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Actor Ron Moody - who played Fagin in hit musical film Oliver! - dies aged 91

• Star was nominated for best actor Oscar in 1968 for performance in film
• He died in hospital today but was 'singing until the end', his family say 
• Made name by playing Fagin but hated novel's 'unbearable' anti-semitism 
• Moody, from north London, leaves behind wife Therese and six children

Actor Ron Moody, who played Fagin in the hit film version of Oliver! (left)  has died aged 91. He is pictured right on stage as Fagin in 1986

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Moody played the elderly crook in the stage version of the musical before making the film, for which he won a Golden Globe. He is pictured with Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed as Nancy and Bill Sikes in the film

Ron Moody nominated for Oscar role in 1968 film Oliver!

Moody (pictured left in After They Were Famous and right in 2011), who was born in Tottenham, nort London, was an observent Jew and volunteered for the Royal Air Force in the Second World War as a radar mechanic

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The actor as Fagin in the film. He is pictured with Jack Wild, who played Oliver, and the late Mark Lester, who played the Artful Dodger

But the actor (right), for whom Judaism was a central part of his life, told years later how he had reluctantly auditioned for the Fagin role (left) after being offended by its 'unbearable' anti-semitism

Moody, who is said to have once turned down the lead role in Doctor Who, carried on working into his eighties. He is pictured left in 1980 in Nobody's Perfect and right in 1981 in Into The Labyrinth

The actor had a small role in EastEnders as Edwin Caldecott, an old nemesis of Jim Branning

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• 1381 – Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels arrive at Blackheath.
• 1418 – An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
• 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
• 1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
• 1560 – Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
• 1653 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.
• 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City (the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam).
• 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
• 1775 – American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
• 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
• 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
• 1860 – The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
• 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
• 1889 – Eighty are killed in the Armagh rail disaster near Armagh in what is now Northern Ireland.
• 1898 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• 1899 – New Richmond Tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
• 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
• 1932 – A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War
• 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
• 1940 – World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
• 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• 1943 – Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
• 1944 – American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan.
• 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
• 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
• 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
• 1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
• 1972 – The fast food restaurant chain Popeyes is founded in Arabi, Louisiana.
• 1978 – David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York City, is sentenced to 365 years in prison for six killings.
• 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
• 1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1990 – Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• 1991 – Russians elect Boris Yeltsin as the president of the republic.
• 1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
• 1993 – An election takes place in Nigeria which and is later annulled by the military Government led by Ibrahim Babangida.
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
• 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
• 1996 – In Philadelphia, a panel of federal judges blocks a law against indecency on the internet.
• 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.

Births[edit]

