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• 3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
• 1406 – French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms landed on Jersey and fought a battle against 3,000 defenders.
• 1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
• 1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
• 1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
• 1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
• 1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
• 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
• 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
• 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
• 1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
• 1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
• 1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• 1864 – American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
• 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
• 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
• 1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
• 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
• 1918 – The Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland declares independence from the German Empire and forms the Republic of Poland.
• 1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
• 1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• 1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
• 1940 – World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
• 1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
• 1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
• 1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
• 1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
• 1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
• 1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
• 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
• 1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
• 1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier.
• 1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
• 1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
• 1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
• 1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
• 1988 – An Inupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• 1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
• 1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
• 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
• 2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
• 2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan.

Births[edit]

• 13 BC – Drusus Julius Caesar, Roman politician (d. 23 AD)
• 1409 – Elizabeth of Luxembourg (d. 1442)
• 1471 – Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
• 1573 – William Laud, English archbishop and academic (d. 1645)
• 1576 – John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
• 1589 – Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria (d. 1631)
• 1713 – Granville Elliott, English general (d. 1759)
• 1728 – Caesar Rodney, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (d. 1784)
• 1744 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (d. 1819)
• 1746 – William Billings, American composer and educator (d. 1800)
• 1748 – Charles XIII of Sweden (d. 1818)
• 1769 – Solomon Sibley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (d. 1846)
• 1786 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871)
• 1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, French instrument maker and businessman (d. 1875)
• 1821 – Richard H. Anderson, American general (d. 1879)
• 1832 – Charles Crozat Converse, American lawyer and composer (d. 1918)
• 1835 – Felix Draeseke, German composer and educator (d. 1913)
• 1836 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian scholar and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1911)
• 1841 – Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
• 1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (d. 1916)
• 1860 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (d. 1936)
• 1866 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942)
• 1870 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1873)
• 1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, American singer-songwriter, banjo player, and comedian (d. 1952)
• 1876 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet (d. 1915)
• 1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general (d. 1918)
• 1884 – Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1927)
• 1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1948)
• 1887 – Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Henry A. Wallace, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Dwain Esper, American director and producer (d. 1982)
• 1893 – Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (d. 1979)
• 1894 – Del Lord, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1970)
• 1895 – Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Thakin Mya, Burmese lawyer and politician (d. 1947)
• 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German commander and politician (d. 1945)
• 1904 – Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1968)
• 1905 – Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (d. 1990)
• 1909 – Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist and educator (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1973)
• 1912 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 85th President of Peru (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Peter Walker, English race car driver (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist, guitarist, and composer (d. 1949)
• 1914 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer and actress (d. 1974)
• 1914 – Sarah Churchill, English actress and dancer (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Herman Keiser, American golfer (d. 2003)
• 1917 – June Allyson, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Harry V. Jaffa, American historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1919 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Zelman Cowen, Australian academic and politician, 19th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Georges Duby, French historian and author (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Kalju Lepik, Estonian-Swedish poet and author (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Jack Rowley, English footballer and manager (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and coach (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
• 1922 – William Zinsser, American journalist and critic (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Irma Grese, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1923 – Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1927 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation
• 1929 – Robert Westall, English journalist and author (d. 1993)
• 1930 – Curtis Crider, American race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball player and coach (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1931 – R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and pilot (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Ulrike Meinhof, German journalist and activist (d. 1976)
• 1934 – Julian Thompson, English general and historian
• 1935 – Thomas Keneally, Australian author and playwright
• 1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
• 1936 – Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
• 1937 – Maria Szyszkowska, Polish academic and politician
• 1938 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor, and poet (d. 1992)
• 1938 – Ann Jones, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1939 – John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author
