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• 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
• 630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
• 717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
• 1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1188 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
• 1556 – In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
• 1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
• 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
• 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
• 1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
• 1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
• 1861 – Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
• 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
• 1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
• 1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
• 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
• 1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
• 1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
• 1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• 1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
• 1937 – Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
• 1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
• 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
• 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
• 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
• 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• 1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
• 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
• 1965 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
• 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
• 1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
• 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
• 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
• 1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
• 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
• 2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
• 2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
• 2009 – Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.

Births[edit]

• 927 – Emperor Taizu of Song (d. 976)
• 1227 – King Charles I of Naples (d. 1285)
• 1425 – Henry Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick, English nobleman (d. 1445)
• 1474 – Angela Merici, Italian educator and saint (d. 1540)
• 1521 – Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553)
• 1527 – Hermann Finck, German composer and educator (d. 1558)
• 1672 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet and translator (d. 1742)
• 1713 – Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and politician (d. 1803)
• 1716 – Josef Seger, Bohemian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1782)
• 1752 – Mary Dixon Kies, American inventor (d. 1837)
• 1763 – Jean Paul, German journalist and author (d. 1825)
• 1768 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
• 1806 – Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 25th President of Mexico (d. 1872)
• 1811 – Nathaniel Woodard, English priest and educator (d. 1891)
• 1825 – Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian soldier and engineer (d. 1890)
• 1835 – Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876)
• 1839 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1881)
• 1854 – Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1924)
• 1857 – Alice Henry, Australian journalist and activist (d. 1943)
• 1859 – Daria Pratt, American golfer (d. 1938)
• 1865 – George Owen Squier, American general (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1952)
• 1867 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., American director and producer (d. 1932)
• 1869 – David Robertson, Scottish-English golfer and rugby player (d. 1937)
• 1874 – Alfred Tysoe, English runner (d. 1901)
• 1876 – Walter Tewksbury, American runner and hurdler (d. 1968)
• 1877 – Maurice Farman, French race car driver and pilot (d. 1964)
• 1878 – Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (d. 1944)
• 1880 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1971)
• 1880 – Hans Hofmann, German-American painter and academic (d. 1966)
• 1882 – Aleksander Kesküla, Estonian politician (d. 1963)
• 1884 – George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (d. 1944)
• 1885 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (d. 1952)
• 1886 – Walter Dray, American pole vaulter (d. 1973)
• 1887 – Clarice Beckett, Australian painter (d. 1935)
• 1887 – M. N. Roy, Indian philosopher and politician (d. 1954)
• 1889 – Jock Sutherland, American football player and coach (d. 1948)
• 1896 – Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1959)
• 1897 – Sim Gokkes, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1943)
• 1897 – Salvador Lutteroth, Mexican wrestling promoter, founded Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (d. 1987)
• 1899 – Panagiotis Pipinelis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Karl Arnold, German businessman and politician, President of the German Bundesrat (d. 1958)
• 1902 – Son House, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Jehane Benoît, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1987)
• 1904 – Forrest Mars, Sr., American candy maker, created M&M's and Mars bar (d. 1999)
• 1904 – Nikos Skalkottas, Greek violinist and composer (d. 1949)
• 1905 – Phyllis McGinley, American author and poet (d. 1978)
• 1906 – John D. Rockefeller III, American philanthropist (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Jim Thompson, American businessman (d. 1967)
• 1906 – André Filho, Brazilian musician and songwriter (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Harry Lane, English footballer (d. 1977)
• 1910 – Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (d. 1993)
• 1910 – Muhammad Siddiq Khan, Bangladeshi librarian and educator (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Walter Lincoln Hawkins, African-American scientist and inventor (d. 1992)
• 1912 – André Laurendeau, Canadian journalist, playwright, and politician (d. 1968)
• 1913 – George Abecassis, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (d. 1990)
• 1916 – Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Ken Wharton, English race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1917 – Frank Hardy, Australian journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1984)
• 1918 – Patrick Lucey, American captain and politician, 38th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Charles Thompson, American pianist and composer (d. 2016)
• 1919 – Douglas Warren, Australian bishop (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Manolis Chiotis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1970)
• 1920 – Éric Rohmer, French director, film critic, journalist, novelist and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Antony Hopkins, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Canadian geographer, author, and academic
• 1923 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet, publisher, and diplomat (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Harold Ashby, American saxophonist (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Peter Brook, English-French director and producer
• 1925 – Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964)
• 1926 – André Delvaux, Belgian director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Halton Arp, American-German astronomer and critic (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Maurice Catarcio, American wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1930 – James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1931 – Toyonobori, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1931 – Clark L. Brundin, American-English engineer and academic
• 1931 – Catherine Gibson, Scottish swimmer (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Al Williamson, American illustrator (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor (d. 2015)
• 1933 – John Hall, English businessman
