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610 Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople, Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
869 The Fourth Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 The king Alfonso VII of Leon recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
1349 Paris' theologist Jean de Fayt warns for flagellanten at Avignon
1430 Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1465 French King Louis XI signs peace with Charles the Stout
1511 Eedgenootschap signs anti-French Saint League
1550 Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
1568 Conference of York begins, trial against Mary Stuart
1568 Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant
1572 Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1582 Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Groningen
1665 The University of Kiel is founded.
1693 Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages
1750 Carlo Goldoni's "Il teatro comica," premieres in Venice
1762 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1789 Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris during the French Revolution.
1793 French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1796 Spain declares war on England
1813 Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1823 Weber visits Beethoven
1830 King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
1833 Charles Darwin moves with Parana to Santa Fe Bajada Argentina
1857 The City of Anaheim is founded.
1862 Battle of Big Hatchie River, MS
1862 Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1864 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing South
1864 The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone, 60,000 die.
1867 Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska.
1869 A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles, ending Nez Perce War.
1892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
1895 The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.
1896 William Gillette's "Secret Service," premieres in NYC
1897 Solomon Andrees baloon/polar expedition reaches White Island
1900 6th US Golf Open, Harry Vardon shoots a 313 at Chicago GC Ill
1903 Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
1904 Alpha Kappa Psi is founded on the campus of New York University
1905 Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes (38.5 km in 38.3"), a world record that stood until 1908.
1906 Henry Mathewson (NY Giants, Christy's brother) walks 14 men
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 Philadelphia A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1908 White Sox Ed Walsh tops Detroit 6-1 for his 40th victory
1910 Revolution in Portugal, monarchy overthrown, a republic declared .
1911 Italian troops occupy Tripoli
1912 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1912 Red Sox defeat A's 3-0 for then AL record 105th win
1912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1914 World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill.
1915 Bulgaria enters World War I as one of the Central Powers.
1916 Soldier Adolf Hitler is injured
1919 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
1921 The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time, Yankees beat Giants 3-0.
1921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie World Series game
1923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1924 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News
1925 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1930 British Airship R101 crashed in a storm in Beauvais, France en-route to India on its maiden voyage, 48 die.
1931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1931 Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in NYC
1936 The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1937 Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 & win 7-4
1942 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
1942 St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
1943 US air raid on Wake
1944 Harold Arlen, ET Harburgs musical premieres in NYC
1944 Kerkrade (Neth) liberated
1944 Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 Suffrage is extended to women in France.
1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1945 Hollywood Black Friday, A six month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers' studios.
1945 Indonesian army forms
1945 Queen Wilhelmina visits Rotterdam
1946 "Yours Is My Heart" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1947 Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in World Series
1947 The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000.
1949 WBNS TV channel 10 in Columbus, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WOR (now WWOR) TV channel 9 in NY-Secaucus, NY (IND) begins
1950 "Pardon Our French" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 100 perfs
1952 6th NHL All-Star Game, 1st Team ties 2nd Team 1-1 at Detroit
1952 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1953 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY Billy Martin's 12 hits set record; Yanks win record 5th consec WS
1953 Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US
1953 The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1954 Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1956 Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
1957 11th NHL All-Star Game, All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
1957 12th Ryder Cup, Britain-Ireland win, 7½-4½ at Lindrick Golf Club (Rotherham, Yorkshire, England)
1957 Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
1958 KRTV TV channel 3 in Great Falls, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
1960 Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1960 KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 China & Nepal sign treaty
1962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
1963 17th NHL All-Star Game, All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto
1963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
1963 Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour
1964 KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
1966 Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 Battles between Catholic demonstrators & police in Londonderry
1968 KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins
1968 Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1969 The first episode of the famous comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC.
1969 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane
1970 British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group (Quebec separatists) in Montreal, Quebec.
1970 PBS became a television network.
1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1972 Herbert Mullin 1st kills, to prevent earthquakes
1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1974 Guildford pub bombings, bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian, 65 injured.
