Στις Μπαχάμες έκανε Χριστούγεννα η οικογένεια του τέως -Η Μαρί Σαντάλ με τα παιδιά

Μαγικές παραλίες, καταγάλανα νερά και παιχνίδια στην άμμο.

 Με άρωμα καλοκαιριού ήταν τα φετινά Χριστούγεννα για την

 οικογένεια της Μαρί Σαντάλ και του Παύλου, που βρίσκονται 

για τις γιορτές στις Μπαχάμες.

Το πλούσιο φωτορεπορτάζ από το καλοκαιρινό σκηνικό στην εξοχική τους κατοικία 

στις Μπαχάμες ανέβασε στο Instagram η Μαρί Σαντάλ.

Σε πρώτο πλάνο ήταν οι εξωτικές παραλίες με φυσικό κάλλος και απαράμιλλη

 ομορφιά και τα παιδιά που απόλαυσαν μοναδικές οικογενειακές στιγμές, γεμάτες 

ανεμελιά και χαλάρωση.

 5  προορισμοί στην Ελλάδα για να κάνετε Πρωτοχρονιά με στυλ!

Πάλλευκες βουνοκορφές, πλακόστρωτα καλντερίµια, παραµυθένια χωριουδάκια αλλά και ατελείωτα σλάλοµ σε χιονοδροµικά κέντρα. Πέντε ονειρεµένοι προορισµοί στη χώρα µας γίνονται αφορμή για τις πιο στυλάτες αποδράσεις που έκανεσ ποτέ! Μάθε το γιατί...

ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ: ΜΠΑΜΠΗΣ ΔΟΥΚΑΣ 

ΖΑΓΟΡΟΧΩΡΙΑ

Γιατί να πας: Η άγρια φύση της ηπειρώτικης γης σε περιµένει «ντυµένη» στα χειµωνιάτικά της. Οι επιβλητικές βουνοκορφές, τα γραφικά χωριουδάκια, τα φηµισµένα πέτρινα γεφύρια και τα λιθόστρωτα καλντερίµια ασκούν ξεχωριστή γοητεία, και δεν υπάρχει καταλληλότερη «βάση» για να την εξερευνήσεις από την  Αρίστη (44 χλµ. από τα Ιωάννινα). Χτισµένη σε υψόµετρο 650 µ., µε γραφικές µικρές γειτονιές και την πλατεία µε τον πλάτανο θα αποτελέσει το καλύτερο ορµητήριο για τις εξορµήσεις σου!

Απόσταση από  Αθήνα: 460 χλµ., διάρκεια ταξιδιού 6 ώρες.

ΕΛΑΤΗ

Απόδραση σε ένα τοπίο... αλπικό!
Γιατί να πας: Αν και οι φίλοι του σκι θα προτιµήσουν µάλλον το  Περτούλι, που βρίσκεται σε µικρότερη απόσταση από το χιονοδροµικό κέντρο (τηλ. 24340 91385), εσύ επίλεξε την  Ελάτη. Γιατί; Γιατί εκεί, ανάµεσα στα χιονισµένα έλατα (όπως µαρτυρά άλλωστε και το όνοµά της), θα µπορέσεις να υποδεχθείς το νέο έτος µε στυλ... αλπικό, περιτριγυρισµένος µε εικόνες που θυµίζουν  Ελβετία! Επιπλέον, διαθέτει περισσότερη «ζωή» από το γειτονικό χωριό, ενώ σε καµία περίπτωση δεν θα σε αφήσουν αδιάφορο οι υπέροχοι πέτρινοι και ξύλινοι ξενώνες και τα παραδοσιακά ταβερνάκια µε τις τοπικές λιχουδιές, και µάλιστα σε πολύ οικονοµικές τιµές!

Απόσταση από  Αθήνα: 360 χλµ. και διάρκεια ταξιδιού 4 ώρες.

