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• 87 BC – Crown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han's successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
• 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
• 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
• 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
• 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
• 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
• 1812 – Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
• 1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
• 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of teetotalism by The Salvation Army.
• 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
• 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
• 1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
• 1910 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
• 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
• 1918 – Bessarabia is ceded to the Kingdom of Romania.
• 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
• 1948 – The Second Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea is convened.
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
• 1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
• 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Yugoslav SAM downed F-117A, the first and only kill of the stealth aircraft.
• 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
• 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
• 2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors and the injury of 19 others.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
• 2013 – A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near Taipei, Taiwan, injuring 97 people.
• 2013 – Canada becomes the first country to announce its intention to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
• 2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
• 2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.

Births[edit]

• 45 – Statius, Roman poet (d. 96 AD)
• 972 – Robert II of France (d. 1031)
• 1196 – Sviatoslav III of Vladimir (d. 1252)
• 1306 – Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343)
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1480)
• 1416 – Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded the Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
• 1509 – Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck (d. 1575)
• 1522 – Rachel Akerman, Austrian poet and author (d. 1544)
• 1586 – Antonino Diana, Italian theologian (d. 1663)
• 1588 – Celestyn Myślenta, Prussian-Polish theologian and academic (d. 1653)
• 1606 – Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter (d. 1670)
• 1623 – Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach (d. 1658)
• 1627 – Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
• 1632 – Gustav Adolph, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1677)
• 1676 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian son of Francis I Rákóczi (d. 1735)
• 1679 – Domenico Lalli, Italian poet
• 1681 – Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish-Italian cardinal (d. 1760)
• 1696 – Antoine Court, French minister and historian (d. 1760)
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
• 1709 – William Flackton, English organist, viola player, and composer (d. 1798)
• 1710 – Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon and author (d. 1779)
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
• 1723 – James Madison, Sr., American colonel and planter (d. 1801)
• 1724 – Jane Colden, American botanist and author (d. 1766)
• 1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt, English scholar and critic (d. 1786)
• 1746 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1767)
• 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, French lawyer and politician (d. 1785)
• 1753 – Andrew Bell, Scottish priest and academic, founded Madras College (d. 1832)
• 1760 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer, educator, and publisher (d. 1832)
• 1760 – Auguste Vestris, French ballet dancer (d. 1842)
• 1761 – James Sykes, American physician and politician, 14th Governor of Delaware (d. 1822)
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
• 1767 – Charles Didelot, Swedish-French dancer and choreographer (d. 1837)
• 1770 – Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, Swedish poet (d. 1835)
• 1770 – Sophie Mereau, German author (d. 1806)
• 1776 – Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, French botanist and politician (d. 1854)
• 1781 – Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist and academic (d. 1864)
• 1784 – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
• 1785 – Filippo Giudice Caracciolo, Italian cardinal (d. 1844)
• 1785 – Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
• 1781 – Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats, English politician (d. 1871)
• 1791 – Reuben Uther, English-Australian businessman (d. 1894)
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1846)
• 1802 – Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
• 1802 – Félix-Jacques Moulin, French photographer (d. 1875)
• 1804 – Giacomo Panizza, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1860)
• 1809 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, Canadian businessman and politician, 11th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1886)
• 1809 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer (d. 1891)
• 1810 – William Hepworth Thompson, English scholar and academic (d. 1886)
• 1810 – Adolf Glassbrenner, German journalist and author (d. 1876)
• 1812 – Ivan Panaev, Russian journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1862)
• 1812 – Seymour Mills Spencer, American-New Zealand missionary (d. 1898)
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator, co-founded Currier and Ives (d. 1888)
• 1813 – David Monro, Scottish-New Zealand physician and politician, 2nd Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives (d. 1877)
• 1814 – Diego Archuleta, American general and politician (d. 1884)
• 1814 – Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist, author, and poet (d. 1889)
• 1818 – Erminia Frezzolini, Italian soprano (d. 1884)
• 1820 – Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Elias David Sassoon, Iraqi-Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1880)
• 1822 – Henri Murger, French author and poet (d. 1861)
• 1822 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Bulgarian-Turkish historian and scholar (d. 1895)
• 1824 – Virginia Minor, American activist (d. 1894)
• 1825 – Hubert de Castella, Swiss-Australian author and wine maker (d. 1907)
• 1827 – Ernesto Rossi, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1896)
• 1831 – Johann Friedrich Horner, Swiss ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1886)
• 1832 – Benjamin Pâquet, Canadian priest and academic (d. 1900)
• 1834 – Pierre Gaspard, French mountaineer and explorer (d. 1915)
• 1836 – Gustav Leopold Plitt, German theologian and academic (d. 1880)
• 1839 – John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
• 1840 – George Fisher Baker, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1931)
• 1843 – George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English colonel and entomologist (d. 1934)
• 1844 – Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
• 1844 – Frank Reid Murphy, Australian farmer and politician (d. 1892)
• 1845 – Melville R. Hopewell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (d. 1911)
• 1845 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1845 – Jakob Sverdrup, Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education (d. 1899)
• 1847 – Richard Martin Meredith, Canadian judge and academic, founded University of Western Ontario (d. 1934)
• 1847 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1848 – Warren Ives Bradley, American journalist and author (d. 1868)
• 1849 – Carlo Dossi, Italian author and diplomat (d. 1910)
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer, co-founded Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (d. 1909)
• 1851 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
• 1852 – Jim Connell, Irish journalist and activist (d. 1929)
• 1853 – John Edward Kelley, American journalist and politician (d. 1941)
• 1854 – Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist, and entomologist (d. 1925)
• 1855 – James Alfred Ewing, Scottish physicist and engineer (d. 1935)
• 1855 – William Russell Lane-Joynt, Irish target shooter and lawyer (d. 1921)
• 1855 – William Libbey, American target shooter, geologist, and geographer (d. 1927)
• 1857 – David Miller, Australian public servant (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician, eugenicist, and academic (d. 1936)
• 1859 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)
• 1859 – Gerrit J. Diekema, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 40th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 1930)
• 1860 – Frank Frost Abbott, American-Swiss scholar and academic (d. 1924)
• 1861 – Nikolay Demyanov, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1938)
• 1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
• 1864 – Agostina Livia Pietrantoni, Italian nun and nurse (d. 1894)
• 1865 – Eugene Botkin, Russian physician (d. 1918)
• 1865 – Alessandro Verde, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
• 1865 – Konrad Grallert von Cebrów, Russian-Austrian commander (d. 1942)
• 1866 – John Allan, Australian farmer and politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936)
• 1866 – Andon Zako Çajupi, Albanian lawyer, poet, and playwright (d. 1830)
• 1867 – Karl Zsigmondy, Austrian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1925)
• 1868 – Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
• 1869 – Walter Dohm, American runner and long jumper (d. 1894)
• 1869 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
• 1871 – Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann, German author and poet (d. 1950)
• 1871 – Joseph G. Morrison, American captain and minister (d. 1939)
• 1871 – Rauf Yekta, Turkish musician, musicologist and writer on music (d. 1935)
• 1873 – Christophorus III, Georgian patriarch (d. 1932)
• 1873 – William Clemens, Australian public servant (d. 1941)
• 1873 – Austin Harrison, English journalist and author (d. 1928)
• 1875 – Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti, Italian cardinal (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Karl Fredrik Wilkama, Finnish general (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Konstantinos Skarlatos, Greek general and target shooter (d. 1969)
• 1878 – Desmond MacCarthy, English journalist and critic (d. 1952)
• 1879 – Catherine Carswell, Scottish journalist and author (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Sahan Dosova, Kazakhstani super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1879 – Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Izaak Reijnders, Dutch general (d. 1966)
• 1879 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
• 1880 – Ruth Hanna McCormick, American publisher and politician (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Horace Bonser, American target shooter (d. 1934)
• 1883 – Paul McCullough, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1936)
• 1883 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
• 1883 – Margaret Cobb Ailshie, American publisher and activist (d. 1959)
• 1884 – Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant (d. 1953)
• 1885 – Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran accountant and politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
• 1885 – Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English soldier and politician, Governor of Cyprus (d. 1961)
• 1886 – Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
• 1886 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
• 1886 – Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect and set designer, designed Großes Festspielhaus (d. 1983)
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator (d. 1932)
• 1887 – Chapman Grant, American herpetologist, historian, and publisher (d. 1983)
• 1888 – Bouke Benenga, Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
• 1888 – George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist and politician (d. 1974)
• 1889 – Leonard Mociulschi, Moldavian-Romanian general (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
• 1890 – Jean-François Pouliot, Canadian lawyer, author, and politician (d. 1969)
• 1890 – Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)
• 1891 – A. P. Elkin, Australian anthropologist and priest (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Vallance Jupp, English cricketer (d. 1960)
• 1891 – Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Thorne Smith, American author (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Swami Vipulananda, Sri Lankan author, poet, and critic (d. 1947)
• 1892 – Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
• 1893 – Ugo Agostoni, Italian cyclist (d. 1941)
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (d. 1947)
• 1893 – G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1981)
• 1893 – George Beranger, Australian-American actor and director (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Soeprapto, Indonesian lawyer and judge (d. 1964)
• 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Juan Guzmán Cruchaga, Chilean poet, author, and diplomat (d. 1979)
• 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
• 1895 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Wolfgang von Weisl, Austrian-Israeli journalist and author (d. 1974)
• 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
• 1897 – Cyril Slater, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1969)
• 1898 – Titina De Filippo, Italian actress and playwright (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Josef Müller, German lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Herb Stein, American football player (d. 1980)
• 1898 – Alma Tell, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1899 – Carl Aage Hilbert, Danish-Faroese jurist and politician (d. 1953)
• 1899 – Karim Mammadbeyov, Azerbaijani politician (d. 1938)
• 1899 – Francis Ponge, French poet and author (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (d. 1983)
• 1900 – Arleigh Winston Scott, Barbadian politician, Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1976)
• 1901 – Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1901 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine singer-songwriter, bandoneón player, and pianist (d. 1951)
• 1901 – George Dowty, English businessman, founded Dowty Group (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Gilberto Loyo, Mexican-Spanish economist and politician (d. 1973)
• 1901 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
• 1902 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Mary Nicol Neill Armour, Scottish painter and academic (d. 2000)
• 1903 – Nobuo Aoyagi, Japanese director and producer (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Betty Balfour, English actress, singer, and producer (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Leif Tronstad, Norwegian soldier and scientist (d. 1945)
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
• 1904 – Hal Kemp, American saxophonist, clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1940)
• 1905 – Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
• 1905 – Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Johnny Gill, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1905 – László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer (d. 1980)
• 1905 – Jack Patten, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1957)
• 1905 – Evaristo Sourdis Juliao, Colombian lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Colombia (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
