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• 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
• 1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
• 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
• 1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
• 1534 – Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
• 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
• 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
• 1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
• 1787 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
• 1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
• 1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
• 1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1825 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.
• 1830 – The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
• 1834 – Wake Forest University is established.
• 1852 – Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
• 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
• 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War breaks out.
• 1900 – Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
• 1908 – The Panathinaikos athletic club is created
• 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
• 1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
• 1917 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
• 1930 – Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
• 1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• 1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
• 1944 – World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
• 1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
• 1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
• 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
• 1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
• 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
• 1959 – Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
• 1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
• 1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
• 1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
• 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
• 1967 – Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
• 1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
• 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
• 1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
• 1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
• 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1989 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
• 1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
• 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• 1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
• 1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
• 2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

Births[edit]

• 1338 – Joanna of Bourbon (d. 1378)
• 1654 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, Italian composer (d. 1714)
• 1677 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Karlova Koruna Chateau (d. 1723)
• 1689 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741)
• 1690 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
• 1721 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
• 1736 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1809)
• 1747 – Samuel Osgood, American soldier, 1st United States Postmaster General (d. 1813)
• 1757 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (d. 1833)
• 1777 – John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author (d. 1836)
• 1795 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (d. 1830)
• 1807 – Joseph E. Johnston, American general (d. 1891)
• 1808 – Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1877)
• 1809 – Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1847)
• 1811 – Horace Greeley, American journalist and politician (d. 1872)
• 1817 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1881)
• 1817 – Émile Prudent, French pianist and composer (d. 1863)
• 1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)
• 1824 – Ranald MacDonald, American educator (d. 1894)
• 1826 – Walter Bagehot, English journalist and businessman (d. 1877)
• 1830 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
• 1842 – Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet (d. 1881)
• 1843 – William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman (d. 1915)
• 1857 – Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue (d. 1935)
• 1859 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935)
• 1862 – James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge (d. 1946)
• 1871 – Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, French fencer (d. 1929)
• 1872 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
• 1874 – Gertrude Stein, American poet and art collector (d. 1946)
• 1876 – William Tedmarsh, English-American actor (d. 1937)
• 1887 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)
• 1889 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1977)
• 1889 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Juan Negrín, Spanish physician and politician, 67th Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1956)
• 1893 – Gaston Julia, Algerian-French mathematician (d. 1978)
• 1894 – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 1898 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre (d. 1976)
• 1899 – Café Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (d. 1970)
• 1899 – Lao She, Chinese author and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1899 – Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994)
• 1900 – Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish pilot and politician (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Joe Stripp, American baseball player (d. 1989)
• 1904 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
• 1904 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
• 1905 – Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1907 – James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
• 1909 – André Cayatte, French lawyer and director (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Kurt Petter, German physician (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1943)
• 1911 – Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
• 1911 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1912 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer
• 1915 – Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1917 – Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi (d. 1994)
• 1918 – Joey Bishop, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994)
• 1920 – Russell Arms, American actor and singer (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Tony Gaze, Australian race car driver and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Henry Heimlich, American physician
• 1923 – Alys Robi, Canadian singer (d. 2011)
• 1924 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and author (d. 1993)
• 1924 – Martial Asselin, Canadian politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Keith Dunstan, Australian journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1925 – John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Shelley Berman, American actor
• 1926 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
• 1927 – Kenneth Anger, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1927 – Val Doonican, Irish singer
