Το ομορφότερο cafe της Ελλάδας 

βρίσκεται στη Θεσσαλονίκη

Λέγεται Paraty - Feels Like Home και βρίσκεται "κρυμμένο"σε ένα δρομάκι στα Λαδάδικα 

To Paraty ή Parati είναι ένα αποικιακό ψαροχώρι στη Βραζιλία, μεταξύ Rio de Janeiro και São Paulo, που βρισκόταν σε μόνιμη περίοδο παρακμής, έως ότου το ανακάλυψαν καλλιτέχνες και επιχειρηματίες με όραμα κι αποφάσισαν να του ξαναδώσουν ζωή. Πριν από περίπου δεκαπέντε χρόνια λοιπόν, δημιουργικά μυαλά εγκαταστάθηκαν στους "κόλπους"του, ανέδειξαν τις κρυμμένες ομορφιές του και κατάφεραν αυτό που συμβαίνει όταν η τέχνη και το μεράκι συναντιούνται.  Ένα χωριό πρότυπο, οικολογικό και artistic προστέθηκε στο βραζιλιάνικο τουριστικό χάρτη και μαγνητίζει τα βλέμματα όλου του πλανήτη. Ένα από αυτά τα βλέμματα, αυτό του Πέτρου Καραμπουρνιώτη -ενός εκ των ιδιοκτητών του cafe- όταν το αντίκρισε σκέφτηκε να φέρει ένα... μικρό Paraty ως προς τη φιλοσοφία και στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Και κάπως έτσι γεννήθηκε ένα cafe bar που όμοιό του δεν υπάρχει. 

Γράφει η Νάντια Μασσαχού 

Φωτο: Νατάσσα Καραμπουρνιώτη 

Η ιστορία έχει ως εξής. "Συνηθίζω να χάνομαι όταν κάνω βόλτες και σχεδόν πάντα στη ζωή μου εντοπίζω όμορφα πράγματα τυχαία. Όταν λοιπόν είδα το εγκαταλελειμμένο αλλά πανέμορφο κτήριο στα Λαδάδικα αυθόρμητα σκέφτηκα το Paraty". Η συνάντησή του με την (υπερ)δημιουργική designer Έφη Γιοσμά ήταν το κομμάτι του παζλ που έλειπε για να δημιουργηθεί (πριν ενάμιση χρόνο) ένας εμπνευσμένος χώρος. 

Συνηθίζω να λέω (σε σχετικές συζητήσεις) πως η Έφη είναι από τους πιο ιδιαίτερους και ταλαντούχους ανθρώπους που έχω γνωρίσει. Στην τελευταία μου επίσκεψη στη Θεσσαλονίκη σε έναν καφέ μας, μου εκμυστηρεύτηκε πως δεν ταξιδεύει (σχεδόν) ποτέ, πως δεν της αρέσει καθόλου η "βαβούρα"των μετακινήσεων και πως όλες οι εικόνες που μεταφέρει στους χώρους που επιμελείται βρίσκονται μαγικά μέσα στο κεφάλι της. Αρκεί μια συζήτηση, ένα βιβλίο, μια ταινία, ένα τραγούδι...οτιδήποτε για να κινητοποιήσει την φαντασία της. Ακόμα δεν μπορώ να το πιστέψω. 

Μου φαντάζει φοβερό να διακοσμεί χώρους που εσωκλείουν ενδιαφέρουσες παραστάσεις, αμέτρητα ταξίδια, μαγικές εικόνες από όλο τον κόσμο, ένας άνθρωπος που μου εξηγεί με φυσικότητα πως όλα αυτά είναι μόνο στο μυαλό του. Κλείνω αυτή την παρένθεση, που ωστόσο νομίζω ήταν απαραίτητη για να πάρετε μια μικρή γεύση της ιδιαιτερότητας αυτού του χώρου, και συνεχίζω.

 

Το concept εδώ είναι να νιώθεις σα στο σπίτι σου και η ομορφιά του να ξαναγεννιέσαι μέσα από τις στάχτες σου -όπως ακριβώς το βραζιλιάνικο ομώνυμο χωριό. Ουσιαστικά όμως, όχι επιφανειακά. Ένα ερειπωμένο κτήριο, σε μια γειτονιά που τα τελευταία χρόνια είχε "πέσει", ξαναπαίρνει ζωή. Κάθε γωνιά του χώρου του Paraty-Fells Like Home μαρτυρά ένα κομμάτι σπιτιού. Χαρακτηριστικό παράδειγμα το ιδιαίτερο μπαρ του, όπου κάθε του γωνιά απεικονίζει δωμάτια όπως κουζίνα, κρεβατοκάμαρα, σαλόνι κ.α.

