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(539 BC) King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
532 Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
733 Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden
1091 T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London.
1346 Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England near Durham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
1387 Swells convent Windesheim initiated
1404 Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII
1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office
1448 Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
1456 The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
1469 Crown prince Fernando of Aragon marries princess Isabella of Castile
1483 Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain
1492 Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas)
1556 Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain
1604 Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1610 French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
1651 Future King Charles II flees from England
1660 Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
1691 New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth
1707 German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach
1720 Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris
1740 Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia
1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
1777 American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga. British General John Burgoyne surrenders
1781 General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia.
1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1797 Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austrian Dutch possessions
1800 England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
1806 Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti was assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1814 London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing nine.
1815 Napoleon arrives in St Helena
1825 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris
1829 Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
1829 German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser
1831 Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres
1850 Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized
1855 Bessemer steelmaking process patented
1860 First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open), 1st pro golf tournament, Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club in Scotland.
1862 Battle of Leetown & Thoroughfare Gap, VA
1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1871 Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa
1871 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus
1876 Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
1877 Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa
1885 Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1894 Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1896 Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St Petersburg
1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1904 Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors
1907 Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1916 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
1918 De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens
1918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1920 Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0
1921 Belgium's public library law goes into force
1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1923 Catholic University of Nijmegen Neth opens
1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president
1931 Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison
1933 Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany
1934 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio
1935 Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
1940 German occupiers issue identity cards
1941 1st US destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland.  For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
1941 German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece and burn the houses down.
1943 Burma Railway (Burma-Thailand Railway) is completed.
1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631
1945 A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron's release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (Loyalty Day). It's considered the founding day of Peronism.
1945 Juan Peron becomes dictator of Argentina
1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops
1954 Phila Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash (49-21)
1955 Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel
1956 England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens
1956 Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt
1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
1957 "Copper & Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits White House
1957 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1957 II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan
1959 "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1959 Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1959 Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated
1960 "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances
1960 US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
1961 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1961 Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1961 Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
1962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
1963 "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances
1964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
1965 "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in NYC for 280 perfs
1965 The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
1965 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
1967 "Hair" premieres on Broadway
1967 Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
1967 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
1969 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
1970 Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt
1970 Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1971 Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens
1971 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic
1971 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series
1972 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins
1972 Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in NYC
1972 Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1
1973 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1973 Arabs decrease oil production
1973 OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
1974 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per
1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak
1974 Oakland A's beat LA Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yanks to win 3 straight series
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3
1975 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at Natl Space Tech Labs, Miss
1975 Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely
1975 UN passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
1976 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997)
1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1977 German Autumn, Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all 86 remaining hostages on board and killing 3 of 4 hijackers.
1978 NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
1978 NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
1978 Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship
1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1978 Yankees win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year
1979 "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs
1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
1979 The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law by  President Carter creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
1980 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW v Qld (2-52 & 1-39)
1982 1st live orch on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony)
1982 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1982 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
1982 Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC
1982 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem
1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1985 Lou Piniella named NY Yankee manager
1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
1986 Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government
1987 "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
1987 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
1987 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
1987 First commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
1988 Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title
1988 Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care"
1989 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly), cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67.
1990 "Jackie Mason Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
1991 Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races
1991 Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games
1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby
1991 Pittsburg Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals & 744 assists)
1992 1st World Series with non-US team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves
1993 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf
1994 Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
1994 Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies)
1995 Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
1996 "Taking Sides," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC
1998 At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
2003 Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
2003 The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World's tallest highrise.
2005 The Colbert Report first airs.
2006 The United States population reaches 300 million.
2007 The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.
2012 Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
2012 Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece
2012 The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
2013 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq

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1253 Ivo of Kermartin, Patron saint of lawyers (d. 1303)
1563 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer, mathematician (d. 1611)
1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Judith) (d. 1621)
1582 Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
1623 Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
1626 Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian (Roman-Holland regt)
1688 Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
1696 August III, King of Poland, monarch Frederik August II of Saksen
1704 Willem Bentinck, orangist
1711 Jupiter Hammon, American writer, 1st American black to publish poetry (Complete Works) (d. 1806)
1719 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
1720 Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer
1725 John Wilkes, English journalist/MP (N Briton)
1729 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
1730 Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
1734 Grigori G Orlov, Russ guard officer/favorite of Catharina II
1806 Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist
1811 Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (d. 1876)
1813 Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
1814 Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian writer and professor (d. 1888)
1815 Emanuel Geibel, writer
1817 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder (Pakistan)
1817 Samuel Ringgold Ward, Maryland, minister/abolitionist (Fugitive Negro)
1817 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian intellectual (d. 1898)
1844 Miguel Nieto, composer
1845 Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library
1848 William "Candy" Cummings, created curve ball
1853 Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
1859 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (NY Giants, Cin Reds)
1860 Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer
1864 Elinor Glyn, British writer (3 Weeks) (d. 1943)
1865 James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
1875 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer (Yes & No!)
