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680 The Sixth Ecumenical Council (3rd Council of Constantinople) commences in Constantinople.
921 Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1492 The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1512 Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1558 French king Henri II occupies Calais
1597 Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal
1619 Elizabeth of Scotland and England is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1631 Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic
1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age
1659 Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1667 Jean Racines "Andromaque," premieres in Paris
1722 Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London
1733 France & Spain sign Escoriaal Treaty
1747 Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
1775 John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1794 French troops conquer Nijmegen
1805 Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean
1811 The Battle of Tippecanoe of the Tecumseh's War is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States, General William Henry Harrison defeated the Native Americans of the Tecumesh.
1814 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
1820 James Monroe elected 5th US president
1824 St Petersburg flood
1831 State Gran Colombia disbands
1837 In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
1861 Battle of Belmont of the American Civil War, In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
1861 Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
1863 Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
1864 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1865 London Gazette, oldest surviving journal, is founded
1872 The cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from New York to Genoa, mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later
1874 A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1875 Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in US college (Yale)
1876 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1885 In Craigellachie, British Columbia, construction ends on the Canadian Pacific Railway railway extending across Canada.
1893 Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
1900 Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
1907 Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1907 Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode, kills engineer Jesus Garcia.
1907 Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1909 Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914 The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1916 Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1916 Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress (Rep-R-Mont).
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks
1917 Russian (October) Revolution, In Petrograd, Russia, Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Russia was still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show the date as October 25), Lenin seizes power.
1917 Third Battle of Gaza of World War I ends, British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1918 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd
1919 The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers, Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
1920 Patriarch Tikhon issued a decree that lead to the formation of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
1921 Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC
1921 The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
1925 Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1931 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
1932 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
1932 Bradman scores 238 NSW v Victoria, 200 mins, 32 fours
1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1934 Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1935 23rd CFL Grey Cup, Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12
1936 Battle of Madrid begins
1940 In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie) collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
1940 Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1941 British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
1941 Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimea’s hospitals during World War II. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1942 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1942 Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1943 Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1946 "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1949 King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan
1950 French women & children leaves Hanoi, Tonkin-delta
1951 Constitution of Jordan passes
1953 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
1954 US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1955 Supreme Court of Balt bans segregation in public recreational areas
1956 Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
1957 The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1957 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1959 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
1960 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1961 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1962 Richard Nixon quits politics-You won't have Nixon to kick around
1963 Carole Joan Crawford, 20
1963 NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1963 Wunder von Lengede, In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1964 NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in NYC
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1967 Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary Indiana
1967 St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1967 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK
1970 "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1973 US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
1974 63rd Davis Cup, South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1975 In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers took part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousted and killed Brig. Khaled Mosharraf. The uprising, hailed as National Revolution and Solidarity Day, also helped Gen. Ziaur Rahman (later President of Bangladesh) to get freed from the house arrest that was enforced by Mosharraf four days ago amid a coup d'état.
1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1976 "Gone With the Wind" televised
1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1979 Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1981 France performs nuclear test
1982 "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin NYC after 69 perfs
1982 Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 Turkey adopts constitution
1983 1983 United States Senate bombing, a bomb explodes inside the U.S. Capitol Building causing heavy damage but no injuries.
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1984 STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
1987 In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1988 MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
1989 Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
1989 Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
1989 East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
1989 NYC elects it's 1st female comp (Holtzman)
1990 "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1990 "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1990 Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
1990 Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
1991 "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box NYC
1991 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95
1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1992 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
1993 Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
1995 Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1996 "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 A Nigerian Boeing 727 crashes into a lagoon 40 miles southeast of Lagos, killing 143.
1996 NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
1996 NFL Player and Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
1997 "Bean" opens in US
2000 Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
2000 Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2001 The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah during the War in Iraq.
