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• AD 97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
• 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
• 312 – Battle of the Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
• 456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), and the town's churches are burnt to the ground.
• 969 – Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes one of Antioch's main wall towers, which he defends against repeated attacks for three days until the reinforcements led by the stratopedarches Peter arrive and secure the city for the Byzantines.
• 1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
• 1344 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders.
• 1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed.
• 1449 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
• 1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
• 1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
• 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mamluks near Gaza.
• 1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
• 1538 – The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
• 1628 – French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
• 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
• 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
• 1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan.
• 1726 – The novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is published.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains: British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• 1834 – The Pinjarra massacre occurred in the Swan River Colony at present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. An estimated 30 Noongar people were killed by British colonists.
• 1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. The first ticker tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the statue is dedicated.
• 1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Aichi Prefecture.
• 1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
• 1904 – Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links.
• 1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
• 1918 – A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
• 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
• 1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
• 1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
• 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
• 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. The Greco-Italian War begins. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.
• 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
• 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores killing all people on board, including the French former middleweight world champion boxer Marcel Cerdan and French violinist Ginette Neveu
• 1956 – Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. This single event is credited with raising immunization levels in the United States from 0.6% to over 80% in just six months.
• 1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
• 1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
• 1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-year-old declaration.
• 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
• 1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco; Felipe González becomes Prime Minister-elect.
• 1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
• 1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster in history.
• 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
• 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s/1940s are reburied.
• 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
• 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
• 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
• 2013 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
• 2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.

Births[edit]