• 1939 – Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic
• 1939 – Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
• 1939 – Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal
• 1939 – Bill Snyder, American football player and coach
• 1940 – Bruce Vento, American educator and politician (d. 2000)
• 1942 – Joy Behar, American talk show host, comedian and television personality
• 1943 – José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and coach
• 1943 – Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author
• 1944 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1979)
• 1944 – Donald Tsang, Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• 1944 – Pete van Wieren, American sportscaster (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Kevin Godley, English singer-songwriter and director
• 1945 – David Wallace, Scottish physicist and academic
• 1946 – John Brass, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1946 – Bernard Lavilliers, French singer-songwriter and actor
• 1946 – Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author
• 1947 – Chris Bambridge, Australian footballer and referee
• 1948 – Diane Ackerman, American poet, author, and academic
• 1948 – John F. B. Mitchell, English climatologist and author
• 1948 – Stephen Rucker, American composer
• 1949 – Dave Hope, American bass player and priest
• 1949 – Kieran Kane, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1950 – Dick Jauron, American football player and coach
• 1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian colonel, economist, and politician, 4th President of Tanzania
• 1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1952 – Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia
• 1952 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)
• 1952 – Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
• 1953 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (d. 2014)
• 1953 – Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
• 1953 – Tico Torres, American drummer
• 1955 – Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist and author
• 1955 – Bill Henson, Australian photographer
• 1955 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist and educator
• 1956 – Steve Bainbridge, English rugby player
• 1956 – Mike Shipley, Australian-English sound engineer and producer (d. 2013)
• 1956 – Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 – Joey Marquez, Filipino basketball player, actor, and politician
• 1957 – Michael W. Smith, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1957 – Jayne Torvill, English figure skater
• 1959 – Dylan Baker, American actor
• 1959 – Simon Cowell, English businessman and producer, created The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent
• 1959 – Lourdes Flores, Peruvian lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Jean-Marc Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Kevin Boyle, American historian and author
• 1960 – Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 – Viktor Lazlo, French-Belgian singer
• 1961 – Brian Mannix, Australian singer
• 1961 – Matthew Roloff, American farmer and author
• 1961 – Tony Sparano, American football player and coach
• 1962 – Dave Bronconnier, Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Calgary
• 1962 – William Johnson, German-English cricketer
• 1964 – Dan Savage, American LGBT rights activist, journalist and television producer
• 1964 – Paul Stewart, English footballer
• 1965 – Genji Hashimoto, Japanese race car driver
• 1965 – Kumiko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
• 1966 – Sherman Alexie, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker
• 1966 – Marco Beltrami, Italian-American composer and conductor
• 1966 – Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (d. 2012)
• 1967 – Peter Baker, English golfer
• 1967 – Toni Braxton, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1967 – Luke Haines, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1968 – Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Bobbie Brown, American model and actress
• 1969 – Benny Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1969 – Malia Hosaka, American wrestler
• 1969 – Per Mathisen, Norwegian bass player and composer
• 1969 – Maria Whittaker, English model, actress, and singer
• 1970 – Nicole Ari Parker, American model and actress
• 1971 – Daniel Boucher, Canadian singer and actor
• 1972 – Marlou Aquino, Filipino basketball player
• 1972 – Loek van Wely, Dutch chess player
• 1972 – Ben Younger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Dida, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Priest Holmes, American football player
• 1973 – Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Grigol Mgaloblishvili, Georgian politician and diplomat, 7th Prime Minister of Georgia
• 1974 – Rune Glifberg, Danish skateboarder
• 1974 – Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
• 1975 – Giorgos Karadimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Damian Kulash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Tim Minchin, English-Australian comedian, actor, and singer
• 1976 – Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1976 – Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Santiago Solari, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Charles Woodson, American football player
• 1978 – Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and educator
• 1978 – Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1978 – Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
• 1979 – Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
• 1979 – Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1979 – Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1980 – Edison Chen, Canadian-Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1980 – Tim Cresswell, Hong Kong footballer
• 1982 – Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
• 1982 – Jermain Defoe, English footballer
• 1982 – Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
• 1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese pianist
• 1982 – Lockett Pundt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 – Archie Bland, English journalist and author
• 1983 – Dwayne Bravo, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1983 – Flying Lotus, American rapper, DJ, and producer
• 1983 – Scottie Upshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Salman Butt, Pakistani cricketer
• 1984 – Toma Ikuta, Japanese actor and singer
• 1984 – Kazuki Kato, Japanese actor and singer
• 1984 – Simon Poulsen, Danish footballer
• 1984 – Zachary Wyatt, American soldier and politician
• 1985 – Evan Longoria, American baseball player
• 1986 – Chase Daniel, American football player
• 1986 – Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
• 1986 – Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
• 1986 – Bree Olson, American porn actress and producer
• 1987 – Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
• 1987 – Aiden English, American wrestler
• 1987 – Sam Querrey, American tennis player
• 1988 – Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Trent Merrin, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer
• 1990 – Ayla Kell, American actress
• 1990 – Thunder, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
• 1991 – Nicole Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1991 – Lay, South Korean singer and composer
• 1992 – Mookie Betts, American baseball player
• 1993 – Jean-Luc Baker, American ice dancer
• 1995 – Lyndon Dykes, Australian professional soccer player
• 1995 – Lloyd Jones, English professional footballer
• 1995 – Toshiki Seto, Japanese actor
• 1995 – Bram van Vlerken, Dutch professional football player
• 1996 – Ejowvokoghene Oduduru, Nigerian sprinter

