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963 Leo VIII elected Pope
1060 Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary.
1160 Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas," premieres in Arras
1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
1240 Kiev is destoyed during the Mongol invasion of Russia, under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro Kiev falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1424 Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1492 Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas
1527 Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
1534 The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1631 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1641 Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
1648 Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead. He prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament, It came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
1704 Battle of Chamkau of the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
1723 Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
1732 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
1745 Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
1756 British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
1768 The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published in Scotland.
1787 Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
1790 The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1820 US president James Monroe re-elected
1822 Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
1825 Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
1833 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
1841 Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres
1843 Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
1845 Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
1846 Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
1862 Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
1864 Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
1865 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery.
1866 Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1870 Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
1876 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
1876 City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
1876 US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
1877 The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
1877 Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
1882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
1884 The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed, Aluminum capstone set atop.
1896 D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
1897 London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs.
1903 Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
1904 Theodore Roosevelt announced his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1907 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, West Virginia kill 362 workers.
1912 China votes for universal human rights
1913 White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
1914 German troops over run Lodz
1916 German army (Central Powers) under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest in World War I.
1917 Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day).
1917 Halifax Explosion, In Canada, a French munition ship explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1917 USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53 in World War I.
1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives, Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
1922 First electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
1922 One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
1923 First presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
1925 Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
1925 Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1928 The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1929 Turkey introduces female suffrage
1930 18th CFL Grey Cup, Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
1933 U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene, Ban in lifted
1938 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1938 French & German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1939 5th Heisman Trophy Award, Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
1939 Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in NYC
1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1940 Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
1941 Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941 NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1941 The United Kingdom declares war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War and World War II.
1942 Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
1942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
1944 US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
1947 The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
1952 Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1953 Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
1953 Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
1954 Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
1955 NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
1956 "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
1956 A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
1956 Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa.
1957 First US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
1957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
1957 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1957 A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 (Project Vanguard) thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
1958 US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
1961 27th Heisman Trophy Award, Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
1962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
1963 Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1963 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba
1964 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
1964 KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 President Segni of Italy resigns
1965 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
1965 Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level.
1966 Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
1967 Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States.
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
1968 PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
1968 WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
1969 "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 300,000 attend Altamont California at the Altamont Speedway in California, a rock concert feature Rolling Stones, during which, Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels.
1969 USSR performs nuclear test
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
1971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1971 Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
1973 Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
1973 NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
1973 The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
1974 George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
1975 41st Heisman Trophy Award, Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
1975 Balcombe Street Siege, Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
1976 War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1977 South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1978 Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
1980 Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
1980 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 502
1981 Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
1982 Seneter Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
1982 The Irish National Liberation Army bombed a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. It killed eleven soldiers and six civilians.
1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
1984 France performs nuclear test
1984 Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
1986 52nd Heisman Trophy Award, Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB)
1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon another to death for "fun"
1987 Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
1987 Jane Crafter & Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1988 Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
1988 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
1988 Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
1988 Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
1988 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
1988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
1988 The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
1989 Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52
1989 The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre), Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, the Worst Canadian mass murder.
1990 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
1990 Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
1990 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
1991 "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
1991 In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
1992 81st Davis Cup, USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
1992 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
1992 Dottie Mochrie & Dan Forsmann win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1992 SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