• 1927 – Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Ingemar Haraldsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Frankie Vaughan, English singer and actor (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Ken Shipp, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Gillian Ayres, English painter
• 1932 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
• 1932 – Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Polde Bibič, Slovenian actor (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Paul Sarbanes, American lawyer and politician
• 1933 – Than Shwe, Burmese general and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma
• 1934 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 1936 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer
• 1937 – Billy Meier, Swiss author and photographer
• 1938 – Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1938 – Emile Griffith, Virgin Islander boxer (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Detta O'Cathain, Baroness O'Cathain, Irish businesswoman
• 1939 – Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1940 – Fran Tarkenton, American football player
• 1941 – Neil Bogart, American record producer, founded Casablanca Records (d. 1982)
• 1941 – Dory Funk, Jr., American wrestler
• 1941 – Bridget Hanley, American actress
• 1941 – Howard Phillips, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond, South African-English journalist and politician
• 1943 – Blythe Danner, American actress
• 1943 – Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations and The Contours)
• 1943 – Shawn Phillips, American-South African singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
• 1944 – Fethi Heper, Turkish professional footballer
• 1945 – Johnny Cymbal, Scottish-American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1993)
• 1945 – Bob Griese, American football player
• 1945 – Marius Weyers, South African actor
• 1947 – Paul Auster, American author
• 1947 – Dave Davies, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Kinks)
• 1947 – Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
• 1947 – Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Maev Alexander, Scottish actress
• 1948 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese bishop
• 1948 – Gavin Henderson, English trumpet player and conductor
• 1948 – Henning Mankell, Swedish author
• 1949 – Rick Hautala, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Arthur Kane, American bass player (New York Dolls) (d. 2004)
• 1949 – Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
• 1950 – Michael W. Dickinson, English jockey and trainer
• 1950 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress
• 1950 – Pamela Franklin, Japanese-English actress
• 1950 – John Schlitt, American singer (Petra and Head East)
• 1951 – Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian footballer and manager
• 1951 – Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1952 – Fred Lynn, American baseball player
• 1953 – Christopher Lowson, English bishop
• 1953 – Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
• 1954 – Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Stephen Euin Cobb, American author
• 1955 – Mike Horner, American porn actor
• 1955 – Kirsty Wark, Scottish journalist
• 1955 – Bahadır Akkuzu, Turkish musician who was a self-taught guitarist and vocalist (d. 2009)
• 1956 – John Jefferson, American football player
• 1956 – Nathan Lane, American actor and singer
• 1956 – Lee Ranaldo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth)
• 1957 – Chico Serra, Brazilian race car driver
• 1957 – Steven Stapleton, English singer-songwriter (Nurse With Wound, Current 93)
• 1958 – Joe F. Edwards, Jr., American commander, pilot, and astronaut
• 1958 – Greg Mankiw, American economist
• 1959 – Thomas Calabro, American actor and director
• 1959 – Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese DJ, producer, and songwriter (Pizzicato Five)
• 1959 – Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish-Italian director and screenwriter
• 1959 – Lol Tolhurst, English drummer (The Cure, Presence, Easy Cure, and Levinhurst)
• 1959 – Óscar Iván Zuluaga, Colombian economist and politician, 67th Colombian Minister of Finance
• 1960 – Tim Chandler, American bass player (The Swirling Eddies and The Choir)
• 1960 – Marty Jannetty, American wrestler
• 1960 – Joachim Löw, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – Malcolm Martineau, Scottish pianist
• 1960 – Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)
• 1961 – Jay Adams, American skateboarder (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Linda Eder, American singer and actress
• 1961 – Keith Gordon, American actor and director
• 1962 – Michele Greene, American actress and singer
• 1963 – Raghuram Rajan, Indian economist
• 1964 – Indrek Tarand, Estonian historian, journalist, and politician
• 1964 – Gary Webster, English actor
• 1965 – Kathleen Kinmont, American actress
• 1965 – Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
• 1965 – Maura Tierney, American actress
• 1966 – Frank Coraci, American director and screenwriter
• 1966 – Kostas Patavoukas, Greek basketball player
• 1967 – Dave Benson Phillips, English actor
• 1967 – Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1967 – Bob Taylor, English footballer
• 1968 – Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player
• 1969 – Retief Goosen, South African golfer
• 1969 – Robert Pack, American basketball player
• 1970 – Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer
• 1970 – Warwick Davis, English actor
• 1970 – Ed Husic, Australian politician
• 1971 – Sean Dawkins, American football player
• 1971 – Elisa Donovan, American actress
• 1971 – Vincent Elbaz, French actor
• 1971 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
• 1971 – Christian Liljegren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Narnia, Audiovision, and Divinefire)
• 1971 – Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
• 1972 – Jesper Kyd, Danish composer
• 1972 – Mart Poom, Estonian footballer
• 1973 – Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist
• 1974 – Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer
• 1974 – Julie Meadows, American porn actress
• 1974 – Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1975 – Brad Thorn, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 – Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 – Isla Fisher, Omani-Australian actress
• 1976 – Tim Heidecker, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1976 – Dwayne Rudd, American football player
• 1977 – Mitra Hajjar, Iranian actress
• 1977 – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican rapper
• 1977 – Marek Židlický, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 – Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Sergei Kulichenko, Russian footballer
• 1978 – Adrian R'Mante, American actor
• 1978 – Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Becca Fitzpatrick, American author
• 1979 – Marie Zielcke, German actress
• 1980 – Kim E-Z, South Korean singer (Baby V.O.X.)
• 1980 – Sarah Lewitinn, American record producer and journalist
• 1981 – Alisa Reyes, American actress
• 1981 – Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer
• 1982 – Becky Bayless, American wrestler
• 1982 – Marie-Ève Drolet, Canadian speed skater
• 1982 – Alan Gurr, Australian race car driver
• 1982 – Jessica Harp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Wreckers)
• 1982 – Bridget Regan, American actress
• 1983 – Richard Bartel, American football player
• 1983 – Silambarasan Rajendar, Indian actor, singer, and director
