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• 335 – Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I.
• 634 – Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
• 1356 – Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
• 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
• 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
• 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
• 1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
• 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
• 1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Iuka: Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Third Battle of Winchester: Union troops under General Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley and was not only militarily decisive in that region of Virginia but also played a role in securing Abraham Lincoln's election in 1864.
• 1868 – Spanish revolution: La Gloriosa.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
• 1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
• 1879 – The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
• 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
• 1893 – Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
• 1916 – During the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of General Charles Tombeur captured the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
• 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
• 1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
• 1944 – Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed, marking the end of the Continuation War.
• 1944 – Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
• 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
• 1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
• 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
• 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
• 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.
• 1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
• 1970 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show, an American sitcom, premiered on CBS
• 1971 – Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
• 1973 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
• 1976 – Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
• 1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
• 1978 – The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• 1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
• 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
• 1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
• 1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
• 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• 1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
• 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
• 1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
• 1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria where 53 people are killed.
• 2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
• 2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
• 2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.

Births[edit]

• 86 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (d. 161)
• 866 – Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor (d. 912)
• 1328 – Joan of Kent (d. 1385)
• 1377 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
• 1551 – Henry III of France (d. 1589)
• 1721 – William Robertson, Scottish historian (d. 1793)
• 1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1822)
• 1754 – John Ross Key, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (d. 1821)
• 1759 – William Kirby, English priest and entomologist (d. 1850)
• 1774 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (d. 1849)
• 1778 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
• 1796 – Hartley Coleridge, English poet and author (d. 1849)
• 1802 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor-President of Hungary (d. 1894)
• 1803 – Maria Anna of Savoy (d. 1884)
• 1811 – Orson Pratt, American mathematician and religious leader (d. 1881)
• 1828 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1880)
• 1862 – Juliusz Bursche, Polish bishop (d. 1942)
• 1864 – Ragna Wettergreen, Norwegian actress (d. 1958)
• 1865 – Frank Eugene, American-German photographer (d. 1936)
• 1867 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (d. 1939)
• 1871 – Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (d. 1938)
• 1882 – Christopher Stone, English radio host (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Mabel Vernon, American educator and activist (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1972)
• 1887 – Lynne Overman, American actor and singer (d. 1943)
• 1888 – James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Porter Hall, American actor (d. 1953)
• 1889 – Sarah Louise Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
• 1894 – Rachel Field, American author and poet (d. 1942)
• 1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, Italian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Italy (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer, co-founded Fulbright & Jaworski (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American lawyer and jurist (d. 1998)
• 1908 – Paul Bénichou, French historian, author, and critic (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Robert Lecourt, French lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (d. 1975)
• 1908 – Alberto Socarras, Cuban-American flute player (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Mika Waltari, Finnish author and academic (d. 1979)
• 1909 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian engineer and businessman (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Jack Dunham, American animator and producer (d. 2009)
• 1910 – Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1911 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Kurt Sanderling, Polish-German conductor (d. 2011)
• 1913 – Frances Farmer, American actress (d. 1970)
• 1913 – Helen Ward, American singer (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer, and producer (d. 1973)
• 1918 – Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native American) painter (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Roger Grenier, French journalist and author
• 1920 – Roger Angell, American journalist and author
• 1921 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher, theorist, and academic (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Damon Knight, American author and critic (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Vern Benson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Pete Murray, English radio and television host
• 1925 – W. Reece Smith, Jr., American lawyer and academic (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1926 – Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Helen Carter, American singer (d. 1998)
• 1927 – Rosemary Harris, English actress
• 1927 – William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1927 – Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Adam West, American actor
• 1929 – Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Muhal Richard Abrams, American pianist, composer, and educator
• 1930 – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Antonio Margheriti, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Derek Nimmo, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1931 – Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988)
• 1931 – Derek Gardner, English engineer (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Mike Royko, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
• 1932 – Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Gilles Archambault, Canadian journalist and author
• 1933 – David McCallum, Scottish-American actor
• 1934 – Brian Epstein, English talent manager (d. 1967)
• 1934 – Austin Mitchell, English academic and politician
• 1935 – Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Martin Fay, Irish fiddler (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Milan Marcetta, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Al Oerter, American discus thrower (d. 2007)
• 1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player
• 1939 – Bruce Bastin, English musicologist and author
• 1939 – Louise Botting, English journalist and author
• 1939 – Carl Schultz, Hungarian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1939 – Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach (d. 1972)
• 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum
• 1940 – Sylvia Tyson, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1940 – Ed Westfall, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1940 – Paul Williams, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1941 – Umberto Bossi, Italian politician
