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536 Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire.
656 Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
1212 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1315 Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
1425 Pope Martinus V forms The Catholic University of Leuven
1531 The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1570 Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
1625 Netherlands & England sign military treaty
1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1658 Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
1688 King James II's wife & son flee England for France
1724 Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London
1738 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1747 England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1762 British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
1783 1st execution at English Newgate-jail
1793 New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
1805 Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1824 Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
1835 The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas.
1842 St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
1851 The first YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
1856 The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the American Civil War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1861 Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
1868 1st British government of Gladstone forms
1869 Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
1872 In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1875 The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is founded.
1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1883 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
1888 Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
1889 President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
1894 Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1897 Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
1900 Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
1902 AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1905 In France, the French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state.
1905 Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
1906 NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1907 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
1909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
1913 Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
1913 John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
1917 In Palestine, British forces under Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
1918 French troops occupies Mainz
1922 Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.
1924 Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
1924 Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
1925 AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000
1925 Pro football a hit in NYC, Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1926 USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1931 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
1931 Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in NYC
1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 Spain becomes a republic
1931 The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1933 21st CFL Grey Cup, Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3
1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1934 NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
1935 Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder.
1936 AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
1936 Australia all out 58 v Eng Bradman out for a duck
1937 Battle of Nanjing of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
1939 27th Grey Cup, Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki
1940 British troops 1st major offensive in North Africa (Banghazi, Libya) during WW II
1940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1940 South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
1940 Operation Compass of World War II, British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
1941 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
1941 7th Heisman Trophy Award, Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
1941 300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
1941 Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
1941 Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
1941 The 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon in World War II.
1941 The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan in World War II. China also declares war on Italy.
1946 The "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" begin with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
1948 UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
1949 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
1949 NFL merges Cleveland Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
1950 Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1951 Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ
1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1953 Montreal Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
1953 General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1954 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Sweedish Royal Music Academy.
1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1957 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1958 Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
1960 First broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
1960 The first episode of Britain's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast.
1961 "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1961 "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs
1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
1961 The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
1962 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
1962 The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres
1965 Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
1965 Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
1965 The Kecksburg UFO incident, a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania, Witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined an object.
1966 Barbados joins the United Nations.
1967 Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1968 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1970 Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls
1971 Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1971 The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
1973 "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
1973 Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
1973 Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
1974 Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1974 Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
1974 Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
1975 Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
1978 First game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1979 Murle Breer & Dave Eichelberger win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1979 The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1980 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
1981 Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
1982 Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
1983 Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1984 59th Australian Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
1984 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1984 LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
1984 Vicki Alvarez & Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1985 74th Australian Mens Tennis, S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
1985 Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
1987 During the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
1987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988 NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
1988 The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
1990 Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
1990 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
1990 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
1990 Lech Walesa wins Poland's first direct presidential election.
1990 NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
1991 2nd Billboard Music Awards
1992 3rd Billboard Music Awards
1992 Cincinati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
1992 NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season
1992 Operation Restore Hope US Marines land in Somalia
1992 Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)
1993 "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
1993 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
1994 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
1995 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
2000 The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.
2003 A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2006 Moscow suffers its worst fire since 1977, killing 45 women in a drug rehabilitation center.
