• 462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
• 717 – Siege of Constantinople: The Muslim armada with 1,800 ships, is defeated by the Byzantine navy through the use of Greek fire.
• 1270 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
• 1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.
• 1449 – Tumu Crisis – Mongols capture the Emperor of China.
• 1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
• 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
• 1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
• 1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
• 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
• 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
• 1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
• 1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• 1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
• 1831 – The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
• 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
• 1864 – American Civil War: the Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
• 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
• 1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War
• 1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
• 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• 1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
• 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• 1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
• 1910 – In Brazil, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, the first Fifa World Club Championship, is founded.
• 1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
• 1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
• 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• 1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
• 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
• 1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• 1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
• 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
• 1939 – General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
• 1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
• 1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
• 1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
• 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
• 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
• 1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
• 1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
• 1967 – The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia
• 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
• 1969 – Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
• 1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
• 1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
• 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
• 1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
• 1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
• 1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes President of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
• 1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
• 1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• 1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
• 1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1997 – The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is announced by Buckingham Palace.
• 2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.

Births[edit]

• 1145 – Ibn Jubayr, Spanish geographer and poet (d. 1217)
• 1286 – Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (d. 1335)
• 1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
• 1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor, founded Dulwich College (d. 1626)
• 1588 – Henri, Prince of Condé (d. 1646)
• 1651 – Natalya Naryshkina, Russian wife of Alexis of Russia (d. 1694)
• 1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1706)
• 1689 – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Bohemian architect, designed Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (d. 1751)
• 1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
• 1726 – Johann Becker, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1803)
• 1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (d. 1872)
• 1799 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (d. 1868)
• 1818 – José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica (d. 1892)
• 1848 – Auguste Forel, Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, and psychiatrist (d. 1931)
• 1850 – Jim O'Rourke, American baseball player (d. 1919)
• 1851 – John Clum, American journalist and agent (d. 1932)
• 1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
• 1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet and critic (d. 1909)
• 1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (d. 1953)
• 1864 – Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (d. 1919)
• 1866 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
• 1867 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (d. 1947)
• 1868 – Henri Bourassa, Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
• 1871 – J. Reuben Clark, American lawyer, civil servant, and religious leader (d. 1961)
• 1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (d. 1930)
• 1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (d. 1961)
• 1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (d. 1949)
• 1878 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
• 1878 – J. F. C. Fuller, English general and historian (d. 1966)
• 1878 – Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
• 1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
• 1886 – Shigeyasu Suzuki, Japanese general (d. 1957)
• 1887 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (d. 1958)
• 1890 – Marika Papagika, Greek-American singer (d. 1943)
• 1892 – Georg Baumann, Estonian wrestler (d. 1915)
• 1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, American lieutenant and politician, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
• 1893 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi, American painter (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Chembai, Indian singer (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955)
• 1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Violet Carson, English actress and singer (d. 1983)
• 1899 – Richard Arlen, American actor and singer (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Polish psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1980)
• 1904 – George Biswell, English footballer, (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football player and actor (d. 1974)
• 1905 – Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (d. 2000)
• 1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
• 1906 – Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
