Ο Μαραθώνιος της Αθήνας γιορτάζει

 τα 120 χρόνια της αναβίωσης

 των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων

Ο «Μαραθώνιος Αθήνας, ο Αυθεντικός» γιορτάζει φέτος τα 120 χρόνια από την αναβίωση των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων και την πρώτη διοργάνωση Μαραθωνίου Δρόμου ως αθλητικό γεγονός.

Ήταν η πέμπτη μέρα των Πρώτων Σύγχρονων Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων, όταν θεσμοθετήθηκε και διεξήχθη ο πρώτος, σύγχρονος, Ολυμπιακός Μαραθώνιος με τον Πιέρ ντε Κουμπερτέν να αναφωνεί στο νικητή Σπύρο Λούη “Σήμερα έγραψες ιστορία”. Ο θρίαμβος αυτός του Έλληνα πρώτου Χρυσού Ολυμπιονίκη Μαραθωνίου Δρόμου, παραμένει ακόμα και σήμερα μια από τις κορυφαίες στιγμές των Αγώνων, με το Μαραθώνιο να αναγνωρίζεται ευρέως ως μια από τις κορωνίδες των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων λόγω της μεγάλης σύνδεσής του με την ιστορία της Αρχαίας Ελλάδας.

Το 2016, 120 χρόνια μετά, ο Μαραθώνιος Αθήνας και το Παναθηναϊκό Στάδιο αποτελούν σημεία αναφοράς του παγκόσμιου Μαραθώνιου Κινήματός και του σύγχρονου αθλητισμού. Ο Μαραθώνιος Αθήνας είναι ο απόλυτος τελικός προορισμός κάθε δρομέα από οπουδήποτε στο κόσμο, που τρέχοντας επί της αυθεντικής Μαραθώνιας διαδρομής αποτίνει φόρο τιμής στην ιστορία. Με την αφορμή της επετείου 120 χρόνων Μαραθωνίου, η συμμετοχή στον Μαραθώνιο Αθήνας και ο τερματισμός στο Παναθηναϊκό Στάδιο αποκτούν ακόμα μεγαλύτερη αξία.

Στις 13 Νοεμβρίου 2016, ο ΣΕΓΑΣ και η Ελληνική Ολυμπιακή Επιτροπή τιμούν την 120η επέτειο του Μαραθωνίου διοργανώνοντας ένα πολύ ξεχωριστό γεγονός ακριβώς πριν τον τερματισμό των νικητών του 34ου Μαραθωνίου Αθήνας. Σας καλούν όλους να βρεθείτε στο Παναθηναϊκό Στάδιο, είτε ως δρομείς είτε ως θεατές για να γιορτάσουμε μια μοναδική επέτειο, παρακολουθώντας τις εορταστικές εκδηλώσεις, μαζί με περισσότερους από 50.000 άλλους θεατές και από όλα τα μήκη και πλάτη της γης.

Μένουν λίγες θέσεις για τον απογευματινό αγώνα 5 χλμ.

Θυμίζουμε ότι για τους πρωινούς αγώνες 5 και 10 χλμ. έχουν κλείσει οι συμμετοχές, ωστόσο υπάρχουν μερικές ακόμα θέσεις για τον απογευματινό αγώνα των 5 χλμ (με ώρα εκκίνησης 16.00).

Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι καλούνται να προχωρήσουν με την υποβολή της αίτησης συμμετοχής τους μέσω της επίσημης ιστοσελίδας του Μαραθωνίου Αθήνας, www.athensauthenticmarathon.gr

• 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
• 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
• 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
• 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
• 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
• 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
• 1857 – The 19 June 1857 law (Loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne): A turning point in the history of the Landes forest.
• 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
• 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
• 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
• 1911 – the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
• 1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
• 1917 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917.
• 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• 1936 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1936.
• 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
• 1949 -- The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
• 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
• 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
• 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
• 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
• 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
• 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
• 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
• 2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
• 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
• 2009 – War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
• 2010 – The Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling was held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
• 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
• 2014 – Felipe VI, Prince of Asturias, rises to the Spanish throne following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.

