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• 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is placed on the throne, but is within 27 days abdicated.
• 1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
• 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
• 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
• 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
• 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
• 1738 – Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
• 1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
• 1797 – The Battle of Neuwied: French victory against the Austrians.
• 1807 – The Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat.
• 1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.
• 1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
• 1857 – "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
• 1864 – Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
• 1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
• 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
• 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
• 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
• 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
• 1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• 1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
• 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
• 1930 – BBC reported there was no news, then played out with piano music.
• 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
• 1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
• 1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
• 1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
• 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
• 1954 – Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• 1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
• 1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
• 1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
• 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
• 1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore's dry port.
• 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
• 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
• 1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
• 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
• 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
• 1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
• 2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5–4 decision.
• 2007 – A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
• 2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
• 2014 – Sixteen people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.

Births[edit]

• 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
• 1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617)
• 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674)
• 1648 – Jeanne Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
• 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747)
• 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker (d. 1810)
• 1759 – Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823)
• 1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820)
• 1772 – David Ricardo, English economist (d. 1823)
• 1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877)
• 1813 – James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865)
• 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)
• 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)
• 1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist (d. 1912)
• 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938)
• 1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)
• 1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist (d. 1962)
• 1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat (d. 1942)
• 1863 – Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920)
• 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916)
• 1874 – Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941)
• 1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Vicente Sotto, Filipino politician (d. 1950)
• 1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)
• 1880 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)
• 1882 – Leopold Stokowski, Polish-English conductor (d. 1977)
• 1884 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian politician (d. 1937)
• 1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1889 – Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944)
• 1896 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
• 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001)
• 1897 – Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 1975)
• 1898 – Patrick Hennessy, Irish businessman (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967)
• 1901 – László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish novelist (d. 1972)
• 1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
• 1902 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (d. 1994)
• 1904 – Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1905 – Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990)
• 1905 – George H. Hitchings, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman, racing driver, and racing car (d. 1992)
• 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960)
• 1916 – Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984)
• 1916 – Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947)
• 1917 – Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981)
• 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
• 1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1918 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
• 1920 – John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress
• 1923 – Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Roy Mason, Lord Mason of Barnsley, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1925 – Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Peter Hordern, English politician
• 1930 – Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer
• 1931 – Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013)
• 1934 – James Drury, American actor
• 1934 – George Shirley, American tenor
• 1935 – Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer
• 1936 – Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997)
• 1936 – Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver
• 1937 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009)
• 1937 – Teddy Taylor, Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1939 – William McKay, English academic
• 1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American jurist
• 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 – Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1940 – Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann)
• 1941 – Michael D. Higgins, Irish politician, 9th President of Ireland
• 1942 – Michael Beloff, English lawyer
• 1942 – Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic
• 1942 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970)