• 1941 – Cass Elliot, American singer (d. 1974)
• 1941 – Jim Fox, English pentathlete
• 1941 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress
• 1943 – André Boudrias, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1943 – Joe Morgan, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1943 – Indrek Toome, Estonian businessman and politician
• 1944 – Anders Björck, Swedish politician, 25th Swedish Minister of Defence
• 1944 – Edmund Joensen, Faroese politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1944 – Jean Succar Kuri, Lebanese-Mexican businessman
• 1944 – İsmet Özel, Turkish poet and scholar
• 1945 – Kate Adie, English journalist and author
• 1945 – David Bromberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Randolph Mantooth, American actor and director
• 1946 – Brian Henton, English race car driver
• 1947 – Henry Bromell, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Thomas H. Cook, American author and academic
• 1947 – Lol Creme, English singer, guitarist, and director
• 1947 – Brian Hill, American basketball player and coach
• 1947 – Tanith Lee, English author (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1948 – Jeremy Irons, English actor
• 1949 – Twiggy, English model, actress, and singer
• 1949 – Sally Potter, English director, screenwriter, and composer
• 1949 – Ernie Sabella, American actor
• 1949 – Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founded the Innocence Project
• 1949 – Sayoko Yamaguchi, Japanese model and actress (d. 2007)
• 1950 – Joan Lunden, American television journalist, anchor, and author
• 1950 – Michael Proctor, English physicist, mathematician, and academic
• 1951 – Daniel Lanois, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 – Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Rhys Chatham, American trumpet player, guitarist, and composer
• 1952 – Bernard de Dryver, Belgian race car driver
• 1952 – Gunnar Hökmark, Swedish blogger and politician
• 1952 – Henry Kaiser, American guitarist and composer
• 1952 – Nile Rodgers, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1952 – George Warrington, American businessman (d. 2007)
• 1953 – Wayne Clark, Australian cricketer
• 1953 – Sarana VerLin, American singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1954 – Adam Phillips, Welsh psychotherapist and author
• 1954 – Eleni Vitali, Greek singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Richard Burmer, American composer and engineer (d. 2006)
• 1955 – Rex Smith, American actor, singer, and guitarist
• 1956 – Juan Manuel Fangio II, Argentinian race car driver
• 1956 – Charlie Reliford, American baseball player and umpire
• 1957 – Chris Roupas, American basketball player
• 1958 – Lita Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Kevin Hooks, American actor, director, and producer
• 1960 – Mario Batali, American chef and author
• 1960 – Loïc Bigois, French aerodynamicist and engineer
• 1960 – Tonja Walker, American model, actress, and singer
• 1961 – Artur Ekert, Polish-English physicist and academic
• 1962 – Cheri Oteri, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Ken Rosenthal, American sportscaster
• 1963 – Jarvis Cocker, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 – David Seaman, English footballer
• 1963 – Urmas Tartes, Estonian biologist and photographer
• 1964 – Patrick Marber, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Bob Papa, American sportscaster
• 1964 – Daniel Wincott, British political scientist
• 1964 – Trisha Yearwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1965 – Andrew Leeds, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1965 – Sunita Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1966 – Soledad O'Brien, American journalist and producer
• 1966 – Yoshihiro Takayama, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1967 – Jim Abbott, American baseball player
• 1967 – Aleksandr Karelin, Russian wrestler and politician
• 1968 – Jimmy Bower, American drummer and songwriter
• 1968 – Monica Crowley, American talk show host and author
• 1969 – Candy Dulfer, Dutch saxophonist
• 1969 – Jacek Frąckiewicz, Polish footballer
• 1969 – Alkinoos Ioannidis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Michael Symon, American chef and author
• 1969 – Kostya Tszyu, Russian-Australian boxer
• 1969 – Tapio Wilska, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 – Gilbert Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Antoine Hey, German footballer and manager
• 1970 – Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
• 1970 – Victor Williams, American actor
• 1971 – Sanaa Lathan, American actress
• 1971 – Mike Sadlo, German footballer and manager
• 1972 – Matt Cockbain, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1972 – Ryan Girdler, Australian rugby league player
• 1972 – Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player and coach
• 1973 – Nick Colgan, Irish footballer and coach
• 1973 – Cristiano da Matta, Brazilian race car driver
• 1974 – Jimmy Fallon, American comedian and talk show host
• 1975 – Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter
• 1976 – Raja Bell, American basketball player
• 1976 – Jay Electronica, American rapper and producer
• 1976 – Jan Hlaváč, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Alison Sweeney, American actress and television host
• 1976 – Jim Ward, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Poon Yiu Cheuk, Hong Kong footballer and coach
• 1977 – Aakash Chopra, Indian cricketer
• 1977 – Tasha Danvers, English hurdler
• 1977 – Josef Fares, Swedish director and screenwriter
• 1977 – Danny Forster, American architect, television host, and producer
• 1977 – Wu Jiaduo, Chinese-German table tennis player
• 1977 – Fung Ka Ki, Hong Kong footballer and manager
• 1977 – Tommaso Rocchi, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Mike Smith, American baseball player
• 1977 – Emil Sutovsky, Israeli chess player
• 1978 – Nick Johnson, American baseball player
• 1978 – Jorge López Montaña, Spanish footballer
• 1978 – Nigel Mitchell, English radio and television host
• 1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentinian tennis player
• 1978 – Waylon Reavis, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Joel Houston, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1979 – Noémie Lenoir, French model and actress
• 1980 – James Ellison, English motorcycle racer
• 1980 – Sara Quin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Tegan Quin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby player
• 1981 – Damiano Cunego, Italian cyclist
• 1981 – Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
• 1981 – Rika Fujiwara, Japanese tennis player
• 1982 – Shaun Barker, English footballer
• 1982 – Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 – Eleni Daniilidou, Greek tennis player
• 1982 – Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Columbus Short, American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer
• 1982 – Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, author, and illustrator
• 1983 – Joey Devine, American baseball player
• 1983 – Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
• 1983 – Ivica Vrdoljak, Polish footballer
• 1983 – Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Eva Marie, American wrestler and fitness model
• 1984 – Ángel Reyna, Mexican footballer
• 1984 – Danny Valencia, American baseball player
• 1984 – Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
• 1985 – Gio Gonzalez, American baseball player
• 1985 – Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
• 1985 – Renee Young, Canadian journalist
• 1985 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor
• 1986 – Leon Best, English footballer
• 1986 – Ken Gushi, Japanese race car driver
• 1986 – Chase Rice, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Ilya Salmanzadeh, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 – Ryan Succop, American football player
• 1987 – Kenny Britt, American football player
• 1987 – Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer
• 1989 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player
• 1990 – Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress and singer
• 1990 – Savvas Gentsoglou, Greek footballer
• 1990 – Evgeny Novikov, Russian race car driver
• 1990 – Kieran Trippier, English footballer
• 1991 – Colin Grafton, American figure skater
• 1991 – Helen Maroulis, American wrestler
• 1991 – Oliver Merkel, German footballer
• 1991 – Demelza Reveley, Australian model
• 1991 – Chloe Esposito, Australian modern pentathlete
• 1992 – Diego Antonio Reyes, Mexican footballer
• 1996 – Haruka Kodama, Japanese idol singer

Deaths[edit]

