Βίβλος 1.000 ετών βρέθηκε στην Τουρκία 

Μια κλεμμένη Βίβλο που φαίνεται πως είναι τουλάχιστον 1.000 

ετών, εντόπισαν οι Τουρκικές αρχές στην πόλη Τοκάτ, στην

 κεντρική Τουρκία.

Πρόκειται για ένα εντυπωσιακό ιερό βιβλίο από το οποίο έχουν διασωθεί 51 σελίδες

 και το εξώφυλλο. Η Βίβλος είναι γραμμένη στα Ασσυριακά ενώ οι προσωπογραφίες

 και εικόνες είναι φιλοτεχνημένες από φύλλα χρυσού.

Bond's Spectre breaks box office records

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Spectre, the 24th James Bond adventure, has broken all-time box office records in nearly every market in which it has been released so far.

Its UK launch set a new record for movies released on a Monday - as opposed to a Friday - taking more than £41m in its first week. 

It beat previous Monday release record holder, 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which took £23.8m. 

Records were also set in the Norway, the Netherlands, Finland and Denmark.

Spectre took $80.4m (£52.1m) in all six released territories.

'Achingly cool'

"We're so grateful to all our James Bond fans," producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said. 

Skyfall, the previous Bond movie, was the highest-grossing 007 film in the franchise's history, taking £700m ($1.1 bn) worldwide.

Craig's fourth outing as 007 has received widespread critical acclaim, with one saluting it as "pure action mayhem".

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described the film in his five-star review as "terrifically exciting, spectacular [and] uproariously entertaining".

The Times said Sam Mendes' film was "achingly cool", while The Independent said it was "every bit the equal of its predecessor", 2012 release Skyfall.

Spectre also broke opening-day UK box office records after taking £6.3 million by Tuesday.

Image copyrightMGM/Columbia/Eon

It opened in 647 cinemas on 2500 screens in the UK, making it the widest release of all time in the UK and Ireland. 

"What an incredible thrill it is for us at MGM to see how James Bond continues to deliver such excitement to his fans," said Gary Barber, MGM Chairman and CEO.

Peter Taylor, managing director of Sony Pictures UK, added: "We are delighted that audiences in the UK and Ireland continue to embrace these stories about one of our biggest and best cultural icons."

The movie opens in the US on 6 November where it is expected to top the box office, after a Halloween weekend of flops.

Sandra Bullock's Our Brand is Crisis, and Bradley Cooper's Burnt brought in an underwhelming $3.3m (£2.1m) and $5.1m (£3.3m) respectively. 

Jurassic World has been this year's biggest film so far, bringing in more than £1bn worldwide.

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• 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
• 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
• 1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
• 1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
• 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
• 1534– English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.
• 1592 – The city of San Luis Potosí is founded.
• 1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
• 1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.
• 1789 – The first District Court established by the Constitution opens in New York City.
• 1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
• 1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
• 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
• 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
• 1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
• 1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
• 1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
• 1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
• 1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
• 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
• 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
• 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
• 1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
• 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
• 1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, plebiscite.
• 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
• 1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
• 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
• 1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.
• 1956 – The Khan Yunis killings are perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs.
• 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
• 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
• 1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
• 1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
• 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
• 1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
• 1982 – The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
• 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
• 1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
• 1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
• 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
• 1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
• 2013 – A solar eclipse sweeps across Africa, Europe and the Eastern United States.
• 2014 – One World Trade Center officially opens

Births[edit]

