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• Ιωάννης Βαρβάκης
• Γκριγκόρι Ρασπούτιν
• Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγεώργης
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• Κοκό Σανέλ
• Δημήτρης Μυράτ
• Μιχαήλ Μίνιν
• Σκοτ Μακένζι

Ιωάννης Βαρβάκης Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Πλοιοκτήτης, έμπορος και εθνικός ευεργέτης. Πέθανε στις 10 Ιανουαρίου του 1825...

Γκριγκόρι Ρασπούτιν Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Ρώσος χωρικός και μυστικιστής, με μεγάλη επιρροή στο παλάτι του τσάρου Νικολάου Β’ και της τσαρίνας Αλεξάνδρας, σε μια εποχή που το τσαρικό καθεστώς έπνεε τα λοίσθια. Γεννήθηκε στις 9 Ιανουαρίου 1869...

Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγεώργης Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Νομικός, δημοσιογράφος και πολιτικός, ο οποίος διατέλεσε επτά φορές πρωθυπουργός της Ελλάδας, ενώ διατηρεί ακόμη τον τίτλο του νεώτερου Έλληνα πρωθυπουργού. Γεννήθηκε στην Τρίπολη στις 10 Ιανουαρίου του 1829....

Τεντέν Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Χάρτινος ήρωας, που «γεννήθηκε» στις 10 Ιανουαρίου 1929 από το πενάκι του βέλγου κομίστα Ζορζ Ρεμί, γνωστότερου ως Ερζέ...

Κοκό Σανέλ Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Γαλλίδα μοδίστρα και επιχειρηματίας, που κυριάρχησε για σχεδόν έξι δεκαετίες στον κόσμο της γυναικείας υψηλής ραπτικής, εισάγοντας επαναστατικές καινοτομίες, με δημιουργίες που θεωρούνται κλασικές. Πέθανε στις 10 Ιανουαρίου 1971...

Δημήτρης Μυράτ Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Κορυφαίος έλληνας ηθοποιός και διανοούμενος, που δίδαξε με τη ζωή και την τέχνη του ήθος και σοβαρότητα. Πέθανε στις 10 Ιανουαρίου του 1991...

Μιχαήλ Μίνιν Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Ρώσος στρατιωτικός, ο πρώτος σοβιετικός στρατιώτης που ύψωσε την κόκκινη σημαία με το σφυροδρέπανο στη στέγη της γερμανικής Βουλής, κατά τη διάρκεια της Μάχης του Βερολίνου. Πέθανε στις 10 Ιανουαρίου του 2008...

Σκοτ Μακένζι Posted: 09 Jan 2018 05:32 PM PST Αμερικανός τραγουδιστής, γνωστός από τη μεγάλη και μοναδική επιτυχία του «San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)», που αποτέλεσε τον ύμνο της αντικουλτούρας της δεκαετίας του '60. Γεννήθηκε στις 10 Ιανουαρίου του 1939...

• 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
• AD 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
• AD 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
• 236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
• 1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
• 1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
• 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
• 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
• 1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
• 1806 – Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
• 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
• 1863 – The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
• 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
• 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
• 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
• 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
• 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
• 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
• 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
• 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• 1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
• 1966 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
• 1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
• 1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
• 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
• 1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
• 2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
• 2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
• 2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
• 2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
• 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.

Births[edit]

