September 24th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Guinea-Bissau) * (see below)
Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago) in 1976.
Territorial Day (New Caledonia)
Our Lady of Walsingham (England)
Heritage Day (South Africa)
Kings Day * (See Below)
Beer Days
National Cherries Jubilee Day
Punctuation Day
Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving
* La Mercè, festival for Barcelona's patron saint - Barcelona, Spain A lot of art and musical activities.
* Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day - French Republican Calendar, third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
Start of the indiction year (Late Roman Empire - at least since the time of Bede).
The Third day of Mikeli Ancient Latvia, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.
Feast of Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Walsingham.
Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg (Roman Catholic Church), Holiday in Salzburg.
* Ibiza Closing Parties Ibiza, Spain - Last 3 weeks of Sept (16-21)
* Independence Day (Guinea-Bissau) declared, from Portugal in 1973
* Kings Day – Celebrating Birthday of Rajadhiraja, Sriraj.
Toast of The Day
"May we have more and more friends, and need them less and less."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Green Lizard
1 Part 151 RUM
1 Part Green Charreuse
Combine ingredients in a Cocktail Shaker With ice and Strain into a Cocktail Glass.
Wine of The Day
Alba (2009) Dry
Riesling
Warren Hills
$20
Beer of The Day
Ephémère Apple
Brewer - Unibroue Chambly, Canada
Style - Fruit Beer
Joke of The Day
A guy goes to the bar and notices a beautiful blond woman wave at him and say hello.
He's rather taken aback, because he can't place where he knows her from. So he says, "Do you Know me?"
To which she replies, "I think you're the father of one of my kids."
Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife and says, "My God, are you the stripper from my bachelor party that got me so excited I had to lay you right there on the pool table with all my buddies spraying whip cream on us?"
She looks into his eyes and calmly says, "No, I'm your son's math teacher."
Quote of The Day
"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."
- Anonymous
Whiskey Of The Day
Price: $30
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Build A Better Image Week, Third Full Week of SeptemberNational Clean Hands Week, Third Full Week of September
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week, Third Full Week of September
National Indoor Plant Week, Third Full Week of September
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, Third Full Week of September
Pollution Prevention Week, Third Full Week of September
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, Third Full Week of September
Child Passenger Safety Week, Last Week in September
Deaf Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Adult Immunization Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, Last Week in September
Banned Books Week, Last Week in September
National Dog Week, Last Week in September
National Keep Kids Creative Week, Last Week in September
Remember to Register to Vote Week, Last Week in September
International Women's E-Commerce Days, Last Week in September
National Forest Week (Canada), Last Week in September * CLICK HERE
Historical Events on September 24th
312 Start of Imperial Indication
366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
622 Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
1537 Uprising in Lubeck fails
1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1629 Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1645 Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
1657 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland
1664 The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England, Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English.
1674 Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1688 France declares war on German
1706 Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen
1742 Faneuil Hall opens to public
1776 1st St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
1780 Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1789 President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
1789 The United States Congress passed a Judiciary Act that provided an attorney general and a six person Supreme Court.
1789 The United States Post Office Department, are established by congress.
1789 US Attorney General Office is created
1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain (James Brooke appointed Rajah).
1850 Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1852 Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight
1852 The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1853 France annexes Caledonia
1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1864 Battle of Pilot Knob MO
1864 Invasion of MO by Price
1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1872 Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna
1877 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1884 Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC
1885 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar
1889 Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy. President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1903 Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier
1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1906 V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in NYC
1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1916 Indians Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam
1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD, picks Karl Kautsky
1922 Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
1923 Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
1924 Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport
1926 Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
1927 Yanks set record of 106 victories
1928 Cohan, Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC
1928 Major riot during a wharf strike in Port Adelaide involving up 4,000 waterside workers
1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight
1929 Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0
1930 G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
1930 Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1931 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
1932 NY Gov Franklin D Roosevelt visits LA
1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
1935 Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1938 Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1941 Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1946 Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
1946 Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
1947 The Majestic 12 committee is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1948 Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1950 Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
1951 Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
1951 USSR performs nuclear test
1952 Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1955 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1955 Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season
1956 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
1957 Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
1962 KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 "Munsters" premieres on TV
1964 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested
1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1964 Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR
1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
1965 Saudi-Arabian & Egyptian accord about Yemen
1965 Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government
1966 Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico
1966 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1967 Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1967 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
1968 "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1968 Swaziland joins the United Nations.
