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283 St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
546 The Ostrogoths under King Totila conquer and plunder Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison in the Gothic War (535-554).
920 Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
942 Assassination of William I Longsword, 2nd Duke of Normandy.
1398 Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1526 Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero forms Inquisition
1531 Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
1538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1572 Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1577 Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific coast of the Americas for Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1583 Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeats the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
1586 Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1587 Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
1600 Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1637 Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.
1638 French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
1718 France, Britain, and Austria declare war on Spain.
1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of NY purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build NY's 1st synagogue
1745 Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
1777 France formally recognizes the United States English colonies in America
1777 George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pa
1788 Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City.
1791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
1807 France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1812 U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa in the War of 1812.
1819 Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain, Simón Bolívar declares independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
1821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
1837 A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
1852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
1862 General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky in the American Civil War.
1865 First performance of the Unfinished "Unvolendete" Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1875 Violent bread riots in Montreal
1885 France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1887 Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
1892 Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St Petersburg
1893 Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
1894 Cricket day 3 1T Aus v Eng Eng 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inn
1895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
1900 First prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1902 Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist," premieres in Berlin
1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight, The Wright brothers make their first powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 Ugyen Wangchuck became first hereditary king of Bhutan.
1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
1914 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland.
1914 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1918 Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1922 Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
1923 Greek king George II overthrown by army, republic
1924 First US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
1925 Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
1925 Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
1926 KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1926 Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
1927 Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours
1927 Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
1927 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1927 Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
1928 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
1928 John McGraw backs NL Pres John Heydler's designated hitter idea
1932 Cardinals trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll
1933 B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng v India at Bombay
1933 Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
1933 NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
1933 Spain's 2nd government of Lerroux forms
1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
1938 Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1938 Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
1939 Battle of the River Plate of World War II, The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
1940 British troops occupies Sollum in World War II.
1941 Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
1941 German submarine U-31 sunk
1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa in World War II.
1941 Beginning of the Siege of Sebastopol in World War II..
1941 Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo in World War II.
1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
1944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
1944 US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast
1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
1944 Battle of the Bulge Malmedy massacre of World War II, American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
1946 Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea
1946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1947 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1947 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 "Regina" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances
1949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1951 The Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations
1953 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953 FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
1954 First fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1954 WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1959 "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1959 First movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1960 "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 perfs
1960 "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
1960 Munich Convair 340 crash of 1960, 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
1960 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio," premieres
1960 Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
1961 Fire in the Gran Circus American in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the biggest tragedy in circus history. Set by Disgruntled employee.
1961 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
1961 Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
1962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1963 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
1963 West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
1965 Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert
1965 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965 David Levy begins his search for comets
1965 Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1967 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is presumed drowned.
1967 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs (Project Blue Book), concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.
1969 The SALT I talks begin.
1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970 Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
1971 Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
1971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
1972 WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
1973 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome, Italy's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
1973 Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
1975 1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
1975 John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court
1975 Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
1976 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1977 Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
1977 Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL)
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1978 The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Mauritania provisional constitution published
1981 Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
1981 Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
1983 "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 5 performances
1983 Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
1983 Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
1983 Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London, England, United Kingdom. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
1984 NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
1984 NJ Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1986 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1988 77th Davis Cup, Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988 Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
1988 NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
1989 78th Davis Cup, Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1989 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
1989 Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA v WA)
1989 Patti Rizzo & Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1989 Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire (Romanian Revolution).
1989 The first episode of television series The Simpsons (The longest-running American sitcom), "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
1990 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
1991 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
1991 NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
1991 Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1992 "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
1992 Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1993 Bangladesh muslems call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
1993 Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
1993 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
1994 KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
1995 "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1997 The United Kingdom commences its Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, which extends the ban on firearms to include all handguns, with the exception of antique and show weapons.
1999 The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25th as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
2002 The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years (Second Congo War).
2003 SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2003 The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, England, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2005 Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2005 Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan.