Births[edit]

• 1301 – Prince Morikuni of Japan (d. 1333)
• 1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)
• 1606 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
• 1633 – Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (d. 1712)
• 1701 – François Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1775)
• 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1850)
• 1771 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)
• 1776 – Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1842)
• 1783 – Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)
• 1792 – Gustav Schwab, German pastor and author (d. 1850)
• 1793 – Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1882)
• 1795 – James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (d. 1872)
• 1816 – William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
• 1834 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
• 1840 – Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)
• 1843 – Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (d. 1929)
• 1845 – Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1904)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
• 1850 – David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1851 – Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (d. 1893)
• 1854 – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933)
• 1854 – Eleanor Norcross, American painter (d. 1923)
• 1855 – George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (d. 1917)
• 1858 – Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
• 1861 – Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
• 1865 – May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
• 1869 – Mamah Borthwick, American librarian and translator (d. 1914)
• 1871 – Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)
• 1872 – Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
• 1875 – William Courtenay, American actor (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1879 – Martha Mattox, American actress (d. 1933)
• 1881 – Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (d.1970)
• 1884 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (d. 1974)
• 1886 – Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (d. 1940)
• 1888 – Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)
• 1891 – John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (d. 1968)
• 1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1940)
• 1896 – Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
• 1898 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (d. 1968)
• 1900 – Laura Z. Hobson, American author (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1903 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
• 1905 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
• 1910 – Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
• 1912 – George Spitz, American high jumper (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Helene Madison, American swimmer (d. 1970)
• 1914 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys and Nashville Grass) (d. 1979)
• 1914 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Anthony of Sourozh, Swiss-English bishop and theologian (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Pat Buttram, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Pauline Kael, American author and critic (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Dave Lambert, American singer-songwriter (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) (d. 1966)
• 1920 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo
• 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Cornelius, Estonian metropolitan
• 1924 – Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Charlie Drake, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons and Four Lovers)
• 1928 – Elizabeth Connelly, American politician (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Nancy Marchand, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1928 – K. H. Scheer, German author (d. 1991)
• 1928 – Barry Took, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Thelma Barlow, English actress
• 1930 – Bryan Kneale, Manx sculptor and academic
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1932 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
• 1932 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian-American actress and singer
• 1933 – Michael M. Ames, Canadian anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1934 – Terence Clark, English soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Iraq
• 1934 – Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1936 – Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress
• 1936 – Shirley Goodman, American singer (Shirley & Company) (d. 2005)
• 1937 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Canadian director and cinematographer
• 1938 – Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Beth Phinney, Canadian educator and politician
• 1938 – John Sheil, English lawyer and judge
• 1938 – Cheng-Wen Wu, Taiwanese biochemist and academic
• 1938 – Ian Smith, Australian actor and screenwriter
• 1939 – Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager
• 1939 – John F. MacArthur, American minister and theologian
• 1939 – Michael Standing, English actor
• 1939 – Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Shirley Muldowney, American race car driver
• 1940 – Paul Shane, English actor and singer (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino lawyer and jurist
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
• 1942 – Jos Brink, Dutch actor and producer (d. 2007)
• 1942 – Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Peter Bardens, English keyboard player and songwriter (Camel, Them, and Mirage) (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (d. 2008)
• 1945 – John Hind, English bishop and theologian
• 1945 – Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist.
• 1946 – Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager
• 1946 – Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France
• 1947 – Linda Myers, American archer
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English author and academic
• 1947 – John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
• 1948 – Nick Drake, Burmese-English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
• 1948 – Barry Hearn, English accountant and businessman
• 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, American actress
• 1950 – Constance Forslund, American actress
• 1950 – Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian
• 1950 – Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Heart)
• 1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
• 1951 – Patty Larkin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
• 1951 – Karen Young, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1952 – Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
• 1953 – Larry Dunn, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• 1953 – Hilary Jones, English physician, television host and media personality
• 1953 – Simon Wright, English drummer (AC/DC, Dio, and UFO)
• 1954 – Mike O'Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1955 – Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner
• 1955 – Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Danny Chauncey, American guitarist (38 Special)
• 1956 – Doug Stone, American singer and actor
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
• 1957 – Jean Rabe, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (DeBarge)
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
• 1960 – Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic
• 1960 – Johnny Gray, American runner and coach
• 1960 – Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Union, Terraplane, and Thunder)
• 1960 – Patti Rizzo, American golfer
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1962 – Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
• 1962 – Peter Bradshaw, English author and critic
• 1963 – Katia Cardenal, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter
• 1963 – Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
• 1963 – Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot
• 1964 – Bill Barretta, American actor and puppeteer
• 1964 – Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager
• 1964 – Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, British journalist and politician, Mayor of London
• 1964 – Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Verve Pipe)
• 1965 – Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
• 1965 – Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
• 1966 – Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
• 1966 – Samuel West, English actor and director
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman
• 1968 – Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic
• 1969 – Thomas Breitling, American journalist and businessman
• 1969 – Lara Spencer, American journalist
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian lawyer and politician
• 1970 – Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player
• 1970 – Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Korn and Love and Death)
• 1971 – Chris Armstrong, English footballer
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
• 1972 – Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish singer-songwriter (Refused, AC4, Invasionen, and The (International) Noise Conspiracy)
• 1972 – Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian-American actress
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actress
• 1973 – Jahine Arnold, American football player
• 1973 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume and Dream Morning Musume)
• 1973 – Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 – Geoff Ramsey, American voice actor and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth
• 1976 – Scott Avett, American singer-songwriter, banjo player, guitarist, and pianist (The Avett Brothers)
• 1976 – Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
• 1976 – Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager
• 1976 – Abdoul Thiam, German footballer
• 1976 – Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1977 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (d. 2007)
• 1977 – Rebecca Loos, Spanish-Dutch model and television host
• 1977 – Peter Warrick, American football player
• 1978 – Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
• 1978 – Mía Maestro, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1978 – Assefa Mezgebu, Ethiopian runner
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress, director, and producer
• 1978 – Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Graeme Ballard, English sprinter
• 1979 – Quentin Jammer, American football player
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Adel Abdulaziz, Emirati footballer
• 1980 – Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Milka Loff Fernandes, German actress
• 1980 – Arkadiusz Malarz, Polish footballer
• 1980 – Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1980 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 – Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
• 1981 – Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
• 1981 – Melissa McMorrow, American boxer
• 1981 – Quintin Geldenhuys, South African-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 – David Pollack, American football player
• 1982 – Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1983 – Gregor Arbet, Estonian basketball player
• 1983 – Nicolette Fernandes, Guyanese squash player
• 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)
• 1983 – Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian singer and actress
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1984 – Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1985 – Kajal Aggarwal, Indian actress
• 1985 – Jason Capizzi, American football player
• 1985 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
• 1985 – Stéphanie Montreux, Australian actress and singer
• 1985 – José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
• 1986 – Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1986 – Nazareno Casero, Argentinian actor
• 1986 – Andrea De Falco, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Sjoerd Huisman, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 – Dimitris Sialmas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Marvin Williams, American basketball player
• 1987 – Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
• 1987 – Mutsumi Tamura, Japanese voice actress
• 1987 – Rachael Todd, American model, Miss Florida 2009
• 1988 – Sarah Kay, American poet
• 1990 – Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
• 1990 – Ksenia Lykina, Russian tennis player
• 1991 – Ludwig Rieder, Italian luger
• 1992 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican-Canadian baseball player (d. 2014)
• 1996 – Larisa Iordache, Romanian gymnast