• 1907 – George Pollock, English director (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Mary Treen, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Arsène Heitz, French illustrator, co-designed the Flag of Europe (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Bernard Hügl, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Sol Leshinsky, Canadian-American mathematician and economist (d. 1985)
• 1908 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Veikko Larkas, Finnish architect, designed the Pielisensuu Church (d. 1969)
• 1909 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1937)
• 1909 – Raymond Oliver, French chef and television host (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Hugh Nibley, American historian, author, and academic (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Raimund Schelcher, Tanzanian-German actor (d. 1972)
• 1911 – Viola Keats, Scottish-English actress (d. 1998)
• 1911 – Norman Livermore, American baseball player and environmentalist (d. 2006)
• 1911 – Franc Rozman, Slovenian general (d. 1944)
• 1911 – John Montague Stow, Barbadian politician (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (d. 1965)
• 1912 – James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
• 1912 – Robert Hughes, Scottish-Australian composer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Paul Maitla, Estonian commander (d. 1945)
• 1913 – Ciril Praček, Slovenian skier (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Ces Burke, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Kris Sivara, Thai general and politician, Thai Minister of Defence (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Wang Daohan, Chinese politician, Mayor of Shanghai (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Bernardo Poli, Italian footballer (d. 1944)
• 1916 – Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, German commander (d. 1945)
• 1916 – Frank Pitelka, American ornithologist and educator (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Mario Tonelli, American football player and soldier (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Joko Beck, American monk and educator (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Reva Gerstein, Canadian psychologist and academic
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Cornelius Rost, Austrian-German soldier (d. 1983)
• 1920 – William C. Conner, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Richard Hayman, American harmonica player, conductor, and composer (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Wallace McIntosh, Scottish lieutenant and pilot (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Colin Rowe, English-American historian, theorist, and academic (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Joe Tuminelli, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 1921 – Hélène Berr, French Holocaust victim and author (d. 1945)
• 1921 – Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Calvin Gotlieb, Canadian computer scientist and academic
• 1921 – Harry Järv, Finnish-Swedish lieutenant, historian and author (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Richard Marner, Russian-Scottish actor (d. 2004)
• 1921 – Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Alex Agase, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Barnaby Conrad, American author and translator (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Dick King-Smith English author (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Dan Kurzman, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Murray Olderman, American author and illustrator
• 1922 – Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Stefan Wul, French surgeon and author (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet, translator, and academic (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Eliot Frankel, American television producer (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Hideko Takamine, Japanese actress (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician, 15th President of the European Parliament
• 1925 – Ian Robinson, Australian farmer, journalist, and politician
• 1926 – Bill Bagnall, American publisher, founded Motorcyclist Magazine (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Louis Blom-Cooper, English lawyer, author, and academic
• 1926 – Frank O'Hara, American writer (d. 1966)
• 1926 – Jacques Villeglé, French illustrator
• 1927 – Ibrahim Abi-Ackel, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice for Brazil
• 1927 – Jean Beetz, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 1991)
• 1927 – Ernest Eastman, Liberian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Liberia (d. 2011)
• 1927 – François Furet, French historian (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Coşkun Kırca, Turkish journalist and politician, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Mo Ostin, American record producer, co-founded Warner Bros. Records and Reprise Records
• 1927 – Cornelius Pasichny, Canadian bishop (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Jacek Sempoliński, Polish painter and critic (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Ralph Sorenson, Canadian politician
• 1928 – Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Radomir Konstantinović, Serbian philosopher and author (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Antonín Tučapský, Czech-English composer and educator
• 1929 – Salvador Botella, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Rita Briggs, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh actress and director (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Žarko Petan, Slovenian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1930 – Bob den Uyl, Dutch author (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer
• 1931 – Walter Hooper, American author and scholar
• 1931 – David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1932 – Roberto Farias, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1932 – Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
• 1932 – Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún, Spanish businessman and politician, Mayor of Madrid (d. 1991)
• 1932 – Trevor Stubley, English painter and illustrator (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Guido Bodrato, Italian politician
• 1933 – Robert Castel, French sociologist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Vince Gibson, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Michel Guérard, French chef and author
• 1933 – Hazel Henderson, English economist and author
• 1933 – Don Lassetter, American baseball player
• 1933 – Gino Pivatelli, Italian footballer and coach
• 1933 – Lê Văn Hưng, Vietnamese general (d. 1975)
• 1934 – István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Arthur Mitchell, American dancer and choreographer
• 1934 – Ioannis Paleokrassas, Greek politician, 17th Greek Minister of Finance
• 1934 – Peter Schamoni, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
• 1935 – Abelardo Castillo, Argentinian author and playwright
• 1935 – John Henry Dowse, Australian rugby player
• 1935 – Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk, English politician
• 1935 – Lars Andreas Larssen, Norwegian actor (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Julian Glover, English actor
• 1935 – Race Mathews, Australian economist and politician
• 1935 – Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (d. 1981)
• 1936 – Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 1936 – Otmar Issing, German economist and academic
• 1937 – Johnny Copeland, American singer and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter and illustrator
• 1937 – Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Shadows)
• 1937 – Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Brazilian author and academic
• 1939 – Lawrence Eugene Brandt, American bishop
• 1939 – Angelo Cifelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Ladislas de Hoyos, Belgian-French journalist and politician (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Bruce Johnston, American criminal (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Jay Kim, South Korean-American engineer and politician
• 1939 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman
• 1940 – Silvano Bertini, Italian boxer
• 1940 – Lindy Infante, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Christina Jutterström, Swedish journalist
• 1940 – Ullrich Libor, German sailor
• 1940 – Janis Martin, American singer and guitarist (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Derrick Morgan, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 – Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1940 – June Wilkinson, English actress
• 1941 – Per Abramsen, Dutch sculptor and academic
• 1941 – Kurt Felix, Swiss television host (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
• 1941 – Peter Göbel, German figure skater
• 1941 – Antonina Lazareva, Russian high jumper
• 1941 – Helmuth Orthner, Austrian-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Chip Pashayan, American lawyer and politician
• 1941 – Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician, Austrian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
• 1942 – John Adshead, English-New Zealand footballer and manager
• 1942 – Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Wili Jønsson, Danish singer-songwriter and bass player (Gasolin')
• 1942 – John Sulston, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Michael York, English actor
• 1943 – Keith Allan, English-Australian linguist and academic
• 1943 – S. Barry Barnes, English sociologist and academic
• 1943 – Mike Curtis, American football player and coach
• 1943 – Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Nicholas Humphrey, English psychologist, author, and academic
• 1943 – Grant McCune, American special effects designer (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Lorraine Michael, Canadian nun, educator, and politician
• 1943 – Duncan Paterson, Scottish rugby player and manager (d. 2009)
• 1944 – Enrique Barón Crespo, Spanish economist, lawyer, and politician, 16th President of the European Parliament
• 1944 – Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1944 – Miguel Enríquez, Chilean physician and politician, (d. 1974)
• 1944 – Judi Garman, American-Canadian softball player and coach
• 1944 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Bebu Silvetti, Argentine pianist and composer (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Ann Sidney, English actress, television host, and 1964 Miss World
• 1944 – Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Rolf M. Aagaard, Norwegian photographer and author
• 1945 – Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1945 – Harry Rowohlt, German author and translator (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Andy Bown, English bass player and songwriter (Status Quo, The Herd and Judas Jump)
• 1946 – Gisela Forster, German priest, theologian, and author
• 1946 – Andrea Giordana, Italian singer and actor
• 1946 – Mike Jackson, American baseball player
• 1946 – Boris Kopeikin, Russian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1947 – Marc-Yvan Côté, Canadian educator and politician
• 1947 – Craig Defoy, Welsh golfer
• 1947 – Oliver Ford, American athlete
• 1947 – Aad de Mos, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1947 – Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author and poet
• 1947 – Brian Jones, English balloonist
• 1947 – John Mayhew, English-Australian drummer (Genesis) (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Walt Mossberg, American journalist
• 1947 – Bart Taminiau, Dutch field hockey player
• 1948 – Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish lawyer and politician
• 1948 – Dele Charley, Sierra Leonean author and playwright (d. 1993)
• 1948 – Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Finnish-English photographer
• 1948 – Rosemary Follett, Australian politician, 1st Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory
• 1949 – Poul Ruders, Danish organist and composer
• 1949 – Leigh Steinberg, American lawyer and agent
• 1949 – Nancy Sullivan, American educator and politician
• 1950 – Julia Alvarez, American-Dominican author and poet
• 1950 – Tony Banks, English keyboard player and songwriter (Genesis)
• 1950 – Dimitar Ludzhev, Bulgarian economist and politician
• 1950 – David Edgar, American swimmer
• 1950 – Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
• 1950 – Maria Ewing, American soprano
• 1950 – Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1950 – Madeleine Moon, English social worker and politician
• 1950 – Anton Ondruš, Czech-Slovak footballer
• 1950 – Matt Siegel, American radio host
• 1950 – Terry Yorath, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1951 – Nigel Cawthorne, American-English journalist and author
• 1951 – Marielle de Sarnez, French politician
• 1951 – Andrey Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
• 1951 – Angelo Recchi, Italian footballer
• 1952 – Jan Albers, Dutch field hockey player
• 1952 – Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, Catalan lawyer and politician
• 1952 – Erwin Fuchsbichler, Austrian footballer
• 1952 – Joško Marušić, Croatian animator and illustrator
• 1952 – Arnold Morgado, American football player and politician
• 1952 – Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Richard Séguin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Dana Stabenow, American author and blogger
• 1952 – Gheorghe Tadici, Romanian handball player and coach
• 1953 – Gary Wayne Alexander, American baseball player
• 1953 – Dennis Bevington, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1953 – George Copos, Romanian businessman and politician
• 1953 – Bairbre Dowling, Irish actress
• 1953 – Gabriele Gatti, Sanmarinese politician
• 1953 – Gary Griffin, Guamanian-American sailor
• 1953 – Rick Kirkman, American cartoonist
• 1953 – Edwarda O'Bara, American coma patient (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Wally Stocker, English guitarist (The Babys and Air Supply)
• 1953 – Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
• 1953 – Ranjit Sinha, Indian police officer
• 1954 – Marie-Claire Baldenweg, Swiss-Australian painter
• 1954 – Gerard Batten, English lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Paul Bennett, Canadian football player and coach
• 1954 – Robbie Haines, American sailor
• 1954 – Armando Vara, Portuguese banker and politician
• 1955 – Nunu Abashidze, Ukrainian-Canadian shot putter
• 1955 – Yisrael Eichler, Israeli journalist and politician
• 1955 – Linda Jaivin, American-Australian author and translator
• 1955 – Patrick McCabe, Irish author and playwright
• 1955 – Ann Phoenix, British psychologist
• 1955 – Mariano Rajoy, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1955 – Hana Sweid, Israeli engineer, academic, and politician
• 1955 – Jim Walker, Canadian drummer (Public Image Ltd)
• 1956 – Dale Arnold, American sportscaster and radio host
• 1956 – Dave Debol, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 – Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist and politician
• 1956 – Nora Volkow, Mexican-American physician and psychiatrist
• 1956 – Paul Wickens, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians)
• 1956 – John A. Peacock, English cosmologist and academic
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins, English lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Konstantin Kokora, Russian figure skater
• 1957 – Stephen Dillane, English actor
• 1957 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Associates) (d. 1997)
• 1957 – Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1958 – Didier de Radiguès, Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer
• 1958 – Wim Hofkens, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1958 – Simon Acland, British venture capitalist and author
• 1958 – Wendy Jacob, American sculptor and academic
• 1958 – Parker Johnstone, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1958 – Susan Molinari, American journalist and politician