• 643 – Goeric of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint
• 690 – Theodore of Tarsus, English archbishop and saint (b. 602)
• 1123 – Emperor Taizu of Jin (b. 1068)
• 1339 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
• 1356 – Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1311)
• 1356 – Walter VI, Count of Brienne (b. 1304)
• 1668 – William Waller, English general and politician (b. 1597)
• 1710 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1644)
• 1812 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Mary Jemison, American frontierswoman adopted by the Seneca (b. 1743)
• 1843 – Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1792)
• 1863 – Hans Christian Heg, Norwegian-American colonel and politician (b. 1829)
• 1868 – William Sprague, American minister and politician (b. 1809)
• 1881 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, and the 20th President of the United States (b. 1831)
• 1893 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1817)
• 1902 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (b. 1867)
• 1905 – Thomas John Barnardo, Irish-English philanthropist (b. 1845)
• 1906 – Maria Georgina Grey, English educator, founded the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
• 1924 – Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1854)
• 1927 – Michael Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1857)
• 1936 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1942 – Condé Montrose Nast, American publisher, founded Condé Nast Publications (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Guy Gibson, Indian-English commander, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
• 1949 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic (b. 1884)
• 1949 – George Shiels, Irish-Canadian playwright (b. 1886)
• 1949 – Nikos Skalkottas, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1955 – John D. Dingell, Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1967 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Ukrainian-French painter (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1910)
• 1969 – Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1972 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1975 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
• 1978 – Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1985 – Italo Calvino, Italian journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
• 1992 – Jacques Pic, French chef (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Orville Redenbacher, American businessman, founded the Orville Redenbacher's Company (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Jack May, English actor (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Rich Mullins, American singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
• 1998 – Patricia Hayes, English actress (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Pastor Coronel, Paraguayan politician (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australian archaeologist and academic (b. 1941)
• 2002 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
• 2002 – Duncan Hallas, English author and activist (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Slim Dusty, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (b. 1933)
• 2004 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman and activist (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Martha Holmes, American photographer and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Arthur Ferrante, American pianist (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (b. 1915)
• 2009 – Roc Raida, American DJ and producer (b. 1972)
• 2009 – Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Thomas Capano, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
• 2011 – Dolores Hope, American singer (b. 1909)
• 2011 – Johnny Răducanu, Romanian pianist and composer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Víctor Cabedo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Rino Ferrario, Italian footballer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Cecil Gordon, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Bettye Lane, American photographer and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Robert Barnard, English author and critic (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Gerrie Mühren, Dutch footballer and scout (b. 1946)
• 2013 – John Reger, American football player (b. 1931)
• 2013 – William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (b. 1913)
• 2013 – John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Francisco Feliciano, Filipino composer and conductor (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Avraham Heffner, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Audrey Long, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Jackie Collins, English novelist (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1966)
• 2015 – Brian Sewell, English art dealer and critic (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Masajuro Shiokawa, Japanese economist and politician, 63rd Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Walter Young, American baseball player (b. 1980)

Ξεσπάθωσε η Μαρινέλλα: κάνουν 

καριέρα με στρινγκ και playback

Γκρέτα Γκάρμπο 
1905 – 1990

Πόσο θα κοστίζει το iPhone 7 στην Ελλάδα -Ερχεται αυτή την εβδομάδα 

Βρέθηκε σκελετός στο Ναυάγιο των Αντικυθήρων -Στο φως και εργαλείο 

για ασφαλή ναυσιπλοΐα 

Συνεχίζεται με επιτυχία η έρευνα/ανασκαφή στο Ναυάγιο 

των Αντικυθήρων που έφερε στην επιφάνεια έναν σκελετό,

 αλλά και μια μολύβδινη καταπειρατηρία. 

Από 28 Αυγούστου μέχρι 14 Σεπτεμβρίου, η επιστημονική ομάδα της Εφορείας

 Εναλίων Αρχαιοτήτων και του αμερικάνικου Ωκεανογραφικού Ινστιτούτου

 Woods Hole, η οποία ερευνά το Ναυάγιο των Αντικυθήρων, ολοκλήρωσε μία

 δεύτερη ανασκαφική αποστολή εντός του ιδίου έτους. 

Κατά τη διάρκεια της έρευνας εντοπίστηκαν και ανελκύστηκαν, μεταξύ άλλων

 μικροαντικειμένων και κεραμικής, σκελετικά κατάλοιπα (κρανίο,

 μακρά και μικρότερα οστά) ατόμου που είχε εγκλωβιστεί στο ναυάγιο

 κατά τη βύθισή του.

Οστά από τουλάχιστον τέσσερα διαφορετικά άτομα είχαν ήδη εντοπιστεί στο

 ναυάγιο κατά τις έρευνες των ετών 1900 – 1901 και 1976. 

Ανεύρεση σκελετού κατά τη διάρκεια της έρευνας

Η θέση των οστών και η σχέση τους με τα άλλα ευρήματα πλησίον τους,

 φανερώνουν τη βίαιη ναυάγηση του πλοίου, επιπροσθέτως οι προγραμματιζόμενες 

ανθρωπολογικές και γενετικές (DNA) αναλύσεις αναμένεται να δώσουν στοιχεία 

για τον ίδιο τον νεκρό, δηλαδή το φύλο, την ηλικία θανάτου και γενικά την

 ανασύνθεση του τρόπου ζωής του.

Σημαντικό εύρημα θεωρείται και η ανεύρεση μιας μολύβδινης

 καταπειρατηρίας, βάρους 50 κιλών. 

Πρόκειται για αντικείμενο σχήματος κολουροημισφαιρκού, που εμφανίζει

 κωδωνόσχημη τομή λόγω κοίλανσης στο εσωτερικό της βάσης του. 