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Seattle & Toronto picks 30 unprotected players on other AL rosters Ruppert Jones (Seattle) & Bob Bailor (Toronto) are picked 1st
1977 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1978 Over 30 major nations ratify the Environmental Modification Convention which prohibits environmental modification techniques
1978 Sweden's Fälldin government falls
1980 Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx
1980 Kathy Whitworth and Donna Caponi Young win Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1980 Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
1981 Dutch guilder, Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
1981 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary U.S. citizen.
1982 1st NJ Devils game, tie the Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
1982 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
1984 Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1986 Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times ran Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal."
1988 Brazil adopts its Constitution
1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1988 The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeat Augusto Pinochet in his re-election intentions in referendum. Next year a general election is called.
1990 After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
1991 Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf
1991 An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
1991 Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157
1991 Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17
1991 Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies
1991 NJ Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues
1991 The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1991 USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
1992 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
1992 NY senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
1992 US Air goes on strike
1993 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1993 Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum
1993 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
1994 28th Country Music Association Award
1994 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
1995 "Company" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 performances
1996 Caroline Pierce wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Balt Orioles in 12 inn playoff game
1996 NY Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits HRs in a post season game
1997 35th Tennis Fed Cup, France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1)
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA CoreStates Betsy King Classic
1997 Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267
1997 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
1997 Vantage Senior Golf Championship
1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2001 Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2001 Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President Bush's Homeland Security Advisor.
2012 Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
2013 Wladimir Klitschko defeats Alexander Povetkin to retain his WBA Heavyweight Championship
2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs win the 2014 NRL Grand Final
2015 Nobel prize for Medicine awarded to William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura (Roundworm) and Youyou Tu (Maleria)
2015 Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement announced by trade ministers of 12 countries in Atlanta
2015 Floods in South Carolina a "1,000-year storm" result in 12 deaths and 9 dams to fail
2015 Governor Jerry Brown of California signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the "right to die"

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1338 Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (d. 1390)
1458 Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler, saint
1520 Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (d. 1589)
1609 Paul Fleming, writer
1626 Johann Schop, composer
1641 Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
1658 Mary of Modena, queen of James II of England (d. 1718)
1684 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer
1695 John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
1703 Jonathan Edwards, American minister, theologian, philosopher (Original Sin) (d. 1758)
1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter (d. 1793)
1713 Denis Diderot, French enlightenment philosopher (Encyclopédie) (d. 1784)
1715 Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
1717 Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1744)
1722 Gregorio Sciroli, composer
1743 Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer
1758 Thomas Greatorex, composer
1781 Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)
1792 Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (d. 1844)
1795 Alexander Keith, Scottish-born Canadian brewer (d. 1873)
1799 Anthony G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch Min of Reformed Worship
1804 Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor (d. 1877)
1808 Thomas Algeo Rowley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1892)
1808 Winand C H Staring, geologist (Geology of Netherlands)
1817 Eduard Franck, composer
1820 David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
1822 Hans Hampel, composer
1823 Feliks Jaronski, composer
1824 Henry Chadwick, English-born American baseball writer and statistician (d. 1908)
1829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (1881-85) (d. 1886)
1833 Cyrus Bussey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1915