• 1983 – Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess player
• 1983 – Hillary Scott, American porn actress
• 1984 – Sara Carbonero, Spanish journalist
• 1984 – Kim Joon, South Korean singer, actor and model
• 1985 – Angela Fong, Canadian wrestler and actress
• 1985 – Andrei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Lucas Duda, American baseball player
• 1986 – David Edwards, Welsh footballer
• 1986 – Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater
• 1986 – Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
• 1987 – Elvana Gjata, Albanian singer
• 1988 – Cho Kyuhyun, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior, Super Junior-M, and Super Junior-K.R.Y)
• 1988 – Nicola Redomi, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Gregory van der Wiel, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Julio Jones, American football player
• 1989 – Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
• 1989 – Ryne Sanborn, American actor
• 1990 – Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Sterling Moore, American football player
• 1991 – Nikola Hofmanova, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 – Glenn McCuen, American actor
• 1992 – Rory Ferreira, American hip hop musician
• 1993 – Getter Jaani, Estonian singer
• 1997 – Paige Mary Hourigan, New Zealand tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 995 – William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
• 699 – Werburgh, English saint (b. 650)
• 1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard, Danish husband of Gunhild of Wenden (b. 960)
• 1116 – Coloman, King of Hungary (b. 1070)
• 1399 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)
• 1428 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
• 1451 – Murad II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1404)
• 1468 – Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher, invented the Printing press (b. 1398)
• 1549 – Sri Suriyothai, Thai wife of Maha Chakkraphat
• 1566 – George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
• 1619 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
• 1737 – Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician (b. 1648)
• 1802 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish politician (b. 1723)
• 1820 – Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
• 1832 – George Crabbe, English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (b. 1754)
• 1862 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)
• 1866 – François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
• 1873 – Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1874 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (b. 1835)
• 1883 – Wilhelm Richard Wagner, German Director and Composer (b. 1813)
• 1889 – Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)
• 1922 – John Butler Yeats, Irish illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 – Woodrow Wilson, American politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1936 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg (b. 1885)
• 1937 – Marija Leiko, Latvian actress (b. 1887)
• 1944 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral (b. 1887)
• 1950 – Sid Field, English actor (b. 1904)
• 1952 – Harold L. Ickes, American politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
• 1955 – Vasili Blokhin, Soviet general (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
• 1956 – Johnny Claes, Belgian race car driver (b. 1916)
• 1959 – The Day the Music Died
  • The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
  • Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1936)
  • Roger Peterson, American pilot (b. 1937)
  • Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 1960 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
• 1961 – William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Australian politician, 14th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1893)
• 1961 – Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1961 – Sadettin Kaynak, prominent composer of Turkish classical music (b. 1895)
• 1964 – Albert Richardson, English architect, designed the Manchester Opera House (b. 1880)
• 1964 – C. Sittampalam, Ceylon Tamil politician (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 1969 – C. N. Annadurai Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (b. 1909)
• 1969 – Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican activist (b. 1920)
• 1975 – William D. Coolidge, American physicist (b. 1873)
• 1975 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Hanna Rovina, Israeli actress (b. 1893)
• 1985 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
• 1989 – John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1989 – Lionel Newman, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Harry Ackerman, American television producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1970)
• 1998 – Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)
• 1999 – Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1950)
• 2000 – Alla Rakha, Indian Tabla Player(b.1919)
• 2002 – Lucien Rivard, Canadian criminal (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Jason Raize, American actor (b. 1975)
• 2005 – Andreas Makris, Greek-American composer and violinist (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Zurab Zhvania, Georgian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Sheng-yen, Chinese monk and scholar, founded the Dharma Drum Mountain (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Dick McGuire American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Frances Reid, American actress (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Karibasavaiah, Indian actor (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1921)
• 2012 – John Christopher, English author (1922)
• 2012 – Ben Gazzara, American actor and director (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Terence Hildner, American general (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Raj Kanwar, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Zalman King, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Karlo Maquinto, Filipino boxer (b. 1990)
• 2012 – Andrzej Szczeklik, Polish physician and academic (b. 1938)
• 2013 – B. H. Born, American basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Cardiss Collins, American politician (b. 1931)
• 2013 – John Michael D'Arcy, American bishop (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, Japanese actor (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Steve Demeter, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Matija Duh, Slovenian motorcycle racer (b. 1989)
• 2013 – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Peter Gilmore, German-English actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Arpad Miklos, Hungarian-American porn actor (b. 1967)
• 2013 – James Muri, American pilot (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Zlatko Papec, Croatian footballer (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Deng Wei, Chinese photographer (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Louan Gideon, American actress (b. 1955)
• 2014 – Óscar González, Mexican boxer (b. 1990)
• 2014 – Gloria Leonard, American porn actress (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Chiwanki Lyainga, Zambian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2014 – Joan Mondale, American wife of Walter Mondale, 32nd Second Lady of the United States (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Bill Sinkin, American activist (b. 1913)