Καταπειρατηρία

Στην επίπεδη άνω όψη υπάρχουν δύο μικρές τετράγωνες εγκοπές για το στέλεχος

 ανάρτησής του. Βάσει των χαρακτηριστικών του, το αντικείμενο ταυτίζεται με 

βολίδα για τη μέτρηση του βάθους του θαλασσίου βυθού και τον έλεγχο της

 φύσης του.
Τη δειγματοληψία από το βυθό εξυπηρετούσε η κοίλανση στη βάση με τους

 ήλους από σίδερο ή χαλκό, που παγίδευαν λασπώδη άμμο, λίθους και ιζήματα,

 αποκαλύπτοντας την ιδιαίτερη χρησιμότητα του αντικειμένου για την περίπτωση

 ελιγμών ή αγκυροβολίας. 

Αυτό το ταπεινό εργαλείο θεωρείται ζωτικής σημασίας για την ασφαλή 

ναυσιπλοΐα κατά την αρχαιότητα. Οι παλαιότερες καταπειρατηρίες

 χρονολογούνται τουλάχιστον από τον 6ο π.Χ. αιώνα. Στο ναυάγιο έχει βρεθεί μία

 ακόμα καταπειρατηρία κατά τις έρευνες των ετών 1900 – 1901.

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• 622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina
• 1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
• 1066 – Battle of Fulford, Viking Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin
• 1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
• 1260 – The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
• 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
• 1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
• 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
• 1697 – The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years' War (1688–97).
• 1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
• 1792 – French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
• 1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Ragamuffin War.
• 1848 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
• 1854 – Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in Crimea.
• 1857 – The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
• 1860 – The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The conclusion of the Battle of Chickamauga in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.
• 1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
• 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
• 1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
• 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
• 1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
• 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
• 1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
• 1911 – White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with British warship HMS Hawke.
• 1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
• 1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
• 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
• 1961 – Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
• 1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
• 1970 – Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
• 1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
• 1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
• 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
• 1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
• 1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
• 1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
• 1985 – Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.
• 1990 – South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
• 2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
• 2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
• 2002 – The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
• 2003 – Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
• 2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
• 2008 – A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
• 2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

Births[edit]

