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800 Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
1165 Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
1227 Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gasawa.
1248 Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
1334 St Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1499 Flemish Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
1531 The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
1556 King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1577 Water Geuzen under capt Slope enter Amsterdam
1584 English parliament throws out Jesuits
1644 Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published.
1654 French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1700 Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI
1705 Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses," premieres in London
1744 English premier John Carteret resigns
1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1783 Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1808 French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela
1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1834 Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy NY)
1844 Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
1863 Battle of Chattanooga & Orchard Knob, TN of the American Civil War begins, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops.
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1864 Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
1867 The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
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.
1871 Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens
1876 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1876 Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
1885 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1887 Opera "Trumpeter of Säckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
1889 The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1890 General elections in Italy.
1890 King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817) without a male heir and a special law passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.
1892 Battle of Lomani Congo, Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
1892 P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
1897 Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
1897 Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF)
1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony, general Methuen beats Farmers
1903 Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1903 Governor of Colorado James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1904 3rd Olympic games close in St Louis
1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti
1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1909 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec)
1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1910 Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person in Sweden to be executed.
1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital
1912 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
1914 The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, Mexico; occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair in the Mexican Revolution.
1918 Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1921 Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1923 German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
1923 Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD
1926 Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in NYC
1930 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
1931 Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague
1934 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
1936 First issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce is published.
1937 Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in NYC
1937 Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier
1937 John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men," premieres in NYC
1939 Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1940 First edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
1940 SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
1940 Romania signs Driemogendheden pact and becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers in World War II.
1941 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1942 3rd & 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Col-general Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
1942 Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed.
1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
1943 First printing of illegal "Warheid"
1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
1943 Phillies owner William D Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team
1943 American forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island, and Makin Atolls from Japan in World War II.
1943 The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed during World War II. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1944 US 7th army under Gen Patch conquers Straatsburg
1945 Most US wartime rationing of foods, including meat & butter, ends
1946 "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 79 performances
1946 34th CFL Grey Cup, Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6
1946 French Navy fire in Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills 6,000 civilians.
1946 The Workers Party of South Korea is founded.
1947 French government of Schumann, forms
1947 Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)
1948 Dr Frank G Back (NYC) patents lens to provide zoom effects
1950 Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres
1953 KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1953 WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1955 The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to Australia.
1959 "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 796 performances
1959 General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for a "Europe, "from the Atlantic to the Urals."
1960 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1962 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP
1963 "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater NYC after 24 perfs
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 JFK's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1963 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
1963 The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama.
1964 "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"
1964 Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
1965 31st Heisman Trophy Award, Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year
1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth NYC after 36 perfs
1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson
1970 KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
1971 Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement
1971 Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
1974 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
1975 63rd CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8
1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft Myers Golf Classic
1976 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1979 In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1980 68th CFL Grey Cup, Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10
1980 A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people.
1980 National Black Independent Party forms
1981 Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua (Iran-Contra Affair).
1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB & mated for STS-6
1982 FCC drops limits on duration & frequency of TV ads
1982 NY Islanders & Minn North Stars play to an 8-8 tie
1983 Soyuz T-9 lands
1983 USSR leave weapon disarmament talks
1984 Boston College QB Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard TD (Hail Mary Pass) to end game & beat Miami 47-45
1984 Limited-over initial cricket debut for Wasim Akram, v NZ
1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the hijacked jetliner, but 60 people die in the raid.
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1988 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece
1990 Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
1990 Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak v WI), scores 0 & 0
1990 The first all woman expedition to the south pole (3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians), sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.
