Celine Dion's husband and former manager Rene Angelil dies

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Rene Angelil, the husband and former manager of Celine Dion, has died aged 73, the singer  has announced.

Mr Angelil, who Dion married in 1994 and with whom she has three children, died at home in Las Vegas from cancer.

Dion took two career breaks to look after Mr Angelil after he was diagnosed with throat cancer, first in 2000.

Mr Angelil was born in Montreal in 1942. After managing groups in Canada, he was approached to manage Dion by her parents when she was aged 12.

Last year, Dion told USA Today she was preparing for her husband's death.

"When it hits me, it's going to hit me," she told the newspaper in August 2015. "But my biggest job is to tell my husband, we're fine. I'll take care of our kids. You'll watch us from another spot."

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The Montreal Gazette says he mortgaged his house to finance her first album. 

She has recorded 25 studio albums, and is the fifth-best-paid recording artist in the world, with a value of some $630m (£437m).

In 1999, her song My Heart Will Go On, from the soundtrack of the film Titanic, won two Grammy awards.

She has been a regular performer at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas since 2003.

She returned to performing last year after a year-long hiatus to look after Mr Angelil. He stepped down as her manager in 2014.

Η ανάπτυξη της Οικονομίας και οι προοπτικές ισχυροποίησης των οικονομικών σχέσεων ανάμεσα στα κράτη μας ήταν το κυριότερο θέμα της συζήτησης με τον αξιότιμο Γάλλο Πρέσβη κ. Chantepy. Συζητήσαμε εκτενώς για την προώθηση συνεργασιών ανάμεσα στις χώρες μας και εκφράστηκε το ενδιαφέρον για επενδύσεις στη Θεσσαλονίκη και στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη, δεδομένων των αξιόλογων προσπαθειών στο επίπεδο της κοινωνικής και διοικητικής ανασυγκρότησης που έχει κάνει η ελληνική κυβέρνηση.
Μιλήσαμε επίσης για τις προκλήσεις που καλούνται τα κράτη μας να αντιμετωπίσουν, ώστε να κρατηθεί η Ε.Ε. δυνατή, και για το νέο πλαίσιο ιδεών και αρχών που οι κοινωνικές συνθήκες απαιτούν για να αποκτήσει η Ευρώπη ξανά το ανθρωπιστικό της πρόσημο και να αντιμετωπιστούν προβλήματα όπως το προσφυγικό. 
Η σημερινή συνάντηση ήταν μια ακόμη επιβεβαίωση ότι μας συνδέουν ως λαούς δυνατές σχέσεις και ότι η Ελλάδα και η Γαλλία σύντομα θα αναλάβουν ξανά το ρόλο τους ως πυλώνες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης.

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• 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
• 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
• 550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
• 929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
• 1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1362 – A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
• 1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
• 1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
• 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
• 1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain.
• 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
• 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
• 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
• 1761 – The British capture Pondichéry, India from the French.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
• 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
• 1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
• 1862 – Hartley Colliery Disaster: Two hundred four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
• 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
• 1896 – Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
• 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
• 1920 – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
• 1921 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
• 1924 – Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
• 1938 – Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
• 1939 – The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
• 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
• 1964 – Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
• 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
• 1970 – Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
• 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• 1986 – First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
• 1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
• 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
• 2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
• 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
• 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
• 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
• 2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
• 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
• 2013 – An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.
• 2016 – 30 hostages have been freed in 20 killed in 2016 Ouagadougou attack in Burkina Faso. The attack was carried out on a hotel in the capital.

Births[edit]