• 1392 – Johanna van Polanen, Dutch noblewoman (d. 1445)
• 1480 – Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1530)
• 1538 – Louis of Nassau (d. 1574)
• 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
• 1607 – Isaac Jogues, French priest and missionary (d. 1646)
• 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire (d. 1687)
• 1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (d. 1711)
• 1654 – Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (d. 1712)
• 1702 – Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
• 1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• 1729 – Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian priest, biologist, and physiologist (d. 1799)
• 1745 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, and diplomat (d. 1812)
• 1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1823)
• 1760 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer and conductor (d. 1802)
• 1769 – Michel Ney, French general (d. 1815)
• 1776 – George Birkbeck, English physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London (d. 1841)
• 1780 – Martin Lichtenstein, German physician and explorer (d. 1857)
• 1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860)
• 1810 – Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
• 1810 – Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
• 1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Victoria (d. 1866)
• 1812 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (d. 1881)
• 1828 – Herman Koeckemann, German bishop and missionary (d. 1892)
• 1829 – Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Greek lawyer, journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879)
• 1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Italian-English historian and politician (d. 1902)
• 1836 – Charles Ingalls, American farmer and carpenter (d. 1902)
• 1840 – Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (d. 1925)
• 1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925)
• 1843 – Frank James, American soldier and criminal (d. 1915)
• 1848 – Reinhold Sadler, American merchant and politician, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
• 1849 – Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist, founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (d. 1919)
• 1850 – John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building (d. 1891)
• 1854 – Ramón Corral, Mexican general and politician, 6th Vice President of Mexico (d. 1912)
• 1858 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
• 1859 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (d. 1909)
• 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and author (d. 1943)
• 1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
• 1873 – Algernon Maudslay, English sailor (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1935)
• 1873 – George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (d. 1958)
• 1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
• 1877 – Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1948)
• 1878 – John McLean, American hurdler, football player, and coach (d. 1955)
• 1880 – Manuel Azaña, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of Spain (d. 1940)
• 1881 – Leslie Rainey, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)
• 1883 – Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Alfred Saalwächter, German admiral (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (d. 1962)
• 1890 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984)
• 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
• 1891 – Ann Shoemaker, American actress (d. 1978)
• 1892 – Dumas Malone, American historian and author (d. 1986)
• 1892 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1974)
• 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1932)
• 1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author (d. 1972)
• 1895 – Percy Cerutty, Australian athletics coach (d. 1975)
• 1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Violette Cordery, English race car driver (d. 1983)
• 1902 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Pud Thurlow, Australian cricketer (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
• 1904 – Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
• 1905 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003)
• 1908 – Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (d. 2013)
• 1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Maria Mandl, Austrian SS guard (d. 1948)
• 1913 – Franco Bordoni, Italian race car driver and pilot (d. 1975)
• 1913 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
• 1913 – Mehmet Shehu, Albanian soldier and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Pierre Cogan, French cyclist (d. 2013)
• 1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Dean Dixon, American-Swiss conductor (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Cynthia Freeman, American author (d. 1988)
• 1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Eldzier Cortor, American painter (d. 2015)
• 1916 – Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Les Bennett, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
• 1918 – Arthur Chung, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Harry Merkel, German race car driver (d. 1995)
• 1919 – Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 1919 – Milton Parker, American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Rosella Hightower, American ballerina (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
• 1920 – Max Patkin, American baseball player and clown (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Billy Liddell, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Earl Bakken, American inventor
• 1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Max Roach, American drummer and composer (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Billie Sol Estes, American financier and businessman (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
• 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990)
• 1927 – Otto Stich, Swiss lawyer and politician, 140th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Philip Levine, American poet and academic (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Peter Mathias, English historian and academic (d. 2016)
• 1929 – Tony Soper, English ornithologist and author
• 1930 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, Grenadian-English academic and politician
• 1931 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian cleric and politician, 12th Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. 2015)
• 1931 – John Zizioulas, Greek metropolitan
• 1934 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine
• 1935 – Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 – Sherrill Milnes, American opera singer and educator
• 1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Walter Bodmer, German-English geneticist and academic
• 1936 – Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 – Daniel Walker Howe, American historian and academic
• 1937 – Thomas Penfield Jackson, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician
• 1938 – Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
• 1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player
• 1939 – Jared Carter, American poet and author
• 1939 – David Horowitz, American activist and author
• 1939 – William Levy, American-Dutch journalist, author, and poet
• 1939 – Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1939 – Michaela Odone, American journalist who, along with her husband, invented Lorenzo's oil (d. 2000).
• 1940 – Godfrey Hewitt, English geneticist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Walter Hill, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Tom Clarke, Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1942 – Graeme Gahan, Australian footballer and coach
• 1943 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
• 1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor (d. 2016)
• 1945 – John Fahey, New Zealand-Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales
• 1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist, invented plastination
• 1946 – Aynsley Dunbar, English drummer and songwriter
• 1947 – George Alec Effinger, American author (d. 2002)
• 1947 – James Morris, American opera singer
• 1947 – Peer Steinbrück, German politician, German Minister of Finance
• 1947 – Tiit Vähi, Estonian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1948 – Donald Fagen, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1948 – Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist and sportscaster
• 1949 – Kemal Derviş, Turkish economist and politician, Turkish Minister of Economy
• 1949 – George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman
• 1949 – Linda Lovelace, American porn actress and activist (d. 2002)
• 1950 – Roy Blunt, American academic and politician
• 1952 – Scott Thurston, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1953 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
• 1954 – John Gidman, English footballer and manager
• 1954 – Greg Towns, Australian footballer
• 1955 – Michael Schenker, German guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1955 – Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1956 – Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – George Merrill, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish author
• 1958 – Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
• 1958 – Anatoly Pisarenko, Ukrainian weightlifter and trainer
• 1959 – Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach
• 1959 – Bernhard Hoff, German sprinter
• 1959 – Chris Van Hollen, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 – Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter and producer
• 1960 – Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1960 – John Mann, English lawyer and politician
• 1960 – Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1961 – Janet Jones, American actress
• 1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator
• 1962 – Michael Fortier, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Kathryn S. McKinley, American computer scientist and academic
• 1963 – Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand-Australian footballer
• 1963 – Kira Ivanova, Russian figure skater (d. 2001)
• 1963 – Mark Pryor, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Arkansas Attorney General
• 1964 – Brad Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Maciej Śliwowski, Polish footballer
• 1970 – Buff Bagwell, American wrestler and actor
• 1970 – Alisa Marić, Serbian chess player and politician, Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports
• 1972 – Mohammed Benzakour, Moroccan-Dutch journalist, poet, and author
• 1973 – Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
• 1973 – Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican-American boxer
• 1974 – Jemaine Clement, New Zealand comedian, actor, and musician
• 1974 – Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
• 1975 – Jake Delhomme, American football player
• 1976 – Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
• 1976 – Ian Poulter, English golfer
• 1978 – Johan van der Wath, South African cricketer
• 1979 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer
• 1981 – James Coppinger, English footballer
• 1981 – Jared Kushner, American real estate investor and political figure
• 1982 – Julien Brellier, French footballer
• 1982 – Tomasz Brzyski, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer
• 1984 – Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Ariane Friedrich, German high jumper
• 1984 – Kalki Koechlin, Indian actress
• 1986 – Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player
• 1986 – Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer
• 1987 – César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
• 1987 – Vicente Guaita, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner
• 1988 – Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Emily Meade, American actress
• 1989 – Kyle Reimers, Australian footballer
• 1990 – Mirko Bortolotti, Italian race car driver
• 1990 – Ishiura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1990 – Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – John Carlson, American ice hockey player
• 1991 – Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 – Romain Wattel, French golfer
• 1996 – Dylan Edwards, Australian rugby league player
• 2006 – Angelina Jordan, Norwegian child singer

