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461 St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
615 Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
1095 The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1302 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
1493 Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1521 Battle at Milan, Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan
1523 Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1530 Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms
1544 Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1621 Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1644 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1700 Battle at Narva: Swedish King Karel XII defeats Russians
1794 Jakobin Club forms in Paris
1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1805 Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent
1816 Warsaw University is established.
1824 Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1837 Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1847 The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1861 Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the American Civil War "4 score & 7 years...".
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 Natl Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1881 A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
1893 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
1894 Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1909 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1910 Ferenc Molnàrs "Tester," premieres in Budapest
1911 NY receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1923 Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite," premieres
1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1933 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails
1941 Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran in World War II, The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1942 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
1942 Battle of Stalingrad of World War II, Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1943 Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the World War II effort.
1946 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1946 Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours
1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1948 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 Spain joins UNESCO
1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1953 US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1954 Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 National Review publishes its first issue.
1957 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1958 First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1959 "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
1959 The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
1960 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1961 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in NYC
1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1965 ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1966 Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1967 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1968 Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees
1968 Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 Football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1969 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Ft Wilderness opens
1972 "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
1972 "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
1972 Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1975 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1976 George Harrison releases "This Song"
1976 Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
1976 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1977 Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1977 Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130.
1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1979 Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1983 Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization"
1984 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1984 NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1984 San Juanico Disaster, A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1985 In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1985 Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
1985 Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion USD judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1986 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1986 Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances," premieres in NYC
1987 France performs nuclear test
1988 LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1988 Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1989 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1990 Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990 Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1991 Balt Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1992 "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1993 Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1994 Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1994 In Great Britain, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1994 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1995 "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV
1995 "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1995 "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances
1995 83rd CFL Grey Cup, Balt Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20
1995 CNET lauches www.shareware.com
1995 Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1996 "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
1996 "Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC
1996 Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
1996 The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
1997 "Eugene Onegin," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.
1997 STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
1998 The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky scandal.
1998 Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
1999 In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.
1999 The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft (Shenzhou 1)
2005 Auburn beats Alabama 28-18 in Auburn at the 70th Iron Bowl
2006 BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes, 25-14 in the 94th CFL Grey Cup
2010 New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed
2011 Notre Dame beats Boston College 16-14 in South Bend at the 21st College Football Holy War
2013 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

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1464 Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
1563 Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
1597 Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
1600 Charles I, King of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament (d. 1649)
1600 Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
1600 Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian (Matters of State & War)
1607 Erasmus Quellinus II (Quellien), Flemish painter, etcher
1617 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
1700 Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
1709 Pierre Leclair, composer
1711 Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar, poet, polymath (d. 1765)
1722 Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
1722 Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
