fast Workers, Hold Your Man)
1904 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1905 Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)
1905 Jacques de Menasce, composer
1906 June Collyer, NYC, actress (Before Midnight, Charley's Aunt)
1906 Philo T Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971) (electronic TV)
1907 Archie League, generally considered the first air traffic controller (d. 1986)
1907 Thruston B. Morton, American politician (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969) (d. 1982)
1907 Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer
1909 Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
1910 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher
1912 Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963)
1913 John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
1913 Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1913 Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92)
1914 Fumio Hayasaka, composer
1914 Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915 Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
1915 Lardner Ring Jr, Chicago, screenwriter (Woman of the Year)
1915 Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1916 Marie Wilson, Anaheim California, actress (My Friend Irma)
1918 James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist
1919 Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (Forbes Magazine) (d. 1990)
1920 Lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Curacao painter
1920 Paul Kont, composer
1921 Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991)
1921 Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
1922 Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist
1924 William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)
1925 Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
1926 Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
1927 James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)
1928 Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
1928 Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
1928 Walter Massey, Canadian actor
1930 D(avid) G(uy) Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)
1930 Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009)
1931 Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts) (d. 2003)
1932 John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire
1932 Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
1933 Debra Paget (Griffin), American actress (Love Me Tender)
1933 Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1934 Bill Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-MN, 1978)
1934 Renée Richards, American trans-sexual ophthalmologist, author and professional tennis player
1934 William Cleary, Cambridge Mass, hockey center, (Oly-gold/silv-56, 60)
1935 Bobby Richardson, American baseball player, 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1935 F Story Musgrave, Boston, MD/astronaut (STS 6, 51-F, 33, 44, 61, 80)
1938 Diana Muldaur, American actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law)
1938 Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1939 Ginger (Peter) Baker, English drummer (Cream)
1940 Jan Claire, actor (American Anthem)
1940 Jill St John (Oppenheim), American actress (Diamonds are Forever)
1940 Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (I Can See Clearly Now)
1941 Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (d. 2009)
1942 Fred Thompson, American politician, senator (R-Tenn) and actor (In the Line of Fire)
1942 Michiel Patijn, Dutch asst sect of state of Foreign affairs (1994)
1943 Billy J. Kramer, British singer (The Dakotas)
1944 Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
1944 Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
1944 Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
1944 Eddy Raven, Lafayette La, country singer (Right Hand Man)
1944 Jack Canfield, American author and speaker
1944 Samuel J de Beer, South Africa vicar/underminister of Education
1945 Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, English heir of the 8th Duke of Wellington
1945 Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
1945 Jane Blalock, champion golfer
1945 Lan Gillan, rocker
1946 Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
1946 Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton, 42nd United States President (Democrat, 1993-01)
1946 Charles F Bolden Jr, Columbia SC, astronaut (STS 61C, 31, 45, 60)
1946 Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
1947 Dave Dutton, English actor
1947 Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
1947 Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
1947 Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
1948 Gerald McRaney, American actor
1948 Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States (1993-2001), wife of vice president Al Gore
1950 Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
1950 Jennie Bond, British journalist
1950 Sudha Murthy, Indian social worker and writer
1951 Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
1951 John Deacon, English musician, guitarist (Queen)
1951 Lillian Muller, Grimstad Norway, playmate of year (Aug, 1975)
1951 Randi Oakes, Randalia Iowa, actress (Officer Bonnie Clark-CHiPs)
1952 Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director (Commander William T Riker-Star Trek Next Gen)
1953 Debra Paget, Denver Co, actress (Love Me Tender)
1953 Johan F de Leeuw, Dutch MP (CDA)
1953 Lynwood Slim, American blues musician
1953 Mary Matalin, American political consultant
1953 Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
1954 Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
1955 Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
1955 Peter Gallagher, American actor (Player, Summer Lovers, Dreamchild)
1956 Adam Arkin, American actor (Busting Loose, Pearl, Northern Exposure)
1956 Cindy Nelson, US, skier (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1957 Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
1957 Darby Hinton, Santa Monica California, actor (Israel-Daniel Boone)
1957 Ian Gould, England cricketer
1957 Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
1957 Paul-Jan Bakker, Netherland cricketer
1958 Anthony Muñoz, American football player
1958 Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
1958 Gary Gaetti, American baseball player, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1959 Ricky Pierce, American basketball player, NBA guard and forward (Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks)
1959 Steve Grimmett, heavy metal Musician
1959 Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer
1960 Bobby Hebert, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1960 Dan "Woody" Woodgate, rocker
1960 Morten Andersen, American football player, NFL kicker (Atlanta Falcons)
1960 Ron Darling, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets) and announcer
1961 Danuta Bartoszek, Pyrzyce Poland, Canadian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1961 Jonathan Coe, British author
1962 Eric Lutes, Charlestown RI, actor (Del-Caroline in the City)
1962 Kim Shipman, Athens PA, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-25th)
1962 Michael J Massimino, Oceanside NY, PhD/astronaut
1962 Nancy Ramsbottom, Birmingham AL, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's-2nd)
1962 Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
1962 Valérie Kaprisky, French actress (Breathless, Public Woman)
1963 Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
1963 John Stamos, American actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1963 Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1965 James Tomkins, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1965 Kevin Dillon, American actor (Heaven Help Us, Remote Control, Platoon)
1965 Kyra Sedgwick, American actress (Phenomenon, Singles, Julia-Another World)
1965 Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
1966 Lee Ann Womack, American musician
1966 Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
1967 Jason Starkey, son of Beatle Ringo
1967 Randy Baldwin, NFL running back (Carolina Panthers)
1967 Tabitha Soren, San Antonio Texas, MTV reporter (This Week in Rock)
1968 Mark McGuinn, country music singer
1968 Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer
1969 Clay Walker, American singer
1969 Emigdio Preciado, Hispanic fugitive on FBI's Most Wanted list
1969 Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
1969 Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
1969 Matthew Perry, American actor (Sydney, Chandler-Friends)
1969 Nate Dogg, American rapper
1969 Patrick Van Horn, American actor
1969 Paula Jai Parker, American actress
1969 Scott Ford, Norbrooke Germany, golfer (1994 Trafalgar CPGA-2nd)
1970 Fat Joe, American rapper
1970 Jeff Tam, American baseball Player
1970 Scott Brumfield, NFL guard (Cin Bengals)
1971 João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