Καταστράφηκε σχεδόν το μισό γεφύρι του River Party στο Νεστόριο Καστοριάς 

Εκτός από την Αρτα, τα ακραία καιρικά φαινόμενα των

 τελευταίων ημερών προκάλεσαν προβλήματα και σε άλλους

 νομούς της χώρας.

Χαρακτηριστικό είναι το παράδειγμα των φωτογραφιών που δημοσιεύει το

 seleo.gr από το πριν και το μετά της πασίγνωστης γέφυρας στο Νεστόριο Καστοριάς 

όπου κάθε Αύγουστο γεμίζει από επισκέπτες για το διάσημο River Party.

Όπως ανέφερε ο Δήμαρχος Νεστορίου κ. Πασχάλης Γκέτσιος, «η γνωστή σε όλους

 μας γέφυρα του River Party υπέστη μεγάλες καταστροφές και συγκεκριμένα

 ο ένας από τους τέσσερις θόλους (προς τη μεριά του κάμπινγκ) έχει καταστραφεί

 εντελώς, καθώς παρασύρθηκε από τα ορμητικά νερά.

Ακόμη και η ροή του ποταμού έχει αλλάξει και τώρα γίνεται από τα αριστερά.

 Τα φαινόμενα σήμερα είναι πολύ πιο ήπια και τις επόμενες ημέρες θα γίνει

 εκτίμηση των ζημιών και θα προχωρήσει η αποκατάστασή τους».

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• 211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
• 634 – Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat the Christian Arabs around Gaza (Palestine).
• 960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
• 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
• 1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
• 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
• 1758 – Macapá, Brazil is founded.
• 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
• 1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
• 1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
• 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
• 1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
• 1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
• 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
• 1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
• 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
• 1899 – The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
• 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
• 1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
• 1945 – World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
• 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
• 1945 – World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
• 1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
• 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
• 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
• 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
• 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
• 1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
• 1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
• 1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
• 1980 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
• 1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
• 1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
• 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
• 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
• 1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
• 2003 – The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
• 2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
• 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
• 2006 – A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.