• 1107 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (d. 1187)
• 1519 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1574)
• 1561 – Anna of Württemberg, German princess (d. 1616)
• 1573 – Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (d. 1629)
• 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
• 1711 – Louis Legrand, French Sulpician priest and theologian (d. 1780)
• 1760 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist and politician (d. 1797)
• 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant (d. 1870)
• 1775 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (d. 1851)
• 1777 – Robert Clark, American politician (d. 1837)
• 1795 – John Marston, American sailor (d. 1885)
• 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (d. 1876)
• 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869)
• 1807 – Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and journalist (d. 1879)
• 1812 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (d. 1890)
• 1819 – Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1875)
• 1827 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (d. 1901)
• 1841 – Watson Fothergill, English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (d. 1928)
• 1843 – Sir David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
• 1851 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (d. 1940)
• 1857 – Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect, civil engineer, and politician (d. 1909)
• 1858 – Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer (d. 1927)
• 1858 – Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (d. 1929)
• 1861 – William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
• 1864 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (d. 1971)
• 1875 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian-American actor (d. 1953)
• 1883 – Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (d. 1969)
• 1883 – Robert Lowie, Austrian-born American anthropologist (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1920)
• 1890 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (d. 1918)
• 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
• 1892 – Apostolos Grozos, Greek politician (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician, Mayor of Ghent (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Emmett Hardy, American cornet player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. 1925)
• 1905 – Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (d. 1977)
• 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian broadcaster (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (d. 1975)
• 1910 – Bill Naughton, Irish-English playwright and author (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Füreya Koral, Turkish ceramists (d. 1997)
• 1912 – Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist (d. 1961)
• 1913 – Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral (d. 2005)
• 1914 – William Lundigan, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1914 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Priscilla Lane, American actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Christopher Mayhew, English soldier and politician (d. 1997)
• 1915 – David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman
• 1916 – Irwin Allen, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Jim Siedow, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Christopher Derrick, English author (d. 2007)
• 1921 – James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Monty Westmore, American make-up artist (d. 2007)
• 1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States
• 1924 – Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese psychiatrist, author, and poet (d. 1975)
• 1928 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1928 – Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer and songwriter
• 1929 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch author and Holocaust memoirist and victim (d. 1945)
• 1929 – Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist and scholar
• 1929 – John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
• 1930 – Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
• 1930 – Jim Nabors, American actor and singer
• 1930 – Innes Ireland, Scottish race car driver and engineer (d. 1993)
• 1931 – Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Rona Jaffe, American author (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Mimi Coertse, South African soprano
• 1932 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Eddie Adams, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1934 – John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer (d. 2001)
• 1934 – Nicole Berger, French actress (d. 1967)
• 1934 – Kevin Billington, English director and producer
• 1935 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Paul Kennedy, English judge
• 1937 – Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Klaus Basikow, German footballer and manager
• 1937 – Antal Festetics, Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist
• 1938 – Anne Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles, English horse trainer (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor
• 1938 – Ian Partridge, English tenor
• 1939 – Frank McCloskey, American sergeant and politician (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and politician
• 1941 – Marv Albert, American sportscaster
• 1941 – Chick Corea, American pianist and composer (Chick Corea Elektric Band, Return to Forever, and Five Peace Band)
• 1941 – Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
• 1942 – Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Dovells)
• 1942 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Pat Jennings, Irish footballer and coach
• 1946 – Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1946 – Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist
• 1947 – Ron Freeman, American sprinter
• 1948 – Hans Binder, Austrian race car driver
• 1948 – Lyn Collins, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1948 – Herbert Meyer, German footballer
• 1949 – Tarak Ben Ammar, Tunisian film producer
• 1949 – Jens Böhrnsen, German politician, President of Germany
• 1949 – Ivo Linna, Estonian singer (Apelsin)
• 1949 – Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Michael Fabricant, English politician
• 1950 – Oğuz Abadan, Turkish musician
• 1951 – Sonia Manzano, American actress and writer
• 1951 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boston RTZ, and Beatlejuice) (d. 2007)
• 1951 – Hans Niessl, Austrian politician
• 1951 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
• 1952 – Spencer Abraham, American politician, 10th United States Secretary of Energy
• 1952 – Oliver Knussen, Scottish composer and conductor
• 1954 – Neil Oatley, English engineer
• 1956 – Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1957 – Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
• 1957 – Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1958 – Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Rory Sparrow, American basketball player and manager
• 1959 – Scott Thompson, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Mark Calcavecchia, American golfer
• 1960 – Joe Kopicki, American basketball player
• 1961 – Julius Kariuki, Kenyan runner
• 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1963 – Warwick Capper, Australian footballer
• 1963 – Tim DeKay, American actor
• 1963 – Johnny Hotbody, American wrestler
• 1963 – T. B. Joshua, Nigerian minister and television host
• 1963 – Jerry Lynn, American wrestler
• 1963 – Patrice Martinez, American actress
• 1964 – Derek Higgins, Irish race car driver
• 1964 – Kent Jones, American journalist
• 1964 – Paula Marshall, American actress
• 1965 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (Psí vojáci) (d. 2013)
• 1965 – Gwen Torrence, American sprinter
• 1965 – Cathy Tyson, English actress
• 1965 – Vicky Vette, Norwegian-American porn actress and model
• 1967 – Icíar Bollaín, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1967 – Frances O'Connor, Australian actress
• 1968 – Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Manuel Blanc, French actor
• 1968 – Htay Kywe, Burmese activist
• 1968 – Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
• 1969 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Bikini) (d. 2007)
• 1969 – Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
• 1969 – Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
• 1970 – Rick Hoffman, American actor
• 1971 – Arman Alizad, Iranian-Finnish tailor and television host
• 1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler
• 1971 – Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
• 1971 – Jérôme Romain, Dominican-French triple jumper
• 1972 – Bounty Killer, Jamaican rapper and DJ (The Alliance)
• 1972 – Finesse Mitchell, American actor
• 1973 – Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Jennifer Jo Cobb, American race car driver
• 1973 – Takis Fyssas, Greek footballer
• 1973 – Mitsuki Saiga, Japanese voice actress
• 1973 – Darryl White, Australian footballer
• 1974 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Jason Mewes, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Kerry Kittles, American basketball player
• 1975 – Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and publisher
• 1975 – Michael Muhney, American actor
• 1975 – Stephanie Szostak, French-American actress
• 1976 – Antawn Jamison, American basketball player
• 1976 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Richard Ayoade, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Lewis Moody, English rugby player
• 1978 – Yumiko Shaku, Japanese actress and model
• 1979 – Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1979 – Dallas Clark, American football player
• 1979 – Martine Dugrenier, Canadian wrestler
• 1979 – Diego Milito, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Earl Watson, American basketball player
• 1980 – Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
• 1980 – Jason Dent, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Larry Foote, American football player
• 1980 – Ifet Taljević, German footballer
• 1981 – Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 – Paul Hasleby, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Jeremy Howard, American actor
• 1981 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian model and actress
• 1981 – Nora Tschirner, German actress
• 1982 – Ben Blackwell, American drummer (The Dirtbombs)
• 1982 – Diem Brown, American journalist and activist (d. 2014)
• 1982 – Jason David, American football player
• 1982 – Loïc Duval, French race car driver
• 1982 – Marko Popović, Croatian basketball player
• 1982 – Samantha Tolj, Australian actress
• 1983 – Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
• 1983 – Andy Ologun, Nigerian boxer and actor
• 1983 – Alexander Pipa, German rugby player
• 1983 – Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
• 1984 – James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner
• 1984 – Andrea Servi, Italian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1985 – Colin Doyle, Irish footballer
• 1985 – Dave Franco, American actor
• 1985 – Blake Ross, American software developer, co-created Mozilla Firefox
• 1985 – Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby player
• 1985 – Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress, and author
• 1985 – Chris Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 – Carla Abellana, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Erik Ainge, American football player
• 1986 – Mario Casas, Spanish actor
• 1986 – Stanislava Komarova, Russian swimmer
• 1986 – Sergio Rodríguez, Spanish basketball player
• 1986 – Benjamin Schmideg, Australian actor
• 1987 – Seyi Ajirotutu, American football player
• 1987 – Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model
• 1987 – Kristjan Rand, Estonian ice dancer
• 1988 – Artūrs Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1988 – Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
• 1988 – Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
• 1988 – Dave Melillo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anarbor and Cute Is What We Aim For)
• 1988 – Dakota Morton, Canadian actor and radio host
• 1989 – Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 – Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner
• 1989 – Krista K, Filipino-American model, actress, and singer
• 1990 – KevJumba, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1990 – Kevin López, Spanish runner
• 1990 – David Worrall, English footballer
• 1991 – Avisail García, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1991 – James Rodriguez, Colombian soccer player
• 1992 – Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 – Junrey Balawing, Filipino dwarf
• 1995 – Furkan Soyalp, Turkish footballer
• 1996 – Anna Margaret, American actress and singer
• 2001 – John Bigelow IV, Filipino-American golfer
• 2005 – Ryzza Mae Dizon, Filipino actress

