Τα 5 πιο μεγαλειώδη ελληνικά νησιά 

Τα πέντε πιο μεγαλειώδη ελληνικά νησιά ανέδειξε ο Αυστραλιανός

 οδηγός «Vagrants of the World» και είναι όλα τους στα Δωδεκάνησα.

Ο οδηγός προτείνει στους Αυστραλούς να επιλέξουν ένα από τα χιλιάδες ελληνικά 

νησιά για τις επόμενες διακοπές τους, αλλά δίνει μια ώθηση στα Δωδεκάνησα. Γιατί 

στα Δωδεκάνησα; Ενας από τους επικαλείται είναι πως βρίσκονται πολύ κοντά

 στα τουρκικά παράλια, κι έτσι θα μπορούσαν να συνδυαστούν οι διακοπές σε δύο 

χώρες.

Το site αναφέρει ότι τα Δωδεκάνησα βρίσκονται «στην πιο ηλιόλουστη γωνιά της

 Ελλάδος», ενώ ταυτόχρονα είναι «ένα σωστό μείγμα τουρισμού και παράδοσης, 

μιας συναρπαστικής ιστορίας, με δύο Μνημεία Παγκόσμιας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς

 της UNESCΟ, και εκπληκτικού φυσικού τοπίου.

Ετσι, λοιπόν, από αυτό το σύμπλεγμα νησιών τα πέντε πιο μεγαλειώδη είναι:

Λέρος

«Το αγαπημένο μας». Οι δύο Αυστραλοί διευθυντές του περιοδικού, ο Μαρκ και η Κέιτ 

επισκέφθηκαν τη Λέρο μέσα στον χειμώνα, όπου και πέρασαν τρεις ολόκληρους

 μήνες και το προτείνουν ως την τέλεια χαλαρωτική αρχή των διακοπών στην

 Ελλάδα. Ταυτόχρονα, τονίζουν ότι η Λέρος δεν είναι ένα από τα γνωστά mainstream

 τουριστικά νησιά, αλλά ένας προορισμός με τον αυθεντικό νησιώτικο τρόπο ζωής 

με πολύ φιλόξενους κατοίκους.

Τα νερά είναι «βαθιά κρυστάλλινα». Στο νησί υπάρχουν διάσπαρτα «μικρά

 ψαροχώρια», ένα «πανέμορφο τοπίο με γραφικά μικρά εκκλησάκια και παραδοσιακές 

ταβέρνες που σερβίρουν πιάτα από το καλύτερο ελληνικό φαγητό».

Το νησί ενδείκνυται επίσης για πεζοπορία, και καταδύσεις στα ναυάγια.

«Η Λέρος έχει κάτι για όλους, χωρίς τα εξωφρενικά πλήθη των τουριστών» καταλήγουν.

Σύμη

«Μπαίνοντας στο λιμάνι της Σύμης, απλά μαγεύεσαι από το καλειδοσκόπιο των

 χρωμάτων πάνω στον λόφο. Νεοκλασικά αρχοντικά στις αποχρώσεις της 

τερακότας, του γαλάζιου και της ώχρας “πέφτουν” από την κορυφή στο λιμάνι».

Αυτή είναι η φράση με την οποία επιλέγουν να ξεκινήσουν το αφιέρωμα στη Σύμη

 την οποία χαρακτηρίζουν ένα «γραφικό  νησάκι», όπου ο επισκέπτης μπορεί να

 απολαύσει «το ήρεμο ελληνικό νησιώτικο lifestyle».

Η Σύμη έχει «παρθένες παραλίες» και «παραμένει ένα ελληνικό νησί με ρουστίκ

 ποιότητα ανακατεμένη με ένα άγγιγμα επιτήδευσης βεληνεκούς άλλων υψηλών

 προδιαγραφών ευρωπαϊκών προορισμών».

Κως

«Από τα πρώτα κιόλας πέντε λεπτά της άφιξης στο νησί, καταλαβαίνει ότι έχει 

πολύ περισσότερη ιστορία από όση μπορούσες να φανταστείς, ενώ ταυτόχρονα

 είναι τουριστική και κοσμοπολίτικη» γράφουν ο Μαρκ και η Κέιτ.

Σήμα κατατεθέν του νησιού είναι το μεσαιωνικό κάστρο που σε υποδέχεται στο 

λιμάνι, ενώ ταυτόχρονα στο αφιέρωμα τονίζεται ότι πολύ σύντομα έρχεσαι σε

 επαφή με τα αρχαιοελληνικά μνημεία, όπου ο πατέρας της ιατρικής, ο Ιπποκράτης

 περπάτησε, δίδαξε και θεράπευσε.

Οι Αυστραλοί travel editors επαναλαμβάνουν ξανά και ξανά την ύπαρξη των αρχαίων 

ερειπίων σε κάθε γωνιά του νησιού, ενώ την ίδια ώρα τονίζουν ότι αν η ιστορία

 δεν είναι το φόρτε κάποιου, τότε μπορεί να κατακλύσει ένα από τα πολλά καφέ,

 εστιατόρια, μπαρ ή να ψωνίσει στην αγορά και φυσικά να απολαύσει τον ήλιο σε μια 

από τις αμμώδεις παραλίες. Στην Κω υπάρχουν και οι οργανωμένες πολύβουες 

παραλίες, αλλά και οι πιο απομονωμένες.

«Η Κως είναι ιδανική για εκείνους που ψάχνουν έναν εύκολο κλασικό τουριστικό 

προορισμό, αλλά και για εκείνους που θέλουν να έχουν και μια δόση παράδοσης και 

αυθεντικότητας» καταλήγουν.

Ρόδος

«Αυτό το νησί είναι η επιτομή της τέλειας μίξης τουρισμού και παράδοσης» 

γράφουν για το μεγαλύτερο νησί του συμπλέγματος, κάνοντας άμεσα αναφορά 

στο Μεσαιωνικό κάστρο -Μνημείο Παγκόσμιας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς της

 UNESCO, το οποίο «θα σας μεταφέρει αμέσως πίσω στις ημέρες των Οθωμανικών

 επιδρομών και των σταυροφοριών των Ιωαννιτών Ιπποτών».

Μαρκ και Κέιτ προτείνουν οπωσδήποτε τη «βόλτα μέσα στον λαβύρινθο των

 μεσαιωνικών στενών όπου θα γίνετε μάρτυρες διαφορετικών σταδίων ιστορίας

 και πολιτισμών». Επίσης, συνιστάται η επιστροφή στην παλιά πόλη το βράδυ, καθώς 

εκεί χτυπά η καρδιά της νυχτερινής ζωής. Η Ρόδος διαθέτει ακόμη και καζίνο,

 αλλά και πολυτελέστατα ξενοδοχειακά συγκροτήματα που στα άλλα νησιά δεν

 υπάρχουν.

«Η Ρόδος είναι ένα κοσμοπολίτικο νησί που κατατάσσεται στην κατηγορία των 

κλασικών τουριστικών προορισμών, αλλά ταυτόχρονα είναι ιδανική για τους λάτρεις 

του πολιτισμού».