• 1906 – Eleanor Hibbert English author (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Arthur Rowe, English footballer and manager (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Walter Reuther, American union leader, founded United Auto Workers (d. 1970)
• 1907 – Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, Senator of the Philippines, and Senate President (d. 1981)
• 1907 – Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
• 1908 – Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter (d. 2012)
• 1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat (d. 1957)
• 1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and producer (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (d. 2014)
• 1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
• 1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Liz Carpenter, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Eduardo J. Corso, Uruguayan lawyer and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
• 1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Hal Douglas, American voice actor (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Arvonne Fraser, American activist
• 1925 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1982)
• 1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi politician, 10th President of Bangladesh
• 1926 – Gene Colan, American illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Russell Jones, Australian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
• 1927 – Bob DiPietro, American baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Robert Isaacson, American art dealer and scholar (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
• 1928 – George Maharis, American actor and singer
• 1929 – Kostas Paskalis, Greek opera singer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Dick Raaymakers, Dutch composer and theorist (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Turgut Özakman, Turkish lawyer, a civil servant, a dramaturge and a writer (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Abdul Haq Ansari, Indian theologian and scholar (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Sammy Arena, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Beano Cook, American sportscaster (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Cecil Parkinson, English politician, Secretary of State for Transport
• 1931 – Sunny von Bülow, American socialite (d. 2008)
• 1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Marshall Lytle, American bass player and songwriter (Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars) (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
• 1933 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
• 1935 – Nicholas Garland, English cartoonist
• 1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor and director
• 1937 – Al Geiberger, American golfer
• 1937 – Allen Jones, English pop artist
• 1937 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1937 – Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author
• 1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, sculptor, and poet
• 1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1940 – Stanislav Stepashkin, Russian boxer (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Yaşar Büyükanıt, 25th Chief of the Turkish General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces
• 1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American author and educator
• 1943 – Don Stroud, American actor and surfer
• 1944 – Archie Bell, American singer-songwriter (Archie Bell & the Drells)
• 1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer
• 1944 – Harvey Thomas Strosberg, Canadian lawyer
• 1945 – Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni general; President of Yemen (2012–present)
• 1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish short story writer and novelist
• 1945 – Scott Spencer, American author and academic
• 1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer (Sly and the Family Stone and Weather Report)
• 1946 – Barry Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (Bee Gees and The Rattlesnakes)
• 1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician, 9th President of South Korea (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Mary Louise Weller, American actress
• 1947 – Al Green, American lawyer and politician
• 1948 – James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Alastair Redfern, English bishop
• 1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Leslie Feinberg, American activist and author (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Garry Maddox, American baseball player
• 1949 – Alasdair McDonnell, Irish physician and politician
• 1949 – P. A. Sangma, Indian politician, 11th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• 1950 – Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Russia
• 1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football player and coach
• 1950 – Phil McGraw, American psychologist, author, and talk show host
• 1951 – David Bairstow, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1998)
• 1951 – Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
• 1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio host and actor
• 1952 – Manuel Piñero, Spanish golfer
• 1952 – Jakub Polák, Czech activist (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Beau Billingslea, American actor
• 1953 – Don Blackman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Rachid Bouchareb, French director
• 1953 – Rocco Rock, American wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Joseph Williams, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Toto)
• 1954 – Richard Burden, English politician
• 1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Billy Blanks, American martial artist and actor
• 1955 – Bruce Foxton, English bass player (The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, and Casbah Club)
• 1956 – Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player
• 1956 – Philece Sampler, American actress
• 1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American publisher, founded the Transportation Communications Newsletter
• 1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
• 1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 (d. 2002)
• 1959 – Kenny Mayne, American football player and journalist
• 1959 – Joe Jusko, American illustrator and painter
• 1960 – Ralf Außem, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – Karl Mecklenburg, American football player
• 1960 – Michael Saward, Australian theorist and academic
• 1961 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler and actor (d. 2007)
• 1961 – Pete DeCoursey, American journalist (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Christopher Ferguson, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1961 – Boney James, American saxophonist, composer, and producer
• 1962 – Tony Cascarino, English footballer
• 1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1962 – Michelle Meyrink, Canadian actress
