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• 365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
• 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
• 1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.
• 1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
• 1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
• 1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
• 1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.
• 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
• 1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
• 1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
• 1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1611 – Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1612 – During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.) .
• 1683 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
• 1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
• 1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
• 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
• 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
• 1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
• 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
• 1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
• 1861 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
• 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
• 1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
• 1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
• 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• 1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
• 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• 1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
• 1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
• 1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
• 1914 – World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
• 1916 – Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
• 1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
• 1918 – Western Ukraine gains independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1920 – American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• 1922 – Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
• 1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used with the Latin alphabet, comes into force in Turkey.
• 1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
• 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
• 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
• 1942 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
• 1943 – World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
• 1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
• 1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
• 1944 – World War II: A United States Army Air Forces F-13 Superfortress conducted the first flight by an Allied aircraft over the Tokyo region of Japan since the 1942 Doolittle Raid.
• 1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
• 1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
• 1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
• 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
• 1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
• 1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
• 1952 – The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
• 1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
• 1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
• 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
• 1956 – The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
• 1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
• 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
• 1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
• 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
• 1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins
• 1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
• 1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
• 1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
• 1979 – In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
• 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
• 1984 – After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupts.
• 1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
• 2000 – The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
• 2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh killing 26 people and injuring 135.
• 2013 – A gunman opens fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing a US Transportation Security Administration employee, and wounding seven other people.

Births[edit]