• 1016 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
• 1401 – Thomas St Clere, English landowner (d. 1435)
• 1466 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
• 1479 – John Gage, English courtier (d. 1556)
• 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1572)
• 1550 – Stanislaus Kostka, Polish saint (d. 1568)
• 1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop and theologian (d. 1638)
• 1599 – Marie of the Incarnation, foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (d. 1672)
• 1610 – Jacob Kettler, German noble (d. 1682)
• 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720)
• 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
• 1696 – Maurice de Saxe, French general (d. 1750)
• 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768)
• 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793)
• 1733 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
• 1754 – John Laurens, American soldier (d. 1782)
• 1767 – Marie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852)
• 1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861)
• 1794– Robert Liston, Scottish surgeon (d. 1847)
• 1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849)
• 1815 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak philologist and politician (d. 1856)
• 1816 – Malwida von Meysenbug, German writer (d. 1903)
• 1837 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913)
• 1839 – Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1909)
• 1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888)
• 1846 – Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (d. 1935)
• 1854 – Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
• 1860 – Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
• 1864 – Adolfo Camarillo, American-Mexican rancher and philanthropist (d. 1958)
• 1867 – Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator (d. 1911)
• 1875 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist (d. 1966)
• 1877 – Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
• 1879 – Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
• 1880 – Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1940)
• 1880 – Billy Wedlock, English footballer (d. 1965)
• 1881 – Vin Coutie, Australian footballer (d. 1951)
• 1884 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
• 1886 – Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer (d. 1946)
• 1888 – Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (d. 1964)
• 1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player (d. 1954)
• 1893 – Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
• 1903 – John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1966)
• 1904 – George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984)
• 1907 – John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
• 1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Pearl Hackney, English actress (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (d. 1966)
• 1919 – Hans Klenk, German race car driver (d. 2009)
• 1921 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
• 1922 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1922 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1923 – John Connell, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Peddibhotla Suryakantam, Telugu actress (d. 1994)
• 1925 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
• 1928 – Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
• 1928 – William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• 1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1929 – Virginia Held, American philosopher, author, and academic
• 1929 – John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Joan Plowright, English actress
• 1930 – Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
• 1931 – Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
• 1932 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
• 1933 – Michael Noakes, English painter and illustrator
• 1935 – Alan Clarke, English director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist
• 1936 – Ted Hawkins, American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1937 – Graham Bond, English keyboard player, singer, and saxophonist (d. 1974)
• 1937 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
• 1938 – Keigo Abe, Japanese martial artist and coach
• 1938 – Kenneth Best, Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer
• 1938 – Howard Blake, English composer and conductor
• 1938 – Dave Budd, American basketball player
• 1938 – Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer
• 1938 – David Dimbleby, English journalist
• 1938 – Anne Perry, English author
• 1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
• 1939 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
• 1939 – Miroslav Cerar, Slovenian gymnast and lawyer
• 1939 – Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Susan Harris, American screenwriter and producer
• 1941 – Hank Marvin, English singer and guitarist (The Shadows)
• 1942 – Terence Donovan, English-Australian actor
• 1942 – Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
• 1942 – Gillian Lovegrove, English computer scientist and academic
• 1943 – Jimmy McRae, Scottish race car driver
• 1943 – Karalyn Patterson, English psychologist and academic
• 1944 – Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
• 1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor
• 1944 – Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
• 1945 – Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist and keyboard player (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Wayne Fontana, English pop-rock singer (The Mindbenders)
• 1945 – Don Iverson, American golfer
• 1946 – John Hewson, Australian economist and politician
• 1946 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1946 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet and academic
• 1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
• 1949 – Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete and actress
• 1950 – Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and activist
• 1950 – Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
• 1951 – Peter Hitchens, English journalist and author
• 1951 – Joe R. Lansdale, American martial artist and author
• 1952 – Tuck Andress, American jazz guitarist (Tuck & Patti)
• 1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
• 1953 – Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
• 1953 – Desmond Child, American songwriter and producer
• 1955 – Ronnie Bass, American football player and sportscaster
• 1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
• 1955 – Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, English businessman, lawyer, and politician, Minister of State for Trade
• 1955 – Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman
• 1955 – Gary Lavergne, American author
• 1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
• 1956 – Dave Wyndorf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Monster Magnet)
• 1956 – Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author
• 1957 – Marian Bell, English economist and academic
• 1957 – Stephen Morris, English drummer
• 1957 – Zach Wamp, American businessman and politician
• 1958 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (d. 2013)
• 1958 – Ashok Chavan, Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• 1958 – William Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 – James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 – Toshio Masuda, Japanese composer
• 1959 – Randy Wittman, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist and mathematician
• 1962 – Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer and manager
• 1962 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• 1963 – Lauren Holly, American actress
• 1963 – Sheryl Underwood, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
• 1964 – Andrew Bridgen, English soldier and politician
• 1964 – Peter Coyne, Australian rugby league player
• 1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress
• 1965 – David Warburton, English composer, businessman, and politician
• 1965 – Miyako Yoshida, Japanese ballerina
• 1966 – Steve Atwater, American football player
• 1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger and activist, founded the Drudge Report
• 1966 – Andy Richter, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
• 1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
• 1967 – John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
• 1968 – Chris Broussard, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1968 – Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
• 1968 – Mayumi Ozaki, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican-American screenwriter and producer
• 1969 – Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1969 – Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1970 – Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer
• 1970 – Alan Peter Cayetano, Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
• 1971 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress (d. 2010)
• 1971 – Caroline Dinenage, English businesswoman and politician
• 1972 – Terrell Davis, American football player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1973 – Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler and actor
• 1973 – Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball player
• 1974 – Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor and producer
• 1974 – Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer and coach
• 1974 – Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
• 1976 – Keiron Cunningham, British rugby league player and coach
• 1976 – Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer
• 1976 – Simone Loria, Italian footballer
• 1978 – Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (d. 2012)
• 1979 – Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
• 1979 – Olcay Çetinkaya, Turkish footballer
• 1979 – Jawed Karim, co founder of YouTube and one of main designers or PayPal
• 1980 – Christy Hemme, American wrestler and ring announcer
• 1980 – Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer and coach
• 1981 – Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
• 1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
• 1981 – Shane Gore, English footballer
• 1981 – Nate McLouth, American baseball player
• 1981 – Nick Montgomery, English-Scottish footballer
• 1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
• 1982 – Enver Jääger, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
• 1982 – Hironori Saruta, Japanese footballer
• 1982 – Matt Smith, English actor and director
• 1983 – Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
• 1983 – Kayo Noro, Japanese singer and actress
• 1983 – Joe Thomas, English actor and screenwriter
• 1984 – Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
• 1984 – Finn Wittrock, American actor
• 1985 – Tyrone Barnett, English footballer
• 1986 – Anthony Griffith, English footballer
• 1986 – Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 – Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator (d. 2012)
• 1988 – Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer
• 1989 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015)
• 1991 – Lucy Bronze, English footballer
• 1992 – Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1995 – Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer
• 1996 – Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
• 1996 – Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
• 1996 – Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer
• 1997 – Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
• 1998 – Nolan Gould, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
• 457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
• 816 – Beggo, count of Toulouse and Paris
• 875 – Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop
• 1138 – King Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland
• 1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155)
• 1266 – Saint Arsenije I Sremac
• 1310 – Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (b. 1230)
• 1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
• 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
• 1468 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425)
• 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
• 1592 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat
• 1594 – Ōkubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b. 1532)
• 1627 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
• 1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator (b. 1587)
• 1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• 1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish priest and playwright (b. 1618)
• 1676 – Jean Desmarets, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1595)
• 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616)
• 1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
• 1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
• 1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
• 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
• 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
• 1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (b. 1700)
• 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
• 1787 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)
• 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (b. 1710)
• 1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724)
• 1800 – Artemas Ward, American general and politician (b. 1727)
• 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
• 1818 – Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
• 1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
• 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• 1936 – Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1952 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
• 1963 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 – Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
• 1978 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 – Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
• 1987 – André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896)
• 1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Erich Göstl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
• 1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
• 2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1990)
• 2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
• 2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939)
• 2012 – John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)