Deaths[edit]

• 336 – Pope Mark
• 858 – Montoku, Japanese emperor (b. 826)
• 929 – Charles the Simple, French king (b. 879)
• 1242 – Juntoku, Japanese emperor (b. 1197)
• 1368 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician (b. 1338)
• 1553 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
• 1555 – Louis of Praet (b. 1488)
• 1571 – Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Ottoman Governor of Egypt
• 1577 – George Gascoigne, English soldier, courtier, and poet (b. 1535)
• 1612 – Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1538)
• 1620 – Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish-Lithuanian commander (b. 1547)
• 1637 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
• 1651 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (b. 1559)
• 1653 – Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (b. 1581)
• 1708 – Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh guru (b. 1666)
• 1772 – John Woolman, American preacher and activist (b. 1720)
• 1780 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier (b. 1744)
• 1787 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (b. 1711)
• 1792 – George Mason, American lawyer and politician (b. 1725)
• 1793 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, President of the Board of Trade (b. 1718)
• 1796 – Thomas Reid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1710)
• 1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1894 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1903 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 – Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 – Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 – Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Eugen Schmidt, Danish target shooter and tug of war competitor (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1943 – Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 – Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 – Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 – Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 1966 – Grigoris Asikis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1890)
• 1966 – Smiley Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
• 1991 – Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 1991 – Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
• 1992 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)
• 1993 – Cyril Cusack, South African-Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
• 1996 – Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
• 1998 – Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player and educator (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Herblock, American cartoonist and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Christopher Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955)
• 2001 – Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Tony Lanfranchi, English race car driver (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish cyclist (b. 1985)
• 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-Russian journalist and activist (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
• 2007 – George E. Sangmeister, American lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – T Lavitz, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Milka Planinc, Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Ivo Michiels, Belgian-French author and poet (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Wiley Reed, American-Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Mick Buckley, English footballer (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
• 2013 – David E. Jeremiah, American admiral (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Leandro Mendoza, Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive Secretary of the Philippines (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Joe Rogers, American lawyer and politician, 45th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Nika Kiladze, Georgian footballer (b. 1988)
• 2014 – Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Hossein Hamadani, Iranian general (b. 1951)
• 2015 – W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)

Rolling Stones announce first album since 2005

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The Rolling Stones have confirmed they will release a new album of blues covers in December.

Blue and Lonesome was recorded over just three days in London earlier this year, and features new versions of songs by Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed. 

Guitarist Eric Clapton also features on the record, having dropped in to the sessions while he recorded his own album in the studio next door.

The Stones haven't released a studio album since 2005's A Bigger Bang.

The last time they premiered original material was on the 2012 compilation record Grrrr! - which featured two new songs, One More Shot and the single Doom and Gloom.

The band first revealed their plans to release an album of covers in April. 

"We're actually in the studio in the moment cutting new stuff," Keith Richards told BBC 6 Music, while guitarist Ronnie Wood said that the band had "cut 11 songs in two days, just 'bang' - like that."

He added: "They sound so authentic it's frightening. We didn't spend any time rehearsing them or anything. 

"We just picked a song that suited Mick's harmonica or a guitar riff... and they worked out pretty good.

"It was like, 'this is what the Stones do, we play blues.'"

Blue and Lonesome was recorded in British Grove Studios in Chiswick, West London, a couple of miles from Ealing, Richmond, and Eel Pie Island, where the band built their reputation in the 1960s.

Accordingly, the album tips its hat to the blues covers they played before manager Andrew Loog Oldham locked Mick Jagger and Richards in a room and instructed them to come up with some original material.

Among the tracks on the new album are Little Walter's Just Your Fool, Everybody Knows About My Good Thing by Little Johnny Taylor and I Can't Quit You, originally written by Willie Dixon and made famous by Otis Rush.