• 846 – Louis the Stammerer, Frankish king (d. 879)
• 1339 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1365)
• 1351 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
• 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French philosopher and judge (d. 1563)
• 1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
• 1549 – Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
• 1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (d. 1626)
• 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
• 1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, German poet and translator (d. 1658)
• 1611 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-French commander (d. 1656)
• 1625 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1681)
• 1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
• 1643 – John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1737)
• 1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (d. 1725)
• 1666 – James Sherard, English botanist and curator (d. 1738)
• 1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
• 1727 – Ivan Shuvalov, Russian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1797)
• 1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1822)
• 1762 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
• 1769 – Garlieb Merkel, German author and activist (d. 1850)
• 1778 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
• 1782 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
• 1808 – John Taylor, English-American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1887)
• 1831 – Harry Atkinson, English-New Zealand politician, 10th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1892)
• 1838 – 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
• 1839 – Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 227th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1919)
• 1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian-English soprano and actress (d. 1930)
• 1847 – Hiệp Hòa, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
• 1849 – William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator (d. 1916)
• 1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, American educator, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1912)
• 1860 – Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (d. 1921)
• 1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (d. 1941)
• 1864 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1918)
• 1871 – Stephen Crane, American poet and author (d. 1900)
• 1872 – Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter (d. 1946)
• 1877 – Roger Quilter, English composer (d. 1953)
• 1878 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (d. 1925)
• 1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1880 – Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright (d. 1957)
• 1880 – Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet (d. 1954)
• 1880 – Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral (d. 1965)
• 1886 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet (d. 1951)
• 1886 – Sakutarō Hagiwara, Japanese poet and critic (d. 1942)
• 1887 – L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator (d. 1976)
• 1888 – George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Michał Sopoćko, Polish priest and academic (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1974)
• 1898 – Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver (d. 1960)
• 1898 – Sippie Wallace, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1943)
• 1902 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Max Adrian, Irish-born British actor (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (d. 1963)
• 1904 – Laura LaPlante, American silent film actress (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter and educator (d. 1960)
• 1906 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Mingun Sayadaw, Burmese monk and scholar (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Henri Troyat, French historian and author (d. 2007)
• 1912 – Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (d. 2012)
• 1914 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter, poet, and educator, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Siegfried Jamrowski, Russian-German soldier and pilot (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Clarence E. Miller, American engineer and politician (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Ken Miles, English-American race car driver (d. 1966)
• 1919 – Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – James J. Kilpatrick, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Wadih El Safi, Lebanese singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (d. 2013)
• 1921 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Harald Quandt, German businessman (d. 1967)
• 1922 – George S. Irving, American actor and singer
• 1923 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician, 19th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Stephen Antonakos, Greek-American sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Betsy Palmer, American actress and game show panelist (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Geoffrey Eglinton, Geochemist (died 2016)
• 1927 – Vic Power, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1928 – James Bradford, American weightlifter (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Nicholas Mavroules, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1930 – A. R. Gurney, American playwright and author
• 1930 – Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach (d. 1972)
• 1931 – Chosuke Ikariya, Japanese bass player (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
• 1931 – Arne Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal
• 1932 – John Clark, English actor, director, and producer
• 1933 – Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Gillian Knight, English soprano and actress
• 1934 – William Mathias, Welsh pianist and composer (d. 1992)
• 1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster
• 1935 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1936 – Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer and conductor
• 1936 – Shizuka Kamei, Japanese lawyer and politician
• 1937 – Bill Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Roger Kellaway, American pianist and composer
• 1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian lawyer and jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India
• 1940 – Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott, English academic and politician
• 1940 – Barry Sadler, American sergeant, author, actor, and singer-songwriter (d. 1989)
• 1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1941 – Robert Foxworth, American actor and director
• 1941 – John Pullin, English rugby player
• 1942 – Larry Flynt, American publisher, founded Larry Flynt Publications
• 1942 – Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Marcia Wallace, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Salvatore Adamo, Italian-Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1943 – Jacques Attali, French economist and civil servant
• 1944 – Mike Burney, English saxophonist (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter and author
• 1944 – Bobby Heenan, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster
• 1944 – Oscar Temaru, French-Polynesian soldier and politician, President of French Polynesia
• 1944 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist, founded Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (d. 2013)
• 1945 – John Williamson, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Yuko Shimizu, Japanese graphic designer, created Hello Kitty
• 1947 – Nick Owen, English journalist
• 1947 – Jim Steinman, American songwriter and producer
• 1948 – Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1948 – Amani Abeid Karume, Zanzibar accountant and politician, 6th President of Zanzibar
• 1948 – Bill Woodrow, English sculptor and academic
• 1949 – David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1949 – Michael D. Griffin, American physicist and engineer
• 1949 – Belita Moreno, American actress and acting coach
• 1949 – Gerald Ratner, English businessman
• 1950 – Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation
• 1950 – Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Ronald Bell, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
• 1951 – Fabrice Luchini, French actor and screenwriter
• 1951 – Craig Serjeant, Australian cricketer and chemist
• 1953 – Jan Davis, American engineer and astronaut
• 1953 – Paul Wellings, English ecologist and academic
• 1955 – Beth Leavel, American actress and singer
• 1955 – Mike Mendoza, English radio host and politician
• 1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1957 – Murray Pierce, New Zealand rugby player
• 1958 – Mark Austin, English journalist
• 1958 – Joe DeRenzo, American drummer, composer, and producer
• 1958 – Robert Hart, English singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Susanna Clarke, English author and educator
• 1960 – Tim Cook, American businessman and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc.
• 1960 – Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1961 – Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish author and screenwriter
• 1961 – Nicky Grist, Welsh race car driver
• 1961 – Calvin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1961 – Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician
• 1962 – Sharron Davies, English swimmer and sportscaster
• 1962 – Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 – Anthony Kiedis, American singer-songwriter
• 1963 – Rick Allen, English drummer
• 1963 – Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman
• 1963 – Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1963 – Big Kenny, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor
• 1966 – Gary Howell, American businessman and politician
• 1966 – Jeremy Hunt, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health
• 1967 – Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1967 – Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
• 1969 – Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Sherwin Campbell, Barbadian cricketer
• 1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress
• 1972 – Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1973 – Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and manager
• 1974 – V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
• 1975 – Bo Bice, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Keryn Jordan, South African footballer (d. 2013)
• 1975 – Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1976 – Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian wrestler (d. 2012)
• 1977 – Anine Kruse, Norwegian singer and conductor
• 1978 – Tyler Reks, American wrestler and businessman
• 1979 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player
• 1979 – Luís Manuel Ferreira Delgado, Angolan footballer
• 1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
• 1979 – Alex Prager, American photographer and director
• 1980 – Bilgin Defterli, Turkish footballer
• 1981 – LaTavia Roberson, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1982 – Bradley Orr, English footballer
• 1982 – Warren Spragg, English-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Tanel Toom, Estonian director and screenwriter
• 1983 – Matt Moulson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model and singer
• 1983 – Micaela Schäfer, German model, actress, and singer
• 1983 – Josh Wicks, American soccer player
• 1983 – Jon Wilkin, English rugby player
• 1984 – Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer
• 1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor and television personality
• 1986 – Ksenija Balta, Estonian high jumper, sprinter, and heptathlete
• 1988 – Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1991 – Eyþór Arnarson, Icelandic skier
• 1991 – Reece Brown, English footballer
• 1991 – Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast
• 1995 – Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast

Deaths[edit]

• 955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 919)
• 1296 – Guillaume Durand, French bishop and theologian (b. 1230)
• 1391 – Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (b. 1360)
• 1399 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
• 1423 – Nicholas Eudaimonoioannes, Byzantine diplomat
• 1461 – David of Trebizond (b. 1408)
• 1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect (b. 1499)
• 1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet and scholar (b. 1508)
• 1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
• 1642 – Jean Nicolet, French-Canadian explorer (b. 1598)
• 1676 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1589)
• 1678 – William Coddington, American judge and politician, 1st Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
• 1700 – Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
• 1814 – Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1744)
• 1888 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1838)
• 1894 – Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
• 1903 – Theodor Mommsen, German archaeologist, journalist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
• 1907 – Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (b. 1873)
• 1924 – Bill Tilghman, American police officer (b. 1854)
• 1938 – Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1942 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1952 – Dixie Lee, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1955 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (b. 1888)
• 1958 – Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Turkish poet, author, and diplomat (b. 1884)
• 1962 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1968 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Robert MacArthur, Canadian-American ecologist and academic (b. 1930)
• 1972 – Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1982 – James Broderick, American actor and director (b. 1927)
• 1982 – King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1983 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch-Swiss musicologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 – Norman Krasna, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 – Arnold Pihlak, Estonian-English footballer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 1987 – René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1993 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
• 1996 – J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (b. 1954)
• 2000 – George Armstrong, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2001 – John S. Romanides, Greek priest, author, and educator (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Ekrem Akurgal, Turkish archaeologist and academic (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (b. 1970)
• 2004 – Terry Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Skitch Henderson, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1966)
• 2006 – William Styron, American novelist and essayist (b. 1925)
• 2007 – S. Ali Raza, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Paul Tibbets, American general (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Shakir Stewart, American record producer (b. 1974)
• 2008 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian-American soprano and actress (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Endel Laas, Estonian scientist and academic (b. 1915)
• 2009 – Robert H. Rines, American violinist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Ernesto Presas, Filipino martial artist, founded Kombatan (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Cahit Aral, Turkish engineer and politician, Turkish Minister of Industry and Commerce (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Agustín García Calvo, Spanish poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Tato Laviera, Puerto Rican-American poet (b. 1950)
• 2013 – John Y. McCollister, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Piet Rietveld, Dutch economist and academic (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Jackie Fairweather, Australian runner and coach (b. 1967)
• 2014 – Abednigo Ngcobo, South African footballer (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965)
• 2015 – Thomas R. Fitzgerald, American lawyer and judge (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Houston McTear, American sprinter (b. 1957)
• 2015 – Charles Duncan Michener, American entomologist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Günter Schabowski, German journalist and politician (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Fred Thompson, American actor, lawyer, and politician (b. 1942)

Green, Green Grass of Home songwriter Curly Putman dies

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Songwriter Curly Putman, who wrote hits including Green, Green Grass of Home and D.I.V.O.R.C.E, has died. 