• 1958 – Adrian Rawlins, English actor
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss, Australian keyboard player and songwriter (INXS)
• 1959 – Tatyana Ivinskaya, Belarusian basketball player
• 1959 – Kid Congo Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Congo Norvell, The Cramps and Knoxville Girls)
• 1959 – Ivan Savvidis, Georgian-Russian businessman and politician
• 1959 – Oleksandr Sorokalet, Ukrainian volleyball player
• 1959 – Mariusz Strzałka, Polish fencer
• 1959 – Ivan Sunara, Croatian basketball player
• 1960 – Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (Weather Report)
• 1960 – Philippe Bianconi, French pianist
• 1960 – Johannes Kerkorrel, South African singer-songwriter, playwright, and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1960 – Mark Lovell, English race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
• 1960 – Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Legião Urbana and Aborto Elétrico) (d. 1996)
• 1960 – Heiki Vilep, Estonian poet and author
• 1960 – Tim Wrightman, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Mark Cohen, Irish cricketer
• 1961 – Nikita Dzhigurda, Russian actor and singer
• 1961 – Ellery Hanley, English rugby league player and coach
• 1961 – Valery Kargin, Latvian economist and banker
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (B'z and Tak Matsumoto Group)
• 1961 – Tony Rominger, Danish-Swiss cyclist and agent
• 1961 – Marcelo Daniel Colombo, Argentinian bishop
• 1962 – Kevin J. Anderson, American author
• 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Brett French, Australian rugby league player
• 1962 – Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player
• 1962 – John O'Farrell, English journalist and author
• 1962 – Brad Wright, American basketball player
• 1963 – Xuxa, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1963 – Charly Alberti, Argentinian drummer (Soda Stereo)
• 1963 – Cory Blackwell, American basketball player and minister
• 1963 – Randall Cunningham, American football player, coach, and pastor
• 1963 – Pip Karmel, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Dave Koz, American saxophonist and radio host
• 1963 – Jörg Michael, German drummer (Stratovarius, Mekong Delta, Running Wild, Saxon and Rage)
• 1963 – Bedabrata Pain, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Ed Pinckney, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1963 – Filippos Sachinidis, Canadian-Greek economist and politician, Minister of Finance for Greece
• 1963 – Mikhail Scherbakov, Russian singer-songwriter and poet
• 1963 – Gary Stevens, English-Australian footballer and physiotherapist
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
• 1963 – Tim Worstall, English author and blogger
• 1964 – Glenn Carter, English actor and singer
• 1964 – Clark Datchler, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Johnny Hates Jazz)
• 1964 – Guy Guzzone, American politician
• 1964 – Kad Merad, Algerian-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Jessica Soho, Filipino journalist
• 1965 – Sonia Falcone, Bolivian-American painter
• 1965 – Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
• 1965 – Dina Talaat, Italian-Egyptian actress and dancer
• 1966 – Ramiro Castillo, Bolivian footballer (d. 1997)
• 1966 – Arthur H, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1966 – Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
• 1966 – Paula Trickey, American actress
• 1966 – Haruto Umezawa, Japanese illustrator
• 1967 – David Bavaro, American football player and educator
• 1967 – Giuseppe Citterio, Italian cyclist
• 1967 – Sergio Fernández González, Argentinian rower
• 1967 – Cathy Guetta, Senegalese-French businesswoman
• 1967 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese wrestler and rugby player
• 1967 – Bob Morgan, Welsh diver
• 1967 – Jaime Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Heath Sherman, American football player
• 1967 – Talisa Soto, American model and actress
• 1967 – Dean Starkey, American pole vaulter and coach
• 1967 – Anthony Thornton, New Zealand field hockey player
• 1968 – Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
• 1968 – Sandra Hess, Swiss-American actress
• 1968 – Stacey Kent, American singer and guitarist
• 1968 – Andrea Meyer, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Isabelle Tuchband, French-Brazilian sculptor and painter
• 1968 – Piret Viirma, Estonian draughts player
• 1969 – Mary Kiani, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Time Frequency)
• 1969 – Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Todd Raleigh, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1969 – Stuart Slater, English footballer and coach
• 1969 – Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and guitarist (The Prodigy and Flint)
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette, American actress and singer
• 1970 – Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player
• 1970 – Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dutch politician
• 1970 – Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Brent Fitz, Canadian-American drummer and songwriter (Theory of a Deadman, Union, Econoline Crush, and Indigenous)
• 1970 – Damian Hampson, Australian footballer
• 1970 – Brendan Hill, English-American drummer (Blues Traveler and Stolen Ogre)
• 1970 – Goran Janus, Slovenian ski jumper and coach
• 1970 – Aleksandr Klimenko, Ukrainian shot putter (d. 2000)
• 1970 – Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
• 1970 – Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
• 1970 – Niša Saveljić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1970 – Mauricio Vallina, Cuban-Belgian pianist and composer
• 1971 – Kelvyn Alp, New Zealand politician
• 1971 – Thom Barron, German porn actor
• 1971 – Victor Bodiu, Moldovan economist and politician
• 1971 – David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster
• 1971 – Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
• 1971 – Santiago Herrero Amor, Spanish footballer
• 1971 – Roger Owensby, Jr., American sergeant (d. 2000)
• 1971 – Matt Pegg, English bass player (Procol Harum)
• 1972 – Ignacio Garrido, Spanish golfer
• 1972 – Charlie Haas, American wrestler
• 1972 – Jérôme Minière, French-Canadian singer
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and coach
• 1972 – Kevin Hodson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Emily Kapnek, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Kieran Modra, Australian cyclist and swimmer
• 1972 – Van Phillips, English golfer
• 1973 – Ade Adepitan, Nigerian-English basketball player and actor
• 1973 – Rui Jorge, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1973 – Greg Lalas, Greek-American soccer player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Pablo Pozo, Chilean footballer and referee
• 1973 – Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
• 1974 – Luca Banti, Italian footballer and referee
• 1974 – Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager
• 1974 – Graham Clarke, Irish hurler
• 1974 – Andrea Conti, Italian basketball player and manager
• 1974 – Bernard Curry, Australian actor, screenwriter, and composer
• 1974 – Aubrey Haynie, American fiddler, mandolin player, and songwriter
• 1974 – Joan Horrach, Spanish cyclist
• 1974 – George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
• 1974 – Aram Margaryan, Armenian wrestler
• 1974 – Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
• 1974 – Dmitri Yemets, Russian author
• 1975 – Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Black Eyed Peas and Wild Orchid)
• 1975 – Yelena Vladimirovna Afanasyeva, Russian politician
• 1975 – Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Kim Felton, Australian golfer
• 1975 – Katsuaki Fujiwara, Japanese motorcycle racer
• 1975 – Bruce Jacobs, South African field hockey player
• 1975 – Mihaela Melinte, Romanian hammer thrower
• 1975 – Hennadiy Moroz, Ukrainian footballer
• 1975 – Stefán Þórðarson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 – Andrea Jennifer Shubert, American video game designer and producer
• 1976 – Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician, 57th President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• 1976 – Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Djamel Belmadi, French-Algerian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Danny Fortson, American basketball player
• 1977 – Víctor Ávila, Mexican basketball player
• 1977 – Elías Larry Ayuso, American basketball player
• 1977 – Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Zed Seselja, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1978 – Leo Aberer, Austrian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1978 – Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner
• 1978 – Dee Brown, American baseball player
• 1978 – Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
• 1978 – Kahlil Joseph, Indian actor and educator
• 1978 – Dorothea Lasky, American poet and educator
• 1979 – Vidas Alunderis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 – Louise Brealey, English actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Michael Cuddyer, American baseball player
• 1979 – Denis Golovanov, Russian tennis player and coach
• 1979 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Martin Larsson, Swedish skier
• 1979 – Hayden Mullins, English footballer
• 1979 – Tom Palmer, English rugby player
• 1979 – Jermaine Phillips, American football player
• 1979 – Brook Silva-Braga, American director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1979 – Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer
• 1979 – Jenny Wilson, South African field hockey player
• 1980 – Wilfred Bamnjo, Cameroonian footballer
• 1980 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (Lùnapop)
• 1980 – Sean Ryan, American football player
• 1980 – Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
• 1980 – Greg Puciato, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dillinger Escape Plan and Killer Be Killed)
• 1980 – Basil Shaaban, Lebanese race car driver
• 1981 – Carey Davis, American football player
• 1981 – Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
• 1981 – Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Gavin Skelton, English footballer
• 1981 – Chen Yan, Chinese swimmer
• 1982 – Radoslav Banga, Czech rapper (Gipsy.cz)
• 1982 – Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer
• 1982 – Kurara Chibana, Japanese model and actress, Miss Universe Japan 2006
• 1982 – Iman Crosson, American actor and dancer
• 1982 – Luke Guttridge, English footballer
• 1982 – Francisco José Pacheco, Spanish cyclist
• 1982 – Jhon Valencia, Colombian footballer and coach
• 1983 – Alina Devecerski, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1983 – Robert Guerrero, American boxer
• 1983 – Joshua Hill, Australian baseball player
• 1983 – Yunus İçuz, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Vasiliy Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Igor Picușceac, Moldovan footballer
• 1983 – Jacques Riparelli, Cameroonian-Italian sprinter
• 1984 – Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Nesar Ahmad Bahave, Afghan martial artist
• 1984 – Michaël Cordier, Belgian footballer
• 1984 – Laura Critchley, English singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Kylie Cronk, Australian softball player
• 1984 – Ben Franks, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brett Holman, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Emily Ann Lloyd, American actress
• 1984 – Ryan Salvis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Fernando Usero, Spanish footballer
• 1984 – Jonathan Wade, American football player
• 1985 – Kasmir, Finnish singer-songwriter and producer (Collarbone)
• 1985 – Anton Amelchenko, Belarusian footballer
• 1985 – Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
• 1985 – Luis Bolaños, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1985 – Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Alison Carroll, English gymnast, model, and actress
• 1985 – Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Vitaly Gurkov, Belarusian kick-boxer
• 1985 – Guillaume Joli, French handball player
• 1985 – David Navara, Czech chess player
• 1985 – Nadezhda Skardino, Belarusian biathlete
• 1985 – Karina Vnukova, Lithuanian high jumper
• 1985 – Danny Vuković, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Jeremy Yasasa, Papua New Guinean footballer
• 1986 – Titus Brown, American football player
• 1986 – Boris Grachev, Russian chess player
• 1986 – Chris Lofton, American basketball player
• 1986 – Ellen Joyce Loo, Canadian-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (at17)
• 1986 – Xavier Marshall, Jamaican cricketer
• 1986 – Manuel Neuer, German footballer
• 1986 – Marcus Pode, Swedish footballer
• 1986 – Garrett Raboin, American ice hockey player
• 1986 – Sébastien Regy, French rugby player
• 1986 – Andrés Silva, Uruguayan hurdler and sprinter
• 1986 – Pedro Solberg Salgado, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1986 – George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Alejandro Castro, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Luís Cláudio Carvalho da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Lene Egeli, Norwegian model, Miss Norway 2008
• 1987 – Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
• 1987 – Polina Gagarina, Russian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Anthony Levine, American football player
• 1987 – Florencio Morán, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Alex Pledger, New Zealand basketball player
• 1987 – Buster Posey, American baseball player
• 1987 – José Fernando Viana de Santana, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Shin Young-rok, South Korean footballer
• 1987 – Alexander Weckström, Finnish footballer
• 1988 – Jessie J, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Rodriguinho Marinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Darren Smith, Scottish footballer
• 1988 – Brenda Song, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
• 1989 – Nana Attakora, Canadian soccer player
• 1989 – Curtis Hargrove, German-Canadian humanitarian and runner
• 1989 – Matt Harvey, American baseball player
• 1989 – Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player
• 1989 – Fábio Freire Martins, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Caitlin Upton, American model and actress, Miss Teen USA 2007
• 1989 – Šarūnas Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1990 – Joselu, German-Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Kimbra, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Taylor Benjamin, Canadian-Guyanese footballer
• 1990 – Alessio Bugno, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Leandro Chichizola, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 – Maksim Dobroshtanov, Russian footballer
• 1990 – Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1990 – Junior Lake, Dominican baseball player
• 1990 – Nicolas N'Koulou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1990 – Jake Odorizzi, American baseball player
• 1990 – Meelis Peitre, Estonian footballer
• 1990 – Natalia Sánchez, Spanish actress and singer (Santa Justa Klan)
• 1990 – Scott Selwood, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Pholien Systermans, Belgian swimmer
• 1990 – Janina Toljan, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 – Chloe Marshall, English model
• 1991 – Shayne Whittington, American basketball player
• 1991 – Björn Höhne, German volleyball player
• 1992 – Cameron Edwards, Australian footballer
• 1992 – Mark Gillespie, English footballer
• 1992 – Pedro Obiang, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Aoi Yūki, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1993 – Dariya Derkach, Ukrainian-Italian hurdler and long jumper
• 1993 – Fraser Fyvie, Scottish footballer
• 1993 – Miles Higson, English actor
• 1993 – Matt Hobden, English cricketer (d. 2016)
• 1993 – Nelson Munganga, Congolese footballer
• 1994 – Lucia Mokrášová, Slovak heptathlete

