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• 1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
• 1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk
• 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
• 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
• 1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
• 1824 – Battle of Junín Peru.
• 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
• 1861 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
• 1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
• 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
• 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
• 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
• 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
• 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
• 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
• 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
• 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
• 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
• 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
• 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
• 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
• 1976 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lays the foundation stone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
• 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.
• 1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
• 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
• 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
• 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
• 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
• 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
• 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
• 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
• 2011 – A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.
• 2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, 7 Afghan soldiers, and 1 Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
• 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.
• 2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi city of Abha.

Births[edit]

• 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
• 1504 – Matthew Parker, English archbishop (d. 1575)
• 1609 – Richard Bennett, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
• 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1677)
• 1638 – Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher (d. 1715)
• 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
• 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French general (d. 1733)
• 1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)
• 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
• 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
• 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (d. 1747)
• 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1848)
• 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)
• 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (d. 1813)
• 1775 – Daniel O'Connell, Irish lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Dublin (d. 1847)
• 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet and author (d. 1892)
• 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (d. 1915)
• 1835 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
• 1844 – James Henry Greathead, South African-English engineer (d. 1896)
• 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian-American giant (d. 1888)
• 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
• 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Charles Fort, American author (d. 1932)
• 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1952)
• 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Leo Carrillo, American actor, singer, and cartoonist (d. 1961)
• 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1881 – Louella Parsons, American actress, screenwriter, and journalist (d. 1972)
• 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Scott Nearing, American economist and educator (d. 1983)
• 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer and academic (d. 1971)
• 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer (d. 1952)
• 1889 – George Kenney, Canadian-American general (d. 1977)
• 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet and author (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (d. 1956)
• 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English field marshal and politician, 13th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Wright Patman, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003)
• 1902 – Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (d. 1935)
• 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer (d. 1970)
• 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
• 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (d. 1941)
• 1909 – Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle (d. 2013)
• 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress, television producer and businesswoman (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1911 – Constance Heaven, English author and actress (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1914 – Gordon Freeth, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic (d. 1970)
• 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor and singer (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Edward Jewesbury, English actor (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Selma Diamond, Canadian-American actress and screenwriter (d. 1985)
• 1920 – John Graves, American author (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Jess Collins, American painter (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence
• 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American activist, co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Barbara Bates, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
• 1926 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-English journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Frank Finlay, English actor (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 2013)
• 1926 – János Rózsás, Hungarian author (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Inga Landgré, Swedish actress
• 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (d. 1987)
• 1929 – Mike Elliott, Jamaican saxophonist (The Foundations and Rico's Combo)
• 1929 – Roch La Salle, Canadian politician, 42nd Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
• 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter
• 1932 – Ahmet Mekin, Turkish actor
• 1932 – Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1933 – A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Piers Anthony, English-American soldier and author
• 1934 – Chris Bonington, English mountaineer and author
• 1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby player and soldier
• 1935 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)
• 1937 – Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (Old and New Dreams) (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress and singer
• 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor and director
• 1938 – Bert Yancey, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian philologist and politician, 2nd President of Dagestan
• 1940 – Egil Kapstad, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress
• 1941 – Lyle Berman, American businessman and poker player
• 1941 – Ray Culp, American baseball player
• 1941 – Andrew Green, Baron Green of Deddington, English diplomat
• 1942 – George Jung, American drug trafficker
• 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic
• 1944 – Martin Wharton, English bishop
• 1945 – Ron Jones, English director and production manager (d. 1993)
• 1945 – Andy Messersmith, American baseball player and coach
• 1946 – Judy Craig, American singer (The Chiffons)
• 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest)
• 1946 – Masaaki Sakai, Japanese actor and singer (The Spiders)
• 1947 – Radhia Cousot, French computer scientist and academic
• 1947 – Tony Dell, English-Australian cricketer and soldier
• 1948 – William McCrea, Irish soldier and politician
• 1949 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (d. 1993)
• 1949 – Richard Prince, American painter and photographer
• 1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, American bishop
• 1950 – Dorian Harewood, American actor and singer
• 1951 – Christophe de Margerie, French businessman (d. 2014)
• 1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress
• 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian singer, television host, and producer
• 1952 – Pat MacDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Timbuk3)
• 1952 – David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Kayak Camel, and Earth and Fire)
• 1952 – Vinnie Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kiss and Vinnie Vincent Invasion)
• 1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
• 1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sportscaster
• 1955 – Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (d. 2003)
• 1955 – John Reid, Irish jockey
• 1956 – Bill Emmott, English journalist and author
• 1956 – Stepfanie Kramer, American actress and singer
• 1956 – Grant Aleksander, American actor
