Η Υφυπουργός Εσωτερικών (Μακεδονίας-Θράκης) κα Μαρία Κόλλια-Τσαρουχά, την Παρασκευή 17 Μαρτίου 2017, με αφορμή την τελική έγκριση της πρότασης χρηματοδότησης για την τουριστική αξιοποίηση του Μνημείου της Αμφίπολης (λόφος Καστά) στο πλαίσιο του Προγράμματος Ευρωπαϊκής Εδαφικής Συνεργασίας «Ελλάδα-Βουλγαρία 2014-2020», δήλωσε:

«Κερδίσαμε το Στοίχημα για την ανάδειξη της Αμφίπολης. Πετύχαμε την τελική έγκριση του προγράμματος για την τουριστική αξιοποίηση του μνημείου της Αμφίπολης, το οποίο κατέθεσε το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού. Εξασφαλίσαμε έτσι ενάμιση εκατομμύριο ευρώ για την εκτέλεση των απαραίτητων έργων.
Είμαι ιδιαίτερα ικανοποιημένη γιατί τώρα φαίνεται η σπουδαιότητα της πρωτοβουλίας που είχα πάρει ώστε να τεθεί το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού επικεφαλής της προσπάθειας και να ξεπεραστούν τα προβλήματα συνεννόησης που υπήρχαν. Αυτή η πρόταση, έλυσε το πρόβλημα.
Είμαι χαρούμενη και υπερήφανη, όχι μόνο ως Υφυπουργός Μακεδονίας-Θράκης, αλλά και ως βουλευτής και πολίτης των Σερρών, γιατί το μνημείο της Αμφίπολης θα πάρει τη θέση που του αξίζει και θα ενισχύσει τις προσπάθειες που γίνονται για την ανάπτυξη του νομού».

• Επικεφαλής Εταίρος: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού / Διεύθυνση Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων

• Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών (Μακεδονίας-Θράκης)
• Περιφέρεια Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας
• Δήμος Αμφίπολης
• Δήμος Blagoevgrad
• Πανεπιστήμιο Blagoevgrad
• ΚΕΚ Περιφέρειας Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας

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• AD 37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
• 633 – Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
• 1068 – An earthquake affects the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaving up to 20,000 dead.
• 1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
• 1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
• 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
• 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
• 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
• 1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 1793 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
• 1793 – Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
• 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
• 1848 – March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
• 1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
• 1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
• 1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
• 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
• 1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• 1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
• 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
• 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
• 1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
• 1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
• 1940 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
• 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• 1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
• 1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
• 1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
• 1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
• 1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
• 1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
• 1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• 1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
• 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1971 – Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
• 1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
• 1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
• 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
• 1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
• 2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
• 2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

Births[edit]