Births[edit]

• 1505 – Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet (d. 1580)
• 1575 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal (d. 1629)
• 1620 – Gustaf Bonde, Finnish-Swedish politician (d. 1667)
• 1639 – Alessandro Melani, Italian composer (d. 1703)
• 1646 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German poet and politician (d. 1699)
• 1676 – Giacomo Facco, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1753)
• 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (d. 1731)
• 1688 – Pierre de Marivaux, French author and playwright (d. 1763)
• 1725 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
• 1740 – Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)
• 1746 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-American general (d. 1817)
• 1778 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)
• 1799 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)
• 1808 – Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright (d. 1856)
• 1831 – Oliver Ames, American politician, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
• 1846 – Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1915)
• 1848 – Jean Aicard, French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1921)
• 1849 – Jean Richepin, French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1926)
• 1865 – Abe Isoo, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
• 1870 – Constant van Langhendonck, Belgian horse rider (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (d. 1925)
• 1872 – Gotse Delchev, Greek-Macedonian activist (d. 1903)
• 1873 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower (d. 1905)
• 1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953)
• 1877 – Eddie Cochems, American football player (d. 1953)
• 1880 – Paul Lotsij, Dutch rower (d. 1910)
• 1881 – Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
• 1883 – Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and director (d. 1973)
• 1887 – Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian-German missionary (d. 1981)
• 1889 – August Pikker, Estonian wrestler (d. 1976)
• 1891 – M. A. Ayyangar, Indian politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
• 1891 – Jüri Lossmann, Estonian runner (d. 1984)
• 1892 – Andreu Nin i Pérez, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
• 1892 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
• 1895 – Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
• 1896 – Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (d. 1938)
• 1896 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
• 1897 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1977)
• 1900 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and activist (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (d. 2003)
• 1903 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1904 – MacKinlay Kantor, American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1905 – Hylda Baker, English actress (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Colette Darfeuil, French actress (d. 1998)
• 1906 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer, discovered Pluto (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Julian Bell, English poet (d. 1937)
• 1912 – Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian banker and politician (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
• 1912 – Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian cardinal (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Rosa Parks, American activist (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Dick Seaman, English race car driver (d. 1939)
• 1914 – Alfred Andersch, German author (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Ray Evans, American songwriter (d. 2007)
• 1915 – William Talman, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1915 – Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Yahya Khan, Pakistan general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
• 1918 – Porky Chedwick, American radio host (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Betty Friedan, American author and activist (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Lotfi A. Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1922 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian singer (d. 2011)
• 1922 – A. R. Shaw, American educator and politician (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Bonar Bain, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
• 1923 – James Dibble, Australian journalist (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Joan Vollmer, American author (d. 1951)
• 1924 – Janet Waldo, American actress
• 1925 – Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Gerald Sim, English actor
• 1925 – Christopher Zeeman, Japanese-English mathematician and academic
• 1926 – Roger Blais, Canadian engineer and academic (d. 2009)
• 1926 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist (d. 1999)
• 1927 – A. J. P. Ponrajah, Sri Lankan engineer (d. 1986)
• 1928 – Osmo Antero Wiio, Finnish journalist, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Jerry Adler, American actor, director, and producer
• 1929 – Julien Chouinard, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 1987)
• 1929 – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Tibor Antalpéter, Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Arthur E. Chase, American businessman and politician (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Stan Newens, English politician
• 1931 – Isabel Martínez de Perón, Argentinian politician, 41st President of Argentina
• 1933 – Shirley Burkovich, American baseball player
• 1933 – Mary Frank, English sculptor and painter
• 1933 – Igor Kvasha, Russian actor (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1934 – George Francis, English footballer and soldier (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Ali Nassirian, Iranian actor
• 1935 – Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (d. 1989)
• 1935 – Collin Wilcox Paxton, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1936 – David Brenner, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Gary Conway, American actor and screenwriter