Deaths[edit]

• 215 BC – Emperor Kōrei of Japan (b. 342 BC)
• 710 – Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian bishop and saint (b. 660)
• 853 – Haymo of Halberstadt, German bishop and author (b. 778)
• 973 – Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
• 1045 – Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i, Fatimid vizier
• 1221 – Berengaria of Portugal (b. 1194)
• 1223 – Raymond-Roger, Count of Foix (b. 1152)
• 1237 – John of Brienne (b. 1170)
• 1350 – Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
• 1381 – Juana Manuel, Spanish wife of Henry II of Castile (b. 1339)
• 1427 – Rinaldo Brancaccio, Italian cardinal
• 1462 – Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
• 1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (b. 1434)
• 1482 – Mary of Burgundy (b. 1457)
• 1510 – Beatrice de Frangepan (b. 1480)
• 1555 – William Hunter, English martyr (b. 1535)
• 1564 – Lütfi Pasha, Turkish historian and politician, 37th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1488)
• 1572 – Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, and poet (b. 1523)
• 1598 – Theodor de Bry, Belgian-German engraver, goldsmith, and publisher (b. 1528)
• 1613 – Sigismund Báthory, Hungarian husband of Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (b. 1572)
• 1615 – Margaret of Valois (b. 1553)
• 1621 – Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian cardinal (b. 1554)
• 1625 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (b. 1566)
• 1635 – Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
• 1676 – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish general and politician, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1619)
• 1678 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish politician, Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1604)
• 1679 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English-American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
• 1714 – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1650)
• 1714 – Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1633)
• 1715 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig (b. 1655)
• 1729 – Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1679)
• 1745 – Tommaso Crudeli, Italian poet and lawyer (b. 1702)
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
• 1759 – August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, German painter and entomologist (b. 1705)
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• 1770 – Jacopo Stellini, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1699)
• 1778 – Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, French sculptor (b. 1705)
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, French sociologist and reformer (b. 1747)
• 1827 – Dmitry Venevitinov, Russian poet (b. 1805)
• 1828 – Johann Gottfried Tulla, German colonel and engineer (b. 1770)
• 1836 – James Fannin, American colonel (b. 1804)
• 1837 – Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1765)
• 1840 – Philipp Albert Stapfer, Swiss philosopher and politician (b. 1766)
• 1843 – Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, English politician (b. 1755)
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1769)
• 1844 – Dmitry Golitsyn, Russian-French general and politician (b. 1771)
• 1848 – Gabriel Bibron, French zoologist and herpetologist (b. 1805)
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer and banker (b. 1797)
• 1854 – William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1768)
• 1858 – Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville, French entomologist and author (b. 1775)
• 1859 – Adelaide Tosi, Italian soprano (b. 1800)
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist and academic (b. 1800)
• 1865 – Richard Cox, Australian cricketer (b. 1830)
• 1867 – Prideaux John Selby, English ornithologist and botanist (b. 1788)
• 1868 – Krishnaraja Wadiyar III, Indian poet (b. 1794)
• 1869 – James Harper, American publisher and politician, 65th Mayor of New York City (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
• 1875 – Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (b. 1808)
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet, French historian and academic (b. 1803)
• 1877 – Samuel Lysons, English priest and historian (b. 1806)
• 1878 – George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
• 1878 – Dobri Voynikov, Bulgarian journalist, playwright, and educator (b. 1833)
• 1879 – Dezydery Chłapowski, Polish general and businessman (b. 1788)
• 1879 – Hércules Florence, French-Brazilian painter and inventor (b. 1804)
• 1879 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868)
• 1880 – Nils Johan Andersson, Swedish botanist and academic (b. 1821)
• 1880 – Francis Alexander, American painter (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Jørgen Moe, Norwegian bishop, poet, and author (b. 1813)
• 1883 – Philipp Christoph Zeller, German entomologist and educator (b. 1808)
• 1884 – Richard Böhm, German zoologist and explorer (b. 1854)
• 1885 – Heinrich Julian Schmidt, German journalist and historian (b. 1818)
• 1885 – Friedrich Johannes Jacob Celestin von Schwarzenberg, Austrian cardinal (b. 1809)
• 1886 – Henry Taylor, English poet and playwright (b. 1800)
• 1888 – Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1825)
• 1889 – John Bright, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1811)
• 1890 – Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
• 1893 – Alphonse Beau de Rochas, French engineer (b. 1815)
• 1897 – Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician and academic (b. 1826)
• 1898 – Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Princess Francisca of Brazil (b. 1824)
• 1898 – Édouard Delessert, French painter, archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1899 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator, painter, and engraver (b. 1825)
• 1900 – Joseph A. Campbell, American businessman, founded the Campbell Soup Company (b. 1817)
• 1904 – Takeo Hirose, Japanese commander (b. 1868)
• 1906 – Eugène Carrière, French painter and photographer (b. 1849)
• 1908 – Charles N. Sims, American Methodist preacher and third chancellor of Syracuse University (b. 1835)
• 1909 – Gyula Kautz, Hungarian economist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer (b. 1835)
• 1912 – Tibor von Földváry, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1863)
• 1913 – James K. L. Duncan, American soldier (b. 1845)
• 1913 – Richard Montgomery Gano, American minister, physician, and general (b. 1830)
• 1914 – Spencer Gore, English painter (b. 1878)
• 1914 – Peter Grace, American captain (b. 1845)
• 1915 – Liu Shifu, Chinese anarchist (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Susan Blow, American educator (b. 1843)
• 1916 – Kārlis Mīlenbahs, Latvian-Estonian linguist and author (b. 1853)
• 1917 – Moses Jacob Ezekiel, American-Italian soldier and sculptor (b. 1844)
• 1918 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
• 1918 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
• 1919 – Martin Maginnis, American journalist and politician (b. 1841)
• 1920 – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (b. 1827)
• 1921 – Mouha ou Hammou Zayani, Moroccan rebel leader (b. 1863)
• 1921 – Harry Barron, English general and politician, 16th Governor of Western Australia (b. 1847)
• 1922 – Philippe A. Guye, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1862)
• 1922 – Otto Hirschfeld, German academic and epigrapher (b. 1843)
• 1922 – Nikolay Sokolov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1859)
• 1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, English organist and composer (b. 1841)
• 1924 – John George Alexander Leishman, American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (b. 1857)
• 1925 – John Koss, Norwegian boxer (b. 1895)
• 1925 – Carl Neumann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1926 – Kick Kelly, American baseball player, manager, and umpire (b. 1856)
• 1926 – Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1927 – Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (b. 1842)
• 1927 – Klaus Berntsen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1844)
• 1927 – William Healey Dall, American biologist, malacologist, and explorer (b. 1845)
• 1928 – Leslie Stuart, English organist and composer (b. 1863)
• 1929 – Margaret Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge (b. 1873)
• 1929 – Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1859)
• 1930 – Paula Blackton, American actress and director (b. 1881)
• 1930 – Sister Christine, German-American educator (b. 1866)
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (b. 1867)
• 1932 – Justinian Oxenham, Australian public servant (b. 1860)
• 1932 – Eliezer Steinbarg, Romanian author and educator (b. 1880)
• 1932 – Kaarlo Väkevä, Finnish boxer (b. 1909)
• 1932 – Jacques Zon, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
• 1933 – Princess Mathilde of Saxony (b. 1863)
• 1934 – Musa al-Husayni, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1853)
• 1934 – Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
• 1935 – Huzaima bint Nasser, Iraqi wife of Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1884)
• 1936 – Christine Buisman, Dutch phytopathologist and botanist (b. 1900)
• 1937 – Axel Anderberg, Swedish architect, designed the Swedish Museum of Natural History (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Romolo Bacchini, Italian director, painter, and poet (b. 1873)
• 1938 – Friedrich Leo von Rottenberger, Austrian gardener and architect (b. 1872)
• 1938 – Tom Seeberg, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1938 – William Stern, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1939 – Gus Leonard, French-American actor (b. 1859)
• 1939 – Ferdinand von Quast, Austrian general (b. 1850)
• 1940 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1893)
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
• 1940 – Walter Weston, English priest, missionary, and mountaineer (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Primo Riccitelli, Italian composer (b. 1875)
• 1942 – Julio González, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1876)
• 1942 – Vernon Kell, English intelligence officer and soldier (b. 1873)
• 1942 – Alfons Maniura, German-Polish soldier (b. 1892)
• 1943 – Franz Hoffmeister, German priest, founded Sauerländer Heimatbund and Festspiele Balver Höhle (b. 1898)
• 1944 – Eduino Francini, Italian partisan (b. 1925)
• 1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Ángel Melogno, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1905)
• 1945 – Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 – Octave Aubry, French historian and author (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Karl Groos, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1946 – Ludvig Kornerup, Swedish footballer and referee (b. 1871)
• 1946 – Johnny Summers, English boxer (b. 1882)
• 1947 – Edith Craig, English actress, director, producer, and fashion designer (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Sydney Howard Smith, English tennis and badminton player (b. 1872)
• 1947 – Charlie Smith, South African cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1948 – Henry Hamilton Beamish, English-Rhodesian politician (b. 1873)
• 1949 – Gregory Mathews, Australian-English ornithologist and author (b. 1876)
• 1950 – Dezső Földes, Hungarian-American fencer (b. 1880)
• 1951 – Ida Roland, Austrian-German actress (b. 1881)
• 1952 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
• 1953 – Charles Finlayson, South African cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1954 – Walter M. Pierce, American lawyer and politician, 17th Governor of Oregon (b. 1861)
• 1955 – Geoffrey Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge, English captain (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Évariste Lévi-Provençal, French orientalist and historian (b. 1894)
• 1956 – Giuseppe Merosi, Italian engineer (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Roberts Dambītis, Latvian soldier and politician (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Laura Gore, Italian actress (b. 1918)
• 1958 – Robert Baberske, German cinematographer (b. 1900)
• 1958 – Leon C. Phillips, American lawyer and politician, 11th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1890)
• 1958 – Hans Stiebner, German actor (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Grant Withers, American actor and producer (b. 1904)
• 1960 – Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Ian Whyte, Scottish conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• 1961 – Moshe Novomeysky, Russian-Israeli scientist and engineer (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Jack Kane, Canadian clarinet player, composer, and conductor (b. 1924)
• 1962 – James Basevi, English-American art director and set designer (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Jack Britton, American boxer (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Augusta Savage, American sculptor (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Harold Dow Bugbee, American painter, illustrator, and curator (b. 1900)
• 1963 – Harry Piel, German actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Roger Motz, Belgian engineer and politician (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Francis Cuggy, English footballer and manager (b. 1889)
• 1965 – Dirk Lotsy, Dutch footballer (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Archer Baldwin, American-born English farmer and politician (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Hermann Garrn, German footballer (b. 1888)
• 1966 – Ragnar Josephson, Swedish historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1966 – Karl König, Austrian-German pediatrician (b. 1902)
• 1966 – Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Malcolm Arbuthnot, English photographer and painter (b. 1877)
• 1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Nikolai Yut, Russian author and critic (b. 1898)
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
• 1968 – Vladimir Seryogin, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1969 – Archie Bradley, Australian boxer and rugby player (b. 1897)
• 1969 – Willie Brady, Irish singer (b. 1930)
• 1969 – David Lloyd, Welsh tenor (b. 1912)
• 1969 – Antonio Pigliaru, Italian philosopher, academic, and jurist (b. 1922)
• 1969 – Mário Sacramento, Portuguese physician and author (b. 1920)
• 1970 – Nicholas Attygalle, Sri Lankan surgeon and academic (b. 1894)
• 1970 – A. C. Schiffler, American lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Albin Grau, German architect and production designer (b. 1884)
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1904)
• 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Raimund Schelcher, Tanzanian-German actor (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Aldo Carpi, Italian painter and author (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1903)
• 1973 – Timo K. Mukka, Swedish-Finnish author (b. 1944)
• 1974 – Wang Ming, Chinese politician (b. 1904)
• 1974 – Eduardo Santos, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
• 1975 – Arthur Bliss, English conductor and composer (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Georg August Zinn, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Hesse (b. 1901)
• 1977 – Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, and composer (b. 1896)
• 1977 – A. P. Hamann, American lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
• 1977 – Eve Meyer, American model, actress, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Benny Moten, American bassist (b. 1916)
• 1977 – Gustav Schickedanz, German businessman (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Stewart Duke-Elder, Scottish ophthalmologist and physician (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Sverre Farstad, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1920)
• 1978 – Clemens Kapuuo, Namibian educator and politician (b. 1923)
• 1978 – Frank Mitchinson, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1884)
• 1978 – Wilfred Pickles, English actor and radio host (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett, New Zealand physicist and meteorologist (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Vincenc Beneš, Czech painter (b. 1883)
• 1979 – William Elliott, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Melville S. Green, American physicist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1980 – Philip W. Anderson, American film editor (b. 1915)
• 1980 – Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Jakob Ackeret, Swiss engineer and academic (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and journalist (b. 1916)
• 1981 – Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Preben Kaas, Danish comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1981 – Jüri Kukk, Estonian chemist and Soviet dissident (b. 1940)
• 1982 – John Addey, English astrologer and author (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Fernando Alessandri, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1982 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-American engineer and architect, designed the John Hancock Center and Willis Tower (b. 1929)
• 1982 – Betty Schade, German-American actress (b. 1895)
• 1983 – James Hayter, Indian-Scottish actor (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Jānis Ivanovs, Latvian composer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Derek Francis, English actor (b. 1923)
• 1985 – Pierino Baffi, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
• 1985 – Hugh Farquharson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Ben Ramsey, American lawyer and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Texas (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Christopher Vokes, Irish-Canadian general (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Harold Harding, English engineer (b. 1900)
• 1986 – İhap Hulusi Görey, Turkish illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1987 – Giuseppe Ambrosoli, Italian-Ugandan priest, physician, missionary, and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 1987 – William Bowers, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1987 – Tim Lee Carter, American soldier, physician, and politician (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Erich Clar, German chemist and academic (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Tonny Koeswoyo, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Koes Plus) (b. 1936)
• 1988 – Fred Rose, Australian footballer (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Charles Willeford, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
• 1989 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Malcolm Cowley, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Cláudio Santoro, Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 1990 – Percy Beard, American hurdler and coach (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Marilyn Buferd, American model and actress, Miss America 1946 (b. 1925)
• 1990 – Jarl Gallén, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1908)
• 1990 – František Kopečný, Czech etymologist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Ralph Bates, English actor (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Alfredo Campoli, Italian-English violinist (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Igor Ryomin, Russian footballer (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood, Sr., American bridge player and author (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Anita Colby, American model and actress (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Gerry Duggan, Irish-Australian actor (b. 1910)
• 1992 – Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Lang Hancock, Australian businessman (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Leueen MacGrath, English actress and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Harald Sæverud, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1992 – James E. Webb, American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1993 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Arthur Larson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1900)
• 1993 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Manx-American psychologist and author (b. 1893)
• 1993 – Kate Reid, English-Canadian actress (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Ernst Streng, German cyclist (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Otto Bonsema, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Lawrence Wetherby, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1908)
• 1995 – René Allio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Paul Brinegar, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Albert Drach, Austrian lawyer and author (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman (b. 1948)
• 1995 – Margita Figuli, Slovakian author and translator (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Asher Hassin, Moroccan-Israeli educator and politician (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Tony Lovink, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Imre Nyéki, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1928)
• 1996 – Seán Browne, Irish politician (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Ignace Kowalczyk, German-French footballer (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Alfred Hirschmeier, German art director and production designer (b. 1931)
• 1996 – André Lefevere, Belgian-American linguist and theorist (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Samuel Schoenbaum, American scholar and author (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Alfred Waterman, English cricketer (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
• 1997 – George Malcolm Brown, English geologist and academic (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Lane Dwinell, American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Birger Hatlebakk, Norwegian businessman and politician (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Charles Lillard, American-Canadian historian, author, and poet (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Ella Maillart, Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Émile Stijnen, Belgian footballer and manager (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Julio César Britos, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – David McClelland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Aghajani Kashmeri, Indian-Canadian screenwriter and poet (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian businessman (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Karl-Adolf Zenker, German admiral (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (b. 1946)
• 1999 – Lindsay Booth, Australian farmer and businessman (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Ernestina de Champourcin, Spanish poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Nahum Stelmach, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1936)
• 2000 – George Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Blockheads) (b. 1942)
• 2000 – Bruno Hunziker, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Yrjö Lehtilä, Finnish shot putter (b. 1916)
• 2000 – Gary Allan Polis, American arachnologist and zoologist (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Priya Rajvansh, Indian actress (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Anthony Dexter, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Boris Rauschenbach, Russian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Irene Thomas, English radio host (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Randy Carr, American drummer and guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1956)
• 2002 – Dudley Moore, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Sture Stork, Swedish sailor (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Lotte Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1903)
• 2002 – Billy Wilder, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Alan Ackerman Beetle, American agrostologist and botanist (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Edwin Carr, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Italian actor and composer (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Paul Zindel, American author and playwright (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Peter Diamond, English actor and stuntman (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Richard Lancelyn Green, English scholar and author (b. 1953)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Miriam Lichtheim, Israeli historian, translator, and academic (b. 1914)
• 2004 – H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, English chemist and academic (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Einar Magnussen, Norwegian economist and politician, Minister of Trade and Shipping (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Robert Merle, French author (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Adán Sánchez, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2004 – Larry Trask, American linguist and academic (b. 1944)
• 2004 – James Wapakhabulo, Ugandan lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
• 2005 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Gwydion Brooke, English bassoonist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Bob Casey, American sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Elvira Farreras i Valentí, Spanish poet and author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Richard Kearney, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Antonio Téllez, Spanish journalist and historian (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Rigo Tovar, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor and producer (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Lesław Bartelski, Polish author (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Werner Camichel, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet and gardener (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ruari McLean, Scottish typographer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Rudolf Vrba, Czech-Canadian holocaust survivor and educator (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Peter Wells, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rose Tattoo and Buffalo) (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Neil Williams, English cricketer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Nancy Adams, New Zealand botanist and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Wojtek Drabowicz, Polish singer (b. 1966)
• 2007 – Hans Hedberg, Swedish-French sculptor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Ransom A. Myers, American-Canadian biologist and academic (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Faustino Oramas, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 2007 – John Ward, English archbishop (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Charlotte Winters, American soldier (b. 1897)
• 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
• 2008 – George Pruteanu, Romanian educator and politician (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Evert Grift, Dutch cyclist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Kon Sasaki, Japanese photographer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Zbigniew Gut, Polish footballer (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Stephen Hearst, Austrian-English broadcaster and academic (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Heinz Höhne, German journalist and historian (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Peter Herbolzheimer, German trombonist and bandleader (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Stanley Vann, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2011 – George Tooker, American painter (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Hugo Biermann, South African admiral (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Larry Haws, American educator and politician (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Harold G. Hillam, American religious leader (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American academic and critic (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Adrienne Rich, American poet and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Warren Stevens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Alfredo De Gasperis, Italian-Canadian businessman, founded ConDrain (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Roosevelt Jamison, American songwriter and manager (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Paul Williams, American journalist and publisher, founded Crawdaddy! (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Kent Cochrane, Canadian medical patient (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Jeffery Dench, English actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Per Lillo-Stenberg, Norwegian actor (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Derek Martinus, English actor and director (b. 1931)
• 2014 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (b. 1935)
• 2015 – Hot Rod Hundley, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2015 – T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Olga Syahputra, Indonesian comedian and actor (b. 1983)

