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392 Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
476 Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.
565 St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
851 Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
1138 Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.  English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard
1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus
1485 The Battle of Bosworth Field, Field Henry VII's forces defeat Richard III. It is the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren
1559 Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested for heresy.
1572 Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny
1582 King James IV of Scotland captured
1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk Amsterdam
1614 Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt
1632 Prince Frederik Hendrik occupies Maastricht
1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1642 Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War between Royalists & Parliament begins.
1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree, one ot the first Jewish colonists/immigrants to America
1707 Prince Eugenius van Savoye siege of Toulon
1707 Sweden & Prussia sign military treaty
1715 Handel's "Watermusic" premieres on Thames
1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1770 James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia.
1775 King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1780 James Cook's ship HMS Resolution, without Capt Cook, returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
1787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton
1788 Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1791 Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1798 French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1818 Grand duchy of Bathe forms
1826 Colonies under Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake Utah
1827 José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
1831 Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 The United States annexes New Mexico
1849 The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1851 Gold fields discovered in Australia
1851 Yacht "America" wins 1st Royal Yacht Squadron Cup (America's Cup)
1862 Battle of Catlett's Station VA
1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely
1864 International Red Cross forms
1864 Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1867 Fisk University forms, 1867
1875 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1877 Nez Perce-indians flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1900 Gabriel Faures opera "Prométhée," premieres in Beziers
1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1902 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1907 Colin Buchanan, town planner
1907 Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Montjustin France, photographer (Decisive Moment), (d. 2004)
1910 Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
1911 Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.  Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris (Recovered in 1913)
1912 England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
1912 Richard Catling, commissioner of police (Kenya)
1913 Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn
1914 Battle at Charleroi begins, Gen von Bulows troops beat French
1914 Battle in Ardennen, Neufchateau, Rossignal, Tintigny & Virton
1914 Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent
1914 General Martos' troops occupy Soldau, Neidenburg East Prussia
1914 German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
1914 Von Ludendorff & von Hindenburg move into E Prussia enroute to Russia
1914 In Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in World War I.
1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play 4th straight extra inning game, Carson Bigbee sets record of 11 at-bats, they lose in 22 innings to Dodgers
1921 J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1922 Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record mile (4:10.4)
1926 Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1926 Greek dictator Gen Pangulos driven out
1927 Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers
1930 Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
1932 The BBC first experiments with regular television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1933 Bill Veeck, urges midsummer inter-league games & a split season
1933 International Zionists Congress opens in Prague
1934 Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes
1934 Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12
1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1941 German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad of World War II.
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & and Italy in World War II.
1943 Soviet troops free Karkov
1944 Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed
1944 Last transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 Romania is captured by the Soviet Union in World War II.
1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Aust Services at Old Trafford
1945 England defeat Aust Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket
1945 Noel Coward's revue "Sigh no More," premieres in London
1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule, but later rescinds it
1946 Mikko Hietanen wins Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 16, Chi Bears 0 (105,840)
1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake, Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
1950 Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50)
1950 Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in a international tennis competition.
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike end
1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1953 Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
1954 WPTV TV channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender)
1956 Pres Eisenhower & VP Nixon renominated by Rep convention in SF
1957 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 Argos' Boyd Carter, Dave Mann combine for record 131-yd punt return
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 Cin Red Frank Robinson hits 3 consecutive HRs
1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
1960 Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
1962 An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1962 The NS Savannah, world's first nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi).