"This album is manifest testament to the purity of their love for making music, and the blues is, for the Stones, the fountainhead of everything they do," said Don Was, who co-produced the new recordings.

It will be released on 2 December by Polydor Records, with pre-orders beginning on Friday, 7 October. 

Fans who pre-order the album will get the new song Just Your Fool immediately.

Η ΚΑΤΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΑ ΣΤΟ ΣΙΚΑΓΟ

Το εθνικό άθλημα των Αμερικανών είναι το μπάσκετ, όχι το μπαίηζ-μπωλ, για το οποίο θα μιλήσουμε σήμερα, λόγω του Έλληνα που καταράστηκε την ομάδα του. Φοβερή ιστορία.

Το μπαίηζ-μπωλ είναι στις ΗΠΑ το παιχνίδι των φτωχών, διότι κρατάει και πέντε και έξι ώρες. Περνάει την ώρα του στο γήπεδο ο άλλος, τρώει και κανένα λουκάνικο, ένα χοτ-ντογκ και φτηνιάρικα την βγάζει μια χαρά και δυο τρομάρες.

Το φούτμπωλ, το αμερικάνικο, όχι το κανονικό, όχι το ευρωπαϊκό, είναι το γηπεδικό παιχνίδι των executivies, των τεχνοκρατών, των golden boys. Των πολύ πλούσιων το golf και των πολύ τσαμπουκάδων το χόκεϋ. Επί του θέματος.

Σου λέει κάποιος “Να 'χεις την ευχή μου, παιδί μου. Να σ'έχει καλά ο Θεός”. Τι είναι αυτό; Ύβρις, λέω εγώ. Με ποιο δικαίωμα, κύριε, μιλάς στο όνομα του Θεού; Τον ρώτησες τον παπού αν πράγματι θέλει να είναι καλά αυτός στον οποίον εσύ, σαν ο αντ'Αυτού, του εύχεσαι το καλύτερο;

Ποιος είσαι εσύ στο φινάλε, δηλαδή χωρίς να διαθέτεις όχι μόνο τη σχετική εξουσιοδότηση, αλλά και τη θεϊκή δύναμη, να εύχεσαι στον άλλον να γίνει καλά, να πιάσει δουλειά, το λόττο, να έχει καλό ταξίδι κλπ. κλπ. Έτσι είναι. Όπως από την άλλη πρέπει να έχεις τη δύναμη για να καταραστείς κάποιον, όπως την είχε ο Έλληνας Σιάνης. Ποιος είναι αυτός;

Λόγω της ημέρας, σήμερα 6 Οκτωβρίου, γράφουμε για την “κατάρα του τράγου”, το 1945, και ακόμα κάνει δουλειά! Τα μάγια δεν έχουν λυθεί, άλλωστε ο καταραστής έχει πεθάνει πριν από 45 χρόνια. Το στόρυ είναι πέρα για πέρα αληθινό.

Ένα φτωχόπαιδο, ο Βασίλης Σιάνης από το Παλαιόπυργο της Αρκαδίας έφθασε στο Σικάγο για να βρει την τύχη του. Με 205 δολάρια πριν 82 χρόνια, το 1934, αγοράζει το εστιατόριο Lincoln tavern και του δίνει το όνομά του, Billy Goat Tavern και καταφέρνει να μαζέψει πελάτες τον καλύτερο κόσμο της περιοχής. Έγινε και οπαδός, ακόμα και μέλος, της ομάδας μπαίηζμπωλ Chicago Cubs.

Παρών σ'όλους τους αγώνες ο Μπίλυ, παρέα με τον Μέρφυ, τον τράγο του. Το όνομα του ρεστωράν Billy Goat, θα πει Ο Τράγος του Μπίλυ. Με τον τράγο του ο Βασίλης, που είχε γίνει Ουίλιαμ, παρακολουθούσε στο γήπεδο από το θεωρείο του, ας πούμε από τη σουίτα του, τα παιχνίδια της ομάδας.

Στον τελικό της 6ης Οκτωβρίου 1945 με αντίπαλο τους Detroit Tigers ο Μέρφυ τα έκανε επάνω του. Βρώμισε ο τόπος, ο πρόεδρος της ομάδας θύμωσε, έγινε επεισόδιο, τέλος πάντων είπανε στον Έλληνα εστιάτορα μη ξανάρθεις με το κατσίκι σου στο γήπεδο. Ο Σιάνης στεναχωρήθηκε και τους καταράστηκε. Να μη ξαναφθάσει η κωλομάδα σας στον τελικό. Τρεις φορές πρωταθλητές οι Chicago Cubs κι αυτή τη φορά ήταν η 16η που προκρίθηκαν στον τελικό.

