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• 1041 – The son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
• 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
• 1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
• 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
• 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
• 1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
• 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
• 1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
• 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
• 1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
• 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
• 1869 – The Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
• 1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
• 1899 – Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
• 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
• 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
• 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
• 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1927 – The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air.
• 1932 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
• 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
• 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
• 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
• 1955 – Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television.
• 1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
• 1965 – The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.
• 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
• 1976 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
• 1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
• 1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
• 1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
• 1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
• 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.

Births[edit]

• 1452 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
• 1588 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
• 1713 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (d. 1747)
• 1751 – George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
• 1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d. 1851)
• 1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (d. 1851)
• 1805 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic (d. 1881)
• 1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1852)
• 1821 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1877)
• 1822 – César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1890)
• 1824 – George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (d. 1905)
• 1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1913)
• 1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
• 1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931)
• 1861 – Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1938)
• 1866 – Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist (d. 1930)
• 1870 – Mary Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoléon Charles Bonaparte, 5th Prince of Canino (d. 1947)
• 1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (d. 1933)
• 1870 – Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1925)
• 1878 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India (d. 1972)
• 1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
• 1880 – Charles King, American jumper (d. 1958)
• 1882 – Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945)
• 1882 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1950)
• 1882 – Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (d. 1950)
• 1885 – Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1967)
• 1886 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
• 1886 – Annie Bos, Dutch actress (d. 1975)
• 1886 – Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
• 1889 – Ray Collins, American actor (d. 1965)
• 1891 – Arlie Mucks, American athlete (d. 1967)
• 1891 – Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (d. 1948)
• 1903 – Una Merkel, American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Valter Palm, Estonian-American boxer (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Jules Ladoumègue, French middle-distance runner (d. 1973)
• 1907 – Rumer Godden, English author and poet (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
• 1912 – Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American composer (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Anne Gwynne, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1977)
• 1920 – Reginald Rose, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek musician (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Lucía Hiriart, Chilean wife of Augusto Pinochet, 30th First Lady of Chile
• 1922 – Agnes Nixon, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1923 – Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
• 1925 – Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Danny Matt, German-Israeli general (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
• 1928 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Jeremy Morse, English banker and academic
• 1928 – Barbara Nichols, American actress and singer (d. 1976)
• 1930 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, English politician
• 1931 – Peter Baker, English-South African footballer
• 1933 – Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Larry Morris, American football player (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Angus Stirling, English historian
• 1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1935 – Terry Allcock, English footballer and cricketer
• 1936 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Scott Baker, English judge
• 1937 – Raphael Maklouf, Israeli-English sculptor
• 1938 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor
• 1939 – Dick Bavetta, American basketball player and referee
• 1939 – Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and academic
• 1940 – Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, English union leader and author
• 1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
• 1941 – Tommy Kirk, American actor and singer
• 1941 – Tommy Rettig, American actor and engineer (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1985)
• 1941 – Peter Sarstedt, Indian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Chad Stuart, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
• 1941 – Ken Campbell, English writer, actor, director and comedian (d. 2008)
• 1942 – Ann Gloag, Scottish nurse and businesswoman
• 1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt, English businessman
• 1944 – Steve Renko, American baseball player
• 1945 – Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan
• 1945 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (Cathedral Quartet) (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Thomas Lux, American poet and academic
• 1947 – Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
• 1947 – Douglas Kenney, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1947 – Howard Newby, English sociologist and academic
• 1947 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
• 1948 – Dušan Bajević, Bosnian-Greek footballer and manager
• 1948 – Jessica Cleaves, American singer (The Friends of Distinction and Earth, Wind & Fire) (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian-Palestinian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
• 1950 – John Boozman, American football player, lawyer, and politician
• 1950 – Nicky Henderson, English horse trainer
• 1951 – Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer and actress
• 1952 – Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host
• 1952 – Susan Dey, American actress and producer
• 1952 – Greg Mortimer, Australian mountaineer
• 1952 – Paul Varul, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justice
• 1953 – Chris Bury, American journalist
• 1954 – Eudine Barriteau, Barbadian economist
• 1954 – Price Cobb, American race car driver
• 1954 – Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wang Chung)
• 1954 – Enn Sellik, Estonian runner
• 1954 – Gavin Smith, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 1956 – Rod Blagojevich, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
• 1956 – Roberto Cassinelli, Italian lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Jacquelyn Mitchard, American journalist and author
• 1956 – Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer
• 1957 – Prem Rawat, Indian-American guru
• 1958 – Pepsi Demacque, English singer (Pepsi & Shirlie)
• 1958 – Cornelia Funke, German-American author
• 1958 – Kathryn Stott, English pianist and academic
• 1958 – John J. York, American actor
• 1959 – Mark Aguirre, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author
• 1959 – Kevin Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist (Accept)
• 1960 – Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Michael Schoeffling, American actor
• 1961 – Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler
• 1961 – Nia Peeples, American singer and actress
• 1961 – Oded Schramm, Israel-American mathematician and academic (d. 2008)
• 1962 – John de Wolf, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
• 1964 – Stef Blok, Dutch banker and politician
• 1964 – Bobby Flay, American chef and author
• 1964 – George Newbern, American actor
• 1965 – Greg Giraldo, American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1965 – J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dinosaur Jr., Witch, Deep Wound, and Upsidedown Cross)
• 1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Rein Ahas, Estonian geographer
• 1966 – Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
• 1969 – Stephen Billington, English actor
• 1969 – Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1970 – Kevin Sharp, American singer (d. 2014)
• 1970 – Bryant Stith, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Bill Baroni, American lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Brian Nichols, American spree killer
• 1971 – Carla Sacramento, Portuguese middle-distance runner
• 1972 – Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
• 1972 – Puff Johnson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1972 – Brian Molko, Belgian-Luxembourger singer-songwriter and guitarist (Placebo)
• 1973 – Arden Myrin, American comedian and actress
• 1973 – Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan actress and singer
• 1974 – Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
• 1975 – Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
• 1975 – Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Kristel Verbeke, Belgian singer and actress (K3)
• 1976 – Shane Byrne, English motorcycle racer
• 1977 – Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler
• 1977 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Anna Jesień, Polish hurdler
• 1978 – Summer Phoenix, American actress
• 1979 – Matt Bentley, American wrestler
• 1980 – Massari, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1980 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
• 1981 – Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
• 1981 – Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinean swimmer
• 1981 – Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Shilpa Anand, South African-Indian model and actress
• 1982 – Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter
• 1983 – Patrick Flueger, American actor
• 1983 – Lewis Buxton, English footballer
• 1983 – Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1983 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
• 1983 – Katrin Siska, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
• 1984 – JTG, American wrestler
• 1984 – Mark Applegarth, English rugby player
• 1985 – Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Scarlett Bowman, English actress
• 1985 – Matt Forté, American football player
• 1985 – T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
• 1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1985 – Lê Công Vinh, Vietnamese footballer
• 1986 – Matthew Bates, English footballer
• 1986 – Kahlil Bell, American football player
• 1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
• 1988 – Neven Subotić, Serbian footballer
• 1988 – Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician
• 1989 – Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby player
• 1989 – Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1990 – Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
• 1990 – Terrell Sinkfield, American football player
• 1990 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010)
• 1991 – Dion Waiters, American basketball player
• 1991 – Eric Reid, American football player
• 1993 – Rachel Trachtenburg, American singer and actress (Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Supercute!)
• 1994 – Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia
• 1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (b. 1010)
• 1198 – Averroes, Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1126)
• 1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
• 1541 – Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (b. 1514)
• 1541 – Francis Dereham, English courtier
• 1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer and educator (b. 1551)
• 1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1581)
• 1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594)
• 1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese military leader (b. 1663)
• 1831 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (b. 1770)
• 1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
• 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1865 – Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 – Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1914 – Robert Williams, American archer (b. 1841)
• 1917 – Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist (b. 1852)
• 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
• 1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (b. 1885)
• 1941 – Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1944 – John Brunt, English captain Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922)
• 1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (b. 1913)
• 1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887)
• 1946 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1948 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896)
• 1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English author (b. 1869)
• 1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet (b. 1891)
• 1957 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and resistance leader (b. 1891)
• 1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b. 1864)
• 1967 – Ronnie Caldwell, American keyboard player (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1948)
• 1967 – Phalon Jones, American saxophonist (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1949)
• 1967 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941)
• 1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886)
• 1968 – George Forrest, Irish politician (b. 1921)
• 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
• 1972 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist (b. 1922)
• 1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1978 – Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
• 1986 – Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
• 1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
• 1990 – Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898)
• 1991 – Greta Kempton, American painter (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
• 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Alice Tully, American soprano (b. 1902)
• 1994 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Alex Wilson, Canadian-American sprinter (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Band) (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general, historian, and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945)
• 2002 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer and director (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Sean McClory, Irish actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist and author (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general, de facto head of state of Chile from 1973 to 1990 (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
• 2007 – Aqsa Parvez, Pakistani-Canadian murder victim (b. 1991)
• 2008 – Didith Reyes, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (b. 1925)
• 2010 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Vladimir Bakulin, Kazakhstani wrestler (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Cliff Brown, American football player (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Antonio Cubillo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Johnny Lira, American boxer (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Ciarán Maher, Irish footballer (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Bob Munden, American target shooter (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Paul Rauch, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – John Small, American football player (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Mary Allitt, Australian cricketer (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Maurice Benoit, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2013 – The Child of Lov, Belgian-Dutch singer (b. 1987)
• 2013 – Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Don Lund, American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Pete Naton, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Rossana Podestà, Libyan-Italian actress (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Srikanta Wadiyar, Indian politician (b. 1946)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden)
• Christian feast day:
  • Eulalia of Mérida
  • Karl Barth (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
  • December 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Thailand)
• Human Rights Day (International)
• International Animal Rights Day (International)