1991 A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS
1991 Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season & 15,031 for career
1991 Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57)
1991 Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games
1991 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols
1992 "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth NYC for 232 perfs
1992 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
1993 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 216 perfs
1993 Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
1996 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
1996 Irene Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World
1996 The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization.
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1997 Jana Novotna (Czech) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ
1998 Agreement between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his rival, prince Norodom Ranariddh.
2001 Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
2003 Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
2007 MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There were no fatalities.
2009 The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
2010 The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.
2011 Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
2012 JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour
2013 Manny Pacquiao defeats American Brandon Rios to win the WBO welterweight title
2014 A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan
2014 An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country
2014 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan
2014 Republicans condemn US President Obama's use of executive powers to force through immigration reform
2014 Mass protests in Mexico by relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang
2014 Magnus Carlsen defends his World Chess Championship title after defeating Vishy Anand
2014 Switzerland beats France in Lille (3-1), winning the Davis Cup for the first time at the 103rd Davis Cup
2014 Lewis Hamilton wins by 67 points at the 65th Formula One WDC
2014 One Direction, Sam Smith and Katy Perry win at the 41st American Music Awards
2015 Lydia Ko (18) of New Zealand wins women's LPGA Player of the Year and retains the Race to the CME Globe title worth $1 million
2015 President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia bans female genital mutilation

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912 Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) (d. 973)
1221 Alfonso X (the Wise), King of Castile & Leon (1252-84) (d. 1284)
1402 Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
1417 William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
1542 Akbar the Great, 3rd Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
1553 Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (De Medocoma Aegyptorum) (d. 1617)
1616 John Wallis, English mathematician, cryptographer (product of Wallis) (d. 1703)
1632 Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)
1641 Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)
1669 Johann K Amman, Swiss-Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)
1690 Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI
1705 Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
1715 Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1719 Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
1748 Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer
1749 Edward Rutledge, American attorney (Gov-SC), signer (Decl of Independence) (d. 1800)
1760 François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (d. 1797)
1760 Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple)
1765 Thomas Attwood, composer
1785 Joannes P Roothaan, Dutch priest, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53) (d. 1853)
1794 Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction)
1797 Gabor Matray, composer
1800 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)
1803 Theodore Dwight Weld, Leading abolitionist of American Slavery (d. 1895)
1804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (1853-1857) (d. 1869)
1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1815 William Dennison, postmaster, general (Union) (d. 1882)
1819 Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1901)
1820 Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1820 John Willis Ellis, Governor (Confederacy) (d. 1861)
1821 Charles Meryon, British-French etcher
1826 Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curacao
1830 Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor
1837 Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Liquid & Gas States) (Nobel Prize laureate 1910) (d. 1923)
1838 Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (d. 1928)
1842 James Lillywhite Jr, English cricketer, captain
1843 Josef Sucher, composer
1858 Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George & Alec, Eng & S Afr)
1859 Billy the Kid (William H Bonney), American frontier outlaw, (d. 1881)
1860 Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1925)
1860 Karl Branting, Swedish diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
1861 Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1862 Alberto Williams, Argentinan composer (Etrerno Reposo)
1862 Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)
1864 Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)
1869 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
1875 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)
1876 Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
1878 Andre Caplet, composer
1878 Ernest J King, American fleet admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (WW II)
1878 Holcombe Ward, tennis champ (US Open-1904)
1879 Andre Caplet, French composer, conductor (Conte Fantastic)
1882 Johan C T Kikkert, Dutch painter, etcher, critic
1883 Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological writer (Along the water front)