• 1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player
• 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
• 1958 – Randy DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and bass player (DeBarge)
• 1958 – Ted Shepherd, Grantham Professor of Climate Science at the University of Reading
• 1959 – Rajendra Singh, Indian environmentalist
• 1960 – Dale Ellis, American basketball player
• 1961 – Mary Ann Sieghart, English journalist and radio host
• 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer
• 1963 – Charles Ingram, English soldier, author, and game show contestant
• 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author
• 1964 – Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, Nigerian journalist, activist, social media expert, and pharmacist
• 1964 – Gary Valenciano, Filipino singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1965 – Ravi Coltrane, American saxophonist
• 1965 – Yuki Kajiura, Japanese pianist and composer (See-Saw)
• 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player and lieutenant
• 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host (d. 2008)
• 1965 – Vince Wells, English cricketer
• 1967 – Lorna Fitzsimons, English businesswoman and politician
• 1967 – Mike Greenberg, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1967 – Julie Snyder, Canadian talk show host and producer
• 1968 – Jack de Gier, Dutch footballer
• 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Heatmiser) (d. 2003)
• 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
• 1971 – Merrin Dungey, American actress
• 1971 – Scott Minto, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1972 – Paolo Bacigalupi, American author
• 1972 – Darren Eales, English footballer and lawyer
• 1972 – Geri Halliwell, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Spice Girls)
• 1972 – Ray Lucas, American football player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Vera Farmiga, American actress
• 1973 – Monica Goodling, American lawyer
• 1973 – Max Kellerman, American sportscaster and radio host
• 1973 – Iain Morris, English screenwriter and producer
• 1973 – Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
• 1974 – Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer
• 1974 – Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 – Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer
• 1975 – Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
• 1975 – Jamie McGonnigal, American voice actor and producer
• 1975 – Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress and producer
• 1976 – Melissa George, Australian-American actress
• 1976 – Adam Ritson, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 – Shaun Timmins, Australian rugby league player
• 1977 – Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 – Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1977 – Luciano Zavagno, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Marisa Miller, American model and actress
• 1978 – Katie Price, English model, actress and singer
• 1978 – Reuben Rox, American actor, director, and producer
• 1978 – Marvel Smith, American football player
• 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
• 1979 – Jaime Correa, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Travis Reed, American basketball player
• 1980 – Danny Collins, English-Welsh footballer
• 1980 – Seneca Wallace, American football player
• 1980 – Roman Weidenfeller, German footballer
• 1981 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater
• 1982 – Jordis Unga, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
• 1983 – Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer
• 1983 – C. J. Mosley, American football player
• 1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
• 1983 – Landon Pigg, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1984 – Sofia Essaïdi, Moroccan singer, dancer, and actress
• 1984 – Eva-Maria Hoch, Austrian tennis player
• 1984 – Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1984 – Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
• 1985 – Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1986 – Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
• 1992 – Tara Moore, British tennis player
• 1995 – Rebecca Peterson, Swedish tennis player
• 1997 – Kristína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 258 – Pope Sixtus II
• 523 – Pope Hormisdas (b. 450)
• 750 – Marwan II, Umayyad general and caliph (b. 688)
• 1162 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. 1113)
• 1195 – Henry the Lion, German son of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1129)
• 1221 – Saint Dominic, Spanish priest, founded the Dominican Order (b. 1170)
• 1272 – Stephen V of Hungary (b. 1239)
• 1414 – Ladislaus of Naples (b. 1377)
• 1458 – Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
• 1623 – Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare (b. 1556)
• 1628 – Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (b. 1573)
• 1637 – Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (b. 1572)
• 1645 – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575)
• 1657 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595)
• 1660 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1599)
• 1679 – John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)
• 1694 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
• 1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1753 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)
• 1757 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (b. 1673)
• 1794 – Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
• 1815 – James A. Bayard, American lawyer and politician (b. 1767)
• 1828 – Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1785)
• 1850 – Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 1866 – John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
• 1881 – James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
• 1884 – Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1812)
• 1893 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
• 1904 – Eduard Hanslick, Austrian author and critic (b. 1825)
• 1920 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish pilot and author (b. 1890)
• 1925 – Surendranath Banerjee, Indian academic and politician (b. 1848)
• 1931 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player, pianist, and composer (The Wolverines) (b. 1903)
• 1945 – Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
• 1945 – Hiram Johnson, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of California (b. 1866)
• 1946 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1959 – Preston Sturges, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, English-American actor and director (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Cordwainer Smith, American sinologist, author, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1978 – Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 – Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 – William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Harry Reasoner, American journalist, founded 60 Minutes (b. 1923)
• 1992 – Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1992 – Erich Rehm; German Hauptmann of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1998 – André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian poet and author (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Mynah Birds) (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Donald Justice, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Keter Betts, American bassist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Heinz Barth, German lieutenant (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Bikini) (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Angelos Kitsos, Greek lawyer and author (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (b. 1909)
• 2009 – Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mink DeVille) (b. 1950)
• 2009 – John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Willibrordus S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Bahadır Akkuzu, Turkish musician (b. 1955)
• 2011 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Richard Cragun, American-Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Marvin Hamlisch, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Robert Hughes, Australian-American author and critic (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mark O'Donnell, American playwright (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist and educator (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Dan Roundfield, American basketball player (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Jeremy Geidt, English-American actor and educator (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Jerry Wolman, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Ralph Bryans, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Ananda W. P. Guruge, Sri Lankan scholar and diplomat (b. 1928)
• 2014 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Andrey Stenin, Russian photographer and journalist (b. 1980)
• 2014 – Smita Talwalkar, Indian actress and producer (b. 1954)
• 2015 – Ray Hill, American football player (b. 1975)
• 2015 – Frederick R. Payne, Jr., American general and pilot (b. 1911)
• 2015 – Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Charl Van Den Berg, South African model and activist (b. 1982)