• 1075 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)
• 1395 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English commander (d. 1447)
• 1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
• 1555 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
• 1578 – Adam Elsheimer, German painter (d. 1610)
• 1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
• 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659)
• 1609 – Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
• 1634 – Madame de La Fayette, French author (d. 1693)
• 1640 – Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (d. 1743)
• 1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764)
• 1701 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776)
• 1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
• 1780 – Miloš Obrenović, Serbian prince (d. 1860)
• 1782 – John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
• 1798 – Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Jacob Bunn, American businessman (d. 1897)
• 1823 – Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
• 1828 – Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
• 1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd President of the United States (d. 1908)
• 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
• 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (d. 1898)
• 1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
• 1846 – Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (d. 1904)
• 1848 – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American architect and engineer (d. 1938)
• 1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (d. 1939)
• 1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
• 1862 – Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter (d. 1915)
• 1863 – William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917)
• 1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948)
• 1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945)
• 1878 – Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Bernard Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)
• 1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
• 1893 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
• 1901 – Manly Palmer Hall Mystic, Author & Philosopher (Father of secret teaching or all ages ) (D August 29, 1990)
• 1901 – William Johnson, American painter (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944)
• 1904 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926)
• 1904 – Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
• 1907 – Rosita Moreno, Spanish-American actress (d. 1993)
• 1907 – John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007)
• 1909 – C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967)
• 1912 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
• 1913 – René Clément, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Reinhard Hardegen, German commander
• 1913 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
• 1915 – Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Andy Granatelli, American auto racer and businessman (d. 2013)
• 1925 – James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Peter Graves, American actor and director (d. 2010)
• 1927 – John Kander, American pianist and composer
• 1927 – George Plimpton, American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
• 1929 – Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015)
• 1931 – John Fraser, Scottish actor
• 1932 – John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 2009)
• 1933 – Unita Blackwell, American activist and politician
• 1934 – Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistician
• 1935 – Antonios Naguib, Egyptian patriarch
• 1935 – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016)
• 1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2016)
• 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
• 1938 – Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter
• 1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer
• 1938 – Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1938 – Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1938 – Charley Pride, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager
• 1941 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Kathleen Collins African-American filmmaker and playwright (d. 1988)
• 1943 – Kevin Dobson, American actor and director
• 1943 – Nobuko Imai, Japanese viola player and educator
• 1943 – Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (d. 2012)
• 1944 – Frank McRae, American football player and actor
• 1944 – Dick Smith, Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic
• 1945 – Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
• 1945 – Michael Reagan, American journalist and radio host
• 1945 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1946 – Michel Leclère, French race car driver
• 1947 – Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright
• 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1947 – David Lloyd, English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster
• 1947 – B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (Procol Harum) (d. 1990)
• 1948 – Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1948 – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
• 1948 – Eknath Solkar, Indian cricketer (d. 2005)
• 1949 – Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
• 1950 – James Conlon, American conductor and educator
• 1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor
• 1950 – Linda Partridge, English geneticist and academic
• 1950 – Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver
• 1951 – Paul Barber, English actor
• 1951 – Ben Cohen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's
• 1951 – Bill Frisell, American guitarist and composer
• 1952 – Will Durst, American journalist and actor
• 1952 – Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (d. 2015)
• 1952 – Bernie Tormé, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015)
• 1953 – Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer
• 1955 – Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
• 1955 – Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game show host
• 1956 – Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler
• 1956 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
• 1957 – Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut
• 1958 – Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 1990)
• 1959 – Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
• 1959 – Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
• 1960 – Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1960 – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player
• 1961 – Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 – Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player
• 1962 – Brian Fisher, American baseball player
• 1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor and martial artist
• 1962 – James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1962 – Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor and director
• 1962 – Volker Weidler, German race car driver and engineer
• 1963 – Jeff LaBar, American guitarist
• 1963 – Vanessa L. Williams, American model, actress, and singer
• 1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
• 1964 – Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver
• 1964 – Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player
• 1966 – Jerry Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 – Peter Jones, English businessman
• 1966 – Brian Watts, Canadian golfer
• 1967 – Miki Berenyi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
• 1968 – Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1968 – Paul Marsden, English businessman and politician
• 1969 – Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer
• 1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
• 1969 – Shaun Udal, English cricketer
• 1970 – Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress
• 1971 – Wayne Arthurs, Australian tennis player
• 1971 – Mike Bell, American wrestler (d. 2008)
• 1971 – Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1971 – Kitty Ussher, English economist and politician
• 1972 – Dane Cook, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Reince Priebus, American lawyer and politician
• 1973 – Luci Christian, American voice actress and screenwriter
• 1974 – Laure Savasta, French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1974 – Stuart Zender, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1975 – Brian Griese, American football player and sportscaster
• 1975 – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1975 – Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress and producer
• 1976 – Tomo Ohka, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 – Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
• 1976 – Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion
• 1977 – Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1977 – Danny Murphy, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1977 – Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager
• 1977 – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1978 – Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer
• 1978 – Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
• 1979 – Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and television personality
• 1980 – Sébastien Frey, French footballer
• 1980 – Sophia Myles, English actress
• 1980 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
• 1981 – Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
• 1981 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist
• 1981 – Leslie Djhone, French sprinter
• 1981 – Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress
• 1981 – Kasib Powell, American basketball player
• 1981 – Tom Starke, German footballer
• 1981 – Doug Warren, American soccer player
• 1981 – Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player
• 1982 – Mantorras, Angolan footballer
• 1982 – Chad Cordero, American baseball player
• 1982 – Timo Glock, German race car driver
• 1982 – Adam Pally, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Ethan Carter III, American wrestler
• 1983 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player
• 1983 – Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
• 1983 – Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Simone Padoin, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
• 1984 – Gary Roberts, English footballer
• 1984 – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress
• 1985 – Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver
• 1985 – Marvin Humes, English singer
• 1985 – Vince Lia, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
• 1987 – Rebecca Soni, American swimmer
• 1989 – Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Lily Collins, English-American actress
• 1989 – Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer
• 1989 – Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer
• 1990 – Corey Liuget, American football player
• 1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1991 – Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 – Ryan Truex, American race car driver
• 1996 – Madeline Carroll, American actress

Deaths[edit]

• 978 – Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962)
• 1086 – Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (b. 1036)
• 1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
• 1272 – John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246)
• 1308 – Yuri I of Galicia
• 1314 – Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (b. 1244)
• 1314 – Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar
• 1321 – Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5)
• 1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
• 1689 – John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (b. 1607)
• 1745 – Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
• 1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713)
• 1781 – Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)
• 1823 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
• 1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)
• 1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
• 1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
• 1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826)
• 1900 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
• 1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• 1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
• 1933 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (b. 1873)
• 1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
• 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
• 1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1947 – William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
• 1954 – Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1956 – Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
• 1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1973 – Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
• 1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
• 1977 – Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
• 1983 – Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
• 1984 – Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 1986 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953)
• 1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909)
• 2001 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
• 2002 – R. A. Lafferty, American soldier and author (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)
• 2006 - Minnie Pwerle, Australian Aboriginal artist (b. between 1910 and 1922)
• 2007 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)
• 2009 – Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (b. 1963)
• 2010 – Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Warren Christopher, American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 2012 – William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
• 2012 – William G. Moore Jr., American general (b. 1920)
• 2012 – George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
• 2015 – Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992)
• 2016 – Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)

ΑΛΟΧΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΧΑΒΑΗ ΣΤΟ MΕΓΑΡΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

• 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
• 1563 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
• 1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
• 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
• 1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
• 1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
• 1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
• 1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
• 1885 – Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
• 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
• 1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
• 1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• 1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
• 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
• 1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated.
• 1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
• 1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
• 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
• 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
• 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
• 1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
• 1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record which remains unbroken.
• 1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
• 1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
• 1962 – Algerian War of Independence ends.
• 1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
• 1966 – Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four with an all-black starting lineup.
• 1969 – The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
• 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• 1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
• 1989 – The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
• 1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
• 2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
• 2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
• 2004 – 3-19 shooting incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
• 2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
• 2011 – Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
• 2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
• 2016 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
• 2016 – An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.

Births[edit]

• 1206 – Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1248)
• 1434 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
• 1488 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (d. 1544)
• 1534 – José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1597)
• 1590 – William Bradford, English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
• 1601 – Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1667)
• 1603 – John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
• 1629 – Alexis of Russia (d. 1676)
• 1641 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731)
• 1661 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1727)
• 1684 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
• 1721 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and author (d. 1771)
• 1734 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1817)
• 1739 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French lawyer and politician (d. 1824)
• 1742 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel leader (d. 1781)
• 1748 – Elias Hicks, American farmer, minister, and theologian (d. 1830)
• 1778 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (d. 1815)
• 1809 – Fredrik Pacius, German composer and conductor (d. 1891)
• 1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
• 1816 – Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1891)
• 1821 – Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat (d. 1890)
• 1823 – Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (d. 1914)
• 1824 – William Allingham, Irish poet, author, and scholar (d. 1889)
• 1829 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman (d. 1901)
• 1844 – Minna Canth, Finnish journalist, playwright, and activist (d. 1897)
• 1847 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (d. 1917)
• 1848 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (d. 1929)
• 1849 – Alfred von Tirpitz, Polish-German admiral and politician (d. 1930)
• 1860 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Quebec (d. 1929)
• 1864 – Charles Marion Russell, American painter and sculptor (d. 1926)
• 1865 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic (d. 1937)
• 1868 – Senda Berenson Abbott, Lithuanian-born American basketball player and educator (d. 1954)
• 1871 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach (d. 1921)
• 1872 – Anna Held, Polish singer (d. 1918)
• 1873 – Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1916)
• 1881 – Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician (d. 1960)
• 1882 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (d. 1935)
• 1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (d. 1946)
• 1885 – Attik, Greek composer (d. 1944)
• 1888 – Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (d. 1967)
• 1892 – Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (d. 1961)
• 1892 – James Van Fleet, American general and diplomat (d. 1992)
• 1894 – Moms Mabley, American comedian, actress, and singer (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Maksym Rylsky, Ukrainian poet (d. 1964)
• 1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1901 – Jo Mielziner, French-American set designer (d. 1976)
• 1904 – John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
• 1905 – Joe Rollino, American weightlifter and boxer (d. 2010)
• 1905 – Albert Speer, German architect and politician (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer (d. 1962)
• 1909 – Louis Hayward, South African-born American actor (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Joseph Carroll, American general (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1980)
• 1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Jay Berwanger, American football player and coach (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
• 1915 – Patricia Morison, American actress and singer
• 1916 – Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Irving Wallace, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1978)
• 1920 – Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and painter (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Guy Lewis, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)
• 1923 – Benito Jacovitti, Italian illustrator (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Joe Gaetjens, Haitian footballer (d. 1964)
• 1925 – Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat, 9th United States National Security Advisor
• 1927 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author
• 1928 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1932 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer
• 1933 – Philip Roth, American novelist
• 1933 – Renée Taylor, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1933 – Richard Williams, Canadian-English animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1935 – Nancy Malone, American actress, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Burt Metcalfe, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Ursula Andress, Swiss model and actress
• 1936 – Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (d. 1988)
• 1937 – Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American R&B singer and pianist
• 1937 – Egon Krenz, German politician
• 1938 – Joe Kapp, American football player, coach, and actor
• 1942 – Richard Dobson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy
• 1943 – Vern Schuppan, Australian race car driver
• 1944 – Said Musa, Belizean lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Belize
• 1945 – John Holder, English cricketer and umpire
• 1945 – Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1946 – Paul Atkinson, English guitarist and A&R executive (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Ruth Pointer, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 – Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1947 – Joe Dolce, American-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer and coach
• 1948 – David Schnitter, American saxophonist and educator
• 1949 – Blase J. Cupich, American theologian and cardinal
• 1950 – José S. Palma, Filipino archbishop
• 1950 – James Redfield, American author, screenwriter, and producer
• 1952 – Wolfgang Ambros, Austrian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Chris Brubeck, American pianist and composer
• 1952 – Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1952 – Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and academic
• 1952 – Harvey Weinstein, American director and producer
• 1953 – Ian Blair, English police officer
• 1953 – Peter Hendy, English businessman
• 1953 – Billy Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter
• 1953 – Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1985)
• 1954 – Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 – Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer
• 1956 – Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2009)
• 1958 – Andy Reid, American football player and coach
• 1959 – Terry Hall, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1962 – Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Mary Scheer, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1964 – Jake Weber, English actor
• 1966 – Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician
• 1966 – Andy Sinton, English footballer and manager
• 1967 – Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1967 – Katia Tiutiunnik, Australian viola player and composer
• 1968 – Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and coach
• 1969 – Gary Jules, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Tom McRae, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Gert Bettens, Belgian guitarist and songwriter
• 1970 – Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (d. 2011)
• 1970 – Michael Krumm, German race car driver
• 1973 – Brant Bjork, American drummer
• 1973 – Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach
• 1975 – Brann Dailor, American drummer and songwriter
• 1975 – Antonio Daniels, American basketball player
• 1975 – Mason Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Lavinia Nixon, Australian television presenter and actress
• 1975 – Matthew Richardson, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1976 – Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
• 1976 – Andre Miller, American basketball player
• 1976 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager
• 1977 – Jorma Taccone, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Cydonie Mothersille, Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter
• 1979 – Sheldon Brown, American football player
• 1979 – Hee-seop Choi, South Korean-American baseball player
• 1979 – Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player
• 1979 – Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer
• 1979 – Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
• 1980 – Luca Ferri, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Taichi Ishikari, Japanese wrestler
• 1980 – Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Steve Cummings, English cyclist
• 1981 – Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer
• 1982 – Jonathan Fanene, American football player
• 1982 – Brad Jones, Australian footballer
• 1982 – Eduardo Saverin, Brazilian-Singaporean businessman, co-founded Facebook
• 1983 – Ana Rezende, Brazilian guitarist and director
• 1985 – Inesa Jurevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1985 – Michael Timlin, English-Irish footballer
• 1986 – Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Lee Jooyeon, South Korean singer and actress
• 1987 – Michal Švec, Czech footballer
• 1987 – Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player
• 1988 – Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player
• 1991 – Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer
• 1993 – Mateusz Szwoch, Polish footballer
• 1995 – Alexei Sintsov, Russian figure skater
• 1996 – Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player
• 1997 – Kwak Dong-yeon, South Korean actor and musician