2008 The Governor of Illinois, Rob Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.
2009 In Denmark, seven of the nine parties of the Danish Parliament declares that they don't support Tibet as a country.
2012 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
2012 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
2012 Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud
2012 Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight title
2012 The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the parliamentary elections
2013 Mike Ditka's #89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears
2014 CIA Torture Report released, detailing the CIA's use of torture on detainees between 2001-2006
2015 Amazon's best-selling book of the year is "Girl on a Train" by Paula Hwakins
2015 Attack on Kandahar airport by Taliban forces kills at least 37 before Afghan forces retake control
2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for her handling of debt and refugee crises

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1392 Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
1447 Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1508 Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
1561 Edwin Sandys, English politician, founder of Virginia colony (d. 1629)
1571 Adrian A Metius, Dutch mathematician, fort architect
1571 Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1579 Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (Patron of social justice) (d. 1639)
1581 Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daughter of Willem of Orange
1594 Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, made Sweden a major power (1611-32) (d. 1632)
1608 John Milton, English poet, puritan (Paradise Lost) (d. 1674)
1610 Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer (d. 1680)
1652 Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1667 William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
1715 Georg Gottfried Petri, composer
1717 Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
1717 Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German historian (d. 1768)
1721 Peter Pelham, English-American organist and composer (d. 1805)
1728 Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (d. 1804)
1742 Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist, chemist (lemon acid)
1745 Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818)
1748 Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1754 Etienne Ozi, composer
1787 John Dobson, English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (d. 1865)
1791 Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer
1796 Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer
1806 Jean-Olivier Chénier, French-Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1813 Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
1837 Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1842 Peter A. Kropotkin, Russian activist, anarchist (d. 1921)
1845 Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and author (d. 1908)
1847 George Grossmith, English actor, writer, and singer (d. 1912)
1848 Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
1850 Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1853 Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, American baseball pitcher (60-12 in 1884)
1854 Pekka Hannikainen, composer
1859 Algernon Ashton, composer
1861 Hélène Smith, French psychic (d. 1929)
1862 Karel Kovarovic, composer
1864 Sidney Homer, composer
1867 Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek journalist and author (d. 1951)
1868 Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1919) (d. 1934)
1870 Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician (d. 1960)
1871 Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1873 Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect
1876 Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1876 Pauline Whittier, American golfer (d. 1946)
1882 Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (Rima) (d. 1949)
1883 Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1955)
1883 Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1886 Clarence Birdseye, American frozen vegatable businessman, founder (Birds Eye) (d. 1956)
1887 Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
1889 John P "Hannes" Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (Olympic gold 1912) (d. 1966)
1891 Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
1894 Eddie Dowling, American actor (Anywhere USA)
1895 Conchita Supervía, Spanish soprano opera singer (d. 1936)
1895 Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish politician (d. 1989)
1897 Hermione Gingold, English actress (Gigi, Music Man) (d. 1987)
1898 Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (Weary Willie) (d. 1979)
1899 Frans van Amelsvoort, Dutch choir conductor
1899 Howard Freeman, American actor (Double Dynamite)
1899 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant) (d. 1937)
1899 Leonie Fuller Adams, American poet (Those not elected)
1900 Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer, founder (Communist League of Struggle) (d. 1977)
1901 Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1901 Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938)
1902 Margaret Hamilton, American actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz) (d. 1985)
1902 Richard A Butler, England, Dutch minister of Finance & Foreign affairs
1904 Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
1904 Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist
1905 Dalton Trumbo, American author and screenwriter (Johnny Got His Gun) (d. 1976)
1906 Freddy Martin, American orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin)