• 524 – Kan B'alam I, Mayan ruler (d. 583)
• 1161 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
• 1486 – Arthur, Prince of Wales (d. 1502)
• 1593 – Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (d. 1661)
• 1599 – Christian the Younger of Brunswick (d. 1623)
• 1608 – Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founded the Society of Saint-Sulpice (d. 1657)
• 1685 – Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
• 1746 – Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (d. 1786)
• 1758 – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (d. 1806)
• 1778 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (d. 1852)
• 1800 – Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (d. 1879)
• 1819 – Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (d. 1895)
• 1820 – John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
• 1831 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (d. 1917)
• 1833 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
• 1842 – James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (d. 1923)
• 1844 – William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (d. 1893)
• 1851 – Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (d. 1929)
• 1853 – Chulalongkorn, Thai king (d. 1910)
• 1861 – Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
• 1872 – Maurice Gamelin, French general (d. 1958)
• 1873 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
• 1873 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
• 1876 – Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (d. 1941)
• 1878 – Upton Sinclair, American journalist and author (d. 1968)
• 1880 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (d. 1968)
• 1884 – Maxwell Perkins, American journalist (d. 1947)
• 1885 – Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1945)
• 1889 – Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (d. 1962)
• 1889 – Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (d. 1975)
• 1890 – Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (d. 1967)
• 1891 – Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary, strongman of Tabasco (d. 1943)
• 1892 – Roy Turk, American songwriter (d. 1934)
• 1893 – Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (d. 1962)
• 1895 – Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science, Vienna circle member (d. 1937)
• 1899 – Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Stevie Smith, English author and poet (d. 1971)
• 1906 – Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist (d. 1991)
• 1913 – Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (d. 1985)
• 1914 – Kenneth More, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
• 1915 – K. H. Ting, Chinese bishop (d. 2012)
• 1916 – Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Don Starr, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1917 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Horace Gould, English racing driver (d. 1968)
• 1920 – Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (d. 1989)
• 1921 – Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (d. 2013)
• 1922 – William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
• 1923 – Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-American poet and author (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
• 1924 – Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
• 1924 – Albert Marre, American director, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1925 – James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
• 1927 – Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (d. 1966)
• 1927 – John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (d. 1992)
• 1927 – Rachel Roberts, Welsh-American actress and singer (d. 1980)
• 1928 – Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Donald Hall, American poet, author, and critic
• 1928 – Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
• 1929 – Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player
• 1930 – Eddie Bo, American singer and pianist (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1971)
• 1931 – Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Steve McCall, American drummer (d. 1989)
• 1933 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (d. 1976)
• 1934 – Takayuki Kubota, Japanese-American martial artist and actor
• 1934 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress
• 1934 – David Marquand, English academic and politician
• 1934 – Jeff Morris, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (d. 2015)
• 1935 – David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1935 – Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1935 – Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster
• 1936 – Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1936 – Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment
• 1937 – Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear, English police officer
• 1937 – Garry Johnson, English general
• 1937 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (d. 1994)
• 1938 – Jane Manning, English soprano and educator
• 1939 – Robert L. Gerry III, American businessman
• 1940 – Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
• 1940 – William Finley, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1940 – Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author
• 1941 – Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator
• 1941 – Jim Cullum, Jr., American cornet player
• 1941 – Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer
• 1942 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (d. 2015)
• 1942 – Gérald Tremblay, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Montreal
• 1942 – R. J. Adams, actor, screenwriter, producer, and radio personality (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Jeremy Child, English actor
• 1944 – Paul Madeley, English footballer
• 1945 – Laurie Spiegel, American composer
• 1946 – Pete Coors, American businessman and politician
• 1946 – Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge
• 1947 – Billy Bang, American violinist and composer (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Jude Deveraux, American author
• 1947 – Steve Gerber, American author and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 1947 – Wojciech Kurtyka, Polish mountaineer and rock climber
• 1947 – Mia Martini, Italian singer and actress (d. 1995)
• 1947 – Chris Ortloff, American journalist and politician
• 1947 – Bruce Pasternack, American businessman
• 1947 – Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author
• 1948 – Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host
• 1948 – Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (d. 2014)
• 1948 – George R. R. Martin, American author and screenwriter
• 1948 – Chuck Panozzo, American bass player
• 1948 – John Panozzo, American drummer (d. 1996)
• 1949 – Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Anthony Denison, American actor
• 1951 – Joanna Cameron, American model and actress
• 1951 – Mike Graham, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2012)
• 1951 – Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 – Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic
• 1953 – Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer
• 1954 – Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom
• 1954 – Brinke Stevens, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Shivarudra Balayogi, Yogi, direct disciple of Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj
• 1955 – Betsy Brantley, American actress
• 1955 – José Rivero, Spanish golfer
• 1955 – Peter Scolari, American actor and director
• 1956 – Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1956 – Gary Cole, American actor
• 1956 – Steve Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
• 1956 – John Harle, English saxophonist, composer, conductor, and producer
• 1957 – Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter
• 1957 – Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director
• 1958 – Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer
• 1959 – Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator
• 1959 – Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator
• 1959 – Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1960 – Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1960 – Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1960 – Deborah Roberts, American journalist
• 1961 – Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist
• 1961 – Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1962 – Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic
• 1963 – Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer
• 1964 – Randy Bradbury, American bass player
• 1966 – Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 – Douglas Gordon, Scottish-German photographer
• 1967 – Martin Harrison, American football player
• 1967 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
• 1967 – Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1968 – Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1968 – Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress
• 1968 – Darrell Russell, American race car driver (d. 2004)
• 1968 – Ben Shepherd, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1968 – Michelle Visage, American singer and radio host
• 1969 – Megumi Kudo, Japanese wrestler and sportscaster
• 1969 – Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1969 – Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1971 – Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1971 – Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1971 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1971 – Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host
• 1972 – Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania
• 1973 – Ronald McKinnon, American football player
• 1973 – Jo Pavey, English runner
• 1975 – Asia Argento, Italian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver
• 1975 – Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer
• 1975 – Joe Roff, Australian rugby player
• 1977 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer, dancer, and actress
• 1977 – The-Dream, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1977 – Martin Horntveth, Norwegian drummer and composer
• 1977 – Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic
• 1978 – Jason Bay, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1978 – Patrizio Buanne, Austrian-Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1978 – Héctor Camacho, Jr., Puerto Rican-American boxer
• 1978 – Dante Hall, American football player
• 1978 – Scott Minto, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 – T. J. Tucker, American baseball player
• 1979 – Sean Davis, English footballer and journalist
• 1979 – Dan Gillespie Sells, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
• 1980 – Madison Young, American porn actress and director, founded Femina Potens Art Gallery
• 1981 – Joanie Dodds, American model and actress
• 1981 – Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
• 1981 – David McMillan, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1981 – Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (d. 2014)
• 1981 – Jordan Tata, American baseball player
• 1982 – Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Aaron Burkart, German race car driver
• 1982 – Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer
• 1982 – Costa Pantazis, Cypriot-English songwriter and producer
• 1982 – Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer
• 1983 – A-Lin, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Jessica Alonso Bernardo, Spanish handball player
• 1983 – Freya Ross, Scottish runner
• 1983 – Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1984 – Brian Joubert, French figure skater
• 1984 – Belén Rodríguez, Argentinian model, actress, and television host
• 1985 – Tessanne Chin, Jamaican-American singer and guitarist
• 1985 – Ian Desmond, American baseball player
• 1985 – Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress
• 1986 – İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 – Gain, South Korean singer
• 1987 – Jack Lawless, American drummer
• 1987 – Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
• 1988 – Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
• 1988 – Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 – John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Génesis Carmona, Venezuelan model (d. 2014)
• 1991 – Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer
• 1991 – Spencer Locke, American actress
• 1992 – Peter Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper
• 1992 – Amidu Salifu, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 – Michał Żyro, Polish footballer
• 1993 – Julian Draxler, German footballer
• 1995 – Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
• 1996 – Ioana Loredana Roșca, Romanian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 1246 – Michael of Chernigov (b. 1185)
• 1328 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (b. 1263)
• 1384 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (b. 1339)
• 1460 – Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
• 1586 – John Ballard, English priest
• 1586 – Chidiock Tichborne, English poet (b. 1558)
• 1590 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (b. 1534)
• 1625 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (b. 1555)
• 1627 – Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (b. 1560)
• 1630 – Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1586)
• 1639 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (b. 1579)
• 1643 – Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (b. 1610)
• 1684 – Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (b. 1634)
• 1793 – Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant (b. 1764)
• 1803 – Robert Emmet, Irish commander (b. 1780)
• 1815 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (b. 1725)
• 1839 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (b. 1769)
• 1840 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (b. 1766)
• 1845 – Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (b. 1780)
• 1852 – Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (b. 1775)
• 1855 – José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (b. 1797)
• 1855 – Harvey Putnam, American lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
• 1863 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (b. 1785)
• 1884 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (b. 1802)
• 1898 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1906 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1834)
• 1908 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
• 1927 – George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1864)
• 1930 – Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (b. 1873)
• 1932 – John Ellis, English executioner (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Wovoka, American religious leader, founded the Ghost Dance Movement (b. 1856)
• 1933 – Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (b. 1847)
• 1939 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (b. 1855)
• 1945 – Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1945 – William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1945 – Eduard Wirths, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1947 – Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (b. 1882)
• 1947 – Jantina Tammes, Dutch biologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1871)
• 1948 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (b. 1865)
• 1958 – Oscar O'Brien, Canadian priest, pianist, and composer (b. 1892)
• 1962 – Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (b. 1889)
• 1970 – Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1879)
• 1971 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1972 – Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1973 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1973 – Ben Webster, American saxophonist (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1985 – Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Richie Ginther, American race car driver (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Musa Anter, Kurdish-Turkish activist and author (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Reuben Kadish, American painter, sculptor, and educator (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Jule Styne, English-American composer (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Matt Christopher, American author (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Nick Traina, American singer-songwriter (Link 80) (b. 1978)
• 1999 – Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1971)
• 2002 – Necdet Kent, Turkish diplomat (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian activist, Holocaust survivor (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Sven Nykvist, Swedish director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1922)
• 2006 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
• 2010 – Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Dinesh Thakur, Indian actor and director (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Robert W. Ford, English diplomat (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Robert L. Reymond, American theologian and author (b. 1932)
• 2013 – James B. Vaught, American general (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (b. 1957)
• 2014 – Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Rob Bironas, American football player (b. 1978)
• 2014 – Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1923)
• 2014 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Jack Larson, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2015 – C. K. Williams, American poet, critic, and translator (b. 1936)

Emmys: Rami Malek leads victories for minority actors

Image copyrightJORDAN STRAUSS

Rami Malek has become the first minority actor in 18 years to win the Emmy Award for best leading actor in a drama series.