Με το που περνάς την πόρτα του, σε ένα ήσυχο σχετικά δρομάκι στα Λαδάδικα, αστράφτει το βλέμμα σου. Δεν έχεις άλλη επιλογή. Το μπαρ πρωταγωνιστεί στη μέση του χώρου ως meeting point, ενώ παίρνοντας το χρόνο σου όλο και ανακαλύπτεις γωνιές που σε ελκύουν και σου δίνουν να καταλάβεις πως έχεις ανακαλύψει έναν από τους πιο γοητευτικούς χώρους που έχεις επισκεφτεί.

 

Στον δεύτερο όροφό του πρόσφατα άνοιξε το Loft ένας διαδραστικός χώρος, που ως προέκταση του υπόλοιπου διακρίνεται για τη σκηνοθετική ματιά της διακόσμησής του και που φιλοξενεί events, εκθέσεις και μπαζάρ. Ο χώρος του Loft ανοίγει για το κοινό κάθε Παρασκευή, Σάββατο και Κυριακή μετά τις 18.00.

Όλα όσα φιλοξενούνται στο χώρο -έπιπλα, αντικείμενα κ.α.- είναι ιδιαίτερα, ενώ κάθε γωνιά ξεχειλίζει φαντασία. Τους τοίχους του μάλιστα περιοδικά κοσμούν έργα νέων και μη καλλιτεχνών που δένουν με την φιλοσοφία του χώρου και που ο επισκέπτης αν ενδιαφέρεται μπορεί να αγοράσει.

Περνώντας στις υπηρεσίες και τις παροχές, εδώ μπορείτε να απολαύσετε καφέ υψηλής ποιότητας με σπάνια χαρμάνια να φιλοξενούνται στον κατάλογο, μια πλούσια ποικιλία από κρασιά ιδίως ελληνικού αμπελώνα, αλλά και το ποτό ή το cocktail σας. Στα ενδιαφέρονται "προσεχώς" η προσθήκη στον κατάλογο, δημιουργικών ταρτίν σε διάφορες παραλλαγές αλλά και άλλων πιάτων από τον (έναν εκ των ιδιοκτητών) Γιάννη Ιωαννίδη που αγαπά ιδιαίτερα την μοντέρνα κουζίνα.

To Paraty, πρόσθεσε αναμφίβολα στη Θεσσαλονίκη κάτι που της έλειπε. Έναν χώρο που δεν μοιάζει και δεν μπορεί να συγκριθεί με κανέναν άλλο. Ένα μέρος που δεν νιώθεις ότι κάπου έχει ξαναδεί και που όσο κι αν προσπαθήσεις δύσκολα "κοπιάρεις". Γιατί το Paraty-Feels Like Home, είναι μια από τις ομορφότερες επιχειρήσεις που έχεις επισκεφτεί, ακριβώς γιατί αποτελεί ένα "σπίτι"που βασίζεται σε γνήσια έμπνευση, διαθέτει ισχυρή προσωπικότητα και προσφέρει αγάπη. 

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*Στις 19/03 θα φιλοξενήσει το closing party του 18ου Φεστιβάλ Ντοκιμαντέρ. 

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οι δέκα πιο πλούσιοι Έλληνες στον κόσμο

Στο σφυρί το «παλάτι» της Σελίν Ντιόν 

Στο σφυρί βγαίνει η πολυτελής βίλα της Σελίν Ντιόν στη Φλόριντα.  

Η τραγουδίστρια που βιώνει μια από τις πιο δύσκολες περιόδους της ζωής της 

αφού έχασε και τον σύζυγο αλλά και τον αδελφό της μέσα σε μερικές μόνο μέρες

 αποφάσισε να πουλήσει το «παλάτι» της γνωστό και ως «Jupiter Island».

Η πολυτελής οικία βρίσκεται σε έκταση 930 τ.μ, έχει τρεις μεγάλες πισίνες, 

τεράστιο κήπο, water park αλλά και γήπεδο τένις. Επίσης διαθέτει πέντε

 υπνοδωμάτια με μπάνια, δύο κουζίνες αλλά και τέσσερις ξενώνες.

Το οίκημα βρίσκεται στη Φλόριντα των ΗΠΑ και πωλείται για 45,5 εκ.

 δολαρία από 72,5 εκατομμύρια δολάρια που ήταν η αρχική της τιμή.