2007 Republic of Lakotah asserts independence from the United States
2009 MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
2010 Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
2012 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
2012 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
2012 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
2012 NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
2013 Australia wins the 3rd test to take win the 2013-14 Ashes test cricket series
2013 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term
2013 Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, and Nirvana are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2015 José Mourinho is sacked as manager of British Premier football club Chelsea
2015 Libyan warring political factions sign a UN-brokered deal to form a unified government
2015 Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals is arrested on fraud charges in New York by the FBI

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HIDE

1239 Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
1267 Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
1554 Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne
1556 Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Indian poet (d. 1627)
1619 Prince Rupert of the Rhine, soldier, chemist, engraver, mathematician, commander in the English Civil War and first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company (d. 1682)
1632 Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)
1638 Johann Ulrich Sultzberger, composer
1685 Thomas Tickell, English poet (d. 1740)
1699 Charles-Louis Mion, French composer (d. 1775)
1706 Gabrielle Chôtelet (La belle Emilie), French writer (Voltaire)
1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
1734 Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
1734 William Floyd, American soldier, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto) (d. 1801)
1770 Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, German pianist and composer (d. 1827)
1778 Humphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements) and physicist (d. 1829)
1796 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian politician and author (d. 1865)
1797 Joseph Henry, American physicist, inventor, pioneer of electromagnetism (d. 1878)
1800 Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian-Czech poet, translator (Great Hung dictionary)
1801 Johan, King of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
1807 John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (Snow-bound) and activist (d. 1892)
1819 Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1887)
1820 Frederick Tracy Dent, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1892)
1821 Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1824 John Kerr, System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)
1824 Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1899)
1824 Thomas Starr King, American Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
1830 Jules de Goncourt, French author (Germinie) (d. 1870)
1833 James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1893)
1835 Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American businessman, biologist, geologist, and engineer (d. 1910)
1838 Berthold Tours, composer
1840 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer
1842 Marius Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician (continous groups) (d. 1899)
1847 Émile Faguet, French author and critic (d. 1916)
1848 Frederick Grant Gleason, composer
1853 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor, theater manager (Trilby)
1853 Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d. 1933)
1853 Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
1859 Paul César Helleu, French painter (d. 1927)
1861 Fritz Volbach, German musicologist, conductor, composer
1863 Ion Vidu, composer
1864 John Felix August Korling, composer
1866 Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (d. 1931)
1869 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer
1873 Ford Madox Ford, English author, editor (Inheritors) (d. 1939)
1874 William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1921-1930, 1935-1948) (d. 1950)
1881 Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricketer (d. 1930)
1881 Johannes CB "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter
1883 Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
1887 Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
1887 Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
1888 Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
1891 Robertson Hare, English actor (Our Girl Friday, Banana Ridge)
1892 Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
1893 Erwin Piscator, German stage director (Der Stellvertreter) (d. 1966)
1894 Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (Boston Pops) (d. 1979)
1894 David Butler, American director (April in Paris, Calamity Jane)
1894 Hans Henny Jahnn, writer
1894 Hans (Henry) Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
1894 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1945-1946) (d. 1977)
1895 Nils Asheim, Norwegian politician (d. 1966)
1900 Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
1900 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslavian composer, conductor
1900 Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
1902 Simon Drach, writer
1903 Erskine P Caldwell, American author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre) (d. 1987)
1903 Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (d. 1978)
1904 Dmitri B Kabalevsky, Russian composer (In the Fire) [OS]
1904 Paul Cadmus, American etcher, painter (Sailors & Floozies) (d. 1999)
1905 Erico Verissimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
1905 Joseph Heifitz, film director
1905 Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice of India (d.1992)
1905 Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
1905 Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
1906 Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994)
1906 Russell C. Newhouse, American businessman (d. 1998)
1908 Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock") (Nobel Prize laureate 1960) (d. 1980)
1908 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer
1910 Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author (d. 1999)
1910 Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India)
1910 Sy Oliver, American jazz singer-songwriter, arranger, trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1988)
1911 William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
1912 Edward Short, English politician (d. 2012)