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«Χρυσό» το πρώτο τεύχος του Action Comics 

με τον Superman -Πουλήθηκε

 για σχεδόν 1 εκατ. δολάρια

Ένα σπάνιο αντίτυπο του κόμικ που πρωτοεμφανίστηκε ο πασίγνωστος σούπερ

 ήρωας «Superman» πωλήθηκε σε δημοπρασία αυτήν την εβδομάδα σε τιμή που

 άγγιξε το ένα εκατομμύριο δολάρια.

Το πρώτο τεύχος του περιοδικού «Action Comics» που σηματοδότησε την πρώτη

 εμφάνιση του Σούπερμαν και θεωρείται ένα «κόσμημα» από τους οπαδούς των

 κόμικ βιβλίων, δημοπρατήθηκε από τον οίκο «Heritage Auctions».

Το «Action Comics #1» που κυκλοφόρησε τον Ιούνιο του 1938, αναμενόταν

 να «πιάσει» γύρω στις 750.000 δολάρια, αλλά κατάφερε να «χτυπήσει» τελική 

προσφορά της τάξεως των 956.000 δολαρίων, θέτοντας έτσι νέο ρεκόρ στη

 συγκεκριμένη κατηγορία.

Σύμφωνα με τον Lon Allen, διευθύνοντα σύμβουλο του οίκου δημοπρασιών, 

περίπου 100 αντίτυπα του συγκεκριμένου κόμικ διασώζονται δεκαετίες μετά την

 εκδοσή τους, ενώ «ελάχιστα βγαίνουν σε πλειστηριασμό, ειδικά έχοντας ένα

 εξώφυλλο σε τόσο καλή κατάσταση».

Το κόμικ που πουλήθηκε την περασμένη Πέμπτη ήταν μέρος μιας συλλογής 

που ανήκε σε έναν φανατικό συλλέκτη του είδους, ο οποίος και το αγόρασε τη

 δεκαετία του 1990 προς 26.000 δολάρια, στο Ντάλας.

Όταν κυκλοφόρησε για πρώτη φορά το 1938, το «Action Comics #1» κόστιζε

 μόλις 10 σεντς του δολαρίου.

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• 322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia.
• 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.
• 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
• 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
• 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.
• 1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.
• 1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
• 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
• 1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
• 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
• 1789 – The United States Department of War is established.
• 1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
• 1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
• 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
• 1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
• 1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.
• 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
• 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• 1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
• 1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
• 1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
• 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
• 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
• 1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
• 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
• 1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
• 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
• 1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
• 1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
• 1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
• 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
• 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
• 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
• 1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
• 1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
• 1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
• 1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• 1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
• 1985 – The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.
• 1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
• 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• 2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
• 2012 – Three gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria.
• 2013 – A bombing in a market in Karachi, Pakistan, kills eleven people.