Putman, who was 85, was best known for Green, Green Grass of Home, which he wrote in 1965. It been recorded by dozens of artists including Tom Jones.

He also penned Dolly Parton's first chart single Dumb Blonde in 1967, while D.I.V.O.R.C.E was a number one for Tammy Wynette the following year.

And country star George Jones had a big hit with He Stopped Loving Her Today.

Putman was born in Alabama and moved to Nashville, Tennessee - country music's capital - when his career took off in the 1960s.

In a statement, the Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander wrote: "In a city of great songwriters, Curly Putman was one of the finest.

"Green, Green Grass of Home was just one of his memorable hits. He wrote a ballad for my campaign for governor in 1978, If The Right Man Was There, for which I will be forever grateful.

"Curly was a great friend, and I will miss him."

Curly Putman's other greatest hits included:

• My Elusive Dreams - David Houston and Tammy Wynette (1967)
• Blood Red and Going Down - Tanya Tucker (1973)
• It's a Cheating Situation - Sonny Throckmorton (1979)
• Baby, I'll Be Coming Back for More - TG Sheppard (1980)
• Do You Want to Go to Heaven? - TG Sheppard (1980)
• War Is Hell on the Homefront Too - George Jones (1982)

Tippi Hedren claims Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted her

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Actress Tippi Hedren has claimed Alfred Hitchcock sexually harassed her while they worked together in the 1960s.

Writing in her autobiography, she claimed the director "threw himself" on top of her in the back of his limousine and tried to kiss her. 

The actress described the encounter as "an awful, awful moment".

Hedren added that she didn't tell anyone because "sexual harassment and stalking were terms that didn't exist" in the early 1960s.

She continued: "Besides, he was Alfred Hitchcock, one of Universal's superstars, and I was just a lucky little blonde model he'd rescued from relative obscurity. Which one of us was more valuable to the studio, him or me?"

'Shocked and repulsed'

Hedren appeared in The Birds in 1963 and the following year starred in Marnie - both of which were directed by Hitchcock.

The actress, now 86, made the claims in her autobiography Tippi: A Memoir, which is published in November.

She has spoken in the past about the director's alleged treatment of her, but has gone into more detail in the memoir.

Hedren described a later encounter in Hitchcock's office where the director "suddenly grabbed" her and "put his hands" on her. 

She wrote: "It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly, and I couldn't have been more shocked and more repulsed.

"The harder I fought him, the more aggressive he became. Then he started adding threats, as if he could do anything to me that was worse than what he was trying to do at that moment."

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After refusing his demands, Hedren said Hitchcock "looked directly into my eyes, his face red with rage, and promised, 'I'll ruin your career.'"

The actress said Hitchcock then made her life difficult, refusing to submit her work for the Oscar nominations or let her take on other acting roles while he still had her under contract.

Hedren, whose daughter Melanie Griffith is also an actress, said: "I've made it my mission ever since to see to it that while Hitchcock may have ruined my career, I never gave him the power to ruin my life."

She went on to say that, despite his treatment of her, she felt "a wave of sadness" when he died in 1980.

"It surprised everyone that I went to Hitchcock's funeral," she wrote, adding: "As far as I was concerned, there was no unfinished business between us, nothing more that needed to be said.

"I'd already healed and moved on by the time Hitchcock died, far past anything I'd ever imagined for myself. So in the end, I was there to say, 'Goodbye, and thank you, Hitch.'"

Το νέο Voice - Η κριτική επιτροπή

 με Ρουβά και ο Καπουτζίδης

κοιμήθηκαν στον πύργο του κόμη Δράκουλα  

Για πρώτη φορά μετά από 70 χρόνια το μεσαιωνικό κάστρο

 Μπραν στη Ρουμανία, γνωστό και ως ο πύργος του κόμη

 Δράκουλα φιλοξένησε για μία νύχτα ένα ζευγάρι, το οποίο

 μάλιστα κοιμήθηκε μέσα σε φέρετρα. 

