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1326 Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1432 The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1609 Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1659 Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
1660 A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1710 Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1777 Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
1792 1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1794 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1846 Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres
1849 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples
1852 Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau
1854 In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin.
1857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
1863 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana Santiago Chile
1863 Abraham Lincoln's Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of South
1864 Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1869 Timothy Eaton founds T. Eaton Co. Limited in Toronto, Canada.
1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
1875 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg
1876 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1895 Battle at Amba Alagi, Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1899 British fall, burst out belegerd Ladysmith in Natal
1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1907 King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1909 Bird banding society found
1912 Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
1914 A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1914 Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
1914 Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step," premieres in NYC
1915 Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
1921 Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
1923 Labour & Liberals win British parliament
1923 Salary & price freeze in Germany
1926 Disappearance of Agatha Christie
1927 The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
1930 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
1930 Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in NYC
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1934 Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich
1935 The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
1936 Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
1936 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
1941 Japanese forces simultaneously invade Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7th in the United States.
1941 Dutch government declares war on Japan
1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1941 San Francisco, USA 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
1941 United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S., Britain, and the Republic of China declare war against Japan and U.S. enters WW II.
1942 8th Heisman Trophy Award, Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
1943 John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in NYC
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1947 "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs
1948 "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
1948 14th Heisman Trophy Award, Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 perfs
1949 Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1949 Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," premieres in NYC
1949 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs
1951 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
1952 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1953 19th Heisman Trophy Award, John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
1953 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, and the U.S. launches its "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1954 Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC
1954 WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 21st Heisman Trophy Award, Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
1955 Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1955 Turkish government of Menderes forms
1956 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1956 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1959 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1960 Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
1961 Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1961 South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
1961 Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA 78
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 perfs
1962 Failed coup in Brunei
1962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1962 Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963 "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs
1963 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1963 Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
1963 Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.
1965 Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower," premieres in NYC
1965 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
1965 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Cardinal's Charlie Smith
1966 The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
1971 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
1972 United Airlines Flight 553 crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45.
1973 "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
1973 39th Heisman Trophy Award, John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1974 Greek monarchy is rejected by referendum
1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1975 "Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 43rd Heisman Trophy Award, Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1977 Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1978 Commencement of the 1st day-night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park
1980 "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1980 John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a menatly unstable fan, in front of The Dakota.
1981 France performs nuclear test
1982 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 perfs
1982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1982 In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.
1982 Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
1983 Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
1984 73rd Australian Men Tennis, Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
1984 Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty
1984 Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
1985 60th Australian Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
1985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1985 Laurie Rinker & Larry Rinker win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 House Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
1987 Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1987 Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
1987 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed, President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.
1988 A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
1988 Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1989 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1990 Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
1990 Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1991 "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
1991 "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
1991 Kris Tschetter & Billy Andrade win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1991 The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1991 The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
1993 4th Billboard Music Awards
1993 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
1993 Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1993 The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.
1994 "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
1994 Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1994 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
1996 "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
1996 Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1997 8th Billboard Music Awards, LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
1998 Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
1998 Tadjena massacre, 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2002 The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2004 The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
2005 Ante Gotovina, Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police.
2007 Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, had her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen. Three supporters are killed.
2008 Kirsty Williams elected as Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. The first female leader of a political party in Wales.
2009 Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448.
2010 The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2012 UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020.