The star, who is of Egyptian heritage, won the prize for his role in the USA Network drama Mr Robot.

He said he hoped his win would open the door for more ethnic minority actors.

"For me to stand here as not the typical leading man and to have come home with this speaks a lot about where we're headed," he said.

"I think we can keep going a lot further in that direction, not just in entertainment, but socially and politically, and strive to be as progressive as possible."

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Malek held off competition from actors including bookmakers' favourite Kevin Spacey, who was nominated for House of Cards, The Americans' Matthew Rhys and Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk.

The last non-white winner to win the trophy was Andre Braugher for Homicide: Life on the Street in 1998.

Since then, the winners have included James Gandolfini for The Sopranos, Damian Lewis for Homeland, The Shield's Michael Chiklis, Jeff Daniels for The Newsroom and Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston.

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In his acceptance speech, Malek said: "I'm honoured to stand here and represent my family and every single person who's helped me get this far."

Referring to his surprise win, he joked to the audience: "Please tell me you're seeing this too."

Malek was born in Los Angeles in 1981 to Egyptian parents. He went to Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California - graduating in 1999 along with fellow actor Rachel Bilson.

In 2004, Malek got his first major TV role in Gilmore Girls and went on to appear in 24, The Pacific, Over There and The War at Home.

His film roles to date include Larry Crowne, Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, a recurring role in the Night At The Museum series.

Malek began starring in Mr Robot in 2015, a role that has also netted him a Critics' Choice Award.

Image copyrightVALERIE MACON

Malek was one of several ethnic minority actors to triumph at Sunday's ceremony.

Courtney B Vance and Sterling K Brown, who both appeared in The People vs OJ Simpson, won the best leading actor and supporting actor in a limited series categories respectively.

And Regina King was named outstanding supporting actress in a limited series or movie for her role in American Crime.

Meanwhile, Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari called for better Asian representation on screen after winning the Emmy for outstanding writing for a comedy series for Netflix series Master of None.

Host Jimmy Kimmel made several references to diversity during the ceremony in light of the "Oscars So White" controversy earlier this year.

"Here in Hollywood the only thing we value more than diversity is congratulating ourselves on how much we value diversity," he said in his opening monologue.

"The Emmys are so diverse this year the Oscars are now telling people we're one of their closest friends." 

He joked that the ceremony was almost too diverse - with other notable winners including Susanne Bier, who was the only woman nominated in her category of best limited series director.

Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live's first openly lesbian cast member, also won her category of outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.

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• 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
• 1170 – Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin into exile.
• 1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthew's Day.
• 1435 – The Congress of Arras causes Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
• 1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• 1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.
• 1843 – John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
• 1860 – Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
• 1896 – Mahdist War: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
• 1897 – The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
• 1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
• 1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha libre
• 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
• 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
• 1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
• 1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard.
• 1942 – The Holocaust: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi (west Ukraine) to Bełżec extermination camp.
• 1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
• 1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
• 1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
• 1953 – Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
• 1961 – Maiden flight of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
• 1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
• 1965 – The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
• 1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
• 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
• 1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
• 1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations.
• 1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
• 1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations.
• 1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
• 1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
• 1996 – The Defense of Marriage Act passes the United States Congress (a vote of 342-67 in the House of Representatives and a vote of 85-14 in the Senate). The law prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriage, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.
• 1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
• 2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
• 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
• 2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
• 2005 – Hurricane Rita becomes the third most intense hurricane (dropped to 4th on October 19, 2005).
• 2013 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

Births[edit]