• 1933 – Michael Heseltine, Welsh businessman and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1934 – Al Freeman, Jr., American actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1936 – Ed Broadbent, Canadian pilot and politician
• 1936 – Mike Westbrook, English pianist and composer
• 1937 – Ann Clwyd, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
• 1937 – Tom Flores, American football player and coach
• 1937 – Pierre-Jean Rémy, French diplomat and author (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Michael Foreman, English author and illustrator
• 1938 – Grahame Thomas, Australian cricketer
• 1939 – Kathleen Widdoes, American actress
• 1940 – Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (d. 1967)
• 1942 – Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1942 – Amina Claudine Myers, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1942 – Patcha Ramachandra Rao, India metallurgist, educator and administrator (d. 2010)
• 1943 – István Gyulai, Hungarian sprinter and sportscaster (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor
• 1943 – Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (d. 1995)
• 1944 – Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress
• 1944 – Janet Daley, American-English journalist and author
• 1944 – Hideki Ishima, Japanese guitarist
• 1944 – Mike Jackson, English general
• 1944 – David Lindley, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1944 – Gaye Adegbalola, American singer and guitarist
• 1945 – Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, English lawyer
• 1945 – Charles Greene, American sprinter and coach
• 1945 – Rose Stone, American R&B singer and keyboard player (Sly and the Family Stone)
• 1946 – Timothy Dalton, Welsh-English actor
• 1946 – Ray Dorset, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mungo Jerry)
• 1946 – Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, Japanese cardinal
• 1948 – Scott Fahlman, American computer scientist and academic
• 1949 – Alvin Kallicharran, Guyanese cricketer and coach
• 1949 – Andy Love, Scottish-English politician
• 1949 – Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher, and academic
• 1950 – Roger Hodgson, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1950 – Ron Oden, American minister and politician, 19th Mayor of Palm Springs
• 1950 – Sergey Lavrov, Russian politician and diplomat, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1951 – Conrad Lozano, American bass player
• 1951 – Russell Thompkins Jr., American soul singer (The Stylistics)
• 1953 – Steve Furber, English computer scientist and academic
• 1953 – Paul Martin Lester, American photographer, author, and educator
• 1953 – David Wisniewski, English-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
• 1955 – Fadi Abboud, Lebanese economist and politician
• 1955 – Bob Bennett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Greek politician
• 1956 – Dick Beardsley, American runner
• 1956 – Guy Chadwick, German-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Richard Kirk, English guitarist, keyboard player, composer, and producer
• 1956 – Ingrid Kristiansen, Norwegian runner
• 1958 – Marlies Göhr, German sprinter
• 1958 – Brad Hall, American comedian, director, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Gary Oldman, English actor, filmmaker, musician and author
• 1959 – Sarah Jane Morris, English singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Yuval Rotem, Israeli diplomat
• 1959 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese keyboard player and composer
• 1960 – Marwan Farhat, Syrian actor and voice actor
• 1960 – Benito T. de Leon, Filipino general
• 1960 – Raivo Puusepp, Estonian architect
• 1960 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1994)
• 1960 – Robert Sweet, American drummer and producer
• 1961 – Lothar Matthäus, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Kassie DePaiva, American actress
• 1961 – Kim Turner, American hurdler
• 1962 – Matthew Broderick, American actor
• 1962 – Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress and screenwriter
• 1962 – Rosie O'Donnell, American actress, producer, and talk show host
• 1962 – Mark Waid, American author
• 1963 – Shawon Dunston, American baseball player
• 1963 – Ronald Koeman, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – Shawn Lane, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Share Pedersen, American bass player
• 1964 – Ieuan Evans, Welsh rugby player
• 1964 – Jesper Skibby, Danish cyclist
• 1965 – Xavier Bertrand, French businessman and politician, French Minister of Social Affairs
• 1965 – Thomas Frank, American author, historian and political analyst
• 1966 – Benito Archundia, Mexican footballer, referee, lawyer, and economist
• 1966 – Hauke Fuhlbrügge, German runner
• 1966 – Matthew Maynard, English cricketer and coach
• 1966 – Moa Matthis, Swedish author
• 1967 – Carwyn Jones, Welsh lawyer and politician, First Minister of Wales
• 1967 – Mirela Rupic, American costume and fashion designer
• 1968 – Cameron Clyne, Australian businessman
• 1968 – Andrew Copeland, American singer and guitarist
• 1968 – Greg Ellis, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Tolunay Kafkas, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1968 – Shin Seung-hun, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Scott Williams, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Jonah Goldberg, American journalist and author
• 1970 – Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (d. 2000)
• 1971 – Zsolt Kürtösi, Hungarian decathlete
• 1972 – Chris Candido, American wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1972 – Balázs Kiss, Hungarian hammer thrower
• 1972 – Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian runner
• 1972 – Graeme Welch, English cricketer
• 1973 – Ananda Lewis, American television host
• 1973 – Stuart Nethercott, English footballer and manager
• 1973 – Large Professor, American rapper and producer
• 1974 – Rhys Darby, New Zealand comedian and actor
• 1974 – Dejima Takeharu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1974 – Edsel Dope, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 – Ted Kravitz, British presenter and Formula One pit-lane reporter
• 1974 – Kevin Leahy, American drummer
• 1974 – Conor Woodman, Irish journalist and author
• 1975 – Yacoub Al-Mohana, Kuwaiti director and producer
• 1975 – Corne Krige, South African rugby player
• 1975 – Fabricio Oberto, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
• 1975 – Vitaly Potapenko, Ukrainian basketball player and coach
• 1975 – Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player
• 1976 – Rachael MacFarlane, American voice actress and singer
• 1976 – Tekin Sazlog, German-Turkish footballer
• 1977 – Bruno Cirillo, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Jamie Delgado, English tennis player
• 1978 – Sally Barsosio, Kenyan runner
• 1978 – Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (d. 2007)
• 1978 – Cristian Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Bamboo Mañalac, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 – Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian skier
• 1980 – Lee Jin, South Korean singer and actress
• 1980 – Deryck Whibley, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1981 – Germano Borovicz Cardoso Schweger, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Sébastien Chavanel, French cyclist
• 1981 – Glenn Hall, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 – Jason King, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 – Todd Polglase, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
• 1982 – Ejegayehu Dibaba, Ethiopian runner
• 1982 – Aaron Hill, American baseball player
• 1982 – Colin Turkington, Northern Irish race car driver
• 1983 – Lucila Pascua, Spanish basketball player
• 1983 – Jean Ondoa, Cameroonian footballer
• 1984 – Tiago dos Santos Roberto, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Guillermo Daniel Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1985 – Ryan Callahan, American ice hockey player