1971 Mary Jo Fernandez, Dominican Tennis player (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Tricia Ann Luedtke, Oostburg Wisc, Miss Wisc-America-1991
1972 Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer
1972 Colleen Thornburn, Toronto Ontario, softball catcher (Olympics-96)
1972 Elizabeth Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)
1972 Pierre Allard, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1972 Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
1972 Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
1973 Callum Blue, British actor
1973 Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
1973 Lilian Garcia, Spanish-American singer and former WWE ring announcer
1973 Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
1973 Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
1973 Roy Rogers, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1974 Tim Kasher, American musician, Cursive and The Good Life
1975 Chynna Clugston, American comic book creator
1975 Marco Coti Zelati, Italian bassist (Lacuna Coil)
1975 Tracie Thoms, American actress
1977 Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
1977 Takahiro Yamada, Japanese bassist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
1978 Chris Capuano, American baseball player
1979 Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K, Attack Cat)
1979 Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
1980 Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
1980 Houcine Camara, French singer
1980 Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
1980 Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1980 Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
1982 Erika Christensen, American actress
1982 J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
1982 Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
1982 Willy Denzey, French singer
1983 John McCargo, American football player
1983 Mike Conway, British racing driver
1983 Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
1983 Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
1984 Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
1984 Micah Alberti, American actor
1984 Ryan Taylor, English footballer
1985 Megan Rochell, American singer
1986 Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
1987 Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
1987 Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
1987 Richard Stearman, English footballer
1988 Travis Tedford, American actor
1989 Romeo Miller, American rapper and basketball player
1998 Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
2003 Xyriel Manabat, Filipino child actress
2335 William T Riker, Valdez Alaska, character on Star Trek Next Generation

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14 Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
440 Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40)
472 Ricimer, Barbaars general
1186 Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
1493 Frederick III, German and Holy Roman Emperor (1440-1493) (b. 1415)
1580 Andrea Palladio, Italian architect and writer (Il Redentore, Venice) (b. 1508)
1601 Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey
1646 Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1650 Abraham de Verwer, painter
1654 Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov)
1662 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1691 Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1692 John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (b.1632)
1699 Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1719 Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer
1744 Carlo Arrigoni, composer
1753 (Johann) Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
1780 Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1795 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer
1808 Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (b. 1721)
1812 Vincenzo Righini, composer
1813 Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer
1813 Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer
1819 James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
1822 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
1851 Gioseffo Catrufo, composer
1872 Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
1876 George Smith, English assyriologist (script)
1881 Joseph Labitzky, composer
1883 Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1888 Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)
1889 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (Axel) (b. 1838)
1892 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer
1895 John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1909 Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament
1912 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer
1914 Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1922 Felipe Pedrell, composer
1923 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1928 Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (b. 1838)
1929 Sergei P Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Imperial Ballet) (b. 1872)
1936 Federico García Lorca, Spanish author and composer, murdered (b. 1898)
1944 Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide (b. 1882)
1944 Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms)
1945 Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
1947 Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones)
1950 Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (1945-1953) (b. 1881)
1957 Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1957 David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1958 Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor
1959 Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1901)
1959 Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor and painter (b. 1880)
1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament
1963 Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III)
1967 Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1967 Isaac Deutscher, British historian (Stalin-biography) (b. 1907)
1968 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang)
1970 Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1971 Walther Victor, writer
1974 Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
1975 Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1975 Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
1976 Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger) and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
1976 Jeno Kenessey, composer
1976 Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
1977 Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (Marx Bros) (b. 1890)
1977 Peter Dyneley, British actor (b. 1921)
1979 Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
1979 Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar(b. 1887)
1980 Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1981 Jessie Matthews, English actress (Gangway, First a Girl (b. 1907)
1982 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 Hermione Baddeley, English actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude) (b. 1906)
1986 Jacob A W Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party)
1986 Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King)
1987 Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker)
1990 Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer
1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far)
1993 Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes)
1993 Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz
1994 John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington
1994 Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (Vitamin C advocate) (b. 1901)
1994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House)
1994 Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet
1994 Walter Bartley, biochemist
1995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer
1995 Pierre Schaeffer, French composer, radio innovator (b. 1910)
2000 Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2000 Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2000 Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
2001 Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2001 Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2003 Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2005 Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
2008 LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)
2008 Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (b. 1948)
2009 Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
2011 Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932)
2011 Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (b. 1941)
2012 Tony Scott, American director
2016 Jack Riley, American actor (The Bob Newhart Show)

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