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
1964 Guinee, Liberia & Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open
1965 San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marachal hits LA Dodger catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat causing a 14 minute brawl
1966 Beatles arrive in NYC
1966 Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
1968 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1968 Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry
1968 Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia and opens Eucharistic congress. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1969 Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"
1969 Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America
1969 Hurricane Camille strikes US Gulf Coast kills 255
1971 Bolivian military coup under col Hugo Banzer, pres Torres driven out
1971 J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1971 Pam Barnett wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
1973 Chilean parliament accuses pres Allende violating laws
1973 Henry Kissinger succeeds William Rogers as min of Foreign affairs
1975 Assassination attempt on president Gerald Ford
1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 Sandinistas occupy National Palace in Managua Nicaragua
1978 The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
1979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr for $20,000,000, AL owners block the sale
1982 General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
1984 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
1984 NY Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200
1984 Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1984 South African election for parliament boycvotted
1985 30th Walker Cup, US wins 13-11
1985 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
1986 Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon)
1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
1987 Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
1988 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
1988 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1989 The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
1990 Pres Bush calls up military reserves
1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31)
1992 FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
1992 Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
1993 "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs
1993 Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
1994 DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1994 Wim Cook government forms in Neth
1995 FBI agent Lon Horiuchi shoots at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1996 Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
2007 The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
2012 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
2012 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
2012 Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization
2013 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
2014 2nd Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country
2015 15th World Championships in Athletics open at Beijing, China
2015 A vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashes onto a motorway during the Shoreham airshow in Britain killing at least 11

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HIDE

1530 Bartolomeo Spontone, composer
1601 Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
1615 Christopher Gibbons, composer
1624 Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701)
1647 Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine) (d. c. 1712)
1679 Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, composer
1753 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, composer
1760 Leo XII (Annibale Sermattei), Italian Pope (1823-29) (d. 1829)
1764 Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838)
1766 Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
1771 Jan Joseph Rosler, composer
1773 Aimé Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858)
1779 James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860)
1788 Thomas Tredgold, engineer and carpenter
1795 Abraham Capadose, physician and missionary
1800 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865)
1800 William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889)
1811 William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
1822 George Stoneman, US Union general-major/(Gov-California, 1883-87)
1822 Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
1827 Edouard Silas, composer
1827 Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906)
1827 Josef Strauss, Austria, composer (Dorfschwalben aus Austria)
1827 Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1870)
1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
1836 Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76) (d. 1918)
1845 William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
1846 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norway, writer (Hellemyrsfolket)
1847 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, composer
1848 Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1852 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy)
1854 Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901)
1857 Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1860 Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917)
1860 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor, TV pioneer (Nipkow Award) (d. 1940)
1862 Claude Debussy, French composer (La Mer, Clair de lune) (d. 1918)
1865 Piet A W Hopmans, bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade)
1867 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
1873 Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
1873 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist
1874 Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer
1874 Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte) (d. 1928)
1880 George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
1880 Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
1882 Harry Makepeace, cricketer (4 Tests for England v Australia 1920-21)
1887 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977)
1888 Violet Farebrother, Grimsby England, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue)
1890 Floyd Henri Allport, US psychologist/sociologist
1891 Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion)
1891 Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American cubist sculptor (d. 1973)
1892 Percy Fender, cricketer (legendary Surrey & England all-rounder)
1893 Dorothy Parker, American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award) (d. 1967)