• 1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian footballer
• 1963 – Carola Smit, Dutch singer (BZN)
• 1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1964 – Ray D'Arcy, Irish radio and television host
• 1964 – Holly Golightly, American author and illustrator
• 1964 – Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini activist
• 1964 – Charlie Robison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Cécilia Rodhe, Swedish-American model, Miss Sweden 1978
• 1965 – Ľudovít Kaník, Slovak politician
• 1965 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer
• 1965 – Tibor Simon, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2002)
• 1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Ken Levine, American video game designer, co-founded Irrational Games
• 1967 – David Whissell, Canadian engineer and politician
• 1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
• 1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1970 – David Fairleigh, Australian rugby league player, coach and sportscaster
• 1970 – Mitsou, Canadian singer and actress
• 1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
• 1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor and singer
• 1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian-American actress and author
• 1971 – Lââm, French singer
• 1971 – Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, Saudi Arabian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
• 1971 – Joe Enochs, American soccer player and manager
• 1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese bass player and composer
• 1971 – Jimmy Reiher, Jr., American wrestler
• 1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish retired footballer
• 1971 – Dave Wittenberg, South African-American voice actor
• 1972 – Doug Williams, English-American wrestler
• 1973 – J.D. Fortune, Canadian singer-songwriter (INXS)
• 1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player
• 1974 – Burn Gorman, American-English actor
• 1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American author, illustrator, voice actor, and director
• 1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese director and producer, founded Ordet Animation Studio
• 1975 – R. Kan Albay, Flemish actor and director
• 1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Rogue Traders)
• 1975 – Nomy Lamm, American singer-songwriter and activist
• 1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
• 1975 – Omar Rodríguez-López, Puerto Rican-American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Bosnian Rainbows, and De Facto)
• 1975 – Scott Speedman, English-Canadian actor
• 1976 – Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter and producer (Scissor Sisters)
• 1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian race car driver
• 1976 – Clare Connor, English cricketer
• 1976 – Jada Fire, American porn actress
• 1976 – Érik Morales, Mexican boxer
• 1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
• 1976 – Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
• 1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Shoshana Bean, American actress and singer
• 1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian race car driver
• 1977 – Arsalan Iftikhar, American lawyer and author
• 1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player
• 1978 – Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American terrorist and Al-Qaeda spokesperson (d. 2015)
• 1978 – Max Vieri, Australian-Italian footballer
• 1979 – Neg Dupree, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1979 – James O'Connor, Irish footballer and manager
• 1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 – Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer (Ell & Nikki)
• 1980 – Lara Pulver, English actress
• 1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer
• 1980 – Sean Stewart, American singer-songwriter and model
• 1981 – Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian actor
• 1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player
• 1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
• 1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
• 1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian race car driver
• 1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
• 1983 – Iñaki Lejarreta, Spanish cyclist (d. 2012)
• 1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Yūta Hiraoka, Japanese actor
• 1984 – László Köteles, Hungarian footballer
• 1984 – Nick Noble, American football player
• 1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things, and Arma Angelus)
• 1985 – Larsen Jensen, American swimmer
• 1985 – Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
• 1985 – Jon Avila, Filipino-English actor and model
• 1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby player
• 1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
• 1986 – Stella Mwangi, Kenyan-Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Shahar Tzuberi, Israeli windsurfer
• 1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Evermore)
• 1987 – Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete
• 1987 – Mats Zuccarello, Norwegian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Simona de Silvestro, Swiss race car driver
• 1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
• 1988 – Vaneza Pitynski, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 – Chanel West Coast, American model, actress, rapper, and singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Astrid Besser, Italian tennis player
• 1989 – Bill Kaulitz, German singer-songwriter and voice actor (Tokio Hotel)
• 1989 – Tom Kaulitz, German guitarist (Tokio Hotel)
• 1989 – Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
• 1989 – Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
• 1990 – Aisling Loftus, English actress
• 1990 – Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer
• 1991 – Rhys Bennett, English footballer
• 1992 – Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
• 1993 – Alexander Conti, Canadian actor
• 1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
• 1993 – Louise delos Reyes, Filipino actress
• 1993 – Silje Norendal, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1994 – Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player
• 1995 – Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 – Zendaya, American actress, singer, and dancer

Deaths[edit]

• 1067 – Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (b. 1012)
• 1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
• 1256 – Kujō Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
• 1414 – William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1369)
• 1557 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (b. 1491)
• 1581 – Guru Ram Das, Pakistani 4th of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism (b. 1534)
• 1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
