Kiss Me Kate

Ο Άλφρεντ Ντρέικ και η Πατρίτσια Μόρισον στην αυθεντική παραγωγή του 1948

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• 1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
• 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle
• 1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
• 1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
• 1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
• 1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
• 1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
• 1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
• 1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
• 1896 – Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
• 1897 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
• 1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
• 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
• 1906 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
• 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
• 1919 – Lincoln's Inn in London, England, UK admits its first female bar student.
• 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
• 1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
• 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
• 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
• 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
• 1947 – Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
• 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
• 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.
• 1993 – Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.
• 1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
• 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
• 2000 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
• 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
• 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
• 2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
• 2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
• 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
• 2009 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
• 2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
• 2013 – More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Births[edit]

• 39 – Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81)
• 159 – Empress Dowager Bian, second wife of Cao Cao, mother of Cao Wei's first emperor, Cao Pi (d. 230)
• 1204 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Portuguese ruler (d. 1282)
• 1371 – Vasily I of Moscow (d. 1425)
• 1490 – Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman lawyer and jurist (d. 1574)
• 1642 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707)
• 1673 – Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1736)
• 1678 – William Croft, English organist and composer (d. 1727)
• 1722 – Charles Yorke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770)
• 1724 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (d. 1805)
• 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (d. 1829)
• 1792 – Sylvester Jordan, German lawyer and politician (d. 1861)
• 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (d. 1898)
• 1819 – John W. Geary, American lawyer and politician, 16th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
• 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (d. 1891)
• 1842 – Osman Hamdi Bey, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painte (d. 1910)
• 1849 – John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913)
• 1851 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (d. 1929)
• 1853 – André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1929)
• 1857 – Sylvio Lazzari, French-Austrian composer (d. 1944)
• 1865 – Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (d. 1944)
• 1869 – Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918)
• 1873 – Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (d. 1944)
• 1878 – William Aberhart, Canadian evangelist and politician, 7th Premier of Alberta (d. 1943)
• 1879 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Archer Baldwin, American-English farmer and politician (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Hideki Tōjō, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
• 1887 – William Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner and coach (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican soldier and politician, 47th President of Mexico (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian songwriter and screenwriter (d. 1976)
• 1899 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard (d. 2001)
• 1904 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, author, and playwright (d. 1942)
• 1906 – Carol Reed, English director and producer (d. 1976)
• 1910 – Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality, and beauty pageant host (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Dick Spooner, English cricketer (d. 1997)
• 1919 – David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Jack Lord, American actor and director (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Jane Langton, American author and illustrator
• 1923 – Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian academic and politician (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American propulsion engineer (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer, and director (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Jan Kubíček, Czech painter and sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Roy Yorke Calne, English surgeon and academic
• 1930 – Red Rhodes, American guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1930 – Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
• 1931 – John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author
• 1931 – Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
• 1934 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and astronomer, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Joseph Bologna, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1934 – Barry Briggs, New Zealand motorcycle racer and sportscaster
• 1934 – Joseph P. Hoar, American general
• 1934 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
• 1934 – Russ Tamblyn, American actor
• 1935 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese lieutenant and politician, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Sandy Koufax, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1935 – Jack Riley, American actor (d. 2016)
• 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer and manager
• 1937 – John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2001)
• 1937 – Jim Marshall, American football player
• 1937 – Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 1983)
• 1940 – James Burrows, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Mel Renfro, American football player and coach
• 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist
• 1942 – Guy Edwards, English race car driver
• 1942 – Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1942 – Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian, academic, and politician
• 1942 – Robert Quine, American guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Toomas Savi, Estonian physician and politician
• 1942 – Fred Ward, American actor
• 1944 – William J. Fallon, American admiral
• 1944 – Joseph Hilbe, American mathematician and philosopher
• 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Lloyd Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Troma Entertainment
• 1945 – Paola Pigni, Italian runner
• 1945 – Concetta Tomei, American actress
• 1946 – Clive Bunker, English drummer and songwriter
• 1946 – Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 1946 – Berti Vogts, German footballer and coach
• 1947 – James Kahn, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1947 – Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1947 – Steve Mix, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (d. 1996)
• 1949 – David Bedford, English runner
• 1949 – Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Timothy Mo, Chinese-English author
• 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American journalist and author
• 1950 – Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language
• 1950 – Martti Vainio, Finnish runner
• 1951 – Doug Allder, English footballer and coach
• 1951 – Chris Jasper, American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer
• 1951 – Nick Rose, English runner
• 1952 – June Anderson, American soprano and actress
• 1953 – Daniel T. Barry, American engineer and astronaut
• 1953 – Dana Key, American singer, guitarist, and producer (d. 2010)
• 1953 – Graham Vick, English director and producer
• 1953 – Meredith Vieira, American journalist and game show host
• 1954 – Barry Greenstein, American poker player and philanthropist
• 1956 – Ingus Baušķenieks, Latvian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1956 – Suzy Bogguss, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Patricia Kalember, American actress
• 1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress and singer
• 1957 – Matt Lauer, American television journalist and anchor
• 1957 – Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian and actor
• 1958 – Steven Smith, American engineer and astronaut
• 1959 – Antonio Pappano, English pianist and conductor
• 1959 – Kåre Thomsen, Norwegian guitarist and graphic designer
• 1959 – Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Josée Verner, Canadian politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
• 1960 – Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic
• 1961 – Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright
• 1961 – Bill English, New Zealand farmer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1961 – Sean Hannity, American radio and television host
• 1961 – Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter
• 1961 – Charlie Nicholas, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
• 1963 – Chandler Burr, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Milan Šrejber, Czech tennis player
• 1964 – Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer and referee (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Sylvie Moreau, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1964 – George Newbern, American actor
• 1965 – Heidi Fleiss, American procurer
• 1966 – Gary Chartier, American philosopher, scholar, and academic
• 1966 – Bennett Miller, American director and producer
• 1967 – Carl Ouellet, Canadian wrestler and sportscaster
• 1968 – Bryan Burk, American screenwriter and producer
• 1968 – Adam Dale, Australian cricketer
• 1968 – Sandra Glover, American hurdler
• 1969 – Emmanuel Clérico, French race car driver
• 1969 – Dave England, American snowboarder and stuntman
• 1969 – Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia
• 1969 – Michelle McGann, American golfer
• 1971 – Sister Bliss, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1971 – Ricardo, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1972 – Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
• 1972 – Dita Indah Sari, Indonesian trade union leader and activist
• 1972 – Steven Wiig, American actor and drummer
• 1973 – Jason Behr, American actor
• 1973 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian runner, sportscaster, and politician
• 1974 – Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1975 – Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
• 1976 – Kastro, American rapper
• 1976 – Patrick Kerney, American football player
• 1976 – A. J. Pierzynski, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 – Laila Ali, American boxer and actress
• 1977 – Glory Alozie, Nigerian-Spanish sprinter and hurdler
• 1977 – Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
• 1977 – Saša Ilić, Serbian footballer
• 1977 – Scott Lucas, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 – Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
• 1977 – Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer
• 1978 – Devin Brown, American basketball player
• 1978 – Tyrese Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1978 – Phillips Idowu, English triple jumper
• 1978 – Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer
• 1978 – Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Eliza Dushku, American actress and producer
• 1980 – D. J. Mbenga, Congolese-Belgian basketball player
• 1980 – Alison McGovern, English politician
• 1981 – Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer
• 1981 – Michael Rodríguez, Costa Rican footballer
• 1981 – Matt Ulrich, American football player
• 1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer
• 1982 – Dawan Landry, American football player
• 1982 – Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner
• 1983 – Davide Mandorlini, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Nick Symmonds, American runner
• 1983 – Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram
• 1984 – Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
• 1984 – LeBron James, American basketball player and producer
• 1985 – Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
• 1985 – Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 – Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 – Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
• 1989 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur
• 1989 – Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player
• 1990 – Joe Root, English cricketer
• 1992 – Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer
• 1992 – Carson Wentz, American football player