1992 SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
1992 The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1500 people.
1993 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
1994 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
1994 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
1994 Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
1995 6th Billboard Music Awards
1995 Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special
1996 Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
1997 A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
1998 Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
1998 JC Penney Golf Classic
2001 The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
2005 An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more civilians.
2005 Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
2006 NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2008 The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
2012 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
2012 A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
2012 Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced
2013 Pope Francis gives his ascent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors
2013 A 2-year old boy dies from Ebola in Meliandou, Guinea

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846 Hasan al-Askari, Saudi Arabian 11th of the Twelve Imams (d. 874)
1285 Ferdinand IV, King of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 Henry VI, king of England (1422-1461, 1470-1471) (d. 1471)
1478 Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer (d. 1605)
1586 Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)
1608 George Monck (Monk), English general, Governor of Scotland, First Duke of Albemarle (d. 1670)
1637 Edmund Andros, English politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (d. 1714)
1640 Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
1642 Johann Christoph Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1703)
1685 Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712)
1685 Princess Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (d. 1712)
1721 Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French politician (d. 1794)
1721 James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and educator (d. 1809)
1731 S von Laroche, writer
1732 Warren Hastings, English 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
1743 Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
1752 Gabriel Duvall, American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)
1768 Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
1775 Nicolas Isouard, composer
1776 Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
1778 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1792 Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)
1792 William II, King of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1805 Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
1805 Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
1806 Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer
1808 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
1808 Johann Christian Gebauer, composer
1809 Stephen Thomas, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1903)
1812 Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884)
1816 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1895)
1822 John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
1823 Friedrich Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (d. 1900)
1831 Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1833 John Singleton Mosby, American army officer (Confederate Army), lawyer (d. 1916)
1841 Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1843 Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher
1846 Henryk Jarecki, composer
1849 August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1853 Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. 1931)
1863 Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
1864 William S. Hart, American actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
1872 Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (d. 1936)
1872 Mikulas Moyzes, composer
1872 William S. Hart, American actor (d. 1946)
1874 Lucien Démanet, French gymnast (d. 1979)
1875 Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
1875 Evelyn Underhill, British poet (d. 1941)
1876 Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile and Motors Company (d. 1932)
1884 Rose Schneiderman, NY state dept of labor sect (1937-44)
1885 Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (The General)
1886 Joyce Kilmer, American poet (Trees) (d. 1918)
1887 Joseph Lamb, American composer (d. 1960)
1887 Lynn Fontanne, English-American Broadway actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man) (d. 1983)
1888 Will Hay, English comedian and actor (d. 1949)
1890 Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist and author (d. 1946)
1890 Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and writer (d. 1955)
1890 Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1892 F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet, author (Out of the Flame)
1892 Lina Carstens, German actress (Homeland, Broken Jug)
1892 Osbert Sitwell, English author (d. 1969)
1893 Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (d. 1984)
1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1896 Arnold Foster, composer
1896 George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1896 Ira Gershwin, American songwriter ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm) (d. 1983)
1897 John Axel Fernstrom, composer
1897 O W Cisek, writer
1898 Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995)
1898 Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist (Nobel Prize laureate 1974) (d. 1987)
1898 Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
1899 Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith
1899 Nikolai Batalov, Russian actor (Mother)
1900 Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Citizen Kane) (d. 1974)
1902 Virgilio Mortari, composer
1903 Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904 Eve Denise Curie, French pianist, author, journalist, daughter of Madame Curie (d. 2007)
1905 Elizabeth Yates, American author (d. 2001)
1905 James J. Braddock (Cinderella Man), American boxer (d. 1974)
1906 Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Endora-Bewitched) (d. 1974)
1906 Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician
1908 Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
1908 Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)
1909 Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer and commentator (ABC)
1909 Kenneth Watkins, woodland conservationist
1909 Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (d. 2002)
1911 Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary
1913 Eleanor Holm, American swimmer, 100m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1932) (d. 2004)
1913 Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (d. 2005)
1914 Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer
1916 Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