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati
1969 NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
1969 Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1971 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1971 Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament
1971 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1973 St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
1974 Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits
1974 Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
1976 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 "Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances
1977 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV
1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic
1978 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
1979 Ghana adopts constitution
1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switz
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1980 Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
1980 Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26
1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1983 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
1983 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 Cubs clinch NL East title
1984 Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights"
1985 Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
1988 Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291)
1989 28th Ryder Cup, US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic
1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990 Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
1990 South African president F W de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1990 West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
1991 After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West
1991 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity
1991 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1992 John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
1992 Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI
1992 USA Networks launches the Sci Fi Channel
1993 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1993 Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
1993 Norodom Sihanouk again installed as king of Cambodia
1994 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1994 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1995 31st Ryder Cup, Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York, US)
1995 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1995 Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier
1995 Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
1997 31st Country Music Association Award:
1997 Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted
2004 Ricky Williams retires from NFL
2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 India wins inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20 by beating Pakistan in the Final.
2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
2012 Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
2013 515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan
2015 Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando is re-instated a week after a military coup
2015 Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.
2015 Stampede of people during the Hajj kills 717 people during symbolic stoning of the devil at Mina, near Mecca, South Arabia
Born on September 24th
15 Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
1501 Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, astrologer (Ars Magna-1545) (d. 1576)
1513 Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
1625 Johan de Witt, Dutch politician, advisor of Holland (d. 1672)
1667 Jean-Louis Lully, composer
1705 Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 Horace Walpole, British horror novelist (Castle of Otranto) and politician (d. 1797)
1725 Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 Grigori A(lexandrovich) Potemkin, Russian Monarch of Tauris, friend of Catherine II (d. 1791)
1748 Philipp Meissner, composer
1755 John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801-35) (d. 1835)
1762 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)
1773 Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
1801 Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1806 George Alexander Osborne, composer
1817 Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras) and philosopher (d. 1901)
1821 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
1824 Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1825 Frances E W Harper, famous African
1827 Henry Warner Slocum, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1829 Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1829 James St Clair Morton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1833 Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)
1858 Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1859 Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
1860 Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist
1870 Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (neon light) (d. 1960)
1871 Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1880 Sarah Knauss, Oldest lived American ever (d. 1999)
1884 Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1885 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)
1886 James Burke, NYC, actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy)
1890 A(lan) P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist, journalist (Punch, Helen) (d. 1971)
1890 Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1892 Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1892 Sam(uel) de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew)
1893 Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson & Delilah)
1894 Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 André Frédéric Cournand, French physician (Nobel Laureate) (d. 1988)
1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (Great Gatsby) (d. 1940)
1898 Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress
1898 Howard Walter Florey, Austrian pathologist, phamacologist, purified penicillin (Nobel Laureate 1945) (d. 1968)
1899 Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer
1899 Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 Cheryl Crawford, producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon)
1902 Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Islamic religious leader (1979 Iranian Revolution) and politician (d. 1989)
1904 Cemal Resit Rey, composer
1904 Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer
1905 Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1906 Leonard Marsh, Canadian social scientist and professor (d. 1982)
1906 Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor (Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong)
1907 Pierre Moulaert, composer
1909 Gerard Ciolek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 Cao Yu, dramatist
1910 Frank Pelleg, composer
1910 Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy) (d. 1976)
1910 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder (LSE)
1911 Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
1912 Don Porter, American actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern Show) (d. 1997)
1912 Ian Serraillier, children author
1913 Herb Jeffries, American jazz singer, actor (Where's Huddles)
1914 Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1914 Hein J M Jordans, Dutch conductor
1914 Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1915 Larry Gates, St Paul Minn, actor (Guiding Light, Body Snatchers)
1915 Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]
1915 Seymour Egerton, CEO (Coutis Bank)
1916 John Lapsley, British air marshal
1917 Colin Cowe, senior bursar (Magdalen College Oxford)