Deaths[edit]

• 259 – Polyeuctus, Roman saint
• 314 – Pope Miltiades
• 681 – Pope Agatho
• 976 – John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor (b. 925)
• 1055 – Bretislav I, Duke of Bohemia
• 1094 – Al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian caliph (b. 1029)
• 1218 – Hugh I of Cyprus
• 1276 – Pope Gregory X (b. 1210)
• 1322 – Petrus Aureolus, scholastic philosopher
• 1358 – Abu Inan Faris, Marinid ruler of Morocco (b. 1329)
• 1552 – Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)
• 1645 – William Laud, English archbishop and academic (b. 1573)
• 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
• 1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French priest and historian (b. 1637)
• 1754 – Edward Cave, English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (b. 1691)
• 1761 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (b. 1711)
• 1778 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1707)
• 1794 – Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (b. 1754)
• 1811 – Joseph Chénier, French poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1764)
• 1824 – Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
• 1828 – François de Neufchâteau, French poet, academic, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (b. 1750)
• 1829 – Gregorio Funes, Argentinian clergyman, historian, and educator (b. 1749)
• 1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)
• 1843 – Dimitrie Macedonski, Greek-Romanian captain and politician (b. 1780)
• 1851 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
• 1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (b. 1787)
• 1862 – Samuel Colt, American engineer and businessman, founded Colt's Manufacturing Company (b. 1814)
• 1863 – Lyman Beecher, American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (b. 1775)
• 1895 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836)
• 1895 – Benjamin Godard, French violinist and composer (b. 1849)
• 1901 – James Robert Dickson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
• 1904 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
• 1905 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
• 1917 – Buffalo Bill, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)
• 1917 – Feliks Leparsky, Russian fencer and captain (b. 1875)
• 1920 – Sali Nivica, Albanian journalist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1922 – Frank Tudor, Australian politician, 6th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment (b. 1866)
• 1926 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1878)
• 1935 – Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Charlie McGahey, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1871)
• 1941 – Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879)
• 1941 – John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1941 – Joe Penner, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1941 – Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
• 1949 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
• 1951 – Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 – Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1959 – Şükrü Kaya, Turkish jurist and politician, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1960 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1967 – Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Turkish general and politician, 6th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1925)
• 1971 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded Chanel (b. 1883)
• 1971 – Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1972 – Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
• 1978 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 1978 – Don Gillis, American composer and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1978 – Hannah Gluckstein, British painter (b. 1895)
• 1980 – Hughie Critz, American baseball player and scout (b. 1900)
• 1980 – George Meany, American plumber and trade union leader (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Bo Rein, American football player and coach (b. 1945)
• 1981 – Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Souvanna Phouma, Laotian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
• 1986 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech journalist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1987 – David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Herbert Morrison, American journalist and producer (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (b. 1925)
• 1992 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1997 – Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan-English journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Edward Williams, Australian lieutenant, pilot, and judge (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Sam Jaffe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1901)
• 2004 – Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Wasyly, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Jack Horner, American journalist (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (b. 1910)
• 2008 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater and actor (b. 1967)
• 2008 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Jean Pigott, Canadian businesswoman and politician (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924)
• 2013 – George Gruntz, Swiss pianist and composer (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Claude Nobs, Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Petr Hlaváček, Czech shoemaker and academic (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Larry Speakes, American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (b. 1994)
• 2015 – Taylor Negron, American actor, playwright, and painter (b. 1957)
• 2015 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1937)
• 2016 – Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1947)
• 2016 – George Jonas, Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1935)
• 2017 – Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (b. 1926)
• 2017 – Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (b. 1911)