• Η ενημέρωση γονέων, δασκάλων και μαθητών για την σπουδαιότητα της θρεπτικής ποιότητας των σχολικών γευμάτων.
• Η υιοθέτηση υγιών διατροφικών συνηθειών από τους μαθητές, τόσο στο σχολείο, όσο και στο σπίτι.
• Η συνειδητοποίηση της σύνδεσης μεταξύ υγιούς διατροφής, εκπαίδευσης και μάθησης.

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• 12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
• 845 – Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra
• 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
• 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
• 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
• 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
• 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
• 1834 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
• 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
• 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• 1902 – Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
• 1912 – Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
• 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
• 1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
• 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.
• 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
• 1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
• 1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
• 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
• 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
• 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
• 1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
• 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
• 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
• 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
• 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
• 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority [but never all] of the country's mineworkers.
• 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
• 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
• 1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
• 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
• 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

Births[edit]

• 1340 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Belgian-English politician, Lord High Steward of Great Britain (d. 1399)
• 1405 – John II of Castile (d. 1454)
• 1459 – Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (d. 1525)
• 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)
• 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (d. 1540)
• 1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and diplomat (d. 1556)
• 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655)
• 1663 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop (d. 1732)
• 1706 – George Pocock, English admiral (d. 1792)
• 1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
• 1724 – Henry Laurens, English-born American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1792)
• 1761 – Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (d. 1828)
• 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
• 1785 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1857)
• 1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1826)
• 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet and translator (d. 1861)
• 1812 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company (d. 1895)
• 1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
• 1818 – William Claflin, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
• 1823 – Charles I of Württemberg (d. 1891)
• 1831 – Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general (d. 1888)
• 1834 – George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (d. 1896)
• 1849 – Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (d. 1923)
• 1870 – Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor (d. 1954)
• 1871 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937)
• 1872 – Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (d. 1938)
• 1872 – Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss composer (d. 1940)
• 1882 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (d. 1980)
• 1882 – Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer (d. 1956)
• 1884 – Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Ring Lardner, American author and journalist (d. 1933)
• 1886 – Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1983)
• 1891 – Lidia Quaranta, Italian actress (d. 1928)
• 1893 – Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
• 1895 – Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (d. 1944)
• 1899 – U Ba Khin, Burmese Vipassanā meditation teacher (d. 1971)
• 1900 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Henri Jeanson, French author and journalist (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano and actress (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1904 – José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)
• 1905 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1959)
• 1909 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 1987)
• 1909 – Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and author (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Ejler Bille, Danish sculptor and painter (d. 2004)
• 1910 – Ella Logan, Scottish-American singer and actress (d. 1969)
• 1911 – George Webb, English actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Louise Latimer, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1914 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014)
• 1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Leslie Smith, English businessman, co-founded Lesney Products (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian journalist and historian (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1921 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Piero Carini, Italian racing driver (d. 1957)
• 1923 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (d. 1968)
• 1924 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, 14th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist and politician
• 1926 – Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1927 – William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Norman Treigle, American actor and singer (d. 1975)
• 1929 – Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Jimmy Stewart, Scottish racing driver (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1933 – William Davis, German-English journalist and economist
• 1934 – John Noakes, English actor and television host
• 1934 – Red Simpson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
• 1934 – Keith Spicer, Canadian journalist and academic
• 1935 – Ron Delany, Irish runner and coach
• 1935 – Leonard Termo, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Marion Barry, American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (Mickey & Sylvia) (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos
• 1937 – Ivan Boesky, American businessman
• 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1938 – Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice
• 1939 – Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
• 1939 – Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria
• 1939 – Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (d. 2003)
• 1939 – Cookie Rojas, Cuban-American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1940 – Ken Danby, Canadian painter (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Joanna Miles, French-born American actress