3.ΑΡΑΧΩΒΑ

Γιατί να πας: Το κατεξοχήν κοσμοπολίτικο και δημοφιλές χειμερινό θέρετρο της χώρας μας, δεν θα μπορούσε να μην αποτελεί μια από τις καλύτερες προτάσεις για τις ημέρες της Πρωτοχρονιάς. Η νυχτερινή ζωή, η κοσμική essence και τα ατελείωτα σλάλομ στο Χιονοδρομικό του Παρνασσού (τηλ. 22340 22700, 22689, 29032, www.parnassos-ski.gr) αποτελούν τα καλύτερα θέλγητρα!

Πώς θα πας: Οδικώς από την  Αθήνα σε περίπου 2 ώρες (171 χλμ.).

ΝΥΜΦΑΙΟ

Γιατί να πας: Το στολίδι του νομού  Φλώρινας (55 χλμ. νοτιοανατολικά της πρωτεύουσας, περίπου 1 ώρα) θα σε κάνει να καταλάβεις από πρώτο χέρι γιατί έχει χαρακτηριστεί σαν ένας από τους πιο παραδοσιακούς οικισμούς της Ευρώπης. Χιονισμένα τοπία που θυμίζουν Σκανδιναβία, παραμυθένια πλακόστρωτα δρομάκια, ζεστοί ξενώνες και υπέροχες τοπικές σπεσιαλιτέ θα σε κάνουν να το επισκεφθείς και του... χρόνου! Για τους φίλους των χειμερινών σπορ, τέλος, υπάρχει το Χιονοδρομικό Κέντρο της Βίγλας, σε απόσταση 70 χλμ.

Πώς θα πας: Η  Φλώρινα απέχει 630 χλμ. από την  Αθήνα και την προσεγγίζεις σε περίπου 7 ώρες οδικώς.

ΑΓΙΟΣ ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΟΣ

Γιατί να πας: Ένας από τους πλέον κοσμοπολίτικους προορισμούς της Μακεδονίας είναι δίχως αμφιβολία ο Παλαιός Άγιος Αθανάσιος στο νομό Πέλλας, που μάλιστα έχει χαρακτηριστεί διατηρητέος παραδοσιακός οικισμός. Αγαπημένο καταφύγιο για τους λάτρεις της φύσης, της παράδοσης και των φίλων του σκι, μιας και απέχει μόλις 17 χλμ. από το Χιονοδρομικό Κέντρο.

Πώς θα πας: Θα προσεγγίσεις τον Παλαιό Άγιο Αθανάσιο από την  Αθήνα, μετά από 605 χλμ. και περίπου 7 ώρες.

• 875 – Charles the Bald King of the Franks is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II.
• 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.
• 1427 – The Ming army begins its withdraw from Hanoi, ending the Chinese domination of Đại Việt.
• 1503 – The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo
• 1508 – Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
• 1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
• 1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.
• 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
• 1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
• 1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolescent.
• 1874 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.
• 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
• 1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
• 1895 – The botched Jameson Raid began in Johannesburg.
• 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
• 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
• 1916 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
• 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
• 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
• 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
• 1939 – First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
• 1940 – World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, UK, killing almost 200 civilians.
• 1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 66 relating to Palestine is adopted.
• 1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
• 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
• 1959 – The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
• 1972 – An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
• 1975 – Bomb Explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
• 1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
• 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
• 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
• 1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
• 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
• 2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
• 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
• 2006 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
• 2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
• 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.

Births[edit]