• 1944 – Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, English academic and politician
• 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy
• 1944 – Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor
• 1945 – Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009)
• 1945 – Richard Bausch, American novelist, poet, and short story writer
• 1945 – Robert Bausch, American novelist, and short story writer
• 1945 – Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor
• 1946 – Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress and singer
• 1946 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999)
• 1947 – Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Moses Blah, Liberian politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer
• 1947 – Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
• 1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
• 1947 – Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 – James Woods, American actor and producer
• 1948 – Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
• 1950 – Paul Callery, Australian footballer
• 1950 – Tina Chow, American fashion designer and model (d. 1992)
• 1950 – Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer
• 1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach
• 1951 – Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
• 1953 – Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Robert Greenberg, American composer and pianist
• 1956 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
• 1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor
• 1956 – Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
• 1958 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
• 1958 – Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer
• 1958 – Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic
• 1959 – Susan Faludi, American journalist and author
• 1959 – Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
• 1961 – Kelly Hansen, American singer-songwriter (Foreigner and Hurricane)
• 1961 – Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer
• 1961 – Steve Lombardi, American wrestler and agent
• 1961 – John Podhoretz, American journalist and author
• 1962 – Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
• 1962 – Jeff Dunham, American comedian and ventriloquist
• 1962 – Nick Farr-Jones, Australian rugby player
• 1963 – Mike Mangini, American drummer (Dream Theater, Annihilator, Extreme, and Tribe of Judah)
• 1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor and producer
• 1963 – Conan O'Brien, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and talk show host
• 1963 – Peter Van Loan, Canadian politician
• 1964 – Bez, English drummer and dancer (Happy Mondays and Black Grape)
• 1964 – Jim Ellison, American singer-songwriter (Material Issue) (d. 1996)
• 1964 – Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic
• 1964 – Rithy Panh, Cambodian director and screenwriter
• 1965 – Steven Stayner, American kidnap victim (d. 1989)
• 1965 – Rob Stenders, Dutch radio host
• 1966 – Camille Coduri, English actress
• 1966 – Trine Hattestad, Norwegian javelin thrower
• 1966 – Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Maria Bello, American actress and singer
• 1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress and singer
• 1968 – David Hewlett, English-Canadian actor, writer and director
• 1969 – Keith R. A. DeCandido, American author
• 1969 – Sayako Kuroda, Japanese daughter of Akihito
• 1969 – Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1970 – Rico Brogna, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 – Greg Eklund, American drummer and guitarist (Everclear and The Oohlas)
• 1970 – Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese politician, 66th Prime Minister of Lebanon
• 1970 – François Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
• 1970 – Lisa LoCicero, American actress
• 1970 – Esther Schweins, German actress
• 1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek journalist and television host
• 1971 – Tamara Braun, American actress
• 1971 – Samantha Cameron, English businesswoman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1971 – Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Fredro Starr, American rapper and actor (Onyx)
• 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
• 1972 – Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist
• 1972 – Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
• 1973 – Derrick Brooks, American football player
• 1973 – Brady Clark, American baseball player
• 1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
• 1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer and actress
• 1974 – Mark Tremonti, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creed and Alter Bridge)
• 1974 – Edgar Wright, English director and screenwriter
• 1975 – GoonRock, American songwriter and producer
• 1975 – Jeong Jae-heon, South Korean voice actor
• 1975 – Sergei Terehhov, Estonian footballer
• 1976 – Fayray, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1976 – Gavin Creel, American actor and singer
• 1976 – Jo Gibb, Scottish actress and dancer
• 1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress, director, and producer
• 1976 – Sean Maguire, English actor and singer
• 1976 – Kevin Rankin, American actor
• 1976 – Justin Ross, American politician
• 1977 – Dan LaCouture, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Cindy Taylor, Paraguayan model and actress
• 1977 – Anna Fegi, Filipino singer
• 1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player and coach
• 1979 – Ethan Cohn, American actor
• 1979 – Anthony Davidson, English race car driver
• 1979 – Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer and actress
• 1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American model, actress, and businesswoman
• 1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
• 1979 – Karl Wolf, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (Sky)
• 1980 – Rabiu Afolabi, Nigerian footballer
• 1980 – Carolina Crescentini, Italian actress
• 1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist (d. 2008)
• 1980 – Laura Mennell, Canadian actress
• 1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Priit Võigemast, Estonian actor
• 1981 – Elastinen, Finnish rapper and producer (Fintelligens)
• 1981 – Brian Buscher, American baseball player
• 1981 – Jamie Davis, English actor
• 1981 – Mai Hoshimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Milan Jovanović, Serbian footballer
• 1981 – Aldo Ramírez, Colombian footballer
• 1981 – Audrey Tang, Taiwanese computer scientist
• 1982 – Ibrahim al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist
• 1982 – Greg Camarillo, American football player
• 1982 – Ricardo Colclough, Canadian-American football player
• 1982 – Simone Farina, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Scott Hartnell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Blair Late, American singer-songwriter (B3)
• 1982 – Kristina Sisco, American actress
• 1982 – Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
• 1982 – Franzen Fajardo, Filipino actor and host
