η φύση καταπίνει τον πολιτισμό: Χωριά και αυτοκίνητα τυλιγμένα στα φυτά

 Μυστηριώδεις άδειοι δρόμοι, κτίρια θαμμένα στους κισσούς,

 σκουριασμένες υποβρύχιες δεξαμενές γεμάτες ψάρια, αυτές 

είναι οι δραματικές εικόνες από μέρη ξεχασμένα στο χρόνο.

Ο χρόνος έχει σταματήσει στο ξεχασμένο χωριό του νησιού Σενγκσάν της Κίνας.

 Αυτό που κάποτε ήταν ένα ακμάζον κέντρο αλιείας έχει ερημωθεί και φυσικά

 μεταμορφωθεί σε μια πράσινη ζούγκλα με τα φυτά να τυλίγουν τα ξεχασμένα κτίρια.

Στο Παρίσι, μπορεί να εκπλαγείτε με την ζώνη πρασίνου στο κέντρο της πόλης,

 η οποία έχει παραμείνει εγκαταλελειμμένη από το 1934. Τώρα είναι ένας θησαυρός 

για τους καλλιτέχνες γκράφιτι και τους λάτρεις της φύσης, και οι άνθρωποι του 

Παρισιού κάνουν τις βόλτες τους εκεί.

Στις εκπληκτικές φωτογραφίες απεικονίζεται επίσης η έρημος Ναμίμπια που έχει

 κυριολεκτικά καταπιεί ένα πρώην πολυτελές χωριό μεταλλωρύχων που χτίστηκε στη

 μέση της ερήμου από εύπορους Γερμανούς που αναζητούσαν την τύχη τους. 

Τώρα οι μόνοι επισκέπτες είναι τουρίστες και κυνηγοί φαντασμάτων.

Αλλά όλες οι φωτογραφίες μοιράζονται ένα κοινό θέμα: ότι πάντα η φύση

 βρίσκει έναν τρόπο να πάρει πίσω τα κεκτημένα της και να ομορφύνει ξανά το τοπίο.

• 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
• 626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
• 706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.
• 963 – The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
• 1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
• 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
• 1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
• 1555 – The Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
• 1561 – Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
• 1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
• 1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
• 1644 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
• 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
• 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
• 1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
• 1816 – The French frigate Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board had to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.
• 1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
• 1823 – Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
• 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
• 1839 – Abdülmecid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off the Crimean War.
• 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
• 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
• 1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
• 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
• 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
• 1900 – Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
• 1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
• 1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Imperial Germany.
• 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
• 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
• 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
• 1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
• 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
• 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
• 1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
• 1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• 1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
• 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
• 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
• 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
• 2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa, More than 1,000 musicians performed and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
• 2013 – The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.

Births[edit]