1883 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (Epic of Culture in New World) (d. 1949)
1887 Boris Karloff (William H Pratt), English actor (Frankenstein, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!) (d. 1969)
1887 Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish-born dancer (d. 1943)
1887 Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
1887 Paul Malengreau, composer
1888 Harpo Marx (Adolph) American actor, comedian (Marx brothers) (d. 1964)
1888 Nana Bryant, American actress (Ladies of the Chorus)
1889 Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league identity (d. 1964)
1890 El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (d. 1941)
1892 Erté, French artist (d. 1990)
1893 Jimmy Blanckenberg, South African cricket pace bowle
1894 Ture Persson, Sweedish sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912)
1896 Joris Vriamont, Flemish author, music publisher
1896 Klement Gottwald, President of Czechoslovakia (1946-53)
1896 Ruth Etting, American dancer, singer, actress (Roman scandals)
1897 Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
1897 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
1899 Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial arts Master (d. 1974)
1899 Norman Hunter, writer
1902 Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
1902 Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
1906 Mervyn Roberts, composer
1907 Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
1908 Leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter
1908 Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
1909 Nigel Tranter, British historian and author (River Realm, Robert the Bruce) (d. 2000)
1910 Hal Schumacher, baseball player
1911 Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf)
1912 Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist
1912 George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 Michael Gough, English actor
1914 Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998)
1914 (Arthur) Wilson "Bob" Tucker, American sci-fi author (Time Masters)
1915 Ellen Drew, (Terry Ray), American actress (Isle of Dead)
1915 John Dehner (Forkum), American actor (Big Hawaii, Bare Essence) (d. 1992)
1915 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician
1916 Michael Gough, Actor (Batman)
1916 P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010)
1917 George O'Hanlon, American actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson)
1917 Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer
1917 Michael Gough, Malaya actor (Search for the Nile)
1919 Claudio Santoro, composer
1919 Peter Strawson, English philosopher
1920 Chalmers P Wylie, (Rep-R-OH, 1967)
1920 Herman Nieland, Dutch organist, pianist, composer (Te Deum Laudamus)
1920 Paul Celan (Antschell), German-Romanian poet (Collected Prose) (d. 1970)
1920 Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
1921 Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
1921 Hein J Roethof, Dutch MP, lawyer (PvdA)
1922 Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia
1923 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder
1923 Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (d. 1986)
1923 Daniel Brewster, American politician & U.S. Senator from Maryland (d. 2007)
1923 Guy Molinari, (Rep-R-NY, 1981)
1923 Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide)
1923 R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
1924 Anita Linda, Filipino actress
1924 Colin Macmillan Turnbull, British-born anthropologist (d. 1994)
1924 Paul Richards, American actor (Kiss Daddy Goodnight)
1924 Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
1925 José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician (d. 1990)
1926 Christopher Logue, British poet/stage writer (Trials)
1926 Don Gordon, American actor (Prentiss-Lucan)
1926 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher
1927 Angelo Sodano, Italian prelate and Cardinal Secretary of State
1927 Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
1928 Jakob Jez, composer
1928 Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof)
1929 Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
1930 Jack McKeon, American baseball manager
1930 Robert Easton, American actor (Someone Up There Likes Me)
1930 William E Brock, American  Secretary of Labor (Sen-D) (1985-87)
1931 Dervla Murphy, Irish traveller and author
1931 Gloria Lynne, American singer
1931 Yevgeni Grischin, Soviet 500m, 1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60)
1932 Michael Knight, air chief marshall, British leader (NATO)
1932 Michel David-Weill, French investment banker
1933 Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and revolutionary
1933 Hayes Jenkins, American figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
1934 Lewis Alan "Lew" Hoad, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon 1953, 56) (d. 1994)
1934 Michael Wayne, producer (McQ, Chisum, Green Berets, McLintock)
1934 Rita Rossi Colwell, oceanographer
1934 Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director (Chinatown)
1935 Dean A Gallo, (Rep-R-NJ, 1985)
1935 Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer
1935 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11) (d. 1971)
1936 Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
1938 Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
1938 Herbert Achternbusch, German actor (Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin)
1939 Betty Everett, American singer (Getting Mighty Crowded) (d. 2001)
1939 Susan Anspach, American actress (Grace-Yellow Rose, Blume in Love)
1940 Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player, pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees)
1941 Alan Mullery, English soccer player
1941 Franco Nero, Italian actor (Die Hard 2)
1942 Susan Anspach, American actress
1943 Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist, murdered (d. 1964)
1943 Sue Nicholls, British actress
1944 James Toback, American writer (Tyson) and director
1944 Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-born film producer and screenwriter (Basic Instinct, Showgirls)
1944 Jose Torikens, Dutch journalist (Parool, NRC)