• 1936 – Claude Nobs, Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (d. 2013)
• 1937 – David Newman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1938 – Birju Maharaj, Indian dancer
• 1938 – Donald W. Riegle, Jr., American politician
• 1939 – Stan Lundine, American politician
• 1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer
• 1940 – Michelle Rossignol, Canadian actress
• 1940 – John Schuck, American actor
• 1941 – Jim Cunningham, Scottish politician
• 1941 – Jiří Raška, Czech skier (d. 2012)
• 1941 – John Steel, English drummer (The Animals)
• 1942 – Len Wood, Canadian politician
• 1943 – Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese politician
• 1943 – Wanda Rutkiewicz, Polish mountaineer (d. 1992)
• 1943 – Ken Thompson, American computer scientist, co-developed the B programming language
• 1944 – Florence LaRue, American singer and actress (The 5th Dimension)
• 1945 – Ron Cerrudo, American golfer
• 1946 – Peter Allen, English radio host
• 1947 – Dennis C. Blair, American admiral, 3rd Director of National Intelligence
• 1947 – Dan Quayle, American politician, 44th Vice President of the United States
• 1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1948 – Rod Grams, American journalist and politician (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Pauline Latham, English politician
• 1948 – Mienoumi Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1949 – Edward Acton, Zimbabwean-English historian and academic
• 1949 – Michael Beck, American actor
• 1949 – Rasim Delić, Bosnian general (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum, English broadcaster and politician
• 1951 – Patrick Bergin, Irish actor and singer
• 1951 – Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer
• 1951 – Phil Ehart, American drummer (Kansas)
• 1951 – Stan Papi, American baseball player
• 1952 – Lisa Eichhorn, American actress and producer
• 1952 – Jenny Shipley, New Zealand politician, 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1952 – Bolesław Proch, Polish motorcycle racer (d. 2012)
• 1952 – Steve Smith, English theorist and academic
• 1952 – Jerry Shirley, English drummer (Humble Pie and Fastway)
• 1952 – Li Yinhe, Chinese sociologist and sexologist
• 1953 – Kitarō, Japanese keyboard player, composer, and producer
• 1953 – James Stirling, Irish physicist and academic
• 1954 – Al Javier, Dominican baseball player
• 1955 – Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia
• 1955 – Gerry Stoker, British political scientist
• 1956 – Randy Sidler, American football player
• 1957 – Don Davis, American composer and conductor
• 1957 – Evan Wolfson, American lawyer and activist
• 1958 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish author (d. 2005)
• 1958 – Valdo Randpere, Estonian singer and politician
• 1959 – Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
• 1959 – Christian Schreier, German footballer
• 1959 – Lawrence Taylor, American football player
• 1960 – Tim Booth, English singer, dancer, and actor (James)
• 1960 – Mark Dawson, English-American talent manager and producer
• 1960 – Siobhan Dowd, English-Irish author (d. 2007)
• 1960 – Jenette Goldstein, American actress
• 1960 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (d. 1996)
• 1960 – Dave Pichette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Connor O'Brien, Canadian skier
• 1961 – Stewart O'Nan, American author
• 1961 – Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Clint Black, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1962 – Stephen Hammond, English politician
• 1962 – Michael Riley, Canadian actor
• 1962 – Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
• 1963 – Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
• 1963 – Marko Matvere, Estonian actor and singer
• 1963 – Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
• 1964 – Roderick T. Long, 21st-century philosophers
• 1965 – Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1966 – Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
• 1966 – Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
• 1967 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)
• 1968 – Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
• 1969 – Duncan Coutts, Canadian bass player and songwriter (Our Lady Peace)
• 1969 – Dallas Drake, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
• 1969 – Matthew Yates, English runner
• 1970 – Gabrielle Anwar, English actress
• 1971 – Eric Garcetti, American lieutenant and politician, 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles
• 1971 – Rob Corddry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Michael A. Goorjian, American actor
• 1972 – Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian and television host
• 1972 – Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer
• 1973 – Manny Legacé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Jeanette Brakewell, English horse rider
• 1974 – Damian Collins, English politician
• 1974 – Mijntje Donners, Dutch field hockey player
• 1974 – Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress
• 1975 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1975 – Thomas Tebbich, Austrian decathlete
• 1976 – Cam'ron, American rapper and actor (The Diplomats, The U.N., and Children of the Corn)
• 1976 – Stevie Knight, English wrestler
• 1977 – Gavin DeGraw, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Danna García, Colombian actress
• 1978 – Ömer Onan, Turkish basketball player
• 1979 – Andrei Arlovski, Belarusian mixed martial artist and actor
• 1979 – Giorgio Pantano, Italian race car driver
• 1980 – Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 – Allen Forrest, American rapper and producer
• 1981 – Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player
• 1981 – Jason Kapono, America basketball player
• 1981 – Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
• 1981 – Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist
• 1982 – Chris Sabin, American wrestler
• 1982 – Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player
• 1982 – Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist
• 1982 – Kimberly Wyatt, American singer-songwriter and dancer (Pussycat Dolls and Her Majesty & The Wolves)