• 765 – Ali al-Ridha, Saudi Arabian 8th of the Twelve Imams (d. 818)
• 1709 – Elizabeth of Russia (d. 1762)
• 1721 – Madame de Pompadour, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1764)
• 1796 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)
• 1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)
• 1808 – Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
• 1809 – William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
• 1816 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (d. 1895)
• 1843 – Elisabeth of Wied (d. 1916)
• 1855 – August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)
• 1856 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
• 1859 – Venustiano Carranza, Mexican revolutionary, President of Mexico 1917-20 (d. 1920)
• 1874 – François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop (d. 1949)
• 1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
• 1877 – Max Hess, German-American gymnast (d. 1969)
• 1879 – Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (d. 1936)
• 1881 – Scott Leary, American swimmer (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
• 1885 – Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921)
• 1886 – Norman Hallows, English runner (d. 1968)
• 1895 – Oswald Freisler, German lawyer (d. 1939)
• 1896 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (d. 1992)
• 1902 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)
• 1903 – Candido Portinari, Brazilian neo-realist painter (d. 1962)
• 1904 – Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993)
• 1908 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1911 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 1976)
• 1914 – Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Albert Tucker, Australian painter (d. 1999)
• 1915 – Bill Osmanski, American football player and coach (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Robert Ruark, American hunter and author (d. 1965)
• 1917 – Tom Bradley, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
• 1917 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (d. 2014)
• 1919 – Roman Vlad, Italian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Robert C. Baker, American chef, invented the chicken nugget (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Little Joe Cook, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1922 – William Gaddis, American author and academic (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Morton Estrin, American pianist and teacher.
• 1923 – Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite, and businesswoman
• 1923 – Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian holocaust survivor and author (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Pete Dye, American golfer and architect
• 1927 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (d. 1985)
• 1928 – Bernard Cribbins, English actor, singer, and director
• 1929 – Matt Murphy, American guitarist (The Blues Brothers)
• 1931 – Yi Gu, Japanese-American son of Yi Bangja (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Stasys Stonkus, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer
• 1933 – Samuel Brittan, English journalist and author
• 1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1935 – Virgil Johnson, American singer (The Velvets) (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and singer
• 1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player and actor (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Wayne Huizenga, American businessman, founded AutoNation
• 1937 – Barbara Steele, English actress and producer
• 1938 – Harvey Smith, English horse rider and sportscaster
• 1938 – Jon Voight, American actor and producer
• 1940 – Fred Hansen, American pole vaulter and dentist
• 1941 – Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter and flute player (The Moody Blues)
• 1942 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Band) (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Honduran cardinal
• 1943 – Bill Aucoin, American talent manager (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Molly Bang, American author and illustrator
• 1946 – Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1947 – Richard Crandall, American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Ted Danson, American actor and producer
• 1947 – Leonhard Lapin, Estonian architect and poet
• 1947 – Cozy Powell, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Emerson, Lake & Powell, The Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, and Black Sabbath) (d. 1998)
• 1947 – David Tanner, English rower and coach
• 1947 – Vincent Winter, Scottish actor, director, and production manager (d. 1998)
• 1948 – Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland
• 1949 – Syed Kirmani, Indian cricketer and actor
• 1949 – David Topliss, English rugby player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1950 – Jon Polito, American actor
• 1951 – Yvonne Elliman, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1951 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
• 1952 – Gelsey Kirkland, American ballerina and choreographer
• 1953 – Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
• 1953 – Alan Rusbridger, Zambian-English journalist and academic
• 1953 – Kate Schmidt, American javelin thrower and coach
• 1953 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (d. 2005)
• 1954 – Albrecht Böttcher, German mathematician and author
• 1954 – Norihito, Prince Takamado of Japan (d. 2002)
• 1954 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 1956 – Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian and radio host
• 1957 – Brad Grey, American screenwriter and producer
• 1957 – Oliver Hirschbiegel, German actor, director, and producer
• 1957 – Iain Paxton, Scottish rugby player and coach
• 1957 – Paul Rudnick, American author and screenwriter
• 1958 – Nancy J. Currie, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1959 – Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player
• 1959 – Patricia Clarkson, American actress
• 1959 – Ann Demeulemeester, Belgian fashion designer
• 1959 – Martin Moran, American actor and author
• 1959 – Milton Ottey, Jamaican-Canadian high jumper and coach
• 1959 – Paula Poundstone, American comedian, actress, and author
• 1960 – David Boon, Australian cricketer and referee
• 1960 – Katerina Didaskalou, Greek actress
• 1960 – Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots
• 1961 – Kevin Granata, American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
• 1961 – Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jesus and Mary Chain and Freeheat)
• 1961 – Richard Horton, English physician and journalist
• 1962 – Devon White, Jamaican-American baseball player
• 1963 – Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiards player
• 1963 – Des Foy, English rugby player
• 1963 – Dave McKean, English illustrator, photographer, director, and pianist
• 1963 – Sean Payton, American football player and coach
• 1963 – Liisa Savijarvi, Canadian skier
• 1964 – Shingo Tsurumi, Japanese actor
• 1965 – Dexter Holland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Offspring)
• 1965 – Danilo Pérez, Panamanian pianist and composer
• 1966 – Laurent Boudouani, French boxer
• 1966 – Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer and coach
• 1966 – Martin Offiah, English rugby player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Ashleigh Banfield, Canadian-American journalist
• 1967 – Chris Barnes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, and Torture Killer)
• 1967 – Evan Seinfeld, American bass player, actor, and director (Biohazard and Damnocracy)
• 1969 – Jennifer Ehle, American actress
• 1969 – Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver
• 1969 – José Antonio Noriega, Mexican footballer
• 1970 – Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television host
• 1970 – Hidetoshi Mitsusada, Japanese race car driver
