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308 The Congress of Carnuntum, Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augustus, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
887 Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
1158 Emperor Frederik I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
1208 Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
1215 The Fourth Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
1417 Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Saba
1500 Treaty of Granada, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1503 Pope Julius II elected
1572 Duke of Alva's son Don Fredrik begins siege for Haarlem
1606 Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1620 The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1634 Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1640 John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London
1647 Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
1648 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
1671 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
1673 Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function.
1688 Prince Willem III's invasion fleet sails to England
1714 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1724 Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
1725 Georg F Handel's opera "Tamerlano," premieres in London
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army enters England
1750 The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity.
1752 Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna
1778 Cherry Valley Massacre, Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1811 Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
1813 Dresden surrenders to allied armies
1813 Battle of Crysler's Farm of the War of 1812, British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1831 In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1836 Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru
1838 Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal
1839 The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1851 Alvan Clark patents telescope
1860 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1862 Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 Sherman's March to the Sea of the American Civil War, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
1864 Skirmish at Shoal Creek, AL
1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1865 Thomas Robertsons "Society," premieres in London
1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1868 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1869 The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1880 Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol (b. c. 1855)
1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1887 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
1887 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
1887 Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
1889 Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1890 D McCree patents portable fire escape
1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1896 Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium's minister of War
1899 Stuart, Rubens, and Boyd-Jones' "Floradora," premieres in London
1901 Maurice Ravel composition "Jeux d'eau" premieres
1906 Ethel Smyth' "Standrecht," premieres in Leipzig
1909 Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins
1909 J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premieres in London
1911 Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front), Germany surrenders ending WW I. Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in World War I, in a railroad car outside Compiègne in France. The war officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence.
1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1918 Józef Pilsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.
1919 Lacpleša day, Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1919 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views
1919 The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
1921 The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1922 Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
1923 Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph
1924 Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (SF)
1924 Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.
1925 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
1925 Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 Night of Kersten Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
1925 Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1926 Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
1926 U.S. Route 66 is established.
1928 France's 5th government of Poincaré forms
1928 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1928 WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1928 WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
1933 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains
1934 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1937 Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph
1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson & GP Thomson
1938 German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
1938 Jews forced to wear Star of David (Kristallnacht).
1939 Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1940 1,000s of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
1940 Armistice Day Blizzard, An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
1940 British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
1940 The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
1940 Battle of Taranto of World War II, The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1941 Czech premier general Eliasjarrested by nazis
1942 Last German offensive in Stalingrad
1942 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
1942 Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
1942 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1943 Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; Stan Musial wins NL MVP
1943 US air raid on Rabaul
1944 NY Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
1946 NY Knicks' 1st game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chic Stags
1949 WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (SF)
1958 "La Plume de Ma Tante" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 835 perfs
1958 AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1959 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1959 Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
1960 A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
1960 Largest NY Knick 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-18,499
1961 Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding
1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1961 Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's comm party
1961 Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1962 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1963 Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for Beatles
1963 Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
1964 Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in NYC
1965 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
1965 In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence from Britain .
1965 William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat," premieres in NYC
1966 Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
1966 Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
1966 NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
1967 In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden, Vietnam War.
1968 A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album
1968 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England
1968 Operation Commando Hunt of the Vietnam War is initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK
1969 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness
1970 Balt Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1971 Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
1971 Neil Simons "prisoner of Second Avenue," premieres in NYC
1972 Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for 1st time
1972 The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam Army.
1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs).