Deaths[edit]

• 235 – Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• 953 – Al-Mansur Billah, Caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (b. 913)
• 1238 – Henry the Bearded, Polish son of Bolesław I the Tall (b. 1163)
• 1263 – Hugh of Saint-Cher, French cardinal (b. 1200)
• 1279 – Emperor Bing of Song (b. 1271)
• 1286 – Alexander III of Scotland, King of Scots (b. 1241)
• 1330 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1301)
• 1406 – Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian sociologist, historian, and scholar (b. 1332)
• 1612 – Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585)
• 1637 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1570)
• 1649 – Gerhard Johann Vossius, German scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
• 1683 – Thomas Killigrew, English playwright and manager (b. 1612)
• 1687 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (b. 1643)
• 1697 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
• 1711 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
• 1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish soldier (b. 1636)
• 1721 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
• 1783 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (b. 1713)
• 1790 – Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 182nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1713)
• 1797 – Philip Hayes, English organist and composer (b. 1738)
• 1816 – Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (b. 1730)
• 1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1897 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 – John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1900 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1930 – Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1942 – Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1943 – Frank Nitti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1883)
• 1944 – William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 – James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 1977 – William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)
• 1978 – M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1891)
• 1982 – Alan Badel, English actor (b. 1923)
• 1982 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1982 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
• 1986 – Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
• 1993 – Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (b. 1915)
• 1997 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Eugène Guillevic, French poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1998 – E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet and author (b. 1926)
• 2000 – Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2000 – Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Pakistani physician and author (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
• 2005 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Maria Bergson, Austrian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Kym Bonython, Australian drummer and radio host (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Jim Case, American director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Ulu Grosbard, Belgian-American director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Clancy Lyall, American sergeant (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Hugo Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian intelligence agent (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Robert S. Strauss, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1912)
• 2014 – Joseph F. Weis, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Gus Douglass, American farmer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Safet Plakalo, Bosnian author and playwright (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2016 – Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and businessman (b. 1959)
• 2016 – Jack Mansell, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)

Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry dies

Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry has died aged 90, police in the US state of Missouri report.