• 1093 – Isaac Komnenos, Byzantine son of Alexios I Komnenos (d. 1152)
• 1245 – Edmund Crouchback, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1296)
• 1362 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, English Duke (d. 1392)
• 1409 – René of Anjou (d. 1480)
• 1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
• 1501 – Anthony Denny, English politician (d. 1559)
• 1516 – Bayinnaung, Burmese king (d. 1581)
• 1616 – François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort (d. 1669)
• 1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Belgian painter (d. 1699)
• 1634 – Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet (d. 1716)
• 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1755)
• 1691 – Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor (d. 1781)
• 1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator (d. 1800)
• 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803)
• 1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
• 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American admiral (d. 1877)
• 1815 – Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar (d. 1872)
• 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
• 1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1906)
• 1836 – Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
• 1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
• 1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
• 1853 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager (d. 1937)
• 1853 – Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general (d. 1947)
• 1853 – André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
• 1855 – Eleanor Marx, English activist and author (d. 1898)
• 1870 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 1872 – Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973)
• 1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
• 1874 – Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)
• 1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)
• 1878 – Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (d. 1940)
• 1882 – Margaret Wilson, American author (d. 1973)
• 1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (d. 1967)
• 1887 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
• 1888 – Osip Brik, Russian critic (d. 1945)
• 1891 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Irving Mills, American publisher (d. 1985)
• 1895 – Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)
• 1895 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Nat Schachner, American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955)
• 1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Bedia Muvahhit, Turkish actress (d. 1994)
• 1898 – Margaret Booth, American producer and editor (d. 2002)
• 1898 – Irving Rapper, English-American director and producer (d. 1999)
• 1900 – Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
• 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (d. 1973)
• 1901 – Frank Zamboni, American businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (d. 1945)
• 1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver (d. 1945)
• 1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Günther Prien, German captain (d. 1941)
• 1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974)
• 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982)
• 1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Roger Wagner, French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1916 – Philip Lucock, English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Carl Karcher, American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009)
• 1918 – Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1991)
• 1920 – Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Gene Feist, American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Anthony Hecht, American soldier, poet, and academic (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
• 1925 – Peter Hirsch, English metallurgist and academic
• 1925 – James Robinson Risner, American general (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Harold Switzer, American actor and singer (d. 1967)
• 1926 – O. P. Nayyar, Indian director and composer (d. 2007)
• 1928 – William Kennedy, American novelist, essayist, and journalist
• 1928 – Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
• 1929 – Shigeru Kōyama, Japanese actor
• 1929 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Norman Podhoretz, American journalist and author
• 1930 – Paula Tilbrook, English actress
• 1931 – John Enderby, English physicist
• 1931 – Robert L. Park, American physicist and academic
• 1931 – Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player (d. 1983)
• 1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)
• 1933 – Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Marilyn Horne, American soprano and actress
• 1935 – A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
• 1935 – Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Michael White, Scottish actor and producer
• 1937 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
• 1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Michael Pataki, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian, actor, and talk show host
• 1938 – Marina Vaizey, American journalist and critic
• 1939 – Mac Curtis, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Ralph Gibson, American photographer
• 1940 – Lepa Lukić, Serbian singer
• 1941 – Christine Truman, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1942 – René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
• 1942 – Barbara Lynn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer
• 1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, English composer and academic
• 1943 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and pianist
• 1944 – Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (Cluster, Harmonia, and Moebius & Plank) (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 – Jill Tarter, American astronomer
• 1944 – Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
• 1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano and actress
• 1947 – Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, English academic and politician
• 1947 – Magdalen Nabb, English author and educator (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Sara Jane Olson, American criminal
• 1947 – Harvey Proctor, English politician
• 1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American physiologist, talk show host, and author
• 1948 – John Carpenter, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
• 1948 – Ants Laaneots, Estonian military general, former Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces
• 1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1948 – Ruth Reichl, American journalist and critic
• 1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
• 1949 – Anne F. Beiler, American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's
• 1949 – R. F. Foster, Irish historian and academic
• 1949 – Oliver Humperdink, American wrestling manager (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Caroline Munro, English actress and singer
• 1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
• 1950 – Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1950 – Brian Castro, Hong Kong-Australian author and academic
• 1950 – Robert Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1950 – Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer and guitarist (Can)
• 1951 – Glenn Ordway, American sportscaster
• 1952 – Fuad II of Egypt
• 1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1952 – Piercarlo Ghinzani, Italian race car driver
• 1952 – Julie Anne Peters, American engineer and author
• 1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded The Order (d. 1984)
• 1953 – John Stephen Hill, Canadian actor
• 1954 – Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
• 1954 – Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
• 1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, American captain, physician, and astronaut
• 1956 – Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress and dancer
• 1956 – Wayne Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
• 1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1956 – Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist and engineer (d. 2007)
• 1957 – Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager
• 1957 – Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Mark Pawsey, English businessman and politician
• 1958 – Andriy Bal, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
• 1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)
• 1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish politician, 9th Swedish Minister for the Environment
• 1958 – Marla Frazee, American author and illustrator
• 1958 – Tony Pulis, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1958 – Andris Šķēle, Latvian politician and businessman, former Prime Minister of Latvia
• 1959 – Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 – Juanita Bynum, American actress and singer
• 1959 – Kimiko Ikegami, Japanese actress
• 1959 – Lisa Milroy, Canadian painter and educator
• 1961 – Ronnie Lee Gardner, American criminal (d. 2010)
• 1961 – Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong, Godflesh, Zilch, Society 1, and Ministry) (d. 2007)
• 1961 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer (d. 2006)
• 1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence
• 1962 – Denis O'Hare, American-Irish actor and singer
• 1962 – John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1962 – Ileana Salvador, Italian race walker
• 1962 – Paul Webb, English bass player (Talk Talk and .O.rang)
• 1963 – James May, English journalist and television host
• 1964 – Deyan Nedelchev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
• 1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 – Anthony Washington, American discus thrower and hammer thrower
• 1967 – Dandy Sakano, Japanese comedian
• 1968 – Danni Ashe, American model, dancer, and businesswoman
• 1968 – David Chokachi, American actor
• 1968 – Rebecca Stead, American author
• 1969 – Neil Back, English rugby player and coach
• 1969 – Marinus Bester, German footballer
• 1969 – Stevie Jackson, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Belle and Sebastian and The Vaselines)
• 1969 – Roy Jones, Jr., American boxer, rapper, and actor
• 1969 – Per "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish singer-songwriter (Mayhem and Morbid) (d. 1991)
• 1969 – Rich Ward, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fozzy, Stuck Mojo, and Adrenaline Mob)
• 1970 – Rick Bognar, Canadian wrestler and actor
• 1970 – Garth Ennis, Irish physiotherapist and author
• 1970 – Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies, and Mogwai)
• 1970 – Ron Villone, American baseball player and coach
• 1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player and coach
• 1971 – Jonathan Mangum, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
• 1972 – Ang Christou, Australian footballer
• 1972 – Dameon Clarke, Canadian-American actor
• 1972 – Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Salah Hissou, Moroccan runner
• 1972 – Joe Horn, American football player
• 1972 – Richard T. Jones, Japanese-American actor and producer
• 1972 – Greg Page, Australian singer and actor (The Wiggles)
• 1972 – Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer
• 1973 – Sheila, Japanese model, entertainer, sportscaster, and actress
• 1973 – Josie Davis, American actress and producer
• 1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Brent Hinds, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – John Hopoate, Tongan-Australian rugby league player and boxer
• 1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
• 1975 – Greg Strause, American director and producer
• 1975 – Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
• 1975 – Anthony Taberna, Filipino journalist
• 1976 – Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, Bahamian sprinter
• 1976 – Viktor Maslov, Russian race car driver
• 1976 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
• 1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player
• 1977 – Ariel Ze'evi, Israeli martial artist
• 1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
• 1979 – Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2001)
• 1979 – Toshiki Kashu, Japanese actor
• 1979 – Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Alyssa Edwards, American drag queen, dancer and businessman
• 1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
• 1980 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer
• 1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1980 – Katalin Vad, Hungarian porn actress and model
• 1981 – Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
• 1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer
• 1982 – Preston, English singer-songwriter (The Ordinary Boys)
• 1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer
• 1982 – Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Danish actress
• 1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
• 1983 – Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
• 1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
• 1984 – Miroslav Radović, Serbian footballer
• 1984 – Jared Slingerland, Canadian guitarist
• 1984 – Kurt Travis, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Joe Flacco, American football player
• 1985 – Gintaras Januševičius, Russian-Lithuanian pianist
• 1985 – Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
• 1985 – Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer
• 1985 – Simon Richter, Danish footballer
• 1986 – Mason Gamble, American actor
• 1986 – Irina Kuzmina, Latvian tennis player
• 1986 – Paula Pareto, Argentinian martial artist
• 1986 – Johannes Rahn, German footballer
• 1986 – Mark Trumbo, American baseball player
• 1986 – Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer
• 1987 – Charlotte Henshaw, English swimmer
• 1987 – Lauren McAvoy, English model
• 1987 – Sheena Halili, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
• 1988 – Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – FKA twigs, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and producer
• 1988 – Li Xiaoxia, Chinese table tennis player
• 1988 – Alex Gonzaga, Filipino actress, host, and writer
• 1989 – Yvonne Zima, American actress
• 1991 – Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Matt Doherty, Irish footballer
• 1992 – Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
• 1993 – Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
• 1993 – Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
• 1994 – Charlotte Best, Australian model and actress
• 1995 – Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer

Deaths[edit]

• 378 – Chak Tok Ich'aak I, Mayan king
• 654 – Gao Jifu, Chinese politician, Chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 596)
• 957 – Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i, senior official of the Tulunid, Abbasid and Ikhshidid dynasties (b. 871)
• 970 – Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
• 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (b. 1250)
• 1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia (b. 1339)
• 1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352)
• 1545 – George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (b. 1484)
• 1547 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
• 1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)
• 1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral and politician (b. 1512)
• 1592 – John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern (b. 1543)
• 1595 – Murad III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
• 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
• 1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
• 1711 – Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
• 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
• 1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1750 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
• 1752 – Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705)
• 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
• 1809 – John Moore, Scottish general (b. 1761)
• 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
• 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
• 1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
• 1864 – Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
• 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
• 1879 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
• 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
• 1891 – Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1901 – Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
• 1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
• 1901 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, American solder, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
• 1906 – Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
• 1907 – Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoleon (b. 1816)
• 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1920 – Reginald De Koven, American composer and critic (b. 1859)
• 1933 – Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Fred Barker, American criminal (b. 1901)
• 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
• 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
• 1938 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1939 – William O'Connor, American fencer (b. 1864)
• 1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)
• 1942 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)
• 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress and singer (b. 1908)
• 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
• 1957 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)
• 1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1867)
• 1959 – Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Arthur Darby, English rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Frank Hurley, Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor; designed the Gregory of Nin, The Bowman and The Spearman, Monument to the Unknown Hero, Pobednik (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Ike Quebec, American saxophonist (b. 1918)
• 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Bob Jones, Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
• 1968 – Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek judge and archeologist (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1971 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
• 1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
• 1978 – A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1982 – Red Smith, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator (b. 1910)
• 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
• 1987 – Joyce Jameson, American actress (b. 1932)
• 1987 – Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
• 1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian Ustaše leader, Porajmos perpetrator (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Prem Nazir, Indian actor (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and weightlifter (b. 1960)
• 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Kaye Webb, English journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Ennis Cosby, American educator (b. 1969)
• 1997 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (b. 1971)
• 1998 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Jim McClelland, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters and The Cadets) (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939)
• 2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Ron Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Marjorie Williams, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941)
• 2009 – Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (b. 1930)
• 2009 – John Mortimer, English lawyer and author (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Takumi Shibano, Japanese translator and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Jimmy Castor, American saxophonist (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Mike Current, American football player (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Lorna Kesterson, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Gussie Moran, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (Van der Graaf Generator and The Misunderstood) (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Burhan Doğançay, Turkish-American artist (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Gary Arlington, American author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Ruth Duccini, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Wiley W. Hilburn, American journalist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Bud Spangler, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Miriam Akavia, Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Ian Athfield, New Zealand architect (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981)
• 2015 – Stuart Loory, American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Rimma Markova Russian actress (b. 1925)

David Bowie albums make up 25% of top 40

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Nineteen of David Bowie's albums have entered the UK album charts, after fans sought out his classic hits in the wake of his death.

His new album, Blackstar, reached number one, selling almost 150,000 copies since its release last week.

It had already been on course to top the charts before news of his death was announced on Monday, said the Official Charts Company.

Thirteen Bowie tracks also entered the top 100, led by Heroes at number 12.