Πάτμος

«Είναι το νησί της Αποκάλυψης ή Ιερό Νησί, όπως αναδείχθηκε το 1981 από το

 ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο και την UNESCO το 1999. Ταυτόχρονα, όμως, η Πάτμος είναι

 από τα πιο ειδυλλιακά μέρη για να ζεις» γράφουν οι Αυστραλοί travel editors.

Και συνεχίζουν, σχολιάζοντας: «Ισως αυτός είναι ο λόγος που το νησί προσελκύει 

έναν πιο απαιτητικό παραθεριστή, αλλά και κάποιους από τους πιο εύπορους

 επενδυτές ακινήτων».

Το νησί έχει την ικανότητα να είναι παραδοσιακό, αλλά έχοντας ταυτόχρονα και

 κάτι το εκλεπτυσμένο. «Για αυτό και είναι λίγο πιο ακριβό από τη Λέρο» επισημαίνουν.

Οι Μαρκ και Κέιτ συνιστούν επίσκεψη στο μεγαλοπρεπές μοναστήρι του Αγίου

 Ιωάννη και τη σπηλιά όπου έγραψε την Αποκάλυψη και στη συνέχεια βόλτα στη 

Χώρα, την οποία χαρακτηρίζουν «έναν λαβύρινθο από εκτυφλωτικά λευκά σοκάκια 

που χρονολογούνται πολλούς αιώνες πριν, ενώ γύρω τους υπάρχουν σπίτια 

διαφόρων μεγεθών που ξεκινούν από όχι κάτι περισσότερο από μια μικρή πόρτα σε

 έναν τοίχο μέχρι σε μεγαλύτερα πολυεπίπεδα σπίτια που κρέμονται επικίνδυνα στην

 πλαγιά του λόφου με θέα που κόβει την ανάσα. Αυτή είναι η πεμπτουσία της εικόνας

 των ελληνικών νησιών».

«Η Πάτμος έχει μια πληθώρα από πανέμορφες ψαροταβέρνες, ωραία εστιατόρια και

 ορισμένες πολύ κομψές μπουτίκ. Ετσι, ενώ στον πυρήνα της η Πάτμος είναι ένα 

πνευματικό νησί, για προβληματισμό και προσκύνημα, είναι επίσης κι ένα 

εκλεπτυσμένο νησί, όπου υπάρχει μια ποιότητα για πιο φίνα πράγματα στη ζωή»

 καταλήγουν.

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• 322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia.
• 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
• 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
• 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
• 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
• 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
• 1461 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
• 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
• 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
• 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• 1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
• 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
• 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
• 1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
• 1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
• 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
• 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
• 1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
• 1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
• 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
• 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
• 1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
• 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• 1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
• 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
• 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
• 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent from France.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
• 1965 – The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
• 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
• 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
• 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
• 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
• 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.
• 1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
• 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
• 1985 – The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
• 1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
• 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.
• 2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

Births[edit]

• 317 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
• 1282 – Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, English countess (d. 1316)
• 1533 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (d. 1595)
• 1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
• 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (d. 1627)
• 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)
• 1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (d. 1672)
• 1726 – James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)
• 1734 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (d. 1776)
• 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
• 1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
• 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
• 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859)
• 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
• 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911)
• 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
• 1862 – Victoria of Baden, Swedish queen (d. 1931)
• 1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
• 1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)
• 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
• 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
• 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
• 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
• 1884 – Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter (d. 1940)
• 1887 – Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1901 – Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)
• 1904 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American painter (d. 1980)
• 1909 – Dorothy Walton, Canadian badminton player (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965)
• 1911 – István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979)
• 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Kermit Love, American puppeteer, costume designer, and actor (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Budd Lynch, Canadian-American sportscaster (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Poni Adams, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1918 – C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (d. 1985)
• 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1925 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian geneticist and academic
• 1926 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Géza Kádas, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1979)
• 1927 – Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana
• 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor and singer (d. 1959)
• 1928 – Betsy Byars, American author
• 1928 – Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square
• 1928 – Romeo Muller, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1928 – James Randi, Canadian-American magician
• 1928 – Herb Reed, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player
• 1930 – Om Prakash Jindal, former Minister (India), Member of Parliament and Philanthropist. (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer
• 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
• 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (d. 2005)
• 1933 – Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
• 1933 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist
• 1934 – Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1935 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
• 1937 – Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Anjanette Comer, American actress
• 1939 – Verna Bloom, American actress
• 1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English politician
• 1942 – Tobin Bell, American actor
• 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American author and radio host
• 1942 – Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
• 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer and actor
• 1942 – Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
• 1943 – Lana Cantrell, Australian-American singer and lawyer
• 1943 – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1944 – John Glover, American actor
• 1944 – Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1944 – David Rasche, American actor
• 1945 – Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Alan Page, American football player and jurist
• 1946 – Ed Seykota, American businessman
• 1947 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Sulev Mäeltsemees, Estonian scholar
• 1947 – Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1947 – Suthivelu, Indian actor (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Marty Appel, American businessman and author
• 1948 – Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1948 – Antonis Vardis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese politician
• 1949 – Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
• 1950 – Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
• 1950 – S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician
• 1951 – Joachim Thiel, German footballer
• 1952 – Kees Kist, Dutch footballer
• 1952 – Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1953 – Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author
• 1954 – Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
• 1954 – Alan Reid, Scottish politician
• 1954 – Suresh Wadkar, Indian singer
• 1955 – Diane Downs, American murderer
• 1955 – Wayne Knight, American actor
• 1955 – Greg Nickels, American politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle
• 1955 – Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban librarian
• 1955 – Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright
• 1955 – Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director
• 1956 – Sharon Isbin, American guitarist
• 1957 – Caroline Aaron, American actress
• 1957 – Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast
• 1958 – Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey
• 1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Iron Maiden and Samson)
• 1958 – Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner
• 1959 – Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author
• 1959 – Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1960 – David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan, English singer-songwriter (Bananarama and Shillelagh Sisters)
• 1961 – Brian Conley, English actor and singer
• 1961 – Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast
• 1961 – Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer
• 1961 – Maggie Wheeler, American actress
• 1962 – Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer (Northern Lights)
• 1962 – Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer
• 1962 – Alain Robert, French rock climber
• 1963 – Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player
• 1963 – Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Hiroaki Hirata, Japanese voice actor
• 1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
• 1963 – Harold Perrineau, American actor
• 1963 – Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator
• 1964 – John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author
• 1964 – Peter Niven, Scottish jockey
• 1964 – Michael Weishan, American television host
• 1966 – David Cairns, Scottish politician, Minister of State for Scotland (d. 2011)
• 1966 – Shobna Gulati, English actress
• 1966 – Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave)
• 1966 – Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founded Wikipedia
• 1967 – Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
• 1968 – Big Mello, American rapper (d. 2002)
• 1968 – Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Trevor Hendy, Australian iron man
• 1968 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (Snot) (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1970 – Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006)
• 1971 – Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Sydney Penny, American actress
• 1971 – Rachel York, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Brad Patton, Australian-Dutch porn actor
• 1972 – Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer
• 1972 – Greg Serano, American actor
• 1973 – Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (Korol i Shut) (d. 2013)
• 1973 – Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player
• 1973 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand radio and television host
• 1973 – Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1974 – Chico Benymon, American actor
• 1974 – Michael Shannon, American actor
• 1975 – Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Kargo)
• 1975 – Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Gaahl, Norwegian singer-songwriter (God Seed, Gaahlskagg, Wardruna, and Trelldom)
• 1975 – David Hicks, Australian alleged jihadist
• 1975 – Rebecca Kleefisch, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• 1975 – Hans Matheson, Scottish actor
• 1975 – Edgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player
• 1975 – Vanessa Stacey, New Zealand actress
• 1975 – Charlize Theron, South African-American actress and producer
• 1976 – Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1976 – Shane Lechler, American football player
• 1977 – Charlotte Ronson, English-American fashion designer
• 1977 – Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ
• 1978 – Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter (Hatebreed, Kingdom of Sorrow, and Icepick)
• 1978 – Cirroc Lofton, American actor
• 1978 – Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer
• 1978 – Vanness Wu, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (F4 and Kangta & Vanness)
• 1978 – Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1979 – Eric Johnson, American actor
• 1979 – Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Jason Ruta, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Nicole Tubiola, American actress
• 1979 – Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author
• 1980 – Carsten Busch, German footballer
• 1980 – Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress
• 1980 – Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
• 1981 – David Testo, American soccer player
• 1981 – Randy Wayne, American actor and producer
• 1982 – Ángeles Balbiani, Argentinian actress
• 1982 – Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
• 1982 – Edwin Dewees, American mixed martial artist
• 1982 – Juan Martín Hernández, Argentinian rugby player
• 1982 – Marquise Hill, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1982 – Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
• 1982 – Jasmin Mäntylä, Finnish model and singer
• 1982 – Brit Marling, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 – Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1982 – Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
• 1982 – Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer
• 1983 – Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (RBD)
• 1983 – Andriy Hryvko, Ukrainian cyclist
• 1983 – Tina O'Brien, English actress
• 1984 – Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player
• 1984 – Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress
• 1984 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (d. 2003)
• 1986 – Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
• 1986 – Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
• 1986 – Altair Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
• 1986 – Sten Olmre, Estonian volleyball player
• 1986 – Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer
• 1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
• 1987 – Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player
• 1987 – Mimi Paley, American actress
• 1987 – Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
• 1988 – Anikka Albrite, American porn actress
• 1988 – Liz Cochran, American model, Miss Alabama 2009
• 1988 – Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer
• 1988 – Melody Oliveria, American blogger
• 1988 – Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer
• 1988 – Beanie Wells, American football player
• 1989 – DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
• 1990 – Helen Flanagan, English actress
• 1991 – Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1991 – Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
• 1991 – Mike Trout, American baseball player
• 1992 – Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1992 – Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1993 – Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1993 – Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer
• 1993 – Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1996 – Tessa Allen, American actress
• 1996 – Liam James, Canadian actor