2007 Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2012 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2012 Voters in Colorado and Washington approve legalized marijuana
2012 Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
2015 Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)

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630 Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher, historian, jurist, author of Islamic Spain (d. 1069)
1598 Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1619 Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
1650 John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
1656 Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler, Governor of Nimegen
1687 William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
1692 Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1706 Carlo Cecere, Italian composer
1728 Captain James Cook, British naval officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)
1750 Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1758 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker, politician
1786 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer of Italian parentage
1797 Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) (d. 1876)
1805 Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1810 Fritz Reuter, German novelist
1811 Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1818 Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
1822 Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer
1828 Ludwig Deppe, composer
1832 Andrew Dickson White, American educator, 1st president of Cornell (d. 1918)
1838 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1839 Henry Holmes, composer
1846 Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist, composer (d. 1907)
1851 Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
1852 Bohdan Borkowski, composer
1855 Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
1856 Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)
1858 Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
1860 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
1861 Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
1866 Carl Emil Paul Lincke, German composer, conductor, publisher (Frau Luna)
1867 Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Polish chemist and physicist (discovered radium) (Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry 1903, 1911) (d. 1934)
1874 Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96)
1875 Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
1876 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1876 Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)
1876 Ted Arnold, cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05)
1877 Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer
1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist (Protactinium) (d. 1968)
1879 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter
1879 King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
1879 Leon Trotsky (Leib Bronstein), Russian revolutionary and Theorist (d. 1940)
1883 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New Va, TV preacher
1886 Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player (openings theorist) (d. 1935)
1886 Mark Aldanov (Landau), Russian-French chemist, writer
1888 Chandrasekhara Raman, Indian physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1930) (d. 1970)
1889 George Davis, Dutch actor (Devil May Care)
1889 Lord Tennyson III, English cricketer (captain)
1890 Jan Matulka American painter (d. 1972)
1893 Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1895 Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81)
1896 Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
1896 Herbert R O'Connor, American politician (Sen-Md), TV narrator (Crime Syndicate)
1897 Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer (d. 1953)
1897 Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (1955)
1898 Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
1899 Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
1900 Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
1901 Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
1902 Rob van der de Bas (Barend Robberts), troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)
1903 Albert Helman (Lou Lichtveld), Suriname politician, novelist
1903 Ary Barroso, Brazilian songwriter (d. 1964)
1903 Dean Jagger, American actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry) (d. 1991)
1903 Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1903 Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologistk, ethologist (Man & His Ideas) (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973) (d. 1989)
1903 Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld (Albert Helman), Suriname author
1905 William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
1906 Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)
1906 Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education)
1906 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
1907 Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)
1911 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
1913 Albert Camus, Algerian author (The Just) (Nobel Prize laureate 1957) (d. 1960)
1913 Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (d. 1991)
1914 Archie Campbell, American comedian, writer (d. 1987)
1914 R(aphael) A(loysius) Lafferty, American sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)
1915 Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
1916 Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)
1917 Andras Mihaly, composer
1918 Billy Graham, American Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
1918 Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1918 Paul Aussaresses, French general
1922 Al Hirt, American jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) (d. 1999)
1923 Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (d. 1990)
1923 Matthew Coady, journalist
1924 Wolf Mankowitz, British playwright
1926 Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano (Met Opera)
1927 Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese computer game executive (Nintendo), owner (Seattle Mariners)
1927 Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
1928 Norton Zinder, New York City, NY, biologist (genetic transduction), (d. 2012)
1928 Richard G. Scott, LDS Apostle
1929 Eric R. Kandel, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1929 Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman and media tycoon (d. 2007)
1929 Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
1930 Peter Woods, newsreader
1930 Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978)
1931 Gerald Humel, composer
1932 Harry Lammertink (Yrrah), Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland)
1933 George Tibbits, composer
1934 Stephen L Neal, (Rep-D-NC, 1975)
1935 Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesian poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina)
1936 Barry Newman, Boston Mass, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli)
1936 Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
1936 Jaap Stobbe, Dutch actor (Dageraad)
1938 Dee Clark, American singer (Hambone, Nobody But You) (d. 1990)
1938 Jim Kaat, American baseball player, pitcher, sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1939 Daniel Manneke, composer
1940 Dakin Matthews, Actor (True Grit)
1940 Guido Provoost, Belgian historian
1942 Jean Shrimpton, British model and actress (Privilege)
1942 Johnny Rivers (Ramistella), American singer and composer (Secret Agent Man)
1943 Boris Gromov, Russian general
1943 Joni Mitchell (Roberta J Anderson), Canadian singer (Clouds)
1943 Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist (To Red, Dust Drawings)
1943 Michael Byrne, English actor
1943 Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
1943 Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer
1944 James Dashow, Chicago, American-Italian composer
1944 Jim Watkins, Phila, actor (Jerry-Magician)
1944 Joe Niekro, American baseball player, knuckler (NY Yankees) (d. 2006)
1944 Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
1944 Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1945 Earl Boen, American actor
1947 Bob Anderson, English darts player
1947 Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist
1947 Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
1948 Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1949 Judy Tenuta, American comedian (Spotlight Cafe)
1949 Steven Stucky, American composer
1950 Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon, educator
1950 Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher
1950 Lindsay Duncan, Actress (Alice in Wonderland)
1951 Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer (Howard Stern New Years Party)