1893 Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977)
1894 Cecil Kellaway, South Africa, actor (Mr Earnshaw-Wuthering Heights)
1895 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966)
1895 Paul White, Bangor Maine, composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello)
1897 Bill Woodfull, cricketer (Australian captain in the Bodyline series)
1898 Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress (John Meade's Woman)
1900 Elizabeth Bergner, Vienna Austria, actress (Catherine the Great)
1900 Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
1902 Leni Riefenstahl (Helene Bertha Amalie), German actress (Tiefland) and director (d. 2003)
1902 Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex)
1902 Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973)
1903 René Wellek, Vienna Austria, writer (Concepts of Criticism)
1904 Deng Xiaoping, Premier of the People's Republic of China (1976-1983) (d. 1997)
1905 Wade Crosby, IA, actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood)
1907 Oliver F McGowan, Kipling AL, actor (Banning, Stagecoach)
1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
1909 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
1909 Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
1909 Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992), NFL center (NY Giants)
1909 Sergius Kagen, composer
1909 Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (A Farm)
1911 Edith Atwater, Chic, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
1911 Somerset de Chair, MP
1912 Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist
1913 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
1913 Robert Schollum, composer
1915 David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004)
1915 Edward Szczepanik, Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005)
1915 Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000)
1915 James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007)
1916 John Slater, London England, actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass)
1917 John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist (Boogie Chillen) (d. 2001)
1918 Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
1919 Earl Cathcart, British major-general
1919 Leo Pliatzky, senior civil servant
1920 Anthony Tuke, CEO (Savoy Hotel Groups)
1920 Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artifical heart transplant)
1920 Pierre A Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria)
1920 Ray(mond Douglas) American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451) (d. 2012)
1920 W Schnurre, writer
1921 Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1921 James Menter, principal (Queen Mary College)
1922 Micheline Presle, French actress (Nea, Donkey Skin)
1923 Gerald Long, journalist/CEO (Reuters)
1924 Andrzej Markowski, composer
1924 Peter Allsop, publisher
1925 Honor Blackman, English actress
1925 James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (Hired Wife) (d. 1989)
1926 Bob Flannigan, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1926 Honor Blackman, London, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger)
1926 Marc Bohan, dress designer
1927 Aleksandar Obradovic, composer
1928 John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow)
1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
1928 Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate
1929 Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Lab) spokesperson on Home Affairs
1929 Harry McPherson, Tyler, Texas, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, (d. 2012)
1930 Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1932 Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut (Skylab 4)
1932 Theoni Vachliotis aldredge, award winning costume designer
1933 Irmtraud Morgner, writer
1933 Sylva Koscina, Zagreb Yugo, actress (Jessica, Hercules)
1934 Diana Sands, NYC, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife)
1934 H Norman Schwarzkopf, American 4-star Army general (Gulf War)
1934 John M Chowning, composer
1934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC)
1934 Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone
1935 E. Annie Proulx, American author
1935 Morton Dean, Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC)
1935 Richard W Howard, Oklahoma City Ok, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1936 Anne Downey, British circuit judge
1936 Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
1936 Lex P Humphries, drummer
1936 Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer
1937 Donald MacLeary, dancer
1937 Max Hebditch, director (Museum of London)
1938 Dale Hawkins, music writer (Suzy Q)
1938 Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1939 Candido Lima, composer
1939 Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame)
1939 Fred Milano, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts) [or 8/26/40]
1939 George Reinholt, American actor
1940 Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire
1940 Bill McCartney, American football coach
1940 David Vance, horse trainer
1940 George Reinholt, Phila, actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live)
1940 John Banham, director-general (CBI)
1940 Valerie Harper, American actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie)
1941 Bill Parcells, American football coach, NFL (NY Giants, NY Jets, NE Patriots)
1941 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
1942 Kathy Lennon, Santa Monica California, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1942 Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
1943 Alun Michael, MP (Labour)
1943 Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1944 Henk Veldhoen, biochemist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 Derek Fatchett, MP (Labour)
1945 Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
1945 James G Richardson, Gainesville Fla, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra)
1945 Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer, vocalist (The Archies)
1945 Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes)
1946 Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host
1947 Bud Cramer, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1947 Cindy Williams, American actress (ShirleyLaverne & Shirley)
1947 Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1948 Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
1948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster/actor (Pink Medicine Show)
1949 Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire
1949 Diana Nyad, American swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979)
1949 Doug Bair, baseball player