1906 Grace Murray Hopper, American navy officer and computer scientist, developer (COBOL) (d. 1992)
1906 Greet Koeman, Dutch singer
1907 Noel Walton Bott, engineer
1909 Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor (Ghost Story) (d. 2000)
1910 Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist, painter (Holland Festival)
1910 Stephen Jurika Jr, US pilot, captain (WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross)
1911 Broderick Crawford, American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol) (d. 1986)
1911 Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
1911 Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese army officer and educator (d. 2007)
1911 (William) Broderick Crawford, American actor (Hunter, Liar's Moon)
1912 Fred Engelen, Flemish actor, director
1912 Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, American politician (Rep-D-Mass 1977-86), 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
1914 Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)
1914 Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter (d. 2009)
1914 Max Manus, Norwegian activist (d. 1996)
1915 Colin McCool, Australian cricketer
1915 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano (Der Rosenkavalier) (d. 2006)
1915 Herbert Huncke, writer
1916 Jerome Beatty Jr., American author (d. 2002)
1916 Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovitch), American actor (Spartacus, Gunfight at OK Corral)
1916 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German-Swiss architect, writer (Mozart biog)
1917 James Angleton, American CIA officer, head of counterintelligence (d. 1987)
1917 James Rainwater, American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1986)
1918 Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
1918 Joyce Redman, Irish actress (d. 2012)
1919 William Lipscomb, American chemist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 2011)
1920 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President of the Italian Republic
1922 Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show) (d. 1991)
1925 Dina Merrill, American actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
1926 Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1999)
1926 Jan Křesadlo, Czech psychologist, author (d. 1995)
1927 Pierre Henry, French composer
1928 André Milhoux, Belgian race car driver
1928 Dick Van Patten, American actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
1929 John Cassavetes, American actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby), screenwriter, and director (d. 1989)
1929 Michel Fano, composer
1929 Robert J L Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991)
1930 Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (SNL, Get Smart)
1931 Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 2010)
1931 William Reynolds, American actor
1932 Billy Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 Donald Byrd, American trumpet player
1932 Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician
1933 Ashleigh Brilliant, American author
1933 Milt Campbell, American hurdler, decathlete (Olympics-gold-56), (d. 2012)
1933 Monique Miller, Canadian actress
1933 Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (d. 2001)
1933 Orville Moody, American PGA golfer (1969 US Open) (d. 2008)
1934 Al Kaline, American baseball outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1934 Alan Ridout, composer
1934 Judi Dench, English actress (Henry V, Wetherby, Skyfall)
1934 (Amos) Junior Wells, American blues singer-songwriter and harmonica player (The Aces) (d. 1998)
1934 Milton Gray Campbell, American decathelete (Olympic-gold-1956)
1935 Dominico Tromp, Aruba, stage leader
1936 Ben Pon, Dutch race car driver
1937 Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
1938 David Houston, American singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
1938 Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care
1938 Waris Hussein, Director (Little Gloria... Happy at Last)
1938 William Thomas McKinley, composer
1938 (David) Deacon Jones, American football player, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
1939 Patrician Stephens Due, Quincy, Florida, African-American civil rights activist (FAMU jail-in), (d. 2012)
1940 Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1940 Sammy Strain, American singer (Imperials-Hurt So Bad)
1941 Beau Bridges, American actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer) and director
1941 Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Charlatans and The Acoustic Warriors)
1942 Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1942 Dick Butkus, American football player, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears), sportscaster
1942 Joe McGinniss, American author (Selling of President 1968)
1943 Joanna Trollope, English author
1943 Kenny Vance, Musician
1943 Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1943 Rick Danko, Canadian musician (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
1944 Bob O'Connor, American politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d. 2006)
1944 George Baker (Hans Bouwens), Dutch vocalist (G B Selection)
1944 Ki Longfellow, American author
1944 Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter and actor (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles)
1944 Tadashi Irie, Japanese mobster
1945 Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
1945 Michael Nouri, American actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues, Flashdance)
1946 Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and songwriter
1946 Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
1946 Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician
1947 Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-Estonian politician