1836 George Washington Gordon, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1840 Fran Gerbic, composer
1840 John Addington Symonds, Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
1844 Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1848 Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919)
1850 Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (d. 1910)
1857 Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish Language writer (d. 1942)
1858 Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria
1863 Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist
1864 Louis Lumière, French film pioneer, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture (1895) (d. 1948)
1875 Cyril Rootham, composer
1878 Louise Dresser (Kerlin), American actress (Maid of Salem) (d. 1965)
1879 Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1970)
1879 Halfdan Cleve, composer
1879 John Erskine, US, poet/pianist (Private Life of Helen of Troy)
1881 Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist pres of Karelo-Finnish SR (1940-56)
1882 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics)
1882 Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (d. 1945)
1882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Mass, rocket pioneer
1883 Charles Maduro, Antillean composer
1884 Hendrik W Tilanus, Dutch artillery officer/politcian (CHU 1939-63)
1886 Carter De Haven, IL
1887 Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter
1887 René Cassin, French jurist, pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1968) (d. 1976)
1889 Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (d. 1936)
1890 Kasimir Edschmid (Karl E Schmidt), German writer
1892 Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (d. 1969)
1894 Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)
1895 Walter Bedell Smith, US general (WW II)/head of CIA (1950-52)
1899 Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer
1899 Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1962)
1901 Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor/director
1901 John Alton, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1901 Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam
1902 Larry Fine (Laurence Feinberg), American actor and comedian (3 Stooges) (d. 1975)
1902 Michael Kondracki, composer
1902 Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (McDonalds) (d. 1984)
1903 Jimmy Ritz, US comic (Ritz Brothers-Blazing Stewardesses)
1903 M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
1904 George Chesterman Phillips, naval officer
1904 John Hoyt, American film and television actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick & Mary) (d. 1991)
1905 Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (d. 1987)
1906 Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher
1906 Louise Brown, dancer/teacher
1907 Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
1908 Joshua Logan, American film director, writer, Broadway producer (South Pacific) (d. 1988)
1909 Tony Malinosky, American baseball player
1911 Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (d. 1966)
1911 Pierre Dansereau, Canadian ecologist
1912 Fritz Fischer (medical doctor), Nazi war criminal (d. 2003)
1913 Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)
1913 William Lehman, (Rep-D-FL, 1973)
1916 Douglas Ranger, surgeon
1916 Stetson Kennedy, American writer
1917 Allen Ludden, American television game show host (d. 1981)
1917 Robert Adams, English sculptor
1919 Allen Ludden, Mineral Point Wisc, TV host (Password)
1919 Donald Pleasence, English actor (Fantastic Voyage, Halloween) (d. 1995)
1919 Luis H P Daal, Antillean literary
1919 Robin Bailey, Hucknall England, actor (See No Evil, Screamtime)
1920 Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian
1921 Bill Willis, American football player, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns) (d. 2007)
1922 Bil Keane, American cartoonist
1922 Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1985)
1922 José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver
1923 Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer (d. 1994)
1923 Bill Wirtz, longtime Chicago Blackhawks owner (d. 2007)
1923 Glynis Johns, South African actress (Mary Poppins)
1923 Philip Berrigan, American peace activist, militant priest (Chicago 7) (d. 2002)
1923 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer (Burned Child) (d. 1954)
1924 Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1924 Bill Dana, American actor, comedian (Jose Jimenez)
1924 José Donoso, Chilean writer (d. 1996)
1925 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1925 Gail Davis, American actress (Annie Oakley) (d. 1997)
1926 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant
1926 Gottfried Michael Koenig, composer
1926 Willi Unsoeld, American climber (d. 1979)
1927 Al Hansen, artist
1927 John Downey, composer
1928 Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974)
1928 Willem de Kwaadsteniet, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1929 Autherine Lucy, 1st black to enroll in U of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
1929 Fred Feast, English actor (d. 1999)
1929 Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12)
1929 Skip Homeier, Chicago Ill, actor (Beachhead, Dan Raven, Interns)
1930 Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
1930 Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukrainian cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14) (d. 2009)
1930 Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
1932 Madhav Apte, cricketer (bro of Arvind 7 Tests for India, 1 century)
1932 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
1932 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke, lawyer (Rep)
1933 Diane Cilento, Australian actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man)