1878 Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1878 Henri Mulet, composer
1883 A S Neill, British headmaster (Summerhill)
1885 Aaf Bouber-ten Hoope, Dutch actress (Jantjes)/wife of Herman Bouber
1886 Spring Byington, American actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride) (d. 1971)
1890 Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
1892 Herbert Norman Howells, English Composer (d. 1983)
1892 Otakar Jeremias, composer
1892 Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
1893 Jean Binet, composer
1895 Doris Humphrey, Oak Park Ill, dancer (Dances of Women)
1898 Mildred Knopf, cookbook writer
1898 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (Suzuki Method) (d. 1998)
1898 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer, poet (5th Seal) (d. 1971)
1900 Jean Arthur, American actress (Shane, Mr Smith Goes to Washington) (d. 1991)
1902 Irene Ryan, American actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 1973)
1903 Jerry Colona, Boston Mass, comedian (Jerry Colona Show)
1903 Nathanael West, American writer (Day of the Locusts) (d. 1940)
1905 Franco Albini, Italian architect
1906 Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1908 Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1909 Crozy (William) Cole, US jazz drummer
1912 Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, American singer/songwriter (d. 1982)
1912 John Paul I (Albino Luciano), 263rd Roman Catholic pope (1978)
1914 Albert Markos, composer
1914 Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist, comic book writer (Superman) (d. 1996)
1914 John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur
1915 Arthur Miller, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible) (d. 2005)
1916 Robert Lowery, Kansas City MO, actor (Murder Over NY)
1916 Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz, composer
1917 Marsha Hunt (actress), American actress (Jennifer-Peck's Bad Girl, Jigsaw)
1917 Martin Donnelly, cricketer (brilliant lefty bat for NZ post-war)
1917 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
1918 Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills
1918 Rita Hayworth (Marguerita C Casino), American actress (Gilda, Pal Joey) (d. 1987)
1919 Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1919 John Moroney, cricketer (Australian opener 1949-51)
1920 Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (d. 2010)
1920 Montgomery Clift, American actor (From Here to Eternity) (d. 1966)
1920 Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels)
1921 George Mackey Brown, poet
1921 Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (Olympic-gold-1952) (d. 2001)
1921 Pricilla Lanford Buckly, editor/columnist (National Review)
1921 Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (Steve Allen Show, Newhart) (d. 2007)
1922 Louis Benjamin, showman
1922 Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
1922 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive (d. 2012)
1923 Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
1923 Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001)
1925 Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator
1926 Beverly Garland, American actress (My 3 Sons) (d. 2008)
1926 Julie Adams, American film actress (Yancy Derringer, Code Red)
1926 Karl Gordon Henize, Cincinnati Ohio, astronaut (STS 51-F)
1928 Ivan Marinov, composer
1928 James "Junior" Gilliam, Dodgers (NL rookie of year 1953)
1928 Zacharias J de Beer, South African physician/MP (DP)
1929 Ram Da-Oz, composer
1930 Angelo Paccignini, composer
1930 Jimmy Breslin, American newspaper columnist and author (NY Post, News, Newsday)
1930 Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
1931 Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
1932 Gundaris Pone, composer
1932 Paul Anderson, US, light super heavyweight lifter (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 William J Hughes, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1975)
1933 Bill Anders, American astronaut
1933 Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
1933 William A Anders, Hong Kong, Maj Gen, USAF/astronaut (Apollo 8)
1934 Barend P Tammeling, Dutch journalist (Trouw, Groninger Gezinsbode)
1934 Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
1935 Alan Brown, cricketer (Engld opening attack Brown & White vs Pak 1961)
1935 Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect
1936 David Hobson, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1936 Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
1937 Paxton Whitehead, English actor
1938 Robert "Evel" Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon) (d. 2007)
1940 Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
1940 Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner
1941 Alan Howard, rock bassist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1941 Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer (Too Many Times)
1941 James Seals, American singer (Seals & Crofts)
1942 Gary Puckett, American musician, vocalist (Woman Woman, Young Girl)
1942 Steve Jones, American basketball player
1943 Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven Ct, soprano (Walter Naumberg Prize)
1944 Carol Cole, West Medford Mass, actress (Ellie-Grady)
1945 Dave Cutler, CFL place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1946 Adam Michnik, Polish activist
1946 Bob Seagren, American athlete, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-68), actor (Soap)
1946 Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
1946 James Ray Tucker, LA California, rock guitarist (Turtles-Eleanor)
1946 Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
1946 Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
1946 Vicki Hodge, London England, actress (Confessions of a Sex Maniac)
1947 Charles A Ingene, macromarketing researcher
1947 Gene Green, American politician (Rep-D-Texas)
1947 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist
1947 Michael McKean, American actor (Laverne and Shirley, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap)
1948 George Wendt, American actor (Norm-Cheers)
1948 Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (Lois Lane-Superman, Amityville Horror)
1948 Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
1949 Bill Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1949 Maurice Willis Wright, composer
1949 Timothy Bottoms, Santa Barbara California, actor (Adam-East of Eden)
1950 Howard E Rollins Jr, American actor (Bannister-Wildside, Another World) (d. 1996)
1950 Michael Lynn Synar, (Rep-D-Oklahoma, 1979)