• 39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
• 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1571)
• 1560 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1609)
• 1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1654)
• 1604 – Osman II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1622)
• 1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (d. 1714)
• 1656 – Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
• 1689 – Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
• 1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
• 1757 – Robert Smith, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of State (d. 1842)
• 1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
• 1793 – Stephen F. Austin, American businessman and politician (d. 1836)
• 1794 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
• 1799 – William Sprague III, American politician, 14th Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1856)
• 1801 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, founded the Baedeker Publishing Company (d. 1859)
• 1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
• 1815 – John Mitchel, Irish journalist and activist (d. 1875)
• 1816 – Jubal Early, American general and lawyer (d. 1894)
• 1816 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (d. 1898)
• 1845 – Edward Douglass White, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
• 1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
• 1856 – Jim McCormick, Scottish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1918)
• 1857 – Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (d. 1918)
• 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American journalist and politician (d. 1916)
• 1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic (d. 1925)
• 1871 – Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby player and manager (d. 1943)
• 1875 – Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer and conductor (d. 1910)
• 1876 – Stephen Alencastre, American bishop and missionary (d. 1940)
• 1877 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean general and politician, 20th President of Chile (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Joseph William Martin, Jr., American publisher and politician, 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1968)
• 1884 – Arthur Rosenkampff, American gymnast (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Harry Stephen Keeler, American author (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1943)
• 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot and colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1930)
• 1894 – Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek captain and politician, 133rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1964)
• 1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American illustrator and animator (d. 1970)
• 1898 – Kenneth Bailey, Australian public servant (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Rezső Seress, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1968)
• 1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Adolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Adidas (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Leopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
• 1901 – André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer and journalist (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981)
• 1905 – Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player, wrestler, and coach (d. 1990)
• 1909 – James Reston, Scottish-American journalist and author (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Richard Hurndall, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Karel Zeman, Czech director, animator, production designer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Kick Smit, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 1974)
• 1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan general and politician, 46th President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Hal Jackson, American radio host (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Claude Barma, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Bob Feller, American sailor, baseball player, and sportscaster (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Russell B. Long, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Ludovic Kennedy, Scottish journalist and author (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Květa Legátová, Czech author (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet, educator, and activist (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Dennis McDermott, English-Canadian union leader and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to Ireland (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish cardinal (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Leonard Stone, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Yamaguchi Hitomi, Japanese author and critic (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Marc Breaux, American actor, director, and choreographer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Violetta Elvin, Russian ballerina
• 1924 – Samuel Ruiz, Mexican bishop (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
• 1926 – Maurice Couture, Canadian archbishop
• 1926 – Genzo Kurita, Japanese serial killer (d. 1959)
• 1926 – Robert W. Wilson, American hedge fund manager, philanthropist and art collector (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Peggy McCay, American actress
• 1928 – Goseki Kojima, Japanese illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Bill Morrison, Australian politician and diplomat, 37th Australian Minister for Defence (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Alfonso Orueta, Chilean footballer, manager, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Phil Crane, American academic and politician (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Mable John, American singer
• 1930 – D. James Kennedy, American pastor and author (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Brian Robinson, English cyclist
• 1930 – Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer and academic
• 1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
• 1930 – Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean soldier and politician, 7th Premier of North Korea (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Monica Vitti, Italian actress, singer, and screenwriter
• 1931 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, 9th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2014)
• 1933 – John Barry, English-American composer and conductor (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Ken Berry, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1933 – Jeremy Brett, English actor and singer (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Michael Dukakis, American lawyer, academic, and politician, 65th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 – Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1934 – Hans Janmaat, Dutch businessman, educator, and politician (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Ingrid Rüütel, Estonian philologist, 3rd First Lady of Estonia
• 1936 – Roy Emerson, Australian-American tennis player and coach
• 1936 – Takao Saito, Japanese author and illustrator, created Golgo 13
• 1937 – Dietrich Möller, German politician, 15th Mayor of Marburg
• 1938 – Martin Dunwoody, English mathematician and academic
• 1938 – Akira Kobayashi, Japanese actor and singer
• 1938 – Jean Rollin, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1940 – Sonny Rhodes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Martin Cruz Smith, American author and screenwriter
• 1942 – Priit Tomson, Estonian basketball player
• 1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pentangle) (d. 2011)
• 1944 – Jan Boerstoel, Dutch poet and songwriter
• 1945 – Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer and manager
• 1946 – Reinhard Karl, German mountaineer, photographer, and author (d. 1982)
• 1946 – Tom Savini, American actor, stuntman, director, and make-up artist
• 1946 – Wataru Takeshita, Japanese politician
• 1947 – Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American lawyer and politician, 9th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii
• 1947 – Joe Lala, American actor and drummer (Blues Image and Manassas) (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Siiri Oviir, Estonian politician, 3rd Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
• 1947 – Faraj Sarkohi, Iranian journalist and critic
• 1948 – Akira Emoto, Japanese actor
• 1948 – Takashi Kawamura, Japanese politician
• 1948 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Rick Kreuger, American baseball player and coach
• 1948 – Lulu, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress (The Luvvers)
• 1948 – Rainer Zobel, German footballer, coach, and manager
• 1949 – Mike Evans, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Osamu Fujimura, Japanese politician
• 1949 – Stephen Oliver, biochemist
• 1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer and talk show host
• 1949 – Anna Wintour, English-American journalist
• 1950 – Massimo Mongai, Italian journalist and author
• 1950 – Joe Queenan, American author and critic
• 1951 – Dwight Evans, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist
• 1951 – André Wetzel, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1952 – Roseanne Barr, American comedian, actress, and producer
• 1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor and singer
• 1952 – David Ho, Taiwanese-American scientist
• 1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress and producer
• 1953 – Helios Creed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chrome)
• 1953 – Larry Herndon, American baseball player and coach
• 1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian, actor, producer, and talk show host
• 1953 – Vilma Santos, Filipino actress and politician
• 1954 – Adam Ant, English singer-songwriter and actor (Adam and the Ants)
• 1955 – Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Anne Milton, English nurse and politician
• 1955 – Phil Simms, American football player and sportscaster
• 1956 – Cathy Jamieson, Scottish politician, 2nd Scottish Minister for Justice
• 1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor, puppeteer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Gary Ross, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1957 – Peter Gregson, Scottish-English engineer and academic
• 1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and martial artist
• 1957 – Gary Olsen, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1959 – Hal Hartley, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1961 – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, English businessman
• 1961 – Dave Hahn, Japanese-American mountaineer and journalist
• 1962 – Gabe Newell, American businessman, co-founded the Valve Corporation
• 1962 – David J. Schiappa, American politician
• 1962 – Jacqui Smith, English politician
• 1963 – Davis Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
• 1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
• 1964 – Algimantas Briaunis, Lithuanian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Milly D'Abbraccio, Italian porn actress
• 1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress, singer, and director
• 1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1965 – Ann Scott, French-English author
• 1966 – Elita Kļaviņa, Latvian actress
• 1967 – Mike O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Mark Roberts, Welsh singer and guitarist (Catatonia, Sherbet Antlers, and Y Ffyrc)
• 1967 – John Tomac, American cyclist
• 1967 – Steven Wilson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, No-Man, and Storm Corrosion)
• 1968 – Alberto Iñurrategi, Spanish mountaineer
• 1968 – Paul Quantrill, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Seiji Takaiwa, Japanese stuntman
• 1969 – Robert Miles, Swiss-Italian DJ and producer
• 1969 – Niels van Steenis, Dutch rower
• 1970 – Geir Frigård, Norwegian footballer
• 1971 – Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
• 1971 – Sticky Fingaz, American rapper, producer, and actor (Onyx)
• 1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Alison Williamson, English archer
• 1971 – Dwight Yorke, Tobagonian footballer and coach
• 1972 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer and manager
• 1972 – Michael Hofmann, German footballer
• 1972 – Marko Koers, Dutch runner
• 1973 – Nemone, English radio and television host
• 1973 – Julia Channel, French porn actress and singer
• 1973 – Ben Fogle, English television host and author
• 1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
• 1973 – Christian Picciolini, American businessman and manager
• 1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Sonali Kulkarni, Indian actress
• 1975 – Darren Sharper, American football player and sportscaster
• 1976 – Tōko Aoyama, Japanese voice actress
• 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentinian-Mexican footballer
• 1976 – Jake Shimabukuro, American ukulele player and composer
• 1977 – Aria Giovanni, American porn actress and model
• 1977 – Marcel Ketelaer, German footballer
• 1977 – Jane Monheit, American singer
• 1977 – Greg Plitt, American model and actor (d. 2015)
• 1977 – Sean Ringgold, American actor and stuntman
• 1977 – Mcoy Fundales, Filipino singer-songwriter (Orange and Lemons and KENYO)
• 1978 – Tim McIlrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rise Against, Baxter, Arma Angelus, and The Killing Tree)
• 1978 – Jonas Howden Sjøvaag, Norwegian drummer (Eple Trio)
• 1978 – Hiroko Sakai, Japanese softball player
• 1978 – Koshiro Take, Japanese jockey
• 1978 – Sergei Movsesian, Armenian chess player
• 1978 – Julia Taylor, Hungarian porn actress
• 1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Beau McDonald, Australian footballer and coach
• 1980 – Hans Anderson, Danish motorcycle racer
• 1981 – Jimmy Anak Ahar, Bruneian runner
• 1981 – Diego López, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Vicente Matías Vuoso, Argentinian-Mexican footballer
• 1981 – Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer
• 1981 – Sten Pentus, Estonian race car driver
• 1982 – Mike Jenkins, American strongman (d. 2013)
• 1982 – Moniek Kleinsman, Dutch speed skater
• 1982 – Evgeni Plushenko, Russian figure skater
• 1982 – Egemen Korkmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
• 1983 – Myrna Braza, Norwegian singer
• 1983 – Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderer
• 1984 – Christian Bakkerud, Danish race car driver (d. 2011)
• 1984 – Ryo Nishikido, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (NEWS and Kanjani Eight)
• 1984 – LaMarr Woodley, American football player
• 1984 – Mina Fukui, Japanese actress and model
• 1985 – Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
• 1985 – Philipp Tschauner, German footballer
• 1986 – Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
• 1986 – Jasmine Trias, Filipino-American singer and actress
• 1986 – Jermaine Jones, American singer and actor
• 1986 – Beth Kingston, English actress
• 1986 – Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Heo Young-saeng, South Korean singer and actor (SS501)
• 1987 – Cameron, American wrestler, dancer, and model
• 1987 – Colin Kaepernick, American football player
• 1987 – Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
• 1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model and actress
• 1987 – Ty Lawson, American basketball player
• 1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor
• 1989 – Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 – Joyce Jonathan, French singer
• 1990 – Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer
• 1992 – Valeria Solovyeva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 – Kendall Jenner, American model and actress