• 1982 – Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
• 1983 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 – Reeve Carney, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1983 – Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
• 1983 – Cheryl Haworth, American weightlifter
• 1983 – Cristina Nardozzi, American model, Miss Massachusetts USA 2005
• 1984 – Sokoudjou, Cameroonian mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Red Bryant, American football player
• 1984 – America Ferrera, American actress and producer
• 1985 – Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
• 1985 – Sasa Handa, Japanese model and actress
• 1985 – Sukollawat Kanarot, Thai actor and model
• 1985 – Jessica Lu, American actress
• 1985 – Karl Reindler, Australian race car driver
• 1985 – Rachel Smith, Panamanian-American model, Miss USA 2007
• 1985 – Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
• 1986 – Billy Butler, American baseball player
• 1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
• 1986 – Taylor Griffin, American basketball player
• 1986 – Eleanor James, English actress and dancer
• 1986 – Denice Klarskov, Danish porn actress, producer, and radio host
• 1986 – Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
• 1986 – Efraín Velarde, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
• 1987 – Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
• 1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress
• 1987 – Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Cara Mia Wayans, American actress
• 1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009
• 1988 – Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer
• 1988 – Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player
• 1989 – Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1989 – Jessica Jung, Korean-American singer, dancer, and actress (former member of Girls' Generation)
• 1989 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
• 1989 – Chaiwat Thongsaeng, Thai actor and model
• 1990 – Cigar, American race horse (d. 2014)
• 1990 – Henderson Alvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1990 – Jake Howells, English footballer
• 1990 – Britt Robertson, American actress
• 1990 – Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
• 1990 – Junior Torunarigha, Nigerian footballer
• 1990 – Inna Zlidnis, Estonian footballer
• 1992 – Chloe Bennet, American actress and singer
• 1992 – Misa Eguchi, Japanese tennis player
• 1993 – Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter (The Wanted)
• 1994 – Moisés Arias, American actor
• 1995 – Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
• 1996 – Ioana Ducu, Romanian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 1161 – Theobald of Bec, French-English archbishop (b. 1090)
• 1552 – John Leland, English poet (b. 1502)
• 1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (b. 1495)
• 1558 – Roxelana, Ottoman wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
• 1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
• 1587 – John Foxe, English historian and author (b. 1516)
• 1636 – Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (b. 1557)
• 1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English politician (b. 1602)
• 1674 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (b. 1620)
• 1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)
• 1732 – Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)
• 1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (b. 1733)
• 1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1796 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
• 1802 – Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
• 1832 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• 1859 – Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
• 1864 – Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist (b. 1832)
• 1873 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
• 1898 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
• 1904 – Sumner Paine, American target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1906 – Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1913 – Harrison Clark, American soldier (b. 1842)
• 1917 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
• 1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian author (b. 1884)
• 1936 – Milton Brown, American singer (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1903)
• 1936 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
• 1938 – George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1945 – William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
• 1947 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1949 – Will Hay, English actor and director (b. 1888)
• 1951 – Óscar Carmona, Portuguese politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist (b. 1879)
• 1958 – Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 – Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
• 1967 – Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (b. 1939)
• 1990 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Victoria O'Keefe, English actress (b. 1969)
• 1993 – Masahiko Kimura, Japanese martial artist (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
• 1996 – Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (Chic) (b. 1952)
• 1997 – Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• 1997 – Don Pietromonaco, American actor and radio host (b. 1935)
• 1998 – Terry Sanford, American politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2003 – Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist (b. 1907)
• 2009 – Stephanie Parker, English-Welsh actress (b. 1987)
• 2011 – Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Cora Hansen, American-Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1899)
• 2012 – René Lépine, Canadian businessman (b. 1929)
• 2012 – John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2012 – K. D. Wentworth, American author (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai, Hungarian-English wife of István Horthy (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Cordell Mosson, American bass player (Parliament-Funkadelic) (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Steuart Pringle, English general (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Vytautas Šapranauskas, Lithuanian actor (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Storm Thorgerson, English illustrator (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Anne Williams, English activist (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Guru Dhanapal, Indian director and producer (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Sanford Jay Frank, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Deon Jackson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Eduard Kosolapov, Russian footballer (b. 1976)
• 2014 – David McClarty, Irish politician (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Brian Priestman, English conductor and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (b. 1994)