Τα δυο αδέρφια από τον Καναδά, η Τάμι και ο Ρόμπιν Βάρμα, τα οποία είναι

 εγγόνια του Ντεβεντρά Βάρμα ο οποίος ήταν ειδικός στην βαμπιρική ιστορία

 και είχε επισκεφτεί το κάστρο Μπραν το 1971, ήταν οι μεγάλοι νικητές του 

διαγωνισμού της Airbnb ενόψει του Χάλοουιν. Το βραβείο που κέρδισαν

 ήταν μία διανυκτέρευση στο πιο «τρομακτικό», κινηματογραφικά τουλάχιστον,

 μέρος στον κόσμο. 

Για να κερδίσουν το βραβείο η Τάμι και ο Ρόμπιν απάντησαν στην ερώτηση

 «τι θα λέγατε στον Κόμη Δράκουλα αν τον συναντούσατε στο κάστρο του;» ότι 

«πως ο παππούς μας ήταν ο κορυφαίος ειδικός στην γκοθ λογοτεχνία και αρκετοί 

πίστευαν πως ήταν ειδικός για τον Κόμη Δράκουλα…θα κάναμε τα πάντα για

 να μείνουμε ως επισκέπτες του αρχικού βαμπίρ, το οποίο ενέπνευσε τον παππού μας».

Πάντως τα δύο αδέρφια, τα οποία φαίνεται δεν φοβούνται καθόλου, αποφάσισαν

 να ζήσουν την εμπειρία όσο πιο καλά μπορούσαν. 

Εφτασαν με άμαξα στον Πύργο

Εκαναν βόλτα στον... τρομακτικό περιβάλλοντα χώρο

Δείπνησαν στην τραπεζαρία υπό το φως κεριών

Και στο τέλος κοιμήθηκαν σε φέρετρα

Το ρόλο του οικοδεσπότη είχε αναλάβει ο Ντράκε Στόκερ, ανιψιός του

 συγγραφέα του βιβλίου «Κόμης Δράκουλας».

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• 619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
• 1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
• 1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
• 1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
• 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
• 1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
• 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
• 1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• 1912 – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
• 1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
• 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• 1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
• 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
• 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
• 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• 1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
• 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
• 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
• 1951 – Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.
• 1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
• 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
• 1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
• 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
• 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
• 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
• 1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
• 1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
• 1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
• 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
• 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
• 1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• 1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

Births[edit]