Deaths[edit]

• 461 – Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)
• 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
• 1485 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)
• 1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1544)
• 1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
• 1635 – Friedrich Spee, German poet (b. 1591)
• 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
• 1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608)
• 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1823 – Mátyás Laáb, Croatian priest and translator (b. 1746)
• 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 – Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 – Li Xiucheng, Chinese general (b. 1823)
• 1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (b. 1854)
• 1899 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter (b. 1837)
• 1900 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1826)
• 1904 – Louis Dutfoy, French target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist (b. 1841)
• 1917 – Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English pilot and commander (b. 1891)
• 1928 – Walter Bingle, Australian public servant (b. 1861)
• 1938 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Yi Wu, Korean prince (b. 1912)
• 1946 – George Wilkinson, English water polo player (b. 1879)
• 1948 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentinian boxer (b. 1894)
• 1968 – Giovanni Bracco, Italian racing driver (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Harold Haley, American judge (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)
• 1972 – Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Aspasia Manos, Greek wife of Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
• 1973 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
• 1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian and actor (b. 1944)
• 1992 – John Anderson, American actor and director (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2001 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2003 – K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American politician (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Lois January, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Hal Fishman, American journalist and actor (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (New Lost City Ramblers) (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Roberto Cantoral, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
• 2010 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Nancy Wake, British Special Operations Executive operative and French Resistance agent during WWII (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Judith Crist, American critic and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Anna Piaggi, Italian author (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Marvin Lee Wilson, American murderer (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Margaret Pellegrini, American actress (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Sean Sasser, American chef, educator, and activist (b. 1968)
• 2013 – Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Víctor Fayad, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
• 2014 – Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921)

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η ταινία «Ουζερί Τσιτσάνης» ολοκληρωθηκε

Βασισμένη στο ομότιτλο βιβλίο του Γιώργου Σκαμπαρδώνη η

 ταινία διαδραματίζεται στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1942-1943.

Στην υπό γερμανική κατοχή πόλη, ο Γιώργος και η Εστρέα είναι ερωτευμένοι.

Όμως ο έρωτας ανάμεσα σε έναν Χριστιανό και μία Εβραία είναι απαγορευμένος.

Η περιπετειώδης ιστορία αγάπης, παγιδευμένη ανάμεσα σε ένα απάνθρωπο 

ολοκληρωτικό καθεστώς και τον παραλογισμό των φυλετικών διακρίσεων, βρίσκει

 καταφύγιο στο ιστορικό «Ουζερί Τσιτσάνης».

Εκεί, ο μεγάλος Έλληνας συνθέτης Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης διανύει τα πιο δημιουργικά

 του χρόνια και συνθέτει τα πιο γνωστά του τραγούδια, ανάμεσα στα οποία και την

 καθοριστική Συννεφιασμένη Κυριακή.

Σήμερα, έπειτα από πολύμηνα γυρίσματα σε ιστορικά σημεία και χώρους της

 Θεσσαλονίκης και της Αθήνας, η πολυαναμενόμενη νέα ταινία τουΜανούσου 

Μανουσάκη, σε συμπαραγωγή OTETV και διανομή Feelgood, βρίσκεται πλέον σε

 post production.  

Παίζουν: Ανδρέας Κωνσταντίνου , Χάρης Φραγκούλης , Χριστίνα Χειλα – Φαμέλη , 

Βασιλική Τρουφάκου , Γιάννης Στάνκογλου, Γεράσιμος Σκιαδαρέσης , Λάκης 

Κομνηνός , Αλμπέρτο Εσκενάζυ , Μαρία Καβουκίδη, Μιχάλης Αεράκης

Σκηνικά: Αντώνης Χαλκιάς, Κοστούμια: Άννα Μαχαιριανάκη, Μουσική: Θέμης

 Καραμουρατίδης, Μοντάζ: Λάμπης Χαραλαμπίδης, Φωτογραφία: Κωστής Γκίκας, 

Σχεδιασμός Ηχου: Μανώλης Μανουσάκης, Μιξάζ: STUDIO 19 – Κώστας Μπώκος,

 Ηχος: Δημήτρης Αθανασόπουλος, Σενάριο: Βασίλης Σπηλιόπουλος – Άντα

 Γκουρμπαλή – Μανούσος Μανουσάκης, Οργάνωση Παραγωγής: Μαρία

Μανουσάκη – Γιώργος Παπαδάτος, Σκηνοθεσία: Μανούσος Μανουσάκης

Προσωπική Δισκογραφία

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• 1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
• 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Denmark.
• 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
• 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
• 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
• 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
• 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal
• 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
• 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
• 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
• 1863 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
• 1870 – The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
• 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• 1885 – More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
• 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
• 1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.
• 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• 1940 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
• 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
• 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.
• 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
• 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
• 1963 – The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
• 1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
• 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
• 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
• 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
• 1980 – The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
• 1988 – The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
• 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
• 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
• 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• 2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
• 2008 – A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
• 2008 – The opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing.
• 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.