Births[edit]

• 317 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
• 1282 – Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
• 1533 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (d. 1595)
• 1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
• 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (d. 1627)
• 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)
• 1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (d. 1672)
• 1726 – James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)
• 1734 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (d. 1776)
• 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
• 1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
• 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer (d. 1842)
• 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859)
• 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
• 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911)
• 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
• 1862 – Victoria of Baden (d. 1931)
• 1867 – Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
• 1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)
• 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
• 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
• 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
• 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
• 1884 – Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1940)
• 1887 – Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (d. 1964)
• 1901 – Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)
• 1904 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (d. 1980)
• 1910 – Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965)
• 1911 – István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979)
• 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Budd Lynch, Canadian-American sportscaster (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Poni Adams, American actress (d. 2014)
• 1918 – C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (d. 1985)
• 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor
• 1924 – Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1925 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian geneticist and academic
• 1926 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana
• 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor and singer (d. 1959)
• 1928 – Betsy Byars, American author and academic
• 1928 – Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square
• 1928 – Romeo Muller, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1928 – James Randi, Canadian-American magician, actor, and author
• 1928 – Herb Reed, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player
• 1930 – Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator
• 1931 – Jack Good, British television producer
• 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
• 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)
• 1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (d. 2005)
• 1933 – Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
• 1933 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author
• 1934 – Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1935 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
• 1937 – Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Anjanette Comer, American actress
• 1939 – Verna Bloom, American actress
• 1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician
• 1942 – Tobin Bell, American actor and producer
• 1942 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
• 1942 – Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer and actor (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
• 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer
• 1942 – Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
• 1943 – Lana Cantrell, Australian-American singer and lawyer
• 1943 – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1944 – John Glover, American actor and singer
• 1944 – Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1945 – Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Alan Page, American football player and jurist
• 1946 – Ed Seykota, American businessman and academic
• 1947 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1948 – Marty Appel, American businessman and author
• 1948 – Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1948 – Antonis Vardis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
• 1949 – Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
• 1950 – Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Notorious Cherry Bombs)
• 1950 – Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
• 1950 – S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician
• 1952 – Eamonn Darcy, Irish golfer
• 1952 – Kees Kist, Dutch footballer
• 1952 – Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1953 – Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author
• 1954 – Jonathan Pollard, American-Israeli spy
• 1954 – Alan Reid, Scottish politician
• 1955 – Diane Downs, American murderer
• 1955 – Wayne Knight, American actor, comedian and voice actor
• 1955 – Greg Nickels, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle
• 1955 – Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban librarian
• 1955 – Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright
• 1955 – Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director
• 1956 – Sharon Isbin, American guitarist
• 1957 – Caroline Aaron, American actress and producer
• 1957 – Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast and colonel
• 1958 – Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey
• 1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Iron Maiden and Samson)
• 1958 – Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach
• 1959 – Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author
• 1959 – Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
• 1960 – David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan, English singer-songwriter (Bananarama and Shillelagh Sisters)
• 1961 – Brian Conley, English actor and singer
• 1961 – Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast
• 1961 – Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer
• 1962 – Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer (Northern Lights)
• 1962 – Doon Mackichan, British actress and comedian
• 1962 – Alain Robert, French rock climber
• 1963 – Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player
• 1963 – Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator
• 1964 – John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author
• 1964 – Peter Niven, Scottish jockey
• 1965 – Raul Malo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Mavericks and Los Super Seven)
• 1965 – Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater
• 1966 – David Cairns, Scottish laicised priest and politician, Minister of State for Scotland (d. 2011)
• 1966 – Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave)
• 1966 – Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founded Wikipedia
• 1967 – Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
• 1968 – Big Mello, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (d. 2002)
• 1968 – Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Trevor Hendy, Australian surfer and coach
• 1968 – Sophie Lee, Australian actress and author
• 1968 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (Snot) (d. 1998)
• 1969 – Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1970 – Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006)
• 1971 – Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Rachel York, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and promoter
• 1973 – Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (Korol i Shut) (d. 2013)
• 1973 – Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player
• 1973 – Zane Lowe, New Zealand radio and television host
• 1973 – Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1974 – Chico Benymon, American actor
• 1974 – Michael Shannon, American actor
• 1975 – Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Kargo)
• 1975 – Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Gaahl, Norwegian singer-songwriter (God Seed, Gaahlskagg, Wardruna, and Trelldom)
• 1975 – Ray Hill, American football player (d. 2015)
• 1975 – Rebecca Kleefisch, American journalist and politician, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
• 1975 – Edgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player
• 1975 – Charlize Theron, South African-American actress and producer
• 1976 – Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1976 – Shane Lechler, American football player
• 1977 – Charlotte Ronson, English-American fashion designer
• 1977 – Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ
• 1977 – Vanessa Stacey, New Zealand actress
• 1978 – Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter (Hatebreed, Kingdom of Sorrow, and Icepick)
• 1978 – Cirroc Lofton, American actor
• 1978 – Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer
• 1978 – Vanness Wu, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (F4 and Kangta & Vanness)
• 1978 – Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1979 – Alex James, British musician (Blur)
• 1979 – Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author
• 1980 – Carsten Busch, German footballer
• 1980 – Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress
• 1980 – Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
• 1981 – David Testo, American soccer player
• 1981 – Randy Wayne, American actor and producer
• 1982 – Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress and singer
• 1982 – Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
• 1982 – Edwin Dewees, American mixed martial artist
• 1982 – Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player
• 1982 – Marquise Hill, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1982 – Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
• 1982 – Jasmin Mäntylä, Finnish model and singer
• 1982 – Brit Marling, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 – Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1982 – Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
• 1982 – Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer
• 1983 – Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (RBD)
• 1983 – Murat Dalkılıç, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Andriy Hryvko, Ukrainian cyclist
• 1983 – Tina O'Brien, English actress
• 1983 – Mark Pettini, English cricketer and journalist
• 1984 – Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player
• 1984 – Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress
• 1984 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (d. 2003)
• 1986 – Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
• 1986 – Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
• 1986 – Altair Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
• 1986 – Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer
• 1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
• 1987 – Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player
• 1987 – Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
• 1988 – Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer
• 1988 – Melody Oliveria, American blogger
• 1988 – Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer
• 1988 – Beanie Wells, American football player
• 1989 – DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
• 1990 – Helen Flanagan, English actress
• 1991 – Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1991 – Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
• 1991 – Mike Trout, American baseball player
• 1992 – Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1992 – Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 – Simon Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 – Yusuf Erdoğan, Turkish footballer
• 1993 – Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1993 – Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer
• 1993 – Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1996 – Tessa Allen, American actress
• 1996 – Liam James, Canadian actor

