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• 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
• 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
• 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
• 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
• 1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
• 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
• 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
• 1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
• 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
• 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
• 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
• 1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
• 1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
• 1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
• 1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
• 1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
• 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
• 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
• 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
• 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
• 1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
• 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
• 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
• 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
• 1939 – First issue of Fashizmi is published in Tirana.
• 1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
• 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
• 1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
• 1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
• 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
• 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
• 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
• 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
• 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• 1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
• 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
• 1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
• 1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
• 1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins.
• 1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
• 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
• 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
• 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
• 1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
• 1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
• 1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
• 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
• 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
• 2001 – Mountaineering: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
• 2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
• 2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
• 2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
• 2014 – At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium

Births[edit]

• 15 BC – Germanicus, Roman general (d. 19)
• 1494 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
• 1522 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
• 1544 – William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603)
• 1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (d. 1682)
• 1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
• 1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736)
• 1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1769)
• 1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793)
• 1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
• 1803 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (d. 1866)
• 1810 – Charles Clark, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
• 1810 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
• 1816 – Major John Buckley VC, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1876)
• 1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868)
• 1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
• 1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Joseph Rowntree, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1925)
• 1850 – Henry W. Grady, Journalist and orator (d. 1889)
• 1854 – John Riley Banister, American police officer (d. 1918)
• 1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1940)
• 1863 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1868 – Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956)
• 1870 – Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and judge (d. 1938)
• 1870 – Jan Smuts, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
• 1875 – Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1961)
• 1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972)
• 1879 – H. B. Reese, American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956)
• 1885 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and academic (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
• 1887 – Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
• 1891 – William F. Albright, American archeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
• 1895 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (d. 1984)
• 1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Kathleen Hale, English author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
• 1899 – Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984)
• 1900 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968)
• 1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954)
• 1902 – Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (d. 2004)
• 1903 – Milo Burcham, American pilot (d. 1944)
• 1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1909 – Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Joe Abreu, American baseball player and soldier (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Peter Ellenshaw, American special effects designer (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (d. 1986)
• 1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Maria Michi, Italian actress (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
• 1924 – Aleksander Arulaid, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 – Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1928 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (d. 2015)
• 1928 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer
• 1930 – Hans-Martin Linde, German flute player and author
• 1931 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor and singer
• 1932 – James Anderton, English police officer
• 1932 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer
• 1933 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015)
• 1933 – Christopher Staughton, English lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Barry Rose, English organist and conductor
• 1935 – Jim E. Mora, American football coach and sportscaster
• 1935 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director and screenwriter
• 1935 – Rusty York, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Harold Budd, American composer and poet
• 1937 – Timothy Brown, American football player and actor
• 1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur, French runner and educator (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Roger Peterson, American pilot (d. 1959)
• 1937 – Archie Shepp, American saxophonist and composer
• 1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 – David Viscott, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1996)
• 1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Traveling Wilburys)
• 1941 – Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English academic and politician
• 1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and academic
• 1942 – Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and manager
• 1942 – Lázár Lovász, Hungarian hammer thrower
• 1942 – Hannu Mikkola, Finnish race car driver
• 1942 – Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs
• 1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor and singer