• 1985 – Adrian Peterson, American football player
• 1986 – Michu, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Romanos Alyfantis, Greek swimmer
• 1986 – Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou, Greek pole vaulter
• 1987 – Carlos Carrasco, Venezuelan baseball pitcher
• 1988 – Lee Cattermole, English footballer
• 1988 – Kateřina Čechová, Czech sprinter
• 1988 – Erik Johnson, American ice hockey player
• 1988 – Eric Krüger, German sprinter
• 1989 – Jordi Alba, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Nicolás Lodeiro, Uruguayan footballer
• 1990 – Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1990 – Ryann Krais, American runner and heptathlete
• 1990 – Alex Nimo, Liberian-American soccer player
• 1991 – Luke Chapman, English footballer
• 1991 – Antoine Griezmann, French footballer
• 1992 – Lehlogonolo Masalesa, South African footballer
• 1992 – Erena Mizusawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1992 – Karolína Plíšková, Czech tennis player
• 1993 – Jake Bidwell, English footballer
• 1993 – Jesse Joronen, Finnish footballer
• 2000 – Jace Norman, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 543 or 547 – Benedict of Nursia, Italian saint (b. 480)
• 867 – Ælla, king of Northumbria
• 867 – Osberht, king of Northumbria
• 1063 – Richeza of Lotharingia (b. 995)
• 1076 – Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
• 1201 – Absalon, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1128)
• 1306 – Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
• 1372 – Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden
• 1487 – Nicholas of Flüe, Swiss monk and saint (b. 1417)
• 1540 – John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier (b. c. 1482)
• 1556 – Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop and saint (b. 1489)
• 1653 – Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha, Albanian politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1656 – James Ussher, Irish archbishop (b. 1581)
• 1676 – Henri Sauval, French historian and author (b. 1623)
• 1729 – John Law, Scottish-French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1671)
• 1729 – Elżbieta Sieniawska politically influential Polish magnate (b. 1669)
• 1734 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian and author (b. 1679)
• 1751 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
• 1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French priest, astronomer, and academic (b. 1713)
• 1772 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French geographer and cartographer (b. 1703)
• 1795 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian miner and geologist (b. 1714)
• 1801 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer and educator (b. 1741)
• 1804 – Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien (b. 1772)
• 1843 – Robert Southey, English poet, historian, and translator (b. 1774)
• 1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1863 – Edwin Vose Sumner, American general (b. 1797)
• 1884 – Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (b. 1819)
• 1891 – Joseph E. Johnston, American general (b. 1807)
• 1915 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American golfer, tennis player, and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1920 – Evelina Haverfield, British suffragette and aid worker (b. 1867)
• 1932 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)
• 1934 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1934 – Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1936 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1939 – Evald Aav, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1939 – Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish general and politician (b. 1877)
• 1943 – Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1945 – Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (b. 1894)
• 1951 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1871)
• 1953 – Ed Voss, American basketball player (b. 1922)
• 1956 – Hatı Çırpan,Turkish politician (b. 1890)
• 1958 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American soldier and author (b. 1923)
• 1970 – Manolis Chiotis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1920)
• 1975 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1978 – Louis Cottrell, Jr., American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1888)
• 1985 – Michael Redgrave, English actor, director, and manager (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Walter L. Gordon, Canadian accountant, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (b. 1918)
• 1991 – Vedat Dalokay, Turkish architect and politician, Mayor of Ankara (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Leo Fender, American businessman, founded Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (b. 1909)
• 1992 – John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Wilbert Awdry, English cleric and author, created Thomas the Tank Engine (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Jean Guitton, French philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Ernie Wise, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Chung Ju-yung, South Korean businessman, founded Hyundai (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Anthony Steel, English actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Herman Talmadge, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 70th Governor of Georgia (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Shivani, Indian author (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Umar Wirahadikusumah, Indonesian general and politician, 4th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Barney Martin, American police officer and actor (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Drew Hayes, American author and illustrator (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Sven O. Høiby, Norwegian hurdler and journalist (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Denis Cosgrove, English-American geographer and academic (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect and academic (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Loleatta Holloway, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
• 2011 – Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Albrecht Dietz, German economist and businessman (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Ron Erhardt, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Robert Fuest, English director, screenwriter, and production designer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Tonino Guerra, Italian poet and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Irving Louis Horowitz, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Yuri Razuvaev, Russian chess player and trainer (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Marina Salye, Russian geologist and politician (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Rick Hautala, American author and screenwriter (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Harlon Hill, American football player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Giancarlo Zagni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Qoriniasi Bale, Fijian lawyer and politician, 25th Attorney-General of Fiji (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Bill Boedeker, American football player and soldier (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Jack Fleck, American golfer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Simeon Oduoye, Nigerian police officer and politician (b. 1945)
• 2014 – James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Ishaya Bakut, Nigerian general and politician, Governor of Benue State (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Chuck Bednarik, American lieutenant and football player (b. 1925)
• 2015 – James C. Binnicker, American sergeant (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 2015 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer and guitarist (Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann) (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1955)