1977 Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
1979 Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1980 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
1981 "Oh, Brother!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 3 performances
1981 Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
1981 Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
1982 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st coml flight
1982 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars
1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60
1982 Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain
1983 Pres Reagan became 1st US pres to address Japan's legislature
1983 Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan at WACA
1984 "3 Musketeers" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 9 performances
1985 1st AIDS theme TV movie "An Early Frost"
1985 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1986 Houston's Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
1986 Suriname government proclaims gold purification
1987 "Roza" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
1987 Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1989 "Prince of Central Park" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1989 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1990 "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 169 perfs
1990 California's Chuck Finley & Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
1992 Anglican Church & Church of England OK female priests
1992 The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1993 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
1994 Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
1996 Braves John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award
1997 CBS News anchor Dan Rather has renewed his contract to 2002
1997 Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award
1997 WNBA expands to Detroit & Washington DC
1999 Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
2000 In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
2001 Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004 The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2006 The New Zealand war memorial monument was unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
2008 The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
2012 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
2013 4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India
2013 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia
2014 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
2014 An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake
2014 Samsung Lions win the 2014 Korean Series in baseball
2014 The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
2014 The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute
2014 The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
2015 Flawless 12 carat Blue Moon Diamond sells for $48.4 million at auction in Geneva
2015 Montreal begins a controversial dumping of raw sewage (2.1bn gallons) into the St Lawrence River

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995 Gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)
1050 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
1154 Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212) (d. 1212)
1155 Alfonso VIII, the Noble One, King of Castilia (d. 1214)
1220 Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271)
1493 Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)
1493 Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist (Zinc, laudanum) (d. 1541)
1523 Joachim Hopperus (Hoppers), Frisian lawyer, politician
1569 Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
1579 Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter
1599 Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1655)
1599 Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian-Spanish marshal
1599 Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
1633 George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, British author (Character of a Trimmer) (d. 1695)
1636 Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
1657 Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl, fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)
1668 Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1675 Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru
1679 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist
1688 Lorenzo Somis, composer
1690 Gerhard Hoffmann, composer
1696 Andrea Zani, composer
1722 Johann Philipp Sack, composer
1724 Willem A Alting, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97)
1731 Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer
1736 Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver
1743 Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
1744 Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797-1801) (d. 1818)
1748 Charles IV, King  of Spain (1788-1808) (d. 1819)
1767 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster
1771 Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
1788 Michal Wielhorski, composer
1791 Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)
1792 Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)
1811 Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1862)
1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment) (d. 1881)
1832 Paolo Giorza, composer
1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet, author, editor (Story of a Bad Boy) (d. 1907)
1852 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1857 Janet Erskine Stuart, Sacred Heart educator (d. 1914)
1858 Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)
1863 Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)