1949 Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer
1950 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff
1950 Ray Burris, baseball player
1950 Teresa Davis, rocker
1951 Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
1952 Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
1953 Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager
1954 John Colwell, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1978 Simon Fraser)
1955 Chiranjeevi, Telugu film actor
1955 Will Shetterly, writer
1956 Jeff Lloyd, jockey
1956 Paul Molitor, baseball player, infielder (Mn Twins, 1993 World Series MVP)
1956 Peter Taylor, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92)
1957 Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands)
1957 Randy Romero, Garden City NY, jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89)
1957 Steve Davis, English snooker player
1958 Colm Feore, American actor
1958 Elhadjdia Ba, Dakar Senegal, hurdler (Olympic-silver-1988)
1958 Ian Mitchell, Edinburgh, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1958 Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler
1958 Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1959 Denise Curry, Daivs California, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 Juan Croucier, American musician (Ratt)
1959 Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
1961 Andres Calamaro, Argentine musician
1961 Debbi Peterson, American musician, drummer (The Bangles)
1961 Jay Ashton, rocker (Gene Loves Jezebel)
1961 John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins)
1961 Roland Orzabal, British musician, vocalist (Tears for Fears)
1962 Gene Craig Sauers, Savannah GA, PGA golfer (1986 Bank of Boston)
1962 James Debarge, Grand Rapids Mi, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Debarge)
1962 Marie Laurie Mahabir, Guadeloupe, North American Bodybuilding Champ (1985-87)
1963 Lily Yip, Canton China, US table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 Terry Catledge, American basketball player, NBA star (Orlando Magic)
1963 Thomas Ansberry, Okinawa Japan, US 10K runner
1963 Tori Amos (Myra Ellen Amos), American singer-songwriter, pianist (Under The Pink)
1964 Dean Evason, Flin Flon, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player (1988-US, Aust, French)
1965 Courtney Gains, American actor
1965 Patricia Hy-Boulais, Cambodia, tennis star (1994 Auckland doubles)
1965 Tom Gibis, American voice actor
1966 Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
1966 GZA, American rapper
1966 Mark Michaels, heavy metal guitarist (Teach Yourself Rhythm Guitar)
1966 Rob Witschge, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Feyenoord)
1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor
1967 Alfred Gough, American screenwriter
1967 Ant, American comedian
1967 Curt Bourque, jockey
1967 Layne Staley, American musician, singer and guitarist (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
1967 Ty Burrell, American actor
1967 Wale', Lagos Nigeria, model
1967 Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986)
1968 Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1968 Casper Christensen, Danish comedian
1968 Henrik Holm, Sweden, tennis star
1968 Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
1968 Michael Curry, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1968 Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys)
1968 Paul Ereng, Kenya, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1968 Rich Lowry, American magazine editor
1969 Hipolito Pichardo, Esperanza Dom Rep, pitcher (KC Royals)
1969 Maurice Graef, soccer player (VVW, Roda JC)
1970 Charlie Connelly, English writer
1970 Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host
1970 Jean-Michel Bombardier, Brantford Ont Canada, ice pairs (1995, 96 Can)
1971 Bernard Carter, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Jaguars, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Richard Armitage, English actor
1971 Rick Yune, American actor
1972 Marliece Andrada, Manteca California, playmate (March 1998)
1972 Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver
1972 Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
1972 Paul Doucette, American drummer (Matchbox 20)
1972 Stephen Boyd, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1972 Steve Kline, American baseball player
1973 Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1973 Jennifer Makris, Miss USA-New Jersey (1997, top 10)
1973 Kristen Wiig, American comedian
1974 Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
1974 Brimstone, American professional wrestler
1974 Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist
1975 Charles C Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1975 Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
1975 Mbali Gasa, Miss South Africa Universe (1997)
1975 Robert Enes, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
1975 Sheree Murphy, British actress
1976 Jim Weaver, Northridge California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Lia Victoria Borrero, Miss Panama Universe (1997)
1977 Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
1977 Jenna Leigh Green, American actress
1978 Giannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
1978 Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1979 Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
1979 Matt Walters, American football player
1980 Christi Shake, American model and actress
1980 Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete
1980 Roland Benschneider, German footballer
1981 Alex Holmes, American football player
1981 Saito Takumi, Japanese actor and model
1983 Laura Breckenridge, American actress
1983 Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
1984 Lee Camp, English footballer
1985 Kether Donahue, American voice actress
1986 Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress
1991 Federico Macheda, Italian soccer player
1992 Brayden Schenn, Canadian hockey player

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HIDE

408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field general (395-408) (b. 359)
634 Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam
1155 Konoe, Emperor of Japan (b. 1139)
1188 Ferdinand II, King of Leon (b. 1137)
1241 Gregory IX (Ugolino di Segni), Italian Pope (b. c.1143)
1280 Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini), Italian Pope (1277-80) (b. c.1216)
1286 Erik V Klipping, king of Denmark, murdered
1304 John II, Count of Hainaut (b. 1247)
1350 Philip VI, King of France (1328-50) (b. 1293)
1358 Isabella, Queen of England (b. c. 1295)
1367 Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo
1485 Richard III, King of England (1483-85), killed in battle (b. 1452)