Catherine Deneuve defends 

men's 'right' to hit on women

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French actress Catherine Deneuve has said that men should be "free to hit on" women.

She is one of 100 well-known French women who wrote an open letter, warning about a new "puritanism" sparked by recent sexual harassment scandals.

The letter deplores a wave of "denunciations" after claims that US movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women. 

Mr Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.

However, he has admitted that his behaviour has "caused a lot of pain".

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What does the open letter say?

The letter by French women writers, performers and academics was published in France's Le Monde newspaper on Tuesday.

"Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone's knee or try to steal a kiss," it said.

"Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or clumsily, is not - and nor is men being gentlemanly a chauvinist attack."

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The authors argued that there was a new "puritanism" afoot in the world.

They said that while it was legitimate and necessary to speak out against the abuse of power by some men, the constant denunciations have spiralled out of control.

According to the writers, this is creating a public mood in which women are seen as powerless, as perpetual victims. 

"As women we do not recognise ourselves in this feminism, which beyond denouncing the abuse of power, takes on a hatred of men and of sexuality."

Ms Deneuve, 74, has recently spoken openly against social media campaigns, which, she says, shame men accused of harassing women.

Women and men from all over the globe who have been sexually harassed have been sharing their stories across social media using the hashtag #MeToo. 

In France, Twitter users are using #Balancetonporc ("rat on your dirty old man") to encourage women to name and shame their attackers.

Ms Deneuve, an Oscar-nominated actress, has been in more than 100 films, making her debut in 1957.

το Μουσείο Ολοκαυτώματος 

στη Θεσσαλονίκη 

Τις επόμενες ημέρες ξεκινούν οι πρόδρομες εργασίες για την 

ανέγερση του Μουσείου Ολοκαυτώματος στη Θεσσαλονίκη.

Εντός του 2018 αναμένεται να ολοκληρωθούν οι μελέτες και να προχωρήσει η

 δημοπράτηση του έργου, σύμφωνα με τον πρόεδρο της Ισραηλιτικής 

Κοινότητας, Δαβίδ Σαλτιέλ.

Ο κ. Σαλτιέλ, μιλώντας στο ραδιοφωνικό σταθμό του ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ "Πρακτορείο

 104,9 FΜ"χαρακτήρισε «κομβική την υπογραφή του Προεδρικού Διατάγματος 

και τη δημοσίευση του στο Φύλλο 293 της Εφημερίδας της Κυβερνήσεως, καθώς

 "ανάβει"το πράσινο φως να προχωρήσουν οι ενέργειες για την ανέγερση

 του Μουσείου Ολοκαυτώματος».

«Είναι εφικτό να ξεκινήσουν εντός του Ιανουαρίου οι πρόδρομες εργασίες. 

Βάσει των νόμων πρέπει να γνωρίζουμε το υπέδαφος για να γίνει η στατική

 μελέτη. Από εκεί και πέρα πρέπει να γίνει η συγγραφή των λεπτομερειών του

 έργου και η δημοπράτηση του» είπε ο κ. Σαλτιέλ.

Υποστήριξε πως το Μουσείο Ολοκαυτώματος, το οποίο αναμένεται να

 ανεγερθεί στη "δύση"του 2019, θα αναδείξει «όλες τις γνωστές και άγνωστες

 πτυχές της ιστορίας των Εβραίων αλλά και την ιστορία της πόλης. Θα είναι

 σπουδαίο για την πόλη, όπως το Ίδρυμα Νιάρχος που έγινε στην Αθήνα».