Deaths[edit]

• 461 – Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)
• 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
• 1385 – Joan of Kent (b. 1328)
• 1485 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)
• 1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1544)
• 1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
• 1632 – Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575)
• 1635 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591)
• 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
• 1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608)
• 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1823 – Mátyás Laáb, Croatian priest and translator (b. 1746)
• 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
• 1855 – Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 – Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
• 1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
• 1899 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 – Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 – Konstantin Stanislavsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Yi Wu, Korean colonel (b. 1912)
• 1948 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1968 – Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)
• 1969 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)
• 1972 – Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1928)
• 1972 – Aspasia Manos, Greek wife of Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
• 1973 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
• 1984 – Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
• 1984 – Baha Gelenbevi, Turkish film artist (d. 1907)
• 1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1992 – John Anderson, American actor and director (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2001 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2003 – K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Hal Fishman, American journalist and actor (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American educator and politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (New Lost City Ramblers) (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Roberto Cantoral, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
• 2010 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Judith Crist, American critic and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Anna Piaggi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Sean Sasser, American chef, educator, and activist (b. 1968)
• 2013 – Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (d. 1946)
• 2013 – Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
• 2014 – Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914)
• 2015 – Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923)

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• 870 – Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partitions the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.
• 1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
• 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven.
• 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
• 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
• 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
• 1647 – The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungan's Hill: English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces.
• 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1786 – Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
• 1793 – The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution.
• 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
• 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
• 1863 – American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
• 1870 – The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
• 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• 1885 – More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
• 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
• 1927 – The predecessor to the Philippine Stock Exchange opens.
• 1929 – The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• 1940 – The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.
• 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
• 1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
• 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle, the heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft, with the longest wingspan of any military aircraft, and the first bomber with intercontinental range.
• 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
• 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes.
• 1963 – The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
• 1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
• 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road.
• 1973 – Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
• 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
• 1980 – The Central Hotel Fire occurs in Bundoran, Ireland.
• 1988 – The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.
• 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
• 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
• 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
• 1993 – The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people.
• 2000 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
• 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
• 2008 – A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
• 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
• 2013 – A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
• 2015 – Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.