Tο θωρηκτό «Αβέρωφ» παραμένει στη Θεσσαλονίκη μέχρι τις 21 Νοεμβρίου

Η πιο μοναχική παρέλαση: Με μόλις

 έναν μαθητή, στους Αρκιούς 

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• 539 BC – Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire) entered the capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land.
• 312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
• 437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
• 969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch, Syria.
• 1268 – Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
• 1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
• 1467 – Charles the Bold defeats Liège.
• 1591 – Pope Innocent IX is elected.
• 1611 – Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
• 1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
• 1658 – Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
• 1665 – Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
• 1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
• 1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
• 1792 – Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
• 1863 – Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
• 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
• 1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
• 1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• 1921 – United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
• 1922 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
• 1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
• 1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
• 1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
• 1944 – The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
• 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
• 1948 – Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; after, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
• 1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
• 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
• 1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
• 1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
• 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
• 1960 – An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
• 1961 – Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
• 1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
• 1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
• 1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
• 1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
• 1971 – In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
• 1972 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
• 1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
• 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
• 1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• 1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
• 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 – In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
• 1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
• 1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
• 1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• 1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
• 1998 – The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• 1999 – A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
• 2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
• 2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
• 2005 – Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.
• 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
• 2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
• 2015 – China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.

Births[edit]

• 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher (d. 1512)
• 1497 – Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1549)
• 1504 – Shin Saimdang, South Korean painter and poet (d. 1551)
• 1507 – Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Spanish general (d. 1582)
• 1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian, explorer, and author (d. 1761)
• 1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754)
• 1704 – John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1757)
• 1740 – James Boswell, Scottish lawyer and author (d. 1795)
• 1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1873)
• 1815 – Dan Emmett, American composer (d. 1904)
• 1822 – Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Russian-Polish cardinal (d. 1902)
• 1831 – James Boucaut, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of South Australia (d. 1916)
• 1832 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869)
• 1855 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (d. 1939)
• 1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (d. 1941)
• 1861 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (d. 1904)
• 1866 – Antonio Luna, Filipino general and politician (d. 1899)
• 1875 – Marie of Romania (d. 1938)
• 1877 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (d. 1966)
• 1877 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
• 1879 – Alva B. Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1941)
• 1879 – Franz von Papen, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1969)
• 1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
• 1881 – John DeWitt, American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1930)
• 1882 – Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (d. 1944)
• 1883 – Victor Hochepied, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966)
• 1891 – Fanny Brice, American actress and singer (d. 1951)
• 1897 – Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Billy Walker, English footballer (d. 1964)
• 1898 – Alan Barker, English soldier (d. 1984)
• 1899 – Kate Seredy, Hungarian-American author and illustrator (d. 1975)
• 1899 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian-American actor (d. 1972)
• 1905 – Henry Green, English author (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Fredric Brown, American author (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Edwige Feuillère, French actress (d. 1998)
• 1910 – A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (d. 2014)
• 1914 – Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2012)
• 1915 – William Berenberg, American physician and academic (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Eddie Constantine, American-French actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 1918 – Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Diana Serra Cary, American actress and author
• 1920 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Baselios Thoma Didymos I, Indian metropolitan (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Baku Mahadeva, Sri Lankan civil servant and academic (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Neal Hefti, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch runner, hurdler, and long jumper (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Dominick Dunne, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017)
• 1925 – Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Zoot Sims, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1985)
• 1925 – Klaus Roth, British mathematician (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player
• 1929 – Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor and painter (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer and dancer (Cuarteto d'Aida and Buena Vista Social Club)
• 1930 – Natalie Sleeth, American pianist and composer (d. 1992)