• 1940 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker
• 1941 – Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist and clarinet player (Last Exit)
• 1941 – Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1941 – Marilyn Strathern, Welsh anthropologist and academic
• 1942 – Ben Murphy, American actor
• 1942 – Flora Purim, Brazilian singer (Return to Forever)
• 1944 – Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic (d. 2015)
• 1944 – David Forbes Hendry, English economist and academic
• 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano and actress
• 1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer and actress (The Supremes)
• 1945 – Angelo Castro, Jr., Filipino actor and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Hugh Grundy, English drummer (The Zombies)
• 1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd)
• 1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer
• 1946 – Martin Kove, American actor
• 1946 – Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and businessman
• 1947 – Tony Badger, English historian and academic
• 1947 – Kiki Dee, English singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Killer Khan, Japanese wrestler and actor
• 1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 – Jean Seaton, English historian and academic
• 1947 – John Stossel, American journalist and author
• 1947 – Judy Loe, English actress
• 1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress, director, and producer
• 1948 – Stephen Schwartz, American composer and producer
• 1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1950 – Arthur Roche, English archbishop
• 1950 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1952 – John David Carson, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1953 – Phil Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Blasters)
• 1953 – Jay Ilagan, Filipino actor (d. 1992)
• 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal
• 1953 – Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic
• 1954 – Joey DeMaio, American bass player and songwriter (Manowar)
• 1954 – Jeff Greenwald, American author, photographer, and monologist
• 1954 – Harald Schumacher, German footballer and manager
• 1955 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (d. 2015)
• 1958 – Eddie Deezen, American actor
• 1959 – Tom Arnold, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Michael Carmine, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1959 – Chris Raschka, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Cecilia Heyes, English psychologist and academic
• 1962 – Erika Hess, Swiss skier
• 1962 – Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican-American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1963 – Suzanne Crough, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1963 – D. L. Hughley, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Forbidden, Slayer, Testament, and Systematic)
• 1964 – Skip Ewing, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Madonna Wayne Gacy, American keyboard player (Marilyn Manson)
• 1964 – Yvette Wilson, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1965 – Allan Bateman, Welsh rugby player
• 1965 – Jim Knight, English politician
• 1966 – Alan Davies, English comedian and actor
• 1967 – Julio Bocca, Argentinian ballet dancer and director
• 1967 – Connie Britton, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1967 – Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer
• 1967 – Oktay Mahmuti, Turkish professional basketball coach
• 1968 – Moira Kelly, American actress and director
• 1968 – Michael Romeo, American guitarist and songwriter (Symphony X)
• 1969 – Tari Phillips, American basketball player
• 1969 – Amy Pietz, American actress
• 1970 – Chris Broderick, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth and Jag Panzer)
• 1970 – Gretchen Barretto, Filipino actress and singer
• 1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Val Venis, Canadian wrestler
• 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, actor, and rapper
• 1972 – Jaret Reddick, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Bowling For Soup and People on Vacation)
• 1973 – Michael Finley, American basketball player
• 1973 – Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Opeth)
• 1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
• 1973 – Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Elbow)
• 1974 – Beanie Sigel, American rapper (State Property)
• 1975 – Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer
• 1975 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor
• 1976 – Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor
• 1977 – Nantie Hayward, South African cricketer
• 1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Edna Stern, Belgian-Israeli pianist and educator
• 1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Lara Cox, Australian actress
• 1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American football player
• 1978 – Chad Wicks, American wrestler
• 1978 – Mike Jackson, American politician
• 1979 – Clint Barmes, American baseball player
• 1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
• 1979 – David Flair, American wrestler
• 1979 – Rufus Hound, English comedian and actor
• 1979 – Tim Howard, American soccer player
• 1980 – Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor and producer
• 1980 – Kristina Triska, Swedish tennis player
• 1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress
• 1983 – Tommaso Berni, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
• 1984 – Becky, Japanese-English singer and actress
• 1984 – Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician
• 1984 – Chris Tomson, American drummer (Vampire Weekend)
• 1984 – Edmund Yeo, Singaporean-Malaysian director and producer
• 1985 – Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer
• 1985 – Yael Stone, Australian actress
• 1986 – Traphik, American rapper and actor
• 1986 – Jake Arrieta, American baseball player
• 1986 – Francisco Cervelli, Italian baseball player
• 1986 – Ross Detwiler, American baseball player
• 1986 – Danny Jones, English rugby player (d. 2015)
• 1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
• 1987 – José Manuel Flores, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
• 1988 – Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
• 1988 – Isabelle Daza, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
• 1989 – Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
• 1990 – Linn Haug, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1990 – Park Choa, South Korean singer and actress (AOA)
• 1990 – Kirk Urso, American soccer player (d. 2012)
• 1991 – Nicole Fox, American model and actress
• 1991 – Lex Luger, American keyboard player and producer (Low Pros)
• 1991 – Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1991 – Tyler, The Creator, American rapper, producer, and actor (Odd Future)
• 1992 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese actress and singer (Berryz Kobo, ZYX, and Buono!)
• 1993 – Kristo Mangelsoo, Estonian basketball player
• 1993 – Misaki Momose, Japanese actress and entertainer
• 1993 – Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer
• 1994 – Nathan Redmond, English footballer
• 1995 – Georgi Kitanov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1995 – Annelies Törös, Belgian-Hungarian actress
• 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress

Deaths[edit]