• 1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1529)
• 1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
• 1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer, jurist, and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1625)
• 1687 – Henry More, English priest and philosopher (b. 1614)
• 1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
• 1715 – Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• 1818 – Robert Calder, Scottish admiral (b. 1745)
• 1838 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (b. 1770)
• 1839 – Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian and educator (b. 1786)
• 1868 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (b. 1799)
• 1922 – Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)
• 1928 – Elemér Bokor, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1887)
• 1930 – Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
• 1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1866)
• 1957 – Dennis Brain, English horn player (b. 1921)
• 1967 – Ilse Koch, German wife of Karl-Otto Koch (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English captain and poet (b. 1886)
• 1969 – Drew Pearson, American journalist (b. 1897)
• 1970 – François Mauriac, French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
• 1980 – Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Ann Harding, American actress and singer (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Albert Speer, German architect and author (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish politician (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
• 1983 – Larry McDonald, American physician and politician (b. 1935)
• 1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
• 1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938)
• 1989 – Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
• 1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Seub Nakhasathien, Thai environmentalist (b. 1949)
• 1990 – Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
• 1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Osman F. Seden, Turkish film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1924)
• 1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist and author (b. 1951)
• 2001 – Sil Austin, American saxophonist (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Brian Moore English sportscaster (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Rand Brooks, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Terry Frost, English painter (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Syrian religious leader, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Alastair Morton, South African businessman (b. 1938)
• 2005 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Nellie Connally, American wife of John Connally (b. 1919)
• 2006 – György Faludy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American journalist (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Bob O'Connor, American politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh painter (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand horse racer and philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech-Canadian businessman (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician and academic (b. 1961)
• 2009 – Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
• 2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Sean Bergin, South African saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Rainbows For Life, Canadian race horse (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
• 2012 – William Petzäll, Swedish politician (b. 1988)
• 2012 – Arnaldo Putzu, Italian illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Zvonko Bušić, Croatian terrorist, hijacker of TWA Flight 355 (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Ignacio Eizaguirre, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer and actor (b. 1969)
• 2013 – Gordon Steege, Australian soldier (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Margaret Mary Vojtko, American linguist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Ken Wallis, English commander and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Moktar Ali Zubeyr, Somali militant leader (b. 1977)
• 2014 – Mark Gil, Filipino actor (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Rogers McKee, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Maya Rao, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Elena Varzi, Italian actress (b. 1926)

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• 47 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
• 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
• 31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
• 421 – Galla Placidia, wife of the Emperor Constantius III, becomes a widow for the second time when her husband dies suddenly of an illness.
• 1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
• 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
• 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
• 1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
• 1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
• 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
• 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
• 1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
• 1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
• 1833 – Oberlin College is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart in Oberlin, Ohio.
• 1856 – The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China.
• 1859 – A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
• 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
• 1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
• 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• 1898 – Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
• 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
• 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
• 1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
• 1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
• 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
• 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
• 1946 – The interim government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
• 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
• 1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
• 1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
• 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War
• 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
• 1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
• 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
• 1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
• 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
• 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
• 2013 – The new eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic as the widest bridge in the world.

