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498 After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
845 The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
1221 Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America
1573 The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
1574 Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1675 English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1683 Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London
1699 Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1707 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
1714 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1718 Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
1794 Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1812 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek in the War of 1812.
1830 Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1831 Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1837 Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie called for a rebellion against Great Britain in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
1851 Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris)
1858 Denver, Colorado is founded.
1861 Battle of Ft McRee, FL
1864 Sherman's March to the Sea of the American Civil War, Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
1864 Battle at Griswoldville of the American Civil War, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.
1872 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo," premieres in Prague
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1898 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1899 Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1905 British, Italian-Russian French & Aust-Hung fleet attack Lesbos
1906 Intl Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1908 The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1918 Grand duke Frederik II resigns, Bathe
1918 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
1918 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland
1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
1919 Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government
1923 Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1926 Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside Brit Commonwealth
1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in NYC
1927 Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St NYC
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
1928 The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
1929 Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG
1930 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1931 Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres
1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1935 China Clipper took off from Alameda, California
1935 The China Clipper (flying boat) takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight and carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
1936 19th PGA Championship, Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC
1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1940 Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa in World War II.
1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1941 NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
1942 Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1942 Battle of Stalingrad of World War II, General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
1943 Lebanon declares independence from the French administration.
1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1943 War in the Pacific of World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
1944 Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1950 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1952 A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1954 The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
1955 RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records & Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1955 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1957 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY
1957 Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
1959 AFL's 1st draft NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
1959 Boston Patriots enters AFL
1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1961 St Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
1963 American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK
1963 In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who is later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
1963 Lyndon B Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 perfs
1965 Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
1965 Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 32nd Heisman Trophy Award, Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
1968 Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 In American football, the University of Michigan upset Ohio State University, 24-12, in Bo Schembechler's first season as Michigan's head coach. The win set off the 10 Year War between Schembechler and Ohio State's Woody Hayes. (See also Michigan-Ohio State rivalry).
1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard U
1971 "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances
1972 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)
1972 US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1973 The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
1974 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1974 The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status, right to sovereignty.
1975 Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1976 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts
1977 British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1977 First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1981 "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances
1981 69th CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23
1981 Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
1981 SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1984 Fred Rogers of PBS "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1985 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
1985 Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
1985 PNP, MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1986 Mike Tyson defeats (KO) Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
1988 In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1989 In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 Prof Amos Sawyer installed as interim pres of Liberia
1991 NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
1992 Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
1992 Wash Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1993 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf
1995 Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women