1947 Tom Daschle, American politician
1948 Dennis Dunaway, rocker
1948 Marleen Gorris, Dutch director (Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island)
1948 Ron Vawter, American actor (Philadelphia, Empire City, Twister)
1949 Nando Parrado, Uruguayan survivor of the 1972 Andes flight disaster
1949 Thomas O Kite Jr, American PGA golfer (1978 BC Open, Crosby 1983)
1950 Joan Armatrading, St Kitts singer-songwriter (Back to the Night)
1952 Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
1952 Michael Dorn, American actor (Worf-Star Trek Next Generation)
1953 Cornelis de Bondt, Dutch composer
1953 John Malkovich, American actor, director (Killing Fields, Burn After Reading)
1953 World B. Free, American basketball player, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
1954 Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager
1954 Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian, cabaret performer
1954 Phil Bryant, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
1955 Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
1955 Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
1956 Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author
1956 Sylvia, Kokomo Indiana, country singer (Nobody)
1957 Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
1957 Peter O'Mara, Australian guitarist and composer
1957 Steve Taylor, American singer-songwriter and producer (Chagall Guevara)
1958 Nancy J Currie, American Mjr Army/astronaut (STS 57, 70, sk: 88)
1958 Nick Seymour, Australian bass player, songwriter, and producer (Crowded House, Deadstar, and Tarmac Adam)
1958 Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents, D.I., Social Distortion, Christian Death)
1959 John Martin Scripps, English murderer (d. 1996)
1960 Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician and editor
1960 Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player, infielder (NY Yankees, Blue Jays)
1960 Stefen Fangmeier, American director
1960 Terry Moran, American journalist, TV reporter
1961 Christiane Jolissaint, Swiss tennis star
1961 David Anthony Higgins, American actor
1961 Ian Andrew Wright, New Zealand rower (Olympics-96)
1961 Joe Lando, American actor (Byron Sully-Dr Quinn, One Life to Live)
1962 Felicity Huffman, American actress (Transamerica) and producer
1963 Barbara Palacios, Venezuelen Miss Universe (1986)
1963 Barry Wilburn, NFL full safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1963 Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
1963 Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
1964 Hape Kerkeling, German actor and comedian
1964 Johannes B. Kerner, German sportscaster
1964 Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein, Feeling B, and First Arsch)
1964 Petr Briza, Czech hockey goalie (Team Czech Rep)
1965 Brad Savage, American actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1965 Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
1965 Karla Nelson, American Model, Miss America (1993)
1965 Vecepia Towery, American reality contestant, winner (Survivor: Marquesas)
1966 Dana Murzyn, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1966 Dave Harold, English snooker player
1966 Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician
1966 Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, Guatemalan footballer
1966 Kadyrbek Sarbayev, Kyrgyzstan politician
1966 Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 Martin Taylor, English footballer and coach
1966 Mateo Romero, American painter
1966 Michael Foster, American drummer (FireHouse)
1966 Montserrat Gil Torné, Andorran politician
1966 Natee Thongsookkaew, Thai footballer
1966 Shane Scott, American director and producer
1966 Spencer Rochfort, Canadian-American actor
1966 Toby Huss, American actor
1967 Caryn Kadavy, Erie Pa, figure skater
1967 Cathy Mockett, Newport Beach CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Youngstown-7th)
1967 Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1967 Jason Dozzell, English footballer
1967 Joshua Bell, American violinist
1967 Ray Agnew, NFL nose tackle (Carolina Panthers, NY Giants)
1968 Bill Johnson, NFL defensive linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Brent Price, American basketball player, NBA guard (Houston Rockets, Washington Bullets)
1968 Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Weezer, Space Twins, and The Relationship)
1968 Kurt Angle, American wrestler, 220 lbs freestyle wrestler (Oly-gold-96), and actor
1968 Michael Foster, American drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1969 Allison Smith, American actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
1969 Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 Greg(ory) Klingsporn, American rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Son of Bob Dylan (The Wallflowers)
1969 Ramon Garcia, Venezuelan pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor (Dress to Kill)
1970 Donald Douglas, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1970 Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter and record producer (Platinum Weird)
1970 Lance Krall, American comedian and actor
1970 Marlin Cannon, American 200m/400m runner
1971 Chris Boniol, NFL kicker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Clifton Abraham, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 Geoff Barrow, English musician, composer, and producer (Portishead, Beak, and Quakers)
1971 Petr Nedvěd, Czech ice hockey player, NHL center (Team Czech, Pitts Penguins)
1971 Todd Van Poppel, American pitcher (Oakland A's)
1972 Backhouse Mike, American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis player
1972 Paul Greene, Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96)