The song, which originally peaked at 24 in 1977, is joined in the top 40 by Life On Mars, Starman, Let's Dance and Space Oddity.

In total, Bowie sold 241,000 albums and 167,000 singles over the course of the week, while his songs were streamed more than 19 million times on services like Apple Music and Spotify, which said streams jumped by 2,822% following news of his death.

The star accounts for 25% of this week's Top 40, with the best-sellers including greatest hits collections Nothing Has Changed and Best Of 1969/1974.

Hunky Dory was the most popular of the Bowie's classic albums, charting at 14. The 1971 record includes the singles Life on Mars and Changes, as well as Kooks, an ode to Bowie's son whose lyrics went viral earlier this week.

David Bowie's albums in the Top 100
1) Blackstar
5) Nothing Has Changed - The Very Best Of
11) The Best Of 1969 / 1974
14) Hunky Dory
17) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
18) Best of Bowie
23) Aladdin Sane
25) The Next Day
31) Low
37) Diamond Dogs
42) Let's Dance
45) Heroes
55) Station to Station
59) The Best Of - 1980 / 1987
60) Young Americans
61) Scary Monsters
89) The Man Who Sold The World
95) Space Oddity
97) Five Years - 1969 - 1973

Elsewhere, Justin Bieber maintained his grip on the top five singles, with his Ed Sheeran-penned ballad Love Yourself spending a sixth week at the top. 

His previous singles Sorry and What Do You Mean each slipped one place - to three and four respectively - pushed down by Shawn Mendes' new single Stitches.

The top five was rounded off by Sigala's dance track Sweet Lovin', up from number eight last week.

Elsewhere, Little Mix scored their 13th top 40 hit with Love Yourself, a duet with US singer Jason Derulo, which entered the chart at 34; while Craig David's career comeback continues apace, as the grime collaboration When The Bassline Drops, featuring Big Narstie, climbs 21 places to Number 15.

In doing so, it gives the British singer his first top 20 single since 2007's Hot Stuff (Let's Dance).

In the album chart, Elvis Presley holds firm at number two with If I Can Dream, featuring orchestral arrangements of his biggest hits. Adele's 25 fell to number three, giving up the top spot for the first time since its release last November.

Justin Bieber's Purpose is at four, while Stevie McCrorie - who won last year's edition of The Voice UK - scores a new entry at 35 with his first post-victory release, Big World.

29 σταρ του Χόλιγουντ ξαναπαίζουν το φινάλε του «Οσα παίρνει ο άνεμος» 

Αν το Χόλιγουντ ετοιμάσει μια μέρα ένα remake της ταινίας «Οσα παίρνει ο

 άνεμος», οι παραγωγοί δεν θα ξέρουν ποιούς ηθοποιούς να πρωτοεπιλέξουν.

Το αμερικανικό περιοδικό W αποφάσισε να ζητήσει από 29 διάσημους ηθοποιούς

 να ξαναπαίξουν την τελευταία σκηνή της εμβληματικής ταινίας του Βίκτορ Φλέμινγκ.
Αντιμέτωποι με την κάμερα, η αφρόκρεμα των χολιγουντιανών ηθοποιών μπαίνει

 στο παιχνίδι και μας προσφέρει ένα βίντεο τριών λεπτών.

Δείτε τα ιερά τέρατα του σημερινού Χόλιγουντ να παίζουν ρόλους γιγάντων της

 Αμερικής του 1940.
Από την Κέητ Μπλάνσερ ως τον Εντι Ρεντμέιν, τον Μπράντλεϊ Κούπερ ως τον 

Σάμουελ Λ. Τζάκσον, ένα ονειρεμένο κάστινγκ παίζει το παιχνίδι και αναπαριστά 

την ιστορική τελευταία σκηνή μεταξύ της Σκάρλερ Ο Χάρα και του Ρετ Μπάτλερ.

Δείτε την πρωτότυπη, συγκλονιστική σκηνή του τέλους της ταινίας «Οσα παίρνει 

ο Ανεμος»:

Τι συμβαίνει σε αυτό το φινάλε -Η διασημότερη ατάκα στην ιστορία του

 σινεμά

Η ταινία των 10 Oscar με τον Κάρλ Γκέημπλ και την Βίβιαν Λη έχει ένα από τα

 καλύτερα φινάλε στην ιστορία του κινηματογράφου.

Μετά από μια ταραγμένη και καθηλωτική πλοκή, διάρκειας 4 ωρών, ο πατέρας του

 παιδιού της και σύζυγος της Σκάρλετ Ο'Χάρα, Ρετ Μπάτλερ, ο οποίος της προσφέρει

  απλόχερα την αγάπη του καθόλη την διάρκεια της ταινίας και εκείνη συνεχώς τον

 απορρίπτει, αποφασίζει να την εγκαταλείψει οριστικά.

Ο Ρετ Μπάτλερ βρίσκεται στην πόρτα του σπιτιού τους και εκείνη τον ρωτά

 απεγνωσμένα για το τι να κάνει αν αυτός φύγει.
Τότε εκείνος της απαντά με την πιο διάσημη ατάκα στην ιστορία του παγκόσμιου 

κινηματογράγου: «Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn», [Ειλικρινά, αγαπητή μου

 δεν δίνω δεκάρα], κλείνει την πόρτα και χάνεται στην ομίχλη.

