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325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
357 Battle at Straatsburg, Julianus beats Alamannen, Chonodomarius caught
1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1248 The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1258 Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
1330 AntiPope Nicolaas V overthrows himself
1425 Countess Jacoba of Bavaria escapes from jail
1485 Battle at Bosworth Fields: Henry Tudor beats king Richard III
1499 Battle at Sapienza: Turkish fleet beats Venetians
1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1566 Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1580 Battle of Alcantara, Spain defeats Portugal
1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1628 Assault on sultan of Mantarams of Batavia
1689 Battle at Charleroi, Spanish & English armies chase French
1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois
1698 Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1704 Battle at Malaga: French vs English & Dutch fleet
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1758 In Seven Years' War, Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf, 1000s killed.
1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his 1st voyage onboard the Endeavour bound for the Pacific Ocean
1795 Curacao slaves opponents returns to St Christopher
1802 Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France
1804 Alice Meynell becomes 1st woman jockey (England)
1814 Washington, D.C. is burned and White House is destroyed by British forces during the War of 1812. British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)
1829 Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1830 The Belgian Revolution begins, Belgium revolts against Netherlands.
1835 The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax, story about John Herschel.
1862 Secretary of War authorizes Gen Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves
1864 Combination rail & ferry service available from SF to Alameda
1864 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of Ream's Station
1875 Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
1886 1st intl polo meet (US vs England)
1888 8th US Mens Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60)
1890 Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1894 Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1898 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
1904 James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race
1908 National Association of Colored Nurses, forms
1910 30th US Mens Tennis, Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
1910 Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
1912 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
1912 The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1914 German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven, Belgium
1914 German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1916 The United States National Park Service is created by the Dept of Interior.
1917 37th US Mens Tennis, R Lindley Murray beats N W Niles (57 86 63 63)
1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1920 1st US woman to win in Olympics (Ethelda Bleibtrey)
1920 Battle of Warsaw of the Polish-Soviet War, which began on August 13, ends. Russia suffers a decisive defeat in the battle of Warsaw against Poland.
1921 The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain occur.
1921 US signs peace treaty with Germany
1921 Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
1922 Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game
1924 International maritime treaty drawn
1924 Wash Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn
1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)
1925 Last Belgian troops vacate Duisburg
1926 Pavlos Koundouris becomes president of Greece
1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
1936 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1940 1st parachute wedding
1940 Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1941 English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941 German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1942 SS begins transporting Jews of Maastricht Neth
1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea of World War II.
1942 The second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons of World War II. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
1943 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)
1943 German occupiers impose 72-hour work week
1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia
1943 Red Army under Gen Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka
1943 US forces overrun New Georgia in Solomon Islands during WW II
1944 France 2nd Tank division under General Leclerc reaches Notre Dame
1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation by the Allies (Freedom Tuesday), Gen De Gaulle returns to Paris, walks Champs Elysees Paris
1944 US 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes
1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1945 Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1946 28th PGA Championship, Ben Hogan at Portland GC Portland Ore
1947 Marion Carl in D-558-I sets world aircraft speech record, 1,047 kph
1948 Bradman scores 150 in 212 minutes in his last innings at Lord's
1948 The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
1950 President Harry Truman orders the US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title
1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth
1954 Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1956 To make room for Enos Slaughter, NY Yanks release Phil Rizzuto
1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 Demonstrations against premier Lumumba
1961 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
1964 Singapore limits imports from Neth due to Indonesian aggression
1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win US singles championship
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1968 NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered
1969 Detroit Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1970 Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
1973 Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1973 Zambia adopts constitution
1974 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 LA Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1976 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1976 Yanks beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs
1979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1980 "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 3486 performances
1980 Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs
1980 Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
1981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1981 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
1981 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
1984 French airship capsizes
1984 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1987 Madonna sings in Rotterdam
1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1988 Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1988 Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1989 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.
1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1989 Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
1990 Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8½")
1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
1991 "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 70 perfs
1991 43rd Emmy Awards, LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig
1991 91st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges
1991 Belarus declares its independence from the Soviet Union
1991 Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds
1991 Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games
1991 Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62)
1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
1991 Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament
1991 Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps
1991 The Battle of Vukovar has begun. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August-November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence.