1972 Reiko Aylesworth, American actress (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)
1972 Tré Cool, German-American drummer (Green Day, The Lookouts, Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Network)
1973 Bárbara Padilla, Mexican-American soprano
1973 Fabio Artico, Italian footballer
1973 Tony Batista, Dominican infielder (Oakland A's)
1974 Aloísio da Silva Filho, Brazilian footballer
1974 Canibus, Jamaican-American rapper and actor (The Hrsmn)
1974 Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani singer
1974 Wendy Dillinger, American footballer and coach
1975 Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & Hendersons)
1975 Stuart McRae, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Chris Booker, American baseball player
1977 Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter (Frou Frou and Urban Species)
1977 Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
1977 Shayne Graham, American football player
1978 Gaston Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
1978 Jesse Metcalfe, American actor (John Tucker Must Die)
1978 Mandy James, American rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1979 Chen Hao, Chinese actress and singer
1979 Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter (D&D)
1979 Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
1980 Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
1980 Simon Helberg, American actor (Good Night, and Good Luck)
1981 Diya Mirza, Indian actress
1981 Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1982 Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
1982 Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner
1982 Ryan Grant, American football player
1982 Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
1982 Vincent Accardi, American guitarist Brand New
1983 Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1983 Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1984 Angel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer
1984 Leon Hall, American football player
1985 Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
1986 Mia Magma, Actress (Hasenhimmel)
1987 Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
1987 Mat Latos, American baseball player
1988 Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
1989 Lindsey Evans, American model
1990 LaFee, German singer-songwriter
1991 Choi Minho, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Shinee)
1991 Joachim, Prince of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1992 Richie Piper, Actor (Iris)
1993 Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
1994 Delfina Varni, Actress (El ratón Pérez)
1995 McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
1996 Nicole Smolen, Actress (Broken)
1997 Alisa Vilena Gerstein, Actress (Earrings)
1998 Mika Dela Cruz, Actress (RPG Metanoia)
1999 Rachel Downey, Actress (Hindsight 2020)
2001 Ronnie Paris, American child abuse victim (d. 2005)
2003 Olivia Flora, Actress (A Distant Thunder)
2340 Worf, Klingon character on Star Trek Next Generation

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748 Nasr ibn Sayyar, Arabian general and politician (b. 663)
1165 Malcom IV, king of Scotland (1153-65) (b. 1141)
1292 Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden)
1437 Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Germany (b. 1368)
1544 Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
1565 Pius IV (Gianangelo de' Medici), Italian Pope (1559-65) (b. 1499)
1603 William Watson, English priest, conspirator (b. 1559)
1625 Ubbo Emmius (van Embden), Dutch historian, geographer, humanist (b. 1547)
1636 Fabian Birkowski, Polish author and preacher (b. 1566)
1636 Giovanni B Aleotti, Italian writer, theater architect
1640 Pierre Fourier, Roman Catholic saint and French priest (b.1565)
1641 Anthonie "Antoon" van Dyck, Belgian painter (b. 1599)
1669 Clement IX (Giulio Rospigliosi), Italian Pope (1667-69) (b. 1600)
1674 Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English Prime Minister (1660-67) (b. 1609)
1692 William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
1706 Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706) (b. 1648)
1718 Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
1767 Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista)
1770 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
1793 Gabrielle de Polastron, Comtesse de Polignac, French educator, aristocrat (b. 1749)
1798 Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
1814 Jose Angel Lamas, composer
1819 Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide
1827 Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1830 Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (b. 1757)
1854 Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1799)
1858 Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804)
1887 Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
1893 George Elvey, composer
1905 Henry Holmes, composer
1906 Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
1916 Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author (b. 1867)
1916 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France)
1924 Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer (Gisbertus of Aemstel) and educator (b. 1854)
1925 Eugene Gigout, composer
1929 Willis Cuttell, English cricketer
1930 Jim Slight, Australian cricketer
1930 Rube Foster, American baseball player (b. 1879)
1932 Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Bangladeshi social worker (b. 1880)
1933 Morice Bird, English cricketer
1935 Walter Liggett, American journalist, newspaper editor, and muckraker (b. 1886)
1937 Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1869)
1940 Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
1941 Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
1941 Leonard "Leo" Polak, Dutch philosopher