1916 Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic politician, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
1916 Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot (d. 1943)
1917 Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur, co-founder (Baskin-Robbins) (d. 2008)
1917 Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese politician, leader of the Lebanese Druze (d. 1977)
1918 Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner
1918 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope)
1918 Peter A Juten, office clerk, resistance fighter
1918 Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter
1919 Jimmy Bivins (James), American Hall of Fame heavyweight boxer, (d. 2012)
1919 Paul de Man, Belgian-American literary critic and theorist (d. 1983)
1920 Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer (Dave Brubeck Quartet) (d. 2012)
1920 George Porter, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1921 Otto Graham, American football player, AAFC & NFL QB (Cleveland Browns) (d. 2003)
1921 Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (d. 2004)
1922 Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician
1922 John Henry Cound Brunt, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1944)
1924 Wally Cox, American actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares) (d. 1973)
1925 Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
1926 Martti Katajisto, Finnish actor (Mar Oksalla Ylimmaellae)
1927 Jacques Bondon, composer
1928 Bert Geoffrey Achong, inventor (electron microscopist)
1928 Bobby Van, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1929 Alain Tanner, Swiss director
1929 Frank Springer, American illustrator (d. 2009)
1929 King Moody, American actor (Shtarker-Get Smart)
1929 Mark Kopytman, composer
1929 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor
1930 Bobby Van (Robert King), American singer (Hollywood Palace)
1930 Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
1931 Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer-songwriter, and composer (d. 1996)
1932 Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007)
1933 Donald J. Kutyna, American air force officer
1933 Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
1933 Jim Pothecary, South African cricketer
1934 Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler (WCW & AWA)
1935 Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer, and senator
1936 David Ossman, American comedian and actor (Firesign Theater)
1936 Kenneth Copeland, American author and evangelist
1937 Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006)
1938 Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
1939 Tomés Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
1940 Lawrence Bergman, Canadian politician
1940 Richard Edlund, American cinematographer
1940 Steve Alaimo, American rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
1941 Bill Thomas, American politician
1941 Helen Cornelius, American country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1941 John Nelson, Costa Rican conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
1941 Richard Speck, American murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966) (d. 1991)
1941 Wende Wagner, American actress (d. 1997)
1942 Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright
1943 Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and producer (The Dave Clark Five) (d. 2008)
1944 Arnon Milchan, Producer (Fight Club)
1944 Jonathan King, rocker
1945 Dan Harrington, American poker player
1945 James Naughton, American actor (Stranger is Watching)
1945 Larry Bowa, American baseball player, 2nd baseman (Phillies) and manager
1945 Shekhar Kapur, Indian director and producer
1946 Frank Hayes, English cricketer
1946 Frankie Beverly, American singer-songwriter and producer (Maze)
1946 Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer
1947 Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African painter and author (d. 2005)
1947 Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
1947 Miroslav Vitouš, Czech-American bassist (Weather Report)
1948 Don Nickles, American politician (Sen-R-Okla)
1948 JoBeth Williams, American actress (Kramer vs Kramer, Poltergeist) and director
1948 Jonathan King, English singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
1948 Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
1948 Marius Müeller-Westernhagen, German actor and singer (Stinker)
1949 Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)
1949 Gregory Venables, English-Argentinian bishop
1949 Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
1949 Peter Willey, English cricketer
1950 Daniel Sahuleka, Dutch singer, guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
1950 Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
1950 Karlheinz Subklewe, German footballer
1950 Sonia Manzano, American actress
1951 Gerry Francis, English footballer and manager
1952 Craig Newmark, American businessman, founder (Craigslist)
1952 Ric Charlesworth, Australian field hockey player, cricketer
1952 Terence Knox, American actor (Peter-St Elsewhere) [or 2/16/50]
1953 Gary Goodman, Australian cricketer
1953 Gary Ward, American baseball player
1953 Gina Hecht, American actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy)
1953 Kin Shriner, American actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals)
1953 Masami Kurumada, Japanese writer and illustrator
1953 Thomas Hulce, American actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park) singer, and producer
1953 Wil Shriner, American talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
1954 Chris Stamey, musician
1954 Miles Chapin, American actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
1955 Bill Lloyd, American singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1955 Malcolm Jarvis, Zimbabwe cricketer, lefty paceman
1955 Rick Buckler (Paul Richard Buckler), English drummer (The Jam, The Highliners, and Time UK)
1955 Steven Wright, American comedian (Steven Wright Live) and actor (Half-Baked)
1955 Tish Hinojosa, American country singer (Something in the Rain)
1956 Hans Kammerlander, Italian mountaineer
1956 Peter Buck, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (R.E.M., Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara, Tired Pony, and The Baseball Project)
1956 Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Quiet Riot) (d. 1982)
1957 Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Sound and The Outsiders) (d. 1999)
1957 Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuban discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980)
1958 Nick Park, English director and animator
1959 Satoru Iwata, Japanese businessman, president and CEO (Nintendo)
1960 Jasmina Perazic Gipe, WNBA guard & forward (NY Liberty)
1961 David Lovering, American drummer (Pixies, The Martinis)
1961 Manuel Reuter, German race car driver
1962 Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
1962 Colin Salmon, Actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)
1962 Janine Turner, American actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure, Cliffhanger)
1963 Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor (The Celebration)