1752 George Rogers Clark, American military leader (Revolutionary War) (d. 1818)
1753 Stanislas Champein, composer
1761 Joseph Supries, composer
1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (Dying Lion)
1796 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer
1802 Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer (Suez Canal) (d. 1894)
1808 Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian politician (d. 1881)
1810 August Willich, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1878)
1811 John Ancrum Winslow, Comm (Union Navy) (d. 1873)
1812 Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
1827 Isaac Munroe St John, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1880)
1831 James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (March 4th - Sept 19th, 1881) (d. 1881)
1833 Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans) (d. 1911)
1834 Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke) (d. 1924)
1835 Fitzhugh Lee, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1905)
1835 Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
1843 Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
1846 Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes in the Red Monastery)
1855 Billy Bates, English cricketer
1859 Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (Armenian Rhapsody) (d. 1935)
1862 Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
1864 George Barbier, American actor (Tarzan's Revenge, Wife vs Secretary)
1870 Vicente Lleo, composer
1874 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer
1875 Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker, President (the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet) (d. 1946)
1876 Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
1879 Karel van den Oever, Flemish author, poet (Geuzenstad)
1883 Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
1885 Erskine Sanford, American actor (Angel on My Shoulder)
1886 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Le Cocu Magnificent)
1887 James B. Sumner, American chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate) (d. 1955)
1888 José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player, champion (1921-27) (d. 1942)
1891 Clifton Webb (Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck), American actor (Laura) (d. 1966)
1892 Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (d. 1970)
1893 René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
1894 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
1895 Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1896 Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
1897 Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
1898 Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
1898 Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
1899 Allen Tate, American poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems) and critic (d. 1979)
1899 Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
1900 Anna Seghers (Netty Radvanyi-Reiling), German author (7th Cross) (d. 1983)
1900 Anton Walbrook (Adolf Wohlbrook), Austrian actor (Laura)
1900 Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
1900 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
1902 Trevor Bardette, American actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape)
1903 Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer
1904 Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter
1904 Nancy Carroll (Ann V LaHiff), American actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1904 Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
1905 Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (Stage Show, Mahogany) (d. 1956)
1906 Henri Temianka, composer
1906 Jacques Leguerney, composer
1907 Christian J H English (Luc Tournier), Dutch-Curacaos painter, composer
1907 Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
1908 Alan Baxter, American actor (Big Town Girl, Rags to Riches)
1908 Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki, composer
1909 Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
1909 Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams
1910 Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
1912 George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (ribosomen) (Nobel laureate 1974) (d. 2008)
1915 Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1974)
1917 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1966-1977, 1980-1984) (d. 1984)
1918 Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant
1919 Alan Young, British-born American actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed) (Mister Ed)
1919 George Fenneman, Chinese TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1919 Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
1920 Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura) (d. 1991)
1920 Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner
1921 Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
1921 Roy Campanella, American baseball player, catcher (Dodgers) (NL MVP 1951/53/55) (d. 1993)
1922 Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
1922 Stanley K Runcorn, British geophysicist (Doctor of Utrecht)
1922 Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
1924 William Russell, British actor
1925 Zygmunt Bauman, Polish Sociologist
1926 Jeane J Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
1929 Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
1929 Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
1930 Bob Mathias, Tulare California, decathelete (Olympics-gold-48)
1933 Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
1933 Larry King, American radio and TV personality (Larry King Show, CNN)
1934 Dave Guard, rocker
1934 David Lloyd-Jones, conductor
1935 John F Welch Jr, American businessman, CEO (GE)
1935 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
1936 Dick Cavett, American talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
1936 Emin Aristakesian, composer
1936 Michel Decoust, composer
1936 Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 Ray Collins, Musician (Mothers of Invention)
1938 Frank Misson, Australian cricketer
1938 Hank Medress, American rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1938 Richard Dumbrill, South African cricketer
1938 Ted Turner, American broadcasting mogul, owner (Atlanta Braves), won America's Cup
1939 Garrick Utley, American newscaster (1st Tuesday, NBC Weekend)
1939 Pete Moore, American musician (Miracles)
1939 Thomas Harkin, (Sen-D-Iowa, 1985)
1939 Tom Harkin, American politician
1939 Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer (Miracles-Tears of a Clown)
1940 Alberto Villalpando, composer
1941 Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams)
1941 Ivanka Khristova, Bulgarian shot putter (Olympic-gold-1976)
1941 Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Governor of Wisconsin
1942 Calvin Klein, American clothing designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK)
1942 Gary L Ackerman, (Rep-D-NY, 1983)
1942 Lawrence Allen Gilbert, American PGA golfer (1994 Dallas Reunion)
1942 Sharon Olds, American poet
1943 Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
1943 Fred Lipsius, American pianist, sax (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1943 Sharon Wilder, LPGA golfer
1944 Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
1944 Charlie Coe, bassist (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1944 Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
1945 Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
1946 Joe Correro, American drummer (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1947 Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager (Phillies, Angels)
1947 Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Jabberwocky)