Deaths[edit]

• 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
• 918 – Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)
• 1020 – Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)
• 1036 – Tedald, Italian bishop (b. 990)
• 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360)
• 1428 – Zawisza Czarny z Garbowa, Polish nobleman ("the Black Knight")
• 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408)
• 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
• 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
• 1565 – Adrianus Turnebus, French philologist and scholar (b. 1512)
• 1567 – Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
• 1647 – Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)
• 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)
• 1734 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French general (b. 1670)
• 1758 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)
• 1772 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
• 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)
• 1816 – Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)
• 1818 – Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
• 1841 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)
• 1900 – Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
• 1904 – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)
• 1917 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)
• 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 1937 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian marshal (b. 1893)
• 1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)
• 1962 – John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
• 1968 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)
• 1969 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Latife Uşşaki, Mustafa Kemal Pasha's (later Atatürk) wife (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian ethologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Toma Bebić, Dalmatian painter, journalist, and educator (b. 1935)
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American murder victim (b. 1959)
• 1994 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
• 1995 – Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)
• 2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (b. 1921)
• 2006 – György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1895)
• 2007 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Al Williamson, American illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2011 – René Audet, Canadian bishop (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Philip H. Corboy, American lawyer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Annie B. Martin, American labor and civil rights activist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, German psychoanalyst (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Sabri Ülker, Turkish businessman (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (b. 1908)
• 2013 – Soh Hang-suen, Hong Kong actress (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1897)
• 2013 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (b. 1975)
• 2013 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Scott Winkler, Norwegian ice hockey player (b. 1990)
• 2014 – Nabil Hemani, Algerian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2014 – Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Carla Laemmle, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2014 – Khagen Mahanta, Indian singer (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Joe Pittman, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Jimmy Scott, American singer (b. 1925)

Ανδρος υπάρχει και στις Μπαχάμες 

Ανδρος. Αρχοντική, όμορφη, άγρια. Η ομορφιά του υπέροχου

 νησιού των Κυκλάδων μοναδική. Αλλά όχι και το όνομά του.