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(65 BC) Horace, Venusia, Lucania, Roman Republian poet (Odes), (d. 8 BC)
1508 Gemma Frisius (Jemme Reinersz), Frisian geographer, astronomer
1542 Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), Queen of Scotland (1560-1587) (d. 1587)
1574 Maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)
1626 Christina, queen of Sweden, abdicated after becoming Catholic (d. 1689)
1678 Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757)
1699 Maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)
1704 Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765) (d. 1765)
1715 John Althuysen, Frisian vicar, poet (Frisianche rymlery)
1724 Claude Balbastre, French composer and organist (d. 1799)
1728 Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author
1730 Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist, personal physician of Maria Theresia (d. 1799)
1731 František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer (d. 1799)
1737 Robert Kimmerling, composer
1741 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer, choreographer (Menuet Reine)
1744 Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer
1756 Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (d. 1801)
1765 Eli Whitney, American inventor, inventer (cotton gin) (d. 1825)
1789 John Fawcett, composer
1795 Jacques Francois Gallay, composer
1795 Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874)
1811 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer
1815 Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
1816 August Belmont Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890)
1817 Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
1818 Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)
1822 Jakov Ignjatović, Serbian author (d. 1889)
1822 Luther Prentice Bradley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1910)
1826 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
1828 Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1890)
1828 Robert Bullock, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1905)
1832 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author (Pa Guds Veje) and Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
1860 Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet (d. 1939)
1861 Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor (Seated Woman) (d. 1944)
1861 Georges Méliès, French director (d. 1938)
1861 William C(rapo) Durant, American businessman, founder (General Motors, Chevrolet) (d. 1947)
1862 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (La Dame de Chez Maxim's) (d. 1921)
1864 Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor (d. 1943)
1865 Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (Taylor series) (d. 1963)
1865 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia) (d. 1957)
1872 J C Powys, writer
1874 Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951)
1875 Frederik Buch, Danish actor (d. 1925)
1877 Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer
1881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, poet (Collected Poems)
1882 Manuel Maria Ponce, Mexican composer (Estrellita)
1886 Diego Rivera (Lenin of Mexico), Mexican painter, husband of Frida Kahlo (En el Arsenal) (d. 1957)
1887 Vicente Emilio Sojo, composer
1888 Fiske Kimball, American architect, art historian
1888 Paul Cavanagh, English actor (Tarzan & his Mate)
1888 Vesey D'Davoren, character actor
1889 W Hervey Allen, American writer, poet (Anthony Adverse)
1890 Bohuslav Jan Martinů, Czechoslovakian composer (Hry o Marti) (d. 1959)
1894 E. C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938)
1894 James (Grover) Thurber, American author, illustrator, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs) (d. 1961)
1897 Leslie Heward, composer
1899 James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist
1899 John Qualen, Canadian actor (Grapes of Wrath, Searchers) (d. 1987)
1899 Sarah Williamson, American missionary in Liberia
1900 Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
1902 Wifredo Lam, Cuban painter (d. 1982)
1903 Adele Simpson, American fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
1903 Cleo Brown, pianist
1903 Irene Eisinger, singer
1903 Kathleen (Kitty) Rosalind Muggeridge, author
1903 Zoltan Szekely, composer
1904 Wilmer L Allison Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1935)
1905 Charles Cushing, composer
1905 Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer
1905 Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1905 Julius Silverman, politician
1906 Richard Llewellyn, Welch novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
1907 Tony Aubin, composer
1908 John A. Volpe, American politician (Gov-Mass), 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (1969-1973) (d. 1994)
1909 Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 1999)
1909 Lesslie Newbigin, English bishop and theologian (d. 1998)
1911 Lee J Cobb, American actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
1911 Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (d. 1992)
1912 Jura Soyfer, writer
1913 Delmore Schwartz, American poet, short story writer, critic (Shenandoah) (d. 1966)
1913 Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Sun Song)
1915 Denis Harding, soldier
1915 Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1915 George Scheuer, writer, journalist
1916 Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep
1916 Richard Fleischer, American director (d. 2006)
1917 Rufo I Wever, Aruban pianist, composer (Ca'i Organ)
1918 Gérard Souzay, French opera singer (d. 2004)
1918 Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer
1919 Hans-Dieter Hosalla, composer
1919 Moyssey Samuilovich Vaynberg, composer