Με την πρώτη έπιασε η κατάρα του Σιάνη! Η ομάδα του Σικάγου χάνει το πρωτάθλημα και από τότε δεν ξανάφθασε στον τελικό. Υπ'όψιν ότι ο Μέρφυ ο τράγος ήταν τόσο αγαπητός στους φιλάθλους των Cubs που πάντα πριν αρχίσει το ματς ο Σιάνης έκανε το γύρο του γηπέδου με το ζώο του!

Μετά το επεισόδιο, μετά την εκδίωξη του Μέρφυ από το γήπεδο, ο Ουίλιαμ Σιάνης έβαλε μια πινακίδα στο ρεστωράν του: “Δεν γίνονται δεκτοί οι ρεπουμπλικάνοι και οι φίλαθλοι των Chicago Cubs”. Επειδή ο πρόεδρος της ομάδας ήταν στέλεχος των ρεπουμπλικάνων.

Ο Σιάνης έγινε μέγας και τρανός. Η φίρμα του “Billy Goat” εξελίχθηκε σε αλυσίδα εστιατορίων. Και επειδή κρατούσε η κατάρα του για να “σπάσει” έφερναν τράγους στο γήπεδο. Τελικά, απευθύνθηκαν στον ανηψιό του Μπίλυ, τον Σαμ Σιάνη, όταν αυτός κληρονόμησε τα εστιατόρια του μπάρμπα του, μήπως καταφέρει να λύσει τα μάγια του μακαρίτη. Η κατάρα ακόμα κρατάει!

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• 314 – Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.
• 451 – At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
• 876 – Battle of Andernach: Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald").
• 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia.
• 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
• 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.
• 1480 – Great stand on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde.
• 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years' War.
• 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1600 – San Marino adopts its written constitution.
• 1645 – Jeanne Mance opened the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, the first lay hospital in North America.
• 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
• 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
• 1821 – The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
• 1829 – Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
• 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
• 1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Perryville: Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky.
• 1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
• 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter.
• 1895 – Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.
• 1904 – Edmonton, Alberta is incorporated as a city.
• 1904 – Prince Albert, Saskatchewan is incorporated as a city.
• 1912 – First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 – World War I: In action near Pittem, Belgium, USMC 2nd Lieutenant aviator Ralph Talbot of Weymouth, Massachusetts becomes the first-ever USMC aviator to earn the Medal of Honor.
• 1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
• 1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
• 1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
• 1939 – World War II: Germany annexes western Poland.
• 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs just outside Aachen; Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle.
• 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
• 1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series.
• 1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuvre called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the perceived communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
• 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
• 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a manoeuvre to deceive world opinion".
• 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade unsuccessfully attacks Egyptian-occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away; more than 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
• 1973 – Greek military junta of 1967–74: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
• 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
• 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
• 1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions.
• 1982 – Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• 1990 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia vote to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia.
• 2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
• 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
• 2005 – The 7.6 Mw Kashmir earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.

Births[edit]