Births[edit]

• 1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
• 1518 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-German scholar (d. 1561)
• 1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian murderer (d. 1614)
• 1605 – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1675)
• 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697)
• 1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German painter (d. 1723)
• 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
• 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
• 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher and academic (d. 1746)
• 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German-Italian monk and violinist (d. 1779)
• 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (d. 1796)
• 1790 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (d. 1838)
• 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (d. 1892)
• 1814 – Esther Hobart Morris, American jurist (d. 1902)
• 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German-Russian wife of Alexander II of Russia (d. 1880)
• 1839 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (d. 1925)
• 1856 – Thomas Anstey Guthrie, English novelist and journalist (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
• 1866 – Matthew Henson, American explorer (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1948)
• 1875 – Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (d. 1955)
• 1876 – Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
• 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (d. 1919)
• 1880 – Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
• 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1965)
• 1884 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
• 1889 – Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor (d. 1968)
• 1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977)
• 1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer (d. 1952)
• 1893 – Frederick Shedden, Australian public servant (d. 1971)
• 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
• 1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Dayton Lummis, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Jimmy Murphy, Welsh-English footballer and manager (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1915 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
• 1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer (d. 2010)
• 1919 – John David Wilson, English animator and producer (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Carol Lambrino, Romanian son of Carol II of Romania (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
• 1921 – William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian pathologist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor and producer (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the Monokini (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian, author, and academic
• 1922 – Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Ginny Tyler, American voice actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor
• 1926 – Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, English lawyer, academic, and politician
• 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player and coach (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Don Burrows, Australian saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player
• 1928 – Simón Díaz, Venezuelan singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Edip Cansever, Turkish poet (d. 1986)
• 1929 – Ronnie Biggs, English criminal (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Joan Mondale, American wife of Walter Mondale, 32nd Second Lady of the United States (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh-American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Roger Penrose, English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher
• 1932 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia
• 1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Old Dogs)
• 1933 – Joe Tex, American singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Keith Barron, English actor
• 1934 – Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Donald P. Bellisario, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1935 – John Laws, Papua New Guinean-Australian radio host
• 1936 – Frank Howard, American baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Çolpan İlhan, Turkish actress (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Jan Pieńkowski, Polish-English author and illustrator
• 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1937 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1987)
• 1938 – Jack Baldwin, English chemist and academic
• 1938 – Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer and educator (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Connie Stevens, American actress, singer, director, and producer
• 1939 – Phil Balsley, American singer-songwriter (The Statler Brothers)
• 1939 – Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romanian long jumper
• 1939 – Alexander Watson, American diplomat
• 1940 – Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Dennis Tito, American engineer and businessman, founded Wilshire Associates
• 1941 – George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Dennis Canavan, Scottish educator and politician
• 1942 – John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Roxy Music, Ian Gillan Band) (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Vardo Rumessen, Estonian pianist and musicologist
• 1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress
• 1944 – Uli Derickson, Czech-American flight attendant (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – John Renbourn, English-Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Pentangle) (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Simon Taylor, English journalist
• 1946 – Joe Bethancourt, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician
• 1947 – Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
• 1947 – Larry Wilcox, American actor
• 1948 – Susan Himmelweit, English economist and academic
• 1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor and singer
• 1949 – Ricardo Londoño, Colombian race car driver (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Sarah Dunant, English author and critic
• 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• 1950 – Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman, created PlayStation
• 1950 – Lucjan Lis, Polish-German cyclist (d. 2015)
• 1951 – Martin Brest, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1951 – Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer
• 1951 – Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian politician, 5th President of Egypt
• 1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Louis van Gaal, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1952 – Anton Fig, South African-American drummer (Spider and Frehley's Comet)
• 1952 – Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
• 1952 – Doug Melvin, Canadian baseball player and manager
• 1952 – Robin Quivers, American radio host, actress, and author
• 1952 – Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer
• 1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, English politician
• 1953 – Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
• 1953 – Don Most, American actor and director
• 1954 – Nick Holtam, English bishop
• 1955 – Diddú, Icelandic singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1955 – Michael Roe, Irish race car driver
• 1955 – Branscombe Richmond, American actor, stuntman, and producer
• 1956 – Chris Foreman, English guitarist and songwriter (Madness)
• 1956 – David Grant, English singer (Linx)
• 1956 – Cecilia Roth, Argentinian actress
• 1957 – Dennis Drew, American keyboard player (10,000 Maniacs)
• 1958 – Deborah Norville, American journalist
• 1959 – Caroline Ansink, Dutch flute player, composer, and educator
• 1960 – Ulrich Maly, German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg
• 1960 – Mustafa Balbay, journalist, writer and Turkish MP
• 1961 – The Edge, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (U2)
• 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer (10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard)
• 1961 – Ron Klain, American lawyer, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
• 1961 – Bruce Matthews, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
• 1961 – Annemieke Verdoorn, Dutch actress
• 1961 – Simon Weston, Welsh soldier
• 1962 – Kool Moe Dee, American rapper (Treacherous Three)
• 1963 – Rica Fukami, Japanese voice actress
• 1963 – Hur Jin-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Ron Karkovice, American baseball player and manager
• 1963 – Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress
• 1963 – Jon Turteltaub, American director and producer
• 1963 – Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager
• 1964 – Anastasia M. Ashman, American author
• 1964 – Scott Sandelin, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 – Paul Taylor, English cricketer
• 1964 – Eddie Trunk, American radio host and author
• 1965 – Angus Fraser, English cricketer, manager, and journalist
• 1965 – El Hefe, American guitarist and trumpet player (NOFX)
• 1965 – Kate Langbroek, Australian talk show host
• 1966 – Chris Eubank, English boxer
• 1966 – John Hudek, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Sable, American wrestler and actress
• 1967 – Eric Angle, American wrestler
• 1967 – Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
• 1967 – Lee Unkrich, American director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Yvie Burnett, Scottish soprano
• 1968 – Aldo Calderón van Dyke, Honduran journalist (d. 2013)
• 1968 – Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fun Lovin' Criminals)
• 1969 – Song Sung-il, South Korean wrestler
• 1969 – Dick Togo, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 – Monika Tsõganova, Estonian chess player
• 1969 – Faye Wong, Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1970 – Trev Alberts, American football player and journalist
• 1970 – Ben G. Davis, British chemist and academician
• 1970 – Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
• 1970 – Chester Williams, South African rugby player
• 1971 – Johnny Balentina, Dutch baseball player
• 1972 – Joely Collins, Canadian actress
• 1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1972 – Axel Merckx, Belgian cyclist
• 1972 – Steven Tweed, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Shane Lee, Australian cricketer and guitarist (Six & Out)
• 1973 – Senta Moses, American actress
• 1973 – Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
• 1973 – Gert Olesk, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1973 – Scott Stapp, American singer-songwriter and producer (Creed)
• 1974 – Scott D'Amore, Canadian wrestler and manager
• 1974 – Brian Harvey, English singer-songwriter (East 17)
• 1974 – Andy Priaulx, Guernseyan race car driver
• 1974 – Manjul Bhargava, Indian-American mathematician
• 1975 – Mick Moss, English singer-songwriter (Antimatter)
• 1975 – Villem Tomiste, Estonian architect
• 1975 – Devon Lee, American porn actress
• 1976 – JC Chasez, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor ('N Sync)
• 1976 – Tawny Cypress, American actress
• 1976 – Drew Lachey, American singer and actor (98 Degrees)
• 1976 – Lee Seung-yuop, South Korean baseball player
• 1976 – Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
• 1977 – Darren Manzella, American sergeant (d. 2013)
• 1977 – Szilárd Németh, Slovak footballer
• 1977 – Lindsay Sloane, American actress
• 1977 – Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Nicolas Vogondy, French cyclist
• 1977 – Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
• 1978 – Alan Maybury, Irish footballer and coach
• 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
• 1978 – Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
• 1978 – Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer
• 1978 – Natsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress
• 1978 – Ebru Yaşar, Turkish pop music singer
• 1979 – Richard Harwood, English cellist
• 1979 – Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
• 1979 – Pooja Shah, English actress
• 1979 – Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Icelandic handball player
• 1980 – Shayna Baszler, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Craig Breslow, American baseball player
• 1980 – Jack Cassel, American baseball player
• 1980 – Denisse Guerrero, Mexican singer-songwriter (Belanova)
• 1980 – Mike Hindert, American singer and bass player (The Bravery)
• 1980 – Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
• 1980 – Diego Markwell, Dutch baseball player
• 1980 – Pat Noonan, American soccer player
• 1980 – Michael Urie, American actor, director, and producer
• 1981 – Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 1981 – Meagan Good, American actress and producer
• 1981 – Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Tanpopo, and Dream Morning Musume)
• 1981 – Bradley McIntosh, English singer and actor (S Club and Upper Street)
• 1981 – Harel Skaat, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1982 – David Florence, Scottish canoe racer
• 1983 – Guy Burnet, English actor
• 1983 – Fred Meyers, American actor
• 1983 – Willie Tonga, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
• 1984 – Brenda Gandini, Argentinian model and actress
• 1984 – Devon McTavish, American soccer player
• 1984 – Norbert Michelisz, Hungarian race car driver
• 1984 – Martrez Milner, American football player
• 1985 – Toby Flood, English rugby player
• 1985 – Ryan Koolwijk, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – James Morgan, Welsh actor
• 1985 – Brett Ratliff, American football player
• 1986 – Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1986 – Pierre Garçon, American football player
• 1986 – Cody Lightning, Canadian actor
• 1986 – Peyton List, American actress
• 1986 – Chris Pressley, American football player
• 1986 – Charlotte Stokely, American pornographic actress
• 1987 – Pierre Boulanger, French actor
• 1987 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
• 1987 – Tatjana Malek, German tennis player
• 1988 – Princess Beatrice of York
• 1988 – Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
• 1988 – Ni Ni, Chinese actress
• 1988 – Rinku Singh, Indian baseball player
• 1988 – Laura Slade Wiggins, American actress and singer
• 1989 – Ken Baumann, American actor and publisher
• 1989 – Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player
• 1989 – Ali Cobrin, American actress
• 1989 – Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian-Kazakhstan tennis player
• 1989 – Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer
• 1989 – Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 – Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1990 – Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1991 – Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1992 – Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1993 – Ben Breedlove, American blogger (d. 2011)
• 1993 – Jessie Rogers, Brazilian porn actress
• 1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
• 1998 – Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Deaths[edit]