1919 Peter Tali Coleman, American politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
1920 Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
1920 Ron Gulliford, educationalist
1921 Johnny Otis, American R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
1921 Terence Morgan, English actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 Terence Weil, cellist, teacher
1922 George Fullerton, South African cricketer
1922 Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter
1922 John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15)
1922 Lucian Freud, German artist (Boy With a Rat) (d. 2011)
1923 Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American chemist
1924 Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian and author
1925 Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000)
1925 James E "Jimmy" Smith, American jazz organist (Walk on the Wild Side) (d. 2005)
1925 Sammy Davis Jr., American actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man), singer, and dancer (d. 1990)
1927 Ferdie Pacheco, the "Fight Doctor", American physician
1927 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
1928 Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (d. 1996)
1928 Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist (Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns, Bell Curve task force head) (d. 2012)
1929 Goffredo Parise, writer
1930 Alain Weber, composer
1930 John Morressy, American sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
1930 Julian Critchley, English politician (d. 2000)
1930 Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor and director (Odessa File, Julia)
1931 Bob Arum, American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank
1931 Rudolf Komorous, composer
1933 Flip Wilson (Clerow), American comedian and actor (Flip Wilson Show) (d. 1998)
1935 Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935 Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936 Brad Jurjens, Estonian director (The Bank Job)
1936 David Carradine, American actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets, Kill Bill V.1 & 2) (d. 2009)
1936 Michael Hobson, American publisher
1936 Peter Parfitt, English cricketer
1936 W S "Buster" Farrer, South African cricketer
1937 Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
1937 James MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0, Swiss Family Robinson) (d. 2010)
1937 Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch undersecretary of Defense (CDA)
1939 Dariush Mehrjui, Iranian director, screenwriter, and producer
1939 James Galway, Irish flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
1939 Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter (The Impressions)
1939 Lynn Wilson, contractor, multi-millionaire
1939 Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player
1939 Soko Richardson, American drummer (Kings of Rhythm and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers) (d. 2004)
1940 Brant Alyea, American baseball player
1940 Graham Knight, rocker
1940 Jenny Linden, English actress (Hedda, Dr Who & the Daleks)
1940 Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
1941 Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch undersecretary of Economic (VVD)
1941 Bob Brown, American football player
1941 Bobby Elliott, English drummer (The Hollies)
1941 Duke Cunningham, American politician
1941 Ed Brinkman, American baseball player
1941 Geoff Hurst, English footballer
1941 Randall "Duke" Cunningham, US Navy fighter pilot and Congressman
1942 Bobby Elliot, drummer (Hollies)
1942 Hemant Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974)
1942 Mario Savio, activist
1943 Bodo Tümmler, German runner
1943 Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter and poet (The Doors, Rick & the Ravens) (d. 1971)
1943 Mary Woronov, American actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision)
1943 Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief (Evening News, Manchester)
1943 Slick, American wrestling manager
1944 George Baker, Dutch singer-songwriter
1944 Vince MacLean, Canadian politician
1945 John Banville, Irish author and journalist
1946 Graham Knight, Musician (Marmalade)
1946 John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, and director (Family, Boys from Brazil)
1946 Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress
1947 Belinda Balaski, American actor (Cannonball, Proud Men, Howling)
1947 Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 Frans Leijnse, Dutch politician (PvdA 2nd Chamber)
1947 Geoff Daking, rocker
1947 Gregg Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band, Hour Glass)
1947 Gérard Blanc, French singer and guitarist (d. 2009)
1947 Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author
1947 Thomas R. Cech, American chemist (Nobel Prize laureate)
1948 Luis Caffarelli, Argentine-American mathematician
1949 Mary Gordon, American author and academic
1949 Nancy Meyers, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 Ray Shulman, English violinist, guitarist, and producer (Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Gentle Giant)
1949 Robert Sternberg, American psychologist (Triarchic Theory of Intelligence)
1950 Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994)
1950 Rick Baker, American special effects makeup artist (Exorcist)
1950 Tim Foli, American baseball player
1951 Bill Bryson, English-American author (A Short history of nearly everything)
1951 Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell
1952 Khaw Boon Wan, Malaysian-Singaporean Health Minister
1952 Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1952 Sam Kinison, screaming comedian, actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover)
1953 Kim Basinger, American actress (L.A. Confidential), singer, and producer
