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(479 BC) Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea. Along the with the Greek victory on the same day in the Battle of Mycale, the Persian invasion of Greece is halted.
410 The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
663 Remnants of the Korean Baekje Kingdom and their Yamato Japanese allies engage the combined naval forces of the Tang Chinese and Silla Koreans on the Geum River in Korea; the outcome is a significant Tang-Silla victory, while the Japanese would not attempt another invasion of Korea until the Japanese invasions of Korea of the late 16th century.
1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.
1232 The Formulary of Adjudications is promulgated by Regent Hōjō Yasutoki. (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 1232)
1549 Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army
1569 Pope Pius names Cosimo I de Medici, grand duke of Toscane
1585 Duke van Parma's troops occupy Antwerp
1601 Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1610 Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia
1619 Monarch Frederik van Palts chosen king of Bohemia
1626 Battle at Lutter: Catholic League beats Danish king Christian IV
1628 Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia
1634 Battle of Nordingen-Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, loses Duchy of Francomia
1665 "Ye Bare & Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1667 Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1689 The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing empire.
1776 The Battle of Long Island of the American Revolution, in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1788 Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance
1789 The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proclaiming that "men are born and remain free and equal in rights".
1793 French counter-revolution: the port of Toulon revolts and admits the British fleet, which lands troops and seizes the port leading to Siege of Toulon.
1798 Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English
1798 Wolfe Tone's United Irish and French forces clash with the British Army in the Battle of Castlebar, part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, resulting in the creation of the French puppet Republic of Connaught.
1799 English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1813 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte defeats a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.
1816 Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates
1828 The Russians defeat the Turks at the Battle of Akhalzic.
1828 Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina during the Argentina-Brazil War.
1832 Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up
1859 Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
1861 Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Union troops take Ft Clark.
1862 Battle of Cub Run, VA
1881 Hurricane hits Florida & Carolinas; about 700 die
1883 Krakatoa, an Indonesian volcano west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1892 NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1895 15th US Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)
1896 The shortest war in world history between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar. England defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM)
1897 Roger Bresnahan debuts as Wash Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher)
1900 Battle at Bergendal, Gen Buller beats Boer general Botha
1903 23rd US Mens Tennis, Hugh L Doherty beats William A Larned (60 63 108)
1908 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as the Tigers
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1910 Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
1910 Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
1911 Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0
1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1914 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg, German bombs Usdau
1914 US war reporter Richard H Davis visits Leuven
1916 Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.
1917 Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
1921 The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:28.6)
1922 The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1928 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident
1928 42nd US Womens Tennis, Helen W Moody beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 61)
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first fifteen nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
1932 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
1933 Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0
1934 Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1937 Brookln Dodger Fred Frankhouse no-hits Cin, 5-0 in 7 2/3 inn game
1937 George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH
1938 Two NYC subway trains collide at 116th Street killing 2 and injuring 51
1938 Yanks Monte Pearson no-hits Indians 13-0, DiMaggio hits 3 triples
1939 Erich Warsitz makes First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first manned rocket/jet aircraft.
1939 Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939 Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1941 Shah of Iran abdicates throne to his son Reza Pahlawi
1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1943 Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
1944 200 Halifax bombers attack oil-installations in Homburg
1945 US troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1948 102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1950 First transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1952 Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1952 West Germany and Israel conclude reparation negotiations in Luxembourg; West Germany agrees to pay 3 billion Deutsch Marks.
1955 "Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1956 Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
1957 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 Clark Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 USSR launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1958 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
1961 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965 WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1966 Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on US cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1969 Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
1969 Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1971 An attempted coup fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 US bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
1974 NY Met Benny Ayala hits a HR in his 1st at bat
1975 First night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975 The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
1975 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1976 Transsexual Renee Richards barred from competing in US Tennis Open
1977 "Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977 Toby Harrah & Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1978 Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases
1978 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1979 An IRA bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another bomb near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland kills 18 British soldiers.
1980 Chon Doo Hwan elected pres of South Korea
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1982 Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada's capital. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1983 US performs nuclear test
1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years & 8 days old is youngest to win a US Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1985 The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
1986 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Phila, 4-2
1989 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1990 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq
1990 Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats
1990 Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27)
1990 WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude
1991 Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
1991 The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
1992 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
1993 The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed.
1993 Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1994 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
1995 "Arcadia" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 204 performances
1995 23rd du Maurier Golf Classic, Jenny Lidback
1995 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1995 Worst fire in NY in 80 years ends after 4 days
2000 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
2003 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
2006 Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Of the passengers and crew, 49 of 50 are confirmed dead in the hours following the crash.