• 766 – Chrodegang, Frankish bishop and saint
• 1052 – Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England, Denmark and Norway (b. c. 985)
• 1070 – Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola
• 1252 – Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
• 1490 – Ivan the Young, Russian son of Ivan III of Russia (b. 1458)
• 1531 – Pedro Arias Dávila, Spanish explorer and diplomat (b. 1440)
• 1616 – Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (b. 1584)
• 1658 – Ivan Bunić Vučić, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1591)
• 1754 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
• 1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1705)
• 1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1690)
• 1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French historian and author (b. 1713)
• 1836 – Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:
  • James Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
  • James Bowie, American colonel (b. 1796)
  • Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (b. 1786)
  • William B. Travis, American lieutenant and lawyer (b. 1809)
• 1842 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
• 1854 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat (b. 1778)
• 1860 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
• 1866 – William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794)
• 1867 – Charles Farrar Browne, American-English author and educator (b. 1834)
• 1881 – Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1801)
• 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (b. 1832)
• 1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and feminist (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875)
• 1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)
• 1905 – John Henninger Reagan, American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1818)
• 1917 – Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (b. 1884)
• 1919 – Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian colonel (b. 1882)
• 1920 – Ömer Seyfettin, Turkish author and educator (b. 1884)
• 1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
• 1933 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
• 1935 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor (b. 1895)
• 1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1852)
• 1941 – Francis Aveling, Canadian psychologist and Roman Catholic priest (b. 1875)
• 1941 – Gutzon Borglum, Danish-American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore (b. 1867)
• 1947 – İhsan Eryavuz, Ottoman Army officer and Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American author, poet, and academic (b. 1914)
• 1950 – Albert François Lebrun, French politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1893)
• 1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1880)
• 1952 – Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1955 – Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani statesman, scholar, public figure and the first and only president of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (b. 1884)
• 1959 – Fred Stone, American actor (b. 1873)
• 1961 – George Formby, English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian (b. 1904)
• 1961 – Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1964 – Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
• 1964 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
• 1967 – Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
• 1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1971 – Thurston Dart, English keyboard player and conductor (b. 1921)
• 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Arapeta Awatere, New Zealand interpreter, military leader, maori welfare officer, politician, and murderer (b. 1910)
• 1976 – Mary Petty, American illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Alvin R. Dyer, American religious leader (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Dennis Viollet, English-American soccer player and manager (b. 1933)
• 1981 – George Geary, English cricketer and coach (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (b. 1961)
• 1984 – Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (b. 1893)
• 1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor and producer (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)
• 1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Daniel McCann, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Seán Savage, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Michael Manley, Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Ursula Torday, English author (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (b. 1933)
• 1999 – Graham Armitage, English actor (b. 1936)
• 2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
• 2004 – Hercules, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Frances Dee, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Tommy Vance, English radio host (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anne Braden, American activist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Allen Coage, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Pierre Moinot, French author (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean businesswoman (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sparklehorse) (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Louis J. Michot, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Helen Walulik, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.) (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Norman King, English admiral (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ten Years After) (b. 1944)
• 2013 – W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian educator and politician (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Frank Jobe, American surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Sheila MacRae, English-born American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Fred Craddock, American minister and academic (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Ram Sundar Das, Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Employment (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (b. 1926)

οι 6 πρώτοι παίκτες του Your Face Sounds Familiar 

KATEΡΙΝΑ ΒΑΛΕΝΤΕ AΥΡIO ΣΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

• 161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
• 238 – Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
• 321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
• 1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
• 1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
• 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
• 1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
• 1827 – Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
• 1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
• 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
• 1902 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war.
• 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
• 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
• 1936 – Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
• 1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
• 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
• 1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
• 1967 – Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesian provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
• 1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
• 1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
• 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
• 1987 – Lieyu Massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
• 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
• 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
• 2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
• 2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
• 2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
• 2014 – The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics take place in Sochi, Russia.

