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676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
1327 King Alfonso IV of Aragon crowned
1355 English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
1410 The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed.
1418 Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
1570 A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
1642 2nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
1675 A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
1712 Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1722 Willem KH Friso (11) appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post
1772 Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston, Mass.
1783 In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington, later the first American President, gives his "Farewell Address to the Army" after the American Revolutionary War.
1795 The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
1813 Treaty of Fulda
1824 Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
1851 Louis Napoleon takes power in France
1852 Franklin Pierce elected as president of US
1854 Cobblestone paving of Washington St between Dupont & Kearny starts
1861 Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter in the American Civil War.
1868 New Zealand officially adopts a standard time zone to be observed nationally
1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast
1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
1880 James A Garfield (R) elected 20th American President
1881 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
1882 Oulu, Finland was decimated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882
1889 North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1892 Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
1895 29th Belmont, Fred Taral aboard Belmar wins in 2:11½
1895 The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1898 French government-Dupuy forms
1898 Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1899 The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith Natal during the Second Boer War.
1903 Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
1903 New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC
1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1907 Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
1913 St Louis Browns mgr George Stovall is 1st to jump to Federal League
1914 Great Britain annexes Cyprus
1914 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1914 V Herbert & H Blossoms "Only Girl," premieres in NYC
1915 1st US election by proportional representation, Ashtabula, Ohio
1916 Ft Vaux, Verdun, reconquered by France
1917 1st US soldiers killed in combat in WW I
1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement, US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1920 In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
1920 Warren G Harding elected 29th president
1921 Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," premieres in NYC
1922 Allies deliberate over German mark
1923 Bloody street fights in Aken (pro-French separatists driven)
1923 Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1924 Sunday Express publishes 1st British crossword puzzle
1928 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 1st Symphony, L Stokovski premieres in Phila
1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty (Ethiopia).
1931 Warren, Dixon & Young's musical "Laugh Parade," premieres in NYC
1934 Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
1936 1st high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1936 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1937 AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
1938 Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns' manager
1938 Jimmie Foxx wins his 3rd AL MVP
1941 German troops occupy Rostov
1942 11th day of battle at El Alamein, British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir
1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (G) in battle of Alamein Egypt (WW II)
1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed
1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1944 Canadian troops occupy Knokke
1944 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1947 7th Ryder Cup, US wins 11-1 at Portland Golf Club (Portland, Oregon, US)
1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1948 Pres Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey
1948 WJZ TV channel 13 in Baltimore, MD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 Netherland recognizes Indonesia as a sovereign state
1949 Textile, meat, cheese, rijstdistributie disbands
1950 "Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1950 Phillies reliever Jim Konstanty wins NL MVP
1953 Pakistan becomes islamic republic. The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1954 Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's 1st black congressman
1954 JS Thurmond is 1st senator elected by write-in vote (SC)
1954 Taiwan & US sign military pact
1955 Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
1956 Israel captures Gaza & Sheham
1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1959 "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 perfs
1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21," was fixed
1959 Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
1960 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees
1960 Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover", found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1960 Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
1961 "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Zurich
1963 "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1963 Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI
1963 South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Di?m is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the Vietnam War.