1945 Assaf Dayan, Israeli actor (Operation Thunderbolt)
1945 Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
1945 Jerry Harris, American sculptor
1945 Jim Doyle, American politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
1945 Keith Hampshire, English singer-songwriter
1945 Steve Landesberg, American actor, comedian (Barney Miller)
1946 Bobby L Rush, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1946 Bobby Rush, American politician
1946 Diana Quick, English actress (Brideshead, Big Sleep, Odd Job)
1946 Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
1946 Hans Hoekman, Dutch radio play actor
1947 Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner
1947 Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host
1948 Bruce Vilanch, American comedy writer
1948 Frank Worthington, much travelled English professional footballer
1949 Gayl Jones, US author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho)
1949 Sandra Stevens, British singer, member of pop group Brotherhood of Man
1949 Tom Joyner, American radio personality
1950 Cecil Hooker, rocker (Snuff)
1950 Charles E Schumer, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1981-1999, Sen-D-NY, 1999 -)
1951 Bernd Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 David Rappaport, English actor, 3'11" (Wizard, Time Bandits) (d. 1990)
1951 Jorg Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976)
1952 Bill Troiano, musician
1952 Francie Larrieu Smith, American 1.5/3/10K track runner (AAU 1 mile-1979)
1953 Francis Cabrel, French singer
1953 Johan de Meij, Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer
1953 Martin Kent, Australian cricketer
1953 Rick Bayless, American restaurateur, chef of Mexican cuisine
1954 Bruce Hornsby, American vocalist
1954 Ferry Hoogendijk, Dutch editor in chief (Elsevier Magazine)
1954 Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
1954 Ken Schrom, baseball player
1954 Ross Brawn, Brawn GP team principal
1955 Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer
1955 Ludovico Einaudi, Italian composer and pianist
1955 Mary Landrieu, American politician, senior senator of Louisiana
1955 Steven Brust (Karl Zoltan), American sci-fi author (Yendi, Jhereg)
1956 Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer
1956 Michael S Brainard, American actor (Joey-All My Children, Santa Barbara)
1956 Shane Gould, Australian swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1972)
1957 John "Jellybean" Benitez, music producer
1958 David Wallace, American actor (General Hospital, Babysitter, Humongus)
1958 Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer
1959 Brook Jacoby, baseball player
1959 Dominique Dunne, American actress (Poltergeist) (d. 1982)
1959 Maxwell Caulfield, English actor (Miles-The Colbys, All My Children)
1960 Jayananda Warnaweera, Sri Lankan cricketer
1960 Robin Roberts, American television reporter
1961 Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
1961 Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
1962 Andrea Blackwell, Canadian basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1962 Gary Rusnak, American Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Permian Basin-2nd)
1962 Mike Nocito, musician
1963 Dale Sveum, baseball player
1963 Joe Ahearne, British television director
1963 Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)
1964 Boyd Kestner, actor (Outsiders)
1964 Frank Rutherford, Bahamian athlete
1964 John Williams, NFL linebacker, FB (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1964 Jose Gonzales, baseball player
1964 Kapila Wijegunewardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1965 Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
1965 Michael Brainard, American actor (Ted-Santa Barbara)
1965 Rodion Gataullin, Uzbekistani pole vaulter (Olympics-silver-88)
1966 Charlie Grover, musician (Sponge)
1966 Jerry Kelly, American professional golfer, PGA tour (1993 Nike Cleveland Open-2nd)
1966 Vincent Cassel, French actor (Black Swan)
1967 Brian Glynn, German NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1967 Diane O'Grady, North Bay Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer
1967 Patrick Mameli, Dutch rock vocalist, guitarist (Pestilence)
1967 Salli Richardson, American actress (Posse, I am legend)
1968 Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer
1968 John O'Neill, American field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1968 Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
1969 Jonathan Seet, Canadian singer
1970 Danny Hoch, American actor
1970 Glenn Murray, American baseball player, MLB outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 Karsten Mueller, German chess grandmaster, author
1970 Oded Fehr, Israeli actor (Resident Evil: Extinction)
1970 Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
1971 Ashraf Amaya, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1971 Chris Hardwick, Comedian and Host (Midnight, Talking Dead, Talking Bad)
1971 Jim Pyne, NFL guard, corner (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian football player
1971 Lisa Arch, American actress
1971 Vin Baker, American basketball player, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks)
1972 Alf-Inge Håland, Norwegian professional soccer player
1972 Chris Adler, American musician (Lamb of God)
1972 Kurupt, rapper (Tha Dogg Pound)
1972 Paul Penny, Canadian golfer (Edmonton City Amat-1993, 94)
1973 Reggie Green, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Trick Daddy, American rapper
1974 Jamie Sharper, American football player
1974 Jamie Sharper, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 Juventud Guerrera, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 Malik Rose, American basketball player
1974 Malik Rose, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1974 Regina Fisher, Miss West Virginia USA (1996)
1974 Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens, Oly-B-98)
1974 Tora Suber, WNBA guard (Charlotte Sting)
1974 Tyrus McCloud, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 Arno Schreuders, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