• 1970 – Glen Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Toad the Wet Sprocket and Works Progress Administration)
• 1970 – Kevin Weisman, American actor
• 1971 – Um Sang-hyun, South Korean voice actor
• 1971 – Margot Thien, American swimmer
• 1972 – Asheru, American rapper
• 1972 – Jason Kreis, American soccer player and manager
• 1972 – Jude Law, English actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Leonor Varela, Chilean-American actress
• 1973 – Pimp C, American rapper and producer (UGK) (d. 2007)
• 1973 – Theo Epstein, American businessman
• 1974 – Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and producer
• 1974 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Richie Sexson, American baseball player
• 1974 – Ryan Shore, Canadian composer and producer
• 1975 – Shawn Hatosy, American actor
• 1975 – Jaret Wright, American baseball player
• 1976 – Filip Kuba, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Danny McBride, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Jimmy Journell, American baseball player
• 1977 – Katherine Moennig, American actress
• 1978 – Alexis Amore, Peruvian-American porn actress and director
• 1978 – Jake Berry, English lawyer and politician
• 1978 – Matthew Carr, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Kieron Dyer, English footballer and coach
• 1978 – Danny Higginbotham, English footballer
• 1978 – Steve Kemp, English drummer (Hard-Fi)
• 1978 – LaToya London, American singer and actress
• 1978 – Angelo Taylor, American hurdler and sprinter
• 1979 – Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director, and producer
• 1979 – Yuki Morisaki, Japanese chef and entertainer
• 1979 – Moe Oshikiri, Japanese model
• 1979 – Ariel Schrag, American cartoonist and screenwriter
• 1981 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and sportscaster
• 1981 – Shaun Suisham, American football player
• 1981 – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Alison Brie, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Gabrielle Destroismaisons, Canadian singer
• 1982 – Brian Hill, Canadian swimmer
• 1982 – Dale Morris, Australian footballer
• 1982 – Norbert Siedler, Austrian racing driver
• 1983 – Jessica Andrews, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 – James Kelly, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (d. 2009)
• 1984 – Reimo Tamm, Estonian basketball player
• 1985 – Wang Ji-hye, South Korean actress
• 1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1986 – Joe Anyon, English footballer
• 1986 – Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer
• 1987 – Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver
• 1988 – Eric Berry, American football player
• 1988 – Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
• 1989 – Left Brain, American rapper and producer (Odd Future and MellowHype)
• 1989 – Jane Levy, American actress
• 1989 – Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
• 1990 – Allen Kim, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (U-KISS)
• 1992 – Katsuhiro Suzuki, Japanese actor and model
• 1994 – Princess Kako of Akishino
• 1995 – Rina Ikoma, Japanese singer (Nogizaka46 and AKB48)
• 1995 – Ross Lynch, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (R5)
• 1998 – Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 721 – Empress Genmei of Japan (b. 660)
• 1170 – Thomas Becket, English archbishop (b. 1118)
• 1563 – Sebastian Castellio, French preacher and theologian (b. 1515)
• 1565 – Queen Munjeong of Korea (b. 1501)
• 1634 – John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (b. 1612)
• 1661 – Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
• 1689 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (b. 1624)
• 1720 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer (b. 1670)
• 1731 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1685)
• 1737 – Joseph Saurin, French minister and mathematician (b. 1659)
• 1785 – Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (b. 1742)
• 1825 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)
• 1887 – Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1891 – Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 – Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 – William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1910 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (b. 1875)
• 1929 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
• 1934 – Alma Tell, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1937 – Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1949 – Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1953 – Violet MacMillan, American actress (b. 1887)
• 1959 – Robin Milford, English composer (b. 1903)
• 1960 – Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862)
• 1967 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
• 1972 – Joseph Cornell, American artist (b. 1903)
• 1972 – Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 – Tim Hardin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1984 – Indus Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1941)
• 1986 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1988 – Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1989 – Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (b. 1930)
• 1995 – Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
• 2000 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American artist (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Cássia Eller, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
• 2002 – Ralph Clanton, American actor (d. 1914)
• 2003 – Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2005 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-English psychotherapist and author (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Kevin Greening, English radio host (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Akmal Shaikh, Pakistani-English businessman and drug trafficker (b. 1956)
• 2009 – "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American football player and wrestler (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer, manager and chairman of the Israel Professional Footballers Association (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Bill Erwin, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Tyron Perez, Filipino model and actor (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Mike Auldridge, American singer and guitarist (The Seldom Scene and Chesapeake) (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Tony Greig, South African-Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Roland Griffiths-Marsh, Malaysian-Australian soldier and author (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and sculptor (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Paulo Rocha, Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Bruce Stark, American cartoonist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – C. T. Hsia, Chinese-American critic and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (Secret Machines, School of Seven Bells, Tripping Daisy, and UFOFU) (b. 1978)
• 2013 – Connie Dierking, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Wojciech Kilar, Ukrainian-Polish pianist and composer (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Jagadish Mohanty, Indian author (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Mike O'Connor, German-American journalist (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier and multiple Olympic champion (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Saiyid Hamid, Indian academic and diplomat (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Hari Harilela, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Odd Iversen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Jenny Pat, Hong Kong illustrator and art dealer (b. 1981)
• 2014 – Juanito Remulla, Sr., Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b. 1933)