Συγκεκριμένα, ένα εξαώροφο κυκλικό κτίριο από μέταλλο και γυαλί, το 

ύψος του οποίου θα φτάνει τα 32 μέτρα, θα ανεγερθεί σε έκταση της ΓΑΙΑΟΣΕ, 

στον συμβολικό τόπο απ'όπου ξεκίνησαν τα τρένα θανάτου για 55.000 Εβραίους

 της Θεσσαλονίκης προς τα ναζιστικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης.

Η ιστορία του Μουσείου Ολοκαυτώματος ξεκίνησε το 2014 με τον δήμαρχο

 Γιάννη Μπουτάρη να υιοθετεί την πρόταση της Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας 

Θεσσαλονίκης και να την ανακοινώνει στους δημοτικούς συμβούλους. Από το

 2014 έως και σήμερα, ο κεντρικός δήμος και η Ισραηλιτική Κοινότητα

 Θεσσαλονίκης δούλεψαν από κοινού, αξιοποιώντας επαφές σε όλο τον κόσμο.

 Από τις πιο σημαντικές επισκέψεις ήταν αυτές τον Δεκέμβριο του 2016 σε Παρίσι 

και Βερολίνο. 'Εδωσαν το "παρών"στη συνεδρίαση της Επιτροπής 

Προϋπολογισμού του κοινοβουλίου της Ομοσπονδιακής Δημοκρατίας της 

Γερμανίας, όπου κατάφεραν να εξασφαλίσουν χρηματοδότηση ύψους 10 εκατ. ευρώ.

Τον Μάρτιο του 2017, ο δήμαρχος Θεσσαλονίκης συναντήθηκε στην Αθήνα με τον

 Πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας Προκόπη Παυλόπουλο, και με τον πρωθυπουργό 

Αλέξη Τσίπρα, από τους οποίους ζήτησε να ξεπεραστούν με Προεδρικό Διάταγμα 

τα προβλήματα που παρουσιάστηκαν στην αδειοδότηση του εξαώροφου κτιρίου,

 ενώ τον περασμένο Ιούνιο, οι πρωθυπουργοί της Ελλάδας και Ισραήλ έκαναν τα

 αποκαλυπτήρια της αναμνηστικής πλακέτας που θα τοποθετηθεί αργότερα στο 

Μουσείο Ολοκαυτώματος.

Για την παραχώρηση του χώρου έχει ήδη υπογραφεί από τον Δεκέμβριο του

 2013 μνημόνιο συνεργασίας μεταξύ του κεντρικού δήμου, της ΓΑΙΑΟΣΕ ΑΕ και

 της Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Θεσσαλονίκης. Για την κατασκευή του 

υπολογίζεται πως απαιτούνται περίπου 22 εκατ. ευρώ, εκ των οποίων τα 10 εκατ.

 ευρώ θα δοθούν από το γερμανικό κράτος, άλλα 10 εκατ. ευρώ από το ίδρυμα

 "Σταύρος Νιάρχος"και τα υπόλοιπα από άλλα κεφάλαια (εβραϊκές κοινότητες και 

προσωπικότητες).

Ο «άρχοντας της Ιου» ανοίγει ένα από

 τα κορυφαία ξενοδοχεία του 2018 

Ενας πρώην παίκτης της Wall Street, ο Αγγελος

 Μιχαλόπουλος, έχει αποκτήσει το 30% της γης της Ιου και το

 καλοκαίρι αναμένεται να ανοίξει στο νησί ένα από τα

καλύτερα ξενοδοχεία του 2018.

Αυτό υποστηρίζουν οι New York Times, που τοποθετούν το Calilo ανάμεσα

 στα κορυφαία ξενοδοχεία που θα ανοίξουν φέτος στον κόσμο.

Τα ξενοδοχεία αυτά διαθέτουν, όχι μόνο καινοτόμο ντιζάιν, αλλά συμβαδίζουν με

 το τόπο που βρίσκονται και έχουν περιβαλλοντική αντίληψη στη λειτουργία τους.

Το Calilo με 30 σουίτες, θα λειτουργεί με ηλιακή ενέργεια και θα διαθέτει 

γεωθερμική ψύξη. Οπως αναφέρει το δημοσίευμα, χρησιμοποιούνται υλικά

 κατασκευής όπως το μάρμαρο και ο γρανίτης που προέρχονται από την περιοχή. 

Το οικόπεδο διαθέτει μονοπάτια μήκους 6 μιλίων, υπαίθριο σινεμά και βιολογικό

 κήπο