• 869 – Lothair II, Frankish king (b. 825)
• 1303 – Henry of Castile the Senator (b. 1230)
• 1555 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (b. 1494)
• 1588 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter (b. 1532)
• 1604 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyo (b. 1578)
• 1631 – Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
• 1684 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English politician (b. 1622)
• 1719 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• 1747 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian raid leader (b. 1678)
• 1759 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (b. 1704)
• 1827 – George Canning, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and phycologist (b. 1743)
• 1863 – Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 – Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
• 1887 – Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 – James Tissot, French painter (b. 1836)
• 1902 – John Henry Twachtman, American painter (b. 1853)
• 1909 – Mary MacKillop, Australian nun, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 – William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1921 – Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist (b. 1861)
• 1924 – Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter (b. 1857)
• 1928 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (b. 1874)
• 1934 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1863)
• 1940 – Johnny Dodds, American clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1944 – Michael Wittmann, German commander (b. 1914)
• 1947 – Anton Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman, founded Qantas (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera singer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1962 – Elizabeth Ann Duncan, American murderer (d. 1904)
• 1964 – Cengiz Topel, Turkish fighter pilot of the Turkish Air Force (d. 1934)
• 1965 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
• 1969 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, English soldier (b. 1907)
• 1972 – Andrea Feldman, American actress (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
• 1973 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 1974 – Alexander Nelke, Estonian-American artist (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Baldur von Schirach, German nazi leader (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1979 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English author (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Esther Marion Armstrong, wife of F.M. radio's inventor-Edwin Howard Armstrong (b. 1898).
• 1980 – Paul Triquet, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Thomas McElwee, Irish activist (b. 1957)
• 1982 – Eric Brandon, English race car driver (b. 1920)
• 1984 – Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1984 – Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1985 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Louis Meeuwessen, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Alan Napier, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
• 1991 – James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)
• 1992 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
• 1992 – Bertalan Papp, Hungarian fencer (b. 1913)
• 1995 – John Adams, American football player (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Leon Golub, American painter (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Ahmed Deedat, South African missionary and author (b. 1918)
• 2005 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Gene Mauch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Monica Sjöö, Swedish-English painter (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Ilse Werner, Indonesian-German actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese journalist and politician (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Leonard Pagliero, English pilot and dog breeder (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
• 2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Hans R. Camenzind, Swiss-American engineer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Sancho Gracia, Spanish actor (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Karen Black, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985)
• 2013 – Barbara Mertz, American author (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jaymala Shiledar, Indian actor and singer (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Ralph Bryans, Irish-Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Charles Keating, English-American actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Leonardo Legaspi, Filipino archbishop (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Danny Murphy, American actor (b. 1955)
• 2014 – Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (b. 1929)

One Direction number one breaks streaming records

One Direction have topped the UK singles chart with their new single Drag Me Down.

The track broke streaming records, earning the highest first-week streams for a single in the UK with 2.03m plays.