2007 Bluegrass Army Depot Sarin(GB) leak in Lexington, Kentucky. Officials reported the Sarin levels 85 times above the safe limit.
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
2012 First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity 2013 "Gravity", directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney premieres at the Venice Film Festival
2014 71st Venice Film Festival: "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence" directed by Roy Andersson wins Golden Lion
2014 "Birdman" directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Michael Keaton and Zach Galifianakis premieres at the Venice Film Festival (Best Picture 2015)
2014 Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
2015 15th World Championships in Athletics: Usain Bolt of Jamaica adds the Mens 200m gold to his 100m win
2015 Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos names top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou caretaker Prime Minister - Greece's 1st female Prime Minister

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1407 Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (d. 1425)
1471 George, the Bearded, Duke of Saxony (1500-39) (d. 1539)
1487 Anna of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark (d. 1514)
1545 Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma/general/diplomat
1562 Hans Leo Hassler, composer
1583 Simon Besler, composer
1630 Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch flower painter
1637 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
1650 Johann Samuel Welter, composer
1665 John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1666 Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89)
1669 Anne Marie of Orléans, queen of Italy (d. 1728)
1677 Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
1698 Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement (d. 1760)
1719 John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79)
1724 John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)
1730 Hamann, writer
1730 Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
1739 Michel Delalande, composer
1752 Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
1768 Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Maastricht)
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and inventor (dialectic) (d. 1831)
1803 Edward Beecher, American theologian (d. 1895)
1809 Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of the United States of America (1861-65) (d. 1891)
1824 Hiram Gregory Berry, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1826 Frank Stillman Nickerson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer
1832 James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1835 Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter
1837 Heinrich Urban, composer
1839 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1881
1847 Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge
1849 Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno)
1856 Iwan Franko, writer
1858 Giuseppe Peanoin Cuneo, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)
1865 Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States (1925-29) (Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1925) (d. 1951)
1865 Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1865 James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)
1867 Umberto Giordano, composer
1868 Hong Beom-do, Korean independence activist (d. 1943)
1869 Karl Haushofer, soldier/geographer
1870 Amado Nervo (Juan C Ruiz de Nervo), Mexican writer and poet (d. 1919)
1871 Theodore Dreiser, American author (Sister Carie, American Tragedy) (d. 1945)
1874 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF) (Nobel Prize laureate 1931) (d. 1940)
1875 Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (d. 1967)
1877 Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd) (d. 1910)
1877 Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
1877 Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
1878 Joseph John Richards, composer
1882 Jaroslav Kricka, composer
1882 Samuel Goldwyn (Gelbfisch), film magnate (MGM)
1884 Harry Antrim, Chicago IL, actor (Miracle on 34th St, Devil's Doorway)
1884 Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53) (d. 1966)
1886 Eric Coates, English composer, viola player (d. 1957)
1886 Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
1890 Man Ray, American photographer (Dada) and artist (d. 1976)
1894 Charles Meredith, Knoxville Pa, actor (Court of Last Resort)
1896 Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (d. 1984)
1896 Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor
1897 Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter
1898 Enny de Leeuwe (Engelina), actress (Anatevka), wife of Pierre Mols
1898 Gaspard Fauteux, French Canadian parliamentarian (d. 1963)
1899 Byron Foulger, American actor (River's Edge, Up in Smoke) (d. 1970)
1899 C(ecil) S(cott) Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower) (d. 1966)
1901 Al Ritz (Joaquim), Newark NJ, actor (Ritz Brothers, Hi Ya Chum)
1901 Roger Pryor, NYC, actor (Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown)
1902 Herbert Menges, composer
1903 Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles)
1904 John Hay Whitney, American financier (d. 1982)
1904 Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1905 Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
1905 Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1906 Ed Gein, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1908 Don(ald) (George) Bradman, Australian cricketer (6,996 runs) (d. 2001)
1908 Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach (Notre Dame)
1908 Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985)
1908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1963-1969) (d. 1973)
1909 Lester W "Pres" Young, American musician, jazz saxophonist (d. 1959)
1909 Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-IL, 1949-62, 65)
1909 Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
1911 Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
1911 Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1912 Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d. 1980)
1912 Peter Gretton, British vice admiral
1913 Arthur Benfield, head of Cheshire CID
1913 Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher
1913 Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, Russian-born wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (d. 2006)
1913 Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1914 Catherine Marshall, editor/writer
1915 Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate
1915 Walter W Heller, economist (Old Myths & New Realities)
1916 Martha Raye (Margaret Reed), American actress (Martha Raye Show) (d. 1994)
1916 Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1917 Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1918 Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch Prime Minister (d. 2001)
1918 Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP (Labour)
1919 John Cox, Flemish/US painter, director (Museum of Fine Physician, Boston)
1919 Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP (Labour)
1919 Murray Grand, American songwriter and cabaret singer (d. 2007)
1920 James Molyneaux, MP (Ulster unionist)
1921 Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
1921 Leo Penn, American film director (d. 1998)
1924 David Rowbotham, Australian poet
1925 Darry Cowl, French actor (d. 2006)
1925 Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW leg-spin all-rounder)
1925 Nat Lofthouse, English footballer
1925 Richard Rutt, bishop of Leicester
1925 Tony Crombie, drummer/bandleader
1925 Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1926 Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)
1926 Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
1927 Hugh Byatt, British diplomat
1927 Jimmy C. Newman, American singer
1927 Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972)
1928 Jack Thompson, MP (Labour)
1928 Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Korc/owner (McDonalds & San Diego Padres)
1928 Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, South African politician, Premier of Kwazulu (Shaka Zulu)
1928 Peter Richard Tahourdin, composer
1929 Ad J Hermes, Dutch MP (KVP/CDA)
1929 Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1929 Ira Levin, American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day) (d. 2007)
1930 John Daly, British trade union leader
1930 John Watts, chief of defense (Omani Armed Forces)
1931 Joe Cunningham, American baseball player
1931 Sri Chinmoy, Indian guru (d. 2007)
1932 Antonia Fraser, British author, biographer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1932 Francois Glorieux, composer
1932 M(ikhail) N(ikolayevich) Burdayev, cosmonaut
1933 Joke Smit, Dutch feminist
1935 Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
1935 Frank Yablans, American film producer, writer (North Dallas Forty)
1935 Michael Holroyd, author
1936 Joel Kovel, American politician
1937 Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
1937 Mark Potter, British court judge
1937 Phil Shulmon, rocker (Gentle Giant)
1937 Tommy Sands, American actor and singer (Teenage Rock, Dream With Me)
1939 William Least Heat-Moon, American author
1940 David Hart, gen-sect (National Association of Head Teachers)
1940 Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
1941 Harrison Page, American actor
1941 Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1942 Brian Peckford, Canadian politician
1942 Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)
1943 Bob Kerrey, (Sen-D Nebraska)
1943 (Susan) Tuesday Weld, American actress (Dobie Gillis, Wild in Country)
1944 Barry Conyngham, composer
1944 G. W. Bailey, American actor
1944 Tim Bogert, rocker
1944 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD)
1945 G W Bailey, Port Arthur Tx, actor (Dr Beale-St Elsewhere)
1946 Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer
1947 Barbara Bach, American actress
1947 Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1947 Harry Reems, American actor
1947 Jacques Arnold, MP (Conservative)
1947 John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
1947 Susie McAllister, LPGA golfer
1948 Andy Turnell, horse trainer
1948 Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek musician (d. 1990)
1948 Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1949 Andrew McKay, conservative MP
1949 Barbara Bach (Goldbach), American actress (Spy Who Loved Me)
1949 Douglas Fred Tewell, Baton Rouge LA, PGA golfer (1980 Sea Pines)
1949 Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist
1949 Edmund Weiner, lexicographer
1949 Jeff Cook, American country guitar, vocalist, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin (Alabama)
1949 Simon Kirke, rocker (Bad Company)
1950 Charles Fleischer, American actor and comedian (Roger Rabbit)
1950 Cynthia Potter, US, springboard diver (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1951 Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager
1951 Don (Sheldon George) Pooley Jr, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1980 BC Open)
1951 Mack Brown, American University of Texas Head Football Coach
1952 Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman), American actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1953 Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)
1953 Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor
1953 Willy "Mink" Deville, [Borsay], US blues/rock singer (Hey! Joe)
1954 Derek Warwick, British race car driver
1954 John Lloyd, British tennis player, former husband of Chris Everet
1955 Diana Scarwid, American actress (Extermites, Psycho 3, Heat)
1955 Laura Fygi, Dutch singer
1955 Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
1955 Roderick Hopkins Davis, Auckland NZ, yachting Star class (Olympics-96)
1956 Glen Matlock, rock bassist (Sex Pistols)
1957 Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion
1957 Jeff Grubb, American author and game designer
1958 Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host
1958 Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut (TM-7, TM-12, STS 60)
1958 Tom Lanoye, Belgian author
1958 Yoshinori Mizumaki, Tokyo Japan, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson-2nd)
1959 Downtown Julie Brown, Welsh TV personality and MTV VJ
1959 Gerhard Berger, Austrian racing driver (Italian Grand Prix-1988) and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
1959 Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
1960 Damon Keeve, SF California, heavyweight (209+ lbs) judoka (Olympics-92, 96)