Επιλεγμένη Δισκογραφία

• Pain in My Heart (1964)
• The Soul Album (1966)
• Complete and Unbelievable (1966)
• Otis Blue (1966)
• King and Queen (1967)
• The Dock of the Bay (1968)
• In Person at the Whisky a Go Go (Live, 1968)
• Live at the Monterey Pop Festival (1971)
• The Very Best of Otis Redding (1993, 1995)
• The Dock of the Bay (Συλλογή, 2007)

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• 220 – Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han Dynasty throne. The Cao Wei empire is established. The Three Kingdoms period begins.
• 361 – Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
• 630 – Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
• 969 – Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.
• 1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, in mid-Wales.
• 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.)
• 1688 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, allegedly throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
• 1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
• 1792 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
• 1815 – The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
• 1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
• 1868 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay.
• 1905 – A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
• 1907 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
• 1917 – World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
• 1920 – Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
• 1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
• 1927 – Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
• 1931 – Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.
• 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
• 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
• 1937 – Second Italo–Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
• 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
• 1941 – World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
• 1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
• 1948 – 1948 Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
• 1958 – French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
• 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
• 1962 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
• 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York.
• 1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.
• 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
• 1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
• 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
• 1981 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
• 1990 – Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
• 1993 – Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 1994 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
• 1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
• 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
• 1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Thai Airways Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
• 2001 – The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
• 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom.
• 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
• 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
• 2006 – Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
• 2007 – Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
• 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
• 2012 – At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.

Births[edit]