1913 Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 1967)
1914 Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer
1914 Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer
1914 Raymond Fernandez, American murderer (d. 1951)
1915 André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
1916 Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertaine, poet (Kolderliedjes)
1916 Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (d. 2000)
1917 Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian (d. 1983)
1917 Louis Salvador Palange, composer
1920 Armin Mueller-Stahl, East Prussian actor (Kafka, Music Box)
1920 Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developer (APL programming language) (d. 2004)
1921 Lore Berger, Swiss author (d. 1943)
1922 Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
1922 Eric Brand, diplomat
1922 Hubert H A Beckers, Curacaoan opera singer
1923 Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (d. 2006)
1924 Gopalan Kasturi, Indian journalist (d. 2012)
1925 Rijk de Gooyer, Dutch actor (Black Rider, Rififi in Amsterdam)
1926 Jeremy Brooks, writer
1926 Patrice Wymore, American actress (The Big Tree)
1926 Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 Richard Long, American actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor) (d. 1974)
1928 Doyle Conner, American politician (d. 2012)
1928 Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist
1929 Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
1929 William Safire, American political columnist (NY Times), speech writer (Nixon), and author (d. 2009)
1930 Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
1930 Bob Guccione (Robert C J Edwa]), American publisher (Penthouse, Omni), founder (Penthouse) (d. 2010)
1930 Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
1930 Julia Meade, actress, TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
1930 Makoto Moroi, composer
1931 Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
1931 James McGaugh, American neurobiologist
1931 Yvonne Keuls (Bamberg), Dutch writer (Jan Rap & Co)
1932 John Bond, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1933 Bruce Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
1933 Paul Snoek (Edm Schietekat), Belgian poet
1934 Ray Wilson, English footballer
1935 Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach and manager (Baltimore Orioles) (d. 1999)
1935 George Lindsey, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show) (d. 2012)
1936 Frank Martinus Arion (F Efraim M), Antilles writer (Double Play)
1936 Jorge Bergoglio, Argentine cardinal
1936 Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1936 Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and actor
1937 Art Neville, American singer and keyboard player (The Neville Brothers, The Meters)
1937 Calvin Waller, American Army general (d. 1996)
1937 John Kennedy Toole, American author (d. 1969)
1937 Kerry Packer, Australian businessman, founder (World Series Cricket) (d. 2005)
1938 Carlo Little, English drummer (Screaming Lord Sutch, the Savages, All-Stars) (d. 2005)
1938 Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
1939 Charles V Bush, African-American pioneer (1st African-American US Air Force Academy Graduate and US Supreme Court Page) (d. 2012)
1939 Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1939 James Booker, American R & B pianist (Gonzo) (d. 1983)
1939 Novella Nelson, American actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
1940 Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
1941 Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2012)
1941 Wes Studi, Actor (Avatar)
1942 Bernard Hill, English actor (Bellman & True, New World, Bounty)
1942 Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and politician, 7th Head of State of Nigeria
1942 Paul Butterfield, American singer-songwriter (Better Days) and harmonica player (d. 1987)
1943 Dave Dee, rocker
1943 Mary Brunner, American criminal
1943 Ron Geesin, Scottish pianist and composer
1943 William Brooks, composer
1944 Bernard Hill, Actor (Titanic)
1944 Carlo M. Croce, Italian-American oncologist
1944 Ference Bene, Hungarian record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 Jack L(aurence) Chalker, American sci-fi author (Saga of Well World) (d. 2005)
1945 Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
1945 Chris Matthews, American journalist
1945 Christopher Cazenove, English actor (Ben-Dynasty)
1945 Ernie Hudson, American actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds, The Crow)
1945 Jacqueline Wilson, English author
1946 Albert Padmore, West Indian cricketer
1946 Eugene Levy, Canadian actor (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), writer (SCTV)
1947 Marilyn Hassett
1947 Simon Bates, English DJ
1947 Wes Studi, American actor (Last of the Mohicans)
1948 Jim Alexander, Musician
1948 Jim Bonfanti, Musicain (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
1949 Paul Rodgers, English singer-songwriter and producer (Free, Bad Company, The Firm, The Law)
1949 Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
1950 Carlton Barrett, Jamaicans reggae drummer (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1950 Laurence F. Johnson, American educator and author
1951 Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
1951 Tatyana Kazankina, Russian middle distance runner (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 Wanda Hutchison, rocker
1952 Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment (PvdA)
1952 Mickey Jones, American bassist
1953 Barry Livingston, American actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
1953 Bill Pullman, American actor (Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence Day)
1953 Ikue Ile Mori, rocker
1953 Mark Gane, Canadian rocker (M+M)
1953 Sally Menke, American film editor (d. 2010)
1953 Samuel Hadida, Moroccan film producer
1955 Brad Davis, American basketball player
1956 Peter Farrelly, American film director
1957 Bob Ojeda, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets)
1957 Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
1958 Boy Abunda, Filipino journalist
1958 Mike Mills, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (R.E.M., Hindu Love Gods, Automatic Baby)
1959 Albert King, American basketball player, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
1959 Michelle Mackall, American LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's-32nd)
1959 Tammie Green, Somerset OH, LPGA golfer (1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1960 Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
1961 Mansoor Al-Jamri, Bahraini journalist and author
1961 Sara Dallin, English singer and bass player (Bananarama)
