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(509 BC) The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
604 Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great
1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III
1213 Ending of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1440 Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1503 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1515 Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X
1549 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
1553 English Hugh Latimer arrested
1556 Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1574 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
1579 Breda forms Union of Utrecht
1609 Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him the Hudson River.
1625 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1631 Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates
1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1743 Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
1751 England signs Austrian & Russian alliance
1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1775 Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main
1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands
1788 The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
1789 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1791 King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1800 Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)
1808 In the Battle of Jutas of the Finnish War, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows during the War of 1812.
1814 Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1814 The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1847 Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage incredibly survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1849 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
1850 First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1858 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1862 American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1867 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1869 Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
1881 Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
1882 The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. British troops invade Egypt.
1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia.
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury
1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1906 First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
1910 Regina Rugby Club forms
1914 South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station in World War I.
1914 The Battle of Aisne of World War I begins between Germany and France.
1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
1919 Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1922 The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.8°C (136.04°F).
1923 Military coup in Spain Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1923 With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera
1924 19th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
1925 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1925 Brooklyn Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1
1927 Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees
1927 Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)
1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
1930 50th US Mens Tennis, J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
1930 Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
1931 Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
1931 Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
1932 NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
1933 Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1935 Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway (New York Ontario).
1936 Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)
1938 Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 First (tethered) flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, one of the first viable American helicopters
1940 Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
1940 German bombs damage Buckingham Palace in World War II.
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
1942 German forces attack Stalingrad
1942 Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces in World War II.
1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
1943 German counter attack at Salerno
1943 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1944 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
1944 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line, Westwall
1946 Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
1947 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1949 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
1951 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1953 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's
1954 Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games
1954 WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1956 Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1958 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
1959 73rd US Womens Tennis, Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
1959 79th US Mens Tennis, Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
1959 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
1961 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk and Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV
1963 Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould marry
1963 Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
1964 78th US Womens Tennis, Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60)
1964 84th US Mens Tennis, Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64)
1964 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1964 St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
1964 WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 Beatles release "Yesterday"
1965 Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
1965 Today Show's first totally color broadcast
1965 Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title.
1969 Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
1969 Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance
1970 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
1970 84th US Womens Tennis, M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
1970 90th US Mens Tennis, Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
1970 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
1971 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison, State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao fled the country via a plane after the failure of alleged coup against the supreme leader, the plane crashed in Mongolia,killing all aboard.
1971 WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 World Hockey Association forms
1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
1973 Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
1973 Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
1974 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
1974 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US
1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
1977 First TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
1977 Second Test Cricket of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
1978 First flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1978 NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
1979 China PR performs nuclear test
1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1980 1st United Negro College Fund
1981 33rd Emmy Awards, Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford wins
1981 101st US Mens Tennis, John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63)
1981 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"
1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
1984 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
1985 2nd MTV Awards, Bruce Springsteen
1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
1986 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
1987 Goiânia accident, A radioactive object (Cesium-137) is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
1988 9 hard and software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY
1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (26.13 barometer), later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1990 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1991 Joe Carter becomes the first to have 3 consecutive 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams (Cleve, SD & Toronto)
1991 Kim Zmeskal is first American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
1992 112th US Mens Tennis, Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
1992 NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
1992 Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1992 Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open
1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1993 Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
1993 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.
1993 Queens NY begins required recycling
1994 George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
1994 Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham
1997 Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1
1997 Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
1998 112th US Womens Tennis
1998 118th US Mens Tennis
1998 SAFECO Golf Classic
1999 Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2006 At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted.