Deaths[edit]

• 626 – Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)
• 1027 – Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)
• 1282 – Eleanor de Montfort, English daughter of Eleanor of Leicester (b. 1252)
• 1312 – Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (b. 1284)
• 1341 – Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (b. 1270)
• 1542 – Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
• 1545 – Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian-Russian lawyer and jurist (b. 1509)
• 1567 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1507)
• 1584 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• 1608 – Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1551)
• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
• 1747 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (b. 1702)
• 1768 – Benjamin Tasker, Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
• 1786 – Nathanael Greene, American general (b. 1742)
• 1787 – Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France (b. 1786)
• 1805 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (b. 1724)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
• 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)
• 1864 – Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (b. 1843)
• 1865 – Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)
• 1884 – Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)
• 1867 – Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1874 – Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (b. 1838)
• 1896 – Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
• 1902 – Albert of Saxony (b. 1828)
• 1903 – Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (b. 1832)
• 1918 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 – Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
• 1922 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
• 1940 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1941 – C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
• 1953 – Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Ed Wynn, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1968 – James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
• 1973 – Gustaf Molander, Swedish actor and director (b. 1888)
• 1975 – Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
• 1978 – Mabel Wayne, American songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
• 1984 – Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Coluche, French comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1987 – Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
• 1988 – Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1988 – Teru Shimada, Japanese-American actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 – George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Cordelia E. Cook, American soldier and nurse (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Kay Rhodes, American bridge player (b. 1910)
• 1996 – G. David Schine, American soldier and businessman (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Olga Georges-Picot, Chinese-French actress (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Bobby Helms, American singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 2001 – John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Steve Sheppard-Brodie, Filipino-American voice actor (b. 1950)
• 2002 – Navleen Kumar, Indian activist (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and surveyor (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (b. 1962)
• 2010 – R. Kanagasuntheram, Sri Lankan physician, zoologist, and academic (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Paul Thiebaud, American art dealer (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Michael Palliser, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966)
• 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Michael Hodgman, Australian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Paul Mees, Australian lawyer and academic (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Kim Thompson, Danish-American publisher (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (Psí vojáci) (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Shrenik Kasturbhai Lalbhai, Indian businessman (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Alan Moller, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Bill Renna, American baseball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
• 2015 – Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Earl Norem, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)
• 2015 – James Salter, American soldier, author, and academic (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, Norwegian murderer (b. 1934)