• 1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter and actress (Labelle)
• 1945 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Steven Norris, English engineer and politician
• 1945 – Richard Ottaway, English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• 1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress and businesswoman
• 1946 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1946 – Irena Szewińska, Russian-Polish sprinter
• 1946 – Jeremy Treglown, English author, critic, and academic
• 1947 – Albert Bouchard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1947 – Mike De Leon, Filipino director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
• 1947 – Waddy Wachtel, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1947 – Martin Winterkorn, German businessman
• 1948 – Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1949 – Hubert Birkenmeier, German-American soccer player and coach
• 1949 – Jim Broadbent, English actor and screenwriter
• 1949 – Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician and academic
• 1950 – Vivian Ramsey, English engineer and judge
• 1950 – Larry Seidlin, American lawyer and judge
• 1950 – Terry Scott Taylor, American singer-songwriter and producer (Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies, and Lost Dogs)
• 1952 – Sybil Danning, Austrian actress and producer
• 1953 – Nell Campbell, Australian-American actress and singer
• 1953 – Alfred Molina, English actor
• 1953 – Klaus-Günter Stade, German footballer
• 1953 – Richard Wilson, English sculptor
• 1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Philippe Lafontaine, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Rajesh Roshan, Indian music composer
• 1955 – David Leonard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Richard B. Bernstein, American historian and academic
• 1956 – Larry Blackmon, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Cameo and Black Ivory)
• 1956 – Dominic Grieve, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
• 1956 – Michael Jackson, Irish archbishop
• 1958 – Chip Ganassi, American race car driver, team owner and businessman
• 1959 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-American ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• 1960 – Guy Fletcher, English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)
• 1960 – Bill Harrigan, Australian rugby league referee and sportscaster
• 1960 – Doug Jones, American actor
• 1960 – Paul McCreesh, English conductor
• 1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• 1961 – Show Aikawa, Japanese actor
• 1961 – Lorella Cedroni, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2013)
• 1961 – Alain Lemieux, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican-American boxer (d. 2012)
• 1962 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Ivan Capelli, Italian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1963 – Michael Chabon, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Joe Dumars, American basketball player
• 1963 – Rich Rodriguez, American football player and coach
• 1964 – Liz McColgan, Scottish educator and runner
• 1964 – Adrian Moorhouse, English swimmer
• 1964 – Isidro Pérez, Mexican boxer (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1965 – Jens Becker, German bass player (Grave Digger, Running Wild, and X-Wild)
• 1965 – John C. Reilly, American actor
• 1965 – Shinichirō Watanabe, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Eric Cantona, French footballer, manager, and actor
• 1966 – Ricky Craven, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1966 – Russell Kun, Nauruan lawyer and politician
• 1967 – Andrey Borodin, Russian-English economist and businessman
• 1967 – Eric Close, American actor and director
• 1967 – Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2011)
• 1967 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
• 1967 – Steven Shane McDonald, American bass player and actor (Redd Kross, Off!, and Green and Yellow TV)
• 1967 – Bruno Putzulu, French actor
• 1968 – Charles De'Ath, English actor
• 1968 – Mo Willems, American author and illustrator
• 1969 – Martin McCague, Northern Irish-English cricketer
• 1969 – Jacob Rees-Mogg, English politician
• 1969 – Rich Robinson, American guitarist and songwriter (The Black Crowes)
• 1970 – Tommy Page, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1971 – Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1972 – Layne Beachley, Australian surfer
• 1972 – Greg Berlanti, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Rodrigo, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1973 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer, dancer, producer, and actress
• 1973 – Bartolo Colón, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1973 – Shirish Kunder, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Dermot O'Leary, English radio and television host
• 1973 – Hallgeir Pedersen, Norwegian guitarist
• 1973 – Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer and manager
• 1974 – Sébastien Foucan, French runner and actor
• 1974 – Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1974 – Magnus Manske, German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki
• 1974 – Will Sasso, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Marc Gagnon, Canadian speed skater
• 1975 – Giannis Goumas, Greek footballer and coach
• 1975 – Maria Lawson, English singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Alessandro Cortini, Italian-American singer and keyboard player (Modwheelmood, SONOIO, Blindoldfreak, and Nine Inch Nails)
• 1976 – Catherine Cox, New Zealand-Australian netball player
• 1976 – Bob Maesen, Belgian canoe racer
• 1977 – Prince Poppycock, American tenor
• 1977 – Kym Valentine, Australian actress
• 1978 – Elijah Burke, American wrestler
• 1978 – Brian Ching, American soccer player and coach
• 1978 – Bryan Greenberg, American actor and singer
• 1978 – Johan Holmqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1978 – Jo Joyner, English actress
• 1978 – Brad Penny, American baseball player
• 1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
• 1979 – Kareem McKenzie, American football player
• 1980 – Jason Babin, American football player
• 1980 – Owen Benjamin, American comedian and actor
• 1980 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1980 – Jenn Korbee, American singer and actress (Hi-5)
• 1980 – Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 – Sayaka Ando, Japanese model
• 1981 – Markéta Jánská, Czech-American model and actress
• 1981 – Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 – Rian Wallace, American football player
• 1983 – Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 – Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
• 1983 – Ricky Mabe, Canadian actor and director
• 1983 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (d. 2009)
• 1984 – Sarah Hagan, American actress
• 1984 – Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Brodney Pool, American football player
• 1984 – Ryan Wieber, American director and special effects designer
• 1985 – Tim Bridgman, English race car driver
• 1985 – Kenjiro Yamashita, Japanese dancer and actor (Sandaime J Soul Brothers)
• 1986 – Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor (Ballas Hough Band)
• 1986 – Giannis Kontoes, Greek footballer
• 1987 – Déborah François, Belgian actress
• 1987 – Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Aiko Orgla, Estonian footballer
• 1987 – Matt Prior, Australian rugby player
• 1988 – Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Monica Lin Brown, American sergeant
• 1988 – Kimberley Crossman, New Zealand actress and dancer
• 1988 – Billy Gilman, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Andrew Jordan, English race car driver
• 1991 – Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer (Cute and ZYX)
• 1992 – Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
• 1993 – Oliver Davis, American actor
• 1993 – Rait-Riivo Laane, Estonian basketball player
• 1994 – Cayden Boyd, American actor
• 1994 – Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer

Deaths[edit]

• 1153 – David I of Scotland (b. 1083)
• 1201 – Theobald III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179)
• 1351 – Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman, Moroccan sultan (b. 1297)
• 1408 – Taejo of Joseon (b. 1335)
• 1425 – Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1362)
• 1456 – Ambroise de Loré, French commander (b. 1396)
• 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
• 1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1563)
• 1627 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561)
• 1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
• 1725 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)
• 1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
• 1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723)
• 1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
• 1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 – Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 – John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1941 – Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
• 1959 – John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
• 1960 – Avraham Arnon, Belarusian-Israeli educator (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908)
• 1972 – Ismail Yassine, Egyptian actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 – Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 – Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1981 – A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1916)
• 1984 – Vince McMahon, Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Byrds and Dillard & Clark) (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1992 – Joan Sanderson, English actress (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 – Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish-American actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
• 2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Rachel Kempson, English-American actress (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900)
• 2005 – Carl Amery, German activist and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Guy Tardif, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Jesús Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican murderer (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Dick Martin, American actor and director (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Wilco) (b. 1963)
• 2010 – Ray Alan, English ventriloquist, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Tapen Chatterjee, Indian actor (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Paul Gray, American bass player and songwriter (Slipknot and Unida) (b. 1972)
• 2010 – Raymond V. Haysbert, American businessman and activist (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Petr Muk, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Barbara New, English actress (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German soprano and actress (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Huguette Clark, French-American painter and philanthropist (b. 1906)
• 2011 – Hakim Ali Zardari Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Klaas Carel Faber Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark, American journalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Jacqueline Harpman, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Juan Francisco Lombardo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Mark McConnell, American drummer (Madam X and Blackfoot) (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Ndombe Opetum, Congolese singer-songwriter (TPOK Jazz) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Lee Rich, American production manager and producer (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Gotthard Graubner, German painter (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist and historian (b. 1932)
• 2013 – John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2014 – David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, Iranian businessman (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Knowlton Nash, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 2014 – John Vasconcellos, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Dean Carroll, English rugby player (b. 1962)
• 2015 – Kenneth Jacobs, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Tanith Lee, English author (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Daniel Meltzer, American lawyer and academic (b. 1951)

Paul McCartney: 'I was depressed after the Beatles broke up'

Sir Paul McCartney has talked candidly about the depression he suffered after The Beatles broke up, confessing he considered giving up music altogether.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes, he said he had been at a loss when the band fell apart in acrimony in 1970.

"It was difficult to know what to do after The Beatles. How do you follow that?" he told John Wilson.

"I was depressed. You would be. You were breaking from your lifelong friends. So I took to the bevvies."

The Beatles officially split in 1970 with the release of Let It Be, but the seeds of their demise were sown a year earlier, when the band appointed Allen Klein as their manager, against Sir Paul's wishes.

Although Klein helped restructure the band's loss-making business, Apple, he also took a hefty share of their profits, and gave his own company the rights to press The Beatles' records in the US.