Deaths[edit]

• 361 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (b. 317)
• 644 – Umar, Saudi Arabian caliph (b. 584)
• 753 – Saint Pirmin, Spanish-German monk (b. 700)
• 1254 – John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine emperor (b. 1193)
• 1428 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English general and politician (b. 1388)
• 1456 – Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (b. 1431)
• 1580 – Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian and author (b. 1512)
• 1584 – Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (b. 1538)
• 1600 – Richard Hooker, English priest and theologian (b. 1554)
• 1639 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
• 1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer and academic (b. 1582)
• 1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
• 1676 – Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1635)
• 1711 – John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (b. 1666)
• 1787 – Robert Lowth, English bishop (b. 1710)
• 1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and activist (b. 1748)
• 1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal (b. 1715)
• 1854 – Maxim Gauci, Maltese lithographer (b. 1774)
• 1858 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and author (b. 1807)
• 1869 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1792)
• 1890 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1811)
• 1891 – Louis Lucien Bonaparte, English-Italian philologist and politician (b. 1813)
• 1914 – Georg Trakl, Austrian-Polish pharmacist and poet (b. 1887)
• 1917 – Léon Bloy, French author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
• 1926 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1927 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist and author (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1883)
• 1933 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1853)
• 1939 – Charles Tournemire, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
• 1949 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (b. 1861)
• 1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1957 – Laika, Russian dog (b. 1954)
• 1957 – Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian psychotherapist and author (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Paul Willis, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Antonius van Loon, Dutch tug of war competitor (b. 1888)
• 1962 – L. O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor and painter (b. 1895)
• 1964 – John Henry Barbee, American singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1969 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish football player (b. 1898)
• 1970 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
• 1973 – Marc Allégret, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1975 – Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
• 1975 – Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi captain and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, President of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
• 1975 – Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 1980 – Caroline Mytinger, American painter (b. 1897)
• 1983 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Mary Shane, American sportscaster (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Henri van Praag, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and educator (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist (b. 1893)
• 1990 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 1990 – Kenan Erim, Turkish archaeologist (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Nusret Fişek, Turkish physician and Minister of Health (b. 1914)
• 1991 – Chris Bender American singer (b. 1972)
• 1993 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (b. 1895)
• 1994 – Valter Palm, Estonian-American boxer (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Peter Wilenski, Australian public servant (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (b. 1887)
• 1995 – John Orchard, English actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish secret government agent (b. 1956)
• 1998 – Bob Kane, American author and illustrator, co-created Batman (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Lonnie Donegan, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
• 2002 – Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet and educator (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
• 2006 – Paul Mauriat, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Marie Rudisill, American author (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Aleksandr Dedyushko, Belarusian-Russian actor (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Martin Meehan, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 2009 – Archie Baird, Scottish footballer, journalist, and educator (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Jerry Bock, American composer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Jim Clench, Canadian bass player (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian politician (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Carmélia Alves, Brazilian singer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – George Chesterton, English cricketer and coach (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Mükerrem Hiç, Turkish academic, author, and politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Thomas K. McCraw, American historian and academic (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician, 18th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Reshma, Pakistani singer (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Nick Cardy, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Gerard Cieślik, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Gamani Corea, Sri Lankan economist and diplomat (b. 1925)
• 2013 – William J. Coyne, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Rupert Gerritsen, Australian historian and author (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Leonard Long, Australian painter (b. 1911)
• 2014 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor and singer (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Tinus Linee, South African rugby player and coach (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Tom Magliozzi, American radio host (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Augusto Martelli, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (b. 1922)

New Star Trek TV series to premiere in 2017

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A new Star Trek television series will launch in January 2017, CBS has announced. 

According to the show's website, it "will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations".

The hugely successful show franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. 

"There is no better time to give Star Trek fans a new series," said David Stapf, president of CBS TV studios.

Alex Kurtzman, who co-wrote and produced the blockbuster films Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) will serve as executive producer for the series. 

"Everyone here has great respect for this franchise and we're excited to launch its next television chapter in the creative mind and skilled hands of Alex Kurtzman, someone who knows this world and its audience intimately," added Stapf. 

The series will begin with a special preview broadcast on the CBS Television Network before running exclusively on CBS All Access, the network's digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service. 

It is also expected to be distributed around the world by CBS Studios International. 

The original Star Trek spawned a dozen feature films and five television series, and is still licensed on platforms across over 190 countries. 

According to StarTrek.com the franchise still generates more than a billion social media impressions every month. 

The new series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond, to be released in summer 2016.

Angelique Ionatos, η Ελληνίδα τραγουδίστρια που λατρεύουν οι Γάλλοι 

Η ποιήτρια και τραγουδίστρια Αγγελική Ιονάτου, γνωστή διεθνώς ως Angelique Ionatos,

 εγκατέλειψε την Ελλάδα στη δικτατορία, σε ηλικία 13 ετών για να μετοικήσει στο

 Βέλγιο και από το 1981 να ριζώσει στο Παρίσι, όπου και δραστηριοποιείται 

καλλιτεχνικά.

Αναγνωρίσιμη εκεί, ο γαλλικός Τύπος ασχολείται με το έργο της, ενώ βγαίνει και

 εκτός συνόρων για συναυλίες με συχνούς προορισμούς την Ισπανία, την Ιταλία

, τη Γερμανία, τον Καναδά.

Η γαλλόφωνη τραγουδίστρια έβγαλε 20 άλμπουμ και την επαινεί σήμερα η Liberation:
«Οι δίσκοι της έχουν μουσική συνοχή, βάθος, ποιότητα ερμηνείας, πρωτοτυπία και

 πίστη -Είναι μοναδικά», γράφει η εφημερίδα.
Κλασικά, έθνικ, ακτιβιστκά, φολκ, λαϊκά, η Ιονάτος εκφράζεται σε όλα τα είδη.

 Η κιθαρωδός είναι σήμερα διάσημη σε διεθνές επίπεδο και διαθέτει ένα απαράμιλλο

 στυλ, προσθέτει η εφημερίδα.
Το αφιέρωμα της Liberation στην Angélique Ionatos γίνεται με αφορμή το νέο της

 άλμπουμ, το πρώτο μετά από σιγή ετών. Μελωδίες που ταξιδεύουν ως τη Λέσβο,

 όπου βρίσκεται ακόμη το πατρικό της σπίτι.