• 1051 – Bertha of Savoy (d. 1087)
• 1411 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, English politician, Lord Protector of England (d. 1460)
• 1415 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
• 1428 – Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
• 1433 – Guillaume Fichet, French scholar and academic (d. 1480)
• 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest and philosopher (d. 1498)
• 1559 – Cigoli, Italian painter and architect (d. 1613)
• 1629 – Philip Howard, English cardinal (d. 1694)
• 1645 – Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
• 1706 – Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (d. 1735)
• 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (d. 1836)
• 1758 – Christopher Gore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
• 1760 – Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Minister of Justice for Imperial Russia (d. 1837)
• 1819 – Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois (d. 1864)
• 1840 – Murad V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1904)
• 1842 – Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
• 1846 – Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovene author and poet (d. 1906)
• 1849 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-American actor (d. 1905)
• 1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
• 1859 – Francesc Macià i Llussà, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (d. 1933)
• 1860 – Wilson Kettle, Canadian centenarian (d. 1963)
• 1862 – James E. Talmage, English-American religious leader and author (d. 1933)
• 1863 – John Bunny, American actor (d. 1915)
• 1866 – Charles Nicolle, French-Tunisian microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1866 – H. G. Wells, English historian, author, and critic (d. 1946)
• 1867 – Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, English politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1958)
• 1867 – Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (d. 1950)
• 1872 – Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
• 1873 – Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1966)
• 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer and educator (d. 1934)
• 1878 – Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (d. 1951)
• 1882 – Geevarghese Ivanios, Indian metropolitan (d. 1953)
• 1884 – Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1944)
• 1890 – Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1916)
• 1890 – Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1965)
• 1894 – Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer and businessman (d. 1952)
• 1899 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (d. 1963)
• 1902 – Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books (d. 1970)
• 1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1937)
• 1903 – Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan (d. 1956)
• 1905 – Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1999)
• 1906 – Henry Beachell, American biologist and botanist (d. 2006)
• 1909 – Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian educator and politician, 1st President of Ghana (d. 1972)
• 1910 – Meinrad Schütter, Swiss composer (d. 2006)
• 1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1912 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Slam Stewart, American bassist and composer (d. 1987)
• 1916 – Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
• 1918 – John Gofman, American physicist, chemist, and biologist (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Karl Slover, Slovak-American actor (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Mario Bunge, Argentinian-Canadian physicist and philosopher
• 1919 – Herman Fowlkes, Jr., American trumpet player and educator (d. 1993)
• 1919 – Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (d. 1988)
• 1921 – John McHale, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Jimmy Young, English singer and radio host
• 1924 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
• 1926 – Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Reies Tijerina, American pastor and activist (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Ward Swingle, American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Shafi Hadi, American saxophonist
• 1929 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Edgar Valter, Estonian author and illustrator (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Bernard Williams, English-Italian philosopher and academic (d. 2003)
• 1930 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Bob Stokoe, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1932 – Shirley Conran, English journalist and author
• 1932 – Don Preston, American keyboard player and composer
• 1933 – Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Dick Simon, American race car driver
• 1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
• 1935 – Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager
• 1935 – Henry Gibson, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Ian Albery, English manager and producer
• 1936 – Dickey Lee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Yury Luzhkov, Russian soldier and politician, 2nd Mayor of Moscow
• 1936 – Diane Rehm, American journalist and radio host
• 1937 – John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
• 1939 – Agnivesh, Indian philosopher, academic, and politician
• 1940 – Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian engineer and academic
• 1940 – Bill Kurtis, American journalist and producer
• 1941 – Jack Brisco, American wrestler and manager (d. 2010)
• 1941 – R. James Woolsey, Jr., American scholar and diplomat, 16th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1942 – Sam McDowell, American baseball player
• 1944 – Steve Beshear, American lawyer and politician, 61st Governor of Kentucky
• 1944 – Marcus Binney, English historian and author
• 1944 – Fannie Flagg, American actress, comedian, and author
• 1944 – Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
• 1945 – Richard Childress, American race car driver and businessman
• 1945 – Shaw Clifton, Northern Irish 18th General of The Salvation Army
• 1945 – Kay Ryan, American poet and educator
• 1946 – Rose Garrard, English sculptor and author
• 1946 – Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 87th President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1946 – Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Mart Siimann, Estonian psychologist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1947 – Don Felder, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1947 – Keith Harris, English ventriloquist and singer (d. 2015)
• 1947 – Stephen King, American author and screenwriter
• 1947 – Marsha Norman, American playwright and author
• 1948 – Jack Dromey, English union leader and politician
• 1949 – Henry Butler, American pianist and photographer
• 1949 – Artis Gilmore, American basketball player and radio host
• 1949 – Odilo Scherer, Brazilian cardinal
• 1950 – Charles Clarke, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for Education
• 1950 – Bill Murray, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Bruce Arena, American soccer player and manager
• 1951 – Eddie Delahoussaye, American jockey
• 1951 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 2005)
• 1952 – Dave Gregory, English guitarist and keyboard player
• 1952 – John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick, English lawyer and politician
• 1953 – Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver and sportscaster
• 1954 – Shinzō Abe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1954 – Thomas S. Ray, American ecologist and academic
• 1954 – Phil Taylor, English drummer (d. 2015)
• 1955 – Richard Hieb, American engineer and astronaut
• 1955 – Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Jack Givens, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1956 – Marta Kauffman, American screenwriter and producer
• 1956 – Ricky Morton, American wrestler and trainer
• 1957 – Ethan Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Mark Levin, American lawyer, radio host, and author
• 1957 – Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player and coach
• 1957 – Kevin Rudd, Australian politician and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1958 – Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player and architect
• 1958 – Rick Mahorn, American basketball player and coach
• 1958 – Simon Mayo, English radio host
• 1958 – Penny Smith, English journalist and actress
• 1959 – Crin Antonescu, Romanian educator and politician, President of Romania
• 1959 – Andrzej Buncol, Polish footballer
• 1959 – Dave Coulier, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Danny Cox, English-American baseball player and coach
• 1959 – Corinne Drewery, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian-American actor and director
• 1960 – Kelley Eskridge, American author and screenwriter
• 1960 – Graham Southern, English art dealer and gallery owner
• 1961 – Billy Collins, Jr., American boxer (d. 1984)
• 1961 – Dan Borislow, American businessman, invented the magicJack (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Nancy Travis, American actress and producer
• 1962 – Rob Morrow, American actor
• 1963 – Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan cricketer and bass player
• 1963 – Cecil Fielder, American baseball player and manager
• 1963 – Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1963 – Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese composer
• 1963 – Trevor Steven, English footballer
• 1963 – David J. Wales, British academic and educator
• 1964 – Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Lester Quitzau, Canadian guitarist
• 1965 – Frédéric Beigbeder, French author and critic
• 1965 – Cheryl Hines, American actress
• 1965 – Juanjo Mena, Spanish conductor
• 1965 – Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finnish director and screenwriter
• 1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor and producer
• 1966 – Kerrin Lee-Gartner, Canadian skier and journalist
• 1966 – James Richardson, English television presenter and journalist
• 1967 – Glen Benton, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1967 – Faith Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1967 – Suman Pokhrel, Nepali poet and songwriter
• 1967 – Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer
• 1968 – David Jude Jolicoeur, American rapper and producer
• 1968 – Ricki Lake, American actress, producer, and talk show host
• 1969 – Anne Burrell, American chef and television host
• 1969 – Jason Christiansen, American baseball player
• 1969 – Curtis Leschyshyn, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Melissa Ferrick, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Samantha Power, Irish-born American journalist, academic, and diplomat, 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1970 – Unique Priscilla, Indonesian actress and model
• 1971 – John Crawley, English cricketer and academic
• 1971 – Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor and golf player
• 1971 – Luke Wilson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Olivia Bonamy, French actress
• 1972 – Liam Gallagher, English singer-songwriter
• 1972 – Jon Kitna, American football player and coach
• 1972 – David Silveria, American drummer and songwriter
• 1973 – Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist and author
• 1973 – Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spanish tennis player
• 1973 – Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
• 1974 – Bryce Drew, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
• 1974 – Andy Todd, English footballer and manager
• 1975 – Doug Davis, American baseball player
• 1976 – Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer and manager
• 1977 – Kārlis Lācis, Latvian pianist and composer
• 1977 – Andre Pärn, Estonian basketball player
• 1977 – Brian Tallet, American baseball player
• 1978 – Paulo Costanzo, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 1978 – Luke Godden, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 – Mario Miranda, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1979 – James Allan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
• 1979 – Chris Gayle, Jamaican cricketer
• 1979 – Julian Gray, English footballer
• 1979 – Monika Merl, German runner
• 1980 – Stacy Clark, American singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Robert Hoffman, American actor, dancer and choreographer
• 1980 – Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer
• 1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African race car driver
• 1981 – Nicole Richie, American actress, fashion designer, and author
• 1982 – Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian race car driver
• 1982 – Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Danny Kass, American snowboarder
• 1982 – Christos Tapoutos, Greek basketball player
• 1982 – Rowan Vine, English footballer
• 1983 – Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Kristian Gidlund, Swedish drummer and journalist (d. 2013)
• 1983 – Maggie Grace, American actress
• 1983 – Greg Jennings, American football player
• 1983 – Joseph Mazzello, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
• 1984 – Wale, American rapper
• 1984 – Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
• 1985 – Justin Durant, American football player
• 1986 – Faris Badwan, English singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Lindsey Stirling, American violinist and composer
• 1987 – Jimmy Clausen, American football player
• 1987 – Anthony Don, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 – Marcelo Estigarribia, Paraguayan footballer
• 1987 – Murilo Maccari, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Ashley Paris, American basketball player
• 1987 – Courtney Paris, American basketball player
• 1987 – Michał Pazdan, Polish footballer
• 1988 – Doug Baldwin, American football player
• 1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
• 1989 – Jason Derulo, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Sandor Earl, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 – Emma Watkins, Australian singer and actress
• 1990 – Al-Farouq Aminu, American basketball player
• 1990 – Danny Batth, English footballer
• 1990 – Ivan Dorschner, American-Filipino model and actor
• 1990 – Sam Kasiano, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 – Allison Scagliotti, American actress
• 1990 – Christian Serratos, American actress
• 1991 – Anastassia Kovalenko, Estonian motorcycle racer
• 1992 – Chen, South Korean singer
• 1992 – Rodrigo Godínez, Mexican footballer
• 1993 – Kwon Mina, South Korean singer and actress
• 1993 – Derik Osede, Spanish footballer
• 1994 – Fumi Nikaidō, Japanese model and actress
• 1994 – Ben Proud, English swimmer