Deaths[edit]

• 274 – Pope Felix I
• 1460 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, Irish politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1443)
• 1460 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (b. 1411)
• 1525 – Jakob Fugger, German banker and businessman (b. 1459)
• 1572 – Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (b. 1512)
• 1573 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian author and poet (b. 1504)
• 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519)
• 1621 – Job of Manyava, Ukrainian monk and saint (b. 1550)
• 1640 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (b. 1597)
• 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician (b. 1577)
• 1662 – Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (b. 1628)
• 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Irish-Austrian soldier and courtier (b. 1685)
• 1777 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1727)
• 1788 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1702)
• 1803 – Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and politician (b. 1713)
• 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, Brazilian poet and painter (b. 1806)
• 1896 – José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (b. 1861)
• 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)
• 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)
• 1928 – Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 – Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 – Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1954 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1967 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932)
• 1971 – Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914)
• 1971 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919)
• 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (b. 1902)
• 1982 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Violette Cordery, English race car driver (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (b. 1925)
• 1988 – Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and landscaper (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929)
• 1993 – İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish lawyer and politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1995 – Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Doris Grau, American voice actor and script supervisor (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Des Renford, Australian swimmer (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Eleanor J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Mary Wesley, English author (b. 1912)
• 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
• 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (b. 1971)
• 2012 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (b. 1929)
• 2013 – José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Luise Rainer, German-born American-British actress (b. 1910)
• 2015 – Doug Atkins, American football player (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Howard Davis, Jr., American boxer and trainer (b. 1956)
• 2015 – Mangesh Padgaonkar, Indian poet, playwright, and translator (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Howard Pawley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1934)

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• 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
• 535 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
• 870 – Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia), many Danes are killed.
• 1225 – The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty.
• 1229 – James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
• 1501 – The First Battle of Cannanore commences.
• 1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.
• 1660 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
• 1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1757 – Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
• 1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
• 1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
• 1796 – The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
• 1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
• 1853 – A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
• 1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
• 1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
• 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
• 1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
• 1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.
• 1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins.
• 1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
• 1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
• 1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
• 1961 – RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
• 1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
• 1965 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
• 1968 – The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport.
• 1981 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
• 1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
• 1983 – In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
• 1985 – United Kingdom founds a member state of UNESCO.
• 1986 – Arson at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97 people and injures 140.
• 1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
• 1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
• 1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
• 1994 – The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year's storming of Grozny.
• 1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
• 1999 – First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
• 1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
• 1999 – Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ended after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
• 2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
• 2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
• 2010 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
• 2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
• 2014 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
• 2015 – A fire broke out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates located near the Burj Khalifa 2 hours before the fireworks display was due to commence. 16 injuries were reported 14 with minor injuries 1 had a heart attack and 1 had a major injury.