Σχόλιο-φωτιά της Ελενας Ακρίτα για την Αννα Βίσση

Η Ελενα Ακρίτα μέσω των social media αναφέρθηκε στην

 Αννα Βίσση λόγω της συμμετοχής της στο «Star Academy»

 του «Ε».

Η Αννα Βίσση δέχτηκε έντονη κριτική για τη συμμετοχή της στο talent show και

 πολλοί σχολίασαν αρνητικά την παρουσία της στην κριτική επιτροπή του, εκεί

 όπου βρίσκονται και οι Καρβέλας-Κωστόπουλος-Γερμανού.

Η Έλενα Ακρίτα έγραψε ένα σύντομο κείμενο στο προσωπικό της προφίλ, αναφερόμενη στην κριτική που έχει δεχτεί η τραγουδίστρια.

«Δεν γνωρίζω την κ. Άννα Βίσση. Όμως την φτήνια, την χυδαιότητα, τον ηλικιακό

 ρατσισμό κειμένων και σχολίων δεν τα χρεώνεται εκείνη. Τα χρεώνονται όσοι

 τα γράφουνε. Έλα για ήρεμα λίγο εσείς οι διανοούμενοι του Κοέλιο που μιλάτε 

για τον "ξεπεσμό"μιας σκληρά εργαζόμενης γυναίκας. Αντί να ντρέπεστε εσείς

 που τα γράφετε, ντρεπόμαστε εμείς που σας διαβάζουμε», ανέφερε

 χαρακτηριστικα.

Οικοδέσποινα στο 70ό Φεστιβάλ των Καννών η Μόνικα Μπελούτσι

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• 238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
• 871 – Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
• 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
• 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
• 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
• 1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
• 1713 – The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
• 1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
• 1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• 1829 – In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
• 1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
• 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• 1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
• 1873 – The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
• 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 1906 – The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
• 1912– The State of Bihar, India was carved out of the State of Bengal.
• 1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
• 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• 1943 – World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
• 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
• 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
• 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
• 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
• 1992 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
• 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
• 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
• 1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
• 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
• 2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
• 2016 – Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.

Births[edit]