• 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
• 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle
• 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
• 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
• 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
• 1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
• 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
• 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
• 1896 – Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
• 1897 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
• 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
• 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
• 1906 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
• 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
• 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London, England, UK admits its first female bar student.
• 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
• 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
• 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
• 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
• 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
• 1947 – King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
• 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at Broadway's New Century Theatre in midtown Manhattan, New York, and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
• 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
• 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
• 1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
• 1981 – In the 39th game of his third NHL season, Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, giving him 50 on the year and setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy, who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
• 1993 – Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
• 1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
• 1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
• 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
• 1999 – Former Beatle George Harrison is attacked by Michael Abram in his Friar Park home.
• 2000 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
• 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
• 2004 – French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission is created.
• 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
• 2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
• 2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
• 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
• 2009 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
• 2011 – Owing to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
• 2013 – More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Births[edit]

• 39 – Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81)
• 1204 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Portuguese ruler (d. 1282)
• 1371 – Vasily I of Moscow (d. 1425)
• 1490 – Ebussuud Efendi, Hanafi Ottoman jurist and Qur'an exegete (d. 1574)
• 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
• 1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1736)
• 1678 – William Croft, English organist and composer (d. 1727)
• 1722 – Charles Yorke, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
• 1724 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
• 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (d. 1829)
• 1792 – Sylvester Jordan, German lawyer and politician (d. 1861)
• 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (d. 1898)
• 1819 – John W. Geary, American lawyer and politician, 16th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
• 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (d. 1891)
• 1838 – Émile Loubet, French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1929)
• 1841 – Robert Scott, Australian public servant (d. 1922)
• 1849 – John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913)
• 1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (d. 1929)
• 1853 – André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)
• 1857 – Sylvio Lazzari, French-Austrian composer (d. 1944)
• 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944)
• 1869 – Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918)
• 1873 – Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (d. 1944)
• 1875 – Jean-Guy Gautier, French rugby player (d. 1938)
• 1878 – William Aberhart, Canadian evangelist and politician, 7th Premier of Alberta (d. 1943)
• 1879 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Archer Baldwin, American born, English farmer and politician (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Hideki Tōjō, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
• 1887 – William Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner and coach (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican soldier and politician, 47th President of Mexico (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian songwriter and screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Väinö Muinonen, Finnish runner (d. 1978)
• 1899 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard (d. 2001)
• 1901 – Beauford Delaney, American painter (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Dennie Moore, American actress and activist (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1942)
• 1906 – Carol Reed, English director and producer (d. 1976)
• 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Bert Parks, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (d. 2004)
• 1919 – David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor and director (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Jane Langton, American author and illustrator