Births[edit]

• 695 – Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)
• 1378 – Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)
• 1491 – Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (d. 1557)
• 1493 – Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino (d. 1570)
• 1514 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564)
• 1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
• 1572 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, (d. 1617)
• 1585 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645)
• 1668 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (d. 1738)
• 1714 – Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator (d. 1783)
• 1720 – Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1788)
• 1738 – Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India (d. 1805)
• 1741 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (d. 1794)
• 1763 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)
• 1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832)
• 1798 – Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic (d. 1850)
• 1805 – Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (d. 1876)
• 1815 – George Meade, American general and engineer (d. 1872)
• 1830 – Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1895)
• 1830 – Alexander Smith, Scottish poet and critic (d. 1867)
• 1838 – Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 7th President of France (d. 1929)
• 1842 – Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (d. 1931)
• 1851 – Henry Carter Adams, American economist and academic (d. 1921)
• 1855 – Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1912)
• 1857 – King Kelly, American baseball player and manager (d. 1894)
• 1860 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (d. 1937)
• 1864 – Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
• 1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
• 1872 – Fred Marriott, American race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1873 – Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1936)
• 1874 – Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (d. 1937)
• 1877 – Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967)
• 1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (d. 1966)
• 1878 – Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937)
• 1880 – Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (d. 1957)
• 1880 – George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1881 – Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (d. 1955)
• 1884 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (d. 1964)
• 1884 – Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1960)
• 1885 – Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970)
• 1899 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940)
• 1901 – Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek educator and politician (d. 1954)
• 1902 – Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
• 1902 – Roy Goodall, English footballer (d. 1982)
• 1904 – William Heynes, English engineer (d. 1989)
• 1905 – Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
• 1905 – Jule Styne, English-American composer (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian nazi hunter and author (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Jonah Jones, American trumpet player and saxophonist (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Enrique Maier, Spanish tennis player (d. 1981)
• 1911 – Dal Stivens, Australian soldier and author (d. 1997)
• 1912 – John Frost, Indian-English general (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996)
• 1917 – Evelyn Knight, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (d. 1962)
• 1919 – Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier
• 1920 – Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Taylor Mead, American actor and poet (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Daphne Oram, British composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (d. 1987)
• 1928 – Ross Barbour, American pop singer (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Tatyana Shmyga, Russian actress and singer (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Veijo Meri, Finnish author and translator (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host
• 1929 – Peter May, English cricketer (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Ray Graves, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Bob Shaw, Northern Irish journalist and author (d. 1996)
• 1932 – Don James, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist and author (d. 1992)
• 1933 – Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian author, poet, and scholar
• 1936 – Noel Jan Tyl, American astrologer and author
• 1937 – Avram Hershko, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor, director, and composer
• 1937 – Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1937 – Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter and educator
• 1938 – Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1938 – Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Willye White, American sprinter and long jumper (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Mani Neumeier, German drummer
• 1941 – Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1941 – Sarah Miles, English actress
• 1942 – Andy Summers, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1943 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1997)
• 1943 – Ben Kingsley, English actor
• 1943 – Pete Quaife, English bass player, author, and artist (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Taylor Hackford, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Connie Willis, American author
• 1946 – Roy Greenslade, English journalist and academic
• 1946 – Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer and coach
• 1946 – Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean archbishop
• 1946 – Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (d. 1986)
• 1946 – Cliff Richey, American tennis player
• 1946 – Eric Robson, Scottish journalist and author
• 1946 – Nigel Rudd, English businessman, founded Williams Holdings
• 1946 – Tim Stevens, English bishop
• 1946 – Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
• 1947 – Burton Cummings, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1947 – Rita Lee, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1947 – Tim Matheson, American actor, director, and producer
• 1948 – Joe Dallesandro, American actor
• 1948 – Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1948 – René Robert, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1948 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and author
• 1949 – Susan Shwartz, American author
• 1950 – Phil Blakeway, Welsh-English rugby player
• 1950 – Bob Gilder, American golfer
• 1950 – Inge Helten, German sprinter
• 1950 – Cheryl Womack, American businesswoman
• 1951 – Tom Hamilton, American bass player and songwriter
• 1951 – Kenny Roberts, American motorcycle racer
• 1952 – Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician and academic
• 1952 – Jean-Pierre Rives, French rugby player, painter, and sculptor
• 1953 – Jane Badler, American actress
• 1953 – Trevor Phillips, English broadcaster and politician
• 1953 – Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
• 1954 – Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician, 4th First Minister of Scotland
• 1954 – Hermann Tilke, German race car driver and engineer
• 1956 – Robert Goodwill, English farmer and politician
• 1956 – Helma Knorscheidt, German shot putter
• 1956 – Steve Rude, American author and illustrator
• 1958 – Geoff Marsh, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1958 – Bebe Neuwirth, American actress and dancer
• 1959 – Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player
• 1959 – Val Kilmer, American actor
• 1959 – Phill Kline, American lawyer and politician, Kansas Attorney General
• 1959 – Baron Waqa, Nauruan composer and politician, 14th President of Nauru
• 1959 – Paul Westerberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 – Steve Bruce, English footballer and manager
• 1961 – Rick Aguilera, American baseball player and coach
• 1961 – Jeremy Heywood, English economist and civil servant
• 1962 – Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Chris Hallam, English-Welsh swimmer and wheelchair racer (d. 2013)
• 1963 – Scott Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 – Winston Benjamin, Antiguan cricketer
• 1964 – Michael McDonald, American comedian, actor, and director
• 1965 – Tony Dorigo, Australian-English footballer and sportscaster
• 1965 – Julie Doucet, Canadian cartoonist and author
• 1965 – Gong Li, Chinese actress
• 1965 – Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Indian cricketer
• 1965 – Nicholas Sparks, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1968 – Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Junot Diaz, Dominican-born American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
• 1970 – Jorge Alberto da Costa Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1970 – Danny McNamara, English singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Carlos Morales Quintana, Spanish-Danish architect and sailor
• 1970 – Bryon Russell, American basketball player
• 1971 – Brent Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1971 – Esteban Loaiza, Mexican baseball player
• 1972 – Joey McIntyre, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1973 – Shandon Anderson, American basketball player
• 1973 – Malcolm Middleton, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Curtis Myden, Canadian swimmer
• 1974 – Joe Abercrombie, English author
• 1974 – Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist
• 1974 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver
• 1974 – Ryan Sakoda, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer
• 1975 – Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1975 – Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1975 – Rob Penders, Dutch footballer
• 1975 – Sander Schutgens, Dutch runner
• 1976 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (d. 2012)
• 1976 – Matthew Hoggard, English cricketer
• 1976 – Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer and coach
• 1977 – Psy, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer
• 1979 – Paul O'Neill, English race car driver
• 1979 – Jeff Waldstreicher, American lawyer and politician
• 1980 – Jesse Carlson, American baseball player
• 1980 – Matt Cross, American wrestler
• 1980 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 – Carsten Schlangen, German runner
• 1981 – Jason Campbell, American football player
• 1981 – Matthew Pavlich, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian heptathlete
• 1982 – Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 – Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
• 1982 – Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
• 1982 – The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1984 – Ben Hannant, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Édgar Lugo, Mexican footballer
• 1984 – Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer
• 1985 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast
• 1985 – Jan Smit, Dutch singer and television host
• 1986 – Nate Freiman, American baseball player
• 1986 – Kade Snowden, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 – Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
• 1987 – Danny Holla, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast
• 1987 – Nemanja Nikolić, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 – Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater
• 1991 – Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player
• 1991 – Bojana Jovanovski, Serbian tennis player
• 1992 – Karl Kruuda, Estonian race car driver
• 1993 – Ryan Blaney, American race car driver
• 1995 – Gabby Douglas, American gymnast

