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• 838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
• 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1209 – Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
• 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
• 1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
• 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
• 1499 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
• 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
• 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
• 1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
• 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
• 1797 – Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
• 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
• 1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
• 1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing ten and injuring 40.
• 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
• 1937 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
• 1942 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
• 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
• 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
• 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
• 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
• 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
• 1963 – Sarawak achieve independence.
• 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
• 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
• 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
• 1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
• 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
• 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
• 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
• 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
• 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.

Births[edit]

• 1210 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. 1238)
• 1478 – Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
• 1510 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
• 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
• 1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (d. 1619)
• 1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1683)
• 1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
• 1702 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian oboe player composer (d. 1775)
• 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist (d. 1753)
• 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780)
• 1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
• 1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
• 1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
• 1839 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907)
• 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
• 1848 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
• 1849 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
• 1862 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian horse rider (d. 1963)
• 1878 – Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
• 1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)
• 1886 – Hella Wuolijoki, Finnish author (d. 1954)
• 1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (d. 1950)
• 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1889 – James Whale, English actor and director (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (d. 1995)
• 1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
• 1892 – Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (d. 1952)
• 1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
• 1895 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet and author (d. 1943)
• 1898 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (d. 1976)
• 1899 – Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland, longest ever reigning monarch (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (d. 2014)
• 1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian race car driver (d. 2000)
• 1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1984)
• 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
• 1921 – William V. Roth, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American businessman and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• 1922 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Mukesh, Indian singer and actor (d. 1976)
• 1923 – Bob Dole, American soldier and politician
• 1923 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1923 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Joseph Sargent, American film director (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Orson Bean, American actor
• 1928 – Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
• 1929 – John Barber, English race car driver
• 1929 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Neil Welliver, American painter (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Perry Lopez, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Louise Fletcher, American actress
• 1936 – Harold Rhodes, English cricketer
• 1936 – Tom Robbins, American author
• 1937 – Chuck Jackson, American singer-songwriter (The Del-Vikings)
• 1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999)
• 1937 – Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress and author
• 1939 – Terence Stamp, English actor and singer
• 1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer
• 1941 – Estelle Bennett, American singer (The Ronettes) (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (d. 1975)
• 1941 – George Clinton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Parliament-Funkadelic)
• 1942 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer
• 1943 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician
• 1943 – Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 – Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
• 1945 – Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
• 1946 – Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
• 1946 – Mireille Mathieu, French singer
• 1946 – Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
• 1946 – Paul-Loup Sulitzer, French author
• 1946 – Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop
• 1946 – Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau
• 1947 – Albert Brooks, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Eagles)
• 1948 – S. E. Hinton, American author
• 1948 – Otto Waalkes, German actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
• 1949 – Lasse Virén, Finnish runner
• 1951 – Patriarch Daniel of Romania
• 1951 – Marte Samson, Filipino basketball player
• 1953 – Priit Vilba, Estonian politician
• 1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Return to Forever)
• 1954 – Steve LaTourette, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
• 1954 – Lonette McKee, American actress and singer
• 1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
• 1956 – Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1957 – Álvaro Corcuera, Mexican priest (d. 2014)
• 1958 – Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1958 – David Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1984)
• 1959 – Grant Forsberg, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1960 – Barbara Cassani, American businesswoman
• 1960 – Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Jon Oliva's Pain)
• 1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer (LSG)
• 1962 – Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
• 1963 – Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
• 1963 – Rob Estes, American actor and director
• 1963 – Olivier Gourmet, Belgian actor
• 1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
• 1964 – Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
• 1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – David Spade, American actor
• 1965 – Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor and screenwriter
• 1965 – Shawn Michaels, American wrestler
• 1965 – Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian
• 1965 – Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach
• 1966 – Tim Brown, American football player and manager
• 1966 – Shaun Cohen, South African-American wrestler
• 1967 – Irene Bedard, American actress
• 1967 – Lauren Booth, English journalist
• 1968 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor and musician
• 1969 – Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress
• 1970 – Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1970 – Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra
• 1970 – Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
• 1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Niclas Weiland, German footballer
• 1973 – Brian Chippendale, American drummer, artist (Lightning Bolt)
• 1973 – Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong-Canadian actress
• 1974 – Franka Potente, German actress and singer
• 1975 – Sam Jacobson, American basketball player
• 1976 – Kokia, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1976 – Janek Tombak, Estonian cyclist
• 1976 – Nino Alejandro, Filipino singer
• 1977 – Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
• 1977 – Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer
• 1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (d. 2012)
• 1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
• 1979 – Lucas Luhr, German race car driver
• 1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
• 1979 – James Mason, English wrestler
• 1980 – Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper, producer, and actor
• 1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
• 1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
• 1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Fandango, American wrestler
• 1981 – Ala Ghawas, Bahraini singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1982 – Anna Chicherova, Russian high jumper
• 1983 – Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
• 1983 – Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
• 1983 – Nikos Ganos, Greek singer and model
• 1983 – Clemens von Grumbkow, German rugby player
• 1983 – Arsenie Todiraș, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
• 1983 – Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
• 1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
• 1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
• 1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
• 1986 – Cilla Kung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1986 – Haruka Suenaga, Japanese actress and gravure idol
• 1987 – Ilja Glebov, Estonian figure skater
• 1987 – Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
• 1988 – Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
• 1988 – Thomas Kraft, German footballer
• 1988 – Yuriko Yoshitaka, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Keegan Allen, American actor
• 1989 – Leandro Damião, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Matty James, English footballer
• 1992 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer
• 1992 – Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer
• 1992 – Junki Tozuka, Japanese actor
• 1993 – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Chechen-American terrorist
• 1996 – Skyler Gisondo, American actor
• 1997 – Jane Oineza, Filipino actress
• 1998 – Madison Pettis, American actress
• 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
• 2013 – Prince George of Cambridge