• 319 BC – Pyrrhus of Epirus (d. 272 BC)
• 1552 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
• 1585 – Heinrich Schütz, German organist and composer (d. 1672)
• 1676 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar (d. 1764)
• 1713 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and author (d. 1793)
• 1715 – Michel Benoist, French scientist and missionary (d. 1774)
• 1747 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (d. 1807)
• 1765 – Harman Blennerhassett, English-Irish lawyer and politician (d. 1831)
• 1789 – John Ruggles, American lawyer and politician (d. 1874)
• 1789 – William John Swainson, English-New Zealand ornithologist and entomologist (d. 1855)
• 1807 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher and activist (d. 1858)
• 1818 – John Henninger Reagan, American judge and politician, 3rd Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
• 1834 – Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (d. 1905)
• 1845 – Salomon Kalischer, German pianist, composer, and physicist (d. 1924)
• 1847 – Rose Scott, Australian activist (d. 1925)
• 1848 – Pierre De Geyter, Belgian composer (d. 1932)
• 1850 – Henry Louis Le Châtelier, French chemist and academic (d. 1936)
• 1863 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948)
• 1864 – Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter and educator (d. 1955)
• 1870 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
• 1873 – Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer (d. 1967)
• 1873 – Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect and academic, designed Lenin's Mausoleum (d. 1949)
• 1875 – Laurence Doherty, English tennis player and golfer (d. 1919)
• 1876 – Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1966)
• 1877 – Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1883 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1884 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
• 1887 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (d. 1956)
• 1888 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (d. 1964)
• 1889 – R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian engineer (d. 1983)
• 1889 – Collett E. Woolman, American businessman, co-founded Delta Air Lines (d. 1966)
• 1890 – Snuffy Browne, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1964)
• 1890 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
• 1892 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author (d. 1941)
• 1893 – Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
• 1895 – Zog I of Albania (d. 1961)
• 1895 – Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, 29th President of Argentina (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Julien Duvivier, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1897 – Marcel Herrand, French actor (d. 1953)
• 1901 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia (d. 2000)
• 1903 – Georgy Geshev, Bulgarian chess player (d. 1937)
• 1904 – Yves Giraud-Cabantous, French race car driver (d. 1973)
• 1907 – Richard Sharpe Shaver, American author and illustrator (d. 1975)
• 1908 – Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek-Cypriot politician (d. 1988)
• 1910 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Paulette Dubost, French actress (d. 2011)
• 1910 – Gus Hall, American soldier and politician (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (d. 2006)
• 1910 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Robert R. Gilruth, American pilot and engineer (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Walter Lord, American historian and author (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1976)
• 1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1918 – Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Ron Randell, Australian-American actor (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1919 – Jack McGrath, American racing driver (d. 1955)
• 1919 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Frank Herbert, American journalist, photographer, and author (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Herbert B. Leonard, American production manager and producer (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Alphons Egli, Swiss lawyer and politician, 77th President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1924 – Aloísio Lorscheider, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (d. 2006)
• 1924 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Raaj Kumar, Pakistani-Indian police officer and actor (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Álvaro Magaña, Salvadoran economist and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Jim Elliot, American missionary and translator (d. 1956)
• 1927 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Didi, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2001)
• 1928 – M. Russell Ballard, American lieutenant and religious leader
• 1928 – Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
• 1928 – Bill Maynard, English actor
• 1929 – Betty Boothroyd, English academic and politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons
• 1930 – Pepper Adams, American saxophonist and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (d. 1986)
• 1930 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Faith Ringgold, American painter and activist
• 1930 – Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer and theorist (d. 1996)
• 1931 – Bill Brown, Scottish-Canadian footballer (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player and police officer
• 1934 – Kader Asmal, South African academic and politician (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Gerry Hitchens, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1934 – James Holshouser, American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Albert Roux, French-English chef
• 1936 – Rona Barrett, American journalist and businesswoman
• 1937 – Merle Park, British ballerina and educator
• 1937 – Paul Schell, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Seattle (d. 2014)
• 1938 – William Corlett, English author and playwright (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Walter Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey coach and author
• 1938 – Fred Stolle, Australian-American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1938 – Bronislovas Lubys, Lithuanian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Elvīra Ozoliņa, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1939 – Harvey Pekar, American author and critic (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Lynne Stewart, American lawyer and criminal
• 1940 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Jesse Jackson, American minister and activist
• 1941 – Shane Stevens, American author
• 1941 – George Bellamy, English singer, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 – Stanley Bates, English actor and screenwriter
• 1943 – Chevy Chase, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1943 – R. L. Stine, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1944 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar, activist, and politician
• 1946 – Jean-Jacques Beineix, French director and producer
• 1946 – Dennis Kucinich, American journalist and politician, 53rd Mayor of Cleveland
• 1946 – Bel Mooney, English journalist and author
• 1946 – Jon Ekerold, South African motorcycle racer
• 1947 – Richard Morris, English archaeologist, historian, and author
• 1947 – Emiel Puttemans, Belgian runner