1947 Lamar S. Smith, American politician (Rep-R-Texas)
1949 Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), American football player, NFL receiver (Minnesota Vikings), sportscaster
1949 Dennis Taylor, British snooker champion
1949 Mickey Lee Davis Jr, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1949 Nigel Bennett, English actor
1950 Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian-American chess grandmaster
1951 Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
1951 Timothy J Penny, (Rep-D-MN, 1983)
1951 Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
1952 Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and anti-war activist
1953 Robert Beltran, American actor (Night of the Comet)
1953 Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
1954 Annette Guest, American singer (First Choice)
1954 Gail Stanton, American playmate (Jun, 1978)
1954 Kathleen Quinlan, American actress (Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Apollo 13)
1954 Tom Scheckel, American  drummer (Buckinghams)
1955 Bill Buttner, American Nike golfer (1989 Centel Classic-4th)
1955 Gloria Guida, Italian Miss Teenage Italy (1974)
1955 Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
1956 Ann Curry, American journalist and television anchor
1956 Eileen Marie Collins, Elmira NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 63, 84)
1956 Glynnis O'Connor, American actress (California Dreaming, Ode to Billy Joe)
1956 Scott Jacoby, American actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High)
1957 George Leary, Canadian trap shooter (Olympics-16-92, 96)
1957 Kathy Sanborn, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1957 Otis J Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl MVP)
1957 Robert Beltran, actor (Star Trek Voyager)
1957 Sharon Farrah, WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 Tom Virtue, American actor
1958 Charlie Kaufman, Writer (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1958 Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
1958 Terrence "T.C." Carson, American actor
1959 Allison Janney, American actress (American Beauty)
1959 Jean-Francois Clervoy, French astronaut (STS 66, 84)g
1960 Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestling manager (d. 2003)
1960 Matt Sorum, American drummer (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver)
1961 Grant Ledyard, Canadian NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 Jim L. Mora, American football coach
1961 Meg Ryan, American actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns)
1962 Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Philippine boxer
1962 Jodie Foster, American actress (Taxi Driver, Accused, The Silence of the Lambs)
1962 Salim Jaffer, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 14 Tests 1986-91)
1962 Sean Parnell, 12th Governor of Alaska
1963 Jon Potter, British field hockey player
1963 Justine Greiner, Boston Mass, playmate (February, 1984)
1963 Terry Farrell, American actress (Paper Dolls, Jadzia Dax-STDS9, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth)
1963 Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
1964 Jeni Lidgett, Australian 470 class yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
1965 Erik Wilhelm, NFL quarterback (NY Jets)
1965 Laurent Blanc, French footballer
1965 Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
1966 Brian Wilsterman, soccer player (Dordreecht '90)
1966 Gail Devers, American athlete, 60m and 100m hurdler (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 Jason Scott Lee, American actor (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story)
1966 Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
1966 Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi
1967 Gary Disarcina, American baseball player, MLB infielder (California Angels)
1968 Gord Fraser, Canadian road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 Matt Darby, NFL safety (Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Steven Penn, American team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1969 Erika Alexander, American actress (Deja Vu)
1969 Philippe Adams, Belgian racing driver
1969 Richard Virenque, French cyclist
1969 Rod Mapstone, Australian long jumper (Olympics-96)
1970 Berthil de Avest, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Twente)
1970 Bhupinder Singh Jr, Indian cricketer
1970 Jenni Meno, American pairs skaters (Olympics-1994)
1970 Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)
1970 Larry Tharpe, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1970 Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Adrian Griffith, West Indian cricketer (Test opening batsman 1997)
1971 Alice Peacock, American folk singer
1971 Andy Sheets, American baseball player, MLB infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1971 Dimitri Yushkevich, Russian NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leaf)
1971 Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
1971 Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)
1971 Michelle Andrews, Australian field hockey striker (Oly-96)
1971 Rickey Brady, WLAF TE (Scotland Claymores)
1972 David Palmer, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress (Resident Evil: Apocalypse)
1973 Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
1973 Daniel Meech, Hastings NZ, equestrian showjumper (Olympics-96)
1973 Django Haskins, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter
1973 Jamir Miller, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer
1973 Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer (Bring in 'da Noise)
1973 Takashi Matsumoto, Japanese photographer and business person
1974 Orlando Fuentes, American half-lightweight judoka (Oly-96)\
1975 Ju-Yeon Choi, Korean tennis star (1995 Futures-Seoul-KOR II)
1975 Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
1976 Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
1976 Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
1976 Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player, NHL forward (Team Czech Rep, NJ Devils)
1976 Robin Dunne, Actor (Cruel Intentions 2)
1976 Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer
1977 Kerri Strug, American gymnast (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 Lady Davina EAB Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
1977 Reid Scott, Actor (Amusement)
1978 Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
1978 Vera Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
1979 John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
1979 Keith Buckley American singer (Every Time I Die)
1979 Larry Johnson, American football player
1979 Leam Richardson, English footballer
1979 Ryan Howard, American baseball player
1980 Adele Silva, English actress
1980 Courtney Anderson, American football player
1980 Otis Grigsby, American football player
1980 Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
1981 DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, songwriter (Epik High)
1981 Marcus Banks, American basketball player
1982 Samantha Zweben, Actress (Step Up 2: The Streets)
1983 Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
1983 Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
1984 Bobby Naderi, Actor (Argo)
1984 Dawid Kucharski, Polish football player
1984 Liana Mendoza, Actress (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra)
1985 Chris Eagles, English footballer
1986 Jeannie Ortega, American actress, dancer, and songwriter.
1986 Milan Smiljanic, Serbian footballer
1986 Veronica Scott, American fashion designer
1987 Aaron M. Johnson, Director (The Mandalorian Legacy)
1988 Erin Micklow, Actress (The Ugly Truth)
1988 Patrick Kane, American ice-hockey player
1989 Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper.