Births

• 189 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211)
• 1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
• 1507 – Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534)
• 1556 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (d. 1621)
• 1663 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745)
• 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (d. 1734)
• 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (d. 1736)
• 1687 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian and author (d. 1760)
• 1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
• 1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet (d. 1759)
• 1715 – Ephraim Williams, English soldier (d. 1755)
• 1723 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (d. 1725)
• 1730 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1807)
• 1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)
• 1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (d. 1873)
• 1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist (d. 1878)
• 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
• 1811 – Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author (d. 1875)
• 1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
• 1841 – William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (d. 1915)
• 1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist and author (d. 1926)
• 1850 – Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
• 1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
• 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
• 1866 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German entomologist and explorer (d. 1922)
• 1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (d. 1944)
• 1873 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
• 1875 – Albert Jean Louis Ayat, French fencer (d. 1935)
• 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (d. 1937)
• 1876 – Frederick Freake, English polo player (d. 1950)
• 1878 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (d. 1927)
• 1885 – Milton Avery, American painter (d. 1965)
• 1885 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (d. 1971)
• 1886 – Virginia Pearson, American actress (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1970)
• 1888 – William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author (d. 1977)
• 1888 – Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg (1901–1950)
• 1900 – Evald Aav, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1939)
• 1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor and director (d. 1994)
• 1903 – Bernarda Bryson Shahn, American painter and lithographer (d. 2004)
• 1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
• 1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
• 1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
• 1909 – Léo Malet, French author (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian journalist and author (d. 1987)
• 1912 – Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and biologist (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Dollard Ménard, Canadian general (d. 1997)
• 1914 – John Rodney, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Lee Young, American singer and drummer (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Janet Collins, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton, English lawyer and judge (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian author and journalist (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Bill Boedeker, American football player (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Rene Gagnon, American soldier (d. 1979)
• 1927 – James Broderick, American actor and director (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist, author, and educator (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Give Kids The World Village
• 1929 – Yvonne Chouteau, American ballerina
• 1929 – Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer
• 1930 – Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant (d. 1998)
• 1933 – Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect, designed the Telus World of Science and First Nations University of Canada
• 1934 – Nari Contractor, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1934 – Willard Scott, American journalist, actor, and author
• 1936 – Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Janet Guthrie, American race car driver and engineer
• 1939 – Danyel Gérard, French singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German activist (d. 1979)
• 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
• 1941 – Piers Paul Read, English historian and author
• 1942 – Michael Eisner, American businessman
• 1942 – Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Jaan Manitski, Estonian businessman and politician, 16th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1943 – Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies)
• 1944 – Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer
• 1944 – Stanley Schmidt, American journalist and author
• 1944 – Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian engineer and politician (d. 1993)
• 1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1945 – John Heard, American actor and producer
• 1945 – Bob Herbert, American journalist
• 1945 – Nicholas Kraemer, English harpsichord player and conductor
• 1945 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Love) (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Elizabeth Moon, American author
• 1946 – Matthew Fisher, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Procol Harum)
• 1946 – Clive Gillinson, Indian-English cellist and educator
• 1946 – Daniel Goleman, American psychologist and author
• 1946 – Peter Wolf, American singer-songwriter (The J. Geils Band)
• 1947 – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Richard Lawson, American actor and producer
• 1947 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
• 1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Health and Family Welfare
• 1949 – Genyo Takeda, Japanese video game developer and head of Nintendo's hardware division
• 1950 – Iris Chacón, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1950 – Billy Joe DuPree, American football player
• 1950 – Franco Harris, American football player and businessman
• 1950 – J. R. Richard, American baseball player
• 1951 – Jeff Burroughs, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 – Rocco Prestia, American bass player (Tower of Power)
• 1952 – William Boyd, Ghanaian-English author and screenwriter
• 1952 – Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley)
• 1952 – Viv Richards, Caribbean cricketer and footballer
• 1952 – Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician
• 1953 – Bernard Voyer, Canadian mountaineer and explorer
• 1954 – Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop
• 1955 – Michael Chance, English singer
• 1955 – Michael Jan Friedman, American author
• 1955 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
• 1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 – Andrea Levy, English author
• 1957 – Robert Harris, English journalist and author
• 1957 – Mark Richards, Australian surfer
• 1957 – Tomás Yarrington, Mexican economist and politician, Governor of Tamaulipas
• 1958 – Rick Bass, American author and activist
• 1958 – Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1958 – Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
• 1959 – Tom Lehman, American golfer
• 1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
• 1959 – Nick Searcy, American actor
• 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach
• 1960 – Jim Spivey, American runner and coach
• 1961 – Mary Beth Evans, American actress and producer
• 1961 – Mark Kumpel, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – David Rutley, English businessman and politician
• 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1962 – Sergei Prikhodko, Russian footballer and manager
• 1963 – Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 – E. L. James, English author
• 1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter
• 1964 – Denyce Graves, American soprano
• 1964 – Andrew P. Mackenzie, British physicist
• 1964 – Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
• 1965 – Jean-Pierre Barda, French-Swedish singer and actor (Army of Lovers)
• 1965 – Steve Beuerlein, American football player and sportscaster
• 1965 – Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
• 1965 – Ottoline Leyser, British plant biologist
• 1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
• 1966 – Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Atsushi Sakurai, Japanese singer-songwriter (Buck-Tick and Schwein)
• 1966 – Alex Sanders, American porn actor and director
• 1966 – Joy Tanner, American-Canadian actress
• 1967 – Muhsin al-Ramli, Iraqi writer, poet, translator and academic
• 1967 – Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer
• 1967 – Ai Yazawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1968 – Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player and scout
• 1968 – Jeff Kent, American baseball player
• 1968 – Raju Sundaram, Indian actor and choreographer
• 1969 – Shin Ae-ra, South Korean actress
• 1969 – Warrel Dane, American singer-songwriter (Nevermore and Sanctuary)
• 1969 – Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
• 1969 – Hideki Noda, Japanese race car driver
• 1970 – Rachel Weisz, English-American actress
• 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
• 1971 – Matthew Vaughn, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and singer
• 1972 – Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player
• 1972 – Maxim Roy, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Jason Bright, Australian race car driver
• 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer (Il Divo)
• 1973 – Işın Karaca, English-Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Ray Parlour, English footballer
• 1974 – Larry Bagby, American actor and singer
• 1974 – Antonio de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer
• 1974 – Hugo Ferreira, Angolan-American singer-songwriter (Tantric)
• 1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress
• 1974 – Krizz Kaliko, American rapper (K.A.B.O.S.H.)
• 1974 – Facundo Sava, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1975 – Leon Dunne, Australian swimmer
• 1975 – T. J. Thyne, American actor
• 1977 – Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (S Club 7)
• 1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Hiroki Hasegawa, Japanese actor
• 1977 – Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach
• 1977 – Mitja Zastrow, German-Dutch swimmer
• 1978 – Jaqueline Jesus, Brazilian psychologist and activist
• 1979 – Rodrigo Braña, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Amanda Somerville, American singer-songwriter (Aina and Kiske/Somerville)
• 1980 – Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress and producer
• 1981 – Rica Peralejo, Filipino actress and singer
• 1982 – Kate Michael, American model, Miss District of Columbia 2006
• 1982 – Erika Yamakawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer
• 1983 – Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
• 1983 – Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
• 1984 – Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Rachel Rice, Welsh model and actress
• 1985 – Andre Fluellen, American football player
• 1985 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
• 1986 – Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
• 1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 – Larry Asante, American football player
• 1989 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino-American actor
• 1990 – Choi Jong-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist (F.T. Island)
• 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
• 1990 – Taylor Jardine, American singer-songwriter (We Are the In Crowd)
• 1990 – Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
• 1991 – Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Bel Powley, English actress
• 1993 – Denisa Allertová, Czech tennis player
• 1993 – Robbie Thomson, Scottish footballer
• 1994 – An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
• 1995 – Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
• 1996 – Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer
• 1997 – Honoka Miki, Japanese actress, model, and voice actress