1943 Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
1944 Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square)
1948 Timothy O'Brien, Irish-English cricketer
1952 Abe Manley, American businessman (b. 1885)
1955 Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (b. 1885)
1956 Hans Barth, composer
1957 Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special)
1959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News)
1963 Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author (b. 1903)
1964 Edith L. Sitwell, English poet and critic (Wheels) (b. 1887)
1965 Branch Rickey, American baseball player and executive (b. 1884)
1966 Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1967 Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898)
1970 Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer (MIG), , co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)
1970 Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
1971 Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, UN delegate (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1904)
1971 Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874)
1972 Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
1974 George Carew, West Indian cricketer
1974 Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer
1975 William A. Wellman, American director (Ox Bow Incident) (b. 1896)
1976 Nino Martini, actor (Here's to Romance)
1977 Clarice Lispector, writer
1979 Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop, religious broadcaster (b. 1895)
1981 Daniel Faulkner, American police officer (b. 1955)
1981 Tonny Til, rocker
1982 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death)
1982 Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show)
1982 Leon Jaworski, American special prosecutor (Watergate) (b. 1905)
1982 Marty Robbins, country singer
1982 Paul Godwin (Goldfein), Polish-Dutch violist
1982 Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist
1983 David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
1984 Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
1990 Mike Mazurski, wrestler, actor (Centerfold Girls)
1992 Carl Barger, MLB baseball president (Pittsburgh Pirates, Fla Marlins)
1992 Vincent Gardenia, American actor (All in the Family, LA Law) (b. 1922)
1993 Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
1993 Muhammad Reza Golpayegani, ayatollah of Iran
1994 Garnett Silk, Jamaican raggae-singer (b. 1966)
1994 Kim II Sung, President of North Korea (1945-94)
1994 Maureen Cox Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo Star
1994 Max Bill, Swiss painter, sculptor, politician
1995 Benny Lee, entertainer
1995 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
1995 Hugh Armstrong Clegg, industrial relations academic
1995 Toni Cade Bambara, American author, filmmaker (b. 1939)
1995 Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist, politician
1995 Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys & Dolls)
1996 Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, French politician, President of France, French pres of European Parliament (1966-1969) (b. 1909)
1996 Anne Bolt, photo-journalist, trade unionist
1996 Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1996 Faron Young, country singer, commits suicide
1996 Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor
1996 Mary Douglas Nichol Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
1996 Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (The Waitresses) (b. 1956)
1996 Raphael Samuel, historian
1997 Tamara Geva, dancer
1998 Archie Moore, American boxer (b. 1913)
1998 Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2001 Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915)
2002 Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (b. 1944)
2002 Mary Hansen, Australian guitarist and singer (Stereolab) (b. 1966)
2002 Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
2003 Norm Sloan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2003 Paul Simon, American politician, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
2004 David Brudnoy, American radio host (b. 1940)
2004 Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
2005 György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (b. 1912)
2005 Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928)
2007 Gordon Zahn, American sociologist (b. 1918)
2007 Thore Skogman, Swedish singer and actor (b. 1931)
2008 Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1972)
2008 Yuri Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1939)
2009 Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
2010 Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
2010 James Moody, American jazz saxophonist and flute player (b. 1925)
2010 John Eleuthère du Pont, American murderer (b. 1938)
2010 John du Pont, American member of the Du Pont family and convicted murderer (b. 1938)
2012 Alex Moulton, English engineer and businessman, founder(Moulton Bicycle, Moulton Bicycle Company) (b. 1920)
2012 Barbara Alby, American politician (b. 1946)
2012 Béla Nagy Abodi, Hungarian painter (b. 1918)
2012 Charles Rosen, American pianist (b. 1927)
2012 Ivan Ljavinec, Czech bishop (b. 1923)
2012 Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and producer, dies in a plane crash (b. 1969)
2012 Mathews Mar Barnabas, Indian bishop (b. 1924)
2012 Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-creater (bar code) (b. 1921)
2012 Patrick Moore, English astronomer (b. 1923)
2012 Riccardo Schicchi, Italian porn producer, co-founder (Diva Futura)
2012 Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and author
2013 Eleanor Parker, American actress
2014 Mary Ann Mobley, American model/actress

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