1934 Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
1934 David Smith, cricketer (England opening bowler v India 1961-62)
1935 Arlene Saunders, American soprano
1935 Jimmy Binks, cricket wicket-keeper (England twice v India 1964)
1935 Peter Brown, NYC, actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful)
1936 Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist
1936 Václav Havel, President of the Czechoslovakia (1989-92)
1937 Barry Switzer, American football coach (Oklahoma)
1938 Carlo Mastrangelo, Bronx NY, rocker (Dion & The Belmonts)
1938 Teresa Heinz Kerry, American philanthropist
1939 Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1939 Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright
1939 Marie Laforêt, French singer and actress
1939 Walter Wolf, Slovenian-born Canadian industrialist
1940 Bob Cowper, cricketer (Aust LHB, 307 v England MCG 1966 Very rich
1940 John Byrne Cooke, American novelist and photographer; son of Alistair Cooke
1940 Milena Dravic, Serbian actress
1940 Thom Christopher, American actor
1941 Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
1941 Ricardo Hoffmann, marathon swimmer (299 miles)
1942 Richard Street, American singer (The Temptations)
1943 Benjamin L Cardin, American politician, junior senator of Maryland (Rep-D-Maryland)
1943 Inna Churikova, Russia, actress (Theme)
1943 Steve Miller, American musician (Steve Miller Band) (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
1944 Ben Korthals, advocate/Dutch MP (VVD)
1945 Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (d. 1997)
1945 Geoff Leigh, English musician (Henry Cow)
1946 Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey coach
1946 Richard Kermode, rocker
1946 Zahida Hina, Pakistani columnist
1947 Brian Johnson, English singer (AC/DC)
1948 Brian Connolly, Scotland musician (Sweet)
1948 Delroy George Wilson, singer
1948 Lucius Ross, US pop guitarist (Parliment Funkadelic)
1948 Sal Viscuso, Bkln NY, actor (Soap, Montefuscos)
1948 Tawl Ross, American musician (Parliment Funk)
1948 Zoran Živkovic, Serbian writer
1949 B. W. Stevenson, American singer (d. 1988)
1949 Bill James, American baseball writer
1949 Brian McManus Connolly, musician
1949 Ralph Goodale, Canadian politician
1950 Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway)
1950 Edward P. Jones, American writer
1950 Jeff Conaway, American actor (Bobby-Taxi, Loving)
1951 Bob Geldof, Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
1951 Karen Allen, American actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers)
1951 Leah Poulis Mueller, Berwyn Ill, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1952 Clive Barker, English author and film director (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions)
1952 Duncan Regehr, Canadian actor
1952 Gigi Sabani, Italian TV host (d. 2007)
1953 James E Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1953 John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher
1953 Russell Mael (Dwight Russel Day), California, rock vocalist (Sparks)
1953 Sandra "Puma" Jones, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1954 Bob Geldof, rocker
1954 Duncan Regehr, Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards & Warriors)
1955 Adair Ferguson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1955 Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
1955 Jean-Jacques Lafon, French singer-songwriter
1955 Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist (Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry, Don't Go)
1955 Ángela Molina, Spanish actress
1957 Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)
1957 Jeanne Evert, tennis player, Chris' sister
1957 Larry Saumell, jockey
1957 Lee "Kix" Thompson, English vocalist, saxophonist (Madness)
1957 Mark Geragos, American attorney
1958 André Kuipers, Dutch astronaut
1958 Brent W Jett Jr, Pontiac Mich, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 72, sk:81)
1958 Neil DeGrasse Tyson, American Astrophysicist
1959 Maya Lin, American sculptor/architect
1959 Troy Luccketta, rock drummer (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1960 Careca, Brazilian footballer
1960 Daniel Baldwin, American actor
1960 Evangelia Tzampazi, Greek politician
1961 David Kirk, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1961 Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and George Polk Award winner
1961 Sharon Cheslow, American musician, composer and artist
1961 Shell Kepler, actress (Amy Vining-General Hospital)
1962 Caron Keating, British television personality (d. 2004)
1962 J C Estrada, jockey
1962 John Sala, LA CA
1962 Johnny Huang, Canton China, table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1962 Ken Noda, NYC, pianist (Rivalry)
1962 Michael Alexander Conley, American triple jumper (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1962 Michael Andretti, American Indy-car racer, Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986)
1963 Hugh Morris, cricketer (England lefty opening batsman 1991)
1963 Laura Davies, English golfer, LPGA tour (1989 Lady Keystone Open)
1963 Sophie Favier, Lyon France, actress (Sans Interdits)
1963 Tony Dodemaide, cricketer (Victorian, Sussex & Australian all-rounder)
1964 Denean Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1988)
1964 Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor
1964 Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
1964 Terry Mathews, Alexandria LA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1964 Warren E. Miller, Maryland politician
1965 John Keller Jr, Toledo Ohio, team handball back court (Olympics-1996)
1965 Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL high scoring center (Pitts Penguin, #66)
1965 Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Mont Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche)