1968 "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 perfs
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open
1969 NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers lose by biggest margin-54 pts (Phila 141-87)
1971 "Great Harp" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 7 performances
1971 Orioles Pat Dobson no-hits Yomiuri Giants, 2-0
1972 Construction begins on Kingdome, Seattle
1972 Phillies' Steve Carlton wins unanimous NL Cy Young Award
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 "Barbra Streisand ...and Other Musical Instruments" airs on CBS TV
1973 OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms
1973 The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India forms a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
1974 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1974 Art Modell gets snowed in & misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs
1974 Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for OF Dave May
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 Ed Giacomin as a Red Wing returns to Mad Sq Garden beats Rangers 6-4
1975 Summit in Houston opens Rockets beat Milwaukee Bucks, 104-89
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for president
1976 NJ voters approve gambling for Atlantic City
1976 SD Padre Randy Jones wins NL Cy Young
1977 Phillies' Steve Carlton wins 2nd Cy Young Award
1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London
1982 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1982 Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1983 Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle
1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1986 16th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:06
1986 17th NYC Marathon won by Gianni Poli in 2:11:06
1986 Ayako Okamoto wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
1987 Harrison releases "Cloud 9" & McCartney releases "All the Best"
1988 First Mrs America beauty pageant
1988 Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash
1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1988 Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's)
1989 "Meet Me in St Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 perfs
1990 First NBA game at Target Center, Minn Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85
1991 Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
1991 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou
1991 Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
1991 Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1992 1st test flight of Airbus A330
1993 1st commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
1993 Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed
1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of NJ
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
1993 Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
1993 Rudolph Guliani (R) elected 107th mayor of NYC
1994 Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
1995 "Busker Alley," premieres at St James Theatre, NY
1995 "Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
1995 Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1996 "Hughie," closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 "Barrymore," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
1997 27th NYC Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switz 2:28:43
1997 28th NYC Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12
1997 Ralphs Senior Golf Classic
1997 Toray Japan Queens LPGA Cup
1997 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
1997 USA beats Japan 23-13 at LPGA Nichirei International
2000 The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
2002 Boston College beats Notre Dame 14-7 in South Bend in the 14th College Football Holy War
2003 Grant Fuhr is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
2008 Lewis Hamilton wins the 59th Formula One WDC by one point
2014 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
2015 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scraps Knights and Dames from Australia's honours system

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1082 Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1475 Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey (d. 1511)
1528 Peter S Lotichius (Peter Lotz), Neo latin poet (Collected Works)
1636 Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
1667 James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)
1692 Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
1696 Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)
1699 Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
1709 Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915) (d. 1820)
1739 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
1741 Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Neth Democratic Patriots (d. 1784)
1755 Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1774-1792) "let them eat cake" (d. 1793)
1766 Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1777 Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zólkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
1777 Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1785 Frederic Kalkbrenner, composer
1785 Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
1795 James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (1845-1849) (d. 1849)
1799 John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
1808 Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
1810 Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1812 Abraham I van Lier, theater director (Gran Theatre-van Lier)
1815 George Boole, English mathematician (Boolean algebra) and philosopher (d. 1864)
1821 George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1822 James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
1826 Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
1826 William Haines Lytle, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1828 Byron Grimes, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1880)
1833 Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904)
1837 Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
1842 Otto Reubke, composer
1843 Caryl Florio, composer, Pen-name of William James Rob John
1843 Elek Erkel, composer
1844 Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1846 Antonio Pena y Goni, composer
1847 George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
1855 Henrik Schück, Swedish literary historian (d. 1947)
1857 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