1961 "Downtown" Julie Brown, TV host (Club MTV, Inside Edition)
1961 Tom Ford, American fashion designer
1961 Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
1962 Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Scott Davis, Santa Monica CA, tennis star
1962 Vic Mignogna, American voice actor
1963 Patty Duffek, Woodland Hills California, playmate (May, 1984)
1964 Frankie Thorn, American actress
1964 Robert Bogue, American actor
1965 Michael Perry, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos)
1965 Patricia Hy-Boulais, Phnom Penh Kampuchea, Canada tennis (Oly-92, 96)
1965 Wayne James, Zimbabwean cricketer, wicketkeeper
1966 Deena Wigger, Colorado Springs CO, US shooter (Olympic-92)
1966 Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia
1967 Bob Nastanovich, American musician (Pavement, Silver Jews)
1967 Brian McRae, Bradenton FL, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1967 Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer and actor
1967 Rob Burnett, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns/Baltimore Ravens)
1968 Christine Schaefer, Florence Ky, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1968 Emanual Davis, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1968 Martin Lowenfish, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1968 Michael Long, Cromwell NZ, Australasia golfer
1969 Cesar Millan, Mexican dog trainer (Dog Whisperer)
1969 Chandra Wilson, American actress
1969 Kipp Vickers, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 Mark Ealham, England cricketer
1969 Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian
1969 Steven Van Randwijck, Wash DC, field hockey player (Olympics-96)
1970 Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer
1970 Dene Hills, cricketer (prolific Tasmanian batsman)
1970 Greg Woodcroft, Hamilton Ontario, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1970 Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer
1970 Jim Thome, American baseball player, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1970 Mark Ilott, England cricketer
1970 Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
1970 Reggie Slater, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1970 Tony Kanal, English-born musician (No Doubt)
1971 Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer(PSV) and coach
1971 Jim Flanigan, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1971 Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
1972 Chris Imes, South Paris Maine, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1972 Dalip Singh, Indian professional wrestler
1972 Denise Lewis, English heptathlete
1972 Donta Jones, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Jaap-Derk Buma, Dutch field hockey player
1972 Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 Mike Smith, Canadian actor
1972 The Great Khali, Indian professional wrestler
1973 Burak Kut, Turkish pop singer
1973 Carlene Begnaud, American professional wrestler
1973 Cory Bowles, Canadian actor
1973 Danny Coyne, Welsh footballer
1973 Dietmar Hamann, German footballer
1973 Johan Norberg, Swedish author
1974 José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
1974 Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
1974 Sean Woodson, safety (Buffalo Bills)
1975 Björn Gelotte, Swedish guitarplayer, In Flames
1975 Jonny Moseley, American skier
1975 Mark Rudan, Australian footballer
1976 Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
1976 Craig Mills, Toronto, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1976 Mark Webber, Australian racing driver
1976 Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
1977 Deco, Portuguese footballer
1977 Mase, American rapper
1977 Michelle Kathlene Cardamon, California, Miss Teen USA (1996-3rd)
1977 Sarah Chalke, Ottawa, actress (Becky-Roseanne, Ernest Goes to School)
1977 Trisha Williams, Hobbs New Mexico, Miss America-New Mexico (1997)
1979 Ara Francis, Miss Colorado Teen USA (1996)
1979 Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker and actor
1979 Rusty Smith, American shorttracker
1979 Sarah Neufeld, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1979 Tian Liang, Chinese diver
1980 Kyle Lowder, American actor
1980 Neha Dhupia, Indian model and actress
1980 Stephanie Michelle Steele, Abilene TX, country singer
1983 Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
1984 David Bentley, English footballer
1984 Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer
1985 Alexandra Nechita, Romanian/American artist
1986 Mario, American R&B singer
1987 Darren McFadden, American football player
1988 Alexa Vega, American actress
1993 Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

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542 Saint Caesarius of Arles
827 Pope Eugene II
1208 Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles
1312 Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)
1394 Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)
1450 Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1521 Josquin Des Prez, Flemish composer
1522 Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect
1545 Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)
1572 Claude Goudimel, French composer
1576 Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), Italian painter, dies of plague
1590 Sixtus V (Felice Peretti "Montalto"), Pope (1585-90) (b. 1521)
1608 Hendrik van Kinschot (Henricus Kinschotus), lawyer
1611 Tomés L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist
1635 Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (Angelica, Arcadia) (b. 1562)
1651 Jacob A Backer, painter
1664 Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
1667 Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver
1746 Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer
1748 James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
1773 Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)
1827 Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat
1828 Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker
1830 Louis H J Condé, French prince, commits suicide
1840 William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1841 Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
1846 Frantiszek Scigalski, composer
1846 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1855 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1857 Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1815)