1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1911) (d. 1921)
1868 Edouard Vuillard, French painter, graphic artist
1869 Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1901)
1869 Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-1946), Ethiopia (d. 1947)
1870 Nils Kjaer, Norwegian playwright (Det evige Savn)
1872 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1872 Maude K Adams, American actress (Baldwin's Theatre)
1882 Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden (d. 1973)
1883 Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (Ruilles de Printemps) (d. 1969)
1885 George (Smith) Patton Jr., American general (Sicily, Italy, Normandy) "Old Blood & Guts" (d. 1945)
1887 Roland Young, American actor (d. 1953)
1888 Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader, 1st minister of education (d. 1958)
1891 Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1893 Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author
1894 Aaron Avshalomov, composer
1894 Winifred Kingston, England, silent screen actress (David Garrick)
1895 Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor
1895 Jacov Gotovac, composer
1897 Gordon W Allport, American psychologist (personalities)
1898 Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher
1898 Rene Clair, French film director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow) (d. 1981)
1899 Harold "Pie" Traynor, baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1899 Pat O'Brien, American film actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces) (d. 1983)
1900 Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928) (d. 1989)
1900 Hugh Scott, minority Senate whip (Sen-R-Penn)
1900 John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)
1901 F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978)
1901 Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945)
1901 Sam Spiegel, Austrian-American film producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai) (d. 1985)
1903 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine
1904 Alger Hiss, American State Department official and spy (hid papers in a pumpkin) (d. 1996)
1904 J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1905 Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer
1909 Robert Ryan, American actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day) (d. 1973)
1910 Arnold D W Tilanus, Dutch MP (CHU)
1910 Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952)
1910 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician, socialist
1910 Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician
1911 Patric Knowles (Reginald Lawrence Knowles), English actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny)
1911 Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
1912 Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch
1912 Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
1913 German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer
1913 Peter Black, TV critic
1914 Daisy Bates, publisher, head (Arkansas NAACP)
1914 Hansje Toussaint (Hermina A Schenk), singer (Sing of the Cross)
1914 Henry Wade, American lawyer (d. 2001)
1914 Howard Fast, American author, screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus) (d. 2003)
1914 James G. Baker, American astonomer and optician (d. 2005)
1914 Perry Bass, Texas billionaire
1915 Bernhard Heiliger, sculptor
1915 William Proxmire, American politician (Sen-D-WI, 1957-88) (Golden Fleece Awards) (d. 2005)
1916 Eladio Rusconi, writer, publisher, businessman
1916 Robert Carr, British conservative politician
1917 Julien-Francois Zbinden, composer
1917 (Dallas) Mack-McCord Reynolds, American sci-fi author (Earth War)
1918 Jurg Baur, composer
1918 Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou) (d. 1997)
1919 Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920 Roy Jenkins, British MP (d. 2003)
1921 Terrell Bell, American politician (d. 1996)
1922 Kurt Vonnegut, American author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan) (d. 2007)
1924 Piet J A van der Sanden, Dutch MP (CDA)
1924 Rusi Modi, Indian cricketer
1925 Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy)
1925 June Whitfield, British comedian
1926 Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1926 Richard Tufeld, Los Angeles, California, voice actor (Lost in Space), (d. 2012)
1927 Lord Wolfson, English multi-millionaire
1927 Mose Allison, American jazz pianist and singer (Black Country Suite)
1928 Arthur Cunningham, composer
1928 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
1928 Edward Zorinsky, (Sen-D-NB, 1976-88)
1928 Ernestine Anderson, jazz vocalist
1928 Gracita Morales, Spanish actress (d. 1995)
1928 Trevor Meale, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v England 1958)
1929 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author (Death of Artemio Cruz)
1929 H(ans) M(agnus) Enzensberger, German writer
1929 LaVern Baker, American R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear) (d. 1997)
1930 Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
1930 Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
1930 Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion designer
1930 Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
1931 Fortney H (Pete) Stark, (Rep-D-CA, 1973)
1932 Al Levitt, drummer
1932 Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist and former-anchorman
1934 Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (Scenes From a Marriage)
1934 Elzbieta Krzesinska, Polish long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 Jim Perry, American and Canadian television host
1934 Jim Perry, Canadian-American television personality.