1953 Norman Finkelstein, American academic, author, and activist
1953 Roy Firestone, American sportscaster and journalist (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments)
1953 Sam Kinison, American comedian and actor (d. 1992)
1954 Frits Pirard, Dutch cyclist
1954 Gadowar Singh Sahota, Indian wrestler
1954 Harold Hongju Koh, Korean-American lawyer and scholar, Dean (Yale Law School)
1955 Deborra-Lee Furness, Australian Actress (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole)
1955 Ian Greig, English cricketer
1955 Milenko Zablaćanski, Serbian actor, director, and scriptwriter (d. 2008)
1956 Andrew Edge, English drummer (Thompson Twins Uropa Lula, Savage Progress)
1956 Warren Cuccurullo, American guitarist (Duran Duran, Missing Persons, TV Mania, and Chicanery)
1957 Phil Collen, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Def Leppard, Girl, Man Raze, Tush, and Dumb Blondes)
1958 Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
1958 Bob Greene, American physiologist
1958 Rob Curling, Malaysian-English journalist
1958 Thongchai McIntyre, Thai singer and actor
1958 Wayne Dickert, American slalom double canoe (Olympics-11th-96)
1959 Mark Dickson, American tennis star
1959 Mark Steyn, Canadian-American author and critic
1959 Marty Raybon, American singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1959 Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
1959 Stephen Jefferies, South African cricketer
1960 Lim Guan Eng, Malaysian Secretary-General of the Malaysian Democratic Action Party (DAP), 4th Chief Minister of the State of Penang
1961 Ann Coulter, American conservative author, political commentator, and attorney
1961 Mikey Robins, Australian comedian and television host
1962 Berry van Aerle, Dutch footballer (PSV)
1962 Marty Friedman, American-Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and television host (Megadeth, Cacophony, Hawaii)
1962 Nikos Karageorgiou, Greek footballer
1962 Stephen John Elkington, Australian PGA golfer (1990 Kmart)
1962 Steve Elkington, Australian golfer
1963 Greg Howe, American guitarist, composer, and producer
1963 Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler
1963 Wendell Pierce, American actor (Parker)
1964 Chigusa Nagayo, Japanese wrestler
1964 James Blundell, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 James Martinez, American rower (Olympics-1996)
1964 Mike Ruiz, Canadian-American model, photographer, and director
1964 Sandy Burnett, English record producer
1964 Teri Hatcher, American actress (Lois Lane-Lois & Clark, Coraline)
1965 Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress
1965 David Harewood, English actor (Blood Diamond)
1965 Greg Truitt, NFL safety, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1965 Teresa Weatherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1965 Theo Maassen, Dutch comedian and actor
1965 Troy Sadowski, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1966 Douglas Allan Martin, American PGA golfer (1995 Buick-2nd)
1966 Jeff Tremaine, American television and film director
1966 Joe Staysniak, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 Matthew Laborteaux, American actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
1966 Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter (Nothing Compares to You)
1966 Tyler Mane, Actor (X-Men)
1967 Andy Kapp, German curler
1967 Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager
1967 Jeff George, American football player, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders)
1967 Junkie XL, Dutch musician and producer
1967 Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress
1967 Marina Augusta Baker, English playmate (Mar, 1987)
1967 Ron George, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 Tony Mayberry, NFL center (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 Bill Johnson, defensive tackle (St Louis Rams)
1968 Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator
1968 Mike Mussina, American baseball player, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1969 Antoon Kuil, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 Bobby Phillips, WLAF running back (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 Darrin Shannon, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 Lisa Marie Munzert, American Miss Delaware-America (1991)
1969 Steve Van Wormer, American actor
1969 Victor Green, NFL cornerback, safety (NY Jets)
1970 Me Phi Me, American rapper
1971 Garvin Alston, American pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1971 James Stewart, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Frank Shamrock, American mixed martial artist
1972 Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer
1972 Édson Ribeiro, Brazilian sprinter
1973 Corey Taylor, American singer-songwriter (Slipknot, Stone Sour, Junk Beer Kidnap Band)
1973 Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor
1973 Mitch Jacoby, tight end (St Louis Rams)
1973 Monty Montgomery, defensiveback (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
1974 Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Head Wound City)
1974 Paul Staight, Victoria Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1974 Tony Simmons, American football player
1975 Jerrelle Clark, American wrestler
1975 Kevin Harvick, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1976 Brettina, Bahamian-American singer-songwriter and actress
1976 Dominic Monaghan, English actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
1976 Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter
1976 Reed Johnson, American baseball player
1977 Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television host
1977 Matthias Schoenaerts, Actor (Rust and Bone)