Deaths[edit]

• 45 BC – Quintus Fabius Maximus, consul suffectus
• 192 – Commodus, Roman emperor (b. 161)
• 335 – Pope Sylvester I
• 669 – Li Shiji, Chinese general (b. 594)
• 878 – Seiwa, Japanese emperor (b. 850)
• 1164 – Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
• 1194 – Leopold V, Duke of Austria (b. 1157)
• 1297 – Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1249)
• 1302 – Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
• 1384 – John Wycliffe, English philosopher, theologian, and translator (b. 1331)
• 1426 – Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (b. 1377)
• 1460 – Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1400)
• 1535 – William Skeffington, English-Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
• 1568 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (b. 1493)
• 1575 – Pierino Belli, Italian commander and jurist (b. 1502)
• 1583 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524)
• 1610 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1540)
• 1650 – Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)
• 1655 – Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian politician (b. 1612)
• 1673 – Oliver St John, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1598)
• 1679 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
• 1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
• 1691 – Dudley North, English merchant and economist (b. 1641)
• 1705 – Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)
• 1719 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (b. 1646)
• 1730 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (b. 1651)
• 1742 – Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
• 1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723)
• 1872 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
• 1876 – Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
• 1877 – Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)
• 1888 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
• 1889 – Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
• 1890 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
• 1891 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
• 1894 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 – Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
• 1910 – Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884)
• 1910 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
• 1921 – Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1936 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1948 – Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician (b. 1869)
• 1949 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1950 – Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (b. 1867)
• 1953 – Albert Plesman, Dutch businessman, founded KLM (b. 1889)
• 1964 – Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (b. 1884)
• 1964 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Henry Maitland Wilson, English field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1968 – George Lewis, American clarinet player and composer (b. 1900)
• 1972 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and soldier (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Basil Wolverton, American illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and theorist (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Raoul Walsh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1983 – Sevim Burak, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1931)
• 1985 – Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1940)
• 1987 – Jerry Turner, American journalist (b. 1929)
• 1988 – Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
• 1990 – George Allen, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1990 – Vasily Lazarev, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)
• 1993 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)
• 1994 – Woody Strode, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1914)
• 1996 – Wesley Addy, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Floyd Cramer, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Ted Glossop, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 2000 – José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966)
• 2001 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist and author (b. 1898)
• 2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and educator (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Phillip Whitehead, English screenwriter, producer, and politician (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1922)
• 2006 – George Sisler, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Roy Amara, American scientific researcher (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Michael Goldberg, American painter and educator (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Bill Idelson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
• 2007 – Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Justin Keating, Irish surgeon, journalist, and politician, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Peter Ebert, English director and producer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Jovette Marchessault, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2013 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Bob Grant, American radio host (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Edward Herrmann, American actor (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Abdullah Hussain, Malaysian author (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Norm Phelps, American author and activist (b. 1939)
• 2014 – S. Arthur Spiegel, American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, British soldier and politician (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Marvin Panch, American race car driver (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Wayne Rogers, American actor and investor (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Beth Howland, American actress (b. 1941)