Γράφει ο δημοσιογράφος της Liberaton, έκθαμβος που τη γνωρίζει από κοντά:
«Με υποδέχεται  στο μικρό σπίτι της με δύο δωμάτια, κοντά στο σταθμό του

 Αούστερλιτς, στο Παρίσι. Με εντυπωσιάζει η απλότητα του σπιτιού, η λεπτότητα του

 πνεύματος, η τελειότητα των γραμμών. Καθόμαστε να πιούμε ένα τσάι, το βλέμμα

 της έχει βάθος: «Γράφω για τις λέξεις, μετά ακολουθεί η μουσική, η οποία μπορεί 

να εκφράσει παράπονο, μελαγχολία, να είναι ρυθμική ή βίαιη. Κάποιοι βρίσκουν τη

 μουσική μου δύσκολη. Ισως δεν κατανοούν τον ελληνικό ρυθμό τους, ο οποίος με

 εμπνέει ιδιαίτερα».

Ο δίσκος είναι ένα αφιέρωμα στις γυναίκες και έχει στίχους  από ποιήματα του Ελύτη.

Η Ιονάτου έρχεται σπάνια στην Ελλάδα. Το 2009 έκανε συναυλίες στη Μυτιλήνη και

 τη Σάμο, καθώς και κάποιες εμφανίσεις στην Αθήνα.

Στην αξιόλογη και μακροπερίοδη δισκογραφική της πορεία, ο Ελύτης, ο Ρίτσος, ο 

Παλαμάς, ο Σαχτούρης, ο Βάρναλης, ο Καβάφης και άλλοι έχουν ντυθεί τις 

μελωδίες της. Στους δίσκους και τα ρεσιτάλ με σεβασμό κοιτά κατάματα τους

 μεγαλειώδεις στίχους, τους οποίους και ερμηνεύει στα ελληνικά. Στον προτελευταίο

 της δίσκο «Eros y muerte» συνέθεσε μουσικές πάνω στα «Εκατό ερωτικά σονέτα» 

του Πάμπλο Νερούδα και τον «Τάφο» του Κωστή Παλαμά, που τραγούδησε στα

 ισπανικά και τα ελληνικά αντίστοιχα. Αρχική της πρόθεση ήταν να «ασκηθεί»

 αποκλειστικά πάνω στον Νερούδα. Η ταυτόχρονη όμως ενασχόληση με τον Παλαμά την

 οδήγησε στον εν λόγω δίσκο, που τον παρουσίασε με τη μορφή θεάματος, στο Θέατρο 

της Πόλης του Παρισιού «Theatre de la ville» για μία εβδομάδα.

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• 1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
• 1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
• 1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
• 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
• 1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
• 1780 – The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.
• 1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
• 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
• 1798 – Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
• 1839 – Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
• 1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
• 1852 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
• 1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle as the Territorial University.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
• 1868 – Camagüey, Cuba revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
• 1890 – City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
• 1918 – World War I: The Armistice of Villa Giusti between Italy and Austria-Hungary is implemented.
• 1921 – The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large Saalschlacht (meeting hall battle) in Munich.
• 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
• 1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
• 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
• 1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
• 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
• 1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
• 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
• 1956 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
• 1962 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
• 1966 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
• 1970 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
• 1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
• 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
• 1993 – The China Airlines Flight 605, a Boeing 747, overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
• 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
• 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
• 2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of African descent to be elected President of the United States.
• 2010 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers and crew were killed.
• 2010 – Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew.

Births[edit]