1961 Venice Kong, Jamaican playmate (September, 1985)
1962 Giulla Boschi, Italian actress (Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus)
1962 Paul Dobson, English footballer
1962 Richard Jewell, American police officer (d. 2007)
1962 Rocco Anthony Mediate, American PGA golfer (1991 Doral-Ryder)
1964 Eric Brown, American actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
1964 Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Ottawa
1964 Ginger, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Wildhearts, Ginger & The Sonic Circus, Silver Ginger 5)
1964 Joe Wolf, American basketball player, NBA forward & center (Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets)
1964 Michele Tafoya, American sportscaster
1964 Tyrone Braxton, NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1965 Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1965 Jeff Grayer, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Olympics-bronze-1988)
1965 Scott Edward Gump, American PGA golfer (1991 International-2nd)
1966 Hans Visser, Dutch soccer player (MVV, FC Utrecht)
1966 Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician, 23rd Minister of Foreign Affairs for Estonia
1966 Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
1967 Alan Nolet, Canadian gymnist (Olympics-96)
1967 Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and producer
1967 Karsten Neitzel, German footballer
1967 Pauline Maurice, Canadian softball outfielder (Olympics-96)
1967 Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
1968 Claudio Suárez, Mexican footballer
1968 Curtis Pride, American outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1968 Jeff(rey) Klepacki, American rower (Olympics-1992, 96)
1968 Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
1969 Chris Mason, English darts player
1969 Chuck Liddell (The Iceman), American mixed martial artist (UFC Light-Heavyweight Champion)
1969 Dean Wilson, Kaneohe Hawaii, golfer (1991 Western Athletic)
1969 Laurie Holden, Actress (Better Angels)
1969 Marc Davis, American 3K steeplechase runner (Goodwill-gold-94)
1969 Marty Carter, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1969 Michael V., Filipino comedian, actor, and singer
1969 Mick Quinn, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Supergrass)
1969 Rob Maas, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 Scott Player, WLAF punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Benedictine (St.Bernard), heaviest known dog (137 kg)
1970 Earl Dotson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Michael Mols, soccer player (FC Twente)
1970 Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
1971 Alan Khan, South African radio host
1971 Alyson Habetz, American female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1971 Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
1971 Carl Reeves, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1971 Claire Forlani, Actress (Meet Joe Black)
1971 Mark Byers, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Nikki McCray, American basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Sari Kristiina Fisk, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1971 Sinan Akkuş, Turkish-German actor and director
1971 Tony Richardson, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1972 Brian Williams, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Dewayne Washington, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Don Davis, linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
1972 Ivan Pedroso, Cuban long jumper (Olympics-4th-92)
1972 John Abraham, Indian actor
1972 Laurie Holden, American actress
1973 Codrin Ţapu, Romanian psychologist
1973 Hasan Vural, Turkish footballer
1973 Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
1973 Paula Radcliffe, English runner
1973 Rian Johnson, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1974 Duff Goldman, American chef
1974 Giovanni Ribisi, American actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, Saving private Ryan, Avatar)
1974 Ian Petrella, American actor
1974 Marissa Ribisi, American actress
1974 Sarah Paulson, American actress (Serenity)
1975 Bree Sharp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 Mayuko Aoki, Japanese voice actress
1975 Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress (Fifth Element, Resident Evil, Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin) and singer
1975 Napiera Danielle Groves, Miss USA-Wash DC (1997, Miss Congeniality)
1975 Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
1975 Nick Farrell, Canadian boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer
1976 Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
1976 Takeo Spikes, American football player
1976 Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater
1977 Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
1977 Katheryn Winnick, Actress (Love & Other Drugs)
1977 Oxana Fedorova, Russian model, actress, and singer Miss Universe 2002
1977 Samuel Påhlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1978 Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 Chase Utley, American baseball player
1978 Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
1978 Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer and songwriter (Three Days Grace, Thousand Foot Krutch)
1978 Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
1979 Cheri Vivette Alexander, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1997)
1979 Jaimee Foxworth, American actress (Judy Winslow-Family Matters), and porn star
1979 Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
1979 Ryan Key, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yellowcard, Craig's Brother)
1980 Alexandra Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower
1980 Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org), and author
1980 Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
1980 Stella, Singaporean singer and actress
1981 Emma Laaksonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1981 Jerry Hsu, American skateboarder
1981 Rena Takeshita, Japanese model and actress
1981 Tim Wiese, German footballer
1982 Benjamin Goldwasser, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (MGMT)
1982 Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist, founder (Free the Children & Me to We)
1982 Josh Barfield, American baseball player
1982 Lorenzo Cittadini, Italian rugby player
1982 Ryan Moats, American football player, NFL runningback
1982 Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
1983 Bryan Jurynec, American ice hockey player
1983 Erik Christensen, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 Kosuke Saito, Japanese DJ and composer
1984 Andrew Davies, English footballer