Indie band The Maccabees have scored their first number one album with Marks To Prove It, just 1,300 copies ahead of Lianne La Havas' Blood. 

Cilla Black entered the album top 40 chart following her death last weekend.

The Very Best of Cilla Black reached its highest ever chart position at number 14, while her former number one single Anyone Who Had A Heart also entered the singles chart at number 41, securing its highest chart position in 51 years.

Drag Me Down is One Direction's first single as a foursome since the departure of Zayn Malik. 

Its release came a surprise to fans who had not been expecting a new single,

According to the Official Charts Company, Calvin Harris and Disciples' How Deep Is Your Love climbed from six to two and last week's number one, Black Magic by Little Mix, fell to three.

The top five was rounded off with Lost Frequencies' Are You With Me at four, and Years & Years' Shine at five. 

The Maccabees nearly missed out on their number one album spot, having battled with La Havas all week. 

Marks To Prove It finished the week ahead by just 1,300 combined chart sales. 

"We are very proud that our fourth album has given us our first number 1," guitarist Felix White told the Official Charts Company.

Τα εντυπωσιακά ερείπια της Ευρώπης

Η Ευρώπη έχει πολλούς κρυμμένους θησαυρούς. Μέρη από τα

 οποία λείπει η ανθρώπινη παρουσία κι έτσι η φύση είχε την

 ευκαιρία να κάνει ανακατάληψη του χώρου δημιουργώντας ένα

 μαγευτικό τοπίο.

Από τη λίμνη Ρέτσεν στην Ιταλία, τα φρούρια Μάνσελ στη μέση της Βόρειας

 Θάλασσας, τη σήραγγα της αγάπης στην Ουκρανία ή το εγκαταλελειμμένο πάρκο

ψυχαγωγίας στο Βερολίνο, τα πιο παράξενα και πιο εκπληκτικά εγκαταλελειμμένα 

μέρη της Ευρώπης σας περιμένουν να τα εξερευνήσετε.

Λίμνη Ρέτσεν – Νότιο Τιρόλο, Ιταλία
Πρόκειται για μια τεχνητή λίμνη στο δυτικό τμήμα του Νότιου Τιρόλο, στην Ιταλία,

 περίπου 2 χλμ νότια του περάσματος Ρέτσεν που αποτελεί το σύνορο με την

 Αυστρία και 3 χιλιόμετρα ανατολικά της κορυφογραμμής του βουνού που σχηματίζει

 τα σύνορα με την Ελβετία. Η λίμνη είναι διάσημη για το καμπαναριό μίας βυθισμένης

 εκκλησίας του 14ου αιώνα. Οταν το νερό παγώνει, μπορείτε να την περπατήσετε με 

τα πόδια. Ένας θρύλος λέει ότι κατά τη διάρκεια του χειμώνα μπορεί κανείς να

 ακούσει ακόμα τις καμπάνες της εκκλησίας να χτυπούν. Στην πραγματικότητα, οι

 καμπάνες αφαιρέθηκαν από το καμπαναριό στις 18 Ιουλίου 1950, μια εβδομάδα πριν

 από την κατεδάφιση του ναού και τη δημιουργία της λίμνης.

Φρούρια Μάνσελ – Βόρεια Θάλασσα
Μικροί οχυρωμένοι πύργοι που χτίστηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου

 Πολέμου για να βοηθήσουν στην υπεράσπιση του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και πήραν

 το όνομα τους από τον δημιουργό τους Γκι Μάνσελ. Εγκαταλείφθηκαν στα τέλη

 της δεκαετίας του 1950 και αργότερα χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για άλλες δραστηριότητες.

Το τούνελ της αγάπης – Κλεβάν, Ουκρανία
Αποτελείται από αναρριχητικά φυτά που έχουν κυριολεκτικά δημιιουργήσει μία

 στοά στη μέση του πάρκου.

Κράκο – Βασιλικάτα, Ιταλία
Μία στοιχειωμένη πόλη που εγκαταλείφθηκε το 1963 λόγω των επαναλαμβανόμενων

 κατολισθήσεων. Η εγκατάλειψη του το έχει μετατρέψει σε τουριστικό αξιοθέατο 

και δημοφιλή τοποθεσία γυρισμάτων. Το 2010, εντάχθηκε στον κατάλογο των

 μνημείων παγκόσμιας κληρονομιάς της Unesco.

Spreepark – Βερολίνο, Γερμανία
Ανοιξε το 1969 με την ονομασία Kulturpark Plänterwald και βρίσκεται στο βόρειο

 τμήμα της Plänterwald, δίπλα στον ποταμό Spree. Ηταν το μόνο πάρκο ψυχαγωγίας 

στη Λαοκρατική Δημοκρατία της Γερμανίας, και το μόνο τέτοιο πάρκο σε ολόκληρο

 το -διασπασμένο τότε ακόμα- Βερολίνο. Από το 2002 το πάρκο δεν έχει ανοίξει για το

 κοινό και δεν έχει συντηρηθεί ξανά με αποτέλεσμα να θεωρείται ακατάλληλο.

Κομμουνιστικό Αρχηγείο Buzludzha – Βουλγαρία
Χτίστηκε από το βουλγαρικό κομμουνιστικό καθεστώς για να τιμήσει τα γεγονότα

 του 1891, όταν οι σοσιαλιστές με επικεφαλής τον Ντιμίταρ Μπλαγκόεβ σχημάτισαν

 ένα οργανωμένο σοσιαλιστικό κίνημα με την ίδρυση του Βουλγαρικού

 Σοσιαλιστικού Δημοκρατικού Κόμματος, τον προκάτοχο του Βουλγαρικού

 Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος. Το μνημείο δεν συντηρείται πλέον από τη

 βουλγαρική κυβέρνηση και έχει πέσει σε αχρηστία.

Ορφανοτροφείο Buyukada – Πριγκιπονήσια
Χτίστηκε το 1898 για ξενοδοχείο, ωστόσο δεν λειτούργησε ποτέ λόγω έλλειψης

 οικοδομικών αδειών. Παρέμεινε εγκαταλελειμμένο για μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα

 έως ότου ένας πλούσιος φιλάνθρωπος Ελληνας το μετέτρεψε σε σχολείο και

 ορφανοτροφείο για τα παιδιά. Το κτίριο εγκαταλείφθηκε στη δεκαετία του εξήντα 

και πλέον φύλακες ζουν σε ένα μικρό σπίτι με πρόβατα και κοτόπουλα και δεν

 επιτρέπουν επισκέπτες, λόγω της σταδιακής κατάρρευσης των κτιρίων.

Σταθμός Κανφράνκ – Ισπανία
Εγκαταλείφθηκε το 1970, όταν ένας εκτροχιασμός του τρένου κατεδάφισε μια

 γέφυρα στη γαλλική πλευρά των βουνών. Η Γαλλία αποφάσισε να μην ξαναχτίσει

 τη γέφυρα κι έτσι ο σταθμός δεν άνοιξε ξανά. Το κεντρικό κτίριο έχει οροφή, 

αλλά κατά τα άλλα είναι σε κακή κατάσταση, περιφραγμένο και κλειστό για το κοινό, 

εκτός από κατά τη διάρκεια των ξεναγήσεων, τον Ιούλιο και τον Αύγουστο που

 προσφέρονται μέσω του τοπικού τουριστικού γραφείου.