• 841 – Bernard Plantapilosa, French son of Bernard of Septimania (d. 885)
• 875 – William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
• 1212 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
• 1366 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (d. 1399)
• 1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449)
• 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
• 1490 – Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian noble (d. 1538)
• 1499 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (d. 1537)
• 1503 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author and educator (d. 1583)
• 1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher (d. 1641)
• 1609 – John II Casimir Vasa, Polish king (d. 1672)
• 1663 – August Hermann Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (d. 1727)
• 1684 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (d. 1764)
• 1712 – Edward Moore, English poet and playwright (d. 1757)
• 1720 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect, designed the Yellow Palace and Bernstorff Palace (d. 1799)
• 1723 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
• 1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist (d. 1779)
• 1785 – Adam Sedgwick, English scientist (d. 1873)
• 1797 – William I, German Emperor (d. 1888)
• 1808 – David Swinson Maynard, American physician and lawyer (d. 1873)
• 1812 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, American author and activist (d. 1886)
• 1814 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor, designed the Statue of Freedom (d. 1857)
• 1817 – Braxton Bragg, American general (d. 1876)
• 1818 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer, founded Penwortham (d. 1846)
• 1822 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist (d. 1895)
• 1842 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1912)
• 1846 – Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator and painter (d. 1886)
• 1846 – James Timberlake, American lieutenant, police officer, and farmer (d. 1891)
• 1852 – Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and educator (d. 1934)
• 1852 – Hector Sévin, French cardinal (d. 1916)
• 1855 – Dorothy Tennant, British painter (d. 1926)
• 1857 – Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1913)
• 1868 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer (d. 1939)
• 1873 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (d. 1939)
• 1880 – Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician (d. 1951)
• 1884 – Lyda Borelli, Italian actress of cinema and theatre (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator (d. 1969)
• 1886 – August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d. 1963)
• 1887 – Chico Marx, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1890 – George Clark, American racing driver (d. 1978)
• 1892 – Charlie Poole, American country banjo player (d. 1931)
• 1892 – Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar (d. 1970)
• 1896 – He Long, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1969)
• 1896 – Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor (d. 1964)
• 1899 – Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory (d. 1949)
• 1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer (d. 2008)
• 1903 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (d. 1987)
• 1907 – James M. Gavin, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1988)
• 1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English sailor and author (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1912 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and educator (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1913 – Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
• 1913 – Lew Wasserman, American businessman and talent agent (d. 2002)
• 1914 – John Stanley, American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, English businessman (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Paul Rogers, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (d. 1990)
• 1920 – James Brown, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1920 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator, founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
• 1921 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1922 – John J. Gilligan, American lieutenant and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Al Neuharth, American journalist and author, founded USA Today (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian colonel, pilot, and engineer (d. 1960)
• 1924 – Bill Roost, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Marty Blake, American basketball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Carrie Donovan, American journalist (d. 2001)
• 1928 – E. D. Hirsch, American author, critic, and academic
• 1928 – Ed Macauley, American basketball player, coach, and priest (d. 2011)
• 1929 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. (d. 1973)
• 1930 – Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic
• 1930 – Pat Robertson, American minister and broadcaster, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network
• 1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter
• 1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor
• 1931 – Leslie Thomas, Welsh journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian economist and politician, 1st President of Iran
• 1934 – May Britt, Swedish actress
• 1934 – Sheila Cameron, English lawyer and judge
• 1934 – Orrin Hatch, American lawyer and politician
• 1935 – Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2013)
• 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
• 1936 – Ron Carey, American trade union leader (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Angelo Badalamenti, American pianist and composer
• 1937 – Armin Hary, German sprinter
• 1937 – Jon Hassell, American trumpet player and composer
• 1938 – Rein Etruk, Estonian chess player (d. 2012)
• 1940 – Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Billy Collins, American poet
• 1941 – Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
• 1941 – Cassam Uteem, Mauritian politician, 2nd President of Mauritius
• 1942 – Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Dick Pound, Canadian lawyer and academic
• 1943 – George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Nazem Ganjapour, Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1976)
• 1945 – Eric Roth, American screenwriter and producer
• 1945 – Peter Williams, English physicist and academic
• 1946 – Don Chaney, American basketball player and coach
• 1946 – Richard Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester, English journalist and politician
• 1946 – Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and composer
• 1946 – Rudy Rucker, American mathematician, computer scientist, and author
• 1946 – Harry Vanda, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1947 – George Ferguson, English architect and politician, 1st Mayor of Bristol
• 1947 – James Patterson, American author and producer
• 1947 – Maarten van Gent, Dutch basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
• 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English director and composer
• 1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (d. 2010)
• 1952 – Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1952 – Bob Costas, American talk show host and sportscaster
• 1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1955 – Pete Sessions, American politician
• 1955 – Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
• 1957 – Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
• 1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
• 1959 – Matthew Modine, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Tarmo Laht, Estonian architect
• 1960 – Lauri Vahtre, Estonian historian and politician
• 1963 – Deborah Bull, English ballerina
• 1963 – Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer (The Human League)
• 1964 – David Gillespie, Australian rugby league player
• 1966 – Pia Cayetano, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1966 – Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1966 – Artis Pabriks, Latvian academic and politician, 11th Minister for Defence of Latvia
• 1966 – António Pinto, Portuguese runner
• 1966 – Brian Shaw, American basketball player and coach
• 1967 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
• 1967 – Bernie Gallacher, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2011)
• 1970 – Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
• 1970 – Hwang Young-cho, South Korean runner
• 1971 – Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, comedian, and writer
• 1972 – Shawn Bradley, German-American basketball player, coach, and actor
• 1972 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater and sportscaster
• 1973 – Beverley Knight, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1973 – Joe Nedney, American football player and coach
• 1973 – Christopher Wheeldon, English dancer and choreographer
• 1974 – Marcus Camby, American basketball player
• 1974 – Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
• 1975 – Cole Hauser, American actor and producer
• 1975 – Jiří Novák, Czech-Monegasque tennis player
• 1976 – Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
• 1976 – Kathryn Jean Lopez, American journalist
• 1976 – Asako Toki, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Kellie Shanygne Williams American actress
• 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producer
• 1977 – Joey Porter, American football player and coach
• 1977 – Tom Poti, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Aaron North, American guitarist
• 1979 – Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Arne Gabius, German runner
• 1982 – Piá, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Enrico Gasparotto, Italian cyclist
• 1982 – Michael Janyk, Canadian skier
• 1984 – Piotr Trochowski, German footballer
• 1985 – Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
• 1985 – Mike Jenkins, American football player
• 1985 – Justin Masterson, American baseball player
• 1985 – Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
• 1986 – David Choi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1987 – Ike Davis, American baseball player
• 1987 – Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (d. 2013)
• 1987 – Liam Doran, British rally cross driver
• 1989 – Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
• 1989 – J. J. Watt, American football player

Deaths[edit]