The singer was found unresponsive at lunchtime on Saturday, St Charles County police said.

Berry's seven-decade career boasted a string of hits, including classics Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode.

He received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1984 and was among the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

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In a statement on Facebook, the St Charles County Police Department said they were called to reports of an unresponsive man at 12:40 local time (17:40 GMT).

"Unfortunately, the 90-year-old man could not be revived and was pronounced deceased at 1:26pm," the statement continued.

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"The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry."

High-profile musicians were quick to pay tribute to Berry's talent and influence.

Motown legends The Jacksons tweeted: "Chuck Berry merged blues & swing into the phenomenon of early rock'n'roll. In music, he cast one of the longest shadows. Thank You Chuck."

Singer-songwriter Huey Lewis described him as "maybe the most important figure in all of rock and roll".

"His music and influence will last forever," he added.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr quoted one of Berry's own lyrics on Twitter, saying: "Just let me hear some of that rock 'n' roll music any old way you use it." 

"I am playing I'm talking about you," he wrote.

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Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones covered Berry's songs, as did The Beach Boys and scores of other acts - including Elvis.

"If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name," John Lennon once said, "you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones said that Berry "lit up our teenage years and blew life into our dreams". 

Singer Bruce Springsteen called him "a giant for the ages".

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The novelist Stephen King noted that Berry had a long life for a consummate rock'n'roller, tweeting: "Chuck Berry died. This breaks my heart, but 90 years old ain't bad for rock and roll. Johnny B. Goode forever."

Berry was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1926, and had his first hit, Maybellene, in 1955.

Last year, he announced he would be releasing his first album in nearly four decades. He dedicated it to his wife of 68 years, Themetta "Toddy".

Daily Mail: Ολο το παρασκήνιο του διαζυγίου του Μίνωα Κυριακού με την Μαρί

Εκτενή αναφορά στο διαζύγιο του Μίνωα Κυριακού με τη 

σύζυγό του Μαρί κάνει δημοσίευμα της Daily Mail.

Αναλυτικά, το δημοσίευμα στην ιστοσελίδα της Daily Mail αναφέρει:

«Οταν ένας γάμος καταρρέει, το μοίρασμα των οικογενειακών πολύτιμων 

αντικειμένων μπορεί να είναι μία δύσκολη- και πολύ χρονοβόρα- διαδικασία.

Ομως, ο μεγιστάνας της ναυτιλίας Μίνωας Κυριακού, ένας από τους πλουσιότερους

 άνδρες της Ελλάδας, υποστηρίζει ότι η σύζυγός του παρέκαμψε κατάφωρα τη 

διαδικασία, επιτάσσοντας το τζετ του, γεμάτο με αντικείμενα αξίας εκατοντάδων

 χιλιάδων λιρών και διατάσσοντας τον πιλότο της οικογένειας να πετάξει 

στο Λονδίνο.

Δικηγόροι του 74χρονου κ. Κυριακού ισχυρίστηκαν ενώπιον του Ανώτατου 

Δικαστηρίου ότι η λαμπερή 45χρονη ηθοποιός σύζυγός του Μαρί μπορεί τώρα 

να έχει πουλήσει κάποια από τα λάφυρα.

Δημοπράτες στο Christie's, κοσμηματοπωλεία στο Μέιφερ και ένα

 θησαυροφυλάκιο έχουν διαταχθεί από δικαστή να αποκαλύψουν οποιεσδήποτε

 συναλλαγές μπορεί να είχαν μαζί της. Ο μεγιστάνας, όπως ειπώθηκε στο

 δικαστήριο, έχει συγκεντρώσει μία πλούσια συλλογή κοσμημάτων, αργυρών

 ειδών, κρυστάλλινων και χαλιών.

Δεν έχει διευκρινιστεί ακριβώς τι εξαφανίστηκε, αλλά πηγές κοντά στον κ. Κυριακού

 αναφέρουν ότι η λίστα των αγνοούμενων κοσμημάτων περιλαμβάνει δαχτυλίδια,

 περιδέραια, βραχιόλια, καρφίτσες και ζώνες.

«Αυτά τα αντικείμενα είναι χρυσά και ασημένια και έχουν πετράδια που- τα πιο

 πολύτιμα από αυτά- περιλαμβάνουν διαμάντια», ανέφερε μία πηγή. Αλλα

 αντικείμενα αφορούν πίνακες, εικόνες, ασημένια μαχαιροπίρουνα και ρολόγια 

αντίκες. Μία σειρά από «έγγραφα» επίσης λέγεται ότι λείπει.