1917 William Putnam Bundy, London, editor (Lvaggerier & Vagaries)
1918 Audra Lindley, American actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers) (d. 1997)
1918 Richard Hoggart, author/warden (Goldsmith's College London)
1919 Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (Steve Allen Show) (d. 2004)
1919 Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1920 Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
1921 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) (d. 2008)
1921 Leonard Overton, British glider pilot (Arnhem 1944)
1921 Leonardo Lopez Salzedo, composer
1922 Cornell MacNeil, American baritone singer, actor (La Traviata)
1922 David Lane, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1922 Theresa Merritt, Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1923 Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1923 Ladislav Fuks, writer
1923 Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
1923 Mervyn Brown, diplomat
1924 Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge
1924 Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 Sheila MacRae, English singer & actress (Jackie Gleason Show)
1924 Simpson Guillen, cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ)
1924 Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1924 Walter Fufido, Bronx NY, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II)
1925 Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1927 Richard Swift, composer
1929 Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
1929 George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University)
1930 Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
1930 John W(atts) Young, American astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9)
1930 Józef Krupinski, Polish poet (d. 1998)
1931 Anthony Newley, British actor (Dr Doolitte, Garbage Pail Kids) and singer (d. 1999)
1931 Brian Glanville, author/journalist
1931 Cardiss Collins, (Rep-D-Illinois, 1973)
1931 Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
1932 Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
1932 Svetlana Beriozova, ballerina
1933 Catherine Pestell, principal (Somerville College Oxford)
1933 Raffaele Farina, Archivist of the Holy Roman Church and cardinal
1934 Bernard Nevill, textile designer
1934 John Brunner (Kilian Houston), British sci-fi author (100th Millennium) (d. 1995)
1934 Manfred Wörner, German secratary general (NATO, 1988-94) and diplomat (d. 1994)
1934 Robert Lang, actor (Night Watch)/director
1934 Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
1935 Barbara Brilliant, TV host/producer
1935 Lawrence Urquhart, CEO (Burmah Castrol)
1935 Sean McCann, Canadian actor
1936 Jim Henson, American puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show) (d. 1990)
1937 Alan Grose, British vice-admiral
1940 Barbara Allbut, Orange NJ, rock vocalist (Angels)
1940 Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1941 John Mackey, American football player, NFL tight end (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers)
1941 Linda (Eastman) McCartney, American singer (Wings), fashion designer and photographer, Mrs Paul McCartney (d. 1998)
1942 Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
1942 Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
1942 Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut Meister, Orange NJ, rocker (Angels)
1943 Lee Aaker, LA California, actor (Rusty-Rin Tin Tin)
1944 Diana Körner, German actress
1945 Catherine Burns, NYC, actress (Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher)
1945 David A(llen) Drake, US, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot)
1945 Lou Dobbs, American journalist and television anchor
1946 "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman
1946 Carson Van Osten, rocker
1946 Jacqueline Courtney, NJ, actress (Another World, One Life to Live)
1946 Jerry Donahue, rocker (Fairport Convention)
1946 Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
1946 Marc Edward Neikrug, composer
1946 Pat Pocock, English cricketer
1946 Richard Spring, British MP
1946 Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service
1947 Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
1948 Bernadette Hingley, British priest
1948 Gordon Clapp, American actor (Greg Medavoy-NYPD Blue)
1948 Heinz Chur, German composer
1948 Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (SNL, News Radio) (d. 1998)
1950 Alan Colmes, American talk show host (FOX - Hannity and Colmes)
1950 Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
1950 Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer
1951 Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
1951 Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
1951 Terry Metcalf, Seattle, NFL, CFL running back (St Louis, Toronto)
1952 Joseph P Kennedy II, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1952 Mark Sandman, American musician (Morphine) (d. 1999)
1954 Stephen Jones, art historian
1955 Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1956 Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
1956 Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Tod Howarth, American rock musician
1957 Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
1958 Kevin Sorbo, American actor (Hercules Legendary Journeys, Kull The Conquerer)
1959 Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
1961 Dillard Pruitt, Greenville SC, PGA golfer (1991 Chattanooga Classic)
1961 John Logan, American screenwriter
1962 Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
1962 Arden Knoll, Saskatoon Sask, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike-2nd)
1962 Jack Dee, British comedian
1962 Mike Phelan, English footballer
1962 Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1962 Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
1964 Gene Watkins, Waco Tx, actor (James Walsh-As the World Turns)
1964 Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 Janet Weiss, American drummer (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
1965 Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1966 Atul Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman 1994)
1966 Bernard Gilkey, American baseball player, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 Kevin Koslofski, Decatur Ill, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1966 Michael J. Varhola, American author
1966 Paul Michael Valley, actor (Ryan Harrison-Another World)
1966 Stacy Galina, American actress
1967 Chris Swan, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 Frank Cornish, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 Roland Jansen, soccer player (Willem II)
1969 Andrew Greene, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 DeVante Swing, American music producer
1969 Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 Gene Hunt, R&B musician (Acid Man)
1969 Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
1969 John Morton, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 Lisa Matthews, Peoria Ill, playmate (Apr, 1990)
1969 Megan Ward, American actress (Kimberly Sayers-Dark Skies)
1969 Paul Ray Smith, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2003)
1969 Shamim Sarif, English novelist and filmmaker
1969 Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1970 Jeanette Kollasch, Evanston Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo-17th-1995)
1970 Kristin Talbot, Schuylerville NY, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 Mario Cristobal, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Paul Spoljaric, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 Winfred Tubbs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 Kevin Millar, American baseball player
1971 Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
1971 Mike Michalowicz, American author and entrepreneur
1971 Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1971 Shane Conrad, actress (Cody-High Mountain Rangers)