1991 Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53)
1991 White-Russia declares it's independence
1992 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
1995 Andrew Symonds scores 254 Gloucs v Glam, world record 16 x 6
1995 Indians' Jose Mesa fails in save attempt after 38th consecutive saves
1996 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1996 Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
2003 The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
2012 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery
2012 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
2012 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
2012 Voyager 1 spacecraft, enters interstellar space (launched in 1977), - first spacecraft to do so
2013 4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico
2013 30th MTV Video Music Awards: Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift & Bruno Mars win
2013 41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq
2014 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC

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1530 Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), First Tsar of Russia (1533-84) (d. 1584)
1561 Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (d. 1632)
1624 François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (d. 1709)
1662 John Leverett the Younger, American educator (d. 1724)
1664 Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent
1718 Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
1719 Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
1724 George Stubbs, British painter (Horse Frightened by Lion) (d. 1806)
1741 Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1744 Johann Gottfried von Herder, German writer, philosopher (d. 1803)
1758 Franz Teyber, composer
1767 Antoine Louis Léon de Richebourg de Saint-Just, French revolutionary and writer (d. 1794)
1775 Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court in Rio de Janeiro)
1786 (Charles) Louis (Ludwig) I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez) (d. 1868)
1788 Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
1796 James Lick, American land baron (d. 1876)
1802 Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1803 Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duque de Caxias, Brazilian military leader (d. 1880)
1811 Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1812 Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
1819 Allan Pinkerton, American private detective, founded Chicago detective agency (d. 1884)
1823 John Newton, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1895)
1825 Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (d. 1909)
1836 Bret Harte, American writer (Outcasts of Poker Flat) (d. 1902)
1841 Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss medical researcher, thyroid specialist  (Nobel Prize laureate 1909) (d. 1917)
1845 Ludwig II, mad King of Bavaria (1864-86) (d. 1886)
1846 Louise J Gautier, French poetess
1851 (Willem) Alexander KHF, prince of Orange, Netherlands
1860 George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
1867 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat (d. 1951)
1868 Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter
1877 Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
1880 Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
1882 Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician (d. 1966)
1887 Olav Fartein Valen, composer
1891 Alberto Savinio (Andrea de Chirico), Italian writer and composer
1891 David Shimoni, Russian-born Israeli poet and writer (d. 1956)
1891 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
1891 Samuel Gardner, composer
1893 Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher (d. 1962)
1896 Dick Ryan, CT, actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad)
1897 Jaroslav Ridky, composer
1898 Arthur Wood, England cricketer (d. 1973)
1898 Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
1900 Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1900 Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
1901 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director (Tivoli)
1902 Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (Zeus & Elidco) (d. 1972)
1903 Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
1903 Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment)
1905 Faustina Kowalska, Polish mystic (d. 1938)
1905 Undine Smith Moore, composer
1906 Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
1906 Jim Smith, England cricketer (d. 1979)
1906 Mollie Panter-Downes, writer
1906 William J Brennan, Newark, supreme court justice (1957-90) [or 4/25]
1907 Desmond Flower, publisher
1908 Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist
1908 Philip Coolidge, Concord MA, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler)
1909 Arwel Hughes, composer
1909 Michael Rennie, English actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still) (d. 1971)
1910 Dorothea Tanning, American painter (Nachtmusik,1943, Night Shadow, 1945), (d. 2012)
1910 George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1910 J B Charles (Willem H Nagel), criminologist/writer
1910 Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (Dames, 42nd Street) (d. 1993)
1911 Jacopo Napoli, composer
1911 Vo Nguyen Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp), Vietnamese general and statesman
1912 Erich Honecker, East German politician, President (d. 1994)
1913 Don DeFore, American actor (d. 1993)
1913 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist, creator (Pogo) (d. 1973)
1914 Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
1915 Walter Trampler, American violist (Beaux Arts Trio) (d. 1997)
1916 Erich Von Stroheim Jr, actor/director (Napoleon, Sunset Blvd)
1916 Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
1916 Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1916 Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1916 Van Johnson, American actor (Brigadoon), always wore red socks (d. 2008)
1917 Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
1917 Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor) (d. 2008)
1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (West Side Story) (d. 1990)
1918 Richard Greene, English actor (Adv of Robin Hood) (d. 1985)
1919 George C Wallace, American politician (gov-D-Ala), presidential candidate (d. 1998)
1920 Jef Diederen, Dutch painter
1921 Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (Catholics, Doctor's Wife) (d. 1999)
1921 Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1921 Monty Hall, Canadian-born TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
1922 Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer
1925 Thea Astley, Australian writer, (d. 2004)
1927 Althea Gibson, American tennis player, 1st black tennis champion in a major event (d. 2003)
1928 Darrell Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1928 Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 John "Kayo" Dottley, American football player
1928 Karl Korte, composer
1930 Ariana CE Amsberg, Dutch publicist/actress (Aside, Sekstant)
1930 Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1930 Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (Charlie-Mary Hartman) (d. 2003)
1930 Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
1930 Sean Connery, Scottish actor (James Bond)
1931 Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
1931 Regis Philbin, American television host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
1932 Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut
1933 Tom Skerritt, American actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
1933 Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician (Weather Report)
1934 Eddie Ilarde, Filipino disk jockey, television host, and Senator
1934 John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert (Dr No)
1934 Lise Bacon, French Canadian politician
1934 Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39)