ΝΤΑΝΝΥ ΚΑΙΗ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΟ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

Αφιερωμα στον πολυταλαντο ηθοποιο,κωμικο,τραγουδιστη,χορευτη Νταννυ Καιη (1913-87) θα παρουσιασει στο Μεγαρο Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης(Μ2) την Δευτερα 11 Απριλιου,8 μμ,ο δημοσιογραφος Λευτερης Κογκαλιδης με υλικο απο το προσωπικο του κινηματογραφικο αρχειο .
Το προγραμμα εχει χαρακτηριστικα αποσπασματα-τραγουδια,χορευτικα και κωμικα νουμερα- απο 13 ταινιες,οπως "Σκανδαλα στην Ριβιερα","Ο Μιττυ ταχει 400","Ο κυριος Επιθεωρητης","Τα παραμυθια του Αντερσεν"."Λευκα Χριστουγεννα""Ο γελωτοποιος του βασιλεως","Πεντε δεκαρες",,κ.α.
Ο David Daniel Kamisky,οπως ηταν το πραγματικο του ονομα,που πεθανε 74 χρονων απο καρδιακη προσβολη,ηταν για πολλα χρονια πρεσβης καλης θελησεως της UNICEF  για τα παιδια.
Οργανωτες Μεγαρο Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης,Συλλογος Φιλων Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης.Χορηγος επικοινωνιας Πρακτορειο FM 104,9.
Η επομενη εκδηλωση και τελευταια της χειμερινης περιοδου 2015-16 ειναι αφιερωμενη στην Εσθερ Γουηλλιαμς.Την Δευτερα 9 Μαιου,ωρα 8 μμ.
ΕΙΣΟΔΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗ.

