Dame Shirley Bassey in tears 

at student tribute concert

Νάντια Χαλαμανδάρη-Πρίγκιπας Φερνάντο: Η βασιλική βάφτιση 

Τον γιο τους βάφτισαν με παρούσα την βασιλική οικογένεια της Ισπανίας ο Πρίγκιπας Φερνάντο (ξάδερφος του σημερινού βασιλιά Φελίπε) και η  δημοσιογράφος Νάντια Χαλαμανδάρη.

Οι γονείς βάφτισαν τον γιο τους Νικόλαο, ενώ την Νάντια Χαλαμανδάρη έντυσε η Ελληνίδα σχεδιάστρια Σήλια Κριθαριώτη, δημιουργώντας ένα φόρεμα με δαντέλα σε σιέλ και λευκή απόχρωση.

Στην βάφτιση, η οποία έγινε στην περιοχή Ιέρο της Μαδρίτης, βρέθηκαν περίπου 60 άτομα, με τον φακό να στρέφεται στην πρώην Βασίλισσα Σοφία της Ισπανίας.

Μεταξύ άλλων, καλεσμένοι ήταν ο πρώην βασιλιάς της Βουλγαρίας Συμεών, τα τέσσερα αδέλφια του Φερνάντο με την οικογένειά τους, και η διάσημη ζωγράφος Μαϊτέ Σπινόλα.

Τέλος, το γεύμα για τον εορτασμό της βάφτισης έγινε στο πολυτελές σπίτι της γιαγιάς Ινφάντα Πιλάρ (αδελφής του Χουάν Κάρλος) και τα μέτρα ασφαλείας ήταν δρακόντεια.

Κωστής Στεφανόπουλος 
1926 – 2016

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• 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
• 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
• 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
• 1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
• 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
• 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
• 1812 – War of 1812: Seventeen Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
• 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
• 1864 – American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
• 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched and is one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
• 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
• 1931 – Al-Mina'a SC was founded in Iraq.
• 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
• 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
• 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
• 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• 1963 – US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
• 1963 – William Clay Ford Sr. buys the Detroit Lions for $4.5 million.
• 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
• 1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
• 1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
• 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
• 1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
• 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
• 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
• 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
• 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
• 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
• 1995 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
• 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
• 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.
• 2015 – A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar killed at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.

Births[edit]