1964 Will Johnson, CFL defensive end (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1965 Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer
1965 Teri Hatcher, American actress (Lois & Clark)
1966 Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
1967 Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
1967 Judd Apatow, American director, producer, and screenwriter (This Is 40)
1967 Kevin Appier, American pitcher (KC Royals)
1967 Lucia Rijker, Dutch boxer and actress
1967 Spanky Marcus, American actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman)
1969 Elmore Spencer, NBA center (Portland Trail Blazers)
1969 Greg Knox, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 Todd Black, American 800m runner
1969 Torri Higginson, Canadian actress (The English Patient)
1969 Wayne Smith Motorcycle racer
1970 Adrian Fenty, American politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia
1970 Eric Mahlum, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer
1970 Jeff Rouse, American swimmer
1970 Michaela Schaffrath, German actress
1970 Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Ace of Base)
1971 Ainsley Robinson, Canadian 62 kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player
1971 David Defiagbon, Nigerian Canadian boxer (Olympics-silver-96)
1971 José Contreras, Cuban baseball player
1971 Matt Maloney, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1971 Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor
1971 Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player (Wimbledon-1996)
1971 Rika Hiraki, Lebaneese tennis player (1992 Japan doubles)
1971 Ryan White, American AIDS victim (d. 1990)
1971 Thomas Bailey, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 Brendan Garard, Australian field hockey halfback (Olympics-96)
1972 Gary Bandy, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Heather Mizeur, American politician
1972 James Logan, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Mike Gruttadauri, corner (St Louis Rams)
1972 Mónica Santa María, Peruvian model and television host (d. 1994)
1972 Rick Short, American baseball player
1973 Tim Kohn, guard & tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 Arjan Ebbinge, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1974 Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist, Champion (Lightweight)
1974 Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 Adrian García Arias, Mexican footballer
1975 Natalie Titcume, Australian softball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Noel Clarke, English actor, director, and screenwriter (Star Trek Into Darkness)
1976 Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress, singer, and model (Miss Universe 1996)
1976 Colleen Haskell, American actress, producer, television personality
1976 Lindsay Price, American actress (Bold & Beautiful, All My Children) and singer
1977 Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
1977 Kevin Cash, American baseball player
1977 Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
1978 Chris Basak, American baseball player
1978 Darrell Jackson, American football player
1978 K. D. Aubert, American actress (The Scorpion King)
1978 Ramiro Pez, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1979 Tim Cahill, Australian footballer
1979 Yanina González, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2004
1980 Ehren Wassermann, American baseball player
1980 Steve Lovell, English footballer
1981 Ashley Madekwe, Actress (Cassandra's Dream)
1981 Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer
1982 Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist (2007 Tour de France winner)
1982 Robbie Gould, American football player
1982 Ryan Carnes, American actor
1982 Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 Susie Wolff, Scottish race car driver
1983 Keana Moire, Adult film actress
1984 Nora Kirkpatrick, Actress (Growth)
1984 Syndric Steptoe, American football player
1985 Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
1985 Dulce María, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (RBD and Jeans)
1985 Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer
1985 Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player
1986 Georgia Horsley, English model, Miss England 2007
1986 Matt Niskanen, American NHL ice hockey player
1987 Kelly Paterniti, Actress (Sleeping Beauty)
1988 Nils Petersen, German footballer
1988 Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer (Urban Symphony)
1989 Felix Schiller, German footballer
1990 Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
1991 Zach Cumer, Actor (Smokin' Aces)
1992 Johnny Manziel, American football player
1993 Elián González, American Refugee returned to Cuba.
1995 Joy Gruttmann, German singer
1996 Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer (Wreck-It Ralph)
1997 Morgana Van Peebles, Actress (Ali)
1998 Micah Berry, Actor (Things We Lost in the Fire)
1999 Ryan Wynott, Actor (The Brothers Solomon)
2000 Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish son of Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca

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343 Saint Nicholas, Turkish bishop (b. 270)
672 Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, Saudi Arabian rebel leader (b. 710)
1185 Afonso I, the Conqueror, King of Portugal (1143-85) (b. 1109)
1352 Clement VI (Pierre Roger), Pope (1342-52) (b. 1291)
1531 John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded
1550 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter
1562 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter, architect (b. 1495)
1598 Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer, politician
1618 Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
1640 Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish-Dutch book publisher, merchant
1651 Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess
1658 Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (b. 1601)
1672 John II Casimir Vasa, Polish king (b. 1609)
1675 John Lightfoot, English churchman, academic, and scholar (b. 1602)
1716 Benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)
1718 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
1746 Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
1771 Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
1788 Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
1793 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded
1799 Joseph Black, Scottish medic, chemist, physicist
1834 Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer
1855 William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
1865 Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito)
1867 Giovanni Pacini, composer
1867 Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)
1868 August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1869 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar, author (People's Welfare)
1873 Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver)
1878 Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter (b. 1814)
1879 Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)
1882 A Trollope, writer
1882 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (b. 1819)
1882 Anthony Trollope, English author (b. 1815)