He further angered Sir Paul by hiring Phil Spector to overdub a choir, orchestra and additional drums on to Let It Be; and attempted to make EMI delay the release of the star's first solo album.

In order to divest himself of Klein's influence, Sir Paul had to sue his bandmates. The legal fall-out was the caustic agent that finally broke his bond with John Lennon. 

"The business thing split us apart," said Sir Paul, adding that all the "heavy meetings" were "doing my head in".

He became so depressed that he did not know "whether I was still going to continue in music". 

Eventually, he moved to Scotland - partly to make himself unavailable for the business meetings - and hit the bottle.

"I was far gone," he said. "It was Linda who said, 'you've got to get it together...' and that led to Wings."

"I liked the idea of a band. I wanted to go back to square one."

However, he admitted: "We were terrible. We weren't a good group. People said, 'Linda can't play keyboards,' and it was true.

"But John couldn't play guitar when we started [The Beatles]."

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Mastertapes was recorded in Studio 3 of the BBC's historic Maida Vale, where the Beatles taped numerous radio sessions in the 1960s.

Among the audience were Brad Pitt, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher, Martin Freeman, James Bay and Simon Pegg, as well as 100 members of the public, many of whom were able to put questions to Sir Paul.

Sir Paul talked about the writing of solo songs including Maybe I'm Amazed, Coming Up and Dance Tonight, as well as his Band on The Run and Sgt Pepper's.

The conversation also covered his recent collaborations with Kanye West, revealing: "We never appeared to write a song. A lot of what we did was just telling each other stories."

"People says he's eccentric... which you'd have to agree with."

And Sir Paul discussed how his relationship with John Lennon had improved in the months before the star's untimely death in 1980.

"I would make calls to John occasionally," he said. "We just talked kids and baking bread."

Sir Paul McCartney's Mastertapes interview is available now on the BBC iPlayerand Red Button. It will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this Saturday, 28 May.

Obama dines with CNN's Anthony Bourdain for series

President Barack Obama greets women at the door as he walks from the Bún ch? Huong Liên restaurant after having dinner

 with American Chef Anthony Bourdain, Monday, May 23, 2016, in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Billboard Awards steered 

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but also from excitement

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Πώς να φτιάξεις παγωτό με ένα μόνο υλικό!

Το παγωτό είναι μια καλοκαιρινή υπόθεση που τείνει να γίνει αγαπημένη συνήθεια όλες τις εποχές. Φυσικά και όλες μας θέλουμε να εντυπωσιάσουμε φτιάχνοντας το δικό μας παγωτό και για έναν παραπάνω λόγο: μπορούμε να έχουμε απόλυτο έλεγχο των συστατικών και των θερμίδων. Όπως ξέρεις, το παγωτό αποτελείται κατά κύριο λόγο από γάλα και άλλα συστατικά όπως αυγό, κρέμα γάλακτος, κακάο κ.ο.κ. Επίσης πάντα αναζητάς μια πολύ εύκολη συνταγή για παγωτό γιατί δεν σκοπεύεις να περάσεις ώρες ατελείωτες στην κουζίνα!

Ήρθε η ώρα να σου δώσουμε ένα πολύτιμο χέρι βοήθειας και να σου ανατρέψουμε το... κατεστημένο του γάλακτος! Ναι, το παγωτό μπορεί να φτιάχνεται πανεύκολα, με μόνο ένα υλικό και αυτό ΔΕΝ είναι το γάλα! Αυτό το παγωτό λοιπόν ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΟΡΜΠΕ! Επίσης είναι ιδανικό για όποιον έχει δυσανεξία στη λακτόζη (παιδί ή ενήλικα) ή όποιον ακολουθεί χορτοφαγική διατροφή. Και φυσικά είναι απόλυτα οικονομικό αφού χρειάζεσαι μόνο ένα υλικό!

Ναι, καλά κατάλαβες, έχει μόνο ένα υλικό και αυτό είναι η μαγική... μπανάνα! Δες βήμα-βήμα πώς να φτιάξεις το πιο δροσερό παγωτό του καλοκαιριού!


ΥΛΙΚΑ
Θα χρειαστείς μόνο δύο ώριμες (σχεδόν μαυρισμένες μπανάνες). Η ποσότητα μπορεί να αυξηθεί ανάλογα με το πόσο παγωτό θέλεις να φτιάξεις!