Births[edit]

• 1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
• 1518 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-German scholar and author (d. 1561)
• 1605 – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1675)
• 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer (d. 1697)
• 1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German-English painter (d. 1723)
• 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
• 1693 – Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
• 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher and academic (d. 1746)
• 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German-Italian monk and violinist (d. 1779)
• 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (d. 1796)
• 1754 – Hipólito Ruiz López, Spanish botanist (d. 1816)
• 1758 – Friedrich Georg Weitsch, German painter (d. 1828)
• 1790 – Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (d. 1838)
• 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (d. 1892)
• 1814 – Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (d. 1902)
• 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German-Russian wife of Alexander II of Russia (d. 1880)
• 1839 – Nelson A. Miles, American general (d. 1925)
• 1856 – Thomas Anstey Guthrie, English journalist and author (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
• 1866 – Matthew Henson, American explorer (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1948)
• 1875 – Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil (d. 1955)
• 1876 – Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (d. 1929)
• 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
• 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician (d. 1919)
• 1880 – Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
• 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1965)
• 1884 – Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator (d. 1933)
• 1889 – Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor (d. 1968)
• 1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977)
• 1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer (d. 1952)
• 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (d. 1953)
• 1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Dayton Lummis, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
• 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1977)
• 1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Jimmy Murphy, Welsh-English footballer and manager (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1915 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
• 1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (d. 2016)
• 1919 – John David Wilson, English animator and producer (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer (d. 2006)
• 1920 – Carol Lambrino, Romanian son of Carol II of Romania (d. 2006)
• 1921 – William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian pathologist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the Monokini (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian, author, and academic
• 1922 – Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosnian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Ginny Tyler, American voice actress and singer (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor and producer
• 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player and coach (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Don Burrows, Australian saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player
• 1928 – Simón Díaz, Venezuelan singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Ronnie Biggs, English criminal (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Joan Mondale, American wife of Walter Mondale, 32nd Second Lady of the United States (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh-American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Rika Dialina, Greek actress
• 1931 – Roger Penrose, English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher
• 1932 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia
• 1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Old Dogs)
• 1933 – Joe Tex, American singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Serena Wilson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Donald P. Bellisario, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1935 – John Laws, Papua New Guinean-Australian singer and radio host
• 1936 – Frank Howard, American baseball player and manager
• 1936 – Jan Pieńkowski, Polish-English author and illustrator
• 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
• 1937 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1987)
• 1938 – Jack Baldwin, English chemist and academic
• 1938 – Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer and educator (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Connie Stevens, American actress and businesswoman
• 1939 – Jana Andrsová, Czech actress and ballerina
• 1939 – Phil Balsley, American singer-songwriter (The Statler Brothers)
• 1939 – Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romanian long jumper
• 1939 – Alexander Watson, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Peru
• 1940 – Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Dennis Tito, American engineer and businessman, founded Wilshire Associates
• 1941 – George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Dennis Canavan, Scottish educator and politician
• 1942 – John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Roxy Music, Ian Gillan Band, The Big Three, Quatermass, and Episode Six) (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Vardo Rumessen, Estonian pianist and musicologist (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress
• 1944 – Uli Derickson, Czech-American flight attendant (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1944 – John Renbourn, English-Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Pentangle) (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Simon Taylor, English journalist and author
• 1946 – Joe Bethancourt, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1947 – George Costigan, British actor and screenwriter
• 1947 – José Cruz, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
• 1947 – Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player, lawyer, and politician
• 1947 – Larry Wilcox, American actor, director, and producer
• 1948 – Susan Himmelweit, English economist and academic
• 1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1948 – Margaret Urban Walker, American philosopher