1935 Charles Wright, American poet
1935 David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
1935 Lones Wigger, Great Falls Mont, shooter (Oly-gold/silver-1964, 72)
1938 David Canary, American actor
1938 Frederick Forsyth, English author (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File)
1939 John Badham, American film director (Dracula, Short Circuit)
1939 Liselot(te JM) Beekmeyer, actress (Issue Blum)
1940 José Van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone (Francois d'Assisif)
1941 Marshall Brickman, American film writer
1941 Shirley Carter Burden, patrician
1942 Imogen Hassall, Surrey England, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng)
1942 Margaret L Thompson Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-76)
1942 Nathen Deal, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1942 Walter Williams, US, rock vocalist (O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl)
1944 Anthony Heald, American actor (Orphans, Silence of Lambs)
1944 Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1944 Jacques Demers, Canadian hockey coach
1944 Sherley Anne Williams, US literary (Dessa Rose)
1946 Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author
1946 Charlie Sanders, American football player
1946 Larry LaRocco, (Rep-D-Idaho)
1946 Rollie Fingers, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981)
1947 Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1947 Wim J van Gelder, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1948 Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemical and biomedical engineer
1949 Anson Williams, actor (Happy Days)
1949 Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1949 Gene Simmons (Chaim Witz), Israeli-born musician, guitarist (Kiss)
1949 John Savage, American actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
1949 Martin Amis, English novelist
1950 Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1950 Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
1951 Bill Handel, American radio personality
1951 Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1952 Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
1952 Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1952 Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (The Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1954 Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick McManus), English musician, vocalist (Allison)
1954 Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
1954 Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1955 Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician
1956 Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally driver (d. 1986)
1956 Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1957 Sikander Bakht, Pakistani cricketer
1957 Valdemar R. Plusa, Artist
1958 Christian LeBlanc, American actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
1958 Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
1958 Tim Burton, American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)
1960 Ashley Crow, American actress
1961 Billy Ray Cyrus, American country singer (Achy Breaky Heart) and actor
1961 Joanne Whalley, British actress (Kill Me Again)
1962 Dan Turk, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1962 David Packer, American actor
1962 Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
1962 Ron Heller, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1962 Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer
1962 Vivian Campbell, Irish musician (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio)
1963 Christine McGlade, Canadian actress (You Can't Do That on Television)
1963 James Backhouse, British artist
1964 Blair Underwood, American actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
1964 Marti Noxon, American television writer and producer
1964 Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician
1964 Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
1964 Timothy Nicholson, journalist
1964 Vassilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster
1965 Cornelius Bennett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills)
1965 Kathleen Horvath, Chic Ill, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
1965 Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
1965 Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 Sanjeev Sharma, Indian cricketer
1966 Albert Belle, American baseball player, outfielder (Indians, White Sox)
1966 Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1966 Robert Maschio, American Actor ("The Todd" in Scrubs)
1967 Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1967 Tom Hollander, English actor
1968 Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality
1968 Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1968 Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model and racing driver
1969 Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor
1969 Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1969 Derek Fung, Hong Kong, Canadian Tour golfer
1969 Elly Hakami, San Francisco CA, tennis star
1969 John Witt, author, sportswriter, actor and Ballhawk
1969 Mike Gisler, corner (New England Patriots)
1969 Mike Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
1969 Vivek Razdan, Indian cricketer
1970 Claudia Schiffer, German super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
1970 Debbie Graham, Walnut Creek California, tennis star (1993 Taranto doubles)
1970 Doug Glanville, Hackensack NJ, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1970 Katherine "Katie" Scanlon, Fairfield Ct, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 Robert Horry, American basketball player, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Houston Rockets)
1970 Ronald Waterreus, soccer player (Roda JC, PSV)
1971 Makoto Kawahira, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1971 Michael Chack, Toms River NJ, figure skater (1997 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1971 Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1971 Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host
1971 Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1972 Bryan Stoltenberg, corner (NY Giants)
1972 Marlo Perry, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Marvin Harrison, American football player, wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Tony Dumas, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1973 Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director
1974 Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach Fla, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1974 Eric Millegan, American actor
1974 Mike Jenkins, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
1975 Jeremy Horn, American MMA Fighter
1975 Molly Tuter, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1975 Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1976 Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
1976 Damon Jones, American basketball player
1976 Javed Qadeer, Pakistani cricketer
1976 Philippe Comtois, Montreal Quebec, Canadian 3m springboard diver (Olympics-96)
1976 Sam Mackinnon, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1976 Sarah Nadeau, Portland Maine, Miss America-Maine (1997)
1977 Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Diego Corrales, American boxer (d. 2007)
1977 Jonathan Togo, American actor
1977 Sophie Cadieux, Canadian actress
1978 Kel Mitchell, American actor
1979 Deanna Nolan, American basketball player
1979 Marlon Harewood, English footballer
1980 Neal Musser, American baseball player
1981 Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)
1981 Rachel Bilson, American actress
1983 James Righton, English musician (Klaxons)
1983 James Rossiter, British racing driver
1983 Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant
1987 Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
1987 Blake Lively, American actress
1987 James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
1987 Jamie Archer, English footballer/ Boots Big Hitter