• 1515 – Mary of Guise (d. 1560)
• 1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (d. 1610)
• 1602 – Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)
• 1635 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (d. 1672)
• 1643 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (d. 1687)
• 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French pianist and composer (d. 1760)
• 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American soldier and politician, 10th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
• 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
• 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1784)
• 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824)
• 1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794)
• 1728 – Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811)
• 1744 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
• 1766 – Charlotte von Lengefeld, German author (d. 1826)
• 1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and activist (d. 1810)
• 1780 – José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (d. 1834)
• 1787 – Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1823)
• 1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)
• 1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (d. 1893)
• 1819 – George Eliot, English journalist, author, and poet (d. 1880)
• 1824 – Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist (d. 1916)
• 1830 – Jhalkaribai, Indian soldier (d. 1858)
• 1836 – George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (d. 1913)
• 1845 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1875)
• 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German painter and academic (d. 1938)
• 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
• 1861 – Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)
• 1868 – John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
• 1869 – André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• 1870 – Howard Brockway, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1951)
• 1870 – Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
• 1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1955)
• 1873 – Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1930)
• 1876 – Percival Proctor Baxter, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969)
• 1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1934)
• 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919)
• 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (d. 1922)
• 1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Harley Earl, American businessman (d. 1969)
• 1896 – David J. Mays, American lawyer and author (d. 1971)
• 1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989)
• 1897 – Harry Wilson, English-American actor and singer (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
• 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981)
• 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987)
• 1901 – Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999)
• 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
• 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist and educator (d. 1942)
• 1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, 15th Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1990)
• 1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
• 1902 – Ethel Smith, American organist (d. 1996)
• 1904 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
• 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1904 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (d. 1987)
• 1912 – Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1993)
• 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach (d. 2016)
• 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater and coach
• 1914 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956)
• 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987)
• 1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Steven Muller, German-American scholar and academic (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist
• 1930 – Peter Hall, English actor, director, and manager
• 1930 – Peter Hurford, English organist and composer
• 1932 – Ray Farabee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (d. 2016)
• 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1936 – John Bird, English actor and screenwriter
• 1936 – Archie Gouldie, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2016)
• 1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist and academic
• 1939 – Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence
• 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
• 1940 – Roy Thomas, American author
• 1940 – Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
• 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
• 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Youngbloods)
• 1942 – Guion Bluford, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1943 – William Kotzwinkle, American novelist and screenwriter
• 1943 – Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
• 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter
• 1945 – Elaine Weyuker, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
• 1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter
• 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American businessman and academic
• 1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2005)
• 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 – Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author
• 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1948 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1949 – David Pietrusza, American historian and author
• 1949 – Andres Põder, Estonian archbishop
• 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
• 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
• 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor, director, and manager
• 1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (d. 1994)
• 1953 – Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer
• 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
• 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
• 1956 – Ron Randall, American author and illustrator
• 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host
• 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
• 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
• 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American actor
• 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
• 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
• 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress, singer, and politician
• 1960 – Jim Bob, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Carter USM)
• 1960 – Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
• 1961 – Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
• 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author
• 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
• 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian engineer and author
• 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and educator
• 1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
• 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster
• 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach
• 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer
• 1964 – Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1965 – Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player
• 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer and manager
• 1965 – Kristin Minter, American actress
• 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
• 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American wrestler and manager
• 1966 – Mark Pritchard, English lawyer and politician
• 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Michael K. Williams, American actor and producer
• 1967 – Boris Becker, German-Swiss tennis player and coach
• 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor and activist
• 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater, coach, and sportscaster
• 1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
• 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer scientist and programmer, created PHP
• 1968 – Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor
• 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player
• 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator
• 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1970 – Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter
• 1971 – Cath Bishop, English rower
• 1971 – Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player
• 1971 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and producer
• 1972 – Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player
• 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian activist
• 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer and scholar
• 1973 – Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player
• 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
• 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (d. 2015)
• 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
• 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach
• 1976 – Regina Halmich, German boxer and businesswoman
• 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Sydney Blu, Canadian DJ and producer
• 1977 – Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player
• 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
• 1978 – Colin Best, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 – Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer
• 1978 – Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1979 – Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
• 1980 – David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach
• 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster
• 1980 – Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
• 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
• 1981 – Ben Adams, English-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
• 1981 – Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress and singer
• 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
• 1981 – Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Shangela Laquifa Wadley, American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality
• 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
• 1982 – Steve Angello, Greek-Swedish DJ and producer
• 1982 – Charlene Choi, Canadian-Hong Kong singer
• 1982 – Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer
• 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian journalist and author
• 1982 – Fiona Glascott, Irish actress
• 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Sei Ashina, Japanese actress
• 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
• 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress
• 1984 – Nathalie Nordnes, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and producer
• 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 – Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer
• 1985 – Ava Leigh, English singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1985 – James Roby, English rugby player
• 1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player
• 1986 – Erika Padilla, Filipino actress and host
• 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter
• 1987 – Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer
• 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
• 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
• 1989 – Candice Glover, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 – Minehiro Kinomoto, Japanese actor
• 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer
• 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
• 1990 – Jang Dongwoo, South Korean singer and dancer
• 1993 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
• 1995 – Katherine McNamara, American actress.
• 1996 – Madison Davenport, American actress and singer

Deaths[edit]