 Γιατί; Μα επειδή ακριβώς το ίδιο όνομα, Ανδρος, φέρει και το

 μεγαλύτερο νησί στις Μπαχάμες.

Μπορεί να μην το γνωρίζουν πολλοί, αλλά ρίχνοντας μια ματιά στο χάρτη των

 Μπαχαμών, ένα όνομα ξεχωρίζει. Και όχι μόνο γιατί ανήκει στο μεγαλύτερο νησί 

του συμπλέγματος αλλά και γιατί θυμίζει κάτι από... Ελλάδα. Ανδρος και στις

 Μπαχάμες λοιπόν.

Ουσιαστικά δεν πρόκειται για ένα ενιαίο νησί, αλλά ένα σύμπλεγμα νησίδων

 που αποτελούν τους δορυφόρους τριών μεγαλύτερων, της Βόρειας Ανδρου, 

του Μάνγκροουβ Κέι και της Νότιας Ανδρου.

Πώς προέκυψε το όνομα Ανδρος

Το αρχικό όνομα του νησιού ήταν «Εσπιρτού Σαντού» και η μετονομασία του

 σε... Ανδρος εκτιμάται ότι έγινε κατά την περίοδο της βρετανικής διοίκησης των

 νησιών. Κάποια έγγραφα ανέφεραν το νησί ως «Andrews Island», ενώ σε χάρτη

 του 1782 γίνεται λόγος για «San Andreas».

Το όνομα εκτιμάται ότι προέκυψε από τον  Σερ Έντμουντ Αντρος, διοικητή

 του Μπαρμπέιντος το 1672 και στη συνέχεια της Νέας Υόρκης, της Μασαχουσέτης

 και της Νέας Αγγλίας, ενώ άλλοι αποδίδουν το όνομά του νησιού στους

 κατοίκους του St. Andro Island που μετανάστευσαν εκεί το 1787 ή ακόμη και στους

 Ελληνες σφουγγαράδες, γιατί ναι έφθασαν ως εκεί λόγω του πλούτου της περιοχής

 σε σφουγγάρια. Η τελευταία εκδοχή, πάντως, θεωρείται η πιο αδύναμη καθώς οι

 Ελληνες σφουγγαράδες έφθασαν στην Ανδρο των Μπαχαμών το 19ο αιώνα.

Ανδρος, το καλύτερο καταφύγιο για τους λάτρεις της φύσης

H Ανδρος στις Μπαχάμες περιγράφεται ως ο ιδανικός προορισμός για όσους

 τουρίστες αναζητούν ερημικές παραλίες, αγαπούν τη φύση και τα θαλάσσια σπορ.

Αν και είναι το μεγαλύτερο νησί του συμπλέγματος, είναι και το λιγότερο

 αναπτυγμένο, με πολλές περιοχές του να παραμένουν ανέγγιχτες από τον

 πολιτισμό. Λόγω ακριβώς αυτής της μικρής ανάπτυξης του νησιού συχνά 

αποκαλείται ως το «Θαύμα της φύσης των Μπαχαμών».

Η άγρια φύση της Ανδρου

Αγριες ορχιδέες, πεύκα, σπάνια πουλιά, ιγκουάνα, συνθέτουν την παρθένα 

ομορφιά του νησιού αυτού, ενώ και τα βράδια το σκηνικό είναι πραγματικά 

μοναδικό. Και αυτό γιατί τα φώτα του πολιτισμού είναι... μίλια μακριά και οι

 νύχτες των επισκεπτών του νησιού φωτίζονται μόνο από τον έναστρο ουρανό...

Τεράστιος, όμως, είναι ο φυσικός πλούτος και... υποθαλάσσια. Σπήλαια κα

ι κοραλλιογενείς ύφαλοι περιμένουν τους λάτρεις των καταδύσεων να τα

 εξερευνήσουν.  Μάλιστα, ο τρίτος μεγαλύτερος κοραλλιογενής ύφαλος στον

 κόσμο βρίσκεται ακριβώς δίπλα στην Ανδρο. Των Μπαχαμών πάντα.

