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• 9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
• 337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
• 533 – A Byzantine army of 15,000 men under Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (modern Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
• 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
• 1087 – William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, (reigned until 1100).
• 1141 – Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan.
• 1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
• 1488 – Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
• 1493 – Battle of Krbava Field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
• 1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
• 1561 – The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
• 1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
• 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
• 1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
• 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
• 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
• 1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
• 1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
• 1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
• 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
• 1922 – The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
• 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
• 1924 – Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• 1926 – In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
• 1936 – The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
• 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
• 1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
• 1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
• 1940 – Treznea massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians kill 93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, a village in Northern Transylvania, as part of ethnic cleansing.
• 1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
• 1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
• 1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Empire of Japan formally surrenders to China.
• 1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
• 1948 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
• 1954 – The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
• 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
• 1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
• 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
• 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
• 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
• 1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
• 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
• 1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
• 1986 – India national cricket team plays their last ODI Cricket match in Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium during Australia tour..
• 1990 – Batticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
• 1991 – Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
• 1999 – Sega releases the first 128-bit video game console, the Dreamcast.
• 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
• 2001 – Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
• 2001 – The Unix billennium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.
• 2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
• 2012 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PLSV launches.
• 2012 – A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
• 2015 – Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.

Births[edit]

• 214 – Aurelian, Roman emperor (d. 275)
• 384 – Honorius, Roman emperor (d. 423)
• 1349 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (d. 1395)
• 1427 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1464)
• 1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
• 1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (d. 1602)
• 1585 – Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (d. 1642)
• 1629 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch general (d. 1691)
• 1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
• 1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, American historian and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1780)
• 1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (d. 1808)
• 1731 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican priest, historian, and scholar (d. 1787)
• 1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
• 1754 – William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)
• 1755 – Benjamin Bourne, American judge and politician (d. 1808)
• 1777 – James Carr, American soldier and politician (d. 1818)
• 1778 – Clemens Brentano, German poet and author (d. 1842)
• 1789 – Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Polish rabbi (d. 1866)
• 1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish-English archbishop and philologist (d. 1886)
• 1823 – Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and academic (d. 1891)
• 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (d. 1910)
• 1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (d. 1903)
• 1839 – Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (d. 1921)
• 1853 – Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and merchant (d. 1926)
• 1855 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (d. 1927)
• 1855 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American engineer and explorer (d. 1921)
• 1863 – Herbert Henry Ball, English-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1943)
• 1868 – Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1934)
• 1869 – Abdullah Cevdet, Turkish physician and academic (d. 1932)
• 1872 – Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (d. 1932)
• 1873 – Max Reinhardt, Austrian-American actor and director (d. 1943)
• 1877 – James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1947)
• 1877 – Frank Chance, American baseball player and manager (d. 1924)
• 1878 – Adelaide Crapsey, American poet and critic (d. 1914)
• 1878 – Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (d. 1958)
• 1878 – Sergio Osmeña, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
• 1885 – Miriam Licette, English soprano and educator (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (d. 1987)
• 1882 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
• 1890 – Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (d. 1980)
• 1892 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (d. 1961)
• 1894 – Arthur Freed, American composer and producer (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1950)
• 1894 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1899 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1984)
• 1899 – Bruno E. Jacob, American academic, founded the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
• 1900 – James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (d. 1954)
• 1903 – Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Edward Upward, English author (d. 2009)
• 1903 – Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (d. 2008)
• 1904 – Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1904 – Arthur Laing, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (d. 1975)
• 1905 – Joseph E. Levine, American film producer, founded Embassy Pictures (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Brahmarishi Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher and poet (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Leon Edel, American author and critic (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and author (d. 1950)
• 1908 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945)
• 1911 – Paul Goodman, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1972)
• 1911 – John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)
• 1914 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
• 1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss footballer and referee (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
• 1922 – Bernard Bailyn, American historian, author, and academic
• 1922 – Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 – Manolis Glezos, Greek journalist and politician
• 1922 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian geneticist, entomologist, and engineer
• 1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Jimmy Perry, English actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1923 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader
• 1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) writer, poet, and educator (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian theologian and author
• 1927 – Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Moses Anderson, American bishop (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Francis Carroll, Australian archbishop
• 1931 – Robin Hyman, English author and publisher
• 1931 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor and author (d. 1976)
• 1931 – Shirley Summerskill, English physician and politician
• 1931 – Margaret Tyzack, English actress (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (d. 2015)
• 1935 – Gopal Baratham, Singaporean neurosurgeon and author (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Nadim Sawalha, Jordanian-born English actor
• 1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor, singer, and producer
• 1936 – William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw, English academic and politician
• 1938 – John Davis, English anthropologist and academic
• 1938 – Jay Ward, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Ron McDole, American football player
• 1940 – Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman
• 1940 – Joe Negroni, American singer (The Teenagers) (d. 1978)
• 1941 – Syed Abid Ali, Indian cricketer
• 1941 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1967)
• 1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Inez Foxx, American singer
• 1942 – Danny Kalb, American singer and guitarist (Blues Project)
• 1943 – Frank Clark, English footballer, manager and chairman
• 1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
• 1945 – Ton van Heugten, Dutch motocross racer (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Doug Ingle, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1946 – Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Evert Kroon, Dutch water polo player
• 1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian bass player (d. 2004)
• 1947 – David Rosenboom, American composer and educator
• 1947 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – T. M. Wright, American author, poet, and illustrator (d. 2015)
• 1949 – John Curry, English figure skater (d. 1994)
• 1949 – Daniel Pipes, American historian and author
• 1949 – Joe Theismann, American football player and sportscaster
• 1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian general and politician, 6th President of Indonesia
• 1950 – Gogi Alauddin, Pakistani squash player and coach
• 1950 – John McFee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia
• 1951 – Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
• 1952 – Angela Cartwright, English-American actress
• 1952 – Per Jørgensen, Norwegian singer and trumpet player
• 1952 – David A. Stewart, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1955 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian voice actor, animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist and educator
• 1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 – Éric Serra, French composer and producer
• 1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor and producer
• 1960 – Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – Bob Stoops, American football player and coach
• 1960 – Kimberly Willis Holt, American author
• 1963 – Chris Coons, American lawyer and politician
• 1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian footballer and manager
• 1963 – Neil Fairbrother, English test cricketer
• 1964 – Aleksandar Hemon, Bosnian-American author and critic
• 1964 – Skip Kendall, American golfer
• 1965 – Michelle Johnson, American actress
• 1965 – Dan Majerle, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 – Marcel Peeper, Dutch footballer
• 1966 – Georg Hackl, German luger and coach
• 1966 – Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player
• 1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1966 – Brian Smith, Australian-Irish rugby player and coach
• 1967 – B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Chris Caffery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Jon Drummond, American sprinter and coach
• 1968 – Clive Mendonca, English footballer
• 1968 – Lisa Lougheed, Canadian singer, dancer, and voice actor
• 1968 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
• 1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
• 1969 – Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician
• 1970 – Natalia Streignard, Spanish-Venezuelan actress
• 1971 – Eric Stonestreet, American actor
• 1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor and guitarist
• 1972 – Mike Hampton, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, English journalist
• 1972 – Jakko Jan Leeuwangh, Dutch speed skater
• 1972 – Miriam Oremans, Dutch tennis player
• 1972 – Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
• 1972 – Goran Visnjic, Croatian-American actor
• 1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
• 1974 – Vikram Batra, Indian captain (d. 1999)
• 1974 – Shane Crawford, Australian footballer and television host
• 1974 – Marcos Curiel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1974 – Gok Wan, English fashion stylist, author, and television host
• 1974 – Brittany Petros, American actress, producer, and television personality
• 1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 – Anton Oliver, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 – Hanno Möttölä, Finnish basketball player
• 1976 – Joey Newman, American composer and conductor
• 1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1976 – Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1977 – Kyle Snyder, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 – Fatih Tekke, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1978 – Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player and businessman, co-founded Marucci Sports
• 1978 – Shane Battier, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentinian tennis player
• 1979 – Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer and coach
• 1979 – Nikki DeLoach, American singer
• 1980 – Todd Coffey, American baseball player
• 1980 – Václav Drobný, Czech footballer (d. 2012)
• 1980 – David Fa'alogo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
• 1982 – John Kuhn, American football player
• 1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
• 1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1982 – Eugênio Rômulo Togni, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Vitolo, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Kyle Davies, American baseball player
• 1983 – Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
• 1983 – Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
• 1984 – Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer (d. 2012)
• 1984 – Brad Guzan, American soccer player
• 1984 – James Hildreth, English cricketer
• 1984 – Michalis Sifakis, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Yung Berg, American rapper and producer
• 1985 – Martin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1985 – Luka Modric, Croatian footballer
• 1986 – Michael Bowden, American baseball player
• 1986 – Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1986 – Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
• 1986 – Keith Yandle, American hockey player
• 1987 – Markus Jürgenson, Estonian footballer
• 1987 – Alexis Palisson, French rugby player
• 1987 – Andrea Petkovic, German tennis player
• 1988 – Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Will Middlebrooks, American baseball player
• 1989 – Alfonzo Dennard, American football player
• 1990 – Shaun Johnson, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 – Haley Reinhart, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1990 – Andrew Smith, American basketball player (d. 2016)
• 1990 – Jordan Tabor, English footballer (d. 2014)
• 1991 – Oscar, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Hunter Hayes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1991 – Danilo Luís Hélio Pereira, Bissauan-Portuguese footballer
• 1991 – Yevgeni Ponyatovskiy, Russian footballer
• 1992 – Shannon Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – Damian McGinty, Northern Irish actor and singer
• 1992 – Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1993 – Ryohei Kato, Japanese gymnast
• 1994 – Clinton Gutherson, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 – Billy Bainbridge, Australian rugby league player