Και δείτε τους σημερινούς σταρ του Χόλιγουντ να ξαναπαίζουν την ίδια σκηνή:

Τι γίνεται στη συνέχεια

Στη συνέχεια η Σκάρλετ Ο'Χάρα καταρρέει στις σκάλες. Δεν μένει όμως στην

 μιζέρια και στην δυστυχία της. Εκείνη τη στιγμή θυμάται τα λόγια του πατέρα της, 

του Ασλεϊ και του Ρετ, που της έλεγαν ότι η δύναμή της ήταν πάντα η ιδιαίτερη 

πατρίδα της, η γη της, η Τάρα. Αποφασίζει, λοιπόν, να επιστρέψει στην 

γενέτειρά της και να προσπαθήσει με κάποιο τρόπο να επαναφέρει τον Ρετ.
Και τότε έρχεται η άλλη ιστορική ατάκα: «After all, tomorrow is another day».

 [Εξάλλου, αύριο, είναι μια άλλη μέρα].

Το Όσα Παίρνει ο Άνεμος (πρωτότυπος τίτλος στα αγγλικά: Gone with the Wind) 

είναι επική ιστορική ρομαντική ταινία του 1939, βασισμένη στο ομώνυμο 

μυθιστόρημα της Μάργκαρετ Μίτσελ του 1936, σε σκηνοθεσία Βίκτορ Φλέμινγκ. 

Η επική αυτή ταινία είχε πρωταγωνιστές την Βίβιαν Λι, τον Κλαρκ Γκέιμπλ, τον

 Λέσλι Χάουαρντ και την Ολίβια Ντε Χάβιλαντ και αποτελεί τη μεγαλύτερη

 εισπρακτική επιτυχία όλων των εποχών.

Η ταινία βραβεύτηκε με 8 βραβεία Όσκαρ, ένα ρεκόρ που διατήρησε για είκοσι

 χρόνια. Μέχρι σήμερα μόνο οι ταινίες Μπεν Χουρ (Ben Hur, 1959), Τιτανικός

 (Titanic, 1997) και Ο Άρχοντας των Δαχτυλιδιών: Η Επιστροφή του Βασιλιά 

(The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003) έχουν καταφέρει να

 ξεπεράσουν τα 10 όσκαρ του Όσα παίρνει ο άνεμος.

Βόλτα στο κάστρο όπου ο Χίτσκοκ γύρισε το «Κυνήγι του κλέφτη» 

Είναι ένα κάστρο που λάτρεψε η Γκρέις Κέλι, κατά τη

 διάρκεια των γυρισμάτων της ταινίας «Το Κυνήγι του κλέφτη».

Σήμερα, 56 χρόνια αργότερα, μπορεί να το αποκτήσει όποιος μπορεί να διαθέσει

 53,5 εκατομμύρια δολάρια, σύμφωνα με την Le Figaro, τιμή την οποία φέρεται να 

ζητά ο ιδιοκτήτης του Perrier, στον οποίο ανήκει το κάστρο. Το Castle of la Croix des 

Gardes χτίστηκε το 1919 στην Γαλλική Ριβιέρα.

Καταλαμβάνει 24 στρέμματα, ενώ διαθέτει 13 υπνοδωμάτια και 9 μπάνια, όπως και

 ξενώνα, πορτοκαλεώνα και μία απίστευτη πισίνα, με εκπληκτική θέα στη θάλασσα.

Σε αυτό το απίθανο κάστρο ο Αλφρεντ Χίτσκοκ γύρισε το «Κυνήγι του κλέφτη», την 

τελευταία ταινία στην οποία συνεργάστηκε με την Γκρέις Κέλι και η οποία

 προηγήθηκε του γάμου της με τον πρίγκιπα Ρενιέ. Συμπρωταγωνιστής της ήταν

 ο Κάρι Γκραντ, ενώ σύμφωνα με την Daily Mail η μετέπειτα πριγκίπισσα λάτρευε

 το μεγαλείο του κάστρου, τις προσόψεις σε στιλ Φλωρεντίας και τους

 εκπληκτικούς κήπους του.

 Από φρούριο κολαστήριο πολυτελές θέρετρο πλουσίων -Με σπα, μαρίνες και πισίνες 

 Κολαστήριο του Β'Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου που βρίσκεται

 στο 

νησί Μάμουλα, στο Μαυροβούνιο.

Το Λασταβίτσα όπως είναι ευρέως γνωστό θα υποστεί ολική μεταμόρφωση και θα 

αποκτήσει εστιατόρια, οργανωμένη παραλία, μπιτς κλαμπ, μαρίνα για γιοτ, 

ειδικούς χώρους για πάρτι, σπα και πισίνα.

Η απόφαση της κυβέρνησης σύμφωνα με το nyooztrend.com έχει συναντήσει τις

 αντιδράσεις των συγγενών των θυμάτων που έχασαν τη ζωή τους από τους ναζί 

που μετέτρεψαν το κάστρο σε στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης υπό την εποπτεία του

 τότε φασίστα ηγέτη της Ιταλίας, Μπενίτο Μουσολίνι, ο οποίος συνεργάστηκε με

 τις δυνάμεις του Αδόλφου Χίτλερ.

Το κυκλικό νησί βρίσκεται στα σύνορα της επικράτειας του Μαυροβουνίου και 

της Κροατίας, στον κόλπο του Κοτόρ. Κατασκευάστηκε το 1853 από την

 Αυστροουγγρική Αυτοκρατορία.

Σήμερα βρίσκεται εγκαταλελειμμένο, χρησιμεύοντας μόνο για να θυμίζει το

 μαρτυρικό θάνατο δύο και πλέον χιλιάδων ανθρώπων από το ναζιστο-φασιστικό 

καθεστώς.