ΜΙΑ ΒΡΑΔΙΑ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΣΑΡΛ ΑΖΝΑΒΟΥΡ

Μια βραδιά με τον Σαρλ Αζναβούρ είναι το θέμα του προγράμματος που θα παρουσιάσει στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Θεσσαλονίκης  ο δημοσιογράφος Λευτέρης Κογκαλίδης την Δευτερα 9 Ιανουαριου,8 μμ.με ελευθερη εισοδο. Το πρόγραμμα περιέχει συναυλία του κορυφαίου ερμηνευτή-συνθέτη και ηθοποιού που πραγματοποιήθηκε τo 1987 στο Παλαί  ντε Κονγκρέ των Παρισίων, η οποία θα προβληθει σε μεγάλη οθόνη. Θα παρουσιαστούν  μερικές από τις μεγαλύτερες επιτυχίες του καλλιτέχνη και κυρίως τραγούδια του που αγαπήθηκαν στην Ελλάδα.Διαρκεια περιπου 100 λεπτα. Ο αρμενικής καταγωγής, Γάλλος τραγουδιστής, 92 χρονων σημερα,συνδέεται ιδιαίτερα με τη Θεσσαλονίκη, στην οποία  εγκαταστάθηκε η οικογένειά του φεύγοντας από την Τουρκία για να γλυτώσει από τη γενοκτονία. Το σπίτι τους βρισκόταν  στη Χαριλάου, μια περιοχή από την οποία οι γονείς διατηρούσαν πάντοτε γλυκές αναμνήσεις που μετέφεραν στον γιο τους,  ο οποίος γεννήθηκε λίγο αργότερα στο Παρίσι Η εκδηλωση εντασσεται στο πλαισιο του εκπαιδευτικου προγραμματος του Συλλογου Φιλων Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης. Χορηγος επικοινωνιας ΠΡΑΚΤΟΡΕΙΟ  FM 104,9.

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• 1362 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• 1522 Republic of Venice
• 1544 Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
• 1556 Spain, Portugal
• 1559 Prussia, Sweden
• 1564 France
• 1576 Southern Netherlands
• 1579 Duchy of Lorraine
• 1583 Northern Netherlands
• 1600 Scotland
• 1700 Russia
• 1721 Tuscany
• 1752 Great Britain (excluding Scotland) and its colonies

Events[edit]

• 153 BC – Roman consuls begin their year in office.
• 45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.
• 42 BC – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar.
• 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
• 193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.
• 404 – Telemachus, a Christian monk, is killed for attempting to stop a gladiators' fight in the public arena held in Rome.
• 414 – Galla Placidia, half-sister of Emperor Honorius, is married to the Visigothic king Ataulf at Narbonne. The wedding is celebrated with Roman festivities and magnificent gifts from the Gothic booty.
• 417 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum).
• 1001 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II.
• 1068 – Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.
• 1259 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
• 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
• 1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is first explored by the Portuguese.
• 1515 – King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
• 1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as King of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
• 1600 – Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
• 1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
• 1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era instead of the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1707 – John V is crowned King of Portugal.
• 1739 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
• 1772 – The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London, England.
• 1773 – The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
• 1788 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
• 1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1801 – Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
• 1803 – Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
• 1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country in North America after the United States
• 1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
• 1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.
• 1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
• 1812 – The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners' strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham
• 1822 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
• 1833 – The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
• 1847 – The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh by the Sisters of Mercy; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
• 1860 – First Polish stamp is issued.
• 1861 – Porfirio Díaz conquers Mexico City, Mexico.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
• 1873 – Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
• 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• 1881 – Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
• 1890 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
• 1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
• 1898 – New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
• 1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
• 1901 – Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
• 1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
• 1906 – British India officially adopts Indian Standard Time.
• 1908 – For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
• 1910 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.
• 1911 – Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
• 1912 – The Republic of China is established.
• 1916 – German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
• 1920 – The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
• 1923 – Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
• 1927 – The Cristero War begins in Mexico.
• 1928 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• 1929 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
• 1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
• 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
• 1934 – Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
• 1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
• 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
• 1945 – World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops kill 60 German POWs at Chenogne.
• 1945 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
• 1947 – The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
• 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• 1948 – The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
• 1948 – The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
• 1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
• 1950 – Standard practice uses this day as the origin of the age scale Before Present
• 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
• 1957 – George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II.
• 1958 – European Economic Community established on this day.
• 1959 – Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
• 1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
• 1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
• 1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
• 1965 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
• 1973 – Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Ireland are admitted into the European Economic Community.
• 1978 – Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing 213.
• 1979 – Formal diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States.
• 1981 – Greece is admitted into the European Community.
• 1981 – Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States.
• 1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
• 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
• 1986 – Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Netherlands.
• 1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• 1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
• 1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
• 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
• 1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
• 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
• 1995 – The World Trade Organization goes into effect.
• 1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• 1996 – Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands.
• 1997 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
• 1999 – The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
• 2002 – Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
• 2002 – Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
• 2002 – The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
• 2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
• 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Sulawesi Strait, Indonesia with 102 people on board.
• 2009 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
• 2011 – A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
• 2012 – A Moldovan civilian is fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper in the Transnistrian security zone, leading to demonstrations against Russia.
• 2013 – At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
• 2014 – Latvia becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.
• 2014 – Asteroid 2014 AA impacts the Earth over the Atlantic Ocean.
• 2016 – The Address Downtown Dubai burns over midnight as the New Year is rung in. The blaze started on the night of New Year's Eve 2015, by currently unknown causes. There was one fatality.