• 1947 – Stephen Shore, American photographer and educator
• 1948 – Benjamin Cheever, American journalist and author
• 1948 – Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2004)
• 1949 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Hamish Stuart, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1949 – Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
• 1950 – Robert "Kool" Bell, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1950 – Blake Morrison, English poet, author, and academic
• 1951 – Jack O'Connell, American educator and politician
• 1951 – Timo Salonen, Finnish race car driver
• 1951 – Shannon C. Stimson, American philosopher, historian, and theorist
• 1952 – Takis Koroneos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Jan Marijnissen, Dutch journalist and politician
• 1952 – Edward Zwick, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Robert Saxton, English composer and educator
• 1954 – Huub Rothengatter, Dutch race car driver and manager
• 1955 – Bill Elliott, American race car driver
• 1955 – Alain Ferté, French race car driver
• 1955 – Darrell Hammond, American comedian and actor
• 1955 – Lonnie Pitchford, American singer and guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1956 – Jeff Lahti, American baseball player
• 1956 – Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut (d. 2012)
• 1956 – Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress
• 1957 – Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1958 – Steve Coll, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Bret Lott, American journalist, author, and academic
• 1958 – Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany
• 1958 – Ruffin McNeill, American football player and coach
• 1959 – Tommy Armour III, American golfer
• 1959 – Nick Bakay, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Gavin Friday, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1959 – Erik Gundersen, Danish motorcycle racer
• 1959 – Peter Horrocks, English journalist and producer
• 1959 – Mike Morgan, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 – Carlos I. Noriega, Peruvian-American colonel and astronaut
• 1959 – Daniel Ribacoff, Brazilian-American polygraph examiner
• 1960 – Andrea Anastasi, Italian volleyball player and coach
• 1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman, co-founded Netflix
• 1960 – Rano Karno, Indonesian actor and politician
• 1960 – Lorenzo Milá, Spanish journalist and actor
• 1960 – Ralf Minge, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – François Pérusse, Canadian singer-songwriter and comedian
• 1960 – Mike Teague, English rugby player
• 1961 – Steven Bernstein, American trumpet player and composer
• 1961 – Jon Stevens, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (Noiseworks)
• 1961 – Simon Burke, Australian actor and producer
• 1961 – Ted Kooshian, American pianist and composer
• 1962 – Bruno Thiry, Belgian race car driver
• 1962 – Chen Xiaoxia, Chinese diver
• 1964 – Jakob Arjouni, German author (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Ian Hart, English actor
• 1964 – CeCe Winans, American singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Matt Biondi, American swimmer and coach
• 1965 – Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Harri Koskela, Finnish wrestler
• 1965 – C. J. Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1966 – Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994)
• 1966 – Karyn Parsons, American actress and producer
• 1967 – Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan television host and actress
• 1967 – Teddy Riley, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1968 – Ali Benarbia, Algerian footballer
• 1968 – Zvonimir Boban, Croatian footballer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Emily Procter, American actress
• 1968 – CL Smooth, American rapper and producer
• 1968 – Leeroy Thornhill, English keyboard player and DJ
• 1969 – Jeremy Davies, American actor
• 1969 – Dylan Neal, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, Congolese colonel
• 1970 – Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Anne-Marie Duff, English actress
• 1970 – Sadiq Khan, English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Transport, Mayor of London
• 1970 – Sisaundra Lewis, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 – Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game designer and director
• 1971 – Marc Ellis, New Zealand rugby player and television host
• 1971 – David Gauke, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Pınar Selek, Turkish sociologist, author, and academic
• 1971 – Monty Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 – Terry Balsamo, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1972 – Stanislav Varga, Slovak footballer and manager
• 1973 – Jim Fairchild, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist
• 1974 – Kevyn Adams, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1974 – Fredrik Modin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
• 1976 – Karina Bacchi, Brazilian model and actress
• 1976 – Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player and coach
• 1976 – Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater and cyclist
• 1977 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French cyclist
• 1977 – Jamie Marchi, American voice actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Erna Siikavirta, Finnish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1978 – Antonino D'Agostino, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player and coach
• 1979 – Paul Burchill, English wrestler
• 1979 – Gregori Chad Petree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Nick Cannon, American actor, rapper, and producer
• 1980 – Rajesh Sharma, Canadian-Indian politician
• 1981 – Vladimir Kisenkov, Russian footballer
• 1981 – Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Kalil Wilson, American singer and producer
• 1982 – Phil Mustard, English cricketer
• 1982 – Miloš Pavlović, Serbian race car driver
• 1983 – Mario Cassano, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Michael Fraser, Scottish footballer
• 1983 – Mihkel Kukk, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1983 – Abhishek Nayar, Indian cricketer
• 1983 – Travis Pastrana, American motorcycle racer
• 1984 – Domenik Hixon, American football player
• 1985 – Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1985 – Eiji Wentz, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Louis Dodds, English footballer
• 1986 – Michele Sepe, Italian rugby player
• 1987 – Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 – Hassan Maatouk, Lebanese footballer
• 1987 – Taylor Price, American football player
• 1989 – Sione Lousi, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 – Mahmut Temür, Turkish footballer
• 1989 – Armand Traoré, French footballer
• 1990 – Rachel Klamer, Zimbabwean-Dutch triathlete
• 1991 – Jordan McLean, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – Maria João Koehler, Portuguese tennis player
• 1992 – Lidziya Marozava, Belarusian tennis player
• 1993 – Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
• 1993 – Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model and actress
• 1993 – Molly Quinn, American actress and producer
• 1993 – Darrell Wallace, Jr., American race car driver
• 1994 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter
• 1996 – Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
• 1996 – Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
• 1997 – Bella Thorne, American actress