Η Μάχη του Κιλκίς, λιθογραφία του Σωτήρη Χρηστίδη (1858-1940)

Μάχη στο Λαχανά

Το κατεστραμμένο Κιλκίς

Η πόλις του Κιλκίς εκαίετο ήδη όταν είχον εισέλθει εις αυτήν οι Έλληνες, συνεπεία του πυρός του πυροβολικού - γεγονός άξιον ιδιαιτέρας προσοχής, αφού ακολούθως υπεστηρίχθη ότι δήθεν επυρπολήθη υπό του νικηφόρου στρατού.

Μετά χαράς αναγγέλλω την κατάληψιν του Κιλκίς, μετά τριήμερον σφοδρόν αγώνα. Ο εχθρός καταδιώκεται κατά πόδας. Ηθικόν στρατού μας έκτακτον.

Οι Βούλγαροι είχαν ορίσει καλούς σκοπευτές για να χτυπούν ειδικά τους αξιωματικούς που φαίνονταν γιατί γυάλιζαν τα χρυσά γαλόνια στο καπέλο και τις επωμίδες. Ύστερα από αυτό διατάχτηκε όλοι οι βαθμοφόροι να βγάλουν τα διακριτικά τους για να μην γνωρίζονται από μακριά». Οι απώλειες από τη βουλγαρική πλευρά ήταν 6.971 άνδρες νεκροί και τραυματίες, καθώς και 2.500 αιχμάλωτοι.

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• 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
• 1248 – The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.
• 1620 – The Battle of Höchst in the Thirty Years' War.
• 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
• 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
• 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• 1789 – Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath.
• 1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
• 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
• 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
• 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
• 1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
• 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1895 – The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
• 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
• 1921 – Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
• 1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• 1941 – The United States Army Air Corps is deprecated to being the American training and logistics section of what is known until 1947 as the United States Army Air Forces, just two days before Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1943 – The Detroit race riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".
• 1944 – Continuation War: The Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. The Finnish government refuses.
• 1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
• 1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
• 1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
• 1959 – A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
• 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
• 1963 – The so-called "red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• 1973 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
• 1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
• 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
• 1982 – The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• 1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
• 1990 – The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
• 1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
• 2001 – Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
• 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Births[edit]