1865 Warren G(amaliel) Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921-23) (d. 1923)
1876 Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer
1877 Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (1885-1932) (d. 1957)
1877 Claire McDowell, NYC, actress (Big Parade)
1877 Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
1877 Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
1879 Jean Gilbert (Max Winterfield), German composer (Prince Regent)
1880 John Foulds, composer
1882 Leo Perutz, writer
1883 Frico Kafenda, composer
1883 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
1885 Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (studied the galaxies) (d. 1972)
1886 Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
1886 Philip Merivale, Indian actor (Nothing But Trouble)
1890 Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist, senator
1890 Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1964)
1892 Alice Brady, American actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia) (d. 1939)
1892 Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (Viktoria und ihr Huzar)
1893 Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
1894 Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
1894 William Johnston, tennis champ (US Open-1915)
1897 Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil's Brother)
1897 Jacob A B "Jack" Bjerknes, Norwegian-American meteorologist (USAF in London)
1899 Eddy (Charles E) du Perron, Dutch author, poet
1899 Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, known from Seven Years in Tibet (d. 1973)
1901 James Dunn, American actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, It's a Great Life)
1901 Paul Ford, Balt Md, actor (Phil Silvers Show)
1902 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes)
1902 Marius W Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank)
1903 Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
1905 Fred Lipmann, watchmaker
1905 James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1906 Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
1906 Luchino Visconti, Italian director (Damned, Death in Venice) (d. 1976)
1908 Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
1908 Reginald Beckwith, English actor (Genevieve, Doctor in Love)
1910 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
1911 Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greek writer, poet (Nobel laureate 1979) (d. 1996)
1911 Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
1912 Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer
1913 Burt Lancaster, American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry) (d. 1994)
1913 Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor
1914 Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
1915 Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000)
1915 Douglas Gordon Lilburn, composer
1915 Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 Durward Knowles, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968-Bahamas)
1919 Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet (Reino da Estupidez)
1919 Warren Stevens, Clark's Summit Pa, actor (Richard Boone Show), (d. 2012)
1920 Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (d. 2012)
1920 Fabio Gonzalez-Zuleta, composer
1920 Lewis Charles, American actor (Feather & Father Gang)
1921 Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
1921 Fernando Correia de Oliveira, composer
1921 Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
1921 Willaim D Schaefer, Maryland, (Gov-D-Md)
1922 John Pinsent, classical scholar
1924 (Father) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
1924 Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer
1927 John Sainsbury, English billionaire
1927 Steve Ditko, American artist
1928 Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer
1928 Paul Johnson, British historian
1929 Harold Farberman, NYC, conductor/composer (Medea)
1929 Milan Stibilj, composer
1929 Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
1929 Rachel Ames, Portland Oregon, actress (Line Up, Audrey-Gen Hospital)
1929 Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 Denis Gerald Barrington, artist
1932 Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti (1986-88)
1932 Romano L Mazzoli, (Rep-D-KY, 1971)
1932 Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (d. 2009)
1934 Bill Gothard, American minister and speaker
1934 Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player (US Open 1956)
1935 Mohammad Munaf, Pakistani cricketer
1936 Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
1936 Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1936 Rose Elizabeth Bird, American judge, California Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999)
1937 Earl "Speedoo" Carroll, American singer (Cadillacs, Coasters)
1938 David Lane, American white nationalist (d. 2007)
1938 Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
1938 Jay Traynor, rocker (Jay & The Americans)
1938 Patrick Buchanan, American journalist and conservative political columnist, politician
1938 Queen Sofia of Spain
1938 Ria Beckers-de Bruijn, Dutch MP (PPR)
1939 Howard Wolpe, (Rep-D-MI, 1979)
1939 Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat
1939 Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist
1940 Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer
1940 Jim Bakken, American football player
1941 Bruce Welch (Cripps), English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
1941 David Knapp Stockton, San Bernardino CA, PGA golfer (1970 PGA)
1942 Shere Hite, American-German author, sex therapist (Hite Report)
1942 Stefanie Powers, American actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart)
1943 Oldrich Pelcak, Czechoslovakia, cosmonaut
1944 Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, American astronaut (STS 51-D, 35, 46, 61, 75)
1944 Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1944 Liesel Westermann, German discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1968)
1944 Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor (Danton) and producer
1946 Alan Jones, Australian race car driver, F1 (1980 World Champion)
1946 Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (Sunnyata) (d. 2001)
1947 Dave Pegg, British pop bassist (Jethro Tull-Crest of a Wave)
1947 David Anthony Ahern, composer
1948 Rich Gooch, rock bassist (Quarterflash)
1949 Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
1951 Kathy Hammond, US, 400m runner (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