Ο κ. Κυριακού, πρώην πρόεδρος της Ελληνικής Ολυμπιακής Επιτροπής, είναι

 ο ιδρυτής και ιδιοκτήτης του ANT1 Group, μίας εταιρείας ΜΜΕ στην οποία

 ανήκει ένας από τους παλαιότερους τηλεοπτικούς σταθμούς στην Ελλάδα.

 Εκείνος και η Μαρί παντρεύτηκαν το 2004.

Φίλοι έχουν πει ότι η κυρία Κυριακού ήταν ολοένα σε δυσκολότερη θέση 

εξαιτίας της συζήτησης για τη μεταξύ τους διαφορά ηλικίας. Και ισχυρίζονται ότι

 η απόφαση να κοπεί η τηλεοπτική εκπομπή που παρουσίαζε στο κανάλι του

 συζύγου της την άφησε «ταπεινωμένη».  

Δημοσιεύματα των ελληνικών ΜΜΕ αναφέρουν ότι πήραν την απόφαση για

 διαζύγιο, που δεν έχει ολοκληρωθεί ακόμη, κοινή συναινέσει.

Ομως, οι συζητήσεις άρχισαν να πηγαίνουν στραβά τους τελευταίους μήνες και η

 κυρία Κυριακού λέγεται ότι είπε σε στενούς φίλους και συγγενείς ότι αποφάσισε 

«να πάρει αυτό που της οφειλόταν». Στο Ανώτατο Δικαστήριο ειπώθηκε ότι δύο

 εβδομάδες πριν κάνει αίτηση διαζυγίου η κυρία Κυριακού στις 22 Φεβρουαρίου, 

εθεάθη από μέλος του προσωπικού να πακετάρει μία σειρά από πολύτιμα

 αντικείμενα, σε 25 με 30 κούτες, και να τα μεταφέρει εκτός του σπιτιού της

 οικογένειας στην Αθήνα. Εκείνη τη στιγμή ο σύζυγός της έλειπε από το σπίτι για

 ιατρική θεραπεία.

Ο Αλαν Μακλίν δήλωσε: «Στις 8 Φεβρουαρίου, κατά απαίτηση της κυρίας

 Κυριακού, ο πιλότος της οικογένειας τη μετέφερε στο Λονδίνο με το ιδιωτικό τζετ

 του κυρίου Κυριακού. Πήρε μαζί της τέσσερις βαριές αποσκευές, ανάμεσά τους 

μία κόκκινη βαλίτσα καμπίνας, σε προστατευτικό μαύρο περιτύλιγμα».

Ο ίδιος είπε ότι ο πιλότος κοίταξε μέσα στη μία τσάντα και παρατήρησε ότι ήταν 

«γεμάτη με πολύτιμα».

Σύμφωνα με τους ισχυρισμούς η κυρία Κυριακού έκανε μία σειρά από 

επισκέψεις στο Christie’s, το Metropolitan Safe Deposits στο Νάιτςμπριτζ και

 στο JS Jewels Ltd, στο Μέιφερ. Και οι τρεις εταιρείες κατονομάζονται ως 

συνεναγόμενοι στην υπόθεση.

Το δικαστήριο άκουσε ότι η κυρία Κυριακού έφυγε από την Αθήνα με αποσκευές

 βάρους 70 κιλών αλλά όταν επέστρεψε στην Αθήνα ζύγιζαν 10 κιλά.

 Ο Μακλίν δήλωσε: «Φαίνεται πολύ πιθανό ότι ένας μεγάλος αριθμός πολύτιμων 

αντικειμένων μεταφέρθηκε από την κυρία Κυριακού στο Λονδίνο, τα οποία δεν

 πήρε πίσω στην Ελλάδα».

Το ζευγάρι δεν ήταν στο δικαστήριο και δεν στάθηκε δυνατό να υπάρξει

 επικοινωνία για σχόλιο την περασμένη εβδομάδα.

Εκπρόσωπος του Christie's είπε: «Μας έχει ζητηθεί από τα δικαστήρια να 

παράσχουμε πληροφορίες και συνεργαζόμαστε».

Ο John Souglides, ιδιοκτήτης του JS Jewels Ltd, είπε: «Πρέπει να

 συμμορφωθούμε με τη δικαστική εντολή. Οι δικηγόροι το χειρίζονται.

 Δεν ανησυχώ». Αρνήθηκε να πει αν έχει πουλήσει κάποια από τα αντικείμενα».