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• 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
• 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
• 1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
• 1794 – Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
• 1801 – Treaty of Florence is signed.
• 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
• 1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom defeats the United States Navy in the Battle of Valparaiso, Chile.
• 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
• 1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
• 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1883 – Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
• 1889 – The Yngsjö murder in Yngsjö, Sweden: Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
• 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
• 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
• 1942 – World War II: St Nazaire Raid: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of Saint-Nazaire.
• 1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• 1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
• 1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
• 1968 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
• 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• 1970 – Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260.
• 1978 – The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
• 1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
• 1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
• 1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
• 1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
• 1994 – BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
• 2000 – Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
• 2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
• 2005 – The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
• 2006 – At least one million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

Births[edit]

• 623 – Marwan I, Umayyad general and caliph (d. 685)
• 661 – Muawiya II, Umayyad caliph (d. 684)
• 1472 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter (d. 1517)
• 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
• 1515 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1582)
• 1522 – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1557)
• 1569 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
• 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop and educator (d. 1670)
• 1599 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch captain (d. 1658)
• 1613 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of China (d. 1688)
• 1621 – Heinrich Schwemmer German composer and educator (d. 1696)
• 1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch botanist and anatomist (d. 1731)
• 1652 – Samuel Sewall, English-American judge (d. 1730)
• 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English minister and author (d. 1795)
• 1727 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, (d. 1777)
• 1743 – Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Russian academic and politician (d. 1810)
• 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan general and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 1816)
• 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, English activist (d. 1846)
• 1773 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
• 1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist (d. 1864)
• 1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian and author (d. 1876)
• 1806 – Thomas Hare, English lawyer and political scientist (d. 1891)
• 1811 – John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French author and poet (d. 1896)
• 1818 – Wade Hampton III, American lieutenant and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1902)
• 1819 – Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge (d. 1891)
• 1828 – Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (d. 1914)
• 1836 – Frederick Pabst, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company (d. 1904)
• 1840 – Emin Pasha, Egyptian physician and politician (d. 1892)
• 1842 – William Harvey Carney, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1908)
• 1849 – James Darmesteter, French historian and author (d. 1894)
• 1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (d. 1944)
• 1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author and playwright (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch-Swiss conductor (d. 1951)
• 1873 – John Geiger, American rower (d. 1956)
• 1878 – Abraham Walkowitz, Russian-American painter (d. 1965)
• 1879 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish author, playwright, and politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)
• 1880 – Louis Wolheim, American actor (d. 1931)
• 1881 – Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (d. 1918)
• 1886 – Gustave Mesny, French general (d. 1945)
• 1890 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1967)
• 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish general (d. 1993)
• 1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (d. 1971)
• 1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Christian Herter, American politician, 53rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (d. 1960)
• 1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (d. 1977)
• 1897 – Tillie Voss, American football player (d. 1975)
• 1899 – Gussie Busch, American businessman (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Buck Shaw, American football player and coach (d. 1977)
• 1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
• 1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech fiddler and composer (d. 1988)
• 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Czech-American pianist and educator (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Charles Starrett, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American production manager and producer (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American zoologist and television host (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2002)
• 1906 – Robert Allen, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1907 – Norrey Ford, English author (d. 1985)
• 1907 – Irving Paul Lazar, American lawyer and talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Nelson Algren, American author (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian and art collector (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1910 – Ingrid of Sweden (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (d. 1998)
• 1912 – A. Bertram Chandler English-Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian pilot and navigator (d. 1943)
• 1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech author (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 58th United States Secretary of State (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist and academic (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Everett Ruess, American explorer, poet, and painter (d. 1934)
• 1915 – Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, English lawyer
• 1915 – Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Claude Bertrand, Canadian neurosurgeon and scholar (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Edward Amy, Canadian soldier (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Tom Brooks, Australian cricket umpire (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1921 – Harold Agnew, American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German assassin of Ernst vom Rath (d. 1960)
• 1921 – Walter Neugebauer, Croatian-German author and illustrator (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Grace Hartigan, American painter and educator (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer and actor (d. 2001)
• 1922 – B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician
• 1923 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Ike Isaacs, American bassist (d. 1981)
• 1923 – Thad Jones, American trumpet player and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (d. 1986)
• 1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1924 – Byrd Baylor, American author
• 1924 – Fred Flanagan, Australian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1927 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Vina Mazumdar, Indian academic and activist (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American geostrategist and politician, 10th United States National Security Advisor
• 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Paul England, Australian race car driver and engineer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Robert Ashley, American soldier and composer (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English soprano
• 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Vaino Väljas, Estonian politician
• 1933 – Tete Montoliu, Spanish pianist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American soldier, banker, and politician, 8th Governor of Alaska
• 1934 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist, founded the Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch Institute
• 1934 – Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Frank Judd, Baron Judd, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1935 – Michael Parkinson, English journalist and author
• 1935 – Józef Szmidt, Polish triple jumper
• 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian-Spanish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Liz Trotta, American journalist
• 1938 – Hans-Jürgen Bäsler, German footballer (d. 2002)
• 1939 – Leila Kasra, Iranian-American poet and songwriter (d. 1989)
• 1939 – Edward Pearce, English journalist and author
• 1940 – Tony Barber, English-Australian game show host
• 1940 – Yves Bérubé, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1993)
• 1940 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Martin Neary, English organist and conductor
• 1941 – Alf Clausen, American composer and producer
• 1941 – Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author and academic
• 1941 – Janet Nelson, English historian and academic
• 1941 – Michael Rawlins, English physician and pharmacologist
• 1941 – Jack Simmons, English cricketer
• 1941 – Jim Turner, American football player and sportscaster
• 1942 – Michel Bissonnet, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and academic
• 1942 – Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna
• 1942 – Neil Kinnock, Welsh politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
• 1942 – Mike Newell, English director and producer
• 1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
• 1942 – Conrad Schumann, German soldier (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
• 1943 – Richard Eyre, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress
• 1943 – Richard Stilgoe, English pianist and songwriter
• 1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1944 – Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Dan Alon, Israeli fencer
• 1945 – Johnny Famechon, French-Australian boxer
• 1945 – Björn Hamilton, Swedish engineer and politician
• 1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Henry Paulson, American banker and politician, 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian economist and politician, 48th President of Peru
• 1947 – Peter Hennessy, English historian and academic
• 1947 – John Records Landecker, American radio host
• 1947 – Greg Thompson, Canadian educator and politician, 25th Minister of Veterans Affairs
• 1948 – Matthew Corbett, English actor, puppeteer, and screenwriter
• 1948 – John Evan, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Jethro Tull)
• 1948 – Dennis Unkovic, American lawyer and author
• 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
• 1948 – Milan Williams, American keyboard player (The Commodores) (d. 2006)
• 1949 – Frank Kopel, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Timothy O'Shea, German-English academic
• 1949 – Ronnie Ray Smith, American sprinter (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Claudio Lolli, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1951 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
• 1951 – Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and singer (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Keith Ashfield, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Tony Brise, English race car driver (d. 1975)
• 1953 – Rosemary Ashe, English actress and singer
• 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian banker and politician, 4th President of Burundi (d. 1993)
• 1954 – Donald Brown, American pianist and educator (The Jazz Messengers)
• 1955 – John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice, Irish psychiatrist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
• 1955 – Roger Harrabin, English journalist
• 1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1956 – Susan Ershler, American mountaineer and author
• 1956 – April Margera, American hairdresser and author
• 1957 – Harvey Glance, American sprinter and coach
• 1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban composer
• 1958 – Brickhouse Brown, American wrestler
• 1958 – Bart Conner, American gymnast and sportscaster
• 1958 – Lou Franceschetti, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1958 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2003)
• 1959 – Marc Bolland, Dutch-English businessman
• 1959 – Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica
• 1959 – Joel McNeely, American pianist and composer
• 1959 – Chris Myers, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor, comedian and impressionist
• 1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician, Prime Minister of Cape Verde
• 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French-Belgian author and playwright
• 1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Simon Bazalgette, English businessman
• 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
• 1962 – The Warlord, American wrestler
• 1963 – Chieko Honda, Japanese voice actress (d. 2013)
• 1963 – Jan Masiel, Polish politician
• 1964 – Karen Lumley, English politician
• 1965 – Steve Bull, English footballer and manager
• 1965 – Valerie Zimring, American rhythmic gymnast
• 1966 – Cheryl James, American rapper and actress (Salt-N-Pepa)
• 1967 – John Ziegler, German-American radio host and director
• 1968 – Colin Brazier, English journalist
• 1968 – Iris Chang, American journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 1968 – Nasser Hussain, Indian-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Jon Lee, English-American drummer (The Darling Buds, Feeder, and Raindancer) (d. 2002)
• 1968 – Tim Lovejoy, English television host
• 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Laurie Brett, Scottish actress
• 1969 – Daniel Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1969 – Brett Ratner, American director and producer
• 1969 – Ilke Wyludda, German discus thrower
• 1970 – Michelle Gildernew, Irish politician
• 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Jennifer Weiner, American journalist and author
• 1970 – Aiga Zagorska, Latvian-Lithuanian cyclist
• 1971 – Mr. Cheeks, American rapper (The Lost Boyz)
• 1971 – Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-American journalist and educator
• 1971 – Kristi Mühling, Estonian kannel player
• 1971 – Wesley Person, American basketball player
• 1972 – Nick Frost, English actor and screenwriter
• 1972 – Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist and author
• 1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
• 1972 – David Vadim, Ukrainian-American actor
• 1973 – Umaga, American wrestler (d. 2009)
• 1973 – Björn Kuipers, Dutch footballer and referee
• 1973 – Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Morné van der Merwe, South African rugby player (d. 2013)
• 1974 – Mark King, English snooker player
• 1974 – Themis Tolis, Greek drummer (Rotting Christ)
• 1975 – Fabrizio Gollin, Italian race car driver
• 1975 – Kate Gosselin, American television personality
• 1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Derek Hill, American race car driver
• 1975 – Uno Kanda, Japanese model, actress, entertainer, and fashion designer
• 1975 – Richard Kelly, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Akshaye Khanna, Indian actor and singer
• 1975 – Shanna Moakler, American model and actress, Miss USA 1995
• 1975 – Matt Reis, American soccer player and coach
• 1975 – Alper Yılmaz, Turkish basketball player
• 1976 – Dave Keuning, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Killers)
• 1976 – Talis Kitsing, Estonian athlete turned politician (d. 2009)
• 1976 – Roselle Nava, Filipino actress and singer turned politician
• 1977 – Yuriy Fenin, Ukrainian footballer
• 1977 – Henbit, American racehorse (d. 1997)
• 1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American author
• 1977 – Annie Wersching, American actress
• 1978 – Nathan Cayless, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1978 – Último Gladiador, Mexican wrestler
• 1979 – Crystal Cox, American runner
• 1979 – Benjamin Percy, American novelist and short story writer
• 1979 – Chae Rim, South Korean actress
• 1980 – David Lee, English footballer
• 1980 – Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
• 1980 – Rasmus Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
• 1981 – Daniel Cardoso, Portuguese keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Anathema and Head Control System)
• 1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh actor
• 1981 – Edwar Ramírez, American baseball player
• 1981 – Antonio Rizzo, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Ryan Ashington, English footballer
• 1983 – Ladji Doucouré, French sprinter and hurdler
• 1984 – Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
• 1984 – Ol Drake, English guitarist and songwriter (Evile)
• 1984 – Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet, Kenyan runner
• 1984 – J-Kwon, American rapper
• 1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer
• 1984 – Nikki Sanderson, English model and actress
• 1985 – Ian Axel, American singer-songwriter (A Great Big World)
• 1985 – Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
• 1986 – Abuda, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Bowe Bergdahl, American sergeant
• 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress
• 1986 – Yoon Joon-soo, South Korean footballer
• 1986 – Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Czech tennis player
• 1986 – Denis Matsukevich, Belarusian-Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Yohan Benalouane, French-Tunisian footballer
• 1987 – Lee Hea-kang, South Korean footballer
• 1987 – Simeon Jackson, Canadian soccer player
• 1988 – Patrick Mayer, German footballer
• 1988 – Ryan Kalish, American baseball player
• 1988 – Lacey Turner, English actress
• 1989 – Logan Couture, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
• 1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
• 1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
• 1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
• 1990 – Dok2, South Korean rapper
• 1990 – Joe Bennett, English footballer
• 1990 – Ekaterina Bobrova, Russian ice dancer
• 1990 – Zac Clarke, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Luca Marrone, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Hoya, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Infinite and Infinite H)
• 1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress and singer
• 1991 – Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 – Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
• 1993 – Ryuki Takahashi, Japanese actor (D-Boys)
• 1994 – Jackson Wang, South Korean singer, dancer and model (Got7)
• 1995 – Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 – Aleksi Mustonen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1995 – Daniela Schippers, Guatemalan tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 193 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126)
• 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony (b. 1022)
• 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
• 1241 – Valdemar II of Denmark (b. 1170)
• 1285 – Pope Martin IV (b. 1220)
• 1552 – Guru Angad Indian guru (b.1504)
• 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss poet and theorist (b. 1488)
• 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian historian and diplomat (b. 1486)
• 1583 – Magnus, Duke of Holstein (b. 1540)
• 1584 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian king (b. 1530)
• 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1794 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1755)
• 1850 – Gerard Brandon, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1788)
• 1865 – Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1786)
• 1866 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1797)
• 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1795)
• 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)
• 1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (b. 1853)
• 1908 – Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1846)
• 1910 – David Josiah Brewer, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1837)
• 1910 – Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1917 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
• 1920 – Şahin Bey, Turkish revolutionaries (b. 1877)
• 1923 – Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849)
• 1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian archbishop (b. 1853)
• 1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American farmer and inventor (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (b. 1859)
• 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Quebec (b. 1861)
• 1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (b. 1891)
• 1937 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
• 1941 – Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)
• 1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877)
• 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1882)
• 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)
• 1946 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (b. 1904)
• 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 – Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889)
• 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American football player and coach (b. 1887)
• 1958 – W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1873)
• 1960 – Russell V. Mack, American publisher and politician (b. 1891)
• 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentinian author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (b. 1876)
• 1965 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (b. 1886)
• 1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (b. 1905)
• 1974 – Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (b. 1891)
• 1974 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor and singer (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Eric Shipton, Sri Lankan-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentinian-American actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1983 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (b. 1900)
• 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and poet (b. 1887)
• 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920)
• 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor and golfer (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Scott Cunningham, American author (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Shivabalayogi, Indian yogi (b. 1935)
• 1995 – Hugh O'Connor, Italian-American actor (b. 1962)
• 1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Rusty Draper, American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish fiddler and educator (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist (b. 1921)
• 2010 – June Havoc, Canadian-American actress, dancer, and director (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
• 2012 – John Arden, English author and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian pianist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Leonard Braithwaite, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Harry Crews, American author and playwright (b. 1935)
• 2012 – William Sampson, Canadian-English author (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Earl Scruggs, American banjo player (Foggy Mountain Boys) (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Addie L. Wyatt, American pastor and activist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Manuel García Ferré, Spanish-Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Art Malone, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Heinz Patzig, German footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Robert Zildjian, American businessman, founded Sabian (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Edwin Kagin, American soldier and lawyer (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Avraham Yaski, Israeli architect and academic (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Gene Saks, American actor and director (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)