ΒΗΜΑ 1ο

Κόψε τις μπανάνες σου σε λεπτές φετούλες και βάλ'τες σε ένα τάπερ ή μπολ που να σκεπάζει και να μπαίνει στην κατάψυξη.

ΒΗΜΑ 2ο

Βάλε τις μπανάνες σου στην κατάψυξη τουλάχιστον 2 ώρες και ιδανικά όλο το βράδυ.

ΒΗΜΑ 3ο

Βάλε τις μπανάνες στο μούλτι παγωμένες και ξεκίνα να τις πολτοποιείς.


Οι μπανάνες θα αρχίσουν να λιώνουν και να γίνονται πουρές.


Αν χρειαστεί ξεκόλλα με μια σπάτουλα τη μπανάνα από τα τοιχώματα του μούλτι και συνέχισε να χτυπάς.


Χτύπα μέχρι οι μπανάνες να γίνουν μια ομοιόμορφη απαλή κρέμα όπως στη φωτογραφία.

ΒΗΜΑ 4ο

Βγάλε την κρέμα σε ένα τάπερ ή μπολ κατάλληλο για κατάψυξη. Σκέπασέ το και βάλε το στην κατάψυξη μέχρι να σκληρύνει ελαφρά και να γίνει  όπως το παγωτό.


Σέρβιρέ το παγωμένο πασπαλίζοντας με λίγη κανέλα!

EXTRA ΥΛΙΚΑΕννοείται πως αν θέλεις να επεκτείνεις τη συνταγή μπορείς να προσθέσεις διάφορα υλικά μέσα στο παγωτό σου πριν το βάλεις στην κατάψυξη. Μερικά από αυτά είναι:

• Λίγο μέλι
• Φυστικοβούτυρο (πρόσθεσέ το την ώρα που χτυπάς τις μπανάνες)
• Αμύγδαλα
• Κακάο (πρόσθεσέ το την ώρα που χτυπάς τις μπανάνες)
• Κανέλα, κάρδαμο ή τζίντζερ
• Ψιλοκομμένα μπισκότα

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• 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
• 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
• 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
• 1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
• 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
• 1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
• 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
• 1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
• 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
• 1809 – Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin American wars of independence.
• 1810 – May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1819 – The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
• 1833 – The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
• 1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for governmental reforms.
• 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
• 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• 1895 – The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
• 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
• 1914 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
• 1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
• 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
• 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
• 1940 – World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
• 1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
• 1950 – Public transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
• 1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
• 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
• 1955 – In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
• 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
• 1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
• 1961 – The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
• 1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
• 1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
• 1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
• 1966 – The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
• 1967 – Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
• 1968 – The Gateway Arch in Saint Louis is dedicated.
• 1973 – HNS Velos, while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
• 1977 – Star Wars is released in theaters.
• 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
• 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
• 1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
• 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
• 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 1986 – Hands Across America takes place.
• 1993 – International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is fornded.
• 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
• 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
• 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (except for the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 22 years after its invasion in 1978.
• 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
• 2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
• 2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
• 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
• 2012 – The Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
• 2013 – Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
• 2013 – A gas cylinder explodes on a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people.

Births[edit]