• 880 – Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king
• 1144 – William of Norwich, child murder victim
• 1322 – Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (b. 1278)
• 1418 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German bishop and historian (b. 1345)
• 1421 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England (b. 1388)
• 1454 – John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1471 – George of Poděbrady (b. 1420)
• 1544 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (b. 1488)
• 1602 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and educator (b. 1557)
• 1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
• 1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor (b. 1632)
• 1758 – Jonathan Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1703)
• 1772 – John Canton, English physicist and academic (b. 1718)
• 1820 – Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1881 – Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 – Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 – Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1913 – Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 – James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
• 1942 – Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 – William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 – José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 – John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
• 1971 – Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
• 1974 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
• 1974 – Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (b. 1910)
• 1976 – John Dwyer McLaughlin, American painter (b. 1898)
• 1977 – A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (b. 1904)
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Ben Lyon, American actor and studio executive (b. 1901)
• 1981 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (b. 1915)
• 1981 – Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1986 – Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
• 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and politician (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1928)
• 1991 – Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Gloria Holden, English-American actress (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
• 1994 – Walter Lantz, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1900)
• 1996 – Don Murray, American drummer (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Billy Williamson, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (b. 1913)
• 1999 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
• 2000 – Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
• 2001 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Terry Lloyd, English journalist (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1943)
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian leader, co-founded Hamas (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 2005 – Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Pierre Clostermann, French soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 2007 – U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2012 – John Payton, American lawyer and activist (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Mickey Sullivan, American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2012 – David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Fred Jones, Welsh footballer (b. 1938)
• 2013 – James Nabrit, American lawyer and academic (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Derek Watkins, English trumpet player and composer (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Ray Williams, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (b. 1965)
• 2015 – Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2015 – George Neel, Jr., American businessman (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Phife Dawg, American rapper (b. 1970)
• 2016 – Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1969)
• 2016 – Rita Gam, American actress (b. 1927)

τρεις Eλληνες στη λίστα των πλουσιότερων ανθρώπων στον πλανήτη

Τρία ελληνικά ονόματα συμπεριλαμβάνονται στη λίστα του

 αμερικανικού περιοδικού Forbes με τους πλουσιότερους 

ανθρώπους στον πλανήτη.

Πρόκειται για τον Φίλιππο Νιάρχο, τον Αριστοτέλη Μυστακίδη και τον Σπύρο 

Λάτση, η συνολική περιουσία των οποίων ξεπερνά τα 6,5 δισ. δολάρια, γεγονός που

 τους κατατάσσει στην ίδια λίστα με ανθρώπους όπως ο Μπιλ Γκέιτς, ο Γουόρεν 

Μπάφετ, η Λιλιάν Μπετανκούρ της L' Oreal ή ο Μαρκ Ζούκερμπεργκ, ο ιδρυτής 

του Facebook.

Πλουσιότερος Έλληνας (814η θέση) είναι ο Φίλιππος Νιάρχος, με περιουσία περί 

τα 2,5 δισεκατομμύρια δολάρια. Σύμφωνα με το Forbes, ο κ. Νιάρχος είναι από τους 

πλουσιότερους εφοπλιστές του κόσμου, αλλά και κάτοχος μια πολύ σπουδαίας 

συλλογής έργων τέχνης (Βαν Γκογκ, Πικάσο, Γουόρχολ κ.ά.). 

Ο Φίλιππος Νιάρχος είναι γιος του αείμνηστου Σταύρου Νιάρχου, ενός από τους 

πλουσιότερους μεγιστάνες της ναυτιλίας παγκοσμίως. Το μεγαλύτερο από τα 

τέσσερα παιδιά του, με την Ευγενία Λιβανού, κληρονόμησε το μεγαλύτερο μέρος 

της συλλογής έργων τέχνης του πατέρα του. Λέγεται ότι είναι η μεγαλύτερη ιδιωτική

 συλλογή έργων του Βαν Γκογκ. Η συλλογή περιλαμβάνει επίσης ένα από τα πιο 

εμβληματικά έργα του Πάμπλο Πικάσο, το «Yo, Picasso».
 

Δεύτερος πλουσιότερος Έλληνας (973η θέση) είναι ο Αριστοτέλης Μυστακίδης,

 γνωστός ως Τέλης, όπως αναφέρει το Forbes, με περιουσία 2,2 δισ. δολαρίων. 

O 55χρονος Αριστοτέλης Μυστακίδης, με ελληνική και βρετανική υπηκοότητα, 

είναι διευθυντής και μέτοχος (3%) της εταιρείας μεταλλευμάτων Glencore.

Στην 1.098η θέση των πλουσιότερων ανθρώπων του πλανήτη βρίσκεται το όνομα 

του εφοπλιστή Σπύρου Λάτση, που διαθέτει 12 μεγάλα πετρελαιοφόρα και πλοία

μεταφοράς υγροποιημένου αερίου, καθώς και επενδύσεις στην ελβετική τράπεζα

 EFG International, στον ενεργειακό όμιλο Ελληνικά Πετρέλαια και στην εταιρεία 

ανάπτυξης, επένδυσης και διαχείρισης ακινήτων Lamda Development.