• 1923 – Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian politician (d. 1977)
• 1925 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer and director (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Bernard Barrow, American actor and educator (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Robert Hossein, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Barbara Nichols, American actress and singer (d. 1976)
• 1930 – Roy Yorke Calne, English surgeon and academic
• 1930 – Red Rhodes, American guitarist
• 1930 – Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (The Davis Sisters) (d. 2004)
• 1931 – John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author
• 1931 – Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
• 1934 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and astronomer, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Joseph Bologna, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1934 – Barry Briggs, New Zealand motorcycle racer and sportscaster
• 1934 – Joseph P. Hoar, American general
• 1934 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
• 1934 – Russ Tamblyn, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1935 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese lieutenant and politician, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1935 – Jack Riley, American actor and singer
• 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer and manager
• 1937 – John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2001)
• 1937 – Jim Marshall, American football player
• 1937 – Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Peter, Paul and Mary)
• 1938 – Mike Auldridge, American guitarist (The Seldom Scene and Chesapeake) (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Gennaro Langella, American mob boss (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Mountain) (d. 1983)
• 1940 – James Burrows, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Mel Renfro, American football player and coach
• 1942 – Betty Aberlin, American actress and poet
• 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist
• 1942 – Guy Edwards, English race car driver
• 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Monkees and First National Band)
• 1942 – Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian, academic, and politician
• 1942 – Toomas Savi, Estonian physician and politician
• 1942 – Fred Ward, American actor and singer
• 1943 – Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (d. 2002)
• 1944 – William J. Fallon, American admiral
• 1944 – Jean Fergusson, English actress
• 1944 – Joseph Hilbe, American mathematician and philosopher
• 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Lloyd Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Troma Entertainment
• 1945 – Paola Pigni, Italian runner
• 1945 – Concetta Tomei, American actress
• 1945 – Vernon Wells, Australian actor and producer
• 1946 – Clive Bunker, English drummer (Jethro Tull, Electric Sun, Solstice, and Aviator)
• 1946 – Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 1947 – Michael Burns, American actor and historian
• 1947 – James Kahn, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1947 – Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Electric Light Orchestra, Traveling Wilburys, The Move, and The Idle Race)
• 1947 – Steve Mix, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (d. 1996)
• 1949 – David Bedford, English runner
• 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Timothy Mo, Chinese-English author
• 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American journalist and author
• 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language
• 1950 – Martti Vainio, Finnish runner
• 1951 – Doug Allder, English footballer
• 1951 – Nick Rose, English runner
• 1952 – June Anderson, American soprano and actress
• 1952 – Melissa Fay Greene, American author
• 1953 – Daniel T. Barry, American engineer and astronaut
• 1953 – Bill Kazmaier, American strongman and wrestler
• 1953 – Dana Key, American singer, guitarist, and producer (DeGarmo and Key) (d. 2010)
• 1953 – Graham Vick, English director and producer
• 1953 – Meredith Vieira, American journalist and game show host
• 1954 – Barry Greenstein, American poker player
• 1955 – Dindo Yogo, Congolese singer (Viva La Musica, Langa Langa Stars, and Zaiko Langa Langa) (d. 2000)
• 1956 – Ingus Baušķenieks, Latvian singer-songwriter and producer (Dzeltenie Pastnieki)
• 1956 – Suzy Bogguss, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Claudia di Girolamo, Chilean actress
• 1956 – Kozo Inoue, Japanese reporter
• 1956 – Patricia Kalember, American actress
• 1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress and singer
• 1956 – Jacek Wszoła, Polish high jumper
• 1957 – Matt Lauer, American journalist
• 1957 – Glenn Robbins, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Rod Harrington, English darts player and sportscaster
• 1957 – Nick Skelton, English horse rider
• 1958 – Steven Smith, American engineer and astronaut
• 1959 – Antonio Pappano, English pianist and conductor
• 1959 – Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Josée Verner, Canadian politician
• 1959 – Kåre Thomsen, Norwegian guitarist
• 1960 – Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic
• 1961 – Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright
• 1961 – Sean Hannity, American radio and television host
• 1961 – Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter
• 1961 – Charlie Nicholas, Scottish footballer
• 1961 – Seda Sayan, Turkish pop folk singer, actress, and TV variety-show hostess
• 1962 – Henry Cho, American actor
• 1962 – Joshua Clover, American author, poet, and critic