1965 Paul Moloney, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1965 Penny Baker, Buffalo NY, playmate (January, 1984)
1965 Richey Reneberg, Phoenix AZ, tennis star (1995 Australian doubles)
1965 Theo Bos, Dutch soccer player: Vitesse
1965 Trace Armstrong, American football player, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 Dennis Byrd, American football player
1966 Fredrik Olausson, Vaxsjo Swe, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1966 Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper (Oly-silv/gold-92, 96)
1966 Jan Verhaas, Dutch snooker referee
1966 Peter Fonseca, Lisbon Portugal, Canadian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 Therese Brisson, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1967 Ellie Gibson, Corpus Christi TX, golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One-5th)
1967 Guy Pearce, Anglo-Australian actor
1967 Rex Chapman, American basketball player, NBA guard (Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns)
1968 Omar Berlo, jockey
1968 Sally Smith, Orange NSW, golfer (1993 T67 Alpine Aust Ladies Masters)
1968 Tjaša Iris, Slovenian painter
1968 Wayne Holdsworth, cricketer (NSW fast bowler, Australian tourist 1993)
1969 Karyn Parsons, actress (Hilary-Fresh Prince of Bel Air) [or Oct 8 66]
1969 Martin Driever, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Anthony Phillips, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 Audie Pitre, bass guitarist (d. 1996)
1970 Josie Bissett, American actress (Jane Mancini-Melrose Place)
1970 Mark Luijpers, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1970 South Park Mexican, American rapper
1970 Thomas Randolph, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 Tina Poitras, Thompson Manitoba, 10k walker (Olympics-96)
1971 Chad Lewis, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Chris Whitney, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
1971 Coni Lyn Hull, Jackson Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1996)
1971 Dan Plante, Hayward, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1971 Mauricio Pellegrino, Argentine former footballer
1971 Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor
1971 South Park Mexican, American rapper
1972 Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball outfielder
1972 Derek Sholdice, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 Grant Hill, American basketball player, NBA forward and guard (Det Pistons, Oly-gold-96)
1972 Thomas Roberts, American news anchor
1974 Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists)
1974 Douglas Emerson, Glendale California, actor (Robbie-Herbie the Love Bug)
1974 Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer
1974 Rich Franklin, American Mixed Martial Artist
1975 Bobo Baldé, Guinean footballer
1975 Carson Ellis, American artist
1975 Kate Winslet, English actress (Titanic, Jude, Hamlet, Get Back)
1975 Parminder Nagra, English actress
1975 Scott E Weinger, NYC, actor (Steve Taylor-Family Man, Full House)
1975 Scott Weinger American actor
1976 J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
1976 Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen President
1976 Song Seung-hun, South Korean actor
1977 Lia Rousset, Alhambra California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1978 James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
1978 Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player
1978 Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter
1978 Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
1979 Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Jaime Chambers, American television reporter
1979 Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot singer-songwriter
1979 Vincenzo Grella, Australian footballer
1980 James Toseland, British motorcycle racer
1980 Paul Thomas, American bassist (Good Charlotte)
1981 Kelvin Tan Wei Lian, Singaporean singer
1982 Natalie Vlandis, Northridge California, pairs skater (& Jered Guzman)
1983 Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
1983 Mashrafe Mortaza, Bangladeshi cricketer
1983 Nicky Hilton, American heiress
1983 Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress
1984 Kenwyne Jones, Trinidadian footballer
1985 Nicola Roberts, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1987 Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
1987 Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
1988 Bahar Kizil, German Singer (Monrose)
1988 Bobby Edner, American Actor, Singer (Varsity Fanclub)
1988 Maja Salvador, Filipina Actress
1990 Manhal Jogezai,Loya Jirga Member
1990 Myles Jeffrey, American actor
2176 Winston Matthew Kyle, Perth, Australia (Star Trek)

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578 Justin II, Byzantine emperor (565-78)
1056 Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, German King (1039-56) (b. 1017)
1111 Robrecht II of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders (1st Crusader)
1112 Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
1214 King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1155)
1285 Philippe III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85) (b. 1245)
1399 Raymundus of Capua, Italian general
1496 Ferdinand II, king of Naples
1528 Richard Foxe, English churchman
1540 Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (b. 1488)
1557 Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1564 Pierre de Manchicourt, Flemish composer
1565 Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
1606 Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
1631 Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth
1707 Daniel Speer, composer
1714 Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1763 August III, king of Poland
1777 Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1787 Thomas Stone, US attorney/signer (Dec of Ind)