Εφτιαξε ένα από τα κορυφαία εστιατόρια του Μανχάταν και σερβίρει... Ελλάδα 

Σπύρος Μενεγάτος. Αλλος ένας Ελληνας που πρωτοπορεί

 και διαπρέπει στην άλλη πλευρά του Ατλαντικού. Από την 

Κεφαλονιά, στα σαλόνια της Wall Street και στη συνέχεια στο 

κέντρο του Μανχάταν.  

Εκεί όπου το εστιατόριό του «Νεράι» αποτελεί ένα δημοφιλές σημείο συνάντησης 

των Νεοϋορκέζων και σε λίγο καιρό θα προβάλλονται εκεί και έργα Ελλήνων 

καλλιτεχνών.

Το «Νεράι» συγκαταλέγεται στα 10 πιο δημοφιλή εστιατόρια της Νέας Υόρκης. 

Σερβίροντας πρωτοποριακή ελληνική κουζίνα, κάτοικοι και επισκέπτες της Νέας 

Υόρκης συρρέουν ο ένας μετά τον άλλον για να δοκιμάσουν τα καταπληκτικά πιάτα

 του «Νεράι». 

Πριν δύο χρόνια, όμως, ο Σπύρος Μενεγάτος δεν έκανε αυτή τη δουλειά. Βρισκόταν

 στα σαλόνια της Wall Street βγάζοντας χιλιάδες δολάρια κάθε μήνα δουλεύοντας 

για ιδιωτικό Hedge Funds. Ξαφνικά, όμως, και ενώ η κρίση είχε ξεκινήσει τα παράτησε

 όλα για να  δημιουργήσει το δικό του εστιατόριο στην καρδιά της Νέας Υόρκης. 

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• 313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
• 1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.
• 1381 – The Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
• 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
• 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
• 1625 – King Charles I of England marries Henrietta Maria of France, Princess of France
• 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1881 – The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
• 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
• 1898 – Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
• 1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
• 1917 – World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
• 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
• 1944 – World War II: German combat elements - reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division - launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.
• 1944 – World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
• 1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
• 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1969 – Governor of Texas Preston Smith signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments, into the University of Texas at Dallas.
• 1970 – "The Long and Winding Road" becomes The Beatles' last U.S. number one song.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
• 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1978 – Israel Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
• 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1982 – Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, was killed when he crashed on the start grid for the Canadian Grand Prix
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).
• 1990 – First day of the June 1990 Mineriad in Romania. At least 240 strikers and students are arrested or killed in the chaos ensuing from the first post-Ceaușescu elections.
• 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 1996 – The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 2000 – President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2002 – The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the U.S.
• 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
• 2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
• 2012 – A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.

Births[edit]