• 1448 – Alfonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
• 1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
• 1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor (d. 1707)
• 1631 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1660)
• 1640 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1697)
• 1650 – William III of England (d. 1702)
• 1661 – Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1742)
• 1740 – Augustus Toplady, English cleric and hymnwriter (d. 1778)
• 1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836)
• 1809 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1874)
• 1816 – Stephen Johnson Field, American lawyer and jurist 5th Chief Justice of California (d. 1899)
• 1821 – Thomas Keefer, Canadian engineer (d. 1915)
• 1836 – Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (d. 1912)
• 1845 – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian activist (d. 1883)
• 1853 – Anna Bayerová, Czech physician (d. 1924)
• 1862 – Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor and director (d. 1932)
• 1868 – La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1965)
• 1873 – Kyōka Izumi, Japanese author, poet, and playwright (d. 1939)
• 1874 – Charles Despiau, French sculptor (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Will Rogers, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1935)
• 1883 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician 135th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1953)
• 1884 – Harry Ferguson, Irish engineer, invented the tractor (d. 1960)
• 1884 – George Underwood, American runner (d. 1943)
• 1886 – Togo Yamamoto, Japanese actor (d. unknown)
• 1887 – Janaki Ammal, Indian botanist and geneticist (d. 1984)
• 1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975)
• 1890 – Klabund, German author and poet (d. 1928)
• 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, Filipino lawyer and politician, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
• 1897 – Dolly Stark, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1968)
• 1899 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian sociologist and activist (d. 1954)
• 1901 – Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1989)
• 1901 – Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, author, and academic (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Reg Dean, English super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 1904 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer, technician, and academic (d. 1967)
• 1905 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet and translator (d. 2007)
• 1906 – Sterling North, American author and critic (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Draga Matković, Croatian-German pianist (d. 2013)
• 1908 – Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer and photographer (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Evelyn Bryan Johnson, American pilot (d. 2012)
• 1909 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Dixie Lee, American actress, dancer and singer (d. 1952)
• 1912 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1978)
• 1913 – Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1915 – Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (d. 2015)
• 1916 – John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
• 1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created Barbie (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Art Carney, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1919 – Martin Balsam, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Shirley Mitchell, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Eric Thompson, English book dealer and race car driver (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Mary Sherman Morgan, American rocket fuel scientist (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Benno Besson, Swiss-German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
• 1923 – Eugene Sledge, American soldier, academic, and author (d. 2001)
• 1925 – Gamani Corea, Sri Lankan economist and diplomat (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Sakae Menda, Japanese prisoner
• 1925 – Doris Roberts, American actress
• 1925 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1926 – Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Cuban-American conga player and composer (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Larry Bunker, American drummer and vibraphone player (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Hannah Weiner, American poet and author (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Anastasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop
• 1929 – Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, Spanish clown, singer, and accordion player (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1929 – Dickie Valentine, English singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1971)
• 1930 – James E. Brewton, American painter (d. 1967)
• 1930 – Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Dick Groat, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1930 – John Hahn-Petersen, Danish actor (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Frank J. Prial, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Bernard Francis Law, Mexican-American cardinal
• 1932 – Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Tommy Makem, Irish-American singer-songwriter (The Clancy Brothers) (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Tito Francona, American baseball player
• 1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (d. 2011)
• 1935 – Elgar Howarth, English conductor and composer
• 1936 – C. K. Williams, American poet, critic, and translator (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer
• 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian academic and politician, 31st Canadian Minister of Finance
• 1939 – Gail E. Haley, American author and illustrator
• 1939 – Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Marlène Jobert, French actress, singer, and author
• 1941 – Lyndall Gordon, South African-English author and academic
• 1942 – Masatoshi Abe, Japanese politician
• 1942 – Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist and academic
• 1943 – Clark Graebner, American tennis player
• 1943 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (d. 2001)
• 1944 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
• 1944 – Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
• 1946 – Laura Bush, American educator, 45th First Lady of the United States
• 1946 – Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
• 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
• 1947 – Jerry Fleck, American actor, director, and production manager (d. 2003)
• 1947 – Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1947 – Toshiyuki Nishida, Japanese actor
• 1947 – Ludmila Velikova, Russian figure skater and coach
• 1948 – Alexis Hunter, New Zealand-English painter and photographer (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Amadou Toumani Touré, Malian soldier and politician, President of Mali
• 1949 – Garo Aida, Japanese photographer
• 1950 – Charles Frazier, American novelist
• 1950 – Markie Post, American actress
• 1950 – Nik Powell, English film producer and co-founder of the Virgin Group
• 1951 – Traian Băsescu, Romanian captain and politician, 4th President of Romania
• 1951 – Cosey Fanni Tutti, English singer-songwriter (Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey)
• 1952 – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
• 1953 – Mick Buckley, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1953 – P. J. Carey, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Rick Green, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Carlos Gutierrez, Cuban-American businessman and politician, 35th United States Secretary of Commerce
• 1953 – Peter Lord, English animator, director, and producer, co-founded Aardman Animations
• 1953 – Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver
• 1953 – Marvel Williamson, American nurse and academic
• 1954 – Chris Difford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Squeeze and Difford & Tilbrook)
• 1955 – Alhaj Moulana Ghousavi Shah, Indian author, poet, and scholar
• 1955 – Matti Vanhanen, Finnish journalist and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Finland
• 1956 – Tom Greenhalgh, Swedish singer-songwriter (The Mekons)
• 1956 – James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
• 1956 – Jordan Rudess, American keyboard player and songwriter (Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, and Dixie Dregs)
• 1957 – Tony Abbott, English-Australian scholar and politician, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1957 – Richard Harrington, English businessman and politician
• 1957 – Alexander Vasilyevich Tkachyov, Russian gymnast and coach
• 1958 – Lee Jasper, English activist and politician
• 1958 – Anne Sweeney, American businesswoman
• 1959 – Ken Kirzinger, Canadian actor and stuntman
• 1960 – Marc Awodey, American painter and poet
• 1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Frl. Menke, German singer
• 1961 – Daron Hagen, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1961 – Edward Knight, American composer and academic
• 1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
• 1961 – Jeff Probst, American television host and producer
• 1961 – Steve Rotheram, English politician, Lord Mayor of Liverpool
• 1961 – Les Sampou, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1962 – Arvo Volmer, Estonian conductor
• 1963 – Nokko, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Rebecca)
• 1963 – Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
• 1963 – Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
• 1963 – Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and television host (d. 1999)
• 1964 – Kurt Krakowian, American actor
• 1964 – Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress
• 1965 – Pata, Japanese guitarist (X Japan and Rain)
• 1965 – Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
• 1965 – Jeff Scott Soto, American singer-songwriter (Talisman and Soul SirkUS)
• 1965 – Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Static-X) (d. 2014)
• 1965 – Kiersten Warren, American actress
• 1967 – Daisuke Asakura, Japanese songwriter and producer
• 1967 – Eric Karros, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1968 – Matthew Tobin Anderson, American author, critic, and educator
• 1968 – Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Miles Long, American porn actor, director, and producer
• 1969 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor (Diddy – Dirty Money)
• 1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor and producer
• 1970 – Lauri Aus, Estonian cyclist (d. 2003)
• 1970 – Tim DeBoom, American triathlete
• 1970 – Malena Ernman, Swedish soprano
• 1970 – Bethenny Frankel, American actress, talk show host, and author
• 1970 – Tony Sly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (No Use for a Name and Scorpios) (d. 2012)
• 1971 – Tabu, Indian actress and singer
• 1972 – Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer and sportscaster
• 1974 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American singer-songwriter and drummer (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Anywhere, De Facto, and The Fall on Deaf Ears)
• 1974 – Louise Redknapp, English singer and actress (Eternal)
• 1974 – Mirai Yamamoto, Japanese actress
• 1975 – Éric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Eduard Koksharov, Russian handball player
• 1975 – Mikki Moore, American basketball player
• 1975 – Orlando Pace, American football player
• 1975 – Curtis Stone, Australian chef and author
• 1975 – Heather Tom, American actress
• 1975 – Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1976 – Daniel Bahr, German banker and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
• 1976 – Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
• 1976 – Kenji Osawa, Japanese mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Makoto Tamada, Japanese motorcycle racer
• 1976 – Peter Van Houdt, Belgian footballer
• 1977 – Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
• 1977 – Tonicha Jeronimo, English actress
• 1977 – Hannelore Knuts, Belgian model and actress
• 1977 – So Ji-sub, South Korean actor and rapper
• 1978 – John Grabow, American baseball player
• 1978 – Danny Salomon, American actor
• 1979 – Jesse Camp, American television host, singer, and actor
• 1979 – Trishelle Cannatella, American model and actress
• 1979 – Audrey Hollander, American porn actress and director
• 1980 – Jerry Collins, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
• 1980 – Richard Owens, American football player
• 1980 – Marcy Rylan, American actress
• 1981 – Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
• 1981 – Machiko Ono, Japanese actress
• 1981 – Vince Wilfork, American football player
• 1982 – Devin Hester, American football player
• 1982 – Travis Van Winkle, American actor
• 1983 – Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (d. 2014)
• 1984 – Dustin Brown, American ice hockey player
• 1984 – French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper
• 1984 – Ayila Yussuf, Nigerian footballer
• 1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
• 1985 – Miki Miyamura, Japanese tennis player
• 1985 – Ryan Nemeth, American wrestler
• 1985 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (d. 2012)
• 1985 – Sammy thrashLife, American painter and writer
• 1986 – Suhas Gopinath, Indian businessman
• 1986 – Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1986 – Angelica Panganiban, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Szymon Pawłowski, Polish footballer
• 1986 – Adrian Zaugg, South African race car driver
• 1987 – Tim Breukers, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Laura Geitz, Australian netball
• 1987 – Artur Jędrzejczyk, Polish footballer
• 1987 – T.O.P, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Big Bang)
• 1988 – Michelle Madrigal, Filipino actress
• 1991 – Lesley Kerkhove, Dutch tennis player
• 1992 – Julian Wießmeier, German footballer
• 1993 – Elisabeth Seitz, German gymnast
• 1996 – Kaitlin Hawayek, American ice dancer
• 1996 – Michael Christian Martinez, Filipino figure skater
• 1997 – Bea Binene, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
• 1997 – Sandra Samir, Egyptian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 1411 – Khalil Sultan of Timurid (b. 1384)
• 1428 – Sophia of Bavaria (b. 1376)
• 1652 – Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1597)
• 1658 – Antoine Le Maistre, French lawyer and author (b. 1608)
• 1669 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1603)
• 1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
• 1702 – John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
• 1704 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist and scholar (b. 1654)
• 1781 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and songwriter (b. 1721)
• 1801 – William Shippen, American physician and anatomist (b. 1712)
• 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1809)
• 1847 – Thiệu Trị, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1807)
• 1856 – Paul Delaroche, French painter and educator (b. 1797)
• 1893 – Pierre Tirard, Swiss-French engineer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
• 1895 – Eugene Field, American journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
• 1906 – John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (b. 1893)
• 1924 – Richard Conner, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
• 1924 – Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1845)
• 1930 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (b. 1859)
• 1930 – Buddy Bolden, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1877)
• 1931 – Luigi Galleani, Italian theorist and activist (b. 1861)
• 1940 – Arthur Rostron, English captain (b. 1869)
• 1946 – Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (b. 1865)
• 1948 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1874)
• 1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (b. 1867)
• 1956 – Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (b. 1892)
• 1957 – Shoghi Effendi, Israeli religious leader (b. 1897)
• 1968 – Horace Gould, English racing driver (b. 1918)
• 1968 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter and soldier (b. 1892)
• 1969 – Carlos Marighella, Brazilian author and activist (b. 1911)
• 1974 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (b. 1914)
• 1976 – Toni Ulmen, German racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
• 1977 – Tom Reamy, American author and illustrator (b. 1935)
• 1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
• 1982 – Gil Whitney, American journalist (b. 1940)
• 1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Trevor Kent, Australian actor (b. 1940)
• 1992 – George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair (b. 1904)
• 1994 – Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band) (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
• 1995 – Eddie Egan, American actor and police officer (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Morrie Schwartz, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Richard Hooker, American surgeon and author (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Nagarjun, Indian poet and author (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1958)
• 2002 – Nakis Avgerinos, Greek politician (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Charles Causley, Cornish author and poet (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Richard Wollheim, English philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Nadia Anjuman, Afghan journalist and poet (b. 1980)
• 2005 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Hiro Takahashi, Japanese singer, lyricist, and composer (b. 1964)
• 2006 – Dajan Ahmet, Estonian actor and director (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Michael Crichton, American author, physician, producer, director and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, French-Mexican economist and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
• 2009 – Hubertus Brandenburg, German bishop (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (b. 1896)
• 2010 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
• 2011 – Arnold Green, Latvian-Estonian politician (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Andy Rooney, American journalist and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, Indian chef and television host (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Ted Curson, American trumpet player (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Jim Durham, American sportscaster (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Mike L. Fry, American television host, producer, and author (b. 1960)
• 2012 – Frances Hashimoto, American businesswoman (b. 1943)
• 2012 – David Resnick, Brazilian-Israeli architect, designed Yad Kennedy (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Viktor Dolnik, Russian ornithologist and author (b. 1938)
• 2013 – John D. Hawk, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Georg Wahl, German horse rider and coach (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (b. 1979)
• 2014 – Enrique Olivera, Argentinian politician, 2nd Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Richard Schaal, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2014 – S. Donald Stookey, American chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Eddie Stuart, South African-Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)