1532 William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32)
1553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral and premier (1551-53) (b. 1501)
1572 Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)
1584 Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
1599 Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (b. 1577)
1599 Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. c. 1553)
1607 Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (b. 1572)
1609 Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525)
1652 Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583)
1680 Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80) (b. 1613)
1701 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)
1711 Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644)
1752 William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
1755 Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht)
1773 George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (b. 1709)
1793 Cäcilia Weber, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1727)
1793 Louis, 4th Duke of Noailles, Marshal of France (b. 1713)
1797 Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (b. 1724)
1801 Pieter G van Overstraten, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1806 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
1818 Warren Hastings, British First Governor-General of India (1773-84) (b. 1732)
1828 Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (frenology) (b. 1758)
1831 John White, composer
1850 Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
1861 Xianfeng, Emperor of China (b. 1831)
1862 Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle
1866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service
1874 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet
1879 Friedrich August Kummer, composer
1886 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana)
1889 John Sanger, circus entrepreneur
1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister
1891 Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834)
1893 Ernst II, duke of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
1901 Gunnar Wennerberg, composer
1903 Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1885-1902) (b. 1830)
1904 Kate Chopin, literary figure (b.1805)
1910 George Palmer, cricketer (17 Tests for Aust 1880-86, 78 wickets)
1914 Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle
1918 Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
1920 Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (Gustavus Vasa)
1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush (b. 1890)
1926 Charles William Eliot, American University president (Harvard 1869-1909) (b. 1834)
1929 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
1933 Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses)
1936 Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue)
1937 David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina)
1940 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
1942 Henry Eichheim, composer
1942 Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (b. 1880)
1944 Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera)
1950 Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888)
1951 J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1884)
1953 Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1958 Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1960 Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898)
1963 William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer
1965 Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (b. 1904)
1965 Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home)
1966 Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1967 Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (b. 1903)
1967 Tom Conway, actor (Mrs Minerva)
1970 Richard Frank Donovan, composer
1970 Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
1973 Louise Huff, American actress (Sea Waif, Caprice, Disraeli) (b. 1895)
1974 Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)
1976 Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913)
1976 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (1955-1960) (b. 1902)
1976 Oskar Brusewitz, East German vicar, sets self on fire
1977 Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (Mr French-Family Affair) (b. 1918)
1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino)
1978 Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (1963-1978) (b. c. 1892)
1979 Henry Beernink, politician
1979 James T. Farrell, American writer (French Girls are Vicious) (b. 1904)
1980 Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891)
1980 James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1899)
1984 Charles Whittenberg, composer
1985 Ginty Lush, cricketer (NSW quickie of 30's
1989 Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
1989 Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
1990 Merlin Marston, actor (Blue Sky)
1991 Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
1991 Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (Murphy Brown) (b. 1924)
1993 Don Getz, US filmer (Playpoint)
1993 Kasdi Merbah, PM of Algeria (1988-89), assassinated
1994 Gilles Groulx, French-Canadian film director (b. 1931)
1994 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
1994 Tom Quirke, journalist
1995 Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician
1996 David Donaldson, painter
1996 Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher
1996 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1997 Mary Louise Smith, chairman (Rep)
2003 Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (b. 1914)
2003 Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2003 Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
2004 Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (b. 1922)
2004 Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (b. 1920)
2004 Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2005 Ernest Kirkendall, American scientist (b. 1914)
2005 Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
2006 Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
2008 Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899)
2009 Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)
2010 Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (b. 1923)
2011 Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
2011 Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
2011 Nick Ashford, American songwriter (b. 1942)
2012 Nina Bawden, English author
2015 Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer (great lefty opening batsman)
2015 Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

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