• 1983 – Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
• 1983 – Jarrad Waite, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013)
• 1984 – Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
• 1985 – Bug Hall, American actor
• 1986 – Asif Ali, Indian actor
• 1986 – Vin Gerard, American wrestler
• 1986 – Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1987 – Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
• 1988 – Carly Patterson, American gymnast
• 1990 – Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer (Sphere)
• 1992 – Sofie Oyen, Belgian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 211 – Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (b. 145)
• 708 – Pope Sisinnius (b. 650)
• 856 – Rabanus Maurus, Frankish archbishop (b. 780)
• 1508 – Conrad Celtes, German scholar (b. 1459)
• 1590 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
• 1615 – Giambattista della Porta, Italian polymath and playwright (b. 1535)
• 1615 – Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese daimyo (b. 1552)
• 1617 – Lodewijk Elzevir, Dutch publisher, co-founded the House of Elzevir (b. 1546)
• 1694 – Natalya Naryshkina, Russian wife of Alexis of Russia (b. 1651)
• 1713 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English philosopher and politician (b. 1671)
• 1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
• 1799 – Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
• 1781 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
• 1843 – Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (b. 1770)
• 1894 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, invented the Saxophone (b. 1814)
• 1905 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
• 1912 – Franz Reichelt, Austrian-French tailor (b. 1879)
• 1928 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 – Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1935 – J. Henry Birtles, English rugby player (b. 1874)
• 1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss politician (b. 1895)
• 1940 – Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author (b. 1872)
• 1953 – Antonio Conte, Italian fencer (b. 1867)
• 1956 – Savielly Tartakower, Polish chess master (b.1887)
• 1958 – Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
• 1959 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Fred Albert Shannon, American historian and author (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-American journalist (b. 1875)
• 1967 – Albert Orsborn, American 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Neal Cassady, American author (b. 1926)
• 1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (Tympany Five) (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Brett Halliday, American author (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Alex Harvey, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Georg Konrad Morgen, German lawyer and judge (b. 1909)
• 1982 – M. Srikantha, Sri Lankan civil servant (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
• 1984 – Patrick Nagel, American painter and illustrator (b. 1945)
• 1987 – Liberace, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan activist, founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (b. 1956)
• 1987 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
• 1993 – Connie Saylor, American race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1994 – Jane Arbor, English author (b. 1903)
• 1994 – Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Godfrey Brown, Indian runner (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Phil Tonken, American voice actor (b. 1919)
• 2001 – J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer and architect (b. 1922)
• 2002 – George Nader, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian bassist (b. 1926)
• 2003 – André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Ossie Davis, American actor, director, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Betty Friedan, American author and activist (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2007 – José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Endel Aruja, Estonian physicist (b. 1911)
• 2008 – Augusta Dabney, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Stefan Meller, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Lux Interior, American singer-songwriter (The Cramps) (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Kostas Axelos, Greek philosopher (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Alfred Käärmann, Estonian forest brother (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-American composer (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Martial Célestin, Haitian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Woodie Fryman, American baseball player (b. 1940)
• 2012 – István Csurka, Hungarian journalist and politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Robert Daniel, American farmer, soldier, and politician (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Mike deGruy, American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Florence Green, English soldier (b. 1901)
• 2012 – Nicolás Moreno, Mexican painter (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Alan Reay, English general (b. 1925)
• 2012 – János Sebestyén, Hungarian organist (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Andrew Wight, Australian screenwriter and producer (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Margaret Frazer, American author (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Pat Halcox, English trumpet player (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (The Troggs) (b. 1941)
• 2013 – P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Essie Mae Washington-Williams, American educator and author (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Eugenio Corti, Italian soldier, author, and playwright (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Dennis Lota, Zambian footballer (b. 1973)
• 2014 – Wu Ma, Chinese actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Minus Polak, Dutch lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Hazel Sampson, American linguist and activist (b. 1910)

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