• 419 – Valentinian III, Roman emperor (d. 455)
• 1363 – Maria, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
• 1489 – Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop (d. 1556)
• 1492 – Elizabeth Tudor, English daughter of Henry VII of England (d. 1495)
• 1647 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1730)
• 1648 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (d. 1719)
• 1665 – Samuel Penhallow, English-American soldier and historian (d. 1726)
• 1667 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
• 1698 – Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
• 1714 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
• 1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
• 1750 – Thomas Spence, English author (d. 1814)
• 1819 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (d. 1900)
• 1820 – George Law Curry, American publisher and politician, and 5th Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
• 1821 – Charles Tupper, Canadian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
• 1849 – Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (d. 1919)
• 1855 – Louis Maxson, American archer (d. 1916)
• 1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
• 1865 – Lily Braun, German author (d. 1916)
• 1869 – Liane de Pougy, French dancer (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Wilhelm Cuno, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
• 1877 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1884 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
• 1886 – Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (d. 1976)
• 1893 – Ralph Hancock, Welsh gardener and author (d. 1950)
• 1896 – Lydia Mei, Estonian painter (d. 1965)
• 1900 – Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director (d. 1971)
• 1902 – K. Kanapathypillai, Ceylon academic and author (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch pianist (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, English politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
• 1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt (d. 1996)
• 1906 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 1906 – Séra Martin, French runner (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Christos Tsaganeas, Romanian-Greek actor and cinematographer (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager (d. 1964)
• 1913 – Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and engineer (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Erich Topp, German admiral (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Italian-English soldier and politician (d. 2014)
• 1916 – Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Jean Craighead George, American writer (d. 2012)
• 1920 – John Kneubuhl, Samoan-American historian, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 1992)
• 1920 – Annette Kerr, Scottish-English actress (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
• 1923 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American author (d. 1958)
• 1923 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (d. 1963)
• 1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
• 1925 – Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (d. 2007)
• 1927 – James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1927 – Brock Peters, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Line Renaud, French actress and singer
• 1929 – Abraham Avigdorov, Israeli soldier (d. 2012)
• 1929 – John A. Cade, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1929 – Daphne Hasenjager, South African sprinter
• 1929 – Imelda Marcos, Filipino politician, 10th First Lady of the Philippines
• 1930 – Ahmad Jamal, American pianist, composer, and educator
• 1930 – Carlos Menem, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 50th President of Argentina
• 1933 – Peter Desbarats, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright
• 1936 – Gilbert Kalish, American pianist
• 1936 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian politician, 16th Vice President of Egypt (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
• 1937 – Richard Petty, American race car driver
• 1938 – David Owen, English physician and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1939 – Ferdinand Mount, English journalist and author
• 1939 – Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician (d. 1976)
• 1939 – John H. Sununu, American engineer and politician, 14th White House Chief of Staff
• 1939 – Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)
• 1940 – Kenneth Clarke, English politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1941 – Wendell Mottley, Trinidadian sprinter, economist, and politician
• 1941 – Stéphane Venne, Canadian songwriter and composer
• 1942 – John Eekelaar, South African-English lawyer and scholar
• 1942 – Vicente Fox, Mexican businessman and politician, 35th President of Mexico
• 1943 – Ivi Eenmaa, Estonian politician
• 1943 – Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
• 1946 – Richard Axel, American neuroscientist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 – Ricky Bruch, Swedish discus thrower (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Larry David, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1947 – Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, English politician, Minister for International Security Strategy
• 1948 – Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Gene McFadden, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Saul Rubinek, Canadian actor and director
• 1949 – Roy Bittan, American keyboardist
• 1949 – Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, French actor (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Robert Paquette, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
• 1949 – Nancy Stephens, American actress and producer
• 1950 – Lynne Brindley, English librarian and academic
• 1950 – Jon Trickett, English politician
• 1951 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1997)
• 1951 – Jack Gantos, American author
• 1951 – Michele Santoro, Italian journalist
• 1952 – Johnny Colla, American guitarist and songwriter (Huey Lewis and the News)
• 1952 – Anatoliy Solomin, Ukrainian race walker
• 1953 – Sharifah Aini, Malaysian singer (d. 2014)
• 1953 – Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
• 1953 – Jean-Claude Borelly, French trumpet player and composer
• 1954 – Pete Briquette, Irish bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Boomtown Rats)
• 1954 – Chris Huhne, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
• 1954 – Wendy Schaal, American actress
• 1955 – Kim Carr, Australian educator and politician, 31st Australian Minister for Human Services
• 1955 – Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan-American actor and producer
• 1956 – Jerry Hall, American model and actress
• 1957 – Bret Hart, Canadian wrestler and actor
• 1957 – Jüri Raidla, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Justice
• 1957 – Purvis Short, American basketball player
• 1958 – Đặng Thái Sơn, Vietnamese-Canadian pianist
• 1960 – Terry Rossio, American screenwriter and producer
• 1960 – Maria Lourdes Sereno, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 1961 – Clark Kellogg, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1961 – Samy Naceri, French actor