Births[edit]

• 337 – Arcadius, Byzantine emperor (d. 408)
• 870 – Zwentibold, Frankish son of Arnulf of Carinthia (d. 900)
• 1431 – Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
• 1449 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian politician (d. 1492)
• 1467 – Sigismund I the Old, Polish king (d. 1548)
• 1484 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (d. 1531)
• 1488 – Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1543)
• 1600 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1649)
• 1628 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer and theorist (d. 1692)
• 1638 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
• 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (d. 1728)
• 1684 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch scholar and author (d. 1748)
• 1704 – Soame Jenyns, English author, poet, and politician (d. 1787)
• 1711 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
• 1714 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian soprano and author (d. 1800)
• 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (d. 1780)
• 1735 – Paul Revere, American silversmith and engraver (d. 1818)
• 1745 – Anthony Wayne, American general and politician (d. 1796)
• 1750 – Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
• 1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, credited with designing the Flag of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1768 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish author (d. 1849)
• 1774 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and academic (d. 1860)
• 1779 – William Clowes, English publisher (d. 1847)
• 1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)
• 1806 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (d. 1853)
• 1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English-Italian poet and academic (d. 1861)
• 1823 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (d. 1849)
• 1833 – Robert Lawson, Scottish-New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (d. 1902)
• 1834 – Ludovic Halévy, French author and playwright (d. 1908)
• 1839 – Ouida, English-Italian author and activist (d. 1908)
• 1848 – John W. Goff, Irish-American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
• 1852 – Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist and academic (d. 1904)
• 1854 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and academic (d. 1941)
• 1859 – Thibaw Min, Burmese king (d. 1916)
• 1860 – John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (d. 1939)
• 1860 – Dan Katchongva, American tribal leader and activist (d. 1972)
• 1860 – Michele Lega, Italian cardinal (d. 1935)
• 1860 – Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter (d. 1938)
• 1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (d. 1937)
• 1864 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
• 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (d. 1946)
• 1867 – Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (d. 1949)
• 1867 – Lew Fields, American actor, producer, and manager (d. 1941)
• 1871 – Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1948)
• 1874 – Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
• 1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (d. 1927)
• 1877 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, German sinologist and orientalist (d. 1937)
• 1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (d. 1929)
• 1879 – E. M. Forster, English author and playwright (d. 1970)
• 1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres (d. 1952)
• 1883 – William J. Donovan, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1959)
• 1884 – Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant, engineer, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1970)
• 1885 – Béla Balogh, Hungarian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
• 1888 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle (d. 1974)
• 1888 – Georgios Stanotas, Greek general (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Charles Bickford, American actor (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (d. 1966)
• 1891 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1969)
• 1892 – Mahadev Desai, Indian author and activist (d. 1942)
• 1892 – Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (d. 1958)
• 1892 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Philippines (d. 1948)
• 1893 – Mordechai Frizis, Greek colonel (d. 1940)
• 1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974)
• 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1990)
• 1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar, Indian scholar and teacher of Hindustani classical music (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer and lawyer (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Dwight Taylor (writer), American screenwriter and author (d. 1986)
• 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (d. 1982)
• 1905 – Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
• 1907 – Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper (d. 1931)
• 1909 – Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Dattaram Hindlekar, Indian cricketer (d. 1949)
• 1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (d. 1959)
• 1910 – Koesbini, Indonesian composer (d. 1991)
• 1911 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author (d. 1960)
• 1911 – Basil Dearden, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 1911 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and lieutenant (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Necdet Kent, Turkish diplomat (d. 2002)
• 1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator (d. 2012)
• 1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet and academic (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
• 1918 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Carole Landis, American actress (d. 1948)
• 1919 – J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Yoshio Tabata, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Iranian-American violinist (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (d. 1986)
• 1921 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor and academic (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (d. 2013)
• 1921 – John Strawson, English general (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Ernest Hollings, American soldier and politician, 106th Governor of South Carolina
• 1922 – Roz Howard, American race car driver (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Jerry Robinson, American illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
• 1923 – Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician and academic (d. 1992)
• 1923 – Milt Jackson, American vibraphonist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1924 – Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)
• 1925 – Matthew Beard, American actor and singer (d. 1981)
• 1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 – Doak Walker, American football player and businessman (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1928 – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian, author, and academic
• 1929 – Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer, co-founded Orange Sky Golden Harvest
• 1929 – Larry L. King, American journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959)
• 1930 – Gaafar Nimeiry, Egyptian-Sudanese politician, 4th President of the Sudan (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer
• 1932 – Jackie Parker, American football player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (d. 1989)
• 1933 – James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Luxembourg
• 1933 – Joseph Koo, Chinese composer and conductor
• 1933 – Frederick Lowy, Canadian psychiatrist and academic
• 1933 – Joe Orton, English author and playwright (d. 1967)
• 1934 – Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (d. 1984)
• 1934 – Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian politician, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1936 – Don Nehlen, American football player and coach
• 1936 – James Sinegal, American businessman, co-founded Costco
• 1937 – John Fuller, English poet and author