• 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general (d. 93)
• 823 – Charles the Bald, Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor (d. 877)
• 839 – Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 888)
• 1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian writer and philosopher (d. 1579)
• 1556 – Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (d. 1608)
• 1595 – Jan Marek Marci, Czech physician and scientist (d. 1667)
• 1561 – Anna Maria of Anhalt, German noblewoman (d. 1605)
• 1619 – Jan Victors, Dutch painter (d. 1676)
• 1649 – Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (d. 1706)
• 1672 – Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1741)
• 1711 – Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1773)
• 1752 – Frances Burney, English author and playwright (d. 1840)
• 1761 – Antonín Vranický, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1820)
• 1763 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian politician (d. 1838)
• 1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Lithuanian politician (d. 1833)
• 1786 – Winfield Scott, American general (d. 1866)
• 1790 – José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1873)
• 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
• 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882)
• 1831 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (d. 1879)
• 1840 – Augusta Lundin, Swedish fashion designer (d. 1919)
• 1854 – Charles Algernon Parsons, English engineer (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (d. 1935)
• 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician (d. 1922)
• 1864 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (d. 1939)
• 1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
• 1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist (d. 1919)
• 1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1872 – Thomas N. Heffron, American silent film director (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, producer and director (d. 1942)
• 1875 – Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician (d. 1932)
• 1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
• 1877 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (d. 1941)
• 1879 – Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general (d. 1929)
• 1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1944)
• 1884 – Anton Drexler, German politician (d. 1942)
• 1884 – Gerald Gardner, English religious leader, founded Gardnerian Wicca (d. 1964)
• 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
• 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (d. 1969)
• 1887 – André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Bruno Frank, German-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
• 1888 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet and critic (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963)
• 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author and poet (d. 1957)
• 1894 – Leo Kanner, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer, conductor, and journalist, founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers) (d. 1997)
• 1905 – James T. Rutnam, Sri Lankan historian and author (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
• 1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
• 1909 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish author (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (d. 2001)
• 1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• 1911 – Prince Aly Khan, Imam of Ismaili Shi'a Islam, socialite, racehorse owner (d. 1960)
• 1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist (d. 1977)
• 1912 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (d. 1943)
• 1913 – Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Yitzhak Pundak, Israeli general, diplomat and politician
• 1914 – Frederic Franklin, English-American ballet dancer and director (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Barbara Reynolds, English lexicographer and author (d. 2015)
• 1915 – Don Budge, American tennis player (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Wu Zhengyi, Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Teddy Turner, English actor (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Helmut Lent, German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1918 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian-American actor (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic
• 1920 – Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Lennart Strand, Swedish runner (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author (d. 1989)
• 1926 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Paul Lynde, American actor and singer (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Alan Reiher, Australian public servant (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Li Ka-shing, Chinese businessman
• 1928 – Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (d. 2009)
• 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Alan Civil, English horn player (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Ralph McQuarrie, American illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and spy (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Paul Veyne, French historian, intellectualist and academic
• 1931 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Reed Scowen, Canadian politician
• 1931 – Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
• 1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician
• 1932 – Bob McGrath, American actor and singer
• 1932 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1934 – Bill Blakeley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Manuel Clouthier, Mexican businessman and politician (d. 1989)
• 1934 – James Anthony Griffin, American bishop
• 1934 – Leonard Kleinrock, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1935 – Lyudmila Chernykh, Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet astronomer
• 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian-French sculptor and painter
• 1935 – Jeanne-Claude, Moroccan sculptor and painter (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Michel Jazy, French runner
• 1936 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Eleanor Holmes Norton, American politician
• 1937 – Erich Ribbeck, German footballer and manager
• 1937 – Andreas Whittam Smith, English journalist
• 1938 – Gwynne Howell, Welsh opera singer
• 1939 – Tom Cheek, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
• 1939 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician
• 1940 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1940 – Dallas Long, American shot putter
• 1941 – Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1941 – Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
• 1942 – Yiannis Boutaris, Greek businessman and politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki
• 1942 – James Carr, American singer (d. 2001)
• 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Harry Collins, British sociologist of science
• 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