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Οι κορυφαίοι προορισμοί στον κόσμο για το 2017 -Ενα ελληνικό νησί στην πρώτη δεκάδα 

• 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
• 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
• 1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
• 1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!"– at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
• 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
• 1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
• 1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
• 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
• 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
• 1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
• 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• 1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
• 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
• 1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
• 1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
• 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• 1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
• 1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
• 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
• 1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1939 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovak air force in Spišská Nová Ves, killing 13 people and beginning the Slovak–Hungarian War.
• 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
• 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
• 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• 1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandaland the Nixon tapes.
• 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
• 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
• 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
• 1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
• 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
• 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
• 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
• 2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
• 2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.

Births[edit]

• 1338 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
• 1430 – Margaret of Anjou (d. 1482)
• 1599 – Thomas Selle, German composer (d. 1663)
• 1699 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (d. 1777)
• 1732 – Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (d. 1800)
• 1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
• 1750 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian bassist and composer (d. 1812)
• 1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802)
• 1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general and diplomat (d. 1832)
• 1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
• 1823 – Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1826 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1917)
• 1834 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (d. 1858)
• 1842 – Friedrich Amelung, Estonian-German historian, businessman and composer (d. 1909)
• 1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921)
• 1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American criminal (d. 1950)
• 1868 – Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (d. 1923)
• 1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
• 1869 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955)
• 1872 – Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand union leader and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1940)
• 1874 – Grantley Goulding, English hurdler (d. 1947)
• 1874 – J. C. Leyendecker, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1951)
• 1876 – Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet and activist (d. 1924)
• 1876 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet, writer and political leader (d. 1964)
• 1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1934)
• 1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician, Finnish Minister of the Interior (d. 1922)
• 1881 – Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (d. 1969)
• 1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1882 – Emmy Noether, German-American mathematician, physicist and academic (d. 1935)
• 1884 – Joseph Boxhall, English sailor (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Platt Adams, American jumper and politician (d. 1961)
• 1886 – Frank Irons, American long jumper (d. 1942)
• 1887 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Rudolf Kinau, German author (d. 1975)
• 1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-born American labor leader (d. 1946)
• 1891 – Po Kya, Burmese author and educationist (d. 1942)
• 1893 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-born American art director and production designer (d. 1960)
• 1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)
• 1894 – Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001)
• 1895 – Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, author and composer (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Louis Adamic, Slovenian-American author, translator and politician (d. 1951)
• 1898 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (d. 1984)
• 1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
• 1900 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (d. 1980)
• 1901 – Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Jerry Cornes, English runner, colonial and educator (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Neil McCorkell, Anglo-South African cricketer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
• 1913 – Abidin Dino, Turko-French painter and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Carl Graffunder, American architect and educator (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Neal Edward Smith, American pilot, lawyer and politician
• 1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Donald Campbell, English racing driver (d. 1967)
• 1921 – Peter Lawler, Australian public servant
• 1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Angelo Ingrassia, American soldier and judge (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)
• 1924 – Olga Kennard, English crystallographer and academic
• 1924 – John Madin, English architect (d. 2012)
• 1925 – David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist and academic
• 1929 – Michael Manser, English architect and engineer (d. 2016)
• 1931 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player and author (d. 2016)
• 1931 – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1933 – Norman Bailey, Anglo-American opera singer and educator
• 1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic
• 1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and physicist
• 1934 – Mark Rydell, American actor, director and producer
• 1935 – Barry Cryer, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
• 1936 – Jannis Kounellis, Greek painter and sculptor
• 1937 – Craig Breedlove, American racing driver
• 1937 – Tony Burton, American actor, comedian, boxer and American football player (d. 2016)
• 1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician and academic
• 1938 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Robin Herd, English engineer and businessman
• 1939 – Terry Paine, English footballer
• 1942 – Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter
• 1942 – Jimmy Miller, American record producer and musician (d. 1994)
• 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar and activist (d. 1980)
• 1943 – Andrew Crockett, Scottish-English economist and banker (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Lee May, American baseball player and coach
• 1943 – Sharon Presley, American author and academic
• 1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish singer, author and director (d. 2001)
• 1944 – B. P. Gavrilov, Russian rugby player (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter and director
• 1945 – David Grisman, American mandolin player and composer
• 1946 – Alan Bleasdale, English screenwriter and producer
• 1947 – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, American author
• 1948 – Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricketer
• 1948 – Marie Malavoy, German-Canadian educator and politician
• 1949 – Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1950 – Corinne Cléry, French actress
• 1950 – Phil Lanzon, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1950 – Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author and translator
• 1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and sportscaster
• 1951 – Adrian Reynard, English businessman, founded Reynard Motorsport
• 1952 – Francesco Clemente, Italian painter and illustrator
• 1952 – Kent Lambert, New Zealand rugby player
• 1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
• 1952 – Rex Tillerson, American businessman, engineer and diplomat; 69th United States Secretary of State
• 1953 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian zoologist and businesswoman
• 1954 – Geno Auriemma, Italian-American basketball player and coach
• 1954 – Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole Productions
• 1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Andrew Mitchell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1956 – Jeremy Wade, English biologist and author