• 1937 – Petros Markaris, Greek author, poet, and playwright
• 1937 – Matt Robinson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1938 – Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Frank Langella, American actor
• 1939 – Michèle Mercier, French actress
• 1939 – Phil Read, English motorcycle racer and businessman
• 1941 – Martin Evans, English-Welsh geneticist and academic
• 1941 – Younoussi Touré, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1942 – Al Hunt, American journalist
• 1942 – Alassane Ouattara, Ivorian economist and politician, President of the Ivory Coast
• 1942 – Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, English dentist and politician
• 1942 – Dennis Archer, American lawyer and politician, 67th Mayor of Detroit
• 1942 – Country Joe McDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Gennadi Sarafanov, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2005)
• 1943 – Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Don Novello, American comedian (Father Guido Sarducci), screenwriter and producer
• 1943 – Ronald Perelman, American businessman and philanthropist, founded MacAndrews & Forbes
• 1943 – Tony Knowles, American soldier and politician, 7th Governor of Alaska
• 1943 – Vladimir Šeks, Croatian lawyer and politician, 16th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament
• 1944 – Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese field marshal and politician, 7th President of Sudan
• 1944 – Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager and singer
• 1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani field hockey player and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1944 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Mati Unt, Estonian author, playwright, and director (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
• 1945 – Martin Schanche, Norwegian race car driver
• 1946 – Rivellino, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1946 – Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
• 1946 – Shelby Steele, American journalist, author, and director
• 1947 – Jon Corzine, American sergeant and politician, 54th Governor of New Jersey
• 1947 – Leonard Thompson, American golfer
• 1948 – Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish economist, academic, and politician, 57th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1948 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Russian Minister of Defence (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Joe Petagno, American illustrator
• 1948 – Dick Quax, New Zealand runner and politician
• 1949 – Max Azria, Tunisian-French fashion designer
• 1949 – Olivia Goldsmith, American author (d. 2004)
• 1949 – Borys Tarasyuk, Ukrainian politician and diplomat
• 1950 – Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1950 – Tony Currie, English footballer
• 1950 – Deepa Mehta, Indian-Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1950 – James Richardson, American poet and academic
• 1951 – Ashfaq Hussain, Pakistani-Canadian poet and journalist
• 1951 – Martha P. Haynes, American astronomer and academic
• 1951 – Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
• 1952 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatari ruler, 7th Emir of Qatar
• 1952 – Shaji N. Karun, Indian director and cinematographer
• 1952 – Rosario Marchese, Italian-Canadian educator and politician
• 1953 – Gary Johnson, American businessman and politician, 29th Governor of New Mexico
• 1953 – Lynn Jones, American baseball player and coach
• 1954 – Richard Edson, American drummer
• 1954 – Bob Menendez, American lawyer and politician
• 1954 – Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet and critic (d. 2012)
• 1954 – Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
• 1955 – Precious, Canadian wrestler and manager
• 1955 – LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player
• 1955 – Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (d. 2000)
• 1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1956 – Mark R. Hughes, American businessman, founded Herbalife (d. 2000)
• 1956 – Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• 1956 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (d. 2011)
• 1957 – Urmas Arumäe, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Justice
• 1957 – Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
• 1958 – Dave Silk, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian rapper and DJ
• 1959 – Andy Andrews, American tennis player
• 1959 – Azali Assoumani, Comorian colonel and politician, President of the Comoros
• 1959 – Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghan colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1959 – Michel Onfray, French philosopher and author
• 1960 – Michael Seibert, American ice dancer and choreographer
• 1960 – Toomas Vitsut, Estonian businessman and politician
• 1960 – Danny Wilson, English footballer and manager
• 1961 – Sergei Babayan, Armenian-American pianist and academic
• 1961 – Fiona Phillips, English journalist
• 1962 – Anton Muscatelli, Italian-Scottish economist and academic
• 1963 – Alberigo Evani, Italian footballer and manager
• 1963 – Jean-Marc Gounon, French race car driver
• 1964 – Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1965 – Andrew Valmon, American runner and coach
• 1965 – John Sullivan, American real estate agent and politician
• 1966 – Anna Burke, Australian businesswoman and politician, 28th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
• 1966 – Ivica Dačić, Serbian journalist and politician, 95th Prime Minister of Serbia
• 1967 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1967 – Spencer Tunick, American photographer
• 1967 – Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish director and screenwriter
• 1968 – Miki Higashino, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1968 – Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
• 1969 – Morris Chestnut, American actor and producer
• 1969 – Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer and journalist
• 1969 – Verne Troyer, American actor and stuntman
• 1970 – Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1970 – Kimberly Page, American wrestling manager and actress
• 1971 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler and coach
• 1971 – Bobby Holík, Czech-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1971 – Juan Carlos Plata, Guatemalan footballer
• 1971 – Chris Potter, American saxophonist and composer
• 1971 – Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician
• 1972 – Barron Miles, American-Canadian football player and coach
• 1972 – Lilian Thuram, French footballer
• 1973 – Shelda Bede, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1973 – Li Fang, Chinese tennis player
• 1973 – Danny Lloyd, American actor and educator
• 1973 – Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish guitarist and linguist
• 1973 – Bryan Thao Worra, Laotian-American author, poet, and playwright
• 1974 – Christian Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry
• 1975 – Mohamed Albuflasa, Bahraini poet and activist
• 1975 – Chris Anstey, Australian basketball player and coach
• 1975 – Joe Cannon, American soccer player and sportscaster
• 1975 – Becky Kellar-Duke, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Bengt Sæternes, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1975 – Fernando Tatís, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Mustafa Doğan, Turkish-German footballer and sportscaster
• 1977 – María de la Paz Hernández, Argentinian field hockey player
• 1977 – Leoš Friedl, Czech tennis player
• 1977 – Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian and television host
• 1977 – Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer and sportscaster
• 1978 – Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer and priest
• 1979 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress
• 1979 – Brody Dalle, Australian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Koichi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 – Richie Faulkner, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1980 – Karina Jacobsgaard, Danish tennis player
• 1981 – Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