Deaths[edit]

• 1087 – William the Conqueror, English king (b. 1028)
• 1398 – James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
• 1438 – Edward, King of Portugal (b. 1391)
• 1487 – Chenghua Emperor of China (b. 1447)
• 1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
• 1513 – victims of the Battle of Flodden
  • – James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
  • – George Douglas, Master of Angus (b. 1469)
  • – William Douglas of Glenbervie (b. 1473)
  • – William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose, Scottish politician (b. 1464)
  • – George Hepburn, Scottish bishop
  • – Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish politician, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
  • – Adam Hepburn of Craggis
  • – David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis, Scottish soldier (b. 1478)
  • – Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Scottish politician
  • – Alexander Stewart, Scottish archbishop (b. 1493)
  • – Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Scottish politician (b. 1488)
• 1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1525)
• 1583 – Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer and politician (b. 1539)
• 1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish queen (b. 1523)
• 1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1547)
• 1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyo (b. 1570)
• 1676 – Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French soldier, founded Montreal (b. 1612)
• 1680 – Henry Marten, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602)
• 1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian and author (b. 1694)
• 1806 – William Paterson, Irish-American judge and politician, 2nd Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
• 1815 – John Singleton Copley, American-English colonial and painter (b. 1738)
• 1834 – James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (b. 1787)
• 1841 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (b. 1778)
• 1871 – Stand Watie, Cherokee leader and the last Confederate general to surrender (b.1806)
• 1891 – Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (b. 1813)
• 1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (b. 1842)
• 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1907 – Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
• 1909 – E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1848)
• 1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American lawyer and politician, United States Solicitor General (b. 1859)
• 1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded Spalding (b. 1850)
• 1934 – Roger Fry, English painter and critic (b. 1866)
• 1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1863)
• 1945 – Max Ehrmann, American poet and lawyer (b. 1872)
• 1949 – Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist (b. 1893)
• 1950 – Victor Hémery, French racing driver (b. 1876)
• 1955 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1886)
• 1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (b. 1906)
• 1975 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Communist Party of China (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish linguist, poet, and author (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1892)
• 1979 – Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1980 – John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1981 – Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
• 1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901)
• 1984 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1985 – Neil Davis, Australian photographer and journalist (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1985 – Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896)
• 1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (b. 1893)
• 1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian field marshal and politician, 21st President of Liberia (b. 1951)
• 1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest and scholar (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927)
• 1997 – John Hackett, Australian-English general and author (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
• 1999 – Arie de Vroet, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (b. 1953)
• 2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Ernie Ball, American guitarist and businessman (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Caitlin Clarke, American actress (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
• 2006 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American businessman, founded Ziff Davis (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Vasyl Kuk, Ukrainian commander (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer and businessman, founded Amul (b. 1921)
• 2012 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Mike Scarry, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Ron Taylor, Australian oceanographer and photographer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Ron Tindall, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Saul Landau, American journalist, director, and author (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Shalom Yoran, Polish author (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Montserrat Abelló i Soler, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Graham Joyce, English author and educator (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1957)
• 2014 – Robert Young, Scottish-English guitarist (b. 1964)
• 2015 – Annemarie Bostroem, German poet, playwright, and songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Einar H. Ingman, Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1929)
• 2015 – K. Kunaratnam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1934)