1977 Ryan Newman, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1977 Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union footballer
1978 Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
1978 Frédéric Piquionne, France footballer
1978 Ian Somerhalder, American actor (Founder's Day)
1978 John Oster, Welsh footballer
1978 Kate Robinson, Peoria Ill, dance skater (& Kate Robinson)
1978 Vernon Wells, American baseball player
1979 Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
1979 Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer
1979 Ingrid Michaelson, American singer-songwriter
1979 Johan Forssell, Swedish politician
1979 José Peña, Venezuelan sprinter
1979 Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor and singer
1980 Lisa Kelly, American truck driver
1981 Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
1981 Philip Rivers, American football player
1982 Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player
1982 Dee Dee Trotter, American athlete, runner
1982 Halil Altintop, Turkish Footballer, twin brother of Hamit Altintop
1982 Hamit Altintop, Turkish Footballer, twin brother of Halil Altintop
1982 Jimmy Rave, American wrestler
1982 Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress
1982 Noelle Pikus-Pace, American skeleton racer
1983 Liu Song, Chinese snooker player
1983 Neel Jani, Swiss race car driver
1983 Utkarsh Ambudkar, Actor (Pitch Perfect)
1984 Badr Hari, Dutch kick-boxer
1984 Greg Halford, English footballer
1985 Dwight Howard, American basketball player
1985 Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater
1985 Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player
1986 Amir Khan, English boxer
1986 Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1987 Aria Noelle Curzon, Actress (The Prince of Egypt)
1988 Blake Webber, Actor (Shadow Deep)
1989 Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 Jen Ledger, English drummer (Skillet)
1990 Seth Ginsberg, Actor (Paranormal Activity 2)
1991 Lucas Biscombe, Actor (Time of the Wolf)
1992 Katie Stevens, Actress, singer (8th finalist on the 9th season of Fox's American Idol)
1993 AnnaSophia Robb, American actress (Bridge to Terabithia) and singer
1993 Jordan Obita, English footballer
1994 Raheem Sterling, English footballer
1995 Jordan Ibe, English footballer
1996 Teala Dunn, American actress
1997 Nic and Tristan Puehse, Actors (Nic & Tristan Go Mega Dega)
1998 Greyson Turner, Actor (The Birthday Boy)
2000 John Bartlebaugh, Actor (Night Life)
2004 Ammir Enrique Naim, Actor (Delivery)

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644 Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered
765 Ja'far al-Sadiq, Muslim jurist (b. 702)
899 Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France (b. 850)
1292 John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury
1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico
1626 John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
1632 Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
1638 Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
1643 John Pym, English politician (b. 1583)
1649 Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
1652 Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered
1680 Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
1681 Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter, etcher
1691 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
1695 Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
1709 Thomas Corneille, French playwright (b. 1625)
1722 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German-French duchess
1722 Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (b. 1652)
1744 Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
1745 Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
1746 Charles Radclyffe, English politician (b. 1693)
1756 William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat (b. 1690)
1768 Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
1779 Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
1785 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
1793 Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1743)
1811 Eliza Poe, English-born American actress, mother of Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1787)
1830 H Benjamin Constant, French politician and author (b. 1767)
1831 James Hoban, architect (White House)
1859 644 Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered
1859 Thomas De Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
1864 George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher, inventor (Boolean algebra) (b. 1815)
1869 Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
1885 William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman (b. 1821)
1894 Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
1894 Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician, Roman Catholic historian
1896 Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1900 Henry Russell, composer
1903 Herbert Spencer, English engineer, philosopher (Natural Selection) (b. 1820)
1907 Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (1907) and Norway (1905) (b. 1829)
1914 Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (b. 1861)
1917 Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
1923 Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine, musicologist
1924 Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist, composer (Mataswintha)
1926 Jan Six, Dutch art historian, collector
1934 Bernhard Seklas, composer
1936 Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twin (b. 1908)
1938 Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896)
1939 Ernest Schelling, composer
1940 George Exton Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