• 682 – Umar II, Arabian caliph (d. 720)
• 971 – Mahmud of Ghazni (d. 1030)
• 1470 – Edward V of England (d. 1483)
• 1553 – Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (d. 1633)
• 1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (d. 1721)
• 1649 – Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond (d. 1660)
• 1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (d. 1766)
• 1696 – Conrad Weiser, American soldier, monk, and judge (d. 1760)
• 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter and educator (d. 1779)
• 1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
• 1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)
• 1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1799)
• 1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1784)
• 1754 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1794)
• 1755 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
• 1766 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
• 1767 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (d. 1820)
• 1777 – Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor and translator (d. 1822)
• 1795 – James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
• 1799 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
• 1799 – Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer (d. 1885)
• 1808 – Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (d. 1889)
• 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
• 1821 – George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1899)
• 1833 – Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian physician and academic (d. 1904)
• 1837 – Émile Bayard, French illustrator and painter (d. 1891)
• 1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)
• 1847 – Georges Sorel, French philosopher and author (d. 1922)
• 1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish historian, author, and academic (d. 1947)
• 1865 – Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
• 1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (d. 1933)
• 1877 – Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (d. 1957)
• 1877 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
• 1878 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930)
• 1879 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (d. 1947)
• 1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933)
• 1890 – Moa Martinson, Swedish author (d. 1964)
• 1891 – David Townsend, American art director and set decorator (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939)
• 1893 – Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company (d. 1966)
• 1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976)
• 1899 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1987)
• 1905 – James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
• 1905 – Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (d. 1959)
• 1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
• 1908 – Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (d. 1942)
• 1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian lawyer and politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Sidney Luft, American film producer (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot (d. 2015)
• 1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Shepard Menken, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1994)
• 1922 – Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler (d. 2013)
• 1924 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer (d. 2016)
• 1927 – Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator
• 1927 – John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician
• 1928 – Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Herb Geller, American-German saxophonist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author
• 1929 – Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Robert Gover, American journalist and author (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan
• 1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Bill Gothard, American minister and author
• 1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
• 1936 – Rose Bird, American lawyer and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Earl Carroll, American singer (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Jay Black, American singer
• 1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
• 1938 – Queen Sofía of Spain
• 1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English broadcaster and politician, Minister for Security
• 1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor and academic
• 1940 – Jim Bakken, American football player
• 1940 – Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player
• 1941 – Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications
• 1941 – Dave Stockton, American golfer
• 1941 – Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 – Shere Hite, German sexologist, author, and educator
• 1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
• 1944 – Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Keith Emerson, English keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Larry Little, American football player
• 1945 – J. D. Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1946 – Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
• 1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
• 1947 – Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer
• 1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
• 1951 – Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
• 1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian drummer
• 1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer
• 1952 – Aziz Yıldırım, Turkish engineer and businessman
• 1954 – Pat Croce, American businessman and author
• 1955 – Chris Burnett, American saxophonist and composer
• 1955 – Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
• 1956 – Dale Brown, American author and pilot
• 1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer
• 1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player
• 1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1961 – Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
• 1962 – David Brock, American journalist and author
• 1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French operatic soprano
• 1962 – Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Bobby Dall, American bass player
• 1963 – Jonas Gardell, Swedish author and screenwriter
• 1963 – Ron McGovney, American bass player
• 1963 – Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia
• 1963 – Craig Saavedra, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Park Young-seok, South Korean mountaineer and explorer (d. 2011)
• 1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish lawyer and politician
• 1965 – Nick Boles, English businessman and politician
• 1965 – Arnold Clavio, Filipino journalist
• 1965 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor and producer
• 1965 – Samuel Le Bihan, French actor and screenwriter
• 1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
• 1967 – Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Simon Hill, English-Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1967 – Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1968 – Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer
• 1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach
• 1972 – Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 – Ben Graham, Australian footballer
• 1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
• 1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
• 1974 – Nelly, American rapper
• 1974 – Sofia Polgar, Hungarian chess player
• 1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver
• 1975 – Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1976 – Margus Hernits, Estonian figure skater
• 1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
• 1977 – Rodney Buford, American basketball player
• 1977 – Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
• 1977 – Emma Reynolds, English politician
• 1977 – Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster
• 1978 – Carmen Cali, American baseball player
• 1979 – Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player
• 1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer
• 1981 – Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer
• 1981 – Roddy White, American football player
• 1982 – Esha Deol, Indian actress
• 1982 – Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player
• 1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
• 1983 – Darren Young, American wrestler
• 1986 – Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player
• 1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
• 1987 – Gwendoline Taylor, New Zealand actress
• 1988 – Julia Görges, German tennis player
• 1989 – Stevan Jovetić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1989 – Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player
• 1989 – Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer
• 1994 – Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 943 – Emma of France (b. 894)
• 1083 – Matilda of Flanders (b. 1031)
• 1285 – Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
• 1483 – Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1454)
• 1610 – Richard Bancroft, English archbishop and academic (b. 1544)
• 1618 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (b. 1568)
• 1716 – Engelbert Kaempfer, German botanist and physician (b. 1651)
• 1807 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1730)
• 1846 – Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
• 1852 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
• 1863 – Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
• 1877 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
• 1886 – James Watney junior, English brewer, cricketer, and politician (b. 1832)
• 1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
• 1898 – George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
• 1905 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
• 1930 – Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
• 1935 – Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• 1944 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
• 1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 – Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 – Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 – James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Ngô Đình Nhu, Vietnamese activist, archivist, politician, and tactical strategist (b. 1910)
• 1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
• 1970 – Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
• 1971 – Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1981 – Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
• 1982 – Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Paul Frees, American voice actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1994 – Martin Taras, American animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1996 – John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (b. 1902)
• 1998 – Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
• 2003 – Frank McCloskey, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
• 2007 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1906)
• 2007 – The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Madelyn Dunham, American banker and business executive (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Boots Plata, Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Clifford Nass, American author and academic (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Michael Coleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956)
• 2014 – Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian and author (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish painter, historian, and academic (b. 1924)
• 2015 – Mike Davies, Welsh-American tennis player and businessman (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)