Births[edit]

• 1661 – Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733)
• 1675 – William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
• 1753 – Marie Joséphine of Savoy (d. 1810)
• 1778 – Louis Bonaparte, French-Dutch king (d. 1846)
• 1805 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (d. 1851)
• 1810 – Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898)
• 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and educator (d. 1897)
• 1812 – William Fox, English-New Zealand politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1820 – Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
• 1830 – William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (d. 1911)
• 1838 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii (d. 1917)
• 1839 – Henry George, American economist and author (d. 1897)
• 1850 – Eugene Field American author and poet (d. 1895)
• 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company (d. 1915)
• 1850 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (d. 1919)
• 1852 – Paul Bourget, French author and critic (d. 1935)
• 1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
• 1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (d. 1910)
• 1857 – Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
• 1862 – Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
• 1865 – Simeón Ola, Filipino general (d. 1952)
• 1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1943)
• 1873 – Lily Poulett-Harris, Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1897)
• 1877 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
• 1878 – Herman, Estonian-Finnish archbishop (d. 1961)
• 1878 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat (d. 1920)
• 1878 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
• 1879 – An Jung-geun, Korean activist, assassin of Itō Hirobumi (d. 1910)
• 1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (d. 1970)
• 1886 – Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1939)
• 1901 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek psychoanalyst and poet (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (d. 1977)
• 1904 – August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Paul Saagpakk, Estonian linguist, lexicographer, and academic (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Romare Bearden, American painter and author (d. 1988)
• 1911 – William F. Harrah, American businessman, founded the Caesars Entertainment Corporation (d. 1978)
• 1912 – Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
• 1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Tom Glazer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Benjamin Aaron, American lawyer and scholar (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author and critic (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Allen Drury, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Marge Champion, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1919 – Lance Macklin, English racing driver (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Leigh Kamman, American radio host (d. 2014)
• 1923 – René Thom, French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002)
• 1924 – Daniel arap Moi, Kenyan educator and politician, 2nd President of Kenya
• 1925 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (d. 1981)
• 1927 – Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster
• 1928 – Jim Jordan, Canadian educator and politician (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Mel Stuart, American director and producer (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Hal Ashby, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)
• 1929 – Beulah Bewley, English physician
• 1929 – Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1993)
• 1932 – Walter Davis, Jr., American pianist (d. 1990)
• 1932 – Arnold Greenberg, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Ed Conlin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
• 1934 – Chuck McCann, American actor and screenwriter
• 1934 – Grady Nutt, American comedian, minister, and author (d. 1982)
• 1935 – D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
• 1936 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer, and author
• 1936 – Károly Krajczár, Hungarian-Slovene educator and author
• 1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Derek Fowlds, English actor
• 1937 – Peter Ueberroth, American businessman
• 1938 – Leonard Appleyard, English diplomat (British Ambassador to China)
• 1938 – Mary Jo Catlett, American actress and singer
• 1938 – Clarence Felder, American actor
• 1938 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Ernie Sigley, Australian television host
• 1940 – Jimmy Clanton, American singer
• 1941 – David Bale, South African–American pilot and activist (d. 2003)
• 1941 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish economist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1941 – John Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1943 – Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
• 1943 – Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1943 – Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1944 – Janet Simpson, English sprinter (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Luis Ávalos, Cuban-American actor (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie, English politician
• 1946 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2006)
• 1946 – Walt Simonson, American author and illustrator
• 1946 – Dan White, American sergeant and politician (d. 1985)
• 1946 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (Caravan and The Wilde Flowers) (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Louis Michel, Belgian educator and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Belgium
• 1947 – Jim Richards, New Zealand race car driver
• 1948 – Nate Archibald, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1949 – Moira Stuart, English journalist
• 1950 – Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
• 1950 – Michael Rother, German guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter (Neu!, Kraftwerk, and Harmonia)
• 1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor, martial artist, and stuntman
• 1951 – Jim DeMint, American politician
• 1951 – Jon Feltheimer, American businessman
• 1951 – Michael Gray, American actor
• 1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Mik Kaminski, English violinist (Electric Light Orchestra, Violinski, and ELO Part II)