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• 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
• 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
• 797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after Constantine dies of his wounds, and Irene proclaims herself basileus.
• 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.
• 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
• 1539 – Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
• 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
• 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
• 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
• 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
• 1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
• 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davoutat the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
• 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
• 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
• 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
• 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
• 1865 – Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
• 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1897 – Léo Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
• 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
• 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• 1943 – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
• 1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
• 1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
• 1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
• 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
• 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
• 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
• 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
• 1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
• 1975 – India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
• 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
• 1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
• 1985 – 200 ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
• 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
• 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
• 1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
• 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
• 1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
• 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
• 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
• 2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Births[edit]

• 626 – Eanflæd, English daughter of Edwin of Northumbria (d. 685)
• 1603 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1685)
• 1613 – Christoph Bach, German pianist (d. 1661)
• 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (d. 1716)
• 1660 – Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer (d. 1716)
• 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French author (d. 1721)
• 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
• 1715 – James Nares, English organist and composer (d. 1783)
• 1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
• 1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer (d. 1786)
• 1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
• 1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
• 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
• 1787 – Deaf Smith, American soldier (d. 1837)
• 1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
• 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French author (d. 1875)
• 1832 – José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• 1835 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (d. 1888)
• 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner (d. 1957)
• 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
• 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
• 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
• 1891 – Françoise Rosay, French opera singer, diseuse, and actress (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
• 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
• 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Cemal Tollu, Turkish painter (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
• 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower (d. 1984)
• 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Sol Kaplan, American composer (d. 1990)
• 1920 – Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1993)
• 1920 – John O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (d. 1993)
• 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor
• 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Mr. Kenneth, American hairdresser (d. 2013)
• 1928 – John Horlock, English engineer and academic
• 1928 – Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (d. 1984)
• 1928 – Azlan Shah of Perak (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Ewan Jamieson, New Zealand air marshal (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
• 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricketer and umpire
• 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model, actress, and singer (d. 1967)
• 1933 – Philip Lavallin Wroughton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
• 1934 – Ox Baker, American wrestler and actor (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American record producer (d. 1989)
• 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
• 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author
• 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
• 1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor, producer, and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
• 1938 – Stanley Fish, American academic and scholar
• 1939 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
• 1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer-songwriter and producer (Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive)
• 1941 – Priit Aimla, Estonian author, poet, and playwright
• 1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1941 – Michel Roux, French-English chef
• 1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch-American photographer and director (d. 1975)
• 1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Animals)
• 1942 – Jack Roush, American businessman, founded Roush Fenway Racing
• 1942 – Maarten van den Bergh, Dutch businessman
• 1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
• 1943 – Margo MacDonald, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
• 1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains)
• 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
• 1946 – Euphrosyne Doxiadis, Greek artist and writer
• 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
• 1946 – Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women’s rights (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
• 1947 – Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara, English civil servant
• 1947 – Yan Pascal Tortelier, French violinist and conductor
• 1947 – Mark Volman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and The Mothers of Invention)
• 1948 – Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host and author
• 1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player and manager
• 1949 – Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish fashion designer
• 1949 – Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (d. 1993)