Batman v Superman takes $424m at global box office

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has taken $424m (£300m) at the box office worldwide in its first five days despite poor reviews.

The global total - the fourth-highest ever - included $170.1m in the United States, a record for a March debut and the sixth-highest US opening weekend.

Dawn of Justice took £15.5m in the UK - also a record for March.

The film bringing the two superheroes together for the first time is a welcome success for Warner Bros.

The studio has been hit by a series of expensive failures such as Jupiter Ascending and Pan in recent months.

The DC Comics adaptation, which cost more than $250m to make, was Warner Bros' second-highest international opening after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

The BBC's Mark Kermode described it as a "crushing disappointment", while Kate Muir wrote in The Times: "This superhero-smorgasbord melts into an electric soup of CGI."

Jeff Goldstein, head of distribution for Warner Bros, said: "There was a disconnect there between what critics wrote and the fan interest and the fan response.'' 

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Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore, said: "It proves that the concept is bigger than negative reviews. There was no way that if you're a comic book fan or just a movie fan that you're going to miss out on a match-up of such iconic characters. Audiences have to see the movie for themselves.'' 

Dawn of Justice opened on more than 40,000 screens in 66 markets, including 16,000 in China, 4,242 in the US, 1,701 in the UK and 1,696 in South Korea. 

"It's the fans that speak the loudest," said Jeff Bock, a box office analyst for Exhibitor Relations. "It proves how strong these characters are."

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The Zack Snyder-directed film, starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavil, is the first of 10 DC Comics adaptations planned by Warner Bros over the next five years, including Wonder Woman and the Flash. 

The first, Suicide Squad, will hit the big screen in August.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens still holds the record for the biggest box office debut weekend globally, with ticket sales of $529m (£355m) in December, including $248m in the US.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2: Indie hit back bigger and Greeker than ever

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When My Big Fat Greek Wedding was released in 2002, little did anyone think the low-budget, independent film would go on to become the highest grossing romantic comedy in US box office history.

Telling the story of a Greek-American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek man - much to the annoyance of her suffocating parents - and the brash culture clash that ensues, the film was a surprise hit.

It also brought "typical" Greek culture to the mainstream, illustrated through Toula's parents desire for her to "marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day I die".

Creator Nia Vardalos says although the film was based on her own family and experience marrying a non-Greek man, she was struck by how many people found her story recognisable: "It's so wild how it translates to all cultures - no matter where, people say to me 'that's my family!'."

After many years of calls for a sequel, a follow-up has finally been made - reuniting the entire original cast including John Corbett and Lainie Kazan, as well as bringing back producers Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.

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The first film was the highest grossing romantic comedy in the US - you must be feeling the pressure to live up to those expectations.

No, because I protected myself by working with the same producers and just tried to have fun - if it's not fun, it's not worth it to me. I always think of myself as a fearless idiot and think it's always best to go into something without any expectations, but with standards.

Why did it take so long to write a sequel and were you worried too much time had passed between now and the first film?

I knew the desire was there because every project meeting I would have [with production company Playtone] would end with "Have you thought about sequel?", but the wait is completely my fault.

At the end of the first one I had written that Toula was a mother, but I believe that was wishful thinking I had written it in, because in reality I was in a very private struggle to become a mum. It took me 10 years and on my daughter's first day of kindergarten I was crying so hard people were backing away from the ethnic sobbing mother. Another mother in an effort to calm me down, and said: "Oh come on, in 13 years they'll go off to college and leave us." 

And I was struck by such panic - that's when I realised I had morphed into my own suffocating parents and in that moment I got the idea for the sequel. The overarching theme is not do we become our parents, but when do we become our parents. 

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There's no way that I have not become [Toula's father] Gus, because sitting beside my daughter watching the Olympics I was telling her how each part came from Greece - and my husband was eye-rolling me and I was like "what? It's true!"

Was it easy to get all the original cast back together?

Very easy. I'm such an optimist - I wrote quietly for a long period of time by myself and then at the end of a meeting one day Playtone said to me "how about sequel?" and I said, "how about the script?" and gave it to them. They immediately said we would make it and it was [on screen husband] John Corbett's birthday that day and I got to call him and tell him the news. I said to him: "So do you feel like kissing me again?" and he said in his signature sexy John Corbett voice: "Always baby!" 

Did you all just fall into old habits like you were never apart for 10 years?

Very much so. A lot of us are really close - John is one of my closest friends. He was raised by his mum, so he's very comfortable with a woman being in charge. He is very supportive and doesn't feel emasculated at all by it. But there is parity in my scripts - the men have good character arcs and so do the women. And that's all we're asking for when men are writing screenplays - could they look at their roles and say "can that boss be a woman?".

People criticise Hollywood for lazy film-making with the current trend of sequels and remakes - what's your feeling on the issue in relation to this fiim?

Those are different because they are tent pole pictures - we are still an independent film, just released by Universal. I feel like we went against that trend in that we kept the original cast and then didn't bring in great big movie stars which usually happens with the sequel. You have to go bigger - and we went bigger and Greeker and louder, but we didn't go "Hollywood".

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What were the challenges of creating a sequel that would keep fans happy but still appeal to new audiences?

I fought against instinct to cast a named actor as our daughter. That would have financially been a good idea to cast somebody with box office appeal, but I wanted to find somebody new like the producers of the first film had done with me. And that's what happened with Elena Kampouris and she happens to be half Greek. She's a really sweet girl and her parents were on set the whole time - and by the way - so were my parents!