1791 Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (b. 1739)
1799 Antonio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Hissope)
1805 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1813 Etienne Ozi, composer
1813 Tecumseh, Shawnee chief (b. 1768)
1837 Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10)
1848 Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (b. 1781)
1861 Antoni Melchior Fijalkowski, Polish bishop (b. 1778)
1867 Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer
1880 Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1892 Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende
1892 Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende
1892 Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende
1892 Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende
1899 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
1911 Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
1913 Hans von Bartels, German painter (b. 1856)
1915 Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
1915 Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
1918 Roland Garros, French stunt pilot (b. 1888)
1919 Jean Louis Nicode, composer
1924 Joseph Vezina, composer
1924 Tom Campbell, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, ct 7 stp 1)
1930 Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
1933 Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, Russian general, contra revolutionary (b. 1862)
1933 Renée Adorée, French actress (Big Parade) (b. 1898)
1934 Jean Vigo, French filmer, dies
1936 Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch poet, novelist (tuberculosis), ship document writer (Seaman's Grave) (b. 1898)
1938 Saint Faustina, Polish saint (b. 1905)
1940 Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer, co-founder (Volunteers of America) (b. 1857)
1940 Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
1940 Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (Cuauhnahuac, Planos) (b. 1889)
1941 Louis D(embitz) Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-39), 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (b. 1856)
1943 Leon Roppolo, American musician (b. 1902)
1944 Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor, graphic artist
1950 Frederic Lewy, German neurologist (b. 1885)
1952 Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1884)
1953 Friedrich Wolf, writer
1954 Flor Alpaerts, Flem composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel/Pallieter)
1965 Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer
1967 Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies in T-38 jet crash
1975 Lady Constance Malleson, British actor and writer (b. 1895)
1976 Barbara Nichols, American actress (Pajama Game, Loved One) (b. 1929)
1976 Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1979 Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year)
1981 Gloria Grahame, American actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man) (b. 1923)
1981 Jud Strunk, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1983 Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)
1983 Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1984 Leonard Rossiter, actor (2001, Water)
1986 Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (Barefoot in Park) (b. 1898)
1986 James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
1986 Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (b. 1947)
1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated
1992 Cornelis Berkhouwer, Dutch MP (VVD)
1992 Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
1992 Paul Acket, organizer (Music Express, North Sea Jazz Festival)
1993 Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide)
1993 Jim Holton, Scottish footballer (b. 1951)
1993 Karl G Henize, astronaut (STS 51-F)
1995 Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
1995 Fred Fehl, photographer
1995 Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
1995 Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman
1996 Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant
1996 Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer (b. 1925)
1997 Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt)
1997 Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
1997 Dave Marr, golfer/commentator
2000 Catalin Hîldan, Romanian footballer (b. 1976)
2001 Mike Mansfield, American politician (b. 1903)
2002 Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2003 Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1978)
2003 Denis Quilley, English actor (b. 1927)
2003 Timothy Treadwell, American bear enthusiast featured in Grizzly Man (b. 1957)
2004 Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)
2004 William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine nominee (b. 1941)
2006 Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
2006 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
2007 Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (b. 1898)
2010 Bernard Clavel, French novelist (b. 1923)
2010 Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant winner and actress (b. 1939)
2010 Steve Lee, Swiss musician and vocalist (Gotthard) (b. 1963)
2011 Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)
2011 Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
2011 Derrick Bell, American legal scholar and civil rights advocate (b. 1930)
2011 Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist (b. 1922)
2011 Steve Jobs, American Businessman, co-founder and CEO of Apple
2012 Keith H.S. Campbell, British biologist
2015 Henning Mankell, Swedish playwright and author (Wallander novels)
2015 Chantal Akerman, Belgium film director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle)

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