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• 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
• 395 – Upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I, the Roman Empire is permanently divided into the Eastern Roman Empire under Arcadius, and the Western Roman Empire under Honorius.
• 1287 – King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
• 1377 – Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
• 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
• 1562 – France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.
• 1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
• 1608 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men.
• 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
• 1773 – Captain James Cook commands the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
• 1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
• 1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
• 1852 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
• 1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War.
• 1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
• 1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
• 1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1903 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
• 1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
• 1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• 1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
• 1915 – Russia defeats Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
• 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
• 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
• 1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
• 1929 – Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days.
• 1941 – Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
• 1943 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
• 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
• 1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
• 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
• 1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
• 1949 – The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time.
• 1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
• 1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
• 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
• 1966 – Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
• 1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
• 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
• 1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• 1982 – "Cold Sunday": In numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
• 1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
• 1991 – Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
• 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
• 1994 – Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
• 1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
• 1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
• 1997 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
• 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
• 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
• 2008 – British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
• 2010 – Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.

Births[edit]

• 1463 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
• 1472 – Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian noble and Duke of Urbino (d. 1508)
• 1484 – George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (d. 1545)
• 1501 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
• 1504 – Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
• 1560 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, physician, and academic (d. 1624)
• 1574 – Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer, and mathematician (d. 1637)
• 1600 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1681)
• 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (d. 1671)
• 1640 – Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (d. 1724)
• 1659 – Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745)
• 1666 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (d. 1723)
• 1686 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian and author (d. 1766)
• 1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American publisher and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790)
• 1712 – John Stanley, English organist and composer (d. 1786)
• 1719 – William Vernon, American businessman (d. 1806)
• 1728 – Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)
• 1732 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king (d. 1798)
• 1733 – Thomas Linley the elder English singer and conductor (d. 1795)
• 1734 – François-Joseph Gossec, French composer and conductor (d. 1829)
• 1761 – Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832)
• 1789 – August Neander, German historian and theologian (d. 1850)
• 1793 – Antonio José Martínez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (d. 1867)
• 1814 – Ellen Wood, English author (d. 1887)
• 1820 – Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)
• 1828 – Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918)
• 1828 – Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1898)
• 1831 – Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
• 1832 – Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and educator (d. 1906)
• 1834 – August Weismann, German biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (d. 1914)
• 1850 – Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian cardinal (d. 1930)
• 1850 – Alexander Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
• 1851 – A. B. Frost, American author and illustrator (d. 1928)
• 1853 – Alva Belmont, American-French activist (d. 1933)
• 1853 – T. Alexander Harrison, American painter (d. 1930)
• 1857 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)
• 1857 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American engineer (d. 1935)
• 1858 – Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian author (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Douglas Hyde, Irish academic and politician, 1st President of Ireland (d. 1949)
• 1863 – David Lloyd George, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
• 1863 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (d. 1938)
• 1865 – Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
• 1867 – Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d. 1939)
• 1867 – Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel, pilot, and polo player (d. 1934)
• 1871 – David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty English admiral (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940)
• 1872 – Henri Masson, French fencer (d. 1963)
• 1875 – Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright (d. 1910)
• 1876 – Frank Hague, American politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City (d. 1956)
• 1877 – May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator (d. 1969)
• 1879 – Burt McKinnie, American golfer (d. 1946)
• 1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
• 1881 – Harry Price, English psychologistst and author (d. 1948)
• 1882 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor and singer (d. 1946)
• 1882 – Arnold Rothstein, American businessman (d. 1928)
• 1883 – Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (d. 1926)
• 1886 – Glenn L. Martin, American pilot, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955)
• 1887 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
• 1888 – Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author (d. 1963)
• 1895 – John Duff, Canadian race car driver (d. 1958)
• 1897 – Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial killer (d. 1946)
• 1899 – Al Capone, American mob boss (d. 1947)
• 1899 – Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (d. 1960)
• 1901 – Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Warren Hull, American actor, singer, and game show host (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Johanna Klink, German super-centenarian (d. 2015)
• 1904 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai painter and illustrator (d. 1969)
• 1905 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1905 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
• 1905 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, educator, and critic (d. 1950)
• 1905 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1966)
• 1905 – Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (d. 1960)
• 1907 – Henk Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer and engineer (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1966)
• 1911 – John S. McCain, Jr., American admiral (d. 1981)
• 1911 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1914 – Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (d. 2015)
• 1914 – William Stafford, American poet and author (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean horse rider (d. 2007)
• 1917 – M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1987)
• 1918 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (d. 1994)
• 1918 – George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Corsica Joe, French-American wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Lorna Cooke deVaron, American conductor and educator
• 1921 – Herbert Ellis, American actor
• 1921 – Asghar Khan, Pakistani general and politician
• 1921 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Luis Echeverría, Mexican politician, 50th President of Mexico
• 1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Betty White, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1923 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (d. 1962)
• 1923 – Carol Raye, English-Australian actress
• 1924 – Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer and author (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Edgar Ray Killen, American Ku Klux Klan organizer
• 1925 – Patricia Owens, Canadian-American actress (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician
• 1926 – Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (d. 1961)
• 1927 – Norman Kaye, Australian actor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1927 – E.W. Swackhamer, American director and producer (d. 1994)
• 1928 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
• 1928 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Jacques Plante, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1986)
• 1929 – Tan Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Eddie LeBaron, American football player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor
• 1931 – Douglas Wilder, American sergeant and politician, 66th Governor of Virginia
• 1931 – Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Sheree North, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2005)
• 1933 – Dalida, Egyptian-French singer and actress (d. 1987)
• 1933 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer, and television host (d. 1998)
• 1934 – Donald Cammell, Scottish-American director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Stuart Nisbet, American actor
• 1934 – Zlatko Papec, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Cedar Walton, American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American businesswoman and politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware
• 1936 – John Boyd, English academic and diplomat, British ambassador to Japan
• 1936 – A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher and educator
• 1938 – John Bellairs, American author and academic (d. 1991)
• 1938 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (d. 1988)
• 1939 – Christodoulos of Athens, Greek archbishop (d. 2008)
• 1939 – Maury Povich, American talk show host, producer, and actor
• 1940 – Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
• 1940 – Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan politician, 39th President of Uruguay
• 1941 – István Horthy, Jr., Hungarian physicist and architect
• 1941 – Gillian Weir, New Zealand-English organist and educator
• 1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer and referee
• 1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and author
• 1942 – Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist and educator
• 1942 – Nigel McCulloch, English bishop
• 1942 – Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
• 1943 – Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti
• 1944 – Françoise Hardy, French singer and actress
• 1944 – Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic
• 1945 – Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer
• 1945 – Anne Cutler, Research Professor at the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney
• 1946 – Michèle Deslauriers, Canadian actress
• 1947 – Jane Elliot, American actress
• 1947 – Alain Payet, French porn actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1948 – Jim Ladd, American radio host and producer
• 1948 – Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1948 – Anne Queffélec, French pianist
• 1948 – Michael Rake, English businessman and academic
• 1949 – Anita Borg, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Augustin Dumay, French violinist and conductor
• 1949 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (d. 1984)
• 1949 – Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
• 1949 – Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones)
• 1950 – Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican author and academic
• 1952 – Darrell Porter, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1952 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, producer, and actor (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
• 1953 – Jeff Berlin, American bass player
• 1953 – Carlos Johnson, American singer and guitarist
• 1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer, radio host, and environmentalist
• 1954 – Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
• 1955 – Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1955 – Steve Javie, American basketball player and referee
• 1956 – Damian Green, English journalist and politician, Minister of State for Immigration
• 1956 – Jonathan Linsley, English actor
• 1956 – Mitch Vogel, American actor
• 1956 – Paul Young, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Q-Tips)
• 1957 – Nancy Argenta, Canadian soprano
• 1957 – Keith Chegwin, English television host and actor
• 1957 – Steve Harvey, American comedian, actor, and game show host
• 1957 – Ann Nocenti, American journalist and author
• 1957 – Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
• 1958 – Tony Kouzarides, English biologist, cancer researcher
• 1959 – Susanna Hoffs, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (The Bangles and Ming Tea)
• 1959 – Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
• 1960 – John Crawford, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Berlin)
• 1960 – Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball player and coach
• 1960 – Tracey Moore, Canadian voice actress and singer
• 1960 – Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor, director, and producer
• 1961 – Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
• 1961 – Brian Helgeland, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Jun Azumi, Japanese broadcaster and politician; 46th Japanese Minister of Finance
• 1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and producer
• 1962 – Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
• 1962 – Denis O'Hare, American actor
• 1962 – Ari Up, German-English singer (d. 2010)
• 1963 – Kai Hansen, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1964 – Michelle Fairley, Northern Irish actress
• 1964 – Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist; 46th First Lady of the United States
• 1964 – Andy Rourke, English bass player (The Smiths and Freebass)
• 1965 – Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer and manager
• 1965 – Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Joshua Malina, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Stephin Merritt, American singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Shabba Ranks, Jamaican-American singer
• 1966 – António Zeferino, Cape Verdean runner
• 1967 – Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Pulp and Longpigs)
• 1967 – Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
• 1967 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
• 1968 – Svetlana Masterkova, Russian runner
• 1968 – Rowan Pelling, English journalist and author
• 1968 – Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar
• 1968 – Jane Salumäe, Estonian runner
• 1969 – Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer (Gouryella and Kamaya Painters)
• 1969 – Naveen Andrews, English actor
• 1969 – Dave Lamb, English actor, presenter, and comedian
• 1969 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish director, screenwriter, and author
• 1970 – Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer
• 1970 – Masaaki Mochizuki, Japanese wrestler
• 1970 – Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player and actor
• 1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator, director, and producer
• 1970 – James Wattana, Thai snooker player
• 1971 – Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player
• 1971 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1971 – Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress and singer
• 1971 – Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1971 – Sylvie Testud, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Paolo Vaccari, Italian rugby player and manager
• 1971 – Ann Wolfe, American boxer and trainer
• 1971 – Lil Jon, American rapper
• 1972 – Benno Fürmann, German actor
• 1972 – Ken Hirai, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1972 – Vittoria Belvedere, Italian actress
• 1973 – Ryō, Japanese model, actress, voice actress, and singer
• 1973 – Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and actor
• 1973 – Chris Bowen, Australian politician, 37th Treasurer of Australia
• 1973 – Liz Ellis, Australian netball player
• 1973 – Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian and actor
• 1974 – Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
• 1974 – Yang Chen, Chinese footballer and manager
• 1974 – Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer (Amparanoia)
• 1974 – Derrick Mason, American football player
• 1975 – Squarepusher, English singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, American actor and producer
• 1975 – Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter and producer
• 1977 – Dante Carver, American actor
• 1977 – Kevin Thorn, American wrestler
• 1977 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Carolina "Pampita" Ardohaín, Argentinian model and actress
• 1978 – Meilen Tu, American tennis player
• 1978 – Ricky Wilson, English singer-songwriter (Kaiser Chiefs)
• 1979 – Oleh Lisohor, Ukrainian swimmer
• 1979 – Chase Stevens, American wrestler
• 1980 – Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer
• 1980 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress (She & Him)
• 1980 – Gareth McLearnon, Irish flute player
• 1980 – Modestas Stonys, Lithuanian footballer
• 1981 – Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer, manager
• 1981 – Ray J, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1981 – Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
• 1981 – Diogo Morgado, Portuguese actor
• 1982 – Hwanhee, South Korean singer and actor (Fly to the Sky)
• 1982 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
• 1982 – Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer (The Wilkinsons and Small Town Pistols)
• 1983 – Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player
• 1983 – Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver
• 1983 – Marcelo Garcia, Brazilian martial arts expert
• 1984 – Sophie Dee, Welsh porn actress
• 1984 – Kelvin Fletcher, English actor and model
• 1984 – Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer
• 1984 – Samuel Shaw, American wrestler
• 1985 – Kangin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
• 1985 – Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Mark Briscoe, American wrestler
• 1985 – Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer and actress (BeForU)
• 1985 – Betsy Ruth, American wrestler
• 1985 – Simone Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter (Epica)
• 1986 – Max Adler, American actor
• 1986 – Hale Appleman, American actor
• 1986 – Viktor Stålberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer
• 1988 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
• 1988 – Will Genia, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Héctor Moreno, Mexican footballer
• 1989 – Hollie-Jay Bowes, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 – Björn Dreyer, German footballer
• 1989 – Taylor Jordan, American baseball player
• 1990 – Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer
• 1990 – Kaori Matsumura, Japanese idol and singer (SKE48)
• 1991 – Trevor Bauer, American baseball player
• 1991 – Willa Fitzgerald, American actress
• 1993 – Frankie Cocozza, English singer
• 1994 – Gasan Magomedov, Russian footballer (d. 2015)
• 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer-songwriter