2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
2012 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
2012 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
2012 Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya
2012 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
2013 30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 9 people are killed after massive floods in Galati County, Romania
2014 At least 8 people are killed after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast
2014 40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria
2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Germany introduces temporary border controls to cope with huge migrant numbers
2015 Governor of California Jerry Brown declares a State of Emergency after wildfires devastate Lake and Napa counties
2015 Lydia Ko of New Zealand becomes the youngest winner of a golf major winning the Evian Championship in France aged 18yrs, 142 days

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64 Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus (d. 91)
678 K'inich Ahkal Mo' Naab' III, Ruler of Palenque (d. 730)
786 Al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph (d. 833)
1087 John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1157 Alexander Neckum-de Sancto Albano, English theologist and encyclopedist
1475 Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)
1502 John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
1520 William Cecil, First Baron Burghley, English premier (d. 1598)
1551 Pandolfo Zallamella, composer
1594 Francesco Manelli, composer
1604 William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
1673 Hercule Brehy, composer
1676 Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1682 Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer
1688 Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer
1694 Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
1739 Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer
1739 Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman, army officer, Catherine II's lover (d. 1791)
1751 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1755 Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine
1766 Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
1775 Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1802 Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
1806 Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
1806 Moritz Ganz, composer
1813 John Sedgwick, American Civil War general (Union volunteers) (d. 1864)
1814 Nicolas Beets (Hildebrand), Dutch writer (Camera Obscura)
1817 John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72)
1818 Olivier Gloux (Aimard), Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste)
1819 Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1830 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
1836 John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1927)
1841 Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist, stage writer
1842 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
1842 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer
1846 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa)
1847 Charles Dupee Blake, composer
1851 Walter Reed, American physician and biologist, Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever (d. 1902)
1857 Michal Drzymala, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
1857 Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945) (d. 1945)
1858 Catherinus Elling, composer
1860 John J. Pershing (Blackjack), American general (WW I) (d. 1948)
1862 Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
1863 Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader (Nobel Peace Prize 1934) (d. 1935)
1866 Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene)
1871 Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)
1873 Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (d. 1950)
1874 Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Austrian composer (2nd Quartet) (d. 1951)
1874 Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1876 Sherwood Anderson, American writer, publisher (Winesburg) (d. 1941)
1877 Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)
1877 Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1882 Henri Potiron, composer
1882 Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
1885 Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)
1886 Alain L Lovke, philosopher
1886 Amelie Beese, German aviator and sculptor. (d. 1925)
1886 Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1887 Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1893 Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
1894 Anton Roosjen, Dutch politician/NCRV-chairman
1894 John B(oynton) Priestly, English playwright and author (Good Companions), married Jessica Hawkes (d. 1984)
1894 Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
1895 Morris Kirksey, American rugby player and runner, 4 X 100m (Olympic-gold-1920) (d. 1981)
1895 Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater Mich, actress (Jo-All in the Family)
1897 Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer
1899 Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer
1899 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
1901 Philip Dorn, Scheveningen Netherlands, actor (I Remember Mama)
1902 Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author
1902 Leland Hayward, US producer (Spirit of St Louis)
1903 Claudette Colbert (Lily Chauchoin), American actress (Texas Lady) (d. 1996)
1904 Gladys George (Patten Maine), American stage and screen actress (Roaring Twenties)
1907 Victor Reinganum, artist
1908 Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (d. 1987)
1908 Ray Burns Green, composer
1909 Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor (Belarus File)
1909 Ray Bowden, English footballer (d. 1998)
1911 Bill Monroe, American country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky) (d. 1996)
1912 Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1913 Roy Engle, Mo, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian)
1914 Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician
1915 Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot
1916 Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)
1916 Roald Dahl, British author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables) (d. 1990)
1917 Jon Thorarinsson, composer
1917 Robert Eugene Ward, American composer (Pantaloon)
1918 Ray Charles, American orchestra leader (Perry Como)
1919 Mary Midgley, American philosopher
1920 Carole Mathews, American actress (Wilma-Californians)
1922 Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
1922 Yma Sumac (Chavarri), Peruvian 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
1923 Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
1923 Reninca (Renée Lauwers), Flemish author (Seed in the Wind)
1924 Harold Blair, Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist (d. 1976)