1976 Adriana Cano Garcia, Miss Uruguay Universe (1997)
1976 Kohei Suwama, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 Page Kennedy, American actor (S.W.A.T.)
1977 Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1977 Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
1978 Aliane Baquerot, American rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1978 Alison Mosshart, American musician
1978 Kayvan Novak, English actor
1979 Kelly Brook, English actress/model (Smallville, NTSF:SD:SUV)
1979 Nihat, Turkish football player
1980 David Britz, American nano-technologist
1980 Ishmael Beah, Sierra-Leone born American author
1980 Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player, closer (Boston Red Sox)
1981 Ricky Whittle, Actor (Austenland)
1982 Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
1982 Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice-hockey player
1983 Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
1983 Thomas Pridgen, American musician
1984 Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
1984 Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer (High School Musical)
1985 Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
1986 Gia Johnson, British fashion model
1987 John Mangalavite, Italian Mobster, Crime Syndicate
1987 Nicklas Backstrom, Swedish ice hockey player
1987 Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi, Reality TV Star (Jersey Shore)
1988 Felix Bold, Actor (Aimee & Jaguar)
1989 Matthew Beasant-McKeown, Actor (Poor Boy's Game)
1990 Siddharth Parashar, Indian Composer
1991 Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
1992 Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana), American actress and singer (Hannah Montana, The Climb)
1993 Channing Nichols, Actress (An American Crime)
1994 Zachary Dylan Smith, Actor (Meet the Spartans)
1995 Austin Majors, Actor (Treasure Planet)
1996 Lia Marie Johnson, Actress (The Secret Door)
1997 Chiara Spadaro, Actress (Un dottore quasi perfetto)
2000 Sophie Leibsohn, Actress (Lulu's Curls)
2001 Jake Tobin, Actor (Lest We Forget)

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615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder, poet, saint (Poenitentiale)
947 Berthold, Duke of Bavaria
955 Edred, King of England (b. c. 923)
1249 Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt
1407 Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France, murdered (b. 1372)
1457 Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary and Bohemia (b. 1440)
1499 Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. 1474)
1503 Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449)
1503 Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1446)
1558 Charles, earl of Lalaing, land guardian of the Neth
1572 Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503)
1585 Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
1613 Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre, earl of Fontenoy
1616 Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1682 Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
1709 Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch-English earl of Portland
1752 Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
1763 Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
1769 Constantine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia (b. 1711)
1783 Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
1787 Anton Schweitzer, composer
1803 Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
1804 Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
1807 Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b. 1747)
1814 Elbridge Gerry, American merchant, Vice President of the United States of America, signer (Decl of Independence) (b. 1744)
1833 Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal (b. 1762)
1848 Alfred Julius Becher, composer
1853 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer
1853 Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
1865 Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
1865 René E de Russy, West Indian, US brig-general
1872 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), US poet/Comanche chief
1890 William III, King of Netherland (1849-1890) (b. 1817)
1902 Walter Reed, American bacteriologist (Yellow Fever) (b. 1851)
1905 Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist (b. 1828)
1910 Hawley H Crippen, doctor, murderer, executed
1911 Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer
1914 Elbrige Gerry, VP (Gerrymander fame)
1916 Eduard Napravnik, composer
1916 Leonard Moon, English cricketer
1920 Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla"
1923 Urmuz, Romanian writer (b. 1883)
1926 Frederic Ayers, composer
1927 S Przybyszewski, writer
1931 Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor, pianist
1932 Percy Pitt, composer
1934 Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
1937 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
1937 Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
1937 Louis Victor Saar, composer
1938 August TC Kiehl, actor (Hope of Blessing)
1940 Catherina van Rennes, composer
1943 Ernest Jones, cricketer ("Jonah" Gave WG's beard a close shave)