• 1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor and singer
• 1949 – Ricardo Londoño, Colombian race car driver (d. 2009)
• 1950 – Liberty DeVitto, American rock drummer (Billy Joel)
• 1950 – Sarah Dunant, English author and critic
• 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer and producer (The Blues Brothers, The Bar-Kays, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• 1950 – Ken Kutaragi, Japanese businessman, created PlayStation
• 1950 – Lucjan Lis, Polish-German cyclist (d. 2015)
• 1951 – Martin Brest, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer
• 1951 – Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian engineer, academic, and politician, 5th President of Egypt
• 1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Louis van Gaal, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1952 – Anton Fig, South African-American drummer (Spider, Frehley's Comet, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
• 1952 – Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
• 1952 – Doug Melvin, Canadian baseball player and manager
• 1952 – Robin Quivers, American radio host, actress, and author
• 1952 – Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer
• 1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, English politician
• 1953 – Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
• 1954 – Nick Holtam, English bishop
• 1955 – Diddú, Icelandic singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1955 – Branscombe Richmond, American character actor
• 1955 – Michael Roe, Irish race car driver
• 1956 – Chris Foreman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Madness)
• 1956 – David Grant, English singer (Linx)
• 1956 – Cecilia Roth, Argentinian actress
• 1957 – Dennis Drew, American keyboard player (10,000 Maniacs)
• 1958 – Deborah Norville, American journalist
• 1959 – Caroline Ansink, Dutch flute player, composer, and educator
• 1960 – Mustafa Balbay, Turkish journalist and politician
• 1960 – Ulrich Maly, German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg
• 1961 – The Edge, English-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (U2)
• 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer (10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard)
• 1961 – Ron Klain, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
• 1961 – Bruce Matthews, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison and Devil City Angels)
• 1963 – Hur Jin-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Ron Karkovice, American baseball player and manager
• 1963 – Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1963 – Jon Turteltaub, American director and producer
• 1963 – Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager
• 1964 – Anastasia M. Ashman, American blogger and author
• 1964 – Scott Sandelin, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 – Paul Taylor, English cricketer
• 1964 – Eddie Trunk, American radio host and author
• 1965 – Angus Fraser, English cricketer, manager, and journalist
• 1965 – El Hefe, American guitarist and trumpet player (NOFX)
• 1965 – Kate Langbroek, Australian talk show host
• 1966 – Chris Eubank, English boxer
• 1966 – John Hudek, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1967 – Sable, American wrestler and actress
• 1967 – Lee Unkrich, American director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Yvie Burnett, Scottish soprano
• 1968 – Aldo Calderón van Dyke, Honduran journalist (d. 2013)
• 1968 – Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fun Lovin' Criminals)
• 1969 – Song Sung-il, South Korean wrestler
• 1969 – Monika Tsõganova, Estonian chess player
• 1969 – Faye Wong, Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1970 – Trev Alberts, American football player and journalist
• 1970 – Ben G. Davis, English chemist and academic
• 1970 – Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
• 1970 – Sophia Latjuba, Indonesian actress
• 1970 – Chester Williams, South African rugby player and coach
• 1971 – Johnny Balentina, Dutch baseball player
• 1972 – Joely Collins, Canadian actress and producer
• 1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1972 – Axel Merckx, Belgian cyclist
• 1972 – Steven Tweed, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Shane Lee, Australian cricketer and guitarist (Six & Out)
• 1973 – Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
• 1973 – Gert Olesk, Estonian footballer and manager
• 1973 – Scott Stapp, American singer-songwriter and producer (Creed)
• 1974 – Manjul Bhargava, Canadian-American mathematician and academic
• 1974 – Scott D'Amore, Canadian wrestler and manager
• 1974 – Brian Harvey, English singer-songwriter (East 17)
• 1974 – Andy Priaulx, Guernseyan race car driver
• 1975 – Mick Moss, English singer-songwriter (Antimatter)
• 1976 – JC Chasez, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor ('N Sync)
• 1976 – Drew Lachey, American singer and actor (98 Degrees)
• 1977 – Darren Manzella, American sergeant (d. 2013)
• 1977 – Szilárd Németh, Slovak footballer and manager
• 1977 – Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1977 – Nicolas Vogondy, French cyclist
• 1977 – Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
• 1978 – Alan Maybury, Irish footballer and coach
• 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
• 1978 – Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
• 1978 – Natsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress
• 1979 – Richard Harwood, English cellist
• 1979 – Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
• 1979 – Richard Lyons, Northern Irish racing driver
• 1979 – Pooja Shah, English actress
• 1979 – Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Icelandic handball player
• 1980 – Shayna Baszler, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Craig Breslow, American baseball player
• 1980 – Jack Cassel, American baseball player
• 1980 – Denisse Guerrero, Mexican singer-songwriter (Belanova)
• 1980 – Mike Hindert, American singer and bass player (The Bravery)
• 1980 – Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
• 1980 – Diego Markwell, Dutch baseball player
• 1980 – Pat Noonan, American soccer player
• 1980 – Michael Urie, American actor, director, and producer
• 1981 – Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 1981 – Meagan Good, American actress and producer
• 1981 – Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Tanpopo, and Dream Morning Musume)
• 1981 – Bradley McIntosh, English singer and actor (S Club and Upper Street)