• 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of Song (d. 1085)
• 1334 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (d. 1398)
• 1458 – Mahmud Begada, Indian sultan (d. 1511)
• 1572 – Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1632)
• 1606 – Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
• 1661 – Claude Buffier, Polish-French historian and philosopher (d. 1737)
• 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician, 31st Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island (d. 1776)
• 1749 – Gregorio Funes, Argentinian priest, historian, and academic (d. 1829)
• 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American farmer and politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1841)
• 1791 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1841)
• 1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1873)
• 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and philosopher (d. 1882)
• 1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (d. 1897)
• 1818 – Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, French essayist and biographer (d. 1882)
• 1830 – Trebor Mai (né Robert Williams), Welsh poet (d. 1877)
• 1845 – Lip Pike, American baseball player and manager (d. 1893)
• 1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian-Turkish poet and translator (d. 1900)
• 1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
• 1848 – Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, educator, and publisher (d. 1924)
• 1852 – William Muldoon, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1933)
• 1856 – Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (d. 1942)
• 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (d. 1944)
• 1865 – John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
• 1867 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (d. 1950)
• 1869 – Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist, art critic and Oscar Wilde friend and literary executor (d. 1918)
• 1869 – Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator (d. 1936)
• 1877 – Billy Murray, American singer and actor (d. 1954)
• 1878 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (d. 1949)
• 1879 – Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1964)
• 1879 – William Stickney, American golfer (d. 1944)
• 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist and academic (d. 1967)
• 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
• 1883 – Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and activist (d. 1945)
• 1886 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American miner and labor leader (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (d. 1968)
• 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1969)
• 1889 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (d. 1941)
• 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (d. 1972)
• 1897 – Gene Tunney, American boxer and soldier (d. 1978)
• 1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (d. 1971)
• 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, author, and flute player (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet and author (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Binnie Barnes, English-American actress and singer (d. 1998)
• 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Theodore Roethke, American poet and academic (d. 1963)
• 1909 – Alfred Kubel, German politician, 5th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Marie Menken, American actress, director, and painter (d. 1970)
• 1912 – Princess Deokhye of Korea (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (d. 1957)
• 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and producer (d. 1965)
• 1916 – Brian Dickson, Canadian captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
• 1917 – Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Archduchess Dorothea of Austria (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Kitty Kallen, American singer and actress (d. 2016)
• 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
• 1924 – István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (d. 1974)
• 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Eldon Griffiths, English journalist and politician (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Don Liddle, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1926 – William Bowyer, English painter and academic (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author and poet (d. 2009)
• 1926 – David Wynne, English sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Robert Ludlum, American soldier and author (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Norman Petty, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1984)
• 1929 – Warren Frost, American actor
• 1929 – Ann Robinson, American actress
• 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Herb Gray, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Georgy Grechko, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1931 – Aili Jõgi, Estonian activist
• 1931 – Irwin Winkler, American director and producer
• 1932 – Roger Bowen, American actor and author (d. 1996)
• 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2003)
• 1932 – K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach
• 1932 – Steve Rossi, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Romuald Klim, Belarusian hammer thrower (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Sarah Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Basdeo Panday, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• 1933 – Ray Spencer, English footballer
• 1933 – Jógvan Sundstein, Faroese accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1935 – John Ffowcs Williams, Welsh engineer and academic
• 1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player (d. 2011)
• 1935 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian author and poet
• 1935 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (d. 1988)
• 1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Tom Phillips, English painter and academic
• 1938 – Raymond Carver, American author and poet (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Margaret Forster, English historian, author, and critic (d. 2016)
• 1938 – Malcolm Innes of Edingight
• 1938 – Geoffrey Robinson, English businessman and politician
• 1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor and screenwriter
• 1940 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer
• 1941 – Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova
• 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1943 – John Palmer, English keyboard player (Family, Eclection, and Blossom Toes)
• 1943 – Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer
• 1944 – Digby Anderson, English journalist and philosopher
• 1944 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1944 – John Bunnell, American police officer, television host, and actor
• 1944 – Charlie Harper, English singer-songwriter and producer (U.K. Subs)
• 1944 – Robert MacPherson, American mathematician and academic
• 1944 – Frank Oz, English-American puppeteer, voice actor, and director
• 1944 – Chris Ralston, English rugby player
• 1946 – Bill Adam, Scottish-Canadian race car driver
• 1946 – David A. Hargrave, American game designer, created Arduin (d. 1988)