• 1932 – Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician
• 1933 – William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1935 – David Allen, English cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Eddie Hopkinson, English footballer (d. 2004)
• 1937 – Sonny Osborne, American bluegrass singer and banjo player
• 1938 – Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, 24th President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Peter Stampfel, American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter (The Holy Modal Rounders)
• 1940 – Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician
• 1940 – Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright
• 1940 – Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited
• 1941 – George Davies, English fashion designer
• 1941 – Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician
• 1942 – Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter
• 1942 – Bob Ross, American painter and television host (d. 1995)
• 1943 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman
• 1944 – Mehmet Haberal, Turkish surgeon and academic
• 1944 – Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Moody Blues; Wings)
• 1944 – Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician and songwriter
• 1945 – Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter
• 1945 – Ron Maag, American businessman and politician
• 1945 – Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1945 – Gerrit Ybema, Dutch civil servant and politician (d. 2012)
• 1946 – Peter Green, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Communications
• 1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist
• 1948 – Frans de Waal, Dutch-American ethologist, author, and academic
• 1948 – Kate Jackson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1949 – Kieron Baker, English footballer
• 1949 – Paul Orndorff, American football player and wrestler
• 1949 – David Paton, Scottish guitarist
• 1949 – James Williamson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1949 – Raphael Carl Lee, American surgeon and academic
• 1950 – Abdullah Gül, Turkish academic and politician, 11th President of Turkey
• 1951 – Dirk Kempthorne, American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1951 – Tiff Needell, English race car driver and television host
• 1952 – Marcia Fudge, American lawyer and politician
• 1953 – Denis Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1955 – Kevin DuBrow, American heavy metal singer-songwriter (Quiet Riot) (d. 2007)
• 1956 – Wilfredo Gómez, Puerto Rican-American boxer
• 1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American actor, voice artist, comedian, singer and producer
• 1958 – Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator
• 1958 – David Remnick, American journalist and author
• 1959 – Jesse Barfield, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1959 – Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – Fabiola Gianotti, Italian physicist and academic
• 1960 – Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
• 1961 – Randy Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1961 – Joel Otto, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – Einar Örn Benediktsson, Icelandic singer, trumpet player, and politician
• 1963 – Gerald Morris, American author
• 1964 – Yasmin Le Bon, English model
• 1964 – Eddie McGuire, Australian businessman and television host
• 1965 – Tyler Collins, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1965 – Andrew Ettingshausen, Australian rugby league player and television host
• 1965 – Michael Passons, American singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Mary Bucholtz, American linguist and academic
• 1967 – Joely Fisher, American actress and director
• 1967 – Rufus Sewell, English actor
• 1968 – Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater and physician
• 1969 – David Farr, English director and playwright
• 1969 – Chris Verene, American photographer
• 1970 – Phillip Cocu, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1970 – Kaido Reivelt, Estonian physicist and academic
• 1970 – Toby Smith, English keyboardist and songwriter (Jamiroquai) (d. 2017)
• 1970 – Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Daniel J. Bernstein, American mathematician, cryptologist, and academic
• 1971 – Greg Blewett, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1971 – Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
• 1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress and producer
• 1972 – Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor
• 1972 – Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress and producer
• 1972 – Gabrielle Union, American actress and producer
• 1973 – Adam Bacher, South African cricketer
• 1973 – Vonetta Flowers American bobsledder, sprinter, and long jumper
• 1973 – Éric Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Robert Pirès, French footballer
• 1974 – Michael Vaughan, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1974 – Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician
• 1975 – Kelly Lin, Chinese model and actress
• 1975 – Baba Ali, Iranian-born American comedian, games developer, businessman, and actor
• 1976 – Stephen Craigan, Irish footballer and manager
• 1976 – Milena Govich, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1976 – Raghava Lawrence, Indian actor, director, and choreographer
• 1977 – Jon Abrahams, American actor
• 1977 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
• 1977 – Vaggelis Kaounos, Greek footballer
• 1978 – Travis Henry, American football player
• 1978 – Kelly Smith, English footballer
• 1979 – Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer
• 1979 – Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician
• 1980 – Ben Foster, American actor
• 1980 – Nadejda Ostrovskaya, Belarusian tennis player
• 1980 – Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1981 – Amanda Beard, American swimmer
• 1981 – Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer
• 1981 – Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1982 – Chelan Simmons, Canadian model and actress
• 1983 – Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor
• 1983 – Maurice Clarett, American football player
• 1983 – Freddy Eastwood, Welsh footballer
• 1983 – Dana Eveland, American baseball player
• 1983 – Nurcan Taylan, Turkish weightlifter
• 1984 – Chris Baio, American bass player (Vampire Weekend)
• 1984 – Les Davies, Welsh footballer
• 1984 – Eric Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Lee Chung-ah, South Korean actress
• 1985 – Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer
• 1985 – Janet Montgomery, English actress and dancer
• 1985 – Jefferson Severino, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Vijender Singh, Indian boxer
• 1986 – Sarita Pérez de Tagle, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Nataly Dawn, American singer
• 1987 – Andy Dalton, American football player
• 1987 – Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
• 1987 – Tove Lo, Swedish singer
• 1987 – Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress
• 1988 – Florin Gardoș, Romanian footballer
• 1988 – Sam Hutsby, English golfer
• 1988 – Roman Van Uden, New Zealand cyclist
• 1989 – Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist
• 1990 – Eric Saade, Swedish singer
• 1991 – Grant Hall, English footballer
• 1993 – Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player
• 1993 – India Eisley, American actress
• 1998 – Lance Stroll, Canadian race car driver