• 1943 – Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
• 1944 – Christine Beasley, English nurse
• 1944 – David Curry, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
• 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1945 – Whitley Strieber, American author
• 1946 – Gonzalo Aja, Spanish cyclist
• 1946 – Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
• 1946 – Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Igor Starygin, Russian actor (d. 2009)
• 1947 – A.G. Lafley, American businessman
• 1948 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2001)
• 1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions
• 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• 1949 – Ulla Schmidt, German politician
• 1950 – Belinda Bauer, Australian-American actress and psychologist
• 1950 – Nick Brown, English politician
• 1950 – Gerd Zewe, German footballer and manager
• 1951 – Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer (Bad Company and Heart)
• 1951 – Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1951 – Robert P. Young, Jr., American jurist
• 1952 – Jean-Marie Dedecker, Belgian martial artist and politician
• 1953 – Tim Allen, American actor and producer
• 1954 – Rita Cadillac, Brazilian porn actress, singer, and dancer
• 1954 – Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
• 1954 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria
• 1955 – Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, American jurist
• 1956 – Blair Chapman, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Pedro Larraquy, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1956 – Shunichi Mizuoka, Japanese politician
• 1956 – Sal Paolantonio, American lieutenant and journalist
• 1956 – John Harris, American football player
• 1957 – Ronald Ardoin, American jockey
• 1957 – Ron Areshenkoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Mossie Carroll, Irish hurler and manager
• 1957 – Roy Cooper, American politician, 48th North Carolina Attorney General
• 1957 – Bruce Flowers, American basketball player
• 1957 – Andrzej Morozowski, Polish journalist
• 1957 – Dicky Thompson, American golfer
• 1959 – Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1959 – Steve Georganas, Australian politician
• 1959 – Klaus Iohannis, Romanian politician, 5th President of Romania
• 1959 – Lance Kinsey, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Jacques Rougeau, Canadian wrestler
• 1961 – Bob Crow, English union leader (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Kaire Indrikson, Estonian swimmer
• 1961 – Anders Järryd, Swedish tennis player
• 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver
• 1962 – Glenn Michibata, Canadian tennis player
• 1962 – Rudolf Povarnitsyn, Ukrainian high jumper
• 1962 – Ally Sheedy, American actress and author
• 1962 – Hannah Storm, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Bettina Bunge, German tennis player
• 1963 – Paul De Lisle, American bass player (Smash Mouth)
• 1963 – Catarina Lindqvist, Swedish tennis player
• 1964 – Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian organist, composer, and educator
• 1964 – Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright
• 1964 – Šarūnas Marčiulionis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1965 – Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca
• 1965 – Vassilis Karapialis, Greek footballer
• 1965 – Lukas Ligeti, Austrian-American drummer and composer
• 1965 – Lisa Vidal, American actress
• 1966 – Henry Bond, English photographer
• 1966 – Naoki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
• 1966 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1967 – Taşkın Aksoy, German-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1968 – Fabio Baldato, Italian cyclist
• 1968 – Peter DeBoer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Darren Dreger, Canadian sportscaster
• 1968 – David Gray, English-Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 – Tim Leveque, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Denise Pearson, English singer-songwriter (Five Star)
• 1968 – Marcel Theroux, Ugandan-English journalist and author
• 1969 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Spanish actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Virginie Despentes, French author
• 1969 – Joseph Keter, Kenyan runner
• 1969 – Laura Kightlinger, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Lynne Koplitz, American comedian and actress
• 1969 – Svetlana Krivelyova, Russian shot putter
• 1969 – Søren Rasted, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Aqua, Hej Matematik, and Lazyboy)
• 1970 – Chris Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
• 1970 – Rivers Cuomo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Weezer, Avant Garde, and Homie)
• 1970 – Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1971 – Nóra Köves, Hungarian tennis player
• 1972 – Meelis Aasmäe, Estonian skier
• 1972 – Kristjan Järvi, Estonian-American conductor
• 1972 – Natalie MacMaster, Canadian fiddler
• 1973 – Sam Adams, American football player
• 1973 – Tanner Foust, American race car driver
• 1973 – Mattias Hellberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (The Hellacopters, Nationalteatern, and The Solution)
• 1973 – Kasia Kowalska, Polish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Ville Laihiala, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sentenced and Poisonblack)
• 1973 – Anna Mosenkova, Estonian ice dancer
• 1973 – Leeann Tweeden, American model and television host
• 1974 – Coko, American singer (SWV)
• 1974 – Steve-O, American stuntman and actor
• 1974 – Selma Björnsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
• 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1974 – Brande Roderick, American model and actress
• 1974 – Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
• 1975 – Ante Čović, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Jeff Davis, American screenwriter and producer
• 1975 – Jennifer Nicole Lee, American model, actress, and author
• 1975 – Jaan Pehk, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ruffus)
• 1975 – Riccardo Scimeca, English footballer
• 1976 – Kym Marsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1976 – Tygh Runyan, Canadian-American actor and guitarist (The Awkward Stage)
• 1977 – Dragoș Bucur, Romanian actor
• 1977 – Emily Harrison, American actress
• 1977 – Tarmo Kikerpill, Estonian basketball player
• 1977 – Romain Mesnil, French pole vaulter
• 1977 – Earthwind Moreland, American football player
• 1977 – Rainer Schönfelder, Austrian skier
• 1977 – Erin Toughill, American mixed martial artist and boxer
• 1978 – Jason Michael Carroll, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Brian Dowling, Irish television host
• 1978 – John Estrada, Filipino actor
• 1978 – Mikako Ichikawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1978 – Mathis Künzler, Swiss actor
• 1979 – Esther Anderson, Australian actress
• 1979 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian volleyball player
• 1979 – Miguel Pate, American long jumper