Αμμόχωστος, Κύπρος
Πριν από την τουρκική εισβολή στην Κύπρο το 1974, ήταν η σύγχρονη τουριστική

 περιοχή της Αμμοχώστου. Οι κάτοικοί της έφυγαν κατά τη διάρκεια της εισβολής,

 και έκτοτε εγκαταλείφθηκε.

Μπαλεστρίνο – Ιταλία
Αποτελείται από την παλιά ιστορική πόλη, πάνω σε ένα λόφο, και τη νέα πόλη από 

κάτω. Εγκαταλελειμμένο από το 1953 λόγω υδρογεωλογικής αστάθειας, το παλιό

 κέντρο είναι μια πόλη-φάντασμα, ενώ το σύγχρονο κέντρο κατοικείται ακόμη 

και σήμερα.

 

Τι έπαιρναν οι Σουλτάνοι για να ειναι σε φορμα

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• 48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
• 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
• 1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
• 1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.
• 1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
• 1500 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.
• 1610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.
• 1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
• 1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.
• 1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
• 1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
• 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
• 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
• 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
• 1914 – Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
• 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India
• 1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
• 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
• 1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
• 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
• 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.
• 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
• 1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
• 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
• 1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
• 1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
• 1971 – The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
• 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
• 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
• 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
• 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.
• 2014 – Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

Births[edit]

• 1201 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English historian and merchant (d. 1274)
• 1537 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1604)
• 1544 – Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1606)
• 1603 – Johannes Cocceius, German-Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1669)
• 1631 – John Dryden, English poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1700)
• 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
• 1653 – John Oldham, English poet and translator (d. 1683)
• 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great (d. 1731)
• 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion (d. 1766)
• 1696 – Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1772)
• 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia (d. 1758)
• 1726 – Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (d. 1778)
• 1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)
• 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish architect and engineer, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (d. 1834)
• 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist and chemist (d. 1856)
• 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
• 1788 – Adoniram Judson, American missionary and lexicographer (d. 1850)
• 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and surveyor (d. 1855)
• 1805 – Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (d. 1860)
• 1845 – André Bessette, Canadian saint (d. 1937)
• 1847 – Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, French-Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1876)
• 1861 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (d. 1942)
• 1867 – Evelina Haverfield, Scottish nurse and activist (d. 1920)
• 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria (d. 1962)
• 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
• 1874 – Otto Steffen, American gymnast (d. 1957)
• 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1959)
• 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (d. 1980)
• 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
• 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (d. 1996)
• 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Russian general and politician (d. 1984)
• 1909 – V. K. Gokak, Indian scholar (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (d. 1944)
• 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
• 1913 – Wilbur Norman Christiansen, Australian astronomer and engineer (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
• 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Martin Taras, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Mareta West, American astrogeologist (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Kermit Beahan, American colonel (d. 1989)
• 1918 – Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1918 – Albert Seedman, American police officer (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
• 1919 – Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Francis Lynch, American politician (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Ernest Angley, American evangelist and author
• 1921 – J. James Exon, American soldier and politician, 33rd Governor of Nebraska (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet and author (d. 1985)
• 1924 – Mathews Mar Barnabas, Indian metropolitan (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Frank Martínez, American painter (d. 2013)
• 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed Huffman coding (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Robert Malpas, English engineer and businessman
• 1927 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist and author
• 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1978)
• 1928 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player and coach
• 1928 – Camilla Wicks, American violinist and educator
• 1928 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (d. 1979)
• 1930 – Milt Bolling, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Jacques Parizeau, Canadian economist and politician, 26th Premier of Quebec (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Chuck Essegian, American baseball player and lawyer
• 1931 – James Freeman Gilbert, American geophysicist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1932 – Tam Dalyell, Scottish academic and politician
• 1932 – John Gomery, Canadian jurist
• 1933 – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress, talk show host, and author
• 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Julián Javier, American baseball player
• 1936 – Patrick Tse, Chinese-Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician, 2nd President of Ukraine
• 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
• 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer, coach, and manager
• 1939 – Hércules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer
• 1939 – Vincent Hanna, Irish journalist (d. 1997)
• 1939 – The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Bulle Ogier, French actress
• 1939 – Romano Prodi, Italian politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Italy
• 1939 – Butch Warren, American bassist (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist (d. 1986)
• 1941 – Shirlee Busbee, American author
• 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
• 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer
• 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 – Ken Norton, American boxer and actor (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (d. 1980)
• 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor
• 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author
• 1944 – John Simpson, English journalist and author
• 1945 – Barbara Delinsky, American author
• 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (d. 2004)
• 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English author and illustrator
• 1946 – Jim Kiick, American football player
• 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager
• 1947 – Barbara Mason, American singer
• 1947 – John Varley, American author
• 1948 – Bill Campbell, American baseball player
• 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American psychologist and author
• 1949 – Ted Simmons, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 – James Naughtie, Scottish journalist and radio host
• 1951 – Steve Swisher, American baseball player and manager
• 1952 – Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
• 1953 – Kay Stenshjemmet, Norwegian speed skater
• 1953 – Jean Tirole, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1953 – Roberta Tovey, English actress and singer
• 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach
• 1955 – Peter Schmuck, American journalist
• 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Melanie Griffith, American actress and producer
• 1958 – Amanda Bearse, American actress and director
• 1958 – James Lileks, American journalist
• 1958 – Calie Pistorius, South African engineer and academic
• 1958 – Muazzez Ersoy, Turkish classical music singer
• 1959 – Kurtis Blow, American rapper and producer
• 1959 – Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
• 1959 – Michael Kors, American fashion designer
• 1959 – Toni Servillo, Italian actor and director
• 1961 – Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
• 1961 – John Key, New Zealand politician, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player and radio host
• 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player
• 1962 – John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player
• 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (d. 2012)
• 1963 – Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Brett Hull, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
• 1964 – Hoda Kotb, American journalist
• 1965 – Chin Kar-lok, Hong Kong actor
• 1966 – Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Linn Ullmann, Norwegian author and journalist
• 1967 – Deion Sanders, American football and baseball player
• 1968 – Carmi Martin, Filipino actress
• 1968 – McG, American director and producer
• 1968 – Gillian Anderson, American-English actress
• 1968 – Eric Bana, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Sam Fogarino, American drummer (Interpol and Magnetic Morning)
• 1969 – Smaragda Karydi, Greek actress
• 1969 – Troy Percival, American baseball player and coach
• 1969 – Estella Marie Thompson, American prostitute
• 1970 – Rod Brind'Amour, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Chris Cuomo, American journalist
• 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Mack 10, American rapper and actor (Westside Connection)
• 1971 – James Kim, American technology expert (d. 2006)
• 1971 – Mark Povinelli, American actor
• 1971 – Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
• 1971 – Nikki Ziering, American model and actress
• 1972 – A-mei, Taiwanese singer
• 1972 – Juanes, Colombian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ekhymosis)
• 1972 – Ryan Bollman, American actor
• 1973 – Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor and director
• 1973 – Gene Luen Yang, American author and illustrator
• 1973 – Håvard Solbakken, Norwegian cross country skier
• 1974 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
• 1974 – Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Matt Morris, American baseball player
• 1974 – Kirill Reznik, American lawyer and politician
• 1974 – Nicola Stapleton, English actress and singer
• 1974 – Raphaël Poirée, French biathlete
• 1975 – Mahesh Babu, Indian actor
• 1975 – Mike Lamb, American baseball player
• 1975 – Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
• 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
• 1976 – Jessica Capshaw, American actress
• 1976 – Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio host and producer
• 1976 – Rhona Mitra, English actress and singer
• 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
• 1976 – Audrey Tautou, French actress
• 1977 – Tuncay Çalışkan, Turkish-Austrian taekwondoist
• 1977 – Csaba Csordás, Hungarian footballer
• 1977 – Jason Frasor, American baseball player
• 1977 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
• 1977 – Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
• 1977 – Ime Udoka, American basketball player and coach
• 1977 – Mikaël Silvestre, French footballer
• 1978 – Dorin Chirtoacă, Moldavian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Chișinău
• 1978 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress
• 1978 – Ana Serradilla, Mexican actress
• 1979 – Michael Kingma, Australian basketball player
• 1979 – Lisa Nandy, English politician
• 1979 – Tony Stewart, American football player
• 1980 – Texas Battle, American actor
• 1980 – Nuria Cabanillas, Canadian-Spanish gymnast
• 1980 – Charlie David, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Rachel Kramer, Dutch singer
• 1980 – Ryoo Seung-bum, South Korean actor and singer
• 1980 – Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
• 1981 – Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player
• 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player
• 1982 – Joel Anthony, American basketball player
• 1982 – Tyson Gay, American sprinter
• 1982 – Yekaterina Samutsevich, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
• 1982 – Kanstantsin Siutsou, Belorussian cyclist
• 1983 – Ashley Johnson, American actress and singer
• 1983 – Shane O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Alicja Smietana, Polish-English violinist
• 1984 – Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Luca Filippi, Italian race car driver
• 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress and singer
• 1985 – Haruka Kinami, Japanese actress
• 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
• 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player
• 1985 – Chandler Williams, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Michael Lerchl, German footballer
• 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player
• 1986 – Tyler "Telle" Smith, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Word Alive, In Fear and Faith, and Greeley Estates)
• 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brazil 2006
• 1987 – Marco Carmona, Mexican illustrator and animator
• 1987 – Marek Niit, Estonian sprinter
• 1988 – Anthony Castonzo, American football player
• 1988 – Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer
• 1989 – Lucy Dixon, English actress
• 1989 – Jason Heyward, American baseball player
• 1989 – Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
• 1989 – Kento Ono, Japanese actor and model
• 1990 – Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
• 1990 – Brice Roger, French skier
• 1990 – Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• 1990 – Emily Tennant, Canadian actress
• 1990 – İshak Doğan, Turkish professional footballer
• 1991 – Alice Barlow, English actress and singer
• 1991 – Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
• 1991 – Candela Vetrano, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1992 – Young Thug, American rapper
• 1993 – Rydel Lynch, American singer and actress (R5)
• 1999 – Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater
• 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim (d. 2008)