• 1950 – Julia Cleverdon, English businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and playwright (d. 1978)
• 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1952 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009)
• 1952 – Tony Plana, Cuban-American actor and director
• 1952 – Michael Trend, English politician
• 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American drummer (Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam)
• 1953 – Sara Simeoni, Italian high jumper
• 1953 – Ruby Wax, American-English comedian and actress
• 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer and manager
• 1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Payolas)
• 1956 – Sue Barker, English tennis player and journalist
• 1956 – Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 – Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic
• 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
• 1957 – Tony Martin, English singer-songwriter (Black Sabbath, Giuntini Project, and Empire)
• 1958 – Steve Antin, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland
• 1958 – Vytautas Šapranauskas, Lithuanian actor (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, English activist
• 1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian sociologist and educator
• 1959 – Teofisto Guingona III, Filipino politician
• 1960 – Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress and producer
• 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
• 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer and coach
• 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach
• 1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player and coach
• 1961 – Richard Phelps, English pentathlete
• 1961 – Albert Martinez, Filipino actor
• 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
• 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer and coach
• 1964 – Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist
• 1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
• 1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records
• 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
• 1966 – Brett J. Gladman, Canadian astronomer and academic
• 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
• 1966 – Julia Neigel, Russian-German singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 – El Samurai, Japanese wrestler
• 1967 – Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach
• 1967 – Steven H Silver, American journalist and author
• 1967 – Dar Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cry Cry Cry)
• 1968 – Mswati III of Swaziland
• 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
• 1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, and songwriter
• 1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor, singer, and producer
• 1969 – Andrew Carnie, Canadian-American educator and author
• 1969 – Jesse James, American motorcycle builder, founded West Coast Choppers
• 1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
• 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English middle distance athlete
• 1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1971 – Gad Elmaleh, Moroccan-French comedian and actor
• 1971 – You Hee-yeol, South Korean singer-songwriter and host
• 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
• 1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American football player
• 1972 – Binnur Kaya, Turkish actress
• 1973 – George Gregan, Zambian-Australian rugby player and coach
• 1973 – Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
• 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
• 1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
• 1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player, coach, and radio host
• 1976 – Kim Young-oh, South Korean author and illustrator
• 1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
• 1977 – Anju Bobby George, Indian long jumper
• 1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
• 1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
• 1977 – Jonny Storm, English wrestler
• 1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter
• 1979 – Rocky Bernard, American football player
• 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress and singer
• 1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
• 1979 – Nicole Raczynski, American wrestler
• 1979 – Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
• 1980 – Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Robyn Regehr, Brazilian-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
• 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
• 1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
• 1981 – Martin Havlát, Czech ice hockey player
• 1981 – Kasie Head, American model, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002
• 1981 – James Hibberd, English cricketer
• 1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai actress
• 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
• 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
• 1982 – Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast
• 1982 – Filip Jícha, Czech handballer
• 1982 – Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian entrepreneur
• 1982 – Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Ignacio Serricchio, Argentinian-American actor
• 1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1983 – Zach Duke, American baseball player
• 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
• 1983 – Patrick Platins, German footballer
• 1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
• 1984 – Lee Da-hae, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Christopher Pearce, English cricketer
• 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
• 1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German footballer
• 1986 – Maxine, American wrestler and model
• 1986 – Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
• 1986 – Heather Kuzmich, American model
• 1986 – Zhou Mi, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior-M and SM the Ballad)
• 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
• 1986 – Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
• 1986 – Will Thursfield, English-Australian footballer
• 1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
• 1987 – David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
• 1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor
• 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater
• 1988 – Enrique Esqueda, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and no3b)
• 1988 – Saya Yūki, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Dominik Mader, German footballer
• 1989 – Kristen O'Connor, American singer and guitarist
• 1989 – Belinda Owusu, English actress
• 1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
• 1990 – Himchan, South Korean singer and dancer (B.A.P)
• 1990 – Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player
• 1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
• 1990 – Héctor Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer
• 1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
• 1990 – Teo Olivares, American actor
• 1990 – Patrick Wiegers, German footballer
• 1990 – Gretchen Ho, Filipino volleyball player and host
• 1991 – Steve Cook, English footballer
• 1991 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
• 1992 – Paul-Jose M'Poku, Belgian footballer
• 1993 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
• 1994 – Lee Areum, South Korean singer (T-ara and T-ara N4)
• 1995 – Akira Saitō, Japanese actress