• 1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
• 1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
• 1566 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1650)
• 1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer (d. 1736)
• 1709 – Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, French wife of Louis I of Spain (d. 1742)
• 1712 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764)
• 1725 – George Mason, American lawyer and politician (d. 1792)
• 1758 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1832)
• 1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (d. 1835)
• 1781 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1868)
• 1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German poet and playwright (d. 1836)
• 1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)
• 1810 – Alfred de Musset, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1857)
• 1830 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872)
• 1838 – John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman (d. 1915)
• 1843 – Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
• 1856 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (d. 1918)
• 1858 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (d. 1943)
• 1863 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (d. 1941)
• 1867 – Antonio Conte, Italian fencer (d. 1953)
• 1872 – René Bull, Irish illustrator and photographer (d. 1942)
• 1873 – Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and academic (d. 1967)
• 1875 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951)
• 1882 – Subramanya Bharathi, Indian journalist and poet (d. 1921)
• 1882 – Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1882 – Fiorello H. La Guardia, American politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
• 1884 – Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)
• 1885 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (d. 1943)
• 1889 – Walter Knott, American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981)
• 1890 – Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)
• 1890 – Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (d. 1976)
• 1897 – Ronald Skirth, English soldier (d. 1977)
• 1898 – Benno Mengele, Austrian electrical engineer (d. 1971)
• 1899 – Julio de Caro, Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1980)
• 1904 – Marge, American cartoonist (d. 1993)
• 1905 – Robert Henriques, English farmer, author, and broadcaster (d. 1967)
• 1905 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor and singer (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (d. 2012)
• 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1908 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Amon Goeth, Austrian SS officer (d. 1946)
• 1909 – Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991)
• 1909 – John Wyer, English race car manager and engineer (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1937)
• 1911 – Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006)
• 1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1911 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist and academic (d. 2009)
• 1912 – P. Manicavasagam, Sri Lankan politician
• 1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Jean Marais, French actor and director(d. 1998)
• 1916 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)
• 1918 – Clinton Adams, American painter and historian (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian soldier and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Cliff Michelmore, English television hot and producer
• 1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Denis Jenkinson, English motor sport journalist (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Liz Smith, English actress
• 1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Pauline Jewett, Canadian academic and politician (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Dilip Kumar, Pakistani-Indian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1922 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Grace Paley, American author and poet (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Betsy Blair, American-English actress and dancer (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Lilian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Nikolai Matvejev, Estonian cyclist (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Doc Blanchard, American football player and colonel (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 – James Sullivan, American politician (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
• 1927 – John Buscema, American illustrator (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Axel Anderson, German-Puerto Rican actor (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
• 1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1931 – Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990)
• 1931 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1931 – Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1931 – Jerome Rothenberg, American anthropologist and poet
• 1932 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991)
• 1932 – Anne Heywood, English actress and singer
• 1932 – Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian pentathlete (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Keith Waldrop, American author and poet
• 1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines
• 1935 – Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, 13th President of India
• 1935 – Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1936 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1936 – Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
• 1937 – Jim Harrison, American author and poet
• 1938 – Reg Livermore, Australian actor and singer
• 1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 – McCoy Tyner, American pianist and composer
• 1939 – Tom Hayden, American politician and activist
• 1939 – Thomas McGuane, American author
• 1940 – David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bread)
• 1940 – Donna Mills, American actress and producer
• 1941 – Max Baucus, American lawyer and politician
• 1941 – J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1941 – Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
• 1941 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)
• 1942 – Anna Carteret, Indian-English actress
• 1943 – John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State
• 1943 – Betty Kershaw, English nurse and academic
• 1944 – Jon Garrison, American tenor
• 1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress
• 1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer
• 1944 – Juan E. Méndez, Argentinian lawyer, academic, and activist
• 1946 – Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1946 – Diana Palmer, American author
• 1947 – Teri Garr, American actress and dancer
• 1948 – Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek guitarist and composer
• 1949 – Noel Campbell, Irish footballer and manager
• 1950 – Nino Frassica, Italian actor
• 1950 – Christina Onassis, American-Argentinian businesswoman (d. 1988)
• 1951 – Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
• 1952 – Peter Geyer, German footballer
• 1953 – Bess Armstrong, American actress
• 1954 – Brad Bryant, American golfer
• 1954 – Santiago Creel, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior
• 1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Jackson 5)
• 1954 – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
• 1955 – Gene Grossman, American economist
• 1955 – Stu Jackson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1955 – Christian Sackewitz, German footballer and manager
• 1956 – Lani Brockman, American actress and director, founded Studio East
• 1956 – Andrew Lansley, English politician, Secretary of State for Health
• 1957 – Peter Bagge, American author and illustrator
• 1958 – Isabella Hofmann, American actress
• 1958 – Chris Hughton, English-Irish footballer and manager
• 1958 – Nikki Sixx, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Mötley Crüe, Sixx:A.M., Brides of Destruction, London, 58, and Sister)
• 1960 – Rachel Portman, English composer
• 1961 – Dave King, Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Flogging Molly and Fastway)
• 1961 – Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1961 – Macky Sall, Senegalese engineer and politician, 4th President of Senegal
• 1961 – Marco Pierre White, English chef and television host
• 1962 – Ben Browder, American actor
• 1962 – Paul Haslinger, Austrian-American keyboard player, guitarist, and composer (Tangerine Dream)
• 1962 – Nele Karajlić, Serbian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (Zabranjeno Pušenje)
• 1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – Jon Brion, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1963 – Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis player
• 1963 – John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and coach
• 1964 – Michel Courtemanche, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1964 – Justin Currie, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Del Amitri and The Uncle Devil Show)
• 1964 – Ella Kovacs, Romanian middle-distance runner
• 1964 – Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Widespread Panic, Stockholm Syndrome, and J Mascis + The Fog)
• 1964 – Cosy Sheridan, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer
• 1965 – Jay Bell, American baseball player and coach
• 1965 – Giannis Ragousis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence
• 1965 – Alison Watt, Scottish painter
• 1966 – Gary Dourdan, American actor
• 1966 – Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (d. 2002)
• 1966 – Leon Lai, Chinese singer and actor
• 1967 – Mo'Nique, American comedian, actress, and producer
• 1967 – DJ Yella, American DJ and producer (N.W.A and World Class Wreckin' Cru)
• 1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player
• 1969 – Francisco Javier Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker
• 1969 – Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Sean Grande, American sportscaster
• 1969 – Max Martini, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer
• 1970 – Victoria Fuller, American glamour model, artist, and actress
• 1971 – Willie McGinest, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1972 – Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1972 – Rusty Joiner, American model and actor
• 1972 – LaMont Smith, American sprinter
• 1973 – Mos Def, American rapper and actor (Black Star and Soulquarians)
• 1974 – Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
• 1974 – Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
• 1974 – Lisa Ortiz, American voice actress
• 1974 – Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
• 1974 – Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner
• 1975 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
• 1975 – Tomoka Kurotani, Japanese actress
• 1975 – Dawn Steele, Scottish actress
• 1976 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1977 – Brandon Rogers, American singer
• 1977 – Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1978 – Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host
• 1979 – Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater
• 1979 – Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player
• 1981 – Nikki Benz, Ukrainian-Canadian porn actress
• 1981 – Hamish Blake, Australian comedian, actor, and author
• 1981 – Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator
• 1981 – Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Kevin Phillips, American actor
• 1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Zacky Vengeance, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
• 1982 – Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentinian race car driver
• 1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer
• 1984 – P.J. Lane, Australian actor and singer
• 1984 – Spyros Vrontaras, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Aiko Kayō, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1985 – Yekta Kurtuluş, Turkish footballer
• 1985 – Anja Prislan, Slovenian tennis player
• 1985 – Karla Souza, Mexican-American actress
• 1986 – Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
• 1987 – Clifton Geathers, American football player
• 1987 – Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
• 1987 – Alex Russell, Australian actor
• 1988 – Ashley Hinshaw, American model and actress
• 1988 – Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
• 1989 – Murugan Thiruchelvam, English chess player
• 1990 – Derrick Nix, American basketball player
• 1991 – Anna Bergendahl, Swedish singer
• 1992 – Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter
• 1993 – William Corkery, American actor
• 1993 – Tyrone Gilks, Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
• 1994 – Gabriel Basso, American actor
• 1996 – Jack Griffo, American actor
• 1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress

Deaths[edit]

• 384 – Pope Damasus I (b. 305)
• 861 – Al-Mutawakkil, Iraqi caliph (b. 822)
• 969 – Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
• 1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Israeli-Egyptian political advisor (b. 1066)
• 1241 – Ögedei Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
• 1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales (b. 1223)
• 1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1225)
• 1532 – Pietro Accolti, Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
• 1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal (b. 1508)
• 1686 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)
• 1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
• 1737 – John Strype, English clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1643)
• 1747 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
• 1797 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (b. 1722)
• 1826 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
• 1840 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
• 1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
• 1880 – Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
• 1892 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1906 – Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)
• 1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)
• 1937 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
• 1941 – Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist (b. 1867)
• 1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1893)
• 1953 – Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalists (b. 1896)
• 1957 – Musidora, French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1959 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)
• 1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (The Highway Q.C.'s and The Soul Stirrers) (b. 1931)
• 1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor and singer (b. 1888)
• 1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
• 1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891)
• 1971 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
• 1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1978 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 1979 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Adile Naşit, Turkish actress (b. 1930)
• 1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American actor and game show host (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Pat Walshe, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1992 – Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress and director (b. 1894)
• 1994 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
• 1995 – Arthur Mullard, English actor and singer (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937)
• 1997 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Simon Jeffes, English guitarist and composer (Penguin Cafe Orchestra) (b. 1949)
• 1998 – André Lichnerowicz, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (Snot) (b. 1968)
• 2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician and author (b. 1915)
• 2000 – David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian author (b. 1927)
• 2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
• 2004 – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer and actress (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Elizabeth Bolden, American super-centenarian (b. 1890)
• 2007 – Christie Hennessy, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress (b. 1960)
• 2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
• 2011 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Susan Gordon, American actress and singer (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Toni Blankenheim, German opera singer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Antonie Hegerlíková, Czech actress (b. 1923)
• 2012 – William B. Hopkins, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Pedro Reginaldo Lira, Argentinian bishop (b. 1915)
• 2012 – B. B. Nimbalkar, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Dindi Gowa Nyasulu, Malawian engineer and politician (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Walter Francis Sullivan, American bishop (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Colleen Walker, American golfer (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Kate Barry, English-French photographer (b. 1967)
• 2013 – Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author (b. 1929)
• 2013 – George H. Buck, Jr., American businessman (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Frederick Fox, Australian-English hat maker (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Javier Jauregui, Mexican boxer (b. 1973)
• 2013 – Garry Robbins, Canadian wrestler and actor (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian scholar (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Daniel the Stylite
  • Pope Damasus I
  • Victoricus, Fuscian, and Gentian
  • December 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Human Rights and Peace Day (Kiribati)
• Indiana Day (United States)
• International Mountain Day (International)
• National Tango Day (Buenos Aires)
• One of the four Agonalia, this day in honor of Sol Indiges; also the Septimontium festival (Roman Empire)
• Pampanga Day (Pampanga Province, the Philippines)
• Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. (Burkina Faso)