1989 Tyga, American rapper
1990 Kyle Rothstein, Actor (The White Countess)
1991 Andrew H. Rogers, Actor (Big Guns)
1991 Vanessa Cage, Adult Actress (Revenge of the Petites)
1992 Constanza Piccoli, Actress (Bakán)
1993 Cleo Massey, Actress (I'm Home)
1994 Kayla Girling, Actress (Risky Business)
1995 Eric Ventker, Actor (Die Könige der Straße)
1997 Brooklyn Garrison, Actress (Wednesday's Farewell)
1997 Alexis May McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (2), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1997 Brandon James McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (5), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1997 Joel Steven McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (7), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1997 Kelsey Ann McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (4), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1997 Kenneth Robert McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (1), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1997 Natalie Sue McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (3), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1997 Nathaniel Roy McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (6), world's first surviving set of septuplets
1999 Denisse Peña, Actress (Los monstruos no hacen cosquillas)
2009 Prince Gaston d'Orléans

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498 Anastasius II, Pope (496-498) (Mentioned in Dante's Inferno XI, 8-9)
1272 David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister, author
1316 Jan I, king of France (Nov 15-19 1316)
1389 Dimitri Ivanovitch "Donskoi", monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal
1472 Joannes-Basilius Bessarion, archbishop of Nicaea
1478 Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
1492 Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1495 Alfonso II, king of Naples (1494-95)
1557 Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1577 Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1630 Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova) (b. 1586)
1649 Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
1665 Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
1672 John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1682 Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
1692 Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors)
1692 Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
1703 Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris
1719 Jean Deutz, minster of Heemskerk, merchant, Amsterdam regent
1723 Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1772 William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1773 James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
1785 Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
1795 Thomas Linley, composer
1798 (Theobald) Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
1804 Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer (b. 1728)
1810 Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)
1822 Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1823 Alvin Smith, Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1798)
1825 Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer
1828 Franz P Schubert, Austria composer (That Schone Mullerin) (b. 1797)
1850 Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
1854 Alberich Zwyssig, composer
1868 Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1880 Bernard de Hair, vicar, poet, church historian
1883 William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
1887 Emma Lazarus, American poet ("Give us your tired & poor") (b. 1849)
1897 William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
1899 (Maria) Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Medea)
1908 Albert Dietrich, composer
1911 Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered
1915 Joe Hill, American labor activist, songwriter, executed for murder (b. 1879)
1915 Solomon Schechter, theologist
1917 Basil Grieve, South African cricketer
1918 Joseph F. Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
1923 French Netscher, author, journalist (In 3rd Chamber)
1924 Lee Stack, British sirdar in Egypt/gov-gen of Sudan, murdered
1924 Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
1928 Achille Simonetti, composer
1929 Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal)
1931 Frederic Cliffe, composer
1931 Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
1932 Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor, poster artist
1933 Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/vice-president
1935 F S Gough-Calthorpe, cricketer (England captain v WI 1930)
1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader
1938 Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
1942 Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b. 1892)
1942 Edouard Combe, composer
1943 Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine)
1949 James Ensor, Flemish painter/etcher (Oestereetster)
1950 Thomas Wood, composer
1954 Walter Bartley Wilson, English artist, founding member (Cardiff City F.C) (b. 1870)
1956 Francis L Sullivan, actor (Joan of Arc, Winslow Boy)
1959 Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism)
1959 Gerard J Arbous, actor, publicist (Bohemian Amsterdam)
1959 Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
1960 Phyllis Haver, American actress (Don Juan), commits suicide (b. 1899)
1963 Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer
1967 Charles J. Watters, American Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1971 Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights)
1973 Cyril Allcott, cricketer (6 Tests for NZ, 113 runs & 6 wickets)
1974 George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1975 Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1976 Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1981 Griffiths Mxenge, South Afr's anti-apartheid advocate, murdered
1982 Erving Goffman, US, sociologist (Asylums)
1983 Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B)
1983 Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1984 George D Aiken, (Sen-R-Vt, 1941-75)
1985 Lall Singh, Indian cricketer
1985 Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Penny), American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
1987 Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
1988 Christina Onassis, American-born Greek heiress and socialite (b. 1950)
1990 Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
1991 Reggie Nalder, actor (Mark of Devil)
1992 Bobby Russell, American songwriter (Honey, Little Green Apples) (b. 1941)
1992 Diane Varsi, American actress (Allison-Peyton Place, Bloody Mama) (b. 1938)
1992 Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of Pres George Bush
1993 Dorothy Revier, actress (Sally on the Subway)
1994 Dedrick Gobert, US actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death
1994 Julian Gustave Symons, Detective writer (Death's Darkest Face)
1994 Li Yuan Artist-chia
1995 Bruce Trent, singer
1995 Gwen Swire, socila worker
1995 Martha Hill, modern dancer, teacher
1995 Shirley Bergeron, singer, guitarist
1996 Denis Jenkinson, journalist
1996 Edward Kassner, music publisher
1996 Ian Powell Bancroft, civil servant
1996 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist, diplomat
1997 Christina Corrigan, obese girl (680 lbs)
1997 Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed
1997 Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher, writer
1997 Walter Stewart, murderer, executed
1998 Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
1998 Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
2001 Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
2003 Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
2004 George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
2004 Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2004 John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist (Nobel laureate) (b. 1927)
2004 Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
2004 Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer, son of Doris Day (b. 1942)
2005 Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
2007 Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
2007 Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
2007 Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
2008 Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (b. 1955)
2010 Pat Burns, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1952)
2011 Michael Hastings, British playwright
2014 Mike Nichols (Peschowsky), German-born American director

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