Deaths[edit]

• 632 – Saint Colman mac Duagh, Irish abbot and bishop
• 1050 – Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury
• 1266 – Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (b. c. 1204)
• 1268 – Conradin, Italian king (b. 1252)
• 1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1249)
• 1321 – Stefan Milutin, King of Serbia (b. 1253)
• 1339 – Alexander I, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1301)
• 1590 – Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (b. 1522)
• 1618 – Walter Raleigh, English admiral, explorer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1554)
• 1650 – David Calderwood, Scottish historian and theologian (b. 1575)
• 1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English minister and activist (b. 1600)
• 1666 – James Shirley, English dramatist (b. 1596)
• 1783 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1717)
• 1829 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (b. 1751)
• 1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (b. 1821)
• 1892 – William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848)
• 1897 – Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 – Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
• 1911 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 – John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 – Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)
• 1924 – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (b. 1849)
• 1932 – Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1933 – Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863)
• 1933 – George Luks, American painter and illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853)
• 1936 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• 1949 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
• 1953 – William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)
• 1956 – Louis Rosier, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1957 – Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-American production manager and producer (b. 1885)
• 1958 – Zoë Akins, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Astrid Holm, Danish actress (b. 1893)
• 1963 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
• 1971 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
• 1980 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
• 1981 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1987 – Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
• 1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
• 1998 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Hal Clement, American pilot, author, and educator (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, Premier of Dominica (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1903)
• 2008 – Mike Baker, American singer-songwriter (b. 1963)
• 2011 – Jimmy Savile, English radio and television host (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Letitia Baldrige, American etiquette expert and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 – J. Bernlef, Dutch author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Kenneth G. Ryder, American academic (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Wallace L. W. Sargent, English-American astronomer and academic (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Jack Vaughn, American boxer and diplomat (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Jean Rénald Clérismé, Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Ministers of Haiti (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Sherman Halsey, American director and producer (b. 1957)
• 2013 – John Spence, American soldier and engineer (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Graham Stark, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Roger Freeman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1965)
• 2014 – Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1968)
• 2014 – H. Gary Morse, American businessman (b. 1936)
• 2015 – Luther Burden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1953)
• 2015 – Ernesto Herrera, Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Boris Kristančič, Slovene basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Ranko Žeravica, Serbian basketball player and coach (b. 1929)

George Michael goes back to number one

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Pop star George Michael has topped the UK album charts, 10 months after his death.

An expanded version of his second solo album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1, beat Niall Horan and Pink to become the week's best-selling record.

It means Michael's album has spent two weeks at number one, 27 years apart.

But CD sales have collapsed in the meantime. In 1990 the album sold 423,577 copies to top the chart. This week, it shifted just 56,000 copies.

Nonetheless, Michael was 30,000 sales ahead of Pink, his nearest rival, whose Beautiful Trauma album fell one place to number two.

She overtook Horan, whose debut album Flicker had been number two in the midweek sales update.

The Irish One Direction star ended up at number three instead.