Deaths

• 161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (b. 86)
• 413 – Heraclianus, Roman politician
• 1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1176)
• 1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)
• 1550 – William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
• 1578 – Margaret Douglas, English daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (b. 1515)
• 1625 – Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)
• 1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
• 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
• 1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and arachnologist (b. 1720)
• 1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)
• 1838 – Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
• 1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
• 1909 – Friedrich Amelung, German historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1913 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
• 1919 – Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer (b. 1896)
• 1920 – Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician; 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 – Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1942 – Lucy Parsons, American activist (b. 1853)
• 1943 – Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator (b. 1898)
• 1946 – Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (b. 1891)
• 1949 – Francis Dodd, Welsh soldier and painter (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
• 1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Wyndham Lewis, English author and painter (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American-French journalist and author (b. 1877)
• 1969 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
• 1971 – Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (b. 1931)
• 1974 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Ben Blue, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Wright Patman, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Ida Barney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1886)
• 1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Paul Rotha, English historian and director (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Divine, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Robert Livingston, American actor and singer (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Paul-Émile Victor, French ethnologist and explorer (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Emanuel Bronner, German-American businessman (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Charles Gray, English actor and singer (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2002 – Bobby Hollander, American film director, actor, and magazine publisher (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 – John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
• 2006 – John Junkin, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Ronnie Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American super-centenarian (b. 1895)
• 2012 – Ravi, Indian director and composer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Cris Alexander, American actor, singer, dancer, and photographer (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Pierre Tornade, French actor (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Aníbal Villacís, Ecuadoran painter (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (Yes, The Syn, and Flash) (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh actress (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Frederick B. Karl, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Hal Douglas, American voice actor (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Russian actor and director (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Tamás Nádas, Hungarian pilot (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Israeli Minister of Health (b. 1915)
• 2015 – G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
• 2015 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Edmond Malinvaud, French economist and academic (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935)

Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies at 86

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The celebrated Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt - considered to be the "pope" of the baroque music revival - has died in Vienna aged 86.