1984 Luis Maria Alfageme, Argentine footballer
1984 Sahara Davenport, American drag queen performer (d. 2012)
1984 Shannon Woodward, Actress (Girlfriend)
1985 Ryuichi Ogata, Japanese singer and dancer (W-inds)
1986 Emma Bell, American actress (Frozen)
1986 Vanessa Zima, American actress
1987 Bo Guagua, Chinese son of Bo Xilai
1987 Bradley Manning, American soldier
1988 Kris Joseph, Canadian basketball player
1989 Taylor York, American guitarist and songwriter (Paramore)
1990 Ashley Edner, American actress
1990 Gina DeVivo, Actress (Stop That Cycle)
1991 Daniel Tay, Actor (Elf)
1992 Jordan Garrett, American actor
1992 Thomas Law, British Actor (The World's End)
1993 Patricia Ku Flores, Peruvian tennis player
1994 Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor (Stuck in Love)
1995 Tyger Rawlings, Actor (Daddy Day Camp)
1996 Elin Kolev, Actor (Wunderkinder)
1998 Anthony Petrifke, Actor (Leben und leben lassen)
2007 James Windsor, Viscount Severn, English son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

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395 Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome
942 William I, Duke of Normandy (b. 893)
1103 Frutolf, German monk, musicologist, historian
1119 Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders
1187 Gregory VIII, Pope (b. 1100)
1195 Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
1229 Albert, Bishop of Riga/Albert of Buxhoeveden, founder of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword
1273 Rumi, Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207)
1369 King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1468 Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
1598 Fyodor I, Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
1604 Santino Garsi, composer
1617 Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
1617 Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian
1620 Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary, writer (Peru)
1625 Nicolo Rubini, composer
1654 Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
1661 Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
1663 Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer
1702 Thomas Franklin, English smith, uncle of B Franklin
1705 John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
1718 Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
1721 Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English solder and politician (b. 1640)
1737 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738 Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer
1750 Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor)
1781 Marie de Negre Dables, marquess
1788 Alessio Prati, composer
1805 Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter
1820 Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist, historian
1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright
1826 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1830 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military leader and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (b. 1783)
1830 W Waiblinger, writer
1833 James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press)
1833 Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy (b. 1812)
1833 William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill)
1834 Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1847 Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
1856 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
1860 Désirée Clary, French wife of Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1777)
1861 Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1869 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
1874 Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese-Thai Siamese twins
1884 Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
1887 William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1889 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados)
1890 Salomon Sulzer, composer
1891 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer
1892 Alexandre Levy, composer
1893 Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US President (1877-81)
1901 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
1903 Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1907 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist (b. 1824)
1908 Ferdinand IV, ruler of Toscane
1909 Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
1909 Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
1910 Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet)
1910 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, German physicist (Additiviteitsregel)
1911 Francis Galton, English scholar
1913 Carl Baermann, composer
1917 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (b. 1836)
1917 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician
1925 George Gibb, Scottish businessman (b. 1850)
1927 Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1927 Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
1929 Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
1930 Peter Warlock, Welsh composer (b. 1894)
1932 Albert Jacka, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1932 Charles Winckler, Danish tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
1933 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
1933 John Hodges, Australian cricketer
1933 Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1938 William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto)
1940 Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
1941 Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia)
1942 Frederick Jerome Work, composer
1942 Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
1946 Gottfried Rudinger, composer
1947 Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
1947 Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
1947 Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1952 Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers)
1955 J A Veraart, economist
1955 Joannes A Veraart, Dutch judge, MP, (Jews in Neth
1957 Dorothy L. Sayers, English author (b. 1893)
1959 Abdul Aziz, cricketer, dies from being struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
1961 Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered
1962 Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End)
1962 Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
1964 T(erence) H(anbury) White, English author (England Have My Bones) (b. 1906)
1964 Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts)
1967 Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption)