1972 Jeff Hill, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1973 Eddie George, American football player
1973 Rodrick Rhodes, American basketball player, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1974 John McDonald, American baseball player
1974 Kiwane Garris, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1974 Matt McKeon, Florissant MO, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 Kyle Turley, American football player
1975 Mike Gallay, Canadian comedian and filmmaker
1976 Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
1976 Stephanie McMahon(-Levesque), American professional wrestler
1977 Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
1978 Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
1978 Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1979 Casey Johnson, American heiress and socialite (d. 2010)
1979 Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
1979 Jenny Platt, English Actress
1979 Justin Bruening, American actor
1979 Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
1979 Kim Jong Min, Korean singer
1979 Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
1980 Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1980 Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
1980 John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1980 Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornographic actress
1981 Drew Gooden, American basketball player, NBA
1981 Fernanda Urrejola, Chilean actress
1981 Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
1982 Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
1982 Morgan Hamm, American gymnast (Team USA)
1982 Paul Hamm, American gymnast (Team USA)
1983 Randy Foye, American basketball player
1984 Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
1985 Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
1986 Leah Dizon, American model and singer
1987 Matthew Connolly, English footballer
1987 Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1988 Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1988 Lisa Wang, American gymnast
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366 Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66)
768 Pippin III, the short, King of France (b. 714)
786 Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86)
911 Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911)
1054 Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
1143 Innocent II (Gregorio de' Papareschi), Italian Pope (1130-43)
1180 Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (1143-80) (b. 1118)
1213 Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1218 Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1228 Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, King of Serbia (1217-28)
1230 Alfonso IX, King of Leon, Castile
1275 Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
1435 Isabella of Bayern, Queen of France (Treaty of Troyes), wife of Charles VI of France (b. c. 1370)
1494 Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1517 Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht
1536 Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia)
1541 Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician and alchemist (b. 1493)
1545 Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop, monarch of Mainz (b. 1490)
1568 Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded
1605 Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1547)
1621 Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. c. 1565)
1707 Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1755 Georg Gebel, composer
1790 John Keyse Sherwin, engraver, painter
1802 Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1813 Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
1815 John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn)
1834 A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31)
1834 Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
1855 Alexandre Stievenard, composer
1856 Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India
1865 Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
1875 William Walker, composer
1881 Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
1892 Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname
1892 Patrick S Gilmore, Irish-American composer (b. 1829)
1894 Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale)
1896 Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
1896 Percy McDonnell, cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries)
1898 Bartel Wilton, ship builder
1904 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
1910 Rudolf Dellinger, composer
1919 Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909)
1929 Prince Mahidol of the Kingdom of Thailand (b. 1892)
1930 William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1933 Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1934 Edwin Lehare, composer
1938 Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1939 Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer (b. 1867)
1945 Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
1948 Warren William, American actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X) (b. 1894)
1949 Pierre Breville, composer
1950 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
1951 Georges Rency, Belgian poet
1953 Berthold Viertel, writer
1954 Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1960 Matyas Seiber, composer
1960 Melanie Klein (Reizes), child psycho-analyst
1961 Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy)
1962 Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
1967 Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940)
1967 Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie)
1968 Harry Robert Wilson, composer
1968 Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
1975 Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)
1975 Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1975 Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood)
1976 Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll)
1976 Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz)
1978 Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (b. 1897)
1978 Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies)
1981 Patsy Kelly, American actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid) (b. 1910)
1982 Sarah Churchill, British actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1914)
1983 Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer
1984 Neil Hamilton, American actor (Com Gordon-Batman) (b. 1899)
1990 Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial)
1991 Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man)
1991 Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (b. 1944)
1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), American children's writer (b. 1904)
1993 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1993 Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy)
1994 Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher
1994 David Napley, solicitor
1994 Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme)
1996 Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist
1996 Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters
1996 Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy
1996 Zeki Müren, Turkish musician (b. 1931)
1997 Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron
1998 Jeff Moss, American puppeteer (b. 1942)
2002 Mike Webster, American NFL football player (b. 1952)
2002 Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2003 Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2003 Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2004 Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2006 Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
2008 Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)