• 235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
• 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
• 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
• 1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
• 1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
• 1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
• 1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
• 1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
• 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
• 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
• 1861 – An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
• 1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
• 1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
• 1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
• 1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
• 1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
• 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
• 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
• 1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
• 1951 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
• 1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
• 1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France.
• 1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
• 1972 – The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
• 1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• 1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• 1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
• 1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
• 1990 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
• 1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
• 1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people.
• 1999 – Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
• 2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
• 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
• 2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
• 2012 – At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
• 2014 – Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
• 2015 – A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.

Births[edit]

• 43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
• 1253 – Magadu, renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (b. a commoner; d. on a Saturday in January 1307)
• 1319 – Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1348)
• 1469 – Cecily of York (d. 1507)
• 1477 – Jerome Emser, German theologian and scholar (d. 1527)
• 1479 – Ippolito d'Este, Italian cardinal (d. 1520)
• 1502 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
• 1612 – Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (d. 1672)
• 1639 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709)
• 1725 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1789)
• 1771 – Heinrich Clauren, German author (d. 1854)
• 1796 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (d. 1862)
• 1799 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet and author (d. 1839)
• 1800 – Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica (d. 1845)
• 1811 – Napoleon II, French emperor (d. 1832)
• 1811 – George Caleb Bingham, American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (d. 1879)
• 1821 – Ned Buntline, American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1886)
• 1824 – Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (d. 1876)
• 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)
• 1831 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (d. 1881)
• 1834 – Charles William Eliot, American mathematician and academic (d. 1926)
• 1836 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886)
• 1836 – Edward Poynter, English painter, illustrator, and curator (d. 1919)
• 1840 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
• 1851 – Ismail Gasprinski, Ukrainian educator, publisher, and politician (d. 1914)
• 1852 – Frank MacKey, American polo player (d. 1927)
• 1856 – John Lavery, Irish painter (d. 1941)
• 1856 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American tennis player and engineer (d. 1915)
• 1870 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
• 1874 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist (d. 1945)
• 1876 – Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1927)
• 1879 – Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (d. 1960)
• 1882 – René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France (d. 1962)
• 1882 – Harold Weber, American golfer (d. 1933)
• 1884 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1966)
• 1884 – John Jensen, Australian public servant (d. 1970)
• 1885 – Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1888 – Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)
• 1898 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist (d. 1954)
• 1903 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer (d. 1949)
• 1906 – Abraham Beame, American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (d. 2001)
• 1906 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Michael Redgrave, English actor and director (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Ralph Hauenstein, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)
• 1913 – Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer (d. 1968)
• 1914 – Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (d. 1968)
• 1915 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
• 1916 – Pierre Messmer, French lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Vera Lynn, English singer
• 1918 – Jack Barry, American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (d. 1984)
• 1918 – Donald Featherstone, English soldier and author (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter ace (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (d. 1997)
• 1920 – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1921 – Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)
• 1921 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
• 1922 – Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader
• 1922 – Ray Goulding, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1923 – Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
• 1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)
• 1927 – John Joubert, South African-English composer and academic
• 1928 – Jerome Biffle, American long jumper and coach (d. 2002)
• 1928 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Fred Rogers, American television host and producer (d. 2003)
• 1929 – William Andrew MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican actor and director (d. 2015)
• 1930 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (d. 1998)
• 1931 – Hal Linden, American actor, singer, and director
• 1931 – Rein Raamat, Estonian director and screenwriter
• 1933 – Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1933 – George Altman, American baseball player
• 1933 – Ian Walsh, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Willie Brown, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco
• 1934 – David Malouf, Australian author and playwright
• 1935 – Ted Bessell, American actor and director (d. 1996)
• 1935 – Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995)
• 1936 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer, songwriter, music producer, and inventor
• 1936 – Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
• 1937 – Lois Lowry, American author
• 1937 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1939 – Gerald Curran, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Don Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Brian Mulroney, Canadian lawyer and politician 18th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1940 – Stathis Chaitas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1940 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer and journalist (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Giampiero Moretti, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Pat Corrales, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese runner
• 1943 – Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
• 1943 – Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Paul Junger Witt, American director and producer
• 1944 – John Cameron, English composer and conductor
• 1944 – Camille Cosby, American author, producer, and philanthropist
• 1944 – Alan Harper, English-Irish archbishop
• 1945 – Henry Bartholomay, American soldier and pilot (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
• 1945 – Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach
• 1945 – Tim Yeo, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
• 1946 – Douglas B. Green, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
• 1947 – John Boswell, American historian, philologist, and academic (d. 1994)
• 1948 – John de Lancie, American actor
• 1948 – Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1948 – Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Marcia Ball, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1949 – Richard Dowden, English journalist and educator
• 1950 – William Hurt, American actor
• 1950 – Carl Palmer, English drummer, percussionist, and songwriter
• 1951 – Jimmie Vaughan, American blues-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Geoff Brabham, Australian race car driver
• 1952 – David Greenaway, English economist and academic
• 1953 – Phil Judd, New Zealand singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter
• 1954 – Patrick Abada, French pole vaulter
• 1954 – Yamina Bachir, Algerian director and screenwriter
• 1954 – Mike Francesa, American radio talk show host and television commentator
• 1954 – Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician
• 1954 – Paul Mirabella, American baseball player
• 1954 – Louis Sachar, American author
• 1955 – Nina Kiriki Hoffman, American author
• 1955 – Ian Moss, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Catherine Ashton, English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
• 1956 – Anne Donahue, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Naoto Takenaka, Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director
• 1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
• 1957 – David Foster, Australian woodchopper
• 1957 – Spike Lee, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Theresa Russell, American actress
• 1957 – Chris Wedge, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
• 1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress and producer
• 1958 – Rickey Jackson, American football player
• 1958 – Joe Reaiche, Australian rugby player
• 1959 – Dave Beasant, English footballer and coach
• 1959 – Mary Roach, American author
• 1960 – Norm Magnusson, American painter and sculptor
• 1960 – Norbert Pohlmann, German computer scientist and academic
• 1960 – Yuri Shargin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1961 – Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, German politician
• 1961 – Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1961 – Slim Jim Phantom, American rock drummer
• 1961 – Sara Wheeler, English author and journalist
• 1962 – Stephen Sommers, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Paul Annacone, American tennis player and coach
• 1963 – Kathy Ireland, American model, actress, and furniture designer
• 1963 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (d. 2007)
• 1963 – David Thewlis, English-French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1965 – William Dalrymple, Scottish historian and author
• 1965 – Adrian Oxaal, American-English guitarist
• 1967 – Xavier Beauvois, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player
• 1968 – Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean runner
• 1968 – A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author
• 1968 – Paul Merson, English footballer and manager
• 1969 – Yvette Cooper, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• 1969 – Fabien Galthie, French rugby player
• 1970 – Edoardo Ballerini, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Michael Rapaport, American actor, podcast host, and director
• 1971 – Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player
• 1971 – Touré, American journalist and author
• 1972 – Chilly Gonzales, Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1972 – Alex Kapranos, English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1972 – Greg Searle, English rower
• 1972 – Marco Sejna, German footballer
• 1972 – Cristel Vahtra, Estonian skier
• 1973 – Nicky Boje, South African cricketer
• 1973 – Natalya Khrushcheleva, Russian runner
• 1976 – Chester Bennington, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1978 – Brent Sherwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1979 – Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player
• 1979 – Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 – Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
• 1980 – Robertas Javtokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1981 – Ian Murray, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1982 – Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
• 1982 – José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 – Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer
• 1984 – Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
• 1984 – Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer
• 1985 – Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player
• 1985 – Nicolas Lombaerts, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1986 – Julián Magallanes, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 – Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 – Yuya Endo, Japanese actor and singer
• 1987 – Jô, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1990 – Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 – Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1991 – Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 – Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 – Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player