The film is being released the same weekend as Batman v Superman - was that a strategic decision to catch all the people that aren't interested in superhero movies?

I hope so - although I had nothing to do with the release date. But we won't be in the theatres like we were last time for a full year because we are a studio release now. So I'm begging people to go opening weekend and prove that an independent release can have a voice against the tent pole movie. 

I don't want to annihilate anyone - I want us both to do well. See, there's the Canadian middle child in me coming out!

Το «άγνωστο» Κοκκάρι της Σάμου

Μέσα σε εκατοντάδες προορισμούς της Ευρώπης, η Ελλάδα

 πάντα έχει θέση και ξεχωρίζει με τα γραφικά χωριουδάκια

 της και τις εντυπωσιακές της παραλίας.

Αυτή τη φορά, το πρακτορείο Best European Destinations ξεχώρισε το Κοκκάρι

 της Σάμου, ως κρυμμένο διαμάντι της Ευρώπης και το κατέταξε στην 3η θέση 

σχετικής λίστας.

«Η Σάμος είναι ένα νησί που κυβερνιέται από το μύθο και την ομορφιά. Είναι

 το νησί του πατέρα των μαθηματικών, Πυθαγόρα, του αστρονόμου Αρίσταρχου

 και του φιλοσόφου Επίκουρου. Είναι το σπίτι της Ηρας και η γη που φιλοξένησε

 τον Ηρόδοτο και τον Αίσωπο. Αποτέλεσε σημαντικό κέντρο εμπορίου στο Αιγαίο

 και μια μεγάλη ναυτική δύναμη κατά την αρχαιότητα, ενώ ήρθε και σε επαφή με

 σημαντικούς πολιτισμούς της Μεσογείου», σημειώνει το Best European 

Destinations.

«Η Σάμος είναι ένα μέρος με απίστευτη βλάστηση. Τα πάντα γύρω από το παρθένο

 τοπίο είναι φτιαγμένα με χρώμα και φως. Κάθε βήμα και μια αποκάλυψη. Είτε

 είναι στα επιβλητικά βουνά, όπως το Κέρκης και το Αμπελος, με αλπικές 

θερμοκρασίες τον χειμώνα και ατελείωτη βροχή, είτε στις σπηλιές, τα φαράγγια, 

το περιβάλλον της Σάμου θυμίζει την ελληνική ενδοχώρα σε μικρογραφία», προσθέτει.

Το Κοκκάρι χτίστηκε στις αρχές του 19ου αιώνα, παίρνοντας το όνομά του από το

 κοκκάρι, ένα είδος μικρού κρεμμυδιού, που καλλιεργείται στην περιοχή.

Βασική απασχόληση των κατοίκων είναι ο τουρισμός, μιας και το χωριό είναι ένα

 από τα πιο αναπτυγμένα σε αυτό τον τομέα μέρη του νησιού.

Τα όμορφα σπίτια, το μικρό γραφικό λιμάνι και οι παραλίες αποτελούν πόλο

 έλξης για τους ταξιδιώτες.

Αν το επισκεφτείτε μην παραλείψετε να επισκεφτείτε την εκκλησία του Αγίου

 Νικολάου, ενώ αν βρεθείτε εκεί στα τέλη Ιουλίου δώστε το παρών στο μεγάλο

 πανηγύρι του Αγίου Παντελεήμονα.

Boom, το αεροσκάφος που θα κάνει την πτήση Νέα Υόρκη-Λονδίνο σε 3,5 ώρες

Ταδύοπρώτα deals θα αποφέρουν πάνω από 5 δισ. δολάρια στην εταιρεία

 κατασκευής - Θα πετάει στα 60.000 πόδια

Θα ταξιδεύει με τη διπλάσια ταχύτητα του ήχου, θα είναι πιο γρήγορο από το Κονκόρντ και θα πραγματοποιεί την πτήση από τη Νέα Υόρκη στο Λονδίνο σε... 3,5 ώρες. Τουτέστιν, θα μπορεί κάποιος να πεταχτεί για ψώνια ή για δουλειές στην αμερικανική μεγαλούπολη, να απολαύσει το μεσημεριανό του στα υπέροχα εστιατόρια και να επιστρέψει στη Βρετανία, πέφτοντας για ύπνο στο κρεβάτι του. Το Boom, το νέο αεροσκάφος που παρουσιάστηκε και θα τεθεί στη διάθεση του κοινού το συντομότερο δυνατό.

Σύμφωνα με την αεροπορική εταιρεία του Ντένβερ, η οποία πέτυχε ταχύτητες 2.2 Mach, υπόσχεται πως όχι μόνο θα εξυπηρετεί τους επιχειρηματίες, αλλά θα είναι και αρκετά οικονομικό, ώστε να προσφέρεται η ευρεία χρήση του.

Οι πρώτες παραγγελίες είναι ήδη γεγονός, καθώς ο CEO της Virgin Ρίτσαρντ Μπράνσον, απέστειλε την πρόταση του για την αγορά 10 αεροσκαφών Boom, προσφέροντας 2 δισ. δολάρια. Ευρωπαϊκή αεροπορική εταιρεία, η οποία δεν κατονομάζεται, έδωσε παραγγελία για άλλα 15 αεροσκάφη. Συνολικά, οι πρώτες δύο αυτές συμφωνίες απέδωσαν στην εταιρεία ποσό μεγαλύτερο των 5 δισ. δολαρίων.

Η εταιρεία ξεκίνησε τη δραστηριότητά της με σύμβουλο τον αστροναύτη Μαρκ Κέλι και 11 στελέχη από εταιρείες όπως η Boeing και η Lockheed, αλλά και από τη NASA. Το αεροσκάφος έχει 40 θέσεις για επιχειρηματίες, προσφέροντας θέα από το παράθυρο για όλες, καθώς η πτήση θα διεξάγεται στα 60.000 πόδια ύψος!

Η απόσταση από τη Νέα Υόρκη στο Λονδίνο θα καλύπτεται σε 3 ώρες και 25 λεπτά. Από το Σαν Φραντσίσκο στο Τόκυο, θα διαρκεί 4 ώρες και 40 λεπτά και από το Λος Άντζελες στο Σίδνεϊ της Αυστραλίας, μόλις 6 ώρες. Σε πρώτη φάση, το κόστος του εισιτηρίου θα ανέρχεται σε 5.000 δολάρια 

 Τα πιο πολυτελή ρετιρέ διαμερίσματα ξενοδοχείων στον κόσμο! 

Οορισμόςτηςπολυτέλειας έχει αρχίσει -πια- να συνάδει με αυτόν της κομψότητας, δίνοντας

 ισχυρό προβάδισμα σε οτιδήποτε έχει φτιαχτεί με εκλεπτυσμένο γούστο.

Φτιάξαμε μια λίστα με τις πιο κομψές και μοντέρνες ρετιρέ σουίτες ξενοδοχείων, που δεν εξασφαλίζουν απλώς θέα, αλλά παρέχουν διαμονή σε ένα χώρο με απίστευτη διακόσμηση και λειτουργικότητα.

1. The Mark Hotel, Νέα Υόρκη

Το πιο ακριβό δωμάτιο ξενοδοχείου στον κόσμο ($ 75.000 ανά διανυκτέρευση), με πολυτελή έπιπλα Jacques Grange, τέσσερα τζάκια, έξι μπάνια, και μια βεράντα στον τελευταίο όροφο 2.500 τετραγωνικών ποδιών με μία πανοραμική όψη του Central Park.

2. The Tower Penthouse, SLS South Beach, Μαϊάμι

Lenny Kravitz και Philippe Starck συνεργάστηκαν για να διακοσμήσουν αυτό το υπέροχο ρετιρέ. Από το δάπεδο σκακιέρα και τη faux-python πολυθρόνα, μέχρι τη ντίσκο-μπάλα-πολυέλαιο και τους τοίχους όλα αποπνέουν την εκκενρικότητα του sock star.

3. The Palm Royal Bridge Suite, Atlantis, Ντουμπάι

Οι Kardashians και οι Real Housewives  του Μπέβερλι Χιλς έχουν μείνει εδώ. Αλλά μην αφήνετε να σας τρομάξει από το παλάτι αυτού του Σουλτάνου στον ουρανό. Περίτεχνα μοτίβα κλασικής αραβικής τέχνης, ταραχώδη χρώματα και ultra-luxe υλικά κάνουν αυτό τη διαμονή σε αυτό το τεράστιο κτίσμα των 10.000τμ σχεδόν παραισθησιογόνα εμπειρία. Μπορείτε να ζητήσετε προσωπικό μπάτλερ και σεφ.

4. The Bentley Suite, St. Regis, Νέα Υόρκη

Οι σχεδιαστές των St. Regis εμπνεύστηκαν από την Bentley Motors για να δημιουργήσουν μία από τις πιο διαφορετικές σουίτες στον κόσμο. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι επικό.

5. Chairman’s Villa, Crown Towers, Μελβούρνη

Ιδιωτικό γυμναστήριο για cardio προπόνηση και μια υπέροχη γκαλερί σας υποδέχονται σε μια απίστευτη σουίτα που κοστίζει περίπου $ 20.000, ανά διανυκτέρευση.

6. Ludlow Penthouse, The Ludlow Hotel, Νέα Υόρκη

Με τους χειροποίητους μαροκινούς πολυελαίους του, και τη Vintage συλλογή βινυλίου, θα αισθανθείτε περισσότερο σαν καλλιτεχνικός διευθυντής σε ένα γραφείο στο κέντρο της πόλης. Όσο για τη βεράντα 1.000τ.μ., με θέα το νέο Παγκόσμιο Κέντρο Εμπορίου και τη Γέφυρα του Μπρούκλιν, θα σας μαγέψει.

7. XL Mama, Mama Shelter, Παρίσι

Εκκεντρική και με ιδιαίτερο φωτισμό, αυτή η σουίτα διαφέρει από όλες τις άλλες. Δεν στερείται κομψότητα και γούστο.

8. The Ritz-Carlton Suite, Ritz-Carlton, Τόκιο

Πλούσια και σύγχρονη. Εξασφαλίζει θέα στους βασιλικούς κήπους και όλα τα κλινοσκεπάσματα είναι Frette.

9. Hollywood Hills View Apartment Suite, Τhe Line Hotel, Λος Άντζελες

Με θέα τους λόφους του Χόλιγουντ και διακόσμηση που παντρεύει το chic με το industrial, αυτή η σουίτα σίγουρα είναι από τις καλύτερες στον κόσμο.

10. Saatchi Suite, Hyatt Regency—The Churchill, Λονδίνο

Η Saatchi Suites αποτελεί επέκταση της Saatchi Gallery του Λονδίνου. Ο νεαρός Βρετανός καλλιτέχνης Dominic Beattie δημιούργησε τους μουσειακής ποιότητας γεωμετρικούς πίνακες, καθώς και τα μοναδικά αυτά έπιπλα που κοσμούν το χώρο.