1952 Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the RMS Titanic (b. 1874)
1954 Gladys George, American actress (Roaring Twenties) (b. 1904)
1954 Joseph B. Keenan, American politician (b. 1888)
1955 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist
1956 Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer
1957 Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance)
1958 Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
1961 William Beatton Moonie, composer
1963 Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1963 Sarit Thanarat, Thai politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1966 Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
1967 John Mills Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1889)
1967 Robert H Lawrence, American astronaut
1969 Vincenzo Davico, composer
1970 Christopher K Ingold, English chemist
1971 Eleni Ourani, Greek poet (b. 1896)
1972 George Collins, American politician (Rep-Ill), dies in airplane crash
1975 Gary Thain, New Zealand bass player (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
1978 Golda Meir, Israeli politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974) (b. 1898)
1980 John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, activist, and producer (The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band, The Quarrymen, The Dirty Mac), assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman (b. 1940)
1981 Shakey (Walter Horton), harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin')
1982 Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered
1982 Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux)
1982 Bram Behr, Suriname journalist, revolutionary, murdered (b. 1951)
1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
1982 Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered
1982 John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered
1982 Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered
1982 Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered
1982 Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered
1982 Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and race car driver (b. 1925)
1982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered
1983 Slim Pickens, American actor (Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove) and rodeo performer (b. 1919)
1984 Luther Adler, American actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist) (b. 1903)
1984 Razzle, English Musician and drummer for Hanoi Rocks (b.1960)
1984 Robert Jay Mathews, American white nationalist leader, founder (The Order) (b. 1953)
1988 Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show)
1988 Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, American singer (Persuasions-Good news)
1989 Hans Hartung, German-French painter
1990 Martin Ritt, American director, actor (Norma Rae)
1990 Pony Sherrell Metcalf, American singer, dies of heart attack
1991 Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player, orchestra leader (b. 1911)
1991 Kimberly Bergalis, American AIDS victim, got HIV from health care worker (b. 1968)
1992 William Shawn, American magazine editor (New Yorker 1952-1987) (b. 1917)
1993 Andre Cerf, French actor, producer (Nana)
1993 Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields
1993 Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)
1994 Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer (Girl From Ipanema) (b. 1927)
1994 Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer
1995 Carl Marsden, bodyguard
1995 Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator
1995 John Gillett, film researcher
1995 Mikki Doyle, journalist
1996 Howard E Rollins Jr, American actor (Ed Harding-Another World) (b. 1950)
1996 Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (b. 1938)
1996 Marin Sorescu, poet, dramatist
1997 Bob Bell, American clown (WGN's 1st Bozo) (b. 1922)
1997 Leon Poliakov, historian
1998 Michael Craze, English actor (b.1942)
1999 Péter Kuczka, Hungarian poet (b. 1923)
2000 Milić od Mačve, Serbian painter (b. 1934)
2001 Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
2001 Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player (b. 1954)
2003 Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club, Estrellas de Areito) (b. 1919)
2004 Dimebag Darrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan, and Gasoline), shot & killed while performing onstage in Columbus Ohio by crazed fan Nathan Gale (b. 1966)
2005 Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
2006 José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
2006 Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
2007 Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist (b. 1983)
2008 Kerryn McCann, Australian runner (b. 1967)
2008 Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer (b. 1925)
2008 Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930)
2009 Kenneth Biros, American murderer (b. 1958)
2009 Luis Días, Dominican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (b. 1952)
2012 Ambrose Madtha, Indian archbishop (b. 1955)
2012 Arnold Dean, American radio host (b. 1930)
2012 Bill Prest, Australian politician (b. 1926)
2012 Charles Martin, American politician (b. 1931)
2012 Jagannathan, Malayalam actor (b. 1938)
2012 Jerry Brown, American football player (b. 1987)
2012 Khan Sarwar Murshid, Bangladeshi educator and diplomat (b. 1924)
2012 Walter Newman, American soldier and civic leader (b. 1921)
2012 Yvonne Kennedy, American politician (b. 1945)
2013 John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist and Nobel laureate
2013 Don Mitchell, American actor
2015 Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano
2015 Bonnie Lou [Mary Joan Okum] American Rockabilly musician

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