• 1962 – Heike Hartwig, German shot putter
• 1962 – Paavo Järvi, Estonian-American conductor
• 1962 – Natsumi Ogawa, Japanese entertainer and actress
• 1963 – Chandler Burr, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player
• 1963 – John van 't Schip, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1964 – Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer and referee (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Sylvie Moreau, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1964 – George Newbern, American actor
• 1964 – Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish singer-songwriter and producer (BMX Bandits)
• 1964 – Sophie Ward, English actress
• 1965 – Heidi Fleiss, American madam, actress, and journalist
• 1966 – Gary Chartier, American philosopher, scholar, and academic
• 1966 – Bennett Miller, American director and producer
• 1967 – Carl Ouellet, Canadian wrestler
• 1968 – Bryan Burk, American screenwriter and producer
• 1968 – Sandra Glover, American hurdler
• 1969 – Emmanuel Clérico, French race car driver
• 1969 – Dave England, American snowboarder and stuntman
• 1969 – Anthuan Maybank, American sprinter ad coach
• 1969 – Shane McConkey, American skier and base-jumper
• 1969 – Jay Kay, English singer-songwriter (Jamiroquai)
• 1970 – Sister Bliss, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Faithless)
• 1971 – Ricardo, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1971 – Daniel Sunjata, American actor
• 1972 – Kerry Collins, American football player
• 1972 – Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
• 1972 – Dita Indah Sari, Indonesian union leader and activist
• 1972 – Steven Wiig, American actor and drummer (Papa Wheelie)
• 1973 – Frans Bauer, Dutch singer
• 1973 – Jason Behr, American actor
• 1973 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian runner, sportscaster, and politician
• 1973 – Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn actor, director, and producer
• 1974 – G-Enka, Estonian rapper and producer (Toe Tag)
• 1974 – Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1974 – S. Jithesh, Indian cartoonist, poet, and critic
• 1974 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (d. 2007)
• 1975 – Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
• 1976 – Kastro, American rapper (Outlawz)
• 1976 – Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily, Saudi Arabian hurdler
• 1976 – Ashley Callie, South African actress (d. 2008)
• 1976 – Patrick Kerney, American football player
• 1976 – A. J. Pierzynski, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Laila Ali, American boxer and actress
• 1977 – Glory Alozie, Nigerian-Spanish sprinter and hurdler
• 1977 – Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
• 1977 – Saša Ilić, Serbian footballer
• 1977 – Scott Lucas, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 – Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
• 1977 – Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer
• 1977 – Lucy Punch, English actress and singer
• 1977 – Kemal Muslubaş, Turkish sailor, who specialized in the Laser class
• 1977 – Volkan Kürşat Bekiroğlu, Turkish retired footballer
• 1978 – Devin Brown, American basketball player
• 1978 – Tyrese Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1978 – Phillips Idowu, English triple jumper
• 1978 – Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer (Behemoth, Azarath, and Witchmaster)
• 1978 – Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Flávio Amado, Angolan footballer
• 1979 – Tommy Clufetos, American drummer
• 1979 – Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress and producer
• 1980 – Kenny Kwan, Filipino-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (Boy'z)
• 1980 – D. J. Mbenga, Congolese-Belgian basketball player
• 1980 – Alison McGovern, English politician
• 1981 – K.Will, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1981 – Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer
• 1981 – Haley Paige, Mexican-American porn actress and director (d. 2007)
• 1981 – Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
• 1981 – Reef the Lost Cauze, American rapper (JuJu Mob and Army of the Pharaohs)
• 1981 – Matt Ulrich, American football player
• 1982 – Cherry Lou, Filipino actress
• 1982 – Robbie Gould, American football player
• 1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress and producer
• 1982 – Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer
• 1982 – Dawan Landry, American football player
• 1982 – Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
• 1983 – Davide Mandorlini, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Josh Sussman, American actor
• 1983 – Nick Symmonds, American runner
• 1983 – Kevin Systrom, American businessman, co-founded Instagram
• 1984 – Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
• 1984 – LeBron James, American basketball player
• 1985 – Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
• 1985 – Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby player
• 1986 – Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 – Caity Lotz, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1986 – Faye Marsay, English actress
• 1986 – Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Jake Cuenca, American-Filipino actor and footballer
• 1988 – Leon Jackson, Scottish singer
• 1988 – Kirsty-Leigh Porter, English actress
• 1989 – Natalie Korneitsik, Estonian model
• 1989 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and actor
• 1989 – Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player
• 1990 – Joe Root, English cricketer
• 1992 – Seo Yuna, South Korean singer (AOA)
• 1992 – Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer
• 1993 – Peter Brant II, American socialite and model