• 1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1952 – Mihhail Lotman, Estonian linguist, scholar, and politician
• 1953 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Minister of Defense for Afghanistan (d. 2001)
• 1953 – John Zorn, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (Naked City, Masada, and Painkiller)
• 1954 – Gai Waterhouse, Scottish-Australian horse trainer
• 1956 – Angelo Fusco, Irish soldier
• 1956 – Paul Goodwin, English oboe player and conductor
• 1956 – Mario Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 – Tony Alva, American skateboarder
• 1958 – Olivier Grouillard, French race car driver
• 1958 – Lynne Kosky, Australian social worker and politician (d. 2014)
• 1959 – Drungo Hazewood, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Guy Laliberté, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and poker player, founded Cirque du Soleil
• 1960 – Eric Dickerson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1960 – Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician, Minister of Finance for Norway
• 1960 – Rex Hudler, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer and manager
• 1961 – Ron Wasserman, American singer-songwriter and producer (Fisher)
• 1962 – Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (d. 2012)
• 1962 – Prachya Pinkaew, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Keir Starmer, English lawyer
• 1963 – Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach
• 1964 – Andrea Illy, Italian businessman
• 1964 – Keanu Reeves, Lebanese-Canadian actor, singer, and producer (Dogstar)
• 1965 – Lennox Lewis, English-Canadian boxer
• 1965 – Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian director and screenwriter
• 1966 – Dino Cazares, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Fear Factory, Asesino, and Divine Heresy)
• 1966 – Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1966 – Yū Hayami, Japanese singer and actress
• 1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress, director, and producer
• 1966 – Olivier Panis, French race car driver
• 1966 – Tuc Watkins, American actor
• 1967 – Frank Fontsere, American drummer and songwriter (Fozzy and Stuck Mojo)
• 1967 – Andreas Möller, German footballer and manager
• 1968 – Kristen Cloke, American actress
• 1968 – David Dinsmore, Scottish journalist
• 1968 – Cynthia Watros, American actress
• 1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer (K-Ci & JoJo)
• 1969 – Stéphane Matteau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Dave Naz, American photographer
• 1969 – Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1971 – Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian skier
• 1971 – Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor, martial artist, director, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player and coach
• 1971 – César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
• 1971 – Shauna Sand, American model and actress
• 1971 – Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist
• 1972 – Robert Coles, English golfer
• 1972 – Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer
• 1973 – Jason Blake, American ice hockey player
• 1973 – Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1973 – Katt Williams, American comedian, actor, and rapper
• 1974 – Steven Johnson, Australian race car driver
• 1974 – Inari Vachs, American porn actress
• 1975 – MC Chris, American rapper, actor, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
• 1976 – Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian sprinter
• 1977 – Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
• 1977 – Amanda Marcotte, American blogger and academic
• 1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
• 1979 – Alex Chu, South Korean-Canadian singer and actor (Clazziquai)
• 1979 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor, singer, and dancer
• 1979 – Brian Westbrook, American football player
• 1980 – Dany Sabourin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Danny Shittu, Nigerian footballer
• 1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese race car driver
• 1981 – Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Jennifer Hopkins, American tennis player
• 1981 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
• 1981 – Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress
• 1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
• 1982 – Mandy Cho, American-Hong Kong model and actress
• 1982 – Jason Hammel, American baseball player
• 1982 – Mark Phillips, English footballer
• 1983 – Rich Boy, American rapper and producer
• 1983 – Mark Foster, English rugby player
• 1984 – Jack Peñate, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese model, actor, and singer
• 1985 – Keith Galloway, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 – Eugenia Mandzhieva, Russian model
• 1986 – Gelson Fernandes, Swiss footballer
• 1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
• 1986 – Rob Ramsay, Canadian actor
• 1987 – Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer
• 1987 – Spencer Smith, American drummer (Panic! at the Disco)
• 1988 – Keisuke Kato, Japanese actor and entertainer
• 1988 – Javi Martínez, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer
• 1988 – Ishmeet Singh, Indian singer (d. 2008)
• 1989 – Joel Goonan, English actor
• 1989 – Marcus Morris, American basketball player
• 1989 – Markieff Morris, American basketball player
• 1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Zedd, Russian-German DJ, musician and producer
• 1990 – Marcus Ericsson, Swedish race car driver
• 1990 – Shayla Worley, American gymnast
• 1992 – Xenia Knoll, Swiss tennis player
• 1992 – Nenad Lukić, Serbian footballer
• 1992 – Alberto Masi, Italian footballer
• 1993 – Montana Cox, Australian model
• 1993 – Robert Rooba, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1993 – Tom Anderson, English footballer
• 1994 – Kishen Velani, English cricketer
• 1995 – Deimantas Petravičius, Lithuanian footballer
• 1996 – Lilla Barzó, Hungarian tennis player
• 1996 – Sungha Jung, South Korean guitarist

Deaths[edit]

• 421 – Constantius III, Roman emperor
• 459 – Simeon Stylites, Byzantine saint (b. 390)
• 595 – Patriarch John IV of Constantinople
• 1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary (b. 1000)
• 1274 – Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1242)