1889 Jefferson Davis, American politician, President of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865) (b. 1808)
1889 Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
1892 E Werner von Siemens, German bussnessman, founder (Siemens Company) (b. 1816)
1903 Frederick Grant Gleason, composer
1914 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
1920 Karel Kovarovic, composer
1921 Jesse Carleton, American golfer (b. 1862)
1924 Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter, and naturalist (b. 1863)
1926 Claude (Oscar) Monet, French painter (impressionist)
1933 Auguste Chapuis, composer
1934 Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, Duke, Head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1863)
1940 Charlie Hime, South African cricketer
1943 Firmin Baes, Flemish painter
1943 Hermann Lohr, composer
1946 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
1949 Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter), American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1888)
1951 Harold Ross, American journalist, founder (The New Yorker) (b. 1892)
1951 J Edward Bromberg
1953 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
1955 Honus Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1956 Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891)
1956 John Geiger, American rower (b. 1873)
1958 Erwin Bodky, composer
1959 Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney)
1961 Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
1963 Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary)
1964 Consuelo Vanderbilt, American wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (b. 1877)
1964 Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer (b. 1895)
1965 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit, old testament scholar
1966 Hermann Heiss, composer
1970 Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945)
1971 Hugo Godron, composer
1971 Jan Altink, Dutch painter, co-founder (Plough)
1972 Janet Munro, English actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson) (b. 1934)
1973 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, English physicist (radar)
1976 João Goulart, Brazilian politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1982 Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (b. 1927)
1983 Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1984 Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love)
1985 Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher
1985 Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie) (b. 1917)
1986 Malik Oussekine, Algerian-French student, killed by police
1987 James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa)
1988 Bill Harris, American guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63
1988 Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Traveling Wilburys) (b. 1936)
1989 Frances Beauvier, American actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry) (b. 1902)
1989 John Payne, American actor (Miracle on 34th St) (b. 1912)
1989 Sammy Fain, American composer (b. 1902)
1990 Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
1990 Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician, First Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-1970 (b. 1903)
1991 Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family)
1991 Headman Tshabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
1991 Mimi Smith, English nurse, aunt of John Lennon (b. 1906)
1991 Richard Stone, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1992 Hank Worden, actor (Red River)
1992 Percy Herbert, actor (Capt Apache)
1993 Don Ameche, American actor (Cocoon) (b. 1908)
1993 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989)
1993 Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras)
1993 Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered
1994 AJ Bronkhorst, vicar, theologist (Reform The Netherlands)
1994 Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night)
1994 Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars)
1994 Heinz Baas, German footballer (b. 1922)
1995 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier, historian
1995 James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist
1995 John Trevor Key, photographer
1995 Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money)
1995 Leslie Wilkinson, journalist
1995 (Schaff) Claire Polin, composer
1996 Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer, civil servant
1996 Pete Rozelle, American businessman (b. 1926)
1996 (Alvin) Pete Rozelle, commissioner (NFL)
1997 Alan Mouncer, film director, producer
1997 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier, engineer
1997 Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme)
1997 Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (b. 1918)
1998 César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
2000 Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
2000 Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (b. 1920)
2001 Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (Hall of Fame) (b. 1923)
2001 Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
2001 Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman & winner of numerous Whitbread and America's Cup sailing contests, killed by pirates on the Amazon River at age 53
2002 Philip Berrigan, American priest, civil rights activist (b. 1923)
2003 Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan army officer and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
2003 Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone opera singer (b. 1909)
2003 Jerry Tuite, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2004 Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (b. 1921)
2005 Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2005 Danny Williams, South African-born singer (b. 1942)
2005 Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean politician, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 William P. Yarborough, American general (b. 1912)
2006 Betty Moschona, Greek actress (b. 1927)
2006 John Feeney, New Zealand director and producer (b. 1922)
2007 Katy French, Irish Supermodel and Socialite (b. 1983)
2010 Mark Dailey, American-Canadian television journalist and announcer (b. 1953)
2011 Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
2012 Alice Harden, American politician (b. 1948)
2012 Bim Diederich, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1922)
2012 Ed Cassidy, American drummer (Spirit and Rising Sons) (b. 1923)
2012 Eta Cohen, English violinist and author (b. 1916)
2012 Giovanni Sostero, Italian astronomer (b. 1964)
2012 Huw Lloyd-Langton, English guitarist (Hawkwind and Widowmaker) (b. 1951)
2012 Jeffrey Koo Sr., Taiwanese businessman (b. 1933)
2012 Karine Kazinian, Armenian diplomat (b. 1955)
2012 Keitani Graham, Micronesian wrestler (b. 1980)
2012 Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, Guinean politician, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961)
2012 Mike Boyette, American wrestler (b. 1943)
2012 Reginald Norby, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1934)
2013 Stan Tracey, British jazz pianist
2015 Holly Woodlawn, transgender Puerto Rican actress (Warhol films)

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