Trevi fountain in Rome: Iconic monument renovated

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Water is once more cascading from the world famous Trevi fountain in the Italian capital Rome after it underwent a 17-month €2.2m (£1.6m) renovation.

The fountain, nearly 300 years old, is visited by millions of tourists every year. 

But its poor structural condition was exposed in 2012 when bits of its elaborate cornice began falling off after an especially harsh winter.

The fountain became famous in 1960 with the release of the film La Dolce Vita.

In the film a voluptuous Anita Ekberg wades through its pristine waters - her hopelessly infatuated male co-star in her wake - in what critics say is one of the enduring cinematic images of the 20th Century.

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A team of 26 restorers have not only given the fountain a thorough cleaning, they have stopped it from crumbling away. 

They have repaired cracks and steel supports with the aim of avoiding a repeat of the incident in 2012 when pieces of the fountain came crashing down.

Water once more tumbles from the base of the fountain's sea-god scene and new lighting shows off its gleaming Baroque facade. 

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The repairs have been paid for by the Italian fashion house Fendi, founded as a leather goods business in Rome in the 1920s and now part of French luxury giant LVMH. It agreed a deal which allows it to hang a plaque near the monument for four years.

The company has also spent €320,000 cleaning up the city's lesser known Le Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains).

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The Trevi fountain

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• Commissioned by Pope Clement XII in 1730
• Last restored 23 years ago, it is the end point of one of the aqueducts that supplied ancient Rome with water
• The Acqua Vergine runs for a total of 20km (12 miles) before flowing into the fountain
• Tourists can drink from a special tap tucked away at one side
• According to legend, the water source was discovered in 19 BC by thirsty Roman soldiers directed to the site by a young virgin - which is why it is called Virgin Waters
• The tradition of throwing coins into the fountain was made famous by Frank Sinatra's Three Coins in the Fountain in the 1954 romantic comedy of the same name

Με την Κατίνα Παξινού, στο ξεκίνημα της καριέρας τους

• Μαργαρίτα («Κυρία με τις Καμέλιες» του Δουμά)
• Άννα («Ωραία Νεράιδα» του Λοτάρ)
• Κάτια Μάσλοβα («Ανάσταση» του Τολστόι)
• Νόρα («Σπίτι με τις Κούκλες» του Ίψεν)
• Δούκισσα («Εχθρά» του Νικοντέμι)
• Ελένη Νικολάγεβνα («Ζήλεια» του Αρτσιμπάτσεφ)

• Έλα Ρεντχάιμ («Ιωάννης Γαβριήλ Μπόρκμαν» του Ίψεν, 1933)
• Δυσδαιμόνα («Οθέλλος» του Σέξπιρ, 1933)
• Ζελφά («Ιούδας» του Σπύρου Μελά, 1934)
• Βασίλισσα («Δον Κάρλος» του Σίλερ, 1934)
• Έρσίλια Ντρέι («Να ντύσουμε τους γυμνούς» του Πιραντέλο, 1935)
• Μπετίνα Κλάουζεν («Πριν από το ηλιοβασίλεμα» του Χάουπτμαν, 1936)
• Αγγέλα Παπαστάμου («Πειρασμός» του Ξενόπουλου, 1936)
• Λαίδη Γουίντερμιρ («Βεντάλια» του Όσκαρ Γουάιλντ, 1937)
• Μανταλένια («Ψευτοσπουδαίες» του Μολιέρου, 1938)
• Ναταλία της Οράγγης («Πρίγκηπας του Χόμπουργκ» του Κλάιστ, 1938)
• Ρεγάνη («Βασιλιάς Λιρ» του Σέξπηρ, 1938)
• Λαίδη Τσίλτερν («Ιδανικός σύζυγος» του Όσκαρ Γουάιλντ, 1938)
• Λαίδη Τιζλ («Σχολείο κακογλωσσιάς» του Σέρινταν, 1939)
• Μαρία («Το Κοντσέρτο» του Χέρμαν Μπαρ, 1939)
• Δωροθέα («Δωροθέα Άνγγερμαν» του Χάουπτμαν, 1940)
• Δοούκισσα του Μάλμπορο («Ένα ποτήρι νερό» του Σκριμπ, 1940)
• Πόρσια («Έμπορος της Βενετίας» του Σέξπιρ,1940)
• Σελιμένη («Μισάνθρωπος» του Μολιέρου, 1943)

Η Ελένη Παπαδάκη ως Εκάβη

• Κλυταιμνήστρα («Ηλέκτρα» του Σοφοκλή, 1936)
• Αντιγόνη («Αντιγόνη» του Σοφοκλή. 1940 και 1941)
• Ιφιγένεια («Ιφιγένεια Εν Ταύροις» του Ευριπίδη, 1941)
• Εκάβη («Εκάβη» του Ευριπίδη, 1943 και 1944).