1934 Paula Myers-Pope, American platform diver, 2 silver, 1 bronze (Oly 1952-60)
1936 Jack Keller, American songwriter (d. 2005)
1936 Mala Sinha, Bollywood film actress
1936 Susan Kohner, American actress (Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story)
1937 Buddy Jimmy Lee Land Ace, singer
1937 Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
1937 Warner Wolf, Wash DC, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV)
1938 Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater
1938 Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1938 John Reilly, Chicago, actor (Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons)
1938 Josef Odozil, Czech, 1500m (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 Narvel Felts, country singer
1938 Roger Laver (Jackson), keyboardist (Tornados)
1939 Claudia Boyarskikh, Soviet 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 Denise Alexander, American actress (Mary McKinnon-Another World)
1940 Barbara Boxer, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983-92, Sen-D-CA, 1993)
1941 Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (The Youngbloods)
1942 Roy Fredericks, cricketer (brilliant WI lefty opener 169 v Aust 1975)
1943 Chas Hodges, musician
1943 Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
1943 Jan Adamski, Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
1943 Karin Kent (Janneke Kanteman), Dutch singer
1944 Kemal Sunal,Turkish actor
1945 Chris Dreja, London, rocker (Yardbirds)
1945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-90)
1945 Denise Alexander, American actress (General Hospital, Another World)
1945 Niaz Ahmed, cricketer (1st & last East Pakistani to play Test cricket)
1945 Vince Martell, American guitarist (Vanilla Fudge)
1946 Al Holbert, American racing driver and team owner (d. 1988)
1946 Chip Hawkes, rocker
1946 Chris Dreja, British musician (The Yardbirds)
1946 Corrine Brown, (Rep-D-Florida)
1946 Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10, T-15, TM-10)
1947 Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist
1947 Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian
1947 Pat "Dirty" Daugherty, rocker (Black Oak Arkansas)
1948 Vincent Schiavelli, actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Playroom, Waiting for the Light)
1949 Kathy Postlewait, Norfolk VA, LPGA golfer (1989 Sara Lee)
1950 Ed Ordynski, Australian rally driver
1950 Jim Peterik, American musician and songwriter (Survivor)
1950 Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet
1950 Otis Armstrong, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1950 Rex Samuel Sellers, Auckland NZ, Tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1950 Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist
1951 Bill Moseley, Actor (The Devil's Rejects)
1951 Fuzzy (Frank) Zoeller, New Albany IN, PGA golfer (Masters 1981)
1951 Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
1951 Marc Summers, American game show host
1952 Paul Cowsill, Newport RI, rock keyboardist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
1953 Andy Partridge, English vocalist, guitarist (XTC)
1953 Kostas Skandalidis, Greek politician
1953 Marshall Crenshaw, American musician
1954 Gail Marquis, WBL forward (NY Stars, Olympic-silver-1976)
1954 Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
1955 Dave Alvin, American songwriter and guitarist
1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972)
1956 Billy Smith, Reidsville NC, country singer (Billy & Terry Smith)
1956 Ian Craig Marsh, England, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1958 Carlos Lacamara, Cuban-born American Actor
1958 Luz Casal, Spanish singer
1959 Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1959 Vincent Irizarry, American actor (Guiding Light, Santa Barbara)
1960 Chuck Hernandez, American baseball coach
1960 Lawrence Bayne, Canadian actor
1960 Lisa Welch Semler, Aberdeen Md, playmate (Sep, 1980)
1960 Peter Parros, American actor
1960 Stanley Tucci, American actor (The Hunger Games), and director
1961 Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist
1961 Matt Ghaffari, Tehran Iran, US greco-roman wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1961 Steve Young, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1962 Demi Moore (Guynes), American actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane)
1962 James Morrison, Australian musician
1962 Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
1963 Vinnie Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buckineers)
1964 Anabel Alonso, Spanish actress
1964 Calista Flockhart, American actress (Ally McBeal, Guiding Light)
1964 Jon Hough, Royal Oak MI, Nike golfer (1986 NAIA Individual Natl Champ)
1964 Philip McKeon, Westbury NY, actor (Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High)
1964 Robert Haynes, cricketer (Jamaica & WI leggie, one-dayer but no Tests)
1964 Roberto Hernandez, Santurce Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1965 Brian Wilson, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 Max Mutchnick, American TV writer and producer
1965 Ruthie Matthes, Sun Valley Idaho, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1966 Alison Doody, Irish actress (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
1966 Benedicta Boccoli, Milan Italy
1966 Gina Pillitiere, Akron Oh, WPVA volleyballer (National-25th-1994)
1967 Bill Musgrave, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1967 Frank John Hughes, Actor (Catch Me If You Can)
1967 Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1968 David L. Cook, American singer and comedian
1968 Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1968 John Jett, NFL punter (Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions)