• 1957 – Lucio Gutiérrez, Ecuadorian politician, 52nd President of Ecuador
• 1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1998)
• 1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress
• 1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
• 1958 – Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Hugh Grant, Scottish business executive
• 1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress
• 1960 – Nicol Stephen, Baron Stephen, Scottish lawyer and politician, 2nd Deputy First Minister of Scotland
• 1961 – Roger Crisp, English philosopher and academic
• 1961 – Craig Green, New Zealand rugby player
• 1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian journalist and producer
• 1962 – Steve Redgrave, English rower
• 1963 – Míchel, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Juan Ramón López Caro, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban runner
• 1964 – Hope Davis, American actress
• 1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter
• 1966 – Lorenzo Daniel, American sprinter
• 1966 – Vasilis Vouzas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1968 – Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter, producer and actor
• 1968 – Mike Atherton, English cricketer and journalist
• 1968 – Mitch Cullin, American author
• 1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1968 – Pierre Palmade, French actor and screenwriter
• 1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model
• 1971 – Gail Porter, Scottish model and television host
• 1971 – Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese wrestler
• 1972 – Jonas Björkman, Swedish-Monacan tennis player and coach
• 1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
• 1972 – Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
• 1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver
• 1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player and coach
• 1974 – Randall Park, American actor, director and screenwriter
• 1975 – Burak Gürpınar, Turkish drummer
• 1976 – Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
• 1976 – Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist and racing driver
• 1976 – Smriti Irani, Indian actress, producer and politician, Indian Minister of Human Resource Development
• 1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle racer
• 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress
• 1976 – Jeremy Newberry, American football player
• 1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress
• 1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian racing driver
• 1977 – Miklos Perlus, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1978 – Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish illustrator
• 1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
• 1979 – Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player
• 1981 – Erin Crocker, American racing driver
• 1981 – Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder
• 1981 – Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer
• 1982 – José Contreras Arrau, Chilean footballer
• 1982 – Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Evgeni Striganov, Estonian ice dancer
• 1983 – Hakan Balta, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Mo Farah, Somali-English runner
• 1983 – Sascha Riether, German footballer
• 1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Araña, Filipino basketball player
• 1984 – Brandon Marshall, American football player
• 1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
• 1985 – Bethanie Mattek-Sands, American tennis player
• 1986 – Patrick Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Brett Eldredge, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1987 – Alan Toovey, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Dellin Betances, American baseball player
• 1988 – Jason Kenny, English cyclist
• 1988 – Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player
• 1989 – Nikola Gulan, Serbian footballer
• 1989 – Luis Fernando Silva, Mexican footballer
• 1989 – Ayesha Curry, Canadian-American chef, author and television personality
• 1990 – Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish racing driver
• 1990 – Robert Zickert, German footballer
• 1991 – Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
• 1992 – Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer
• 1992 – Morgan Evans, Welsh rugby league player
• 1992 – Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
• 1993 – Kyle Lovett, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 – Aytaç Kara, Turkish footballer
• 1994 – Nick Powell, English footballer
• 1995 – Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer
• 1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
• 1995 – Ozan Tufan, Turkish footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 851 – Zhou Chi, Chinese historian and politician (b. 793)
• 1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
• 1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (b. 1310)
• 1369 – Peter of Castile (b. 1334)
• 1548 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese samurai (b. 1489)
• 1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
• 1559 – Gelawdewos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1521)
• 1596 – Henry Unton, English diplomat (b. 1557)
• 1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish philologist and scholar (b. 1547)
• 1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish police officer and politician (b. 1575)
• 1675 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1619)
• 1680 – Nicolas Fouquet, French politician (b. 1615)
• 1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French historian and author (b. 1670)
• 1747 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (b. 1675)
• 1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (b. 1684)
• 1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and critic (b. 1693)
• 1783 – Charles Carroll, English barrister and politician (b. 1723)
• 1801 – Paul I of Russia (b. 1754)
• 1842 – Stendhal, French novelist (b. 1783)
• 1884 – Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b. 1824)
• 1910 – Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
• 1923 – Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 – Paul César Helleu, French painter and etcher (b. 1859)
• 1931 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1953 – Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1953 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Said Nursî, Kurdish theologian and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1961 – Albert Bloch, American painter and educator (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Jack Russell, English cricketer (b. 1887)
• 1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
• 1964 – Peter Lorre, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1968 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 1972 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist and academic (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• 1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist (b. 1901)
• 1990 – John Dexter, English director and producer (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1992 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1949)
• 1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican economist and politician (b. 1950)
• 1994 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1956)
• 1999 – Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian director and cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 2001 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Margaret Jones, British archaeologist (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923)
• 2001 – David McTaggart, Canadian badminton player and environmentalist (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (b. 1977)
• 2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-English flute player and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (b. 1916)
• 2006 – David B. Bleak, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Desmond Doss, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver (b. 1973)
• 2008 – Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Raúl Macías, Mexican boxer and trainer (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Jean Bartik, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, American-British actress, socialite and humanitarian (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Somalian politician, President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Jim Duffy, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Naji Talib, Iraqi politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Lonnie Wright, American basketball and football player (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist, historian, and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1963)
• 2014 – Jaroslav Šerých, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Gian Vittorio Baldi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2015 – Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Bobby Lowther, American basketball player and lieutenant (b. 1923)
• 2016 – Joe Garagiola, Sr., American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1926)
• 2016 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)