Deaths[edit]

• 395 – Theodosius I, Roman emperor (b. 347)
• 1229 – Albert of Riga, German bishop (b. 1165)
• 1334 – John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (b. 1266)
• 1345 – Henry of Asti, Greek patriarch
• 1345 – Martino Zaccaria, Aegean ruler
• 1369 – Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)
• 1468 – Skanderbeg, Albanian soldier and politician (b. 1405)
• 1598 – Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
• 1617 – Fausto Veranzio, Croatian bishop and lexicographer (b. 1551)
• 1654 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
• 1705 – John Ray, English botanist and historian (b. 1627)
• 1718 – Benjamin Church, American colonel (b. 1639)
• 1737 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
• 1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
• 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1671)
• 1826 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (b. 1806)
• 1834 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1762)
• 1861 – Lola Montez, Irish-American actress and dancer (b. 1821)
• 1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
• 1869 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
• 1874 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai conjoined twins (b. 1811)
• 1878 – Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (b. 1804)
• 1887 – William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
• 1891 – George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1800)
• 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1903 – Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
• 1908 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
• 1909 – Francis Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
• 1911 – Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822)
• 1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
• 1931 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864)
• 1932 – Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881)
• 1932 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893)
• 1933 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
• 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
• 1936 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1885)
• 1942 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
• 1947 – Pyotr Krasnov, Russian historian and general (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (b. 1903)
• 1952 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American businessman (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Blind Alfred Reed, American singer-songwriter (b. 1880)
• 1960 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, English-New Zealand illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
• 1963 – Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872)
• 1964 – T. H. White, English author (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
• 1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890)
• 1970 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (b. 1937)
• 1972 – Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
• 1977 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1980 – Barbara Britton, American actress (b. 1919)
• 1981 – Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Doodles Weaver, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1984 – Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1984 – George Rigaud, Argentinian-Spanish actor (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 1991 – Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Frank Pullen, English businessman (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
• 1997 – Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Robert Eads, American trans man (b. 1945)
• 1999 – Samantha Reid, American manslaughter victim (b. 1984)
• 2000 – Philip Jones, English trumpet player (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Gregory Corso, American poet and author (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Bishop Karas, Sudanese-American bishop (b. 1955)
• 2002 – Queenie Leonard, English-American actress and singer (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Eddie Meduza, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Roman Personov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni) (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Ray Stark, American producer (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Charlie Bell, Australian businessman (b. 1960)
• 2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Albert Schatz, American microbiologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, 3rd Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Art Buchwald, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Carlos, French singer and actor (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
• 2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek journalist and politician, Foreign Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2011 – Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Ernie Alexander, American educator and politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Aengus Fanning, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Carlos Guirao, Spanish guitarist, keyboard player, and composer (Neuronium) (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Julius Meimberg, German soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Piet Römer, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Marty Springstead, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Jakob Arjouni, German author (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Robert F. Chew, American actor (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Sophiya Haque, English actress and singer (b. 1971)
• 2013 – James Hood, American activist (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Fred J. Lincoln, American porn actor, director, and producer (b. 1938)
• 2013 – John Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Seizō Katō, Japanese voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English businessman and politician (b. 1942)
• 2014 – John J. McGinty III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (b. 1962)
• 2014 – Suchitra Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian actress (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Origa, Russian-Japanese singer (b. 1970)
• 2015 – Ken Furphy, English footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Greg Plitt, American model and actor (b. 1977)