1968 Lin Elliott, NFL kicker (KC Chiefs)
1968 Wyatt Pauley, Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1969 Carson Kressley, American television personality, world champion equestrian
1969 Damion Easley, NYC, infielder (California Angels)
1969 Dave Moore, NFL tight end/fullback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 Jeff Sydner, NFL wide receiver/punt returner (NY Jets)
1969 Kristen Wilson, American actress
1969 LaRee Pearl Sugg, American LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-15th)
1969 Michael Owens, cricket pace bowler (NZ Test)
1970 Derry Brownson, rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 Jeff Ware, Norfolk VA, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 Lee Battersby, Australian author
1970 Lee Parkin Starsky, daughter of Ringo)
1971 David DeLuise, American actor
1971 Jennifer Celotta, American TV producer and writer
1971 Melvin Tuten, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1971 Paul Chaloner, English TV e-sports commentator
1971 Ryan Hancock, Santa Clara CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1972 Adam Beach, Canadian actor (Flags of Our Fathers)
1972 Cornell Thomas, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1972 Jack Jackson, NFL, CFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Leslie Mann, American actress
1972 Steve Konowalchuk, Salt Lake City, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1972 Tyler Christopher, American actor
1973 Jason Bowen, Port Alice, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1973 Jason White, American musician (Green Day)
1973 Melissa Stark, American sportscaster/journalist
1973 Stacy Perrone, Wolcott Conn, Meet Miss America-Connecticut (1997)
1973 Terrance Shaw, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor (Luke-Growing Pains, The Departed, Gangs of New York)
1974 Phillip Ward, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Static Major, American singer (d. 2008)
1974 Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
1975 Angelica Vale Mexican actress
1976 Jason Grilli, American baseball player
1976 Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian musician
1976 Lisa Gleave, Australian-American actress and model
1977 Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002)
1977 Maniche, Portuguese footballer
1978 Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
1980 Willie Parker, American football player
1981 Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1981 Natalie Glebova, Russian-Canadian beauty pageant contestant (Miss Universe 2005)
1982 Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1982 Jeremy Williams, British Actor
1982 Lil' Dave (Davis Shelton), American rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1982 Shimon Moore, Australian musician, singer and guitarist in Sick Puppies
1983 Brittny Gastineau, American socialite
1983 Matt Garza, American baseball player
1983 Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1984 Ashley Hunt, Actor (Children of Earth: Day Two)
1985 Austin Collie, American Football player
1985 Jessica Sierra, American singer (American Idol season 4 finalist)
1985 Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
1986 François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
1987 Lindsey Grubbs, Actress (Night at the Builtman)
1987 Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)
1988 Alexandra Kyle, American actress (13 Going on 30)
1989 Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer (Morning Musume)
1990 Ashley Rose, Actress (My Neighbor Totoro)
1991 Christa B. Allen, American actress (13 Going on 30)
1991 William Goslett The 6th and most influential member of the Jackson 5.
1992 Ashleigh Cummings, Actress (Tomorrow, When the War Began)
1992 Trey Smith, American actor, Son of Will Smith and Sheree Fletcher
1993 Cole Heppell, Actor (Red Riding Hood)
1993 Sam Gerber, Actor, Sleepwalkers
1994 Connor Price, Canadian actor (Good Luck Chuck)
1995 Giorgos Ioannidis, Junior Eurovision Song Contest
1996 Reilly Tangen, Actress (Never)
2002 Ian Patrick, Actor (Looper)

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307 Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07)
397 Martinus (St Maarten), French saint, Roman bishop of Tours (b. 316)
405 Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople
511 Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische
537 Pope Silverius, saint
826 Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist, poet, saint (b. 759)
865 Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General
1150 Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50)
1331 Stefanus VIII Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia (1322-31)
1528 Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers
1623 Philippe de Mornay, French writer (b. 1549)
1638 Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
1641 Ferdinand van Austrian, cardinal of Spain
1675 Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru (b. 1621)
1686 Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (b. 1621)
1686 Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602)
1724 Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), English highwayman (executed) (b. c.1700)
1755 Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent
1772 John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter
1810 Johann-John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi)
1812 Platon Levshin, Metropoitan of Moscow (b. 1737)
1831 Nat Turner, American slave rebel, led a violent insurrection, hanged with 19 associates in VA (b. 1800)
1855 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
1861 Pedro V van Alcantara, King of Portugal (1853-61)
1862 James Madison Porter, American politician (b. 1793)