• 1979 – Ryan Pickett, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Sarah Connor, German singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1980 – Florent Malouda, French footballer
• 1980 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
• 1980 – Jamario Moon, American basketball player
• 1980 – Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 – Maho Nonami, Japanese actress
• 1980 – Darius Vassell, English footballer
• 1980 – Markus Winkelhock, German race car driver
• 1981 – Chris Evans, American actor
• 1981 – Blake Judd, American actor, director, and producer
• 1981 – Julie-Marie Parmentier, French actress
• 1981 – Radim Vrbata, Czech-American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian runner
• 1982 – Krzysztof Bosak, Polish politician
• 1982 – Jessica Caban, American model and actress
• 1982 – Nate Jones, American football player
• 1982 – Jess Manafort, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Jason Spezza, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Nery Castillo, Mexican-Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Kaori Icho, Japanese wrestler
• 1984 – Antje Möldner-Schmidt, German runner
• 1984 – Nautica Thorn, American porn actress
• 1984 – Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
• 1985 – Raz-B, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (B2K)
• 1985 – Filipe Albuquerque, Portuguese race car driver
• 1985 – Silvio Bankert, German footballer
• 1985 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Ayanna Oliva, Filipino model, singer, dancer, DJ, and VJ (Kitty Girls)
• 1986 – Kat Dennings, American actress
• 1986 – Keisuke Honda, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Tracy Horgan, Canadian curler
• 1986 – Azumi Muto, Japanese model and actress (d. 2006)
• 1986 – Ashley Olsen, American actress, singer, producer, and fashion designer
• 1986 – Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress, singer, producer, and fashion designer
• 1986 – DJ Snake, French rapper, DJ, and producer
• 1986 – Lea Verou, Greek computer scientist
• 1986 – Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish singer
• 1987 – Marko Grgić, Croatian footballer
• 1988 – Gabe Carimi, American football player
• 1988 – Reece Noi, English actor
• 1989 – ILoveMakonnen, American rapper
• 1989 – Irene Gorovaia, Russian-American actress
• 1989 – Tommy Searle, English motocross racer
• 1989 – Lisa Tucker, American singer and actress
• 1990 – Nicole Riner, Swiss tennis player
• 1990 – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, English actor
• 1991 – Will Claye, American jumper
• 1991 – Ryan Mason, English footballer
• 1993 – Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (d. 2011)
• 1993 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater
• 1995 – Emily Fanning, New Zealand tennis player
• 1996 – Kodi Smit-McPhee, Australian actor
• 1998 – Abdallah El Akal, Israeli actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1036 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (b. 1005)
• 1231 – Anthony of Padua, Portuguese priest and saint (b. 1195)
• 1256 – Tankei, Japanese sculptor (b. 1173)
• 1636 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, Scottish politician (b. 1562)
• 1645 – Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai (b. 1584)
• 1665 – Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (b. 1604)
• 1760 – Antoine Court, French minister (b. 1696)
• 1784 – Henry Middleton, American politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• 1846 – Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès, French geographer and author (b. 1767)
• 1881 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician and dermatologist (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1898 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)
• 1904 – Nikiphoros Lytras, Greek painter (b. 1832)
• 1917 – Louis-Philippe Hébert, Canadian sculptor (b. 1850)
• 1918 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1878)
• 1930 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (b. 1896)
• 1931 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 1943 – Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1908)
• 1948 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1951 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
• 1954 – Henry Blogg, English fisherman (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876)
• 1958 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English poet and academic (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and theologian (b. 1878)
• 1965 – David Drummond, Australian farmer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pralhad Keshav Atre, Indian journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (Billy Ward and his Dominoes and The Drifters) (b. 1932)
• 1972 – Dündar Taşer, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-German spy (b. 1891)
• 1977 – Matthew Garber, English actor (b. 1956)
• 1979 – Darla Hood, American actress, voice actress, and singer (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
• 1980 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• 1982 – Peter Maivia, Samoan-American wrestler and promoter (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1984 – António Variações, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Fran Allison, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist (b. 1929)
• 1993 – Gérard Côté, Canadian runner (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Deke Slayton, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Nguyen Manh Tuong, Vietnamese lawyer (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor (b. 1899)
• 1998 – Birger Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 2002 – John Hope, American meteorologist (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Dick Durrance, American skier (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist and author (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Jonathan Adams, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913)
• 2005 – David Diamond, American composer (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Lane Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Walid Eido, Lebanese judge and politician (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Fathi Yakan, Lebanese politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Sam Beddingfield, American pilot and engineer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, Brazilian bishop (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and author (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mehdi Hassan, Indian-Pakistani singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Jože Humer, Slovenian composer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1971)
• 2013 – David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Newton Lai, Hong Kong actor (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Edmund Pellegrino, American ethicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Kenji Utsumi, Japanese voice actor (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Masters Apprentices and Cotton Keays & Morris) (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Richard Rockefeller, American physician (b. 1949)