1951 Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1952 Kate Linder, Pasadena Ca, actress (Esther Valentine--Young & Restless)
1952 Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer
1954 Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1955 Chris Burnett, American musician
1955 Frank Gilligan, American singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 Mark Reynolds, American yachter (Olymp-8th-1988, 92, 96)
1956 Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
1957 Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
1957 Notis Sfakianakis, Greek singer
1957 Rita Crockett, American volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 Willie McGee, American baseball player, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals, NL MVP-1985)
1959 Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and film maker (Trainspotting)
1960 Adam Lingner, NFL center (Buffalo Bills)
1960 Bruce Baumgartner, Haledon NJ, wrestler (Oly-gold/br-84, 88, 92, 96)
1960 Mardi Jacquet, Chateauroux California, playmate (October, 1980)
1960 Robert Harold Lohr, Cincinnati OH, PGA golfer (1988 Walt Disney)
1960 Rosalyn Nideffer, Durban South Africa, tennis star (1993 Futures-Midland MI)
1960 Saïd Aquita, Morocco, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1960 Tihomir Blaškic, Croatian war criminal
1961 Jeff Tedford, head coach of the California Golden Bears
1961 k.d. lang (Kathy Dawn), Canadian country singer
1962 Andrew Elt, singer (Sleeze Beez)
1962 David Brock, American political commentator, pundit
1962 Donna Spangler, LA California, wrestler (Coal Miner's Daughter-GLOW)
1962 Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
1962 Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator
1963 Bobby Dall, American musician (Poison)
1963 Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
1963 Ines Diers, German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 Jonas Gardell, Swedish writer
1963 Park Young Seok, South Korean mountaineer
1963 Susie Scott, San Diego Ca, playmate (May, 1983)
1964 Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
1964 Kevin Gogan, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders, SF 49ers)
1964 Lauren Vélez, Actress (Born Free)
1964 Michael D'Asaro II, Bkln NY, fencer-sabre
1965 Chuck Klingbeil, NFL nose tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1965 Samuel Le Bihan, French actor
1965 Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor (Kal Ho Naa Ho)
1966 David Schwimmer, American actor (Freinds)
1966 Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor
1966 Orlando Merced, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1966 Rosalyn Fairbank, South Africa, tennis player
1966 Sean Kanan, American actor (AJ-Gen Hospital, Rich Girl, Karate Kid Part 3)
1966 Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
1966 Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 Chris Port, NFL guard/tackle (NO Saints)
1967 Darla Michele Pruett, Canton Georgia, Miss Georgia-America (1991)
1967 Derek Porter, Belfast Ireland, Canadian rower (Oly-gold/silver-92/96)
1967 Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
1967 Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
1968 Brandi Brandt, American playmate (October, 1987)
1968 Helle Michaelsen, Alborg Denmark, playmate (Aug, 1988)
1968 Melissa Evridge, Lexington Ky, playmate (Aug, 1990)
1968 Samantha Ferris, Actress (The Tall Man)
1968 Ultra Naté, American musician
1969 Dwayne Gordon, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, NY Jets)
1969 Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, American bassist (Ko?n)
1969 Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1970 Corbin Lacina, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
1971 Pete Vordenberg, Rota Spain, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1971 Ricky Martin, PR, rocker (Menudo)/actor (Gen Hospital) [or Dec 24]
1972 Alfred Schreuders, soccer player (RKC)
1972 Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
1972 Jeni Stephens, Memphis Tennessee, Miss America-Tennessee (1997)
1972 Marie Josee Gibeau, Lachine Quebec, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1972 Samantha Janus, British entertainer
1972 Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
1973 Jason Smith, Candian Hockey Player, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils)
1973 Marisol Nichols, American actress (Felon)
1974 Alex Tanaka, actor (Saja-Swan's Crossing)
1974 Jaroslav Spacek, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, (Sweden)
1974 Nelly, American rapper
1974 Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
1974 Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1974 Ruslan Salei, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Oly-98, Anaheim)
1975 Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
1975 Danny Cooksey, Moore Oklahoma, actor (Sam-Diff'rent Strokes, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
1975 Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
1976 Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 Gabriella Pession, Actress (Las 13 rosas)
1977 Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
1977 Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
1977 Randy Harrison, American actor
1977 Reshma Shetty, Actress (Off-Season Greetings: Part 1)
1977 Rodney Buford, American basketball player
1978 Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1978 Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
1978 Whit Hertford, Actor (Jurassic Park)
1979 Erika Flores, American actress
1979 Julie Lund, Danish actress
1980 Amos Roberts Australian Rugby League player
1980 Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1980 Vanessa Ray, Actress (Not Waving But Drowning)
1981 Avy Scott, American pornographic actress
1981 Katharine Isabelle, Actress (Ginger Snaps)
1981 Roddy White, American football player
1981 Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
1982 Charles Itandje, French footballer
1982 Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
1982 Yunel Escobar, Cuban baseball player
1984 Julia Stegner, German model
1984 Tamara Hope, Canadian actress
1986 Erika Jo, American musician
1986 Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1987 Andrew Hazzard, Actor (Turning Pointes)
1987 Danny Cipriani, English rugby union player
1987 Karim El-Kerem, Actor (No Rest for the Wicked)
1988 Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
1989 Katelyn Tarver, American singer
1989 Luke Schenn, Canadian hockey player
1989 Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin soccer player