Μνήσθητι Κύριε: Για την ώρα που η λεπίδα του φονιά άστραψε
κι όλος ο θεός της Τραγωδίας εφάνη.
Μνήσθητι Κύριε: για την ώρα που άξαφνα, κ’ οι εννιά αδελφές εσκύψαν
να της βάλουνε των αιώνων το στεφάνι.

• 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
• 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
• 1530 – The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
• 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
• 1688 – William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham.
• 1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
• 1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
• 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
• 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
• 1854 – Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
• 1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
• 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
• 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
• 1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
• 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
• 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
• 1914 – World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
• 1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
• 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
• 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
• 1940 – World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser, HMS Jervis Bay, is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
• 1943 – World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
• 1945 – Colombia joins the United Nations.
• 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
• 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.
• 1970 – The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
• 1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
• 1986 – USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
• 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
• 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
• 1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
• 1996 – Pakistani President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
• 2003 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
• 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims in 1982.
• 2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
• 2007 – Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
• 2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
• 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

Births[edit]

• 1271 – Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
• 1494 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
• 1549 – Philippe de Mornay, French author and theologian (d. 1623)
• 1592 – Charles Chauncy, English-American clergyman and academic (d. 1672)
• 1613 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (d. 1691)
• 1615 – Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
• 1666 – Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
• 1667 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
• 1701 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (d. 1785)
• 1705 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
• 1715 – John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766)
• 1722 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798)
• 1739 – Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819)
• 1742 – Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
• 1789 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (d. 1868)
• 1816 – Ursula Frayne, Irish-Australian nun and missionary (d. 1885)
• 1818 – Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
• 1835 – Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist (d. 1902)
• 1846 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
• 1850 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
• 1851 – Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
• 1854 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
• 1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
• 1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
• 1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1944)
• 1870 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
• 1873 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935)
• 1879 – Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963)
• 1881 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
• 1883 – P Moe Nin, Burmese writer (d. 1940)
• 1884 – James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1915)
• 1885 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (d. 1981)
• 1886 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961)
• 1889 – Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
• 1890 – Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)
• 1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
• 1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
• 1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and author (d. 1960)
• 1895 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
• 1895 – Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)
• 1900 – Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
• 1904 – Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1905 – Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
• 1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
• 1910 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist, and actor (Sons of the Pioneers) (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-born English actress (d. 1967)
• 1913 – John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1914 – Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Alan Tilvern, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic (d. 1978)
• 1919 – Myron Floren, American accordion player and pianist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
• 1926 – John Berger, English author, poet, painter, and critic
• 1928 – Donald Madden, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician
• 1931 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
• 1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (Kings of Rhythm and Ike & Tina Turner) (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
• 1934 – Victor Argo, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
• 1935 – David Battley, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1935 – Lester Piggott, English jockey
• 1935 – Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer and actor
• 1937 – Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
• 1937 – Harris Yulin, American actor
• 1938 – Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1938 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
• 1939 – Lobsang Tenzin, Singaporean religious leader, 5th Samdhong Rinpoche
• 1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
• 1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress and singer
• 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Simon & Garfunkel)
• 1941 – Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper
• 1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor and screenwriter
• 1945 – Peter Pace, American general
• 1945 – Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
• 1945 – Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
• 1946 – Ariel Ureta, Filipino actor and journalist
• 1946 – Herman Brood, Dutch singer, actor, and painter (d. 2001)
• 1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and International Submarine Band) (d. 1973)
• 1946 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player and songwriter (Help Yourself, Ducks Deluxe, and Man) (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Quint Davis, American director and producer
• 1947 – Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneon player (d. 2010)
• 1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Herman's Hermits)
• 1948 – Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
• 1948 – Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Van der Graaf Generator)
• 1948 – Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
• 1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
• 1949 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
• 1950 – Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
• 1950 – James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
• 1952 – Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1952 – Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
• 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1953 – Florentino Floro, Filipino lawyer and judge
• 1953 – Joyce Maynard, American memoirist
• 1954 – Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
• 1955 – Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
• 1955 – Kris Jenner, American socialite and television personality
• 1955 – Nestor Serrano, American actor
• 1955 – Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
• 1956 – Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
• 1957 – Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (A Flock of Seagulls)
• 1958 – Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Spirits Burning)
• 1958 – Mo Gaffney, American actress
• 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor and producer
• 1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1959 – Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
• 1960 – René Froger, Dutch singer
• 1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress and producer
• 1961 – Intesar Al-Sharah, Kuwaiti actress
• 1961 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2012)
• 1962 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
• 1962 – Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
• 1963 – Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
• 1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
• 1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
• 1963 – Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter (Tesla)
• 1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
• 1964 – Gabby Concepcion, Filipino actor and singer
• 1964 – Helga van Niekerk, Zimbabwean-South African radio host
• 1965 – Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
• 1965 – Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
• 1965 – Kubrat, Prince of Panagyurishte
• 1966 – Nayim, Spanish footballer
• 1966 – James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
• 1966 – Georgia Apostolou, Greek model and actress
• 1966 – Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1967 – Marcelo D2, Brazilian rapper (Planet Hemp)
• 1967 – Judy Reyes, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1968 – Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (d. 2013)
• 1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor and producer
• 1968 – Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Italian-Spanish actress
• 1969 – Pat Kilbane, American actor
• 1970 – Javy López, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress
• 1971 – Chris Addison, Welsh-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter (Radiohead)
• 1971 – Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
• 1971 – Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
• 1971 – Edmond Leung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Big Four)
• 1971 – Corin Nemec, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
• 1973 – Johnny Damon, American baseball player
• 1973 – Peter Emmerich, American illustrator and educator
• 1973 – Malcolm Naden, Australian criminal
• 1973 – Gráinne Seoige, Irish journalist
• 1973 – Danniella Westbrook, English actress
• 1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
• 1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Whiskeytown, The Finger, Pornography, and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals)
• 1974 – Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter (Arch Enemy)
• 1974 – Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
• 1974 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter and dancer (Steps)
• 1976 – Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1976 – Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist
• 1976 – Jeff Klein, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (My Jerusalem, The Twilight Singers, and The Gutter Twins)
• 1976 – Samuel Page, American actor
• 1977 – Brittney Skye, American porn actress and director
• 1977 – Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
• 1977 – Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
• 1978 – Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
• 1978 – Bubba Watson, American golfer
• 1979 – Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
• 1979 – Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
• 1979 – Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 – Keith McLeod, American basketball player
• 1979 – David Suazo, Honduran footballer
• 1980 – Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
• 1980 – Eva González, Spanish model and actress, Miss Spain 2003
• 1980 – Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
• 1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
• 1980 – Orkun Uşak, Turkish football goalkeeper
• 1981 – Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
• 1982 – Leah Culver, American computer programmer
• 1982 – Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
• 1982 – Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Pendulum and Knife Party)
• 1982 – Matthew Williams, Welsh footballer
• 1983 – Alexa Chung, English model and television host
• 1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
• 1983 – Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
• 1983 – Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – David Pipe, Welsh footballer
• 1984 – Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
• 1984 – Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1984 – Nick Folk, American football player
• 1984 – Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
• 1984 – Nick Tandy, English race car driver
• 1984 – Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Michel Butter, Dutch runner
• 1985 – Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter (Young Divas)
• 1985 – Alo Dupikov, Estonian footballer
• 1985 – Rimo Hunt, Estonian footballer
• 1985 – Pınar Saka, Turkish female track running athlete
• 1986 – BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1986 – Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
• 1986 – Diane Medina, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
• 1986 – Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
• 1987 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Jonas Brothers)
• 1987 – O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
• 1988 – Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
• 1989 – Andrew Boyce, English footballer
• 1989 – Enchong Dee, Filipino swimmer, actor, model and television host
• 1990 – Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor
• 1991 – Flume, Australian DJ and producer
• 1992 – Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
• 1993 – Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model
• 1996 – Ryan Ramos, Filipino actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1370 – Casimir III the Great, Polish king (b. 1310)
• 1515 – Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1474)
• 1559 – Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1476)
• 1660 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
• 1660 – Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (b. 1599)
• 1701 – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1659)
• 1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
• 1752 – Carl Andreas Duker, German jurist and scholar (b. 1670)
• 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (b. 1686)
• 1828 – Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
• 1872 – Thomas Sully, English-American painter (b. 1783)
• 1876 – Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
• 1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish-English physicist and mathematician (b. 1831)
• 1923 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1928 – Arnold Rothstein, American businessman and mobster (b. 1882)
• 1928 – Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (b. 1872)
• 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1931 – Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1866)
• 1933 – Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1884)
• 1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1938 – Thomas Dewing, American painter (b. 1851)
• 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (b. 1905)
• 1942 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, playwright, and composer (b. 1878)
• 1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Reggie Walker, South African runner (b. 1889)
• 1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (b. 1909)
• 1960 – Ward Bond, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
• 1960 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (b. 1895)
• 1960 – August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (b. 1891)
• 1960 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (b. 1916)
• 1964 – Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Christina Kalogerikou, Greek actress (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
• 1974 – Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1975 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American author and critic (b. 1905)
• 1977 – René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)
• 1985 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)
• 1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
• 1986 – Adolf Brudes, German racing driver (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1986 – Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters and The Robins) (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish-English radio and television host (b. 1922)
• 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (b. 1923)
• 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Adile Ayda, the first woman career diplomat of Turkey (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
• 1997 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (b. 1946)
• 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (b. 1909)
• 1999 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1899)
• 2000 – Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Roy Boulting, English director and producer (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (b. 1943)
• 2001 – Barry Horne, English activist (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – John Fowles, English author and educator (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (b. 1912)
• 2005 – John Rice, American actor (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician and author (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
• 2010 – Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, Mexican drug lord (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (b. 1908)
• 2012 – Stalking Cat, American body modifier (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Sikandar Sanam, Pakistani actor and singer (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Charlie Trotter, American chef (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
• 2014 – Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Hans Nijman, Dutch mixed martial artist and wrestler (b. 1959)