Top five albums
Artist	Title
1) George Michael	Listen Without Prejudice, Vol 1
2) Pink	Beautiful Trauma
3) Niall Horan	Flicker
4) Liam Gallagher	As You Were
5) Ed Sheeran	Divide
Source: Official Charts Company

In the singles chart, Post Malone celebrated a fourth week at number one with his breakthrough track, Rockstar. 

He held Camila Cabello's Havana at bay for a third week, outselling the former Fifth Harmony singer by just 5,000 copies. 

Mysterious DJ and producer Marshmello - who keeps his identity a secret - looks set to challenge both artists next week, after his song Silence rose from nine to three. 

Cabello could also see a boost after releasing the video for Havana on Tuesday. Filmed as an campy, old-school Spanish soap opera, the clip has already been watched 21 million times.

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Ed Sheeran's romantic ballad Perfect also returned to the Top 10, rising four places to number seven. It initially charted at four when his album, Divide, was released in March.

Taylor Swift claimed this week's highest new entry with Gorgeous at number 15, while Rita Ora returned at 20 with her new single, Anywhere. 

Liam Payne's Bedroom Door debuted at 28, while Krept and Konan's collaboration with Stormzy, Ask Flipz, was a new entry at 30.

Top five singles
Artist	Title
1) Post Malone ft 21 Savage	Rockstar
2) Camila Cabello	Havana
3) Marshmello ft Khalid	Silence
4) Avicii ft Rita Ora	Lonely Together
5) Sam Smith	Too Good At Goodbyes
Source: Official Charts Company

Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 was re-released last week to coincide with a new TV documentary about Michael, titled Freedom.

Featuring the singles Praying for Time and Freedom 90, it outsold his debut album in the UK but was a relative flop in America - something Michael blamed on a lack of support from his US label.

In 1992 he took Sony to court, alleging they treated him as "no more than a piece of software".

He eventually lost the case, but it kept him away from music for five years and permanently affected his career in the US.

In Freedom, the documentary he was working on shortly before his death on Christmas Day 2016, the star said he regretted the legal action.

David Austin, Michael's former manager and childhood friend, said he was "incredibly proud" to see Listen Without Prejudice return to the top spot.

ΝΕΟΜ: Η πόλη που θα χτίσει ο πρίγκιπας 

της Σαουδικής Αραβίας

Ενα φιλόδοξο project, το χτίσιμο μιας ολόκληρης πόλης εκ 

του μηδενός στην ακτή της Σαουδικής Αραβίας, στην 

Ερυθρά Θάλασσα, ανακοίνωσε ο πρίγκιπας Μοχάμεντ 

Μπιν Σαλμάν.

Το έργο που ονομάζεται NEOM 2030 θα κοστίσει 500 δισ. δολάρια και 

εντάσσεται στην προσπάθειά του να αναμορφώσει το βασίλειο και να μειώσει

 την εξάρτησή του από το πετρέλαιο.

Ο 31χρονος πρίγκιπας, αδιαμφισβήτητος ηγέτης του βασιλείου, ηγείται μιας 

προσπάθειας να ετοιμαστεί η Σαουδική Αραβία για την εποχή μετά το πετρέλαιο.

Aπό το 2015 έχει ανακοινώσει τα σχέδιά του να πουλήσει μερίδιο στον 

πετρελαϊκό κολοσσό Saudi Aramco, να δημιουργήσει το μεγαλύτερο κρατικό

 fund διαχείρισής πλούτου στον κόσμο και να άρει την απαγόρευση οδήγησης 

για τις γυναίκες.

«Η ΝΕΟΜ θα οικοδομηθεί από τα θεμέλια σε πράσινες εκτάσεις, γεγονός που 

θα της δώσει τη μοναδική ευκαιρία να ξεχωρίσει από όλα τα άλλα μέρη που

 οικοδομήθηκαν στη διάρκεια εκατοντάδων ετών» αναφέρει σε ανακοίνωσή του

 ο Πρίγκιπας Μοχάμεντ.

Σχεδόν δύο χρόνια μετά την εκκίνηση αυτής της μεταρρυθμιστικής προσπάθειας, 

αξιωματούχοι της Σαουδικής Αραβίας προσπαθούν να βρουν απαντήσεις σε

 κρίσιμα ερωτήματα όπως το πώς θα επιταχυνθεί η αλλαγή χωρίς να συντρίψει 

την οικονομία ή χωρίς να έρθει σε σύγκρουση με το συντηρητικό θρησκευτικό 

καθεστώς.