• 1005 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (d. 1036)
• 1389 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician (d. 1435)
• 1469 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Italian husband of Isabella of Naples (d. 1494)
• 1485 – Astorre III Manfredi, Italian lord (d. 1502)
• 1566 – Sigismund III Vasa, Polish and Swedish king (d. 1632)
• 1583 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (d. 1652)
• 1634 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (d. 1675)
• 1642 – George Hickes, English minister and scholar (d. 1715)
• 1647 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
• 1699 – William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1737)
• 1717 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor and painter (d. 1776)
• 1723 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
• 1723 – Theophilus Lindsey, English minister and theologian (d. 1808)
• 1733 – Betty Washington Lewis, American sister of George Washington (d. 1797)
• 1737 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1786)
• 1754 – Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1832)
• 1756 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer and educator (d. 1792)
• 1761 – Jacob Hübner, German entomologist and author (d. 1826)
• 1763 – Wolfe Tone, Irish general (d. 1798)
• 1770 – Moses Waddel, American minister and academic (d. 1840)
• 1771 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright (d. 1820)
• 1771 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (d. 1848)
• 1777 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (d. 1840)
• 1778 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, French politician, 7th Prime Minister of France (d. 1832)
• 1786 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet and author (d. 1859)
• 1796 – Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878)
• 1808 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1888)
• 1809 – Isaak August Dorner, German theologian and academic (d. 1884)
• 1813 – Joseph Autran, French poet and author (d. 1877)
• 1819 – Jacques Offenbach, German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880)
• 1855 – Richard Lodge, English historian and academic (d. 1936)
• 1858 – Charles W. Chesnutt, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Alexander Winton, Scottish-American race car driver and engineer (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
• 1861 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
• 1865 – George Redmayne Murray, English biologist and physician (d. 1939)
• 1866 – James Burns, English cricketer (d. 1957)
• 1869 – Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group (d. 1956)
• 1870 – Georges Dufrénoy, French painter and academic (d. 1943)
• 1872 – George Carpenter, American 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
• 1875 – Reginald Punnett, English geneticist, statistician, and academic (d. 1967)
• 1876 – Romuald Joubé, French actor (d. 1949)
• 1882 – Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (d. 1937)
• 1884 – Mary R. Calvert, American astronomer and author (d. 1974)
• 1884 – Johannes Heinrich Schultz, German psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1970)
• 1885 – Andrzej Gawroński, Polish linguist and academic (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and illustrator (d. 1948)
• 1889 – John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
• 1891 – Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951)
• 1891 – John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976)
• 1893 – Wilhelm Zaisser, German soldier and politician (d. 1958)
• 1894 – Lloyd Hall, American chemist and academic (d. 1971)
• 1896 – Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Elisabeth Hauptmann, German author and playwright (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Jean Moulin, French soldier and engineer (d. 1943)
• 1903 – Sam Rabin, English wrestler, sculptor, and singer (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1906 – Bob King, American high jumper and obstetrician (d. 1965)
• 1907 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Billy Werber, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• 1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1959)
• 1910 – Josephine Johnson, American author and poet (d. 1990)
• 1911 – Gail Patrick, American actress (d. 1980)
• 1912 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Jack Torrance, American shot putter and football player (d. 1969)
• 1914 – Zelda, Israeli poet and educator (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist and academic
• 1915 – Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
• 1916 – Johnny Morris, Welsh-English television host (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Helena Rasiowa, Austrian-Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Igor Śmiałowski, Russian-Polish actor (d. 2006)
• 1918 – George Lynch, American race car driver (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian-American author (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (d. 1954)
• 1920 – Thomas Jefferson, American trumpet player
• 1921 – Byron Farwell, American historian and author (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1923 – Peter Gay, German-American historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Jerzy Nowak, Polish actor and educator (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Fritz Koenig, German sculptor and academic, designed The Sphere
• 1925 – Doris Hart, American tennis player and educator (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Audie Murphy, American lieutenant and actor Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1971)
• 1926 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and politician, 9th Israeli Minister of Tourism (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (d. 1964)
• 1928 – Martin Landau, American actor and producer
• 1928 – Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician
• 1928 – Asrat Woldeyes, Ethiopian surgeon and educator (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor and academic
• 1930 – Paul Pender, American boxer and firefighter (d. 2003)
• 1930 – John Waine, English bishop
• 1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress
• 1931 – James Tolkan, American actor and director
• 1932 – Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor
• 1933 – Claire Tomalin, English journalist and author
• 1934 – Wendy Craig, English actress
• 1934 – Yuri Vizbor, Russian poet and actor (d. 1984)
• 1935 – Jim Barker, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Len Dawson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1935 – Neal Knox, American activist and author (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Enn Vetemaa, Estonian author and screenwriter
• 1937 – Stafford Dean, English actor and singer
• 1937 – Jerry Keller, American singer-songwriter
• 1938 – Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (d. 2015)
• 1939 – Michael Buckley, English civil servant
• 1939 – Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
• 1939 – Budge Rogers, English rugby player and manager
• 1940 – Eugen Drewermann, German priest and theologian
• 1940 – John Mahoney, English-American actor
• 1941 – Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer
• 1941 – Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
• 1942 – Andrew Graham, English economist and academic