Deaths[edit]

• 687 – Cuthbert, Northumbrian (English) monk, bishop, and saint (b. 634)
• 703 – Wulfram, archbishop of Sens
• 842 – Alfonso II, king of Asturias (Spain) (b. 759)
• 851 – Ebbo, archbishop of Reims
• 1181 – Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general (b. 1118)
• 1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
• 1239 – Hermann von Salza, German knight and diplomat (b. 1179)
• 1302 – Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich
• 1390 – Alexios III of Trebizond (b. 1338)
• 1413 – Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
• 1440 – Sigismund I of Lithuania
• 1475 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
• 1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English general and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1508)
• 1568 – Albert, Duke in Prussia (b. 1490)
• 1619 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
• 1673 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish monk (b. 1603)
• 1688 – Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (b. 1642)
• 1726 – Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1642)
• 1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• 1746 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (b. 1656)
• 1780 – Benjamin Truman, English brewer and businessman (b. 1699)
• 1793 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1705)
• 1835 – Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1849 – James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 – Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 – Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 – Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 – Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 – Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 – Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 – Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900)
• 1940 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Amadeus William Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian merchant, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)
• 1964 – Brendan Behan, Irish republican and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1965 – Daniel Frank, American long jumper (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Johnny Morrison, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 – Chet Huntley, American journalist and actor (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 – Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1992 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
• 1997 – V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)
• 1998 – George Howard, American saxophonist (b. 1956)
• 1999 – Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
• 2001 – Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Raynald Fréchette, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Ai, American poet and academic (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Johnny Pearson, English pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Noboru Ishiguro, Japanese animator and director (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)
• 2013 – James Herbert, English author (b. 1943)
• 2013 – George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 15th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Tonie Nathan, American politician (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)