• 1947 – Mitch Margo, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Tokens)
• 1947 – Karen Valentine, American actress
• 1947 – Catherine G. Wolf, American psychologist and computer scientist
• 1948 – Bülent Arınç, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1948 – Marianne Elliott, Northern Irish historian, author, and academic
• 1948 – Klaus Meine, German singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scorpions)
• 1948 – Bob Shearer, Australian golfer and architect
• 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist and essayist
• 1949 – Barry Windsor-Smith, English painter and illustrator
• 1951 – Bob Gale, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Jeffrey Bewkes, American businessman
• 1952 – Nick Fotiu, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1952 – David Jenkins, Trinidadian-Scottish runner
• 1952 – Al Sarrantonio, American author and publisher
• 1952 – Gordon H. Smith, American businessman and politician
• 1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright and producer
• 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1953 – Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and illustrator
• 1953 – D. A. Weibring, American golfer
• 1954 – Murali, Indian actor, producer, and politician (d. 2009)
• 1955 – Alistair Burt, English lawyer and politician
• 1955 – Connie Sellecca, American model, actress, and producer
• 1956 – Stavros Arnaoutakis, Greek politician
• 1956 – Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese wrestler
• 1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer and producer (d. 2010)
• 1956 – David P. Sartor, American composer and conductor
• 1957 – Alastair Campbell, English journalist and author
• 1957 – Edward Lee, American author
• 1957 – Robert Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Hillary B. Smith, American actress and producer
• 1958 – Katerina Batzeli, Greek politician
• 1958 – Zahida Manzoor, English businesswoman
• 1958 – Paul Weller, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Jam and The Style Council)
• 1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1959 – Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
• 1959 – Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
• 1962 – Carolyn Kawasaki, American entertainer
• 1962 – Ric Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1963 – George Hickenlooper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
• 1964 – Ivan Bella, Slovak colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1964 – David Shaw, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1964 – Ray Stevenson, Northern Irish actor
• 1965 – Yahya Jammeh, Gambian colonel and politician, President of the Gambia
• 1966 – Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
• 1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
• 1967 – Mark Rosewater, American screenwriter and illustrator
• 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player, boxer, and sportscaster
• 1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth, Eidolon, and King Diamond)
• 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Stacy London, American journalist and author
• 1970 – Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1970 – Sandra Dopfer, Austrian tennis player
• 1970 – Joey Eischen, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Octavia Spencer, American actress
• 1970 – Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1971 – Stefano Baldini, Italian runner
• 1971 – Marco Cappato, Italian politician
• 1971 – Justin Henry, American actor
• 1972 – Hikari Ishida, Japanese actress
• 1972 – Karan Johar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer (Tha Dogg Pound)
• 1973 – Al-Saadi Gaddafi, Libyan footballer
• 1973 – Demetri Martin, American actor and comedian
• 1973 – Molly Sims, American model and actress
• 1974 – Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1974 – Frank Klepacki, American drummer and composer (Home Cookin' and I Am)
• 1974 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer
• 1976 – Tarik Glenn, American football player
• 1976 – Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
• 1976 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
• 1976 – Sandra Nasić, German singer (Guano Apes)
• 1976 – Erki Pütsep, Estonian cyclist
• 1976 – Marcelo José da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor
• 1976 – Miguel Zepeda, Mexican footballer
• 1977 – Karthi, Indian actor and singer
• 1977 – Andre Anis, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – Alberto Del Rio, Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
• 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American soccer player
• 1979 – Sayed Moawad, Egyptian footballer
• 1979 – Caroline Ouellette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1979 – Sam Sodje, English-Nigerian footballer
• 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
• 1980 – Joe King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fray)
• 1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
• 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
• 1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 – Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
• 1982 – Roger Guerreiro, Polish footballer
• 1982 – Justin Hodges, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan runner
• 1982 – Jason Kubel, American baseball player
• 1982 – Stacey Pensgen, American figure skater and meteorologist
• 1982 – Luke Webster, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Tiago Cardoso Fonseca Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Aleksandr Petrov, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Luke Ball, Australian footballer
• 1984 – Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – A. J. Foyt IV, American race car driver
• 1984 – Shawne Merriman, American football player
• 1984 – Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter and actress (M2M)
• 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model and actress, Miss World 2005
• 1985 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress (2B)
• 1985 – Demba Ba, French footballer
• 1985 – Gert Kams, Estonian footballer
• 1985 – Tuğba Daşdemir Kocaağa, Turkish skier and coach
• 1985 – Roman Reigns, American football player and wrestler
• 1986 – Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 – Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
• 1986 – Neon Hitch, English singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Takahiro Hōjō, Japanese actor and musician
• 1986 – Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
• 1986 – Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer
• 1987 – Moritz Stehling, German footballer
• 1987 – Daisuke Ueda, Japanese model
• 1988 – Elle Fowler, American blogger
• 1988 – Dávid Škutka, Slovak footballer
• 1988 – Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
• 1989 – Karel Tammjärv, Estonian skier
• 1990 – Bo Dallas, American wrestler
• 1990 – Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Jillian Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1993 – James Porter, English cricketer
• 1994 – Nanase Nishino, Japanese singer and model (Nogizaka46)
• 1994 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast
• 1999 – Brec Bassinger, American actress.