1865 Jozef Nowakowski, composer
1865 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (b. 1796)
1867 Karol Katski, composer
1868 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
1871 William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)
1874 Johan George Schwartze, painter
1874 John Henry Foley, sculptor
1875 William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
1879 Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps
1883 August Friedrich Pott, composer
1887 Wilhelm Volkmar, composer
1909 Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
1910 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
1914 John Weiss, German new testament
1919 Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman
1922 Carl Fuchs, composer
1929 Herman Potocnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)
1930 Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch
1931 Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
1931 Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
1931 Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member
1943 Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz)
1944 Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)
1948 Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
1948 Oley Speaks, composer
1948 Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer
1949 Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life)
1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande)
1953 Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
1955 Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion)
1958 Ernest O Lawrence, American physicist, inventor (Cyclotron) (Nobel Prize laureate 1939) (b. 1901)
1962 Carlos Lavin, composer
1963 Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)
1963 Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
1963 W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Du Bois, American civil rights activist, scholar, educational editor, founder (NAACP) (b. 1868)
1964 Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer
1964 Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (Burns & Allen) (b. 1895)
1965 Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter
1965 Gerald Bond, cricketer (South Africa 1938-39)
1965 Le Corbusier (Charles Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect (b. 1887)
1965 Otto Reinhold, composer
1967 Brian Epstein, English manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose (b. 1934)
1967 Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor
1968 Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent
1968 Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)
1969 Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools)
1969 Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)
1969 Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer
1969 Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
1971 Bennett Cerf, American publisher (Random House) and television personality (What's My Line) (b. 1898)
1971 Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)
1975 Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled
1975 Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
1976 Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)
1977 George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale)
1977 Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father)
1978 Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers)
1979 Boleslaw Szabelski, composer
1979 Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated by IRA) (b. 1900)
1979 Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson (assassinated by IRA)
1980 Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)
1980 Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show)
1981 Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show)
1981 Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
1984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street) (b. 1914)
1984 Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy)
1987 Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
1988 Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)
1988 William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
1990 Raymond St Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest)
1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist (Pride and Joy), dies in a helicopter crash (b. 1954)
1991 Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm)
1991 Vince Taylor, [Brian Holden], Brit singer (Brand new Cadillac)
1993 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia)
1994 Roberto Goyeneche, [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria)
1995 Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist
1995 Dick Bentley, entertainer
1995 Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger
1996 Abram Games, graphic artist
1996 Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73)
1996 Greg Morris, American actor (Mission Impossible) (b. 1933)
1997 Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC)
1997 Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman & Robin)
1997 Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (b. 1921)
1999 Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)
2001 Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)
2001 Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)
2002 Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN) (b. 1922)
2003 Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)
2004 Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2005 Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1922)
2005 Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)
2006 Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
2006 Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2006 María Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004–2006 (b. 1889)
2007 Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2008 Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1970)
2009 Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913)
2010 Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)
2013 Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player
2015 Darryl Dawkins, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets)

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