Το Sani Gourmet απο 8-17 Μαιου

Στο Δρόμο του Μεταξιού βαδίζει για δεύτερη χρονιά το Sani Gourmet, ξεδιπλώνοντας τη γαστρονομία των χωρών της Άπω και Εγγύς Ανατολής, καθώς και της Μεσογείου, σ'ένα ταξίδι με μυρωδιές και χρώματα που ξυπνούν μνήμες πολιτισμού.

Διανύοντας φέτος τη δέκατη χρονιά του, το Sani Gourmet είναι ένας θεσμός, που ξεδιπλώνει μέσα από τις θεματικές του ενότητες ένα μωσαϊκό γεύσεων και πολιτιστικών “ενώσεων”, προάγοντας τη συζήτηση και την ανταλλαγή απόψεων πάνω σ'έναν από τους σημαντικότερους τομείς του ανθρώπινου πολιτισμού: τη γαστρονομία. 

Όπως χαρακτηριστικά αναφέρει ο αντιπρόεδρος της Σάνη ΑΕ, κ. Φωκίων Ζησιάδης στον πρόλογό του στην επίσημη μπροσούρα της διοργάνωσης:

«Ο Δρόμος του Μεταξιού, αντίθετα με την κοινή αντίληψη πως πρόκειται για μία απλή, μονοσήμαντη διαδρομή, στην ουσία αποτέλεσε ένα αχανές και δαιδαλώδες δίκτυο παραδρόμων, πολιτισμικών και εμπορικών "μονοπατιών", διαμέσου διάσπαρτων οάσεων και κατά μήκος του διευρυμένου άξονα Oriental-Occidental.  Αυτούς τους παραδρόμους πραγματεύεται φέτος το Sani Gourmet, εστιάζοντας, αναδεικνύοντας και ρίχνοντας φως σε γαστρονομικές ιδιαιτερότητες λαών, οι οποίες για το δυτικό κόσμο είναι ίσως ανεξερεύνητες ακόμη και αδίκως μοιάζουν φαινομενικά "ασήμαντες"ή και "αδιάφορες".

Η θεαματική ανάπτυξη της Κίνας ως χώρας-αφετηρία, η ανακάλυψη του πετρελαίου και η κατασκευή βασικών υποδομών και δρόμων στις παρυφές των ερήμων Taklimakan και Gobi—οι οποίες ήταν κάποτε ανυπέρβλητα εμπόδια στη διακίνηση του ελεύθερου εμπορίου—ευνόησαν  την  ανάπτυξη και επέφεραν ραγδαίο εκβιομηχανισμό. Τότε όπως και τώρα... υπό μία έννοια, σημειολογικά και συμβολικά, ο Δρόμος του Μεταξιού ξαναγίνεται επίκαιρος με την πλήρη σημασία της λέξης. Μπορεί ιστορικά να μην έχει καταγραφεί παρουσία Ρωμαίων εμπόρων στην Κίνα ή  Κινέζων εμπόρων στη Ρώμη, ωστόσο γαστρονομικά η κατάκτηση του δυτικού κόσμου από την ανατολική επιρροή ήταν και συνεχίζει να είναι μία πραγματικότητα.»

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Πέρσι το Sani Gourmet ξεκίνησε τη μακριά διαδρομή του Δρόμου του Μεταξιού, η οποία συνεχίζεται φέτος, για να αφήσει μια σημαντική παρακαταθήκη στη σύγχρονη συζήτηση περί γαστρονομίας, πέραν του ότι το φαγητό δένει πολιτισμικά την Ασία με την Ευρώπη. Γι'αυτό το λόγο διευρύνει τη συμμετοχή των χωρών που συμμετέχουν, με προσκεκλημένους σεφ όχι μόνο από την Κίνα, την Ινδία, την Τουρκία, την Ελλάδα και την Ιταλία, αλλά και από την Περσία, τη Γεωργία και το Αζερμπαϊτζάν, οι οποίοι θα δώσουν τη δική τους, ενδιαφέρουσα διάσταση στη θεματική αυτή ενότητα.

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