1987 Justin Upton, American baseball player
1987 Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1987 Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1988 Alexandra Burke, English singer
1988 Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer
1988 Ray Quinn, English singer
1988 Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
1994 Josh Flitter, American actor
1997 Holly Gibbs, English actress
1998 China Anne McClain, American actress

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79 Gaius Plinius Secundus, [Plinius Maior], Roman admiral/writer
383 Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered (b. 359)
471 Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)
882 Louis III, King of France (879-82)
1192 Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1227 Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], founded Mongolia
1270 Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague (b. 1214)
1282 Thomas Cantilupe, English saint (b. c. 1218)
1330 Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)
1346 Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
1482 Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)
1554 Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English admiral, politician (b. 1473)
1556 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader
1580 Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht
1632 Thomas Dekker, English dramatist (b. c. 1572)
1650 Richard Crashaw, English poet, clergyman (b. c. 1613)
1688 Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer, Governor of Jamaica (b. c. 1635)
1699 King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
1711 Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician
1742 Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, Portuguese composer (b. 1704)
1773 Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
1774 Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)
1776 David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)
1789 Mary Ball Washington, mother of George
1791 Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer
1792 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)
1794 Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (b. 1727)
1822 F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus) (b. 1738)
1835 Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love
1840 K L Immermann, writer
1842 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
1846 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat
1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)
1868 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet
1868 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa)
1868 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament
1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra) (b. 1844)
1900 Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever
1904 Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
1904 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1908 Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1852)
1924 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)
1925 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (b. 1852)
1929 Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87)
1930 Frankie Campbell, American Boxer (b. 1904)
1930 Siegfried Wagner, composer
1936 Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary
1938 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama) (b. 1870)
1939 Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
1940 Jean d'Orleans, duc de Guise, Orleanist pretender to the French throne (b. 1874)
1942 George EAE, English prince, Earl of St Andrews, dies in battle
1942 George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (b. 1902)
1942 Panayot Pipkov, composer
1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
1944 Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
1944 Mussa Dshalil, writer
1945 John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)
1947 Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist
1950 Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)
1956 Alfred C Kinsey, American biologist, zoologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report) (b. 1894)
1965 Moonlight Graham, American baseball player (b. 1879)
1967 George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader, assassinated (b. 1918)
1967 Paul Muni, Polish actor (Good Earth) (b. 1895)
1967 Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
1968 John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu)
1968 Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910)
1970 Tachu Naito, Japanese architect (b. 1886)
1971 Ted Lewis (Theodore L Friedman), American musician, bandleader, and entertainer (b. 1890)
1972 Juan Carlos Paz, composer
1972 Robert Denzler, composer
1975 Frans van Amelsvoort,   choir conductor
1975 John R Dunning, US physicist
1976 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer (Nobel laureate 1974) (b. 1900)
1976 Perc Hornibrook, cricketer
1979 Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (Music 55) (b. 1911)
1980 Gower Champion, American dancer and choreographer (Marge & Gower Champion Show) (b. 1919)
1982 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide
1984 Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood) (b. 1924)
1984 Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (b. 1921)
1984 Waite Hoyte, American baseball player, knuckleball pitcher (b. 1899)
1985 Samantha Smith, American social activist, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13yo (b. 1972)
1986 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James)
1988 Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
1989 Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer
1990 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (b. 1903)
1991 Don Nute, entertainer
1991 Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
1992 Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer
1992 Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White & 21)
1992 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland)
1993 Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered
1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered
1995 John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer
1995 R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer
1996 Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer
1996 Dai Houying, writer
1996 Erskine Childers, UN official/civil servant
1996 Les Burns, local councillor
1996 Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer
1997 Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73)
1997 James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker
1997 Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright
1999 Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
2000 Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
2000 Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)
2001 Aaliyah, American R&B singer and actress (b. 1979)
2001 Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2001 Ken Tyrrell, British race driver, founder (Tyrrell Racing) (b. 1924)
2001 Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
2002 Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2002 Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
2005 Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2006 Noor Mohamed Hassanali, 2nd president of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1918)
2007 Ray Jones, English footballer (b. 1988)
2008 Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2008 Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer (b. 1959)
2009 Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1932)
2012 Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (first man top walk on the Moon)
2013 Gilmar, Brazilian footballer
2015 Frank E. Petersen Jr, American soldier and 1st African American Marine aviator & General
2015 Ian Smith, South African cricket leg-spinner (1947-58) who averaged 64.08

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