Deaths[edit]

• 615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)
• 675 – Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 652)
• 709 – Aldhelm, English-Latin bishop, poet, and scholar (b. 639)
• 992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b. 935)
• 1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020)
• 1261 – Pope Alexander IV (b. 1185)
• 1452 – John Stafford, English archbishop and politician
• 1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508)
• 1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
• 1595 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (b. 1567)
• 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b. 1515)
• 1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
• 1667 – Gustaf Bonde, Finnish-Swedish politician, 5th Lord High Treasurer of Sweden (b. 1620)
• 1681 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1600)
• 1693 – Madame de La Fayette, French author (b. 1634)
• 1741 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German bishop and theologian (b. 1660)
• 1786 – Peter III of Portugal (b. 1717)
• 1789 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1751)
• 1797 – John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1719)
• 1805 – William Paley, English priest and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)
• 1849 – Benjamin D'Urban, English general and politician, Governor of British Guiana (b. 1777)
• 1895 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (b. 1822)
• 1899 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
• 1912 – Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
• 1917 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 1919 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
• 1919 – Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
• 1924 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1889)
• 1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (b. 1879)
• 1927 – Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1876)
• 1930 – Randall Davidson, Scottish-English archbishop (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer, and educator (b. 1874)
• 1937 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859)
• 1939 – Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1940 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1873)
• 1942 – Emanuel Feuermann, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (b. 1902)
• 1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (b. 1888)
• 1946 – Marcel Petiot, French physician (b. 1897)
• 1948 – Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (b. 1901)
• 1951 – Paula von Preradović, Croatian poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and journalist (b. 1913)
• 1957 – Leo Goodwin, American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (b. 1883)
• 1968 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1970 – Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author (b. 1932)
• 1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1979 – Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 – John Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
• 1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Jean Rougeau, Canadian wrestler and manager (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1986 – Chester Bowles, American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Élie Bayol, French race car driver (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player and coach, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 1996 (b. 1948)
• 1995 – Dany Robin, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Bradley Nowell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sublime) (b. 1968)
• 2000 – Nicholas Clay, English actor (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Alberto Korda, Cuban photographer (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American singer and guitarist (The Mars Volta and De Facto) (b. 1976)
• 2003 – Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing Company (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Graham Kennedy, Australian actor and game show host (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Laurie Bartram, American actress and dancer (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1931)
• 2008 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman, founded Simplot (b. 1909)
• 2008 – Camu Tao, American rapper and producer (The Weathermen) (b. 1977)
• 2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)
• 2010 – Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Michael H. Jordan, American businessman (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Alan Hickinbotham, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Siphiwo Ntshebe, South African tenor (b. 1975)
• 2010 – Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Jarvis Williams, American football player and coach (b. 1965)
• 2011 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1944)
• 2012 – R. Dilip, Indian actor (b. 1955)
• 2012 – William Hanley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Peter D. Sieruta, American author and critic (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Beatrice Sparks, American therapist and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Lou Watson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Tyrone Brunson, American singer (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Gene Burns, American radio host (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Mahendra Karma, Indian politician (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Marshall Lytle, American bass player and songwriter (Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars) (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (b. 1953)
• 2014 – David Allen, English cricketer (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Bertha Gilkey, American activist (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Herb Jeffries, American singer and actor (b. 1913)
• 2014 – Toaripi Lauti, Tuvaluan educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Matthew Saad Muhammad, American boxer and trainer (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Bunny Yeager, American model and photographer (b. 1929)
• 2015 – George Braden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of the Northwest Territories (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer and journalist (b. 1940)
• 2015 – John M. Murphy, American soldier and politician (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Bill O'Herlihy, Irish sportscaster (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Wallace Sampson, American physician and critic (b. 1930)