1990 Eva Barda, Actress (The Blue Light)
1990 Kendall Schmidt, Actor (Big Time Movie)
1990 Natasha Smirnoff, daughter of Yakov Smirnov
1993 Madison Ford, Actress (Swan Dive)
1994 Kallum Wilson Green, Actor (Brian Friedman)
1995 Brandon Soo Hoo, American-Chinese actor (Tropic Thunder)
1996 Luke Beach, Actor (Let Me Speak)

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943 Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
1083 Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
1171 Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71)
1171 Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir)
1285 King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Constable of England, beheaded (b. 1454)
1588 Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond
1610 Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10) (b. 1544)
1618 Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1635 Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1697 Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet, painter, cartoonist
1716 Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
1717 Johann Jacob Walther, composer
1731 Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer
1781 Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit, author
1804 Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500
1807 Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
1845 Chretien Urhan, composer
1846 Esaias Tegnér, Swedish writer, professor of Greek language, and bishop (b. 1782)
1852 Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1863 Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
1875 JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered
1877 Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
1882 Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer
1884 Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer
1887 Jenny Lind (Swedish Nightingale), Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
1898 George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
1905 Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
1909 Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
1920 Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin)
1925 Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter, etcher
1931 Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners)
1931 Harry Musgrove, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885)
1935 H B "Jock" Cameron, South African cricket capt (v England 1935, age 30)
1935 Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
1937 Maude Valerie White, composer
1944 Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945 Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1949 Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
1950 George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (Pygmalion) (Nobel laureate) (b. 1856)
1952 Maire O'Neill, actress (Juno & the Paycock, Glamorous Night)
1956 Jacob Weinberg, composer
1956 Leo Baeck, Pres of World Union for Progressive Judaism
1958 Adam von Ahn Carse, composer
1958 Jean Couzy, French mountaineer, First ascent of Makalu in 1955 (b. 1923)
1959 Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
1960 Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
1961 James Thurber, American humorist (The Male Animal) (b. 1894)
1962 Felice Lattuada, composer
1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered (b. 1901)
1966 Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
1966 Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general, minister of War (1931-34)
1968 Ernst Hess, composer
1969 Marion Lloyd Vince, fencer (National champ 1928, 31)
1970 Richard Cushing, American cardinal and archbishop (Boston) (b. 1895)
1971 Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony)
1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
1977 H E Nossak, writer
1979 Jacques Mesrine, French criminal "enemy of the state", shot to death (b. 1936)
1980 Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family"
1980 Willie Sutton, US bank robber
1982 Lester Roloff, American preacher, religious personality (b. 1914)
1984 Margie V Barfield, US murderer, First woman electricuted in 22 years
1984 Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
1986 Paul Frees, American voice actor (Boris Badenov) (b. 1920)
1991 Fran Stevens, singer
1991 Irwin Allen, American film producer, director (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure) (b. 1916)
1992 Hal Roach, American director and producer (Keystone Kops) (b. 1892)
1993 P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees & Hope)
1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist, author
1994 Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter
1994 Noah Beery Jr, US actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun)
1995 Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International
1995 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, VP of Columbia (1982-84)
1995 Florence Greenberg, record company founder
1995 Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest
1995 Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist
1995 Rosalind Cash, actress (General Hospital)
1995 Sal Gliatto, baseball player
1996 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician
1996 Christopher Prater, screen printer
1996 Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
1997 G Harry Stine, writer
1997 Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds)
1998 Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
2000 Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (b. 1925)
2002 Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2002 Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
2003 Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
2004 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
2004 Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
2005 Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach (b. 1919)
2007 Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
2007 Henry Cele, South African Actor (Shaka Zulu) (b. 1949)
2007 Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2007 Witold Kiełtyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (b. 1984)
2010 Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2010 Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2011 Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
2012 Milt Campbell, American hurdler, decathlete
2013 Walt Bellamy, American HOF basketball player
2015 Colin Welland, screenwriter (Chariots of Fire) and actor (Straw Dogs)

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