1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1996 OJ Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1998 Albania constitution adopted by popular referendum.
2002 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
2003 In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
2004 The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2008 YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
2012 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
2012 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92
2013 Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship
2014 Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona sets a new goal scoring record in La Liga of 253 goals
2015 In Argentine elections Mauricio Macri (PRO) wins a narrow election victory over his left-wing opponent

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1458 Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
1511 Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician (calculated planetary table)
1515 Marie of Guise, Queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
1535 John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Neth royal family
1564 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
1579 Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist
1602 Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
1606 Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher
1635 Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
1643 René R Cavelier sieur de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1690 Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
1698 Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
1709 Frantisek Benda, composer
1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, son of J.S. Bach (Sinfonias 64) (d. 1784)
1721 Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
1722 Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1767 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
1771 Paul R Cantzlaar, Governor of Saba, St-Eustatius, Curacao, Dutch-West Indies
1780 Conradin Kreutzer, composer
1780 Jose Cecilio del Valle, Honduran Politician (d. 1834)
1787 Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
1805 Benjamin Hugur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1808 Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur, founder (Cook travel bureau) (d. 1892)
1814 Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
1818 Samuel Gibbs French, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1910)
1819 George Eliot (Mary A Evans), English author (Silas Marner) (d. 1880)
1823 Nathan Kimball, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1898)
1832 George Henry Chapman, Bvt Maj Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1882)
1835 Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1838 Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer
1842 Anna S Barbiers, actress (Uncle Tom)
1849 Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
1849 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German historian (Germany & the Next War)
1852 Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat (Nobel laureate) (d. 1924)
1856 Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th pres of Mormon church (d. 1945)
1857 George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life)
1868 John Nance Garner, 32nd U.S. Vice President (1933-1941) (d. 1967)
1869 André Gide, French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures) (Nobel laureate 1947) (d. 1951)
1870 Howard Brockway, composer
1873 Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer
1873 Leopold Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1875 Elizabeth Patterson, American actress (Climax, Tall Story)
1875 Georges Rency, Belgian poet
1877 Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
1877 Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1878 Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Disputed Emperors of Russia (d. 1918)
1884 Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
1888 Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel
1890 Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69) (d. 1970)
1891 Bengt Axel von Torne, composer
1891 Edward Bernays, PR expert
1891 Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Theory of Money & Capital)
1893 Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)
1893 M Kaganovitsj Kogan, people's commissioner for Stalin
1896 Mario La Broca, composer
1896 Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer (against Pasternak) [OS]
1897 Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
1898 Wiley Post, American pilot, parachutist (crashed in Alaska) (d. 1935)
1899 Hoagy Carmichael, American actor, composer (Stardust) (d. 1981)
1900 Hugo Godron, composer
1900 Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
1901 Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
1902 Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
1902 Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American Cellist (Chicago Symph Orch) (d. 1942)
1902 Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
1902 Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Rhodesian politician (d. 1990)
1903 Herbert Sally Frankel, economist
1904 Louis Néel, French physicist (Nobel laureate) (d. 2000)
1904 Roland Winters, American actor (Mama, Smothers Brothers)
1905 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1906 Howard Petrie, American actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter)
1906 Lee Patrick, American actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon)
1907 Bernard Naylor, composer
1907 Dick Bartell, baseball player
1908 Michael Balfour, historian
1909 Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
1909 Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands (1966-83)
1910 Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
1912 Doris Duke, American multi-millionaire (American Tobacco heiress)
1912 Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist
1913 Benjamin Britten, English composer (Beggar's Opera) (d. 1976)
1913 Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
1914 Peter Woolridge Townsend, British air pilot, war hero courtier writer (d. 1995)
1917 Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist (Nobel laureate)
1917 Jean-Etienne Marie, composer
1918 Claiborne Pell, American politician (Sen-D-RI, 1961) (d. 2009)
1919 Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist (d. 1976)
1919 Wilfred Norman Aldridge, biochemist/toxicologist
1920 Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
1921 Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
1921 Rodney Dangerfield (John Cohen), American comedian (Caddyshack, No Respect) (d. 2004)
1922 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Russian-Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1923 Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (Love Story)
1923 Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (d. 2006)