• 1964 – Stéphan Bureau, Canadian journalist and producer
• 1964 – Jose Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player and mixed martial artist
• 1964 – Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1964 – Hisakatsu Oya, Japanese wrestler
• 1964 – Charles Robinson, American wrestler and referee
• 1965 – Brian Pariani, American football coach
• 1965 – Norbert Röttgen, German politician
• 1966 – Jean-François Richet, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Derrick Adkins, American hurdler
• 1970 – Yancy Butler, American actress
• 1970 – Colin Edwin, Australian bass player (Porcupine Tree and Henry Fool)
• 1970 – Scotty 2 Hotty, American wrestler and firefighter
• 1970 – Monie Love, English-American rapper (Native Tongues)
• 1970 – Steve Morrow, Irish footballer and manager
• 1971 – Evelyn Lau, Canadian poet and author
• 1972 – Darren Shan, English-Irish author
• 1973 – Peter Kay, English comedian, actor, director, and producer
• 1974 – Sean Casey, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Tim Christensen, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dizzy Mizz Lizzy)
• 1974 – Matthew Reilly, Australian author
• 1974 – Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
• 1975 – Éric Dazé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Daniel Kowalski, Australian swimmer
• 1975 – Kristen Michal, Estonian lawyer and politician
• 1975 – Erik Ohlsson, Swedish singer and guitarist (Millencolin)
• 1975 – Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby player
• 1976 – Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
• 1976 – Mihkel Tüür, Estonian architect
• 1976 – Tomáš Vokoun, Czech-American ice hockey player
• 1978 – Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician, 42nd Mayor of Tallinn
• 1979 – Walter Davis, American triple jumper
• 1979 – Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
• 1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1981 – Aaron Voros, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (The Wreckers)
• 1983 – Sammy J, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1984 – Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
• 1984 – Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
• 1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
• 1985 – Rhett Bomar, American football player
• 1985 – Chad Henne, American football player
• 1985 – Jürgen Roelandts, Belgian cyclist
• 1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
• 1986 – Brett Cecil, American baseball player
• 1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
• 1987 – Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakh model (d. 2008)
• 1988 – Porta, Spanish rapper
• 1988 – Lee Chung-Yong, South Korean footballer
• 1989 – Dev, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Ivan Dobronravov, Russian actor
• 1989 – Nadezhda Grishaeva, Russian basketball player
• 1989 – Alex Morgan, American soccer player
• 1990 – Roman Lob, German singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress
• 1990 – Danny Rose, English footballer
• 1996 – Julia Grabher, Austrian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 626 – Li Jiancheng, Chinese prince (b. 589)
• 626 – Li Yuanji, Chinese prince (b. 603)
• 649 – Li Jing, Chinese general (b. 571)
• 862 – Swithun, English bishop and saint (b. 789)
• 866 – Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria (b. 820)
• 943 – Henry the Fowler, King of Germany (b. 876)
• 1298 – Adolf, King of Germany (b. 1220)
• 1504 – Stephen III of Moldavia (b. 1434)
• 1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer and author (b. 1503)
• 1591 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1520)
• 1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer (b. 1560)
• 1656 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-French general (b. 1611)
• 1674 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
• 1743 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1673)
• 1746 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian and author (b. 1656)
• 1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and composer (b. 1712)
• 1778 – Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer (b. 1746)
• 1822 – Denmark Vesey, American slave (b. 1767)
• 1833 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 1st Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (b. 1757)
• 1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician and academic (b. 1755)
• 1850 – Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
• 1857 – Carlo Pisacane, Italian soldier and philosopher (b. 1818)
• 1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 – Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1916 – Louis Maxson, American archer (b. 1855)
• 1926 – Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1932 – Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1934 – Ernst Röhm, German SA officer (b. 1887)
• 1950 – Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1963 – Alicia Patterson, American publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1906)
• 1964 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1966 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
• 1972 – Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
• 1973 – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
• 1975 – James Robertson Justice, English actor (b. 1907)
• 1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-Swiss author and academic (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (b. 1922)
• 1984 – Paul Dozois, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Franklin J. Schaffner, Japanese-American director and producer (b. 1920)
• 1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
• 1992 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish singer and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 1993 – Fred Gwynne, American actor and singer (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
• 1995 – Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. 1920)
• 1997 – James Stewart, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Ray Brown, American bassist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Briggs Cunningham, American entrepreneur, racing car constructor, driver, and team owner (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian journalist and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Ernest Lehman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Natasha Shneider, Russian-American singer, keyboard player, and actress (Eleven) (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Elizabeth Spriggs, English actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Beryl Bainbridge, English actress, screenwriter, and author (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Maurice Chevit, French actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Tsutomu Koyama, Japanese volleyball player (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and academic (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Emilio Álvarez Montalván, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Chad Brown, American poker player and actor (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Louis Zamperini, American distance runner and war hero (b. 1917)

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• 362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
• 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
• 993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint.
• 1054 – A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
• 1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
• 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
• 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
• 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
• 1456 – Ottoman wars in Europe: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins.
• 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
• 1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
• 1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
• 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cedes lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
• 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
• 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
• 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
  The United States declared its independence in 1776.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
• 1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
• 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
• 1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
• 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1827 – Slavery is abolished in New York State.
• 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith writes My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
• 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
• 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized.
• 1855 – In Brooklyn, New York City, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published.
• 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army was repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
• 1865 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
• 1878 – Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, recalled in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
• 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
• 1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
• 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
• 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
• 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
• 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
• 1903 – Philippine–American War officially is concluded.
• 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first English woman to compete in a 'motor race'.
• 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
• 1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
• 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
• 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
• 1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne.
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
• 1918 – Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
• 1926 – Knoebels Amusement Resort is opened in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1927 – The Lockheed Vega first flew.
• 1934 – Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
• 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
• 1939 – Huỳnh Phú Sổ founds Hòa Hảo Buddhism.
• 1941 – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
• 1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga was burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
• 1942 – World War II: The 250 day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in Prokhorovka village.
• 1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board; only the pilot survives.
• 1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
• 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
• 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan.
• 1950 – Radio Free Europe first broadcasts.
• 1951 – A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
• 1951 – William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
• 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
• 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
• 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
• 1982 – Four Iranian diplomats are abducted by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
• 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
• 1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
• 1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
• 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
• 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
• 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
• 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• 2013 – The Death of Hung Chung-chiu: A Republic of China Army corporal dies under suspicious circumstances while serving a detention sentence during his enlisted service.

Births[edit]

• 68 – Salonina Matidia, Roman daughter of Ulpia Marciana (d. 119)
• 1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
• 1546 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1595)
• 1694 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist and composer (d. 1772)
• 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and academic (d. 1769)
• 1719 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French playwright (d. 1797)
• 1790 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and geographer (d. 1866)
• 1799 – Oscar I of Sweden (d. 1859)
• 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (d. 1864)
• 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and politician (d. 1882)
• 1816 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian club whiskey (d. 1899)
• 1826 – Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
• 1845 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (d. 1905)
• 1847 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus ringmaster, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1906)
• 1854 – Victor Babeș, Romanian physician and biologist (d. 1926)
• 1854 – Bill Tilghman, American police officer (d. 1924)
• 1867 – Stephen Mather, American businessman (d. 1930)
• 1868 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (d. 1921)
• 1868 – Johannes van Dijk, Dutch rower (d. 1938)
• 1872 – Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
• 1874 – John McPhee, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
• 1881 – Ulysses S. Grant III, American general (d. 1968)
• 1882 – Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American film producer, founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Rube Goldberg, American sculptor, cartoonist, and engineer (d. 1970)
• 1887 – Pio Pion, Italian businessman (d. 1965)
• 1888 – Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor and singer (d. 1945)
• 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer (d. 1996)
• 1896 – Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (d. 1924)
• 1898 – Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian and activist (d. 1997)
• 1898 – Gertrude Lawrence, English-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1952)
• 1898 – Gertrude Weaver, American super-centenarian (d. 2015)
• 1902 – Meyer Lansky, Belarusian-American gangster (d. 1983)
• 1902 – George Murphy, American actor and politician (d. 1992)
• 1903 – Flor Peeters, Belgian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1986)
• 1904 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Lionel Trilling, American author, critic, and educator (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Henning Holck-Larsen, Danish engineer (d. 2003)
• 1907 – John Anderson, American discus thrower (d. 1948)
• 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist and scholar (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Gloria Stuart, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Mitch Miller, American singer and producer (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Said Akl, Lebanese poet, playwright, and linguist (d. 2014)
• 1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (d. 1991)
• 1916 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American typist and broadcaster (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
• 1918 – Eppie Lederer, American journalist (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
• 1918 – Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Norm Drucker, American basketball player and referee
• 1920 – Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Fritz Wilde, German footballer and manager (d. 1977)
• 1921 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Philip Rose, American actor, playwright, and producer (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Eva Marie Saint, American actress and producer
• 1926 – Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer
• 1927 – Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1928 – Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer and politician
• 1928 – Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Ron Casey, Australian journalist, radio host and sportscaster
• 1930 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993)
• 1930 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Yuri Tyukalov, Russian rower
• 1931 – Stephen Boyd, Irish-American actor (d. 1977)
• 1931 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Peter Richardson, English cricketer
• 1932 – Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian runner
• 1934 – Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Colin Welland, English actor and screenwriter
• 1935 – Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish soprano
• 1937 – Thomas Nagel, American philosopher and educator
• 1937 – Queen Sonja of Norway
• 1937 – Richard Rhodes, American journalist and historian
• 1937 – Eric Walters, Australian journalist (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Steven Rose, English biologist and academic
• 1938 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 – Pat Stapleton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1941 – Sam Farr, American politician
• 1941 – Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Tomaž Šalamun, Croatian-Slovenian poet and academic (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Pavel Sedláček, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Hal Lanier, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1942 – Stefan Meller, French-Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (d. 2008)
• 1942 – Prince Michael of Kent
• 1943 – Conny Bauer, German trombonist
• 1943 – Adam Hart-Davis, English historian, author, and photographer
• 1943 – Geraldo Rivera, American lawyer, journalist, and author
• 1943 – Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Canned Heat) (d. 1970)
• 1944 – Jaimy Gordon, American author and academic
• 1944 – Ray Meagher, Australian actor
• 1945 – Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (d. 1972)
• 1946 – Margaret Delisle, Canadian politician
• 1946 – Ron Kovic, American author and activist
• 1946 – Michael Milken, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1947 – Lembit Ulfsak, Estonian actor
• 1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver
• 1948 – Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
• 1948 – Jeremy Spencer, British musician and songwriter
• 1950 – Philip Craven, English sports administrator
• 1950 – David Jensen, Canadian-English radio host
• 1951 – Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American lawyer and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
• 1951 – Vladimir Tismăneanu, Romanian-American political scientist, sociologist, and academic
• 1952 – Álvaro Uribe, Colombian lawyer and politician, 39th President of Colombia
• 1952 – John Waite, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Babys and Bad English)
• 1953 – Francis Maude, English politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
• 1954 – Jim Beattie, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1957 – Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat, 25th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1957 – Chulabhorn Walailak Thai princess
• 1958 – Steve Hartman, American sportscaster
• 1958 – Kirk Pengilly, Australian singer and guitarist (INXS)
• 1959 – Victoria Abril, Spanish actress and singer
• 1960 – Sid Eudy, American wrestler and actor
• 1960 – Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1994)
• 1960 – Mark Steel, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1960 – Barry Windham, American wrestler
• 1961 – Richard Garriott, English-American video game designer, created the Ultima series
• 1962 – Neil Morrissey, English actor and singer
• 1962 – Pam Shriver, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Henri Leconte, French tennis player
• 1963 – Ute Lemper, German singer and actress
• 1963 – Laureano Márquez, Spanish-Venezuelan political scientist and journalist
• 1963 – William Ramallo, Bolivian footballer and coach
• 1963 – Michael Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Stryper and Boston)
• 1964 – Cle Kooiman, American soccer player and manager
• 1964 – Elie Saab, Lebanese fashion designer
• 1964 – Mark Slaughter, American singer-songwriter and producer (Slaughter and Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
• 1965 – Harvey Grant, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Horace Grant, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Minas Hantzidis, German-Greek footballer
• 1967 – Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player and manager
• 1968 – Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress, impressionist and screenwriter
• 1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian footballer and manager
• 1971 – Koko, American gorilla
• 1971 – Ned Zelić, Australian footballer
• 1972 – Nina Badrić, Croatian singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Stephen Giles, Canadian canoe racer
• 1972 – William Goldsmith, American drummer (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters, and The Fire Theft)
• 1972 – Mike Knuble, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Gackt, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Malice Mizer and Skin)
• 1973 – Michael Johnson, English-Jamaican footballer and manager
• 1973 – Elton Williams, Caribbean footballer
• 1973 – Anjelika Krylova, Russian ice dancer and coach
• 1973 – Jan Magnussen, Danish race car driver
• 1973 – Tony Popovic, Australian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Jill Craybas, American tennis player
• 1974 – La'Roi Glover, American football player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Adrian Griffin, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Vince Spadea, American tennis player
• 1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
• 1976 – Yevgeniya Medvedeva, Russian skier
• 1977 – Orri Páll Dýrason, Icelandic drummer (Sigur Rós)
• 1977 – Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish singer, guitarist, and producer (Scar Symmetry, Centinex, Raubtier, and Carnal Forge)
• 1977 – Zoe Naylor, Australian actress, journalist, and producer
• 1977 – Jed Madela, Filipino singer
• 1978 – Vicky Kaya, Greek model and actress
• 1978 – Émile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
• 1978 – Becki Newton, American actress
• 1978 – Marcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player
• 1978 – Andrea Gabriel, American actress
• 1978 – Stephen McNally, English singer-songwriter (BBMak)
• 1978 – Katia Zygouli, Greek model and actress
• 1979 – Siim Kabrits, Estonian politician
• 1979 – Josh McCown, American football player
• 1979 – Renny Vega, Venezuelan footballer
• 1979 – Dumas, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Kevin Thoms, American actor
• 1979 – Mark Twitchell, Canadian murderer
• 1980 – Carrie Keagan, American television host and actrees
• 1980 – Max Elliott Slade, American actor
• 1980 – Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer
• 1981 – Dedé, Angolan footballer
• 1981 – Tahar Rahim, French actor
• 1981 – Will Smith, American football player
• 1981 – Adérito Waldemar Alves Carvalho, Angolan footballer
• 1981 – Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Brock Berlin, American football player
• 1982 – Hannah Harper, American porn actress and director
• 1982 – Michael Sorrentino, American model and author
• 1983 – Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer-songwriter (X-Quisite)
• 1983 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model and actress
• 1983 – Ben Jorgensen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Armor for Sleep)
• 1983 – Andrew Mrotek, American drummer (The Academy Is...)
• 1983 – Amantle Montsho, Botswana sprinter
• 1983 – Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer
• 1983 – Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer
• 1983 – Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KAT-TUN and Lands)
• 1984 – Gina Glocksen, American singer
• 1984 – Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer
• 1985 – Rinalds Sirsniņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1985 – Kane Tenace, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer and actor (NEWS and Tegomass)
• 1986 – Fanny Valette, French actress
• 1986 – Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese footballer
• 1986 – Mía Taveras, Dominican model and actress
• 1987 – Wude Ayalew, Ethiopian runner
• 1987 – Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer
• 1988 – Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress and singer
• 1988 – Jada Stevens, American porn actress
• 1989 – Benjamin Büchel, English footballer
• 1989 – Yoon Doo-joon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Beast)
• 1989 – Rodgers Kola, Zambian footballer
• 1990 – Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
• 1990 – David Kross, German actor
• 1990 – Kelsi Crain, American model
• 1990 – Alyssa Miller, American model
• 1990 – Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 – Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
• 1990 – Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
• 1991 – Ak Hafiy Tajuddin Rositi, Bruneian runner
• 1992 – Basim, Danish singer-songwriter
• 1992 – Nick Hissom, English model and singer
• 1993 – Tom Barkhuizen, English footballer
• 1996 – Mahiro Takasugi, Japanese actor
• 1997 – Jason Spevack, Canadian actor
• 1999 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer and model (Babymetal and Sakura Gakuin)

Deaths[edit]

• 673 – Ecgberht of Kent
• 907 – Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
• 943 – Taejo of Goryeo (b. 877)
• 965 – Pope Benedict V
• 973 – Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
• 1187 – Raynald of Châtillon, French knight (b. 1125)
• 1541 – Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1495)
• 1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-Turkish admiral (b. 1478)
• 1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, English politician (b. 1514)
• 1603 – Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
• 1623 – William Byrd, English composer (b. 1540)
• 1641 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer
• 1648 – Antoine Daniel, French missionary and saint (b. 1601)
• 1742 – Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1671)
• 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French playwright and author (b. 1680)
• 1761 – Samuel Richardson, English author and painter (b. 1689)
• 1780 – Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (b. 1712)
• 1821 – Richard Cosway, English painter (b. 1742)
• 1826 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
• 1826 – Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer, architect, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
• 1831 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
• 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (b. 1768)
• 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist and author (b. 1759)
• 1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German academic and jurist (b. 1781)
• 1857 – William L. Marcy, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 21st United States Secretary of State (b. 1786)
• 1881 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (b. 1806)
• 1882 – Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
• 1891 – Hannibal Hamlin, American politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1901 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist and academic (b. 1843)
• 1902 – Vivekananda, Indian monk and saint (b. 1863)
• 1905 – Élisée Reclus, French geographer and author (b. 1830)
• 1910 – Melville Fuller, American jurist, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
• 1910 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (b. 1835)
• 1916 – Alan Seeger, American soldier poet (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1894)
• 1926 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
• 1931 – Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (b. 1869)
• 1931 – Buddie Petit, American cornet player (b. 1895)
• 1934 – Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician (b. 1881)
• 1938 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 – Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer (b. 1906)
• 1946 – Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
• 1948 – Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
• 1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower (b. 1874)
• 1963 – Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, New Zealand general and politician, 7th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
• 1963 – Pingali Venkayya, Indian activist, designed the Flag of India (b. 1876)
• 1963 – Clyde Kennard, Mississippi civil rights pioneer and martyr (b. 1927)
• 1964 – Gaby Morlay, French actress and singer (b. 1893)
• 1964 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American organist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1970 – Barnett Newman, American painter (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American sailor and businessman (b. 1884)
• 1971 – August Derleth, American anthologist and author (b. 1909)
• 1971 – Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
• 1974 – Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Haj Amin al-Husseini, Palestinian cleric (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli colonel (b. 1946)
• 1976 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (b. 1918)
• 1979 – Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Terry Higgins, Welsh AIDS victim (b. 1945)
• 1986 – Flor Peeters, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
• 1991 – Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneon player and composer (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian historian, genealogist, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Bob Ross, American painter and television host (b. 1942)
• 1997 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Leo Garel, American illustrator (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1919)
• 2001 – V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian theorist (b. 1951)
• 2003 – André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Bryan Coleman, English actor (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Cliff Goupille, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Jesse Helms, American journalist and politician (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2008 – Charles Wheeler, German-English journalist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Allen Klein, American businessman and talent agent, founded ABKCO Records (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish author and actor (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese poet and politician (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese cleric (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-Hungarian son of Charles I of Austria (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Jimmy Bivins, American boxer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Jeong Min-hyeong, South Korean footballer (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Eric Sykes, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Jack Crompton, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2013 – James Fulton, American dermatologist and academic (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Bernie Nolan, Irish singer and actress (The Nolans) (b. 1960)
• 2014 – Giorgio Faletti, Italian author, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (b. 1932)

7 κρυμμένοΙ τροπικοΙ  θησαυροΙ του κόσμου

Kουραστήκατε να κάνετε διακοπές στις πιο γνωστές παραλίες, τις οποίες προτιμά η πλειοψηφία των τουριστών; Οι έμπειροι ταξιδιώτες επιλέγουν συχνά τις λιγότερο γνωστές παραλίες που προσφέρουν ηρεμία και συγκλονιστική ομορφιά συγχρόνως. Το ibnlive.com δημοσιεύει τη λίστα με τις 7 λιγότερο εξερευνημένες παραλίες που όμως προσφέρουν μοναδική ομορφιά και μπορούν να κάνουν αξέχαστες τις διακοπές σας.

Διαβάστε αναλυτικά τη λίστα με τους 7 τροπικούς θησαυρούς:

1. Παραλία Hvar - Κροατία

Τα νησιά του Hvar προσφέρουν μια μίξη γνωστών αλλά και απομονωμένων παραλιών, που μπορούν να ικανοποιήσουν όλα τα γούστα. Η φυσική ομορφιά των παραλιών έχουν κάνει τις περισσότερες παραλίες πόλο έλξης για τους τουρίστες.

2. Riviera Nayarit - Μεξικό

Είναι ένας χαμένος παράδεισος. Συνδυάζει καταπληκτικές παραλίες, με πεντακάθαρα νερά με δραστηριότητες που θα σας χαλαρώσουν.

3. Παραλία Coogee - Αυστραλία

Είναι από τις πιο εντυπωσιακές παραλίες που θα αντικρίσετε στον κόσμο.

4. Salema - Πορτογαλία

Αν σκοπεύετε να μην κάνετε τίποτα στις διακοπές σας, τότε αυτό είναι το μέρος που πρέπει να επισκεφτείτε. Είναι απολύτως απομονωμένη και παράδεισος για τα ρομαντικά ζευγαράκια.

5. Half Moon Caye - Μπελίζ

Μπορεί να μην είναι η λιγότερο εξερευνημένη παραλία, αλλά είναι το ιδανικό μέρος για όσους επιλέγουν την ησυχία. Μια βουτιά στα τυρκουάζ νερά της θα σας αφήσει «με ανοιχτό το στόμα», τόσο εντυπωσιακά είναι! Μια βόλτα στις αμμουδερές παραλίες σίγουρα συμβάλει στο να καταστήσει τις διακοπές σας μοναδικές.

6. Phu Quoc - Βιετνάμ

Μπορούμε να την περιγράψουμε ως «τροπική ευτυχία». Σιγά σιγά αποκτά την φήμη που της αξίζει, με ολοένα και περισσότερους τουρίστες να την προτιμούν από όλο τον κόσμο. Οι παραλίες με τη λευκή άμμο και τα καταγάλανα νερά είναι το μόνο που αποζητά ο επισκέπτης.

7. Ίος

Μπορείτε να διασκεδάσετε όπως στην Ίμπιζα, αλλά χωρίς τις υπερβολικές τιμές και τα πλήθη που συρρέουν κάθε χρόνο στην Ίμπιζα. Διασκέδαση λοιπόν αλλά και ηρεμία καθώς μπορείτε να επιλέξετε να απολαύσετε τις απομακρυσμένες παραλίες του νησιού αντί για τα beach bar που συγκεντρώνουν την νεολαία.  Η Ίος σας προσφέρει μια ποικιλία παραλιών για να επιλέξετε την ιδανική για εσάς! Αφεθείτε στην ελληνική μαγεία, θα σας συνεπάρει σίγουρα!