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• 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
• 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
• 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
• 1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
• 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
• 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
• 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
• 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
• 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
• 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
• 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
• 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
• 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
• 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
• 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
• 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
• 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
• 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
• 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
• 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
• 1955 – The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS. It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.
• 1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
• 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
• 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
• 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
• 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
• 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
• 1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
• 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 2001 – Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
• 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
• 2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
• 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
• 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Births[edit]

• 920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
• 1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
• 1487 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
• 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615)
• 1547 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596)
• 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (d. 1634)
• 1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1666)
• 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (d. 1689)
• 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683)
• 1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (d. 1695)
• 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
• 1753 – John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (d. 1837)
• 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
• 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
• 1786 – William Mason, American surgeon and politician (d. 1860)
• 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868)
• 1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
• 1821 – William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (d. 1906)
• 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
• 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (d. 1914)
• 1844 – Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918)
• 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
• 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (d. 1935)
• 1855 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (d. 1895)
• 1860 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
• 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930)
• 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
• 1872 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
• 1875 – George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (d. 1957)
• 1876 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (d. 1966)
• 1884 – Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (d. 1964)
• 1885 – Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
• 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American author and critic (d. 1950)
• 1886 – H.D., American author and poet (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
• 1887 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (d. 1976)
• 1889 – Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (d. 1929)
• 1890 – Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
• 1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1894 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Ukrainian director and screenwriter (d. 1956)
• 1895 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (d. 1976)
• 1896 – Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
• 1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese general (d. 1946)
• 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher and author (d. 1962)
• 1897 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (d. 1999)
• 1903 – Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003)
• 1904 – Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
• 1906 – Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (d. 1937)
• 1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2000)
• 1921 – John W. Morris, American general (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
• 1925 – Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric
• 1925 – Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician
• 1928 – Walter Ralston Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche
• 1929 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
• 1929 – John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman
• 1930 – Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Isabel Colegate, English author and agent
• 1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
• 1932 – Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer
• 1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and astronaut (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer
• 1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
• 1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator
• 1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet and author
• 1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author
• 1937 – Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
• 1938 – David Hamilton, English radio and television host
• 1940 – Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer
• 1940 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Bob Chance, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (d. 1997)
• 1942 – Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer
• 1943 – Tezer Özlü, Turkish writer (b. 1986)
• 1944 – Thomas Allen, English actor, singer, and academic
• 1945 – Dennis Burkley, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2013)
• 1945 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author
• 1945 – Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut
• 1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
• 1946 – Jim Hines, American sprinter and football player
• 1946 – Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Larry Nelson, American golfer
• 1947 – David Pountney, English director and manager
• 1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese historian and author
• 1948 – Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
• 1948 – Judy Geeson, English actress
• 1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress and talk show host, 12th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada
• 1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host
• 1949 – Babette Cole, English author and illustrator
• 1949 – Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and author
• 1950 – Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist
• 1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic
• 1951 – Bill Rogers, American golfer
• 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, co-founded Code Pink