1951 Nick Gilder, London England, singer (Hot Child in the City)
1952 David Petraeus, American military commander (Iraq), Head of CIA, resigned due affari scandal.
1953 Lucinda Green, British equestrian
1954 Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
1955 Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1956 Denise Jannah (Zeefuik), Suriname jazz singer (Farmer's Market)
1956 Jonathan Palmer, British Formula One racer
1957 Christopher Knight, American actor (Peter-Brady Bunch, Another World)
1957 Jonathan Palmer, formula-1 racer
1957 Kathy McMillan, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
1957 King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler
1957 Tony Schiavone, American wrestling announcer
1958 Jack Wyngaard, dancer
1958 Lori Saldaña, American politician
1959 Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
1959 Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1960 Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 Dee Hepburn, Actress (Gregory's Girl)
1961 Mintcho Pachov, Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1962 Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist (Bob Color)
1962 Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
1962 Wayne Norman Phillips, Australian cricketer
1963 John Barnes, English footballer
1963 Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1963 Shelly Miller, Youngstown Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1963 Todd McKee, actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful)
1964 Dana Plato, American actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) (d. 1999)
1964 Gill Holland, American producer
1964 Liam O'Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist (Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry)
1964 Shannon Whirry, Actress (Me, Myself & Irene)
1965 Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1966 Andy Tomberlin, Monroe NC, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 Lisa Canning, Virgin Islands hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1966 Murphy Logo Su'a, New Zealand cricketer
1967 David Guetta, French DJ
1967 Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
1967 Steve Digiorgio, American musician
1968 Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
1968 Mark Preston, Australian engineer
1968 Russ Springer, American MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1969 Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
1969 Michelle Clunie, American actress
1969 Michelle Morse, American WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1969 Tanya Dubnicoff, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1970 Andre Hastings, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, NO Saints)
1970 Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
1970 Kris(ten) Fillat, San Diego California, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player (1992 French Doubles)
1970 Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer (Super Size Me)
1970 Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
1971 Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
1971 Robin Finck, American musician
1972 Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns)
1972 Clive B Barnes, Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman)
1972 Danny Grewcock, English rugby union player
1972 Emily Porter Lesueur, Glendale California, synchro swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1972 Jane Taylor, Maitland NSW Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Wagga Waga)
1972 Jason London, American actor (Dazed and Confused) ,br>1972 Jeremy London, American actor (Mallrats)
1972 Jimmy Gary, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Marcus Stewart, English football player
1972 Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
1973 Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1973 Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress (Swiri)
1974 Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
1974 Kris Benson, American baseball player, pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 Tarek Saleh, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1975 Suesan Rajabi, Miss Colorado USA (1996)
1976 Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player (140 MPH serve)
1976 Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
1976 One Be Lo, American hip-hop artist
1976 Rob Caggiano, American musician (Anthrax)
1976 Zahir Raheem, American bantamweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1978 Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
1978 Oliver Chris, Actor (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason)
1978 Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (TOKIO)