• 1981 – Harel Skaat, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1982 – David Florence, Scottish canoe racer
• 1982 – Ross Ohlendorf, American baseball player
• 1983 – Guy Burnet, English actor and producer
• 1983 – Willie Tonga, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
• 1984 – Brenda Gandini, Argentinian model, actress, and singer
• 1984 – Devon McTavish, American soccer player
• 1984 – Norbert Michelisz, Hungarian race car driver
• 1984 – Martrez Milner, American football player
• 1985 – Toby Flood, English rugby player
• 1985 – Ryan Koolwijk, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – James Morgan, Welsh actor and producer
• 1985 – Brett Ratliff, American football player
• 1986 – Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1986 – Pierre Garçon, American football player
• 1986 – Peyton List, American actress
• 1986 – Chris Pressley, American football player
• 1987 – Pierre Boulanger, French actor
• 1987 – Tatjana Malek, German tennis player
• 1988 – Princess Beatrice of York
• 1988 – Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
• 1988 – Ni Ni, Chinese actress
• 1988 – Rinku Singh, Indian baseball player
• 1988 – Laura Slade Wiggins, American actress and singer
• 1989 – Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1989 – Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player
• 1989 – Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian-Kazakhstan tennis player
• 1989 – Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer
• 1989 – Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 – Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1990 – Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1991 – Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 – Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1998 – Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2000 – Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 869 – Lothair II, Frankish king (b. 835)
• 1303 – Henry of Castile the Senator (b. 1230)
• 1555 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (b. 1494)
• 1588 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter (b. 1532)
• 1604 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyo (b. 1578)
• 1631 – Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian priest, lexicographer, and academic (b. 1579)
• 1684 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English politician (b. 1622)
• 1719 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• 1747 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian raid leader (b. 1678)
• 1759 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (b. 1704)
• 1827 – George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (b. 1743)
• 1863 – Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 – Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 – Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 – James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 – John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 – Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 – William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1921 – Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)
• 1928 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (b. 1874)
• 1934 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1863)
• 1937 – Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motor cycle racer (b. 1897)
• 1940 – Johnny Dodds, American clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1944 – Michael Wittmann, German commander (b. 1914)
• 1947 – Anton Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman, founded Qantas (b. 1879)
• 1959 – Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (b. 1902)
• 1961 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (b. 1894)
• 1962 – Elizabeth Ann Duncan, American murderer (d. 1904)
• 1964 – Cengiz Topel, Turkish lieutenant and pilot (d. 1934)
• 1965 – Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1916)
• 1969 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (b. 1907)
• 1972 – Andrea Feldman, American actress (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
• 1973 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (b. 1898)
• 1974 – Alexander Nelke, Estonian-American painter and carpenter (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Baldur von Schirach, German soldier and youth leader (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1979 – Esther Marion Armstrong, American wife of Edwin Howard Armstrong (b. 1898).
• 1979 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Thomas McElwee, Irish activist (b. 1957)
• 1982 – Eric Brandon, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1920)
• 1984 – Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1984 – Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1985 – Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Alan Napier, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
• 1991 – James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)
• 1992 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
• 1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Leon Golub, American painter and academic (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Ahmed Deedat, South African missionary and author (b. 1918)
• 2005 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Gene Mauch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Monica Sjöö, Swedish-English painter (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Ilse Werner, Indonesian-German actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese journalist and politician (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Leonard Pagliero, English pilot and dog breeder (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
• 2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Sancho Gracia, Spanish actor (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Karen Black, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985)
• 2013 – Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Charles Keating, English-American actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Leonardo Legaspi, Filipino archbishop (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Christopher Marshall, English physician and biologist (b. 1948)
• 2015 – Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Sean Price, American rapper and producer (Boot Camp Clik and Heltah Skeltah) (b. 1972)
• 2015 – Sam S. Walker, American general (b. 1925)

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