Deaths[edit]

• 117 – Trajan, Roman emperor (b. 53)
• 378 – Traianus, Roman general
• 378 – Valens, Roman emperor (b. 328)
• 803 – Irene of Athens (b. 752)
• 833 – Al-Ma'mun, Iraqi caliph (b. 786)
• 1048 – Pope Damasus II
• 1107 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
• 1173 – Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Kurdish soldier and politician
• 1250 – Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
• 1534 – Thomas Cajetan, Italian cardinal and philosopher (b. 1470)
• 1580 – Patriarch Metrophanes III of Constantinople (b. 1520)
• 1601 – Michael the Brave, Romanian prince (b. 1558)
• 1634 – William Noy, English lawyer and judge (b. 1577)
• 1720 – Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
• 1744 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (b. 1673)
• 1816 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and author (b. 1771)
• 1837 – Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
• 1886 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (b. 1810)
• 1910 – Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (b. 1868)
• 1919 – Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
• 1932 – John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 – Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 – Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter (b. 1893)
• 1945 – Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1945 – Harry Hillman, American runner (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (b. 1874)
• 1957 – Carl Clauberg, German physician (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963)
• 1967 – Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and activist (b. 1943)
• 1969 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1969 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist, founded Sebring International (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Sharon Tate, American actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 – Steven Parent, American student (b. 1951)
• 1969 – C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1972 – Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish academic specialized in administrative law (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (Chase) (b. 1934)
• 1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1978 – James Gould Cozzens, American author (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (b. 1953)
• 1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1927)
• 1988 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Legion of Mary, and Old and in the Way) (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (b. 1984)
• 2002 – Paul Samson, English guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
• 2003 – Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Gregory Hines, American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Chester Ludgin, American opera singer (b. 1925)
• 2003 – R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Robert Lecourt, French lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
• 2004 – David Raksin, American composer and educator (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
• 2005 – Judith Rossner, American author (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Philip E. High, English author (b. 1914)
• 2006 – James Van Allen, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1957)
• 2008 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian author and poet (b. 1941)
• 2009 – John Quade, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (The Legendary Blues Band) (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Ted Stevens, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Carl Davis, American record producer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Gene F. Franklin, American theorist (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Al Freeman, Jr., American actor, director, and educator (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Dale Olson, American publicist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – David Rakoff, Canadian-American actor and journalist (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Carmen Belen Richardson, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Mel Stuart, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Haji, Canadian-American actress (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Harry Elliott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Glen Hobbie, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Louis Killen, English singer (b. 1934)
• 2013 – William Lynch, Jr., American politician (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Phill Nixon, English darts player (b. 1956)
• 2013 – John H. Ross, American caption (b. 1918)
• 2014 – J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian and academic (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Andriy Bal, Ukrainian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
• 2014 – Arthur G. Cohen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Arlen Realty and Development Corporation (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Ed Nelson, American actor (b. 1928)

• Πολ ΜακΚάρτνεϋ (φωνητικά, μπάσο)
• Τζον Λένον (κιθάρα)
• Τζορτζ Χάρισον (κιθάρα)
• Ρίνγκο Σταρ (ντραμς)

Οι στίχοι του «Honeymoon Song»

I never knew that a day like today lay before us
I’ve got the sun in my heart and my heart’s in the sun
Skies are as bright as your eyes
The horizon is open
Love is the ceiling
Feelings are reeling
Free as the air

Forever on and forever
Forever on side by side
Who ever knew that we two could be free as we’d fancy?
Fancy is free
But are we who are bound to each other by love?
To each other by love

Who ever knew that we two could be free as we’d fancy?
Fancy is free
But are we who are bound to each other by love?
To each other by love
To each other by love
To each other by love