1979 Barney Harwood, English television presenter (CBBC)
1979 Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
1979 Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
1979 Mike Commodore, American hockey player
1979 Will Demps, American football player
1908 Adam Campbell, Actor (Epic Movie)
1980 Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
1980 James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
1980 Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
1981 Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
1981 Anushka Shetty, Indian actress (Tollywood)
1981 Mark Copani, Jordanian/American professional wrestler
1981 Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
1982 Rick Malambri, Actor (Step Up 3D)
1985 Lucas Neff, Actor (Jimmy's Fake Girlfriend)
1986 Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress
1987 Rachele Brooke Smith, Actress (Iron Man 2)
1988 Angela Gacad, Actress (Surviving Christmas)
1989 Alexandra DiNovi, Actress (Purity: A Dark Film)
1990 Marisa Siketa, Actress (The Saddle Club)
1990 Matt Corby, Australian singer
1991 Colton Braun, Actor (Choices)
1992 Christopher Tavarez, Actor (Big Momma's House 2)
1992 Gara Roda, Actress (Madison Class of '64)
2001 Mack Bouwense, Motocross Champion (I'm Never Afraid!)

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644 Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam dies of injuries after assassination attempt 4 days earlier
739 Willibrord (Clemens), 1st bishop of Utrecht, Saint 695-739
1225 Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered
1225 Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne
1550 Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)
1560 Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia)
1573 Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo) (b. 1510)
1581 Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1608 Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen, Cavalry commander, dies in battle
1620 Hetman Stanislaw Zólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Tutora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch physicist, chemist, inventor (submarine) (b. 1572)
1639 Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1639 William Cobbold, composer
1642 Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1678 Erasmus Quellinus II (Quellien), Flemish painter, etcher
1708 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter, cartoonist
1713 Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1723 Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77)
1802 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
1817 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
1827 Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist, composer, conductor
1837 Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
1857 Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
1859 Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
1872 Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1876 Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch vicar (Michigan)
1880 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer
1881 John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1893 Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1901 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader, viceroy of Tsheli
1906 Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
1913 Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist, murdered (b. 1863)
1922 Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1935 Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia
1938 Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered
1941 Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet, author (Das Gewitter)
1943 Dwight Frye, American actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula) (b. 1899)
1944 Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
1944 Richard Sorge, Soviet spy, hanged in Tokyo (b. 1895)
1945 Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test)
1956 Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist, singer
1959 Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (Gunga Din) (b. 1883)
1960 Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family)
1961 Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers)
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (1933-1945) (b. 1884)
1965 Friedrich Wildgans, composer
1966 Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (VP-D, 1933-41) (b. 1868)
1967 Juan Tomas Perez, composer
1967 Larry Kent, director (High Stakes)
1968 Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1968 Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (b. 1901)
1968 Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter)
1972 Tod Andrews, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage)
1974 Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1974 Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw)
1978 Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (1926-28) (b. 1897)
1978 Janet Flanner, writer
1979 Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria)
1979 Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples)
1980 Steve McQueen, American actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt) (b. 1930)
1981 Will Durant, US author (story of civilization)
1983 David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer
1983 Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (Le Marin du Bolivar) (b. 1892)
1984 George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis)
1986 Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1990 Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn)
1990 Lawrence Durrell, Indian-English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive)
1991 Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
1991 Gene Tierney, US actress (Laura/Heaven can wait)
1991 Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 Alexander Dubcek, Slovakian politician, premier of Czechoslovakia (1968-69) (b. 1921)
1992 Jack Kelly, American actor (Maverick, Vega$) (b. 1927)
1993 Adelaide Hall, US jazz singer (Cotton Club)
1993 Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit)
1994 Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL)
1994 Milton "Shorty" Rogers (Rajonsky), American jazz trumpeter (b. 1924)
1995 Jerry Daniels, singer, guitarist
1995 John Patrick, screenwriter
1995 Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian
1996 Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist
1996 Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
1996 Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
1996 Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer
2000 Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2006 Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2007 Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
2007 George W. George, American theater, Broadway and film producer (b. 1920)
2011 Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer (b. 1944)
2012 Carmen Basilio (Carmine), American world welter and middleweight boxing champion
2015 Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor (Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)

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