Στα άδυτα του Λευκού Οίκου -Τα ιδιωτικά διαμερίσματα των Ομπάμα 

Ο Λευκός Οίκος είναι μεν ένα από τα πιο αναγνωρίσιμα κτίρια 

στον πλανήτη, αλλά ο κόσμος έχει σπάνια την ευκαιρία να δει

 τους χώρους στους οποίους ζει η Πρώτη Οικογένεια των ΗΠΑ.

Με τους Ομπάμα να ετοιμάζονται πλέον να αποχωρήσουν από εκεί, ήρθε η ώρα

 να ανοίξουν τις πόρτες των ιδιαίτερων διαμερισμάτων τους, στο περιοδικό

 «Architectural Digest», δείχνοντας πού ζούσαν τα τελευταία οχτώ χρόνια.

Στο τεύχος του Δεκεμβρίου το περιοδικό δημοσιεύει φωτογραφίες από σημεία του

 Λευκού Οίκου που σπάνια βλέπουν οι «κοινοί θνητοί», όπως η Αίθουσα των

 Συνθηκών ή το Κίτρινο Οβάλ Δωμάτιο, το οποίο έχει χρησιμοποιηθεί τόσο

 ως επίσημο σαλόνι όσο και ως ιδιωτικό καθιστικό.

Επίσης, υπάρχουν φωτογραφίες από το ιδιωτικό καθιστικό, την τραπεζαρία,

 ακόμη και την κρεβατοκάμαρα του Προέδρου, με ένα κρεβάτι με «ουρανό».

«Το εντονότερο ''σημάδι''που άφησαν οι Ομπάμα στους ιδιωτικούς χώρους τους

είναι με τα έργα τέχνης που επέλεξαν», είπε στο ΑΒC η αρχισυντάκτρια του

 περιοδικού, Ειμι Αστλεϊ, συμπληρώνοντας ότι επέλεξαν μοντέρνα τέχνη. Από

 την άλλη, οι Ομπάμα επέλεξαν να μην αλλάξουν κάποια πράγματα, όπως μεταξύ 

άλλων έναν καθρέφτη που έμεινε στον χώρο από την εποχή που ζούσε εκεί

 ο Τζορτζ Μπους.

Σύμφωνα με το περιοδικό, πριν μετακομίσει στον Λευκό Οίκο, προτεραιότητα 

της Μισέλ Ομπάμα ήταν να ετοιμάσει τα δωμάτια για τις κόρες της, Σάσα και 

Μαλία, όπως και για τη μητέρα της, Μάριαν Ρόμπινσον. Για τους υπόλοιπους

 χώρους μάλιστα μαζί με τον διακοσμητή της συμβουλεύτηκε την ιστορία,

 διαβάζοντας επιστολές πρώην Πρώτων Κυριών, ενώ ο διακοσμητής μίλησε ακόμη

 και με την Νάνσι Ρίγκαν και την αδελφή της Τζάκι Κένεντι, Λι Ράντζιβιλ.