• 1942 – Richard I. Neal, American general
• 1942 – Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist
• 1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Beach Boys and California Music)
• 1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist
• 1946 – Xanana Gusmão, Timorese soldier and politician, 1st President of East Timor
• 1946 – Nigel Kalton, English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
• 1946 – David Kazhdan, Russian-Israeli mathematician and academic
• 1946 – Bob Vila, American television host
• 1946 – Lars Vilks, Swedish sculptor and academic
• 1946 – Joseph Waeckerle, American physician and diplomat
• 1946 – André Watts, American pianist and educator
• 1947 – Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, American-English singer-songwriter (The Crystals)
• 1947 – Candy Clark, American actress
• 1947 – Josef Clemens, German bishop
• 1947 – Ray East, English cricketer
• 1947 – Ivo Milazzo, Italian illustrator
• 1948 – Cirilo Flores, American bishop (d. 2014)
• 1948 – Ludwig Scotty, Nauruan politician, 10th President of Nauru
• 1949 – Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass player, songwriter, and actor (Bay City Rollers)
• 1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Commodores)
• 1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician, 76th Prime Minister of Iraq
• 1951 – Tress MacNeille, American actress and voice artist
• 1951 – Sheila McLean, Scottish scholar and academic
• 1951 – Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and academic
• 1951 – Bill Simon, American businessman and politician
• 1952 – John Goodman, American actor
• 1952 – Vince Gotera, American poet and critic
• 1952 – Gordon Marshall, English sociologist and academic
• 1952 – Larry Riley, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
• 1953 – Robert Crais, American author and screenwriter
• 1953 – Raúl Ramírez, Mexican tennis player
• 1953 – Willy Rampf, German engineer
• 1954 – Michael Anthony, American bass player (Van Halen and Chickenfoot)
• 1954 – Allan Lamb, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1954 – Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
• 1955 – E. Lynn Harris, American author (d. 2009)
• 1956 – Simon Bryant, English air marshal
• 1956 – Peter Reid, English footballer and manager
• 1957 – Koko B. Ware, American wrestler
• 1958 – Ron Hornaday, Jr., American race car driver
• 1959 – Louise Bessette, Canadian pianist
• 1960 – Philip M. Parker, American economist and author
• 1960 – John Taylor, English singer-songwriter, bass player, producer and actor (Duran Duran, The Power Station, and Neurotic Outsiders)
• 1962 – Alex Di Gregorio, Italian cartoonist
• 1963 – Kirk Baptiste, American sprinter
• 1963 – Amir Derakh, American guitarist (Orgy, Rough Cutt, Julien-K, and Dead by Sunrise)
• 1963 – Don West, American sportscaster
• 1964 – Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1964 – Silke Möller, German runner
• 1966 – Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress
• 1967 – Dan Tyminski, American singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Robert Rodriguez, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Paulo Bento, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1969 – Peter Paige, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Misha Verbitsky, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1969 – MaliVai Washington, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Jason Robert Brown, American playwright and composer
• 1970 – Andrea Nahles, German politician, German Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
• 1970 – Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher
• 1971 – Josh Kronfeld, New Zealand rugby player
• 1971 – Brandon Lewis, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Josh Lucas, American actor
• 1971 – Rodney Rogers, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Jeordie White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bass player (Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Goon Moon and The Desert Sessions)
• 1972 – Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer
• 1972 – Paul Bako, American baseball player
• 1972 – Juan Castro, Mexican baseball player and manager
• 1973 – Maria Filippov, Bulgarian ice skater
• 1973 – Chino Moreno, American singer-songwriter (Deftones, Team Sleep, and Crosses)
• 1974 – Attila Czene, Hungarian swimmer and politician
• 1974 – Lenin M. Sivam, Sri Lankan-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Uğur Taner, Turkish swimmer
• 1974 – Tuta, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player
• 1975 – Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
• 1976 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Jerome Fontamillas, American singer and guitarist (Switchfoot, Mortal, and Fold Zandura)
• 1976 – Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
• 1976 – Rob Mackowiak, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 – Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player
• 1977 – Nerijus Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1978 – LaVar Arrington, American football player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Quinton Jackson, American mixed martial artist and actor
• 1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer
• 1978 – Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer
• 1978 – Bobby Seay, American baseball player
• 1979 – Charlotte Hatherley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ash, Nightnurse, and Client)
• 1979 – Charles Howell III, American golfer
• 1979 – Elis Meetua, Estonian footballer
• 1979 – Cael Sanderson, American wrestler and coach
• 1980 – Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby player
• 1980 – Tony Lovato, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mest)
• 1980 – Franco Semioli, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Fabian Wegmann, German cyclist
• 1981 – Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer
• 1981 – Brede Hangeland, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 – Aleksei Berezutski, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Vasili Berezutski, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Example, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 – Josh Childress, American basketball player
• 1983 – Masashi Mikami, Japanese actor
• 1983 – Darren Sproles, American football player
• 1984 – Hassan Adams, American basketball player
• 1984 – Neetu Chandra, Indian actress and martial artist
• 1984 – Dennis Malura, German footballer
• 1985 – Saki Aibu, Japanese actress
• 1985 – Matt Flynn, American football player
• 1985 – Kai Hesse, German footballer
• 1985 – Halil Savran, German footballer
• 1986 – Dreama Walker, American actress
• 1987 – Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player
• 1987 – Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer
• 1987 – Joseph Ebuya, Kenyan runner
• 1989 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
• 1989 – Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 – Terrelle Pryor, American football player
• 1990 – DeQuan Jones, American basketball player
• 1991 – Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer
• 1992 – Sage the Gemini, American rapper (The HBK Gang)
• 1995 – Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player
• 1996 – Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 – Michael Dal Colle, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths[edit]