1924 Axel Borup-Jorgensen, composer
1924 Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
1924 Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
1925 Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor (Visitation)
1926 Arthur Jones (inventor), American inventor (d. 2007)
1926 Gene Berce, American basketball player
1926 Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1952-56)
1927 Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor sax player
1928 Juno Stover-Irwin, American diver (Olympic-silver-1956)
1928 Pat Smythe, English equestrian jumper (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1928 Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
1929 Aleksandar Popović, Serbian dramatist (d. 1996)
1930 John Paul Schiffer
1930 Owen Kay Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS 9)
1930 Peter Hall, British stage, film, opera director (Pedestrian)
1932 Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
1932 Robert Vaughn, American actor (Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy, Bullitt)
1934 Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1935 Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, Soviet pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1935 Michael Callan (Calinieff), American actor (Peter-Occasional Wife)
1936 Hans Zender, composer
1936 Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
1936 Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Prime Minister of Bahrain
1937 Zenon Jankowski, Poland cosmonaut (Soyuz 30 backup)
1938 Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist
1939 Allen Garfield, American actor (Candidate, Beverly Hills Cop II)
1939 Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1939 Tom West, American astrophysicist, computer engineer, executive
1940 Roy Thomas, American comic book writer
1940 Terry Gilliam, American-born British comedian, animator, director (Monty Python, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, The Fisher King)
1941 Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defensive Hall of Famer and coach
1941 Jesse Colin Young, American musician
1941 Ron McClure, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1941 Terry Stafford, American singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1941 Tom Conti, Scottish actor (Reuben Reuben, American Dreamer)
1942 Guion Bluford, American astronaut
1942 Guion Steward Bluford Jr, American Col USAF/astr (STS 8, 61A, 39, 53)
1942 Steve Caldwell, rocker (Orleans)
1943 Billie Jean King, American tennis player (Wimbledon 1968, 72, 73, 75)
1943 Floyd Sneed, Calgary, rock drummer (Three Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1943 George W (Buddy) Darden, (Rep-D-GA, 1983)
1943 Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
1943 Peter Adair, American filmmaker
1943 Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
1944 Robert Iliffe, English publisher (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
1945 Tom Freston, American television executive
1946 Aston Barrett, Jamaican musician, bassist (The Wailers Band)
1946 Hans Kombrink, Dutch Sociologist, undersecretary of Finance (PvdA)
1947 Alfredo Cristiani, president of El Salvador (1989-94)
1947 Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
1947 Rod Price, rocker (Foghat)
1947 Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
1947 Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
1948 Radomir Antic, Serbian football manager
1948 Stewart Graeme Guthrie, New Zealand Police officer (d. 1990)
1949 David Pietrusza, American baseball historian
1949 Richard Carmona, Surgeon General of the United States
1950 Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1950 Greg Luzinski, baseball player (Phillies, White Sox)
1950 (Little) Steven Van Zandt, American Musician (E Street Band), and actor (The Sopranos, Lillihammer)
1950 Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1950 Tina Weymouth, American bassist (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
1951 Kent Nagano, American conductor
1953 Billy M. Sprague, American rocket scientist
1953 Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
1953 Wayne Larkins, English cricketer
1955 James Edwards, American basketball player, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1955 Sue Novara-Reber, American cyclist (1975 World sprint champ)
1955 Wayne Tolleson, baseball player
1956 Lawrence Gowan, Canadian singer (Styx)
1956 Richard Kind, American actor
1957 Donny Deutsch, American broadcaster
1957 Sharon Bailey, rocker (Amazulu-Excitable)
1958 Bruce Payne, English actor
1958 Horse, Scottish singer and songwriter
1958 Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress (Anything But Love, Halloween, True Lies)
1958 Lee Guetterman, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Yankees, Seattle Mariners)
1959 Eddie Frierson, American voice actor and stage actor
1959 Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1959 Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959 Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian voice actress
1960 Eg White, musician (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1960 Léos Carax, French film director
1960 Tommy Masters, American Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Carolina-50th)
1961 Gary Valentine, Actor (Here Comes the Boom)
1961 Joel Ashley Edwards, American PGA golfer (1992 BC Open-2nd)
1961 Mariel Hemingway, American actress (Personal Best, Civil Wars, Manhattan)
1961 Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
1961 Stephen Hough, British concert pianist
1962 Cleo Fields, (Rep-D-Louisiana)
1962 Steve DeOssie, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1962 Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
1963 Brian Robbins, American actor, producer and director
1963 Corinne Russell, English comedienne (Benny Hill Show)
1963 Helen Reale, American WPVA volleyballer (Manhattan Beach-7th-1994)
1963 Hugh Millen, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos)
1963 Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
1963 Tony Mowbray, English football player and manager
1964 Akram Raza, Pakistani cricketer
1964 Benoit Benjamin, NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks)
1964 David Tate, NFL defensive back (Indianapolis Colts)
1964 Gene Atkins, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1964 Maggie Will, American LPGA golfer (1992 Sara Lee Classic)
1964 Pierre Vercheval, CFL guard (Toronto Argonauts)
1964 Robbie Slater, Australian former footballer
1964 Stephen Geoffreys, American actor (Faternity Vacation)
1965 Eric Allen, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1965 Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor (Casino Royale)
1965 Mike Benjamin, American baseball player, MLB infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Peter Safran, British-born American film producer and talent agent
1965 R Duncan Douglas, American biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1966 Brian Robbins, American actor (Eric-Head of the Class)