• 1952 – Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice
• 1953 – Amy Irving, American actress
• 1953 – John Thurso, Scottish businessman and politician
• 1954 – Jackie Ashley, English journalist
• 1954 – Lorely Burt, English politician
• 1954 – Don Wilson, American kickboxer
• 1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss-born British actress
• 1957 – Andreï Makine, Russian-French author
• 1958 – Chris Columbus, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 – Michael Earl, American actor, singer, and puppeteer (d. 2015)
• 1959 – Jim Meskimen, American voice actor and producer
• 1959 – Peter Nelson, American actor and producer
• 1960 – Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor and producer
• 1960 – Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Trace Gallagher, American journalist
• 1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player and actor
• 1963 – Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1964 – Edmund de Waal, English potter and author
• 1964 – John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician
• 1966 – Robin Goodridge, English drummer
• 1966 – Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress
• 1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
• 1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1968 – Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player
• 1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
• 1970 – Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
• 1970 – Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Joe Bravo, American jockey
• 1972 – James Duval, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
• 1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
• 1973 – Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist
• 1973 – Tim Stimpson, English rugby player
• 1974 – Mohammad Akram, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1974 – Mirko Filipović, Croatian mixed martial artist, boxer, and politician
• 1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
• 1975 – Viktor Kassai, Hungarian footballer and referee
• 1975 – Dan O'Toole, Canadian sportscaster
• 1975 – Melanie Pullen, American photographer
• 1976 – Marty Holah, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
• 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player
• 1977 – Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 – Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
• 1978 – Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1980 – Mikey Way, American bass player and songwriter
• 1981 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
• 1981 – Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – Misty Copeland, American ballerina and author
• 1982 – Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
• 1983 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
• 1984 – Sander Post, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Harry Treadaway, English actor
• 1984 – Luke Treadaway, English actor
• 1985 – Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer
• 1985 – James Graham, English rugby league player
• 1985 – Aya Kamiki, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Neil Walker, American baseball player
• 1986 – Ashley Monroe, American singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
• 1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
• 1989 – Matt Ritchie, English footballer
• 1989 – Lee Sawyer, English footballer
• 1991 – Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 – Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
• 1997 – Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
• 1998 – Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 918 – Baldwin II, Margrave of Flanders (b. 865)
• 1167 – Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
• 1197 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
• 1217 – William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician
• 1306 – Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1245)
• 1308 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
• 1382 – Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
• 1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
• 1519 – John Colet, English theologian and scholar (b. 1467)
• 1549 – Anthony Denny, English politician (b. 1501)
• 1591 – Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (b. 1542)
• 1604 – William Morgan, Welsh bishop and translator (b. 1545)
• 1607 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1545)
• 1669 – Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
• 1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (b. 1609)
• 1748 – Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
• 1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 1759 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (b. 1703)
• 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (b. 1759)
• 1842 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
• 1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
• 1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (b. 1787)
• 1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1788)
• 1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
• 1891 – David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (b. 1804)
• 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
• 1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
• 1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
• 1915 – Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1879 )
• 1919 – J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (b. 1856)
• 1920 – Olive Thomas, American model and actress (b. 1894)
• 1922 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (b. 1840)
• 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1869)
• 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (b. 1886)
• 1933 – Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1934 – George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
• 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1938 – Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (b. 1852)
• 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (b. 1888)
• 1948 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
• 1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect, designed the Beirut City Hall (b. 1866)
• 1954 – Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (b. 1908)
• 1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1965 – Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
• 1966 – Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
• 1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 1973 – Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1975 – Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
• 1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
• 1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Norah Lofts, English author (b. 1904)
• 1983 – Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (b. 1941)
• 1983 – B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 1985 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
• 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (b. 1937)
• 1988 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
• 2000 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2012 – John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (b. 1922)
• 2013 – John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Josef Němec, Czech boxer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Jack Vance, Canadian general (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
• 2014 – George Spencer, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader and academic (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Antoine Lahad, Lebanese general (b. 1927)

Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Kiev

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The Ukrainian city of Kiev will host the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, it has been announced, after a fortnight of delays.