• 1397 – Francesco Landini, Italian singer-songwriter, organist, and poet (b. 1335)
• 1540 – Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
• 1680 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of Sweden (b. 1602)
• 1688 – Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet, English politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)
• 1690 – Philip William, Elector Palatine, German husband of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1615)
• 1764 – Nathaniel Bliss, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1700)
• 1765 – Henry Bouquet, Swiss-English colonel (b. 1719)
• 1768 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1703)
• 1790 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
• 1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (b. 1763)
• 1820 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)
• 1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Hungarian-French astronomer and academic (b. 1754)
• 1834 – Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)
• 1865 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1805)
• 1872 – N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (b. 1783)
• 1877 – Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1793)
• 1896 – Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (b. 1839)
• 1898 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
• 1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
• 1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
• 1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American engineer and businessman (b. 1855)
• 1927 – Umegatani Tōtarō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1932 – Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1896)
• 1934 – James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)
• 1934 – Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (b. 1908)
• 1934 – Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (b. 1884)
• 1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
• 1941 – Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1942 – James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
• 1942 – Tom Williams, Irish soldier (b. 1924)
• 1943 – Marsden Hartley, American painter (b. 1877)
• 1944 – Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Shirō Takasu, Japanese career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (b. 1884)
• 1945 – Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
• 1948 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
• 1953 – Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (b. 1875)
• 1953 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
• 1954 – Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (b. 1900)
• 1962 – William Wilkerson, American businessman, founded The Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel (b. 1890)
• 1964 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
• 1964 – Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
• 1965 – Johannes Bobrowski, German poet and author (b. 1917)
• 1969 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Sue Williams, American actress and model (b. 1945)
• 1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1973 – Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-English philologist and poet (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Mabel Vernon, American activist (b. 1883)
• 1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1934)
• 1977 – Stephen Dunne, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Fred G. Meyer, American businessman, founded Fred Meyer (b. 1886)
• 1979 – Otto P. Weyland, American general (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
• 1985 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
• 1990 – Robert Holmes a Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (b. 1937)
• 1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Russel B. Nye, American author and educator (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Roy Castle, English actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
• 1996 – Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1953)
• 1997 – Rudolf Bing, Austrian-American manager (b. 1902)
• 1997 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Jackie Blanchflower, Irish-English footballer (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Curt Siodmak, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Joan Oró, Catalan biochemist (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Bob Denver, American actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete and politician (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer, created TransAmerica (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Esther Hoffe, Czech-Israeli mistress of Max Brod (b. 1906)
• 2007 – Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
• 2011 – Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean actor and singer (b. 1966)
• 2012 – Mark Abrahamian, American guitarist (Starship) (b. 1966)
• 2012 – Jack Boucher, American photographer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Bob Johnstone, Canadian journalist (b. 1930)
• 2012 – John C. Marshall, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Emmanuel Nunes, Portuguese-French composer and educator (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Valérie Benguigui, French actress and director (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Terry Clawson, English rugby player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Ronald Coase, English-American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2013 – David Jacobs, English radio and television host (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Olga Lowe, South African-English actress (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Frederik Pohl, American author (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Peter Carter, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (b. 1956)
• 2014 – F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, American lawyer and politician, 20th District Attorney of Philadelphia (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
• 2014 – Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Paul W. Robertson, Canadian businessman (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, Indian lawyer and politician, 13th Attorney General for India (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Antonis Vardis, Greek songwriter (b. 1948)

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