A statement on his website said he "took his last breath peacefully surrounded by family".

The Vienna Musikverein, home to the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, said his death marked the end of an era.

The conductor announced his retirement in a farewell letter in December, citing health reasons.

"My physical capacities mean that I have to cancel all my upcoming projects," he wrote, saying he would not appear on the concert stage again. 

He penned the open letter to fans, who found it in the programme for a concert by the ensemble he founded, the Concentus Musicus Wien (CMW).

Thomas Angyan, director of the Vienna Musikverein, said: "I did not think so little time would pass between his retirement and death. We must continue the musical legacy he leaves us."

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Harnoncourt's work was considered ground-breaking as he sought to interpret music as faithfully to the original as possible, while his ensemble was at the forefront in its use of period instruments.

He was famed for his concern for historical detail and considered his conducting as alive and romantic, not a relic of history. 

Born to a granddaughter of a Habsburg Archduke and an Austrian count, Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt was born in Berlin and grew up in Graz, southern Austria.

He studied the cello at Vienna's Academy of Music and joined the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 1952, where he remained for 17 years.

His intensive research into historical instruments and period performance practice led him to set up the CMW with his wife, Alice, in 1953. 

They began giving concerts in 1957 which were credited with reviving Europe's interest in renaissance, baroque and early classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Haydn.

Harnoncourt began conducting opera and concert performances in the early 1970s and was considered one of the last great post-war Austrian conductors, alongside Herbert von Karajan, Karl Boehm and Carlos Kleiber.

Among his acclaimed recordings were Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (1964) and a pioneering project to record all of Bach's cantatas which was launched in 1971 and completed in 1990.

He went on to become one of the most recorded early-music conductors, although his repertoire later expanded to include 19th and 20th Century composers including Gershwin.

He is survived by his wife and three children.

 ελληνικό νησί στα 10 πιο φιλικά στον κόσμο! 

Τοταξιδιωτικό περιοδικό Travel & Leisure δημοσίευσε μία λίστα με τα πιο φιλικά νησιά στον κόσμο, έπειτα από έρευνα που διεξήγαγε. Ανάμεσά τους και ένα ελληνικό νησί!

Η  Σαντορίνη κατέλαβε τη 10η θέση! Ο ρομαντικός προορισμός δε διαθέτει, όπως φαίνεται, μόνο τις πιο ζεστές παραλίες, αλλά και την πιο ζεστή φιλοξενία!

Χαρακτηριστικά, το δημοσίευμα αναφέρει τα εξής: ""H ζωή φαίνεται καλύτερη σε αυτό το ελληνικό νησί, και γιατί δεν θα ήταν έτσι, με την εξαιρετικά εντυπωσιακή θέα στη θάλασσα, που συμπληρώνουν τα κατάλευκα σπίτια και οι γαλάζιοι τρούλοι των εκκλησιών, τα κορυφαία οινοποιεία και τα ηλιοβασιλέματα που πάντα βρίσκουν θέση στο Instagram. Για την καλύτερη θέα, μείνετε στην  Οία και συνοδεύστε τους κατοίκους οι οποίοι μαζεύονται στο κέντρο για μεζέ".

Αναλυτικά η λίστα:

1. Mackinac Island, Μίσιγκαν

2. San Juan Islands, Ουάσιγκτον

3. Βερμούδες

4. Hilton Head, Ν. Καρολίνα

5. Ανγκουίλα

6. Isla Mujeres, Μεξικό

7. Lanai, Χαβάη

8. Eleuthera, Bahamas

9. Vancouver Island, British Columbia

10.  Σαντορίνη

11. Μάλτα

12. Μάουι, Χαβάη

13. Big Island, Χαβάη

14. Kauai, Χαβάη

15. Jost Van Dyke, Βρετανικές Παρθένοι Νήσοι

16. Harbour Island, Μπαχάμες

17. Raiatea, Γαλλική Πολυνησία

18. Moorea, Γαλλική Πολυνησία

19. Μπόρα Μπόρα, Γαλλική Πολυνησία

20. Great Barrier Reef Islands, Αυστραλία

21. Galápagos Islands, Εκουαδόρ

22. Tasmania, Αυστραλία

23.  Μπαλί, Ινδονησία

24. Μαλδίβες

25. Φίτζι

KATEΡΙΝΑ ΒΑΛΕΝΤΕ ΑΠΟΨΕ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