1967 Harold Holt, Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1967 Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army
1969 Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
1970 Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You)
1970 Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1972 Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1972 Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy)
1973 Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1976 Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta), auto accident
1977 Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
1978 Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
1980 Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North)
1981 Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (b. 1899)
1981 Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
1981 Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1982 Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
1983 Doodles Weaver, actor, comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself
1986 Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
1987 Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
1987 Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951)
1987 Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian author (b. 1903)
1989 Sterling A Brown, American poet, critic (Southern Road)
1990 Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85)
1991 Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein, King of Norway (1957)
1992 Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters)
1992 Charlie Ventura, Jazz sax (Bop for the people)
1992 Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
1992 Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm)
1992 Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
1992 Günther Anders, Polish philosopher (b. 1902)
1993 Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1993 Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta)
1994 Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave)
1994 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea (1964-70)
1994 Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player
1994 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant)
1994 Helen Stephens, American 100m runner and double Olympic champion
1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool)
1994 Noel Chiboust, trumpeter, sax
1994 Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1995 Isador Caplan, lawyer, Aldeburgh Festival pioneer
1995 Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time)
1996 Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 Barbara Charline Jordan, politician
1996 Charles Henry Madge, poet, sociologist
1996 Giles William Playfair, writer
1996 John Adrian Hope, politician, businessman
1996 Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
1996 Robert Covington, drummer, singer
1997 Andrea Fisher, artist
1997 Asfa Wossen (Amha Selassie), crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile
1997 Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1997 Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto)
1998 Allan D'Arcangelo, American painter (b. 1930)
1998 Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts)
1999 Grover Washington Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943)
1999 Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920)
1999 Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2000 Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2001 Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
2002 Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2002 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 James Hazeldine, English actor (b. 1947)
2002 Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
2003 Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2003 Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
2003 Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2003 Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
2004 Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2004 Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
2004 Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2004 Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931)
2005 Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2005 Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
2005 Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929)
2005 Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2005 Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2006 Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2006 Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007 Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2008 Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
2008 Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008 Dave Smith, American baseball player (b. 1955)
2008 Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008 Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (b. 1942)
2008 Sammy Baugh, American football player (b. 1914)
2009 Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
2009 Chris Henry, American football player (b. 1983)
2009 Dan O'Bannon, American actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1943)
2009 Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
2010 Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941)
2010 Daisuke Gouri, Japanese seiyu (b. 1952)
2010 Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
2010 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
2010 Walt Dropo, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2011 Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
2011 Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
2011 Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983)
2011 Kim Jong-il, North Korean politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)
2012 Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer (b. 1967)
2012 Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer (b. 1962)
2012 Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1924)
2012 Dina Manfredini, Italian-American super-centenarian (b. 1897)
2012 Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio personality (b. 1957)
2012 Jesse Hill Jr., American businessman and activist (b. 1926)
2012 Johnny Otis, R&B musician and talent scout, known as the godfather of rhythm and blues
2012 Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1929)
2012 Marty Springstead, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor
2012 Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (b. 1947)
2012 Tony Charlton, Australian sportscaster (b. 1929)
2014 Fritz Rudolf Fries, German writer and informant

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