1880 Lucretia Mott, American feminist and abolitionist, quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention) (b. 1793)
1880 Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c.1855)
1884 Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827)
1887 Haymarket defendants: George Engel (b. 1836), Adolph Fischer (b. 1858), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), August Spies (b. 1855)
1895 Julius Tausch, composer, dies at 68
1901 Antonio Zamara, composer, dies at 72
1907 Henry Gadsby, composer, dies at 64
1912 Jose Canalejas Y Mendez, premier Spain, murdered
1912 Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75
1917 Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Last Queen of Hawaii (1891-93) (b. 1838)
1918 George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
1918 Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist, foreign minister
1929 Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
1930 W W Whysall, English cricketer
1931 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1936 Edward German, composer
1938 Typhoid Mary, carrier of the typhoid disease (b. 1869)
1939 Jan Opletal, Czech student, victim of Nazi violence in Prague (b. 1915)
1942 Anton H Blaauw, botanist (Perception of the Lichtes)
1942 Hector Abbas, actor, director (Rosa Lynd Company)
1945 Jerome Kern, American composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane) (b. 1885)
1947 Martin Dibelius, German theologist (That Drawer Jahwes)
1950 Alexandros Diomidis, governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
1953 Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
1954 John Rosamund Johnson, composer
1955 John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18)
1956 Victor Young, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1962 Joseph Allen Jr, actor (All Women Have Secrets)
1962 René Coty, pres of France
1964 Edward Steuermann, composer
1964 H(enry) Beam Piper, American sci-fi author (4 Day Planet)
1965 Gaston Glass, actor (Opening Your Eyes)
1967 Harry Seymour, composer/actor (Tenderfoot)
1967 Jordan Whitfield, actor (Swamp Fox)
1968 Jeanne Demessieux, composer
1969 Frank Newburg, actor (Homemaker)
1972 Berry Oakley, Bass Player and founder (Allman Brothers Band), dies in a car crash (b. 1948)
1973 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1973 Stringbean (David Akeman), banjoist, comedian (Hee Haw)
1974 Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
1974 Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces)
1975 Marty May, (Fireball Fun For All)
1976 Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
1976 E Q Davies, South African cricketer
1977 Abraham Sarmiento Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (b. 1950)
1977 Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
1979 Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1984 Jan Novak, composer, dies at 63
1984 Martin Luther King Sr., American civil rights leader, father of MLK Jr
1986 Roger C Carmel, actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law)
1987 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58)
1987 Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide
1988 William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor & organist (b. 1900)
1990 Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (b. 1898)
1990 Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1990 Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, won Lenin Peace Prize (b. 1909)
1992 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, cosmonaut
1992 Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic, mayor of Rome
1993 Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player, big band leader, composer (After Hours) (b. 1914)
1993 Harry R "Rob" Haldeman, White House chief of staff (Nixon)
1994 Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart)
1994 Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi)
1994 Frances Tustin, child Psychologist
1994 John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1908)
1994 Pedro Zamora, Cuban-American AIDS activist (b. 1972)
1994 Tadeusz Zychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (b. 1922)
1995 Charles Scribner Jr, publisher
1995 Cornelie Coposu, politician
1995 Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist, enthomusicologist
1996 Helen Rosenthal, Teacher, health administrator
1997 Rodney Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
1998 Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1999 Jacobo Timmerman, Argentine writer and journalist (b. 1923)
1999 Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
2003 Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929)
2004 Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2004 Yasser Arafat, co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, revolutionary (nobel prize winner (b. 1929)
2005 Keith Andes, American actor (b. 1920)
2005 Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer and director (b. 1930)
2005 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
2005 Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
2006 Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
2006 Harry Lehotsky, pastor and activist (b. 1957)
2007 Delbert Mann, American film director (b. 1920)
2008 Herb Score, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 Dhanpat Rai Nahar, Indian labour leader (b. 1919)
2010 Baby Marie Osborne, American actress (b. 1911)
2010 William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
2013 George Reinholt, American actor
2013 Eddie McGrady, Northern Irish politician (SDLP) unseated Enoch Powell
2015 Philthy Animal [Phil Taylor], English rock drummer (Motorhead)

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