• 365 – Antipope Felix II
• 950 – Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)
• 1286 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
• 1318 – Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271)
• 1392 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (b. 1362)
• 1617 – Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1590)
• 1694 – John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
• 1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
• 1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680)
• 1774 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725)
• 1794 – John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724)
• 1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)
• 1819 – John Stackhouse, English botanist and phycologist (b. 1742)
• 1875 – Henry Wilson, American colonel, journalist, and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
• 1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)
• 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859)
• 1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer and scholar (b. 1842)
• 1902 – Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851)
• 1913 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (b. 1837)
• 1916 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (b. 1876)
• 1917 – Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842)
• 1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852)
• 1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and author (b. 1884)
• 1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)
• 1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1943 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)
• 1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (b. 1889)
• 1948 – Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868)
• 1953 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (b. 1884)
• 1954 – Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905)
• 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
• 1963 – C. S. Lewis, Irish-English author, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936)
• 1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
• 1986 – William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
• 1989 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1989 – René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
• 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 1996 – María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
• 2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Theo Barker, English historian and academic (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935)
• 2008 – MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Jean Cione, American baseball player and educator (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano and actress (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Bennie McRae, American football player (b. 1939)
• 2012 – P. Govinda Pillai, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Don Dailey, American computer programmer (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Brian Dawson, English singer (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Don Grate, American baseball and basketball player (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Abubakar Audu, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Kogi State (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1949)
• 2015 – Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
• 2015 – Robin Stewart, Indian-English actor and game show host (b. 1946)
• 2015 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (b. 1927)

Ο Λευκός Οίκος έδωσε το άλμπουμ του ταξιδιού του Ομπάμα στην Αθήνα

Ο Μπάρακ Ομπάμα ολοκλήρωσε το τελευταίο του ταξίδι στο

 εξωτερικό ως πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ και πλέον είναι έτοιμος να

 παραδώσει τα κλειδιά του Λευκού Οίκου στον νέο πρόεδρο

 Ντόναλντ Τραμπ.

Ο απερχόμενος Αμερικανός πρόεδρος ταξίδεψε σε Ελλάδα, Γερμανία και Περού, 

έχοντας τη δυνατότητα να «συνομιλήσει με συμμάχους και φίλους για τη δέσμευση 

της Αμερικής προς τους εταίρους της και τις προσπάθειες να αντιμετωπίσει 

ορισμένες από τις πιο πιεστικές παγκόσμιες προκλήσεις», όπως αναφέρει ο 

Λευκός Οίκος.

«Στην πρώτη επίσκεψη του στην Ελλάδα, ο πρόεδρος είχε την ευκαιρία να μιλήσει με τον ελληνικό λαό, τους πρωτοπόρους της Δημοκρατίας, για την παγκόσμια οικονομία και την ανθεκτικότητα του δημοκρατικού συστήματος διακυβέρνησης», πρόσθεσε.

Παράλληλα, τόνισε πως «έγινε μάρτυρας θαυμάτων της αρχαίας Ελλάδας από πρώτο χέρι όταν περιόδευσε στην Ακρόπολη».

Μέσα από τα κλικ του επίσημου φωτογράφου του Λευκού Οίκου, αυτό είναι το ταξίδι του Μπάρακ Ομπάμα στην Ελλάδα.

Η άφιξη του Αμερικανού προέδρου στο «Ελ. Βενιζέλος»

Ο Μπάρακ Ομπάμα με τον Προκόπη Παυλόπουλο συναντήθηκαν με γυναίκες με παραδοσιακές στολές πριν το δείπνο στο Προεδρικό Μέγαρο

Αγκαλιά με ένα μωρό κατά τη συνάντησή του με το προσωπικό της αμερικανικής πρεσβείας και τις οικογένειές τους στον Αστέρα Βουλιαγμένης

Ξενάγηση στο Μουσείο της Ακρόπολης από τον καθηγητή Δημήτριο Παντερμαλή

Φωτογραφίες: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town

Η δεκαετία του ’60 η καλύτερη

 μεταπολεμικά για την Θεσσαλονίκη

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• 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
• 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
• 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
• 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
• 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
• 1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
• 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
• 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
• 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at Battle of Tudela.
• 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
• 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
• 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
• 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
• 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
• 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another island universe far outside of our own was first published in The New York Times.
• 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
• 1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
• 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
• 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
• 1946 – French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
• 1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
• 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
• 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of "An Unearthly Child" (starring William Hartnell), the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
• 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N1 rocket.
• 1974 – Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
• 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
• 1978 – Cyclone kills about 1000 people in Eastern Sri Lanka.
• 1978 – The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.
• 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten and three others who died.
• 1980 – The 6.9 Mw Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.
• 1981 – Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1985 – Gunmen hijack Egypt Air Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
• 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
• 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
• 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
• 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
• 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
• 2006 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
• 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
• 2010 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
• 2015 – Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.