• 1982 – David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
• 1982 – Egidio Arévalo Ríos, Uruguayan footballer
• 1982 – Luke Rodgers, English footballer
• 1983 – Calum Davenport, English footballer
• 1983 – Melaine Walker, Jamaican hurdler
• 1984 – Christian Eigler, German footballer
• 1984 – Mohammed Ghaddar, Lebanese footballer
• 1984 – Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
• 1984 – Cheung Kin Fung, Hong Kong footballer
• 1984 – Stefano Pastrello, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Rubens Sambueza, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 – Michael Witt, Australian rugby player
• 1985 – Jeff Carter, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
• 1985 – Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
• 1986 – Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
• 1986 – Glen Davis, American basketball player
• 1986 – Lee Sung-min, South Korean singer
• 1987 – Gilbert Brulé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Gia Coppola, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1987 – Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
• 1987 – Serdar Özkan, Turkish footballer
• 1987 – Devin Setoguchi, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Dallas Keuchel, American baseball player
• 1988 – Grzegorz Panfil, Polish tennis player
• 1989 – Stefan Reinartz, German footballer
• 1989 – Bae Geu-rin, South Korean actress
• 1992 – Daniel Kofi Agyei, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
• 1993 – Jon Flanagan, English footballer
• 1993 – Michael Olaitan, Nigerian footballer
• 1994 – Craig Murray, Scottish footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 138 – Lucius Aelius, adopted son and intended successor of Hadrian (b. 101)
• 404 – Telemachus, Christian monk and martyr
• 466 – Emperor Qianfei, emperor of the Liu Song dynasty (b. 449)
• 510 – Eugendus, French abbot and saint (b. 449)
• 680 – Javanshir, Albanian king (b. 616)
• 827 – Adalard of Corbie, Frankish abbot
• 898 – Odo of France (b. 860)
• 962 – Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (b. 940)
• 1189 – Henry of Marcy, Cistercian abbot (b. c. 1136)
• 1204 – Haakon III of Norway (b. 1170)
• 1387 – Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
• 1515 – Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
• 1559 – Christian III of Denmark (b. 1503)
• 1560 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet and critic (b. 1522)
• 1617 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1558)
• 1697 – Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine historian and author (b. 1624)
• 1716 – William Wycherley, English playwright and poet (b. 1641)
• 1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1667)
• 1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart, English son of James II of England (b. 1688)
• 1780 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer (b. 1713)
• 1782 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
• 1789 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1716)
• 1793 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter and educator (b. 1712)
• 1796 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician and chemist (b. 1735)
• 1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (b. 1743)
• 1846 – John Torrington, English soldier and explorer (b. 1825)
• 1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian farmer and explorer (b. 1778)
• 1862 – Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 – Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1896 – Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (b. 1826)
• 1906 – Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1918 – William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (b. 1858)
• 1919 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
• 1921 – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1922 – István Kühár, Slovene priest and politician (b. 1887)
• 1929 – Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1894)
• 1931 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1937 – Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (b. 1874)
• 1940 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian author and educator (b. 1865)
• 1944 – Edwin Lutyens, English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
• 1953 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
• 1954 – Duff Cooper, English politician and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Leonard Bacon, American poet and critic (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist and historian (b. 1881)
• 1955 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
• 1960 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1965 – Emma Asson, Estonian historian and politician (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Vincent Auriol, French journalist and politician, 16th President of the French Republic (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish pole vaulter and javelin thrower (b. 1888)
• 1971 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian saint (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
• 1978 – Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1891)
• 1981 – Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1983 – David Buttolph, American film composer (d. 1902)
• 1984 – Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1985 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet, playwright, and civil servant (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
• 1994 – Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian and academic (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1996 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1996 – Arthur Rudolph, German-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944)
• 1998 – Helen Wills, American tennis player and coach (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Colin Vaughan, Australian-Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1931)
• 2001 – Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Royce D. Applegate, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Joe Foss, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Shirley Chisholm, American educator and politician (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Harry Magdoff, American economist and journalist (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Leon Davidson, American chemist and engineer (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African-English biochemist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Tillie Olsen American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian educator and politician
• 2008 – Harold Corsini, American photographer and educator (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Claiborne Pell, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Lhasa de Sela, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1972)
• 2011 – Marin Constantin, Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Flemming Jørgensen, Danish singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Kiro Gligorov, Bulgarian-Macedonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Nay Win Maung, Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Tommy Mont, American football player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Gerhard Fischer, German SS officer (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Patti Page, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Pete DeCoursey, American journalist (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (b. 1910)
• 2014 – William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Juanita Moore, American actress (b. 1914)
• 2015 – Mario Cuomo, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Donna Douglas, American actress (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Omar Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Boris Morukov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1950)
• 2016 – Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2016 – Dale Bumpers, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1925)
• 2016 – Mike Oxley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
• 2016 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer and producer (b. 1930)