Τώρα μπορείς να νοικιάσεις το υπέροχο σπίτι του Ντέιβιντ Μπάουι 

Ενα εκπληκτικό σπίτι είχε ο μεγάλος Ντέιβιντ Μπάουι, ο 

διάσημος – κατ'άλλους εκκεντρικός – τραγουδιστής που

 εγκατέλειψε τα εγκόσμια.

Το τεράστιο ακίνητό του δεσπόζει στο λόφο, πάνω από τη Britannia Bay στο νησί 

Mustique.

Εξωτερικά κιόσκια, λίμνες, εξωτικοί κήποι, υπνοδωμάτια και σαλόνια έχουν κάτι 

από την γοητεία του Μπάουι: Από ρωμαϊκού τύπου οροφές, μέχρι ξύλινες νότες

 που θυμίζουν Ινδονησία και Μπαλί, πολυέλαιο από κρύσταλλο Murano που 

λειτουργεί με... λάδι και πολλά άλλα, συνθέτουν το περίεργο και όμορφο αυτό μέρος.

Το ακίνητο μπορεί, τώρα, να ενοικιαστεί μέσω της Mustique Company και

 της Red Savannah, για 40.000 δολάρια την εβδομάδα.

«Εφυγε» ο ηθοποιός Γιώργος Βασιλείου

Εχασε τη μάχη με τον καρκίνο ο γνωστός ηθοποιός 

Γιώργος Βασιλείου σήμερα το πρωί, βυθίζοντας στη θλίψη

 την οικογένειά του και τους φίλους του.

Ο αγαπημένος ηθοποιός έφυγε από τη ζωή σήμερα τα ξημερώματα, ύστερα από

 σκληρή μάχη που έδωσε με τον καρκίνο.

Ο ίδιος είχε μιλήσει για το πρόβλημά του και μάλιστα, με αφορμή τη δική του 

περιπέτεια, είχε προτρέψει όλους να κόψουν το τσιγάρο. «Αυτό που έπαθα το

 έπαθα από το τσιγάρο. Κάπνιζα δύο πακέτα την μέρα. Γι’ αυτό τώρα, όπου

 σταθώ κι όπου βρεθώ, ένα πράγμα λέω σε όλους: "Κόψτε το τσιγάρο!"», είχε

 πει χαρακτηριστικά σε συνέντευξή του στις αρχές του περασμένου Σεπτεμβρίου. 

Ποιος ήταν ο Γιώργος Βασιλείου
Ο Γιώργος Βασιλείου γεννήθηκε στις 21 Ιουνίου 1950. Ηταν  ηθοποιός του θεάτρου, 

του κινηματογράφου και της τηλεόρασης. Υπήρξε βουλευτής στη Β'Περιφέρεια

 Πειραιά με τη Νέα Δημοκρατία (2004-2007) και επίτιμος πρόεδρος του

 Φιλανθρωπικού Τμήματος του Συνεργατικού Ταμιευτηρίου Λάρνακας.

Γεννήθηκε στην πόλη της Λαμίας, όπου και μεγάλωσε. Από μικρός εργάστηκε σε

 διάφορες δουλειές, παράλληλα με το σχολείο. Σπούδασε στη Δραματική Σχολή 

του Γιώργου Μπέλλου, απ'όπου και αποφοίτησε με άριστα. Στις 17 Νοεμβρίου

 του 1973, ανήμερα του Πολυτεχνείου, γνώρισε τη σύζυγό του, Λία Θερμογιάννη, 

φοιτήτρια τότε της Νομικής Σχολής Αθηνών, την οποία παντρεύτηκε μετά από

 4 χρόνια και απέκτησε τα 2 παιδιά του, Βασίλη Βασιλείου (1979) και

 Ιουλιέττα Βασιλείου (1988).

Στις 14 Νοεμβρίου θα δούμε την μεγαλύτερη πανσέληνο των τελευταίων 70 ετών