1924 Maurice Jarre, French composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966) (d. 2009)
1924 Norman Alden, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Pilaski-Hennesey, Al-Fay), (d. 2012)
1924 Scott Brady, American film actor (China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar) (d. 1985)
1925 Gabriel Charpentier, composer
1925 Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
1926 Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and GM (Rangers, Blues, Whalers)
1928 Ernest L Boyer, educator, chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY)
1929 Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
1930 James McLane, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1930 Robert Gavron, English publisher, printing millionaire (St Ives)
1931 Barbara Bain, American actress (Cinnamon-Mission Impossible, Space 1999)
1931 Marjorie Jackson, Australia, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 Bengt Hallberg, composer
1933 Arif Melikov, composer
1933 Eileen Fulton, American actress (Our Private World)
1936 Joe E. Tata, American actor
1936 Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
1937 Don Bluth, American animator
1937 Fred Silverman, broadcasting exec (ABC/NBC/CBS)
1938 John Smith, Labour Party Leader 1992 1994 (d. 1994)
1938 Judith Martin, American etiquette writer, columnist (Miss Manners)
1939 Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer
1939 Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary
1939 Richard Kiel, American actor (So Fine, Jaws-Moonraker, Skidoo)
1940 Joyce Schouten, Dutch singer (Fouryo's)
1940 Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
1941 David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
1943 Ray Elliott, rock pianist/saxophonist (Them)
1944 Carol Barnes, British newsreader (d. 2009)
1944 Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
1944 Peter Cetera, American musician, singer (Chicago)
1944 (Winifred) Jacqueline Bisset, England, actress (Class, Deep, Secrets)
1945 Alain Louvier, composer
1945 Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (d. 2002)
1945 Noël Godin, Belgian humorist
1946 Frank Marshall, American film producer
1948 Clyde Kusatsu, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Ali-Bring 'em Back Alive)
1948 Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist
1948 Nell Carter, American actress (Nell-Gimme a Break, Lobo) (d. 2003)
1949 Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarrist (MC5) (d. 1994)
1950 Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician
1951 David Clayton-Thomas, singer (Blood Sweat & Tears Joy to the World)
1951 Jean Smart, American actress
1952 Don Was, American singer
1952 Johanna Klier-Schaller, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Karen Wyman, Bronx NY, singer (Long & Winding Road)
1952 Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)
1952 Raymond O'Connor, American actor
1953 Taryn Power, LA CA, daughter of Tyrone Power/actress (Maria)
1954 Steve Kilbey, English singer, songwriter, poet and musician (The Church)
1954 Ted Mueller, rock drummer (Axe)
1955 Joe Morris, American musician
1956 Anne Geddes, Australian photographer
1956 (Joan) Joni Sledge, American vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1957 John G. Trueschler, American politician
1957 Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer
1957 Mark Charles Wiebe, American PGA golfer (1985 Anheuser-Busch)
1957 Vinny Appice, American musician (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell)
1958 Ann Dusenberry, American actress (Jaws 2, Lies, Basic Training)
1958 Pawel Przytocki, Polish conductor
1959 Jean Smart, American actress (Charlene-Designing Women)
1960 Greg Baldwin, American voiceover actor (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1961 Barton Hawkins, American biophysical chemist
1961 Dave Mustaine, American musician (ex-Metallica, Megadeth)
1961 KK Null, Japanese musician
1961 Peter Roskam, Republican Congressman from Illinois
1962 Brian Andrew Fowler, Christchurch NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1962 Grady Neal Lancaster, Smithfield NC, PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson)
1962 Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author
1963 Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek politician
1964 Peter Remie, soccer player (NAC)
1964 Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist and author
1965 Annie Duke, American poker player
1965 Jeffrey Ross, American Comedian
1965 Zak Starkey, British musician, drummer, son of Beatle Ringo
1966 Igor Kravchuk, Ufa Russia, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, St Louis)
1966 Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
1966 Maria Furtwängler, German physician
1967 Michael Johnson, American athlete
1967 Michael Johnson, Dallas Tx, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-2 gold-96)
1967 Tim "Ripper" Owens, American singer (Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest)
1968 Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican baseball player, outfielder (NY Yankees)
1968 Brad Johnson, American football player, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Chris Morris, CFL tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 Denny Neagle, Prince Georges Cnty, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1968 Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model
1969 Igor Kravchuk, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Russia Oly-Sil-98)
1969 Ilka Knickenberg, German actress
1969 Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
1970 Jason Bourne, fictional character
1970 Jason Scott Sadofsky, American programmer
1970 Louise Lombard, British actress
1970 Marc Latupeirissa, soccer player (Willem II)
1970 Martín Herrera, former Argentine footballer
1970 Yuki Matsuoka, Japanese voice actress
1971 Goran Ivanisevic, Croatian tennis player (1991, 1994, 1998 Wimbledon finalist; 2001 wildcard Wimbledon winner)
1971 Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer
1971 Nancy Anne Roberts, Miss Vermont USA (1996)
1971 Richie Anderson, NFL running back (NY Jets)
1971 Stella Nina McCartney, English fashion designer, daughter of Paul & Linda McCartney
1971 Ted Drury, Boston Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1973 Brian Evans, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1973 Christine Arron, French runner
1973 Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1973 Kelly Chen, Chinese singer
1973 Mahima Chaudhry, Indian actress
1973 Marcelinho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 Philip Dulebohn, Washington DC, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr 3rd)
1974 Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Keith Murray, American rapper
1974 Travis Knight, American basketball player, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1975 Akihiro Asai, Japanese racing driver
1975 Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)