Αυστριακή Flyniki: 17 ελληνικοί προορισμοί στο πρόγραμμα πτήσεων της εταιρείας 

Συνολικά 17 ελληνικούς τουριστικούς προορισμούς, που αποτελεί αριθμό-ρεκόρ, έχει στο νέο θερινό πρόγραμμά της για το 2016 η αυστριακή αεροπορική εταιρεία Flyniki, η οποία από σήμερα δίνει τη δυνατότητα για κρατήσεις της επόμενης χρονιάς.

Όπως αναφέρεται σχετικά, η αυστριακή αυτή θυγατρική εταιρεία της γερμανικής Air Bellin -που φέρει το όνομα του πρώην ιδιοκτήτη της, του αυστριακού τρεις φορές πρωταθλητή των αγώνων αυτοκινήτου Φόρμουλα-1 Νίκι Λάουντα- προσανατολίζεται με το πρόγραμμά της για το 2016 σε τουριστικούς προορισμούς στη Μεσόγειο, με επίκεντρό της την  Ελλάδα.

Ήδη από τις 21 Μαρτίου, πέραν της  Βιέννης, ξεκινούν από μια σειρά άλλες αυστριακές πόλεις -από το Σάλτσμπουργκ, το Λιντς και το  Γκρατς- οι πτήσεις της εταιρείας προς το  Ηράκλειο, ενώ από τις αρχές Μαΐου αρχίζουν οι αεροπορικές συνδέσεις της εταιρείας από τη  Βιέννη, το  Σάλτσμπουργκ και το Λιντς, απευθείας για τη Ρόδο, την  Κέρκυρα και την Κω.

Οι 17 ελληνικοί προορισμοί που περιλαμβάνονται στο πρόγραμμα της εταιρείας είναι:  Χανιά,  Ηράκλειο, Σαντορίνη,  Μύκονος,  Κάρπαθος,  Ρόδος,  Κως,  Σάμος, Λέσβος,  Καβάλα,  Βόλος,  Σκιάθος,  Καλαμάτα,  Ζάκυνθος, Κεφαλονιά,  Πρέβεζα και  Κέρκυρα.

Η επέκταση του αριθμού των πτήσεων και των προορισμών της στην  Ελλάδα, από την Flyniki, προμηνύει μια νέα αύξηση του αριθμού των Αυστριακών επισκεπτών στη χώρα και για την επόμενη χρονιά, καθώς ήδη σε έναν πρώτο απολογισμό για το φετινό καλοκαίρι, τα στοιχεία από την  Αυστρία ήταν ιδιαίτερα θετικά.

Σε πρώτο απολογισμό για τις φετινές καλοκαιρινές διακοπές και τους τουριστικούς προορισμούς των Αυστριακών, που είχε δημοσιεύσει τέλη Αυγούστου η αυστριακή εφημερίδα «Έστεραϊχ», τόνιζε ότι «παρά την κρίση, 400.000 Αυστριακοί πέταξαν φέτος στα ελληνικά νησιά», συμπληρώνοντας ότι η προτίμηση αυτών των επισκεπτών ήταν η  Κρήτη και η  Ρόδος.

Αξιοσημείωτο θεωρείται το γεγονός ότι, παρά τον καταιγισμό αρνητικών, σε μεγάλο βαθμό, δημοσιευμάτων, περί κρίσης -ιδιαίτερα περί ελέγχου κίνησης κεφαλαίων και περί κλειστών τραπεζών- δεν υπήρξαν αξιοσημείωτες ακυρώσεις κρατήσεων για ελληνικούς προορισμούς από την  Αυστρία, η οποία, σε αναλογία με τον πληθυσμό της των 8,5 εκατομμυρίων κατοίκων, βρίσκεται στην πρώτη θέση από άποψη αφίξεων επισκεπτών στην  Ελλάδα.