Deaths[edit]

• 1362 – Louis, Count of Gravina (b. 1324)
• 1387 – Frans Ackerman, Flemish politician (b. 1330)
• 1461 – Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
• 1525 – Richard Wingfield, English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1426)
• 1540 – John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
• 1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (b. 1559)
• 1633 – Trijntje Keever, Dutch giant (b. 1616)
• 1645 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (b. 1587)
• 1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
• 1726 – Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
• 1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
• 1789 – Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician (b. 1715)
• 1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
• 1824 – Thomas Macnamara Russell, English admiral
• 1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
• 1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
• 1833 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
• 1852 – Auguste de Marmont, French general (b. 1774)
• 1864 – James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
• 1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
• 1902 – Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
• 1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American lawyer, publisher, and politician (b. 1810)
• 1908 – Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1898)
• 1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
• 1922 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist (b. 1854)
• 1932 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
• 1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor (b. 1866)
• 1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
• 1932 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1934 – John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
• 1940 – Albert Young, American boxer (b. 1877)
• 1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian author (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Carl Sandburg, American journalist and author (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (b. 1908)
• 1974 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
• 1979 – J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
• 1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 1986 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1989 – Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (b. 1935)
• 1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author (b. 1932)
• 1992 – Wayne McLaren, American actor and stuntman (b. 1940)
• 1992 – David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
• 1995 – Harold Larwood, English cricketer (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Hermann Prey, German opera singer (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
• 2003 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
• 2003 – Wahome Mutahi, Kenyan journalist (b. 1954)
• 2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
• 2007 – László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Greg Burson, American voice actor (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Linda Christian, Mexican actress (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Ding Guan'gen, Chinese politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – George Armitage Miller, American psychologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Oswaldo Payá, Cuban engineer and activist (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Ali Maow Maalin, Somalian health worker (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, Indian civil servant (b. 1920)

Taylor Swift leads MTV video award nominations

Pop star Taylor Swift is leading the pack for this year's MTV Video Music Awards with nine nominations, followed by Ed Sheeran with six and Beyonce and Mark Ronson with five. 

Swift's superhero-themed video for Bad Blood is up for video of the year.

It will compete with Beyonce's 7/11; Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud; Ronson's Uptown Funk, featuring Bruno Mars, and Kendrick Lamar's Alright. 

The awards are being held in Los Angeles on 30 August.

Swift, whose album 1989 was 2014's best-selling album globally, also earned nominations for her music video Blank Space in the best female video and best pop video categories.

The awards show, which hands out Moonman statuettes as its prize, has seen some controversial antics from its stars in recent years. 

In 2013 singer Miley Cyrus twerked through her performance holding a foam finger and, in 2009, hip-hop star Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for best female video. 

Cyrus, who has risen to the ranks of hosting this year's show, tweeted a picture of herself wearing placards saying: "MTV won't let me perform" and then: "So I'm hosting this year's VMAs."

Three British starts are listed in the artists to watch category: George Ezra, FKA Twigs and James Bay, while the other two nominees are American - Vance Joy and Fetty Wap.

Ellie Goulding is the only British artist up for best female video, for Love Me Like You Do. She is up against Beyonce's 7/11, Nicki Minaj's Anaconda, Sia's Elastic Heart and Taylor Swift's Blank Face. 

In the best male category, British artist Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud is competing with The Weekend for Earned It, Nick Jonas's Chains, Lamar's Alright and Ronson's Uptown Funk.

The awards show, which began in 1984, will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater, formerly the Nokia Theatre in LA.

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8. Κεφαλονιά 
   
   Για το γευστικό κρασί της
9. Κουφονήσια 
   
   Για ηρεμία και ησυχία
10. Υδρα 
    
    Για τους «eco-warriors», ήτοι λάτρεις του περιβάλλοντος
11. Ανδρος 
    
    Για τους λάτρεις της πεζοπορίας
12. Σύμη 
    
    Ιδανική για ζευγάρια
13. Σκύρος 
    
    Για εναλλακτικές διακοπές
14. Κάρπαθος
    
    Η καλύτερη επιλογή για παραδοσιακή νησιώτικη ζωή
15. Σκόπελος 
    
    Για τη διαμονή σε πέτρινες βίλες και τα υπέροχα μοναστήρια
16. Σαντορίνη 
    
    Για την καλύτερη θέα στον κόσμο
17. Νίσυρος 
    
    Για τους λάτρεις των ταινιών του Τζέιμς Μποντ. Το ηφαίστειο του νησιού 
18. αποτέλεσε το σκηνικό της ταινίας «Επιχείρηση Μουνρέικερ» με πρωταγωνιστή 
19. τον Ρότζερ Μουρ
20. Λέσβος
    
    Ιδανικό για gay ταξιδιώτες
21. Ρόδος 
    
    Η καλύτερη επιλογή για νυχτερινή διασκέδαση
22. Λευκάδα 
    
    Για τους λάτρεις των θαλάσσιων σπορ
23. Πάτμος 
    
    Για παράδοση και θρησκευτική ιστορία

Χυμός τομάτας, αυτός ο θαυματουργός 

• 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures khan Krum's treasury.
• 1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
• 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
• 1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
• 1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
• 1821 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.
• 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
• 1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
• 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
• 1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
• 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• 1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
• 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
• 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
• 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
• 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
• 1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
• 1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
• 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
• 1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
• 1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
• 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
• 1952 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
• 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
• 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
• 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
• 1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
• 1968 – Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
• 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
• 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
• 1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
• 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
• 1983 – Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
• 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
• 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
• 1986 – In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
• 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• 1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
• 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
• 1993 – Agdam was occupied by Armenian separatists.
• 1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
• 1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
• 1999 – Mohammed VI becomes King of Morocco.

Births

• 647 – Yazid I, Arabian caliph (d. 683)
• 1301 – Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339)
• 1339 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (d. 1384)
• 1401 – Francesco Sforza, Italian noble and Duke of Milan (d. 1466)
• 1503 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1547)
• 1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
• 1705 – Francis Blomefield, English historian (d. 1752)
• 1773 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
• 1775 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
• 1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
• 1796 – Franz Berwald, Swedish surgeon and composer (d. 1868)
• 1823 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (d. 1894)
• 1838 – Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (d. 1910)
• 1851 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (d. 1909)
• 1856 – Arthur Bird, American-German composer (d. 1923)
• 1856 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (d. 1920)
• 1864 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903)
• 1865 – Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic (d. 1919)
• 1865 – Henry Norris, English businessman, politician and football club director (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, French-English field marshal (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor and producer (d. 1950)
• 1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (d. 1935)
• 1886 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat (d. 1978)
• 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Raymond Chandler, American author and screenwriter (d. 1959)
• 1892 – Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
• 1894 – Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1898 – Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (d. 1941)
• 1898 – Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Herman Kruusenberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1970)
• 1898 – Jacob Marschak, Ukrainian-American economist (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Gustav Heinemann, German politician, 3rd President of West Germany (d. 1976)
• 1900 – John Babcock, Canadian-American sergeant (d. 2010)
• 1901 – Hank Worden, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1905 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian holocaust survivor, author, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1906 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 1909 – John William Finn, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2010)
• 1912 – M. H. Abrams, American author, critic, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1912 – Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
• 1913 – Michael Foot, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter (d.2010)
• 1914 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (d. 1971)
• 1914 – Elly Annie Schneider, German-American actress (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Ruth Duccini, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist and academic
• 1923 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
• 1925 – Alain Decaux, French historian and author
• 1925 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer
• 1926 – Ludvík Vaculík, Czech writer and journalist (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor
• 1928 – Vera Rubin, American astronomer
• 1928 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Danny Barcelona, American drummer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician, 5th Governor of Lagos State
• 1931 – Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Claude Fournier, Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
• 1931 – Guy Fournier, Canadian author and screenwriter
• 1933 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Cultural Forum (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (d. 1991)
• 1933 – Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building
• 1935 – Jim Hall, American race car driver
• 1935 – Hein Heinsen, Danish sculptor
• 1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1993)
• 1936 – Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
• 1937 – Dave Webster, American football player and engineer
• 1938 – Juliet Anderson, American porn actress and producer (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1938 – Mickey Curtis, Japanese actor, singer, and television personality
• 1938 – Götz George, German actor and producer
• 1938 – Charles Harrelson, American murderer (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Bert Newton, Australian actor and television host
• 1939 – Raine Karp, Estonian architect
• 1940 – Don Imus, American radio radio host
• 1940 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician (d. 2010)
• 1941 – Christopher Andrew, English historian and academic
• 1941 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (d. 1985)
• 1941 – Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge, and politician, 12th President of Italy
• 1942 – Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane
• 1942 – Madeline Bell, American singer-songwriter (Blue Mink)
• 1942 – Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Dimitris Liantinis, Greek philosopher and author (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Randall Forsberg, American scientist (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Larry Manetti, American actor
• 1943 – Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Dino Danelli, American drummer (The Rascals and Fotomaker)
• 1944 – Maria João Pires, Portuguese pianist
• 1945 – Edward Gregson, English composer
• 1946 – Andy Mackay, English oboe player and composer (Roxy Music)
• 1946 – René Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Gardner Dozois, American author
• 1947 – David Essex, English singer-songwriter, and actor
• 1947 – Torsten Palm, Swedish race car driver
• 1947 – Robin Simon, English historian, critic, and academic
• 1948 – Ross Cranston, Australian-English lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 1948 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish educator and politician
• 1948 – John Hall, American pianist, songwriter, and politician
• 1948 – Stanisław Targosz, Polish general (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Clive Rice, South African cricketer and coach
• 1950 – Alex Kozinski, Romanian-American lawyer and judge
• 1950 – Len McCluskey, English trade union leader
• 1950 – Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1950 – Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• 1950 – Alan Turner, Australian cricketer
• 1951 – Edie McClurg, American actress
• 1952 – Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Claude Barzotti, Belgian-Italian singer
• 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer and coach
• 1953 – Najib Razak, Malaysian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia
• 1957 – Jo Brand, English comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Nikos Galis, American basketball player
• 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1958 – Tomy Winata, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation
• 1960 – Susan Graham, American soprano
• 1960 – Al Perez, American wrestler
• 1961 – Michael Durant, American pilot and author
• 1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
• 1961 – Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Depeche Mode and VCMG)
• 1962 – Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, and producer
• 1962 – Alain Lefèvre, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1962 – Hiroshi Mikami, Japanese actor
• 1964 – Uwe Barth, German politician
• 1965 – Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Hollywood Rose, and Road Crew)
• 1965 – Dick Jaspers, Dutch billiards player
• 1966 – Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist
• 1967 – Titiyo, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1968 – Elden Campbell, American basketball player
• 1968 – Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor
• 1968 – Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress
• 1969 – Andrew Cassels, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – David Kaufman, American actor
• 1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
• 1970 – Thea Dorn, German author and playwright
• 1970 – Povilas Vanagas, Lithuanian ice dancer
• 1970 – Sam Watters, American singer-songwriter and producer (Color Me Badd)
• 1971 – Dalvin DeGrate, American rapper and producer (Jodeci)
• 1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1971 – Christopher Lee, Malaysian-Singaporean actor and singer
• 1971 – Chris Michalek, American harmonica player (d. 2010)
• 1971 – Joel Stein, American journalist
• 1972 – Giovane Élber, Brazilian footballer
• 1972 – Floyd Reifer, Barbadian cricketer and coach
• 1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American author and handbag designer
• 1973 – Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director
• 1973 – Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player and manager
• 1974 – Maurice Greene, American sprinter
• 1974 – Kathryn Hahn, American actress
• 1974 – Stephanie March, American actress
• 1974 – Sonny Siaki, Samoan-American wrestler
• 1974 – Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
• 1975 – Suriya, Indian actor and producer
• 1975 – Dan Rogerson, English politician
• 1975 – Sung Hyun-ah, South Korean model and actress
• 1976 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
• 1977 – Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Kalup Linzy, American video and performance artist
• 1977 – Néicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1977 – Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Stuart Elliott, Irish footballer
• 1978 – Marianela González, Venezuelan actress
• 1978 – Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1978 – Lauren Groff, American novelist and short story writer
• 1979 – Perro Aguayo Jr., Mexican wrestler and promoter (d. 2015)
• 1979 – Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
• 1979 – Anta Livitsanou, Greek actress
• 1979 – Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver
• 1979 – Cathleen Tschirch, German sprinter
• 1980 – Sandeep Parikh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Destiny's Child)
• 1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and director (Sum 41)
• 1981 – Dmitriy Karpov, Kazakhstani decathlete
• 1981 – Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
• 1982 – Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
• 1982 – Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
• 1982 – Paul Wesley, American actor
• 1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress and singer
• 1983 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
• 1983 – Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
• 1984 – Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
• 1985 – Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
• 1985 – Anna Maria Mühe, German actress
• 1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
• 1986 – Nelson Philippe, French race car driver
• 1986 – Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper
• 1987 – Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Pablo Holman, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kudai)
• 1988 – Ping Medina, Filipino actor
• 1989 – Eliška Bučková, Czech model, Czech Miss 2008
• 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor and singer
• 1990 – Ryan Castro, American actor
• 1990 – Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
• 1990 – Young JV, Filipino actor, singer, dancer, and host
• 1991 – Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
• 1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 997 – Nuh II, Samanid emir (b. 963)
• 1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese religious leader, founded the Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)
• 1373 – Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founded the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)
• 1403 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (b. 1343)
• 1531 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, French husband of Diane de Poitiers
• 1536 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1519)
• 1562 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight (b. 1480)
• 1584 – John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
• 1692 – Gilles Ménage, French lawyer, philologist, and scholar (b. 1613)
• 1727 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1661)
• 1757 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian harpsichord player and composer (b. 1685)
• 1764 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-American religious leader (b. 1703)
• 1773 – George Edwards, English biologist and ornithologist (b. 1693)
• 1781 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor and politician (b. 1724)
• 1793 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1721)
• 1833 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean politician, Chilean Minister of Finance (b. 1777)
• 1853 – Andries Pretorius, South African general (b. 1798)
• 1875 – Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)
• 1878 – Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist, and politician (b. 1804)
• 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1916 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1919 – Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)
• 1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American author and scholar (b. 1850)
• 1926 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 1930 – Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1932 – Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
• 1941 – George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)
• 1941 – José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1942 – Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and politician (b. 1880)
• 1942 – Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1948 – D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan (b. 1882)
• 1951 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)
• 1951 – Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (b. 1856)
• 1954 – Herman Groman, American runner (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1957 – Bob Shiring, American football player and coach (b. 1870)
• 1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1971 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot and race car driver, founded Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band) (b. 1948)
• 1980 – Mollie Steimer, Russian-born exilee and political activist (b. 1897)
• 1982 – Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
• 1982 – Vic Morrow, American actor and director (b. 1929)
• 1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
• 1989 – Donald Barthelme, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1899)
• 1993 – James R. Jordan, Sr., American father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Jean Muir, American actress and teacher (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress and singer (b. 1934)
• 1997 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese long jumper (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Eudora Welty, American author and photographer (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (b. 1920)
• 2002 – William Luther Pierce, American activist and author (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (b. 1929)
• 2003 – James E. Davis, American police officer and politician (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Yvonne Sanson, Greek-Italian actress (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (b. 1925)
• 2004 – Piero Piccioni, Italian pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Serge Reggiani, Italian-French singer and actor (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Ted Greene, American guitarist and journalist (Bluesberry Jam) (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist and educator (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Tor Kamata, American-Canadian wrestler (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Ron Miller, American songwriter and producer (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician, 70th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
• 2012 – Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Margaret Mahy, New Zealand author (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian soldier and politician (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Esther Tusquets, Spanish publisher and author (b. 1936)
• 2012 – José Luis Uribarri, Spanish television host and director (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Emile Griffith, American boxer (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Jokichi Ikarashi, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1902)
• 2013 – Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Manjula Vijayakumar, Indian actress (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Dora Bryan, English actress and singer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian author and playwright (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Saado Ali Warsame, Somalian singer and politician (b. 1950)

Με μία ανάρτηση στο Facebook ζήτησε συγγνώμη ο γνωστός ερμηνευτής Χρήστος Θηβαίος για τα όσα δήλωσε στη συνέντευξή του που προκάλσε κύμα αντιδράσεων.

Αθήνα, 22 Ιουλίου 2015

Θέλω να ζητήσω συγνώμη από τη δημοσιογράφο Δέσποινα Αυγερίδου γιατί στην προχθεσινή συνέντευξη, που είχε την καλοσύνη να μου πάρει, την πρόσβαλα ως εργαζόμενη και ως δημοσιογράφο, παρότι δεν είχα τέτοια πρόθεση. Επίσης πιστεύω ότι οι συνθήκες που δημιουργήθηκαν από τις πολιτικές που ασκήθηκαν, κυρίως τα τελευταία χρόνια, δημιουργήσαν τεράστιο πρόβλημα ανεργίας στους νέους ανθρώπους. Πέρα από κάθε αμφιβολία. Πρόθεση μου ήταν να καυτηριάσω την «αριστοκρατική» αντίληψη που υπάρχει σχετικά με την εργασία, σε κάποια μειοψηφία της νεολαίας, και γι'αυτό υπερέβαλα. Ξέρω ότι, μπροστά στις δοκιμασίες που περνάει η μεγάλη πλειοψηφία των νέων, αυτό είναι τουλάχιστον δευτερεύον. Γι'αυτό θα ήθελα να ζητήσω συγνώμη και από όσους είχαν την ατυχία να ακούσουν τη συνέντευξη και ένιωσαν οργή και απογοήτευση. Θα προσπαθήσω στο μέλλον να είμαι προσεκτικότερος όταν εκφέρω δημόσιο λόγο.

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