1966 Ed Ferrara, Former pro wrestler, writer and commentator
1966 Michael K. Williams, Actor (The Road)
1966 Nicholas Rowe, English actor (Young Sherlock Holmes)
1966 Richard Stanley, South African film director
1967 Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born Belgian speed skater
1967 Boris Becker, West German tennis player (Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89)
1967 Donald Hollas, quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1967 Mark Ruffalo, American actor (The Avengers)
1968 Daedra Charles, WNBA forward, center (LA Sparks)
1968 Darryl Hardy, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 Irina Privalova, Russian 100m/200m/400m runner
1968 Jonathan Moss, American rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic computer programmer
1969 Byron Houston, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1969 John Parrella, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1969 Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991)
1969 Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist
1970 Alison Korn, Canadian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketeer
1970 Stel Pavlou, British novelist
1971 Lloyd Kammeron, soccer player (Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles)
1971 Tyoka Jackson, defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 Yone Kamio, Yokohama Japan, tennis star (1995 semi-finalist Hobart)
1972 Jay Payton, American baseball player
1972 Mavan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 Russell Hoult, English football goalkeeper
1972 Tricia Tan, Miss Singapore Universe (1997)
1973 Alexandra Fusai, French tennis star (1995 Futures-Szczecin)
1973 Brandon Paulsen, American greco-roman wrestler (Oly-silv-96)
1973 Cassie Campbell, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 Chadwick A. Trujillo, American astronomer
1973 Michael Murphy, Australian diver (Olympics-96)
1974 David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
1974 Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1974 Meike Babel, German tennis star (1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER)
1975 Aiko, Japanese singer
1975 James Madio, Actor (The Basketball Diaries)
1976 Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976 Regina Halmich, German female boxer
1976 Taryn Mansell, Aruban Miss Universe-2nd place (1996)
1976 Torsten Frings, German footballer
1976 Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
1977 Annika Norlin, Swedish pop singer
1977 Devyn Puett, actress (Kids Incorporated)
1977 Michael Preston, English footballer
1978 Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
1978 Magdalena Grzybowska, Polish tennis star (1995 Futures Slovakia)
1979 Chris Doran, Irish singer
1979 Josh Cooke, Actor (I Love You, Man)
1980 Shawn Fanning, American Internet entrepreneur (Napster)
1980 Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian athlete
1981 Ben Adams, English singer
1981 Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981 Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
1982 Alasdair Duncan, Australian novelist
1982 Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1982 Isild Le Besco, French actress
1982 Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
1983 Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist (Trivium)
1983 Peter Ramage, English footballer
1983 Tyler Hilton, American singer and actor
1984 Kate Ground, Canadian adult internet model
1984 Scarlett Johansson, American actress (The Prestige, Lost in Translation)
1985 Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1986 Oscar Pistorius, South African paralympic athlete
1987 Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
1988 Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
1988 Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian novelists and Yasar Abbas a novelist from Pakistan
1989 Alden Ehrenreich, Actor (Beautiful Creatures)
1990 Alex Mercho, Writer (First Day)
1991 Diana Danielle Dannye Beeson, Malaysian American actress
1992 Anna Louise Sargeant, Actress (Limp Clown)
1993 Nathan McLeod, Actor (DrugsNot4Me: Pick Your Path)
1994 Tim Wade, Editor (Rock Bottom)
1995 Eliza Darby, Actress (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers)
1996 Madison Davenport, Actress (Over the Hedge)
1996 Mackenzie Lintz, Actress (The Hunger Games)
1997 Juliette Gauntt, Actress (Dr. T and the Women)
1998 Eric Unger, Actor (No Complaints)
2000 Jade, Tess, and Star Lynden-Bell, Actress (Blessed)
2001 Molly Jackson, Actress (Hear me Roar)

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365 Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies after failing to regain position as Pope from Liberius
950 Lothair II, King of Italy (947-50)
1247 Robin Hood, dies (from "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood")
1286 Eric V of Denmark, Danish King (b. 1249)
1318 Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral, explorer
1617 Ahmed I, 14th Ottoman Sultan (1603-17) (b. 1590)
1694 John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
1697 Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. 1635)
1710 Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
1718 Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate (b. 1680)
1751 Anton Englert, composer
1758 Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1774 Robert Clive, English general, occupier (India), 1st Baron Clive (b. 1725)
1776 Johann Caspar Simon, composer
1781 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter, cartoonist
1782 John Barueth, vicar, pamphleter
1782 John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer
1783 John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
1794 John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1799 Baroness van Dorth, orangist, executed
1803 Bernardus Bosch, Dutch vicar, patriot
1813 Johann Christian Reil, German physician (b. 1759)
1813 Johann Gottfried Vierling, composer
1825 Ann Bailey, pioneer
1826 Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
1852 August Alexander Klengel, composer
1859 Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist, composer (Faust)
1871 Oscar J Dunn, (Lt Gov-La), possibly poisoned
1875 Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1886 William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1890 Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress
1893 James Calder, 5th President of the Pennsylvania State University (b. 1826)
1896 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor (Ferris wheel)
1896 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1900 Arthur S Sullivan, English composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe) (b. 1842)
1902 Friedrich A Krupp, cannon manufacturer, commits suicide
1902 Septimus Winner, composer
1904 Theophile E A de Bock, painter, etcher
1906 Earnest Josephson, Swedish painter
1916 Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1917 Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