1950 Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (As Love Goes)
1951 Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
1954 Carlos Buhler, American high altitude mountaineer
1955 Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek politician
1955 Sam Bottoms, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Prime Risk, Savages)
1956 Mae C Jemison, American astronaut (STS 47) and physician
1956 Patrick McCrory, American politician
1956 Robin LO Linschoten, Dutch ass. secretary of Social Affairs (VVD)
1957 Lawrence Bender, American film producer
1957 Steve McMichael, American football player
1957 Vincent Van Patten, Belrose NY, actor (Apple's Way, 3 for the Road)
1958 Alan Jackson, American country singer and songwriter (Here in the Real World)
1958 Blaine McCallister, Ft Stockton TX, PGA golfer (1989 Honda Classic)
1958 France St Louis, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1958 Gig Gangel Harlingen TX, playmate (Jan, 1980)
1959 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky 4, Masters of Universe)
1959 Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
1959 Richard Roeper, American film critic
1959 Ron Drummond, American writer
1959 Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
1960 Guy Henry, English actor
1960 James Patrick Delsing, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
1960 Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991)
1960 Rob Marshall, American director
1962 John Dorge, Australian basketball center (Olympics-96)
1962 Mike Judge, American cartoonist, filmmaker (Office Space, Beavis and Butthead) and voice actor
1963 Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian and actor (SNL, Dirty Jobs)
1963 Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
1963 Vijay Mehra, cricketer (United Arab Emirates batsman 1996 World Cup)
1965 Andrea Powell, Actress (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2)
1965 Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
1965 Connie Ann Hearn, Anchorage Alaska, actress (New Kind of Family)
1965 Pinnaduwage Aravinda De Silva, cricket (Sri Lanka's greatest batsman)
1966 Danny Ferry, American basketball player, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1966 Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer (Sherlock)
1966 Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality
1967 Adrianne Werdel Witmeyer, American tennis star (1990 Futures-Chiba)
1967 Allen West, US metal guitarist (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1967 Marianne Werdel Witmeyer, LA California, tennis star
1967 Mark Johnson, Worcester MA, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1967 Nathalie Tauziat, Bangui Cent Afr Rep, tennis star (1993 Quebec City)
1967 Reggie Clark, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 René Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
1968 Heather McDermid, Calgary Alberta, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician, son of Bob Marley
1969 Alfred Pupunu, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 Ernie Els, South African golfer
1969 Joe Courtney, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian
1969 Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1994 US Open)
1969 Wood Harris, American actor (Remember the Titans)
1970 Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
1970 Blues Saraceno, American guitarist
1970 Jean-Paul de Young, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1970 John Mabry, American baseball player, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 Marciano Vink, soccer player (Genoa/PSV)
1970 Shauna O'Brien, Pasco Wash, actress (Showgirls)
1970 Tasha Tsang, Saskatoon Saskatchwan, rower (Olympics-96)
1971 Andy Whitfield, Actor (Gabriel)
1971 Byron Chamberlain, NFL-WLAF tight end Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1971 Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer ('N Sync)
1971 Ernest Dixon, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 Henry McMillian, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III), American rapper (The Real Slim Shady, Stan, Lose Yourself) and actor (8 Mile)
1972 Joe McEwing, American baseball player
1972 Sharon Leal, American actress (Dreamgirls)
1972 Tarkan, Turkish singer
1972 Vicki Goetze, Michicot WI, LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
1972 Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
1973 Andrea Tarozzi, Italian footballer
1973 Keith McKenzie, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 Lorie Bennett West, Miss Kentucky USA (1996)
1974 Ariel Levy, American feminist writer
1974 Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboarder (HIM)
1974 John Rocker, American baseball player
1974 Matthew Macfadyen, British actor (Pride & Prejudice)
1975 Francis Bouillon, American hockey player
1976 Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
1977 Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter
1977 Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
1978 Erin Karpluk, Actress (Assault on Wall Street)
1979 Deanna Russo, Actress (Knight Rider)
1979 Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
1979 Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
1979 Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion)
1980 Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver
1980 Angel Parker, Actress (Condemned 2: Bloodshot)
1980 Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
1982 Nick Riewoldt, Australian rules footballer
1983 Daniel Booko, American actor
1983 Felicity Jones, Actress (Like Crazy)
1983 Ivan Saenko, Russian football player
1983 Michelle Ang Actress (Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son, My Wedding and Other Secrets)
1984 Chris Lowell, American actor (The Help)
1984 Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
1984 Randall Munroe, American cartoonist, webcomic author
1985 Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
1985 Max Irons, Actor (Red Riding Hood)
1987 Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress
1987 Jaroslaw Fojut, Polish footballer
1989 Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress and model
1990 Bianca Bree Actress, Assassination Games
1991 Dora Madison Burge, Actress (Friday Night Lights, Cowgirls n' Angels)
1992 Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor

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532 Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope
1174 Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
1312 Jan II, duke of Brabant/Limburg (charter of Kortenberg)
1552 Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist
1586 Philip Sidney, English courtier, diplomat, writer, soldier (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
1616 John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer. (b. 1560)
1638 Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish painter
1660 Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
1673 Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
1702 Walraad the Old, count/soverign of Nassau-Usingen
1757 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
1763 Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch)
1776 Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
1780 William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1786 Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
1806 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader, Emperor (b. 1758)
1825 Peter Winter, composer
1836 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer (b. 1778)
1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish-French pianist, composer (b. 1810)
1868 Laura Secord, Canadian heroine of the war of 1812 (b. 1775)
1887 Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy) (b. 1824)
1889 Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1828)
1890 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
1897 Isidor Dannstrom, composer
1904 Nikolai Amani, composer
1909 Nicola Spinelli, composer
1910 Julia Ward Howe, American composer (Battle Hymn of Republic) and abolitionist (b. 1819)
1910 William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide)
1917 Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten Stranger
1918 Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12)
1921 Katherine Griffith, actress (Pollyanna)
1931 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
1934 Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1852)
1938 Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (b. 1854)
1941 John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins)
1943 Stefan Starzynski, Polish politician (b. 1893)
1944 Pavel Haas, composer
1956 Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1957 John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party
1958 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
1958 Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (b. 1896)
1962 Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1963 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Prime Numbers) (b. 1865)
1965 John Barton King, American cricketer (b. 1873)
1966 Soledad Jiminez, Spanish actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
1966 Wieland Wagner, German opera director (b. 1917)
1967 Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
1970 Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
1970 Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
1972 Billy Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
1972 Prince George of Yugoslavia (b. 1887)
1972 Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
1973 Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet (Gott von Manhattan) (b. 1926)
1974 René A de Rooy, Suriname-Antillean poet
1975 Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto)
1977 Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, US baseball player, umpire
1978 Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
1979 John Stuart, Scottish actor (Number 17) (b. 1898)
1979 Karel Reiner, composer
1979 S. J. Perelman, American writer, humorist (Around the World in 80 Days) (b. 1904)
1981 Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
1981 David Guion, composer
1982 Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist
1983 Raymond Aron, French philosopher, political scientist (b. 1905)
1984 Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer
1987 Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist
1991 J(ames) G Devlin, actor (No Surrender)
1991 Piet van Est, The Vuurbal, bicylist (7x Tour de France)
1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, American country singer and television performer (b. 1919)
1992 Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
1992 Orestis Laskos, Greek film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1908)
1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos)
1993 Criss Oliva, American musician (Savatage) (b. 1963)
1993 Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747)
1993 Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist, antifascist
1993 Wim van Dooren, theologist, humanist, philosopher
1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player
1994 Bernard Caulfield, judge
1994 Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered
1994 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1994 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso
1995 Peter Hinchcliff, historian
1996 Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conducto
1996 Christopher Acland, English drummer (Lush) (b. 1966)
1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer
1998 Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
1998 Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1999 Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (b. 1915)
2000 Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian rock musician and poet (b. 1964)
2000 Leo Nomellini, football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
2001 Jay Livingston, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2001 Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2002 Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2002 Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
2004 Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005 Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
2005 Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
2006 Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
2006 Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
2007 Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (b. 1918)
2007 Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (b. 1931)
2008 Levi Stubbs, American baritone singer (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
2009 Vic Mizzy, American composer (themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family) (b. 1916)
2011 Carl Lindner, Jr., Cincinnati businessman and one of the world's richest people (b. 1919)
2012 Stanford Robert Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist
2012 Sylvia Maria Kristel, Dutch actress
2015 Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager (Everton)
2015 Danièle Delorme, [Gabrielle Girard], French actress (Pardon My Affair)

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