1975 Patricia Spehar, Miss France Universe (1997)
1975 Sean McClain, Dayton Ohio, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1976 Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer
1976 Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
1976 José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer (Maximum the Hormone)
1977 Fiona Apple, American singer
1977 Ivan De Battista, Maltese Actor, singer, and composer
1978 Darren Kenton, English footballer
1978 Megan Henning, American actress
1978 Peter Sunde, Scandinavian entrepreneur
1979 Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic)
1979 Ivan Miljkovic, Serbian volleyball player
1980 Ben Savage, American actor (Little Monsters, Wild Palms)
1980 Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player, MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1980 Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
1980 Han Chae Young, South Korean actress and model
1980 Michelle Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1980 Teppei Teranishi, American guitarist (Thrice)
1981 Angel Williams, Canadian wrestler
1981 Antonio Lopez Spanish footballer
1981 August, American pornographic actress
1981 Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist
1982 Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
1982 Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
1982 Rickie Weeks, American baseball player
1983 James Bourne, English musician
1983 Sean Brosnan II, American actor and son of actor Pierce Brosnan
1984 Nabil Abou-Harb, Arab-American filmmaker
1985 Emi Suzuki, Japanese model
1985 Keyunta Dawson, National Football League player
1986 Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1986 Sean Williams, American basketball player
1987 Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer
1988 Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

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81 Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81) (b. 39)
867 Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67)
1321 Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy)
1438 Duarte, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
1506 Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1596 Pieter D Keyzer (Keyser), astronomer, navigator (Java)
1598 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) (b. 1526)
1624 Ketevan of Kakheti, Christian martyr, Queen of Kakheti in Georgia (b. 1565)
1632 Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1650 Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop
1657 Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall)
1759 James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle (b. 1727)
1766 Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1800 Claude Martin, French then British General (b. 1735)
1803 John Barry, 1st American commodore
1806 Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1859 Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer
1872 Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats) (b. 1804)
1881 Ambrose (Everett) Burnside, American Civil War general (Union) and politician (b. 1824)
1885 Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1906 Georg Jacobi, composer
1912 Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1913 Alfred Gaul, composer
1915 Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1921 Italo Svevo, writer
1921 Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg (Mountbatten), admiral (WW I)
1924 Pekka Hannikainen, composer
1928 Italo Svevo (Ettore Schmitz), Italian writer (Una Vita) (b. 1861)
1932 Julius Rontgen, composer
1932 Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
1938 Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time & deity)
1941 Elias Disney, Canadian father of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (b. 1859)
1946 Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)
1946 Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1948 Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Golem, Svengali)
1949 August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1950 Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase)
1953 Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City)
1959 Gilbert Adrian, costume designer
1960 Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi)
1965 Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1967 Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion
1969 Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66
1971 Lin Biao, Chinese Marshal and political leader, dies in air crash (b.1907)
1971 Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters)
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1973 Betty Field, American actress (Kings Row) (b. 1913)
1976 Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 Arthur Fagg, English cricketer
1977 Leopold Stokowski, English symphonic conductor (b. 1882)
1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH
1982 Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie)
1985 Dane Rudhyar, composer
1987 Mervyn LeRoy, American screenwriter and film director (Quo Vadis) (b. 1900)
1989 Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line
1991 Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers)
1991 Joe Pasternak, American film director, producer (Spinout, Big City) (b. 1901)
1991 Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1992 Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp)
1994 John William Stevens, jazz drummer,
1994 Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina
1994 Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam)
1995 Francesco Messina, sculptor
1995 Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer
1995 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter
1996 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian
1996 Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85)
1996 Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time)
1996 Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter
1996 Tupac Shakur (2Pac), American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet) (b. 1971)
1998 George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1998 Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1999 Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2003 Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2005 Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2006 Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (b. 1981)
2007 Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2011 DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and electro producer (b. 1977)
2011 Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)
2015 Gary Richrath, American guitarist and songwriter (REO Speedwagon)
2015 Moses Malone, American NBA center "Chairman of the Boards"( Philadelphia 76ers)
2015 Brian Close, English cricketer (played for England between 1949 and 1976)

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