The venue was due to be announced on 26 August, but a press conference was cancelled at the last minute.

Organisers said they were "still discussing" candidates, but fans speculated Ukraine might pull out of the contest for financial reasons.

Eurovision said Kiev, the capital city, would prove to be a "worthy host".

"Kiev presented an excellent case and we are looking forward to working together to create the most electrifying show yet next May," said Jon Ola Sand, who oversees the contest for the European Broadcasting Union.

Hosting the contest costs millions of pounds. This years, Sweden is thought to have spent £12m on staging the three live shows, making it the lowest-budget production in years.

The city of Baku, in Azerbaijan, which hosted the contest in 2012, spent £48m after building the Baku Crystal Hall specifically for the event. In 2014, Denmark spent £36m and received £13m in tourism spending, while Austria paid £28m and received £22m in 2015.

Dates announced

Millions of viewers watched Ukrainian singer Jamala win the 2016 contest, held in Stockholm last May.

Her song, 1944, had been the target of criticism, as its lyrics referenced the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin, which some said broke Eurovision rules on songs that contain political messages.

However, it scored a resounding victory, winning 534 points, largely drawn from viewers' phone votes. 

The 2017 contest will be held in Kiev's International Exhibition Centre, which has the capacity for 11,000 spectators. 

The semi-finals will take place on Tuesday 9 and Thursday 11 May, with the grand final on Saturday 13 May.

Ελισάβετ της Αυστρίας 
1837–1898

Διεθνής Έκθεση Θεσσαλονίκης

Η ιστορία της ΔΕΘ

• Να καταβάλει τα δεδουλευμένα που οφείλει στους εργαζόμενους.

• Να είναι εφεξής συνεπής στις υποχρεώσεις της έναντι των εργαζομένων και του νόμου.

Guardian: Το καλοκαίρι δεν έχει τελειώσει ακόμη στη Σύμη 

Το φθινόπωρο διανύει ήδη τα πρώτα του «βήματα», αλλά κάποιοι επιμένουν να

 μην θέλουν να «αποχαιρετίσουν» το καλοκαίρι.

Ανάμεσά τους και ο Guardian, που επέλεξε και την Ελλάδα ανάμεσα στους

 ιδανικούς προορισμούς αυτή την εποχή. «Το καλοκαίρι δεν έχει... αποχωρήσει

 ακόμη από τη νότια Ευρώπη. Αλλά έχουν φύγει τα πλήθη και οι υψηλές τιμές»,

 αναφέρει η βρετανική εφημερίδα, προτείνοντας εξορμήσεις στην Ισπανία, την

 Ιταλία, τη Μάλτα και την Ελλάδα.

Για τη χώρα μας, σε αυτό το δημοσίευμα, προτείνει στους τουρίστες τη Σύμη.

 «Η θάλασσα είναι τόσο ζεστή που μπορείτε να κολυμπάτε μέχρι τα Χριστούγεννα»,

 αναφέρει ο Guardian, προσθέτοντας ότι ένας ακόμη λόγος που συγκεντρώνει 

κόσμο και το φθινόπωρο το νησί, πέρα από την εγγυημένη ηλιοφάνεια όπως

 σημειώνει, είναι η γιορτή του Αρχαγγέλου Μιχαήλ στις 8 Νοεμβρίου, καθώς 

αποτελεί πόλο έλξης το μοναστήρι του Πανορμίτη.

Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, το δημοσίευμα τονίζει ότι είναι μοναδική εμπειρία η επίσκεψη

 στα μοναστήρια του νησιού, όπως στη Μονή του Μεγάλου Σωτήρος, ή στον Αγιο

 Αιμιλιανό. Οι προτάσεις δεν θα μπορούσαν να παραλείψουν τις παραλίες 

της Σύμης, όπως τη Νανού, τη Μαραθούντα και τον Αγιο Γεώργιο Δυσαλώνας.

Το γεύμα Τσίπρα σε Μπουτάρη-Τζιτζικώστα στην παραθαλάσσια ψαροταβέρνα "Μαιαμι"