Births[edit]

• 870 – Alexander, Byzantine emperor (d. 913)
• 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
• 1190 – Pope Clement IV (d. 1268)
• 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
• 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
• 1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
• 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
• 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1703)
• 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)
• 1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1720)
• 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French violinist and composer (d. 1730)
• 1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian and author (d. 1766)
• 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer and author (d. 1799)
• 1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
• 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
• 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)
• 1781 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
• 1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)
• 1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American author and activist (d. 1895)
• 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
• 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
• 1858 – Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (d. 1938)
• 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)
• 1868 – Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
• 1871 – William Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
• 1878 – Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (d. 1941)
• 1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
• 1886 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor and singer (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)
• 1888 – Harpo Marx, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
• 1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman (d. 1964)
• 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)
• 1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi−English historian, author, and critic (d. 1999)
• 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist and educator (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Aaron Bank, American colonel (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (d. 1982)
• 1905 – K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986)
• 1907 – Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (d. 2014)
• 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)
• 1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)
• 1914 – Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author (d. 2006)
• 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Marc Simont, French-American illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Michael Gough, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2011)
• 1916 – P. K. Page, English-Canadian author and poet (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-French poet and translator (d. 1970)
• 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Daniel Brewster, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author and poet
• 1924 – Irvin J. Borowsky, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player and educator (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
• 1924 – Paula Raymond, American model and actress (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist and author (d. 1994)
• 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor
• 1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author and educator (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)
• 1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1927 – John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
• 1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
• 1928 – John Coleman, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 1973)
• 1928 – Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer
• 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
• 1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress (d. 1972)
• 1930 – Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager
• 1932 – Michel David-Weill, French-American banker
• 1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
• 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor
• 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)
• 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Robert Towne, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1935 – Ken Eastwood, Australian cricketer
• 1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Robert Barnard, English author, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author
• 1937 – Graham Hearne, English lawyer and businessman
• 1938 – Patrick Kelly, English archbishop
• 1938 – Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
• 1939 – Jeri Redcorn, Potawatomi potter
• 1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
• 1941 – Alan Mullery, English footballer and manager
• 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor and producer
• 1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
• 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress
• 1943 – David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach
• 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer
• 1944 – Peter Lindbergh, German-French photographer and director
• 1944 – James Toback, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Assi Dayan, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Jim Doyle, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and radio host
• 1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
• 1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
• 1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002)
• 1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
• 1946 – Bobby Rush, American soldier and politician
• 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French radio and television host
• 1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1948 – Frank Worthington, English footballer and manager
• 1949 – Tom Joyner, American radio host
• 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer)
• 1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man)
• 1949 – Jerry verDorn, American actor
• 1950 – Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic
• 1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic
• 1950 – Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1951 – David Rappaport, English-American actor (d. 1990)
• 1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player and educator
• 1953 – Steven Balbus the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford
• 1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef and author
• 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombonist, composer, and conductor
• 1953 – Martin Kent, Australian cricketer
• 1953 – Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• 1954 – Pete Allen, English clarinet player and saxophonist
• 1954 – Ross Brawn, English engineer
• 1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
• 1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Other Ones)
• 1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist
• 1955 – Steven Brust, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and author (Cats Laughing)
• 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
• 1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician
• 1956 – Bruce Edgar, New Zealand cricketer
• 1956 – Shane Gould, Australian swimmer and coach
• 1958 – Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and lawyer
• 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor
• 1960 – Robin Roberts, American sportscaster and journalist
• 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
• 1961 – Nicolas Bacri, French composer
• 1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
• 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza
• 1961 – Peter Stanford, English journalist and author
• 1962 – Lance King, American singer-songwriter and producer (Avian, Balance of Power, Shining Star, and Empire)
• 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan union leader and politician, President of Venezuela
• 1963 – Gwynne Shotwell, American businesswoman, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX
• 1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese murderer (d. 2004)
• 1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
• 1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, author, and poet
• 1965 – J. T. the Brick, American radio host
• 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor and producer
• 1966 – Kevin Gallacher, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer
• 1966 – Hannes Vanaküla, Estonian cult leader
• 1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer and coach
• 1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1968 – Robert Denmark, English runner and coach
• 1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian lexicographer, linguist, and academic
• 1968 – Anthony Sullivan, English rugby league and union player
• 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
• 1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
• 1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1970 – Zoë Ball, English radio and television host
• 1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
• 1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor and screenwriter
• 1970 – Karsten Müller, German chess player and author
• 1971 – Khaled Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
• 1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, producer, and television host
• 1971 – Sajid Khan, Indian actor and singer
• 1972 – Chris Adler, American drummer
• 1972 – Alf-Inge Håland, Norwegian footballer
• 1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler and sportscaster
• 1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
• 1976 – Cüneyt Çakır, Turkish footballer and referee
• 1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor and rapper
• 1976 – Tony Renna, American race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1976 – Murat Salar, German-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler
• 1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
• 1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
• 1977 – David Lucas, English footballer
• 1978 – Ali Güneş, German-Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Tommy Marth, American saxophonist (d. 2012)
• 1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Kelly Brook, English model and actress
• 1979 – Hiroaki Iwanaga, Japanese model and actor
• 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1979 – Ivica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean child soldier and American author
• 1980 – David Britz, American nanotechnologist and engineer
• 1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
• 1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Igor Kuzmin, Estonian rower
• 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• 1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1983 – Thomas Pridgen, American drummer
• 1983 – Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer
• 1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress and dancer
• 1985 – Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
• 1985 – Mike Tolbert, American football player
• 1986 – Maxene Magalona, Filipino model and actress
• 1986 – Luigi Scaglia, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Ossi Kanervo, Finnish figure skater
• 1987 – Snooki, Chilean-American actress and author
• 1987 – Fetuli Talanoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player
• 1988 – Saab Magalona, Filipino actress and singer
• 1988 – Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer
• 1990 – Shaun Hutchinson, English footballer
• 1990 – Eddy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
• 1991 – Ahmed Shehzad, Pakistani cricketer
• 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1992 – Gabriel Landeskog, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1995 – Kelly Rosen, Estonian footballer
• 1996 – Lia Marie Johnson, American actress and singer
• 1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer

Deaths[edit]

• 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
• 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
• 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
• 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
• 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
• 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
• 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
• 1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c.1505)
• 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (b. 1552)
• 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French-Italian painter and engraver (b. 1604)
• 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
• 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
• 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
• 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
• 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
• 1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)
• 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French general and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1762)
• 1890 – William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 – John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1923 – Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
• 1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• 1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor, director, and producer (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Paul Newlan, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1974 – notable victims of the Massacre of the Sixty:
  • Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian general and politician (b. 1918)
  • Aman Andom, Ethiopian general and politician, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
  • Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
  • Asrate Kassa, Ethiopian commander (b. 1922)
  • Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
• 1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1976 – André Malraux, French theorist and author (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress and singer (b. 1911)
• 1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1982 – Grady Nutt, American minister and author (b. 1934)
• 1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 1984 – Leonard Baker, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Klaus Kinski, German-American actor and director (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)
• 1994 – Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Louis Malle, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)
• 1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American businessman (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Brian Rawlinson, English actor and playwright (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Rayner Unwin, English publisher (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English educator and activist (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player and soldier (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Jesús Blancornelas, Mexican journalist, co-founded Zeta Magazine (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Betty Comden, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer and referee (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
• 2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
• 2007 – Robert Vesco, American-Cuban financier (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1936)
• 2009 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Joyce Howard, English-American actress (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born English actress (b. 1937)
• 2010 – James Tyler, American lute player and composer (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2012 – José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Jay Leggett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1963)
• 2013 – Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Wayne Mills, American singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
• 2013 – Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Marion Barry, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Metropolitan Mikhail of Asyut (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Murray Oliver, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Clive Palmer, English banjo player (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Tamir Rice, American shooting victim (b. 2002)
• 2015 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1980)
• 2015 – Dan Fante, American author and playwright (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Jim Sochor, American football player and coach (b. 1938)