1919 Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
1920 Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
1922 Howard Carter's pet dog died.
1924 Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing)
1926 Darvish Khan, Iranian musician (b. 1872)
1932 William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
1936 Louis F H Apol, painter, etcher, literary
1940 Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist
1941 Werner Mölders, German ace fighter pilot (b. 1915)
1943 Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
1943 Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer
1944 Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
1946 Bertie Rose-Innes, South African cricketer
1946 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
1953 Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
1954 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador
1954 Moroni Olsen, actor (Possessed)
1954 Roderick McMahon, Professional Wrestling, Boxing Booker (b. 1882)
1955 Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer
1955 Shemp Howard, American actor (3 Stooges) (b. 1895)
1956 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
1956 Vincent (Moro-)Giafferi, French criminal (Caillaux/Landru)
1963 Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon) (b. 1894)
1963 Bikram Singh, Indies Lt-General (Kashmir)
1963 C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
1963 C(live) S(taples) Lewis, Irish author (Silver Chair)
1963 Claude Floquet, South African cricketer
1963 Daulet Singh, Indies Lt-General
1963 J. D. Tippit, Dallas Police Officer (b. 1924)
1963 John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas (b. 1917)
1963 NKD Nanavati, Indies general-major (WW II)
1963 Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1963 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars)
1966 Moises F da Costa Gomez, premier Dutch Antilles
1967 Edvin Kallstenius, composer
1967 Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1969 Acario Cotapos, composer
1971 Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars)
1976 Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box)
1977 Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39)
1979 Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister
1980 Herbert Wade, cricketer (South African batsman & captain 1935-36)
1980 Jules Léger, Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
1980 Leonard Barr, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Szysznyk)
1980 Mae West, American actress (She Done Him Wrong) and writer (b. 1893)
1980 Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
1981 Andreina Pagnani, actress (Il Commandante)
1981 Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist (Nobel laureate) (b. 1900)
1981 Jack Fingleton, Australian cricketer
1982 Burton Turkus, lawyer, author, TV host (Mr Arsenic)
1982 Enny (Engelina) de Leeuwe, actress (Anatevka)
1982 Max Deutsch, composer
1983 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1986 Fred Bertrand, Belgian politician
1986 Robert Sutton Whitney, composer
1986 Scatman Crothers, American actor (Shining, Zapped) (b. 1910)
1986 William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
1987 Ted Taylor, rock vocalist
1988 Erich Fried, writer
1988 Janet Ertel, crooner
1988 Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
1988 Paul Vario, U.S. Italian Mafia of the Lucchese Family (b. 1914)
1989 C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
1989 Rajindernath, Indian cricketer, wicketkeeper
1989 Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon (b. 1925)
1991 Jac de Jong, Dutch MP, composer, businessman (Nedac-Sorbo)
1992 Gene O'Donnell, actor (Ape, Miracle Kid)
1992 Sterling Holloway, American actor (Golddiggers of 1933, Batman) (b. 1905)
1993 Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
1993 Bill Bixby, actor (My Favorite Martian)
1994 Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator
1994 Forrest White, former vice president of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
1994 John Michael Grimes, set Designer
1994 L V Johnson Singer
1994 Norma Donaldson, US singer, actress (Staying Alive)
1995 Ambrose Sam, creole accordionist
1995 Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer, drama teacher
1995 Francis Joan Frances Will, actress
1995 John Putz, journalist
1995 Norman Potter, cabinetmaker designer, writer
1996 Maria Casares, actress (Orpheus, Rebel Nun)
1996 Mark Lenard, American actor (Sarek-Star Trek) (b. 1924)
1996 María Casares, Spanish-born French actress (b. 1922)
1996 Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer
1997 Joanna Moore, actress (Bronx, Hindenburg)
1997 Michael Hutchence, Australian rocker (INXS), commits suicide (b. 1960)
1997 Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
1998 Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
2000 Christian Marquand, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000 Emil Zátopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
2001 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (b. 1915)
2001 Norman Granz, American jazz impresario and producer (b. 1918)
2004 Arthur Hopcraft, English scriptwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
2005 Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
2006 Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2007 Maurice Béjart, Father of the Ballet Renewal (b. 1929)
2007 Verity Lambert, first producer of British SF series Doctor Who (b. 1935)
2008 MC Breed, American hip hop artist (b. 1971)
2010 Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
2010 Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)
2011 Lana Peters (Svetlana Stalina), Stalin's daughter
2011 Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)
2011 Paul Motian, American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer
2012 Bryce Courtenay, South African-born Australian novelist
2013 Reg Simpson, English cricketer
2015 Kim Young-sam, politician and activist - President of South Korea (1993-98)

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