Deaths[edit]

• 274 – Pope Felix I
• 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, Irish politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1443)
• 1460 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (b. 1411)
• 1525 – Jakob Fugger, German banker and businessman (b. 1459)
• 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (b. 1512)
• 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian author and poet (b. 1504)
• 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
• 1621 – Job of Manyava, Ukrainian monk and saint (b. 1550)
• 1640 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (b. 1597)
• 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician (b. 1577)
• 1662 – Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (b. 1628)
• 1768 – Ruth Blay, American criminal (b. 1737)
• 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Irish-Austrian soldier and courtier (b. 1685)
• 1777 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1727)
• 1788 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter (b. 1702)
• 1803 – Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and politician (b. 1713)
• 1867 – Sarah Booth, English actress (b. 1793)
• 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, Brazilian poet and painter (b. 1806)
• 1896 – José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (b. 1861)
• 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)
• 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)
• 1928 – Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 – Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 – Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1954 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Angelos Evert, Greek police officer (b. 1894)
• 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 – Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
• 1971 – Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1971 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919)
• 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)
• 1982 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Violette Cordery, English racing driver (b. 1900)
• 1984 – Massa, Ghanaian-American gorilla (b. 1930)
• 1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (b. 1925)
• 1989 – Leonore Lemmon, American girlfriend of George Reeves (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929)
• 1992 – Romeo Muller, American screenwriter and actor (b. 1928)
• 1993 – Mack David, American songwriter (b. 1912)
• 1993 – Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1993 – İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1994 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English-American hairdresser (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)
• 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905)
• 1998 – George Webb, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian (b. 1880)
• 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Eleanor J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Mary Wesley, English author (b. 1912)
• 2003 – David Bale, South African–American businessman and activist (b. 1941)
• 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American author and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Rıza Maksut İşman, Turkish runner (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Rona Jaffe, American-English author (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Vishnuvardhan, Indian actor (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959)
• 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban-Dutch singer and dancer (Boney M.) (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (b. 1971)
• 2012 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Gloria Pall, American model and actress (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Martin Berkofsky, American pianist (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (b. 1929)
• 2013 – José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Happy End) (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Jan Steyn, South African judge (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Yolande Donlan, American-English actress (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Luise Rainer, German-English actress (b. 1910)
• 2014 – B. G. Verghese, Indian journalist (b. 1927)

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