1946 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered
1948 Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1948 Stanner E V Taylor, US director, writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona)
1948 Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer
1949 Gustav Radbruch, German Min of Justice
1952 Aaro A Hellaakoski, Finnish geographer, poet
1952 Albert van Raalte, conductor (Radio Philharmonic Orch)
1956 Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal)
1958 Johnston McCulley, American writer (b. 1883)
1962 Gloria Gordon, actress (My Friend Irma)
1962 Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General)
1965 Franc Debenham, Australian geographer, geologer
1966 Seán T. O'Kelly, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1967 Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman
1970 Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (1965-1970) (b. 1910)
1971 Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932)
1972 Marie Wilson, American actress (My Friend Irma) (b. 1916)
1973 Claire Dodd, actress (Ex-Lady, In the Navy)
1973 Constance Talmadge, US comedienne (Her Primitive Lover)
1973 Paul Newlan, actor (Capt Grey-M Squad)
1973 Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb)
1973 Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (Tokyo Joe) (b. 1889)
1974 Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born author, war reporter, historian (Bridge too Far) (b. 1920)
1974 Pall Isolfsson, composer
1976 Andre Malraux (Berger), French author (Conquerors), Minister of Culture (b. 1901)
1979 Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (b. 1944)
1979 Merle Oberon, British actress (Assignment Foreign Legion) (b. 1911)
1980 Herby Wade, South African cricketer
1980 Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher, Vietnamese Rinzai line
1982 "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw)
1982 Grady Nutt, American humorist (b. 1934)
1983 Juhan Muks, Estonian artist (b. 1899)
1990 Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player, catcher (b. 1953)
1990 Nguyen Van Tam, PM of Vietnam (1952-53)
1990 Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar)
1990 Roald Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life) (b. 1916)
1991 Ken Uehara, actor (Honolulu-Tokyo)
1991 Klaus Kinski, German actor (Android, Little Drummer Girl) (b. 1926)
1992 Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
1992 Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball)
1992 Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball)
1992 Roy Acuff, American country musician (b. 1903)
1992 Thelma Orloff, entertainer
1993 Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, sculptor
1993 Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach)
1994 Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
1994 Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist
1994 Erick Frederick Hawkins, US dancer, wed to Martha Graham
1994 Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide (b. 1939)
1994 William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist
1995 Frank Hammond, tennis umpire
1995 Junior Walker, American tenor saxophonist (b. 1931)
1995 Louis Malle, French film director (Pretty Baby) (b. 1932)
1996 Art Porter, Jr., American jazz saxophonist (b. 1961)
1996 George Nicholas, cartoon animator
1996 Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943)
1996 Ralph Tubbs, architect
1996 Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1997 Jorge Más Canosa, anti-Castro activist (b. 1939)
1998 Dan Osman, Extreme Sports Practitioner (b. 1963)
2000 Rayner Unwin, British book publisher (b. 1925)
2001 Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2001 Mary Whitehouse, British social activist, campaigner (Clean up TV) (b. 1910)
2001 O.C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
2002 Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
2004 Pete Franklin, American talk radio host (b. 1928)
2005 Constance Cummings, American-born British actress (b. 1910)
2005 Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
2006 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006 Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
2006 Betty Comden, American lyricist (b. 1917)
2006 Jesus Blancornelas, Mexican Journalist (b. 1936)
2006 Nick Clarke, English radio presenter (b. 1948)
2006 Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
2006 Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
2007 Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2007 Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union footballer (b. 1936)
2007 Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
2010 Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (b. 1937)
2010 James Tyler, American musicologist and author (b. 1940)
2010 Joyce Howard, British film actress (b. 1922)
2011 Jim Rathmann, 1960 Indianapolis 500 winner
2011 Oscar Griffin Jr, American journalist and 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner
2012 Larry Hagman, American actor
2014 Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, American tennis player
2015 Douglass North, American economist, (Nobel Prize Economic Sciences 1993)

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