Deaths[edit]

• 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
• 454 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general and politician (b. 396)
• 687 – Pope Conon (b. 630)
• 1217 – Lembitu, Estonian soldier
• 1217 – Caupo of Turaida
• 1235 – Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
• 1327 – Edward II of England (b. 1284)
• 1397 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English admiral (b. 1346)
• 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
• 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (b. 1501)
• 1586 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1517)
• 1626 – François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières (b. 1543)
• 1719 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German historian and academic (b. 1647)
• 1743 – Jai Singh II, Indian king (b. 1688)
• 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher and author (b. 1686)
• 1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 – George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (b. 1733)
• 1812 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor and playwright (b. 1751)
• 1832 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (b. 1771)
• 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (b. 1788)
• 1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1794)
• 1875 – Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (b. 1826)
• 1880 – Manuel Montt, Chilean scholar and politician, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
• 1904 – Chief Joseph, American tribal leader (b. 1840)
• 1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
• 1933 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896)
• 1938 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Armand Călinescu, Romanian economist and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893)
• 1942 – John Symes, English cricketer (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Artur Phleps, Romanian general (b. 1881)
• 1947 – Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1953 – Necmettin Sadak, Turkish publisher and politician, 10th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1858)
• 1956 – Bill Struth, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1875)
• 1957 – Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Peter Whitehead, English race car driver (b. 1914)
• 1962 – Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor and singer (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American author and actress (b. 1918)
• 1975 – Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Turkish painter and poet (b. 1911)
• 1976 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Chile (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Ivan Bagramyan, Russian general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer (b. 1951)
• 1988 – Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Ertem Eğilmez, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1989 – Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1954)
• 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1991 – Gordon Bashford, English engineer (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Tarachand Barjatya, Indian film producer, founded Rajshri Productions (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Rudy Perpich, American dentist and politician, 34th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (b. 1959)
• 2000 – Jacques Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 35th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Leonid Rogozov, Russian physician and surgeon (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and engineer (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Bob Mason, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek author (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Rex Humbard, American evangelist and television host (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Robert Ginty, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 2011 – John Du Cann, English guitarist (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Pamela Ann Rymer, American lawyer and judge (b. 1941)
• 2012 – José Curbelo, Cuban-American pianist and manager (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Yehuda Elkana, Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Bill King, English commander, sailor, and author (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Tom Umphlett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood, Kenyan journalist and radio host (b. 1982)
• 2013 – Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Harl H. Haas, Jr., American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Walter Wallmann, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Hesse (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Ko Wierenga, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Michael Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Caldwell Jones, American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Sheldon Patinkin, American director and playwright (b. 1935)
• 2015 – Ben Cauley, American trumpet player and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Yoram Gross, Polish-Australian director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Ray Warleigh, Australian-English saxophonist and flute player (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Richard Williamson, American footballer and coach (b. 1941)