• 656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Arabian caliph (b. 577)
• 840 – Louis the Pious, Frankish emperor (b. 778)
• 1176 – Mikhail of Vladimir, Russian prince
• 1351 – Margareta Ebner, German nun and mystic (b. 1291)
• 1597 – Willem Barentsz, Dutch cartographer and explorer (b. 1550)
• 1605 – Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)
• 1668 – Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (b. 1620)
• 1776 – Benjamin Huntsman, English businessman (b. 1704)
• 1787 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer (b. 1723)
• 1800 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and academic (b. 1719)
• 1810 – Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (b. 1755)
• 1815 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
• 1820 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian general, economist, and politician (b. 1770)
• 1837 – William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
• 1840 – Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (b. 1761)
• 1847 – Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (b. 1782)
• 1869 – Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (b. 1835)
• 1870 – Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (b. 1830)
• 1872 – Élie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
• 1875 – Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (b. 1810)
• 1888 – Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player (b. 1842)
• 1906 – John Clayton Adams, English painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 – Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1845)
• 1925 – Josef Breuer, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1842)
• 1929 – Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)
• 1938 – Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (b. 1882)
• 1945 – Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish son of Infanta Eulalia of Spain (b. 1888)
• 1945 – Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1976 – Lou Klein, American baseball player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 – Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
• 1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Jim Ellison, American singer-songwriter (Material Issue) (b. 1964)
• 1997 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter and producer (Four Tops) (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
• 2002 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Bob Stump, American soldier and politician (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (Kool & the Gang) (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Trevor Henry, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
• 2009 – Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian student and activist (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Robert J. Kelleher, American tennis player and judge (b. 1913)
• 2012 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Diosa Costello, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 2013 – Dicky Rutnagur, Indian journalist (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Jean-Louis Scherrer, French fashion designer (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Jeffrey Smart, Australian painter (b. 1921)
• 2013 – John David Wilson, English animator and producer (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Jim Bamber, English cartoonist (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Michael Coetzee, South African union leader and activist (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Handel Greville, Welsh rugby player (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Philip Hollom, English ornithologist and author (b. 1912)
• 2014 – Murat Sökmenoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1945)
• 2015 – William Brantley Aycock, American academic (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Bob Barry, Jr., American sportscaster (b. 1956)
• 2015 – Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Takanonami Sadahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (b. 1971)
• 2015 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)

Anton Yelchin, Star Trek's Chekov, killed by his own car

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Anton Yelchin, the Russian-born actor who played Chekov in the new Star Trek films, has been killed by his own car at his home in Los Angeles, police say.

It struck him after rolling backwards down the steep drive at his Studio City home, pinning him against a brick postbox pillar and a security fence. 

He died shortly after 01:00 (08:00 GMT) on Sunday.

Yelchin, 27, also appeared in such films as Like Crazy (2011) and Green Room (2015).

Yelchin played Pavel Chekov, the role originally made famous by Walter Koenig (now 79), in the films Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).

A third film with him in the role, Star Trek Beyond, is due for release next month.

'This impossible time of grief'

News of his death led Twitter trends in Los Angeles and beyond on Sunday. 

Zachary Quinto, who plays Spock in the series, wrote on Instagram: "our dear friend. our comrade. our anton. 

"One of the most open and intellectually curious people i have ever had the pleasure to know. so enormously talented and generous of heart. wise beyond his years. and gone before his time. all love and strength to his family at this impossible time of grief."