Deaths[edit]

• 705 – Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Muslim caliph (b. 646)
• 976 – Helen of Zadar
• 1286 – John I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
• 1317 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (b. 1265)
• 1621 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist (b. 1575)
• 1647 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1562)
• 1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1602)
• 1656 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
• 1659 – Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian (b. 1603)
• 1735 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
• 1754 – Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (b. 1707)
• 1772 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (b. 1711)
• 1793 – John Hancock, American merchant and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1737)
• 1795 – Andrew Kippis, English minister and author (b. 1725)
• 1802 – Emmanuele Vitale, Maltese general and politician (b. 1758)
• 1804 – Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777)
• 1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish orthographer, phonologist, and linguist (b. 1721)
• 1834 – François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 – Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)
• 1920 – John Olin, American wrestler (b. 1886)
• 1928 – Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1931 – John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1936 – Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1936 – Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
• 1936 – Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)
• 1936 – William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1942 – Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author and critic (b. 1869)
• 1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1953 – Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)
• 1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, English soprano (b. 1912)
• 1955 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (b. 1928)
• 1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1909)
• 1963 – Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (b. 1908)
• 1967 – Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Jean Giono, French author and poet (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
• 1978 – Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1979 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 – Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)
• 1985 – Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1992 – Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator (b. 1946)
• 1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913)
• 1999 – John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 2004 – James Chace, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Ângelo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Bob Friend, English journalist (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Mikey Welsh, American guitarist and painter (b. 1971)
• 2011 – Roger Williams, American pianist (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Eric Lomax, Scottish captain and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician, 20th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Rod Grams, American journalist and politician (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Rodolphe Kasser, Swiss archaeologist and philologist (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Morris Lurie, Australian author and playwright (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Alden E. Matthews, American missionary (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Harden M. McConnell, American chemist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American author (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Jeen van den Berg, Dutch speed skater (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Richard Davies, Welsh-English actor (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2015 – Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator (b. 1945)
• 2015 – Lindy Infante, American football player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (b. 1940)

Το πρώτο αεροπλάνο πολυτελείας -

Με χλιδή πεντάστερου ξενοδοχείου 

Μια εντελώς πρωτόγνωρη εμπειρία θα μπορέσουν να ζήσουν

 λίγοι και εκλεκτοί. Ενα υπερπολυτελές ξενοδοχείο 

δημιουργήθηκε μέσα σε ένα Boeing 787 Dreamliner, το

 οποίο από επιβατικό μετατράπηκε σε private jet.

Τεράστιες κρεβατοκάμαρες, πολυτελή μπάνια, τραπεζαρίες για δείπνο, γραφείο

 εργασίας, ακόμη και αίθουσα σινεμά, κοσμούν το Boeing 787, το οποίο θα μπορεί

 να φιλοξενήσει 40 άτομα σε πριβέ πτήσεις αντί για 335, τα οποία θα μπορούσε 

να φιλοξενήσει σε κανονικές πτήσεις.

Μέχρι στιγμής το έχουν χρησιμοποιήσει δύο εταιρείες για πτήσεις από και 

προς το Χονγκ Κονγκ χωρίς όμως να έχει γίνει γνωστό το κόστος ενοικίασης.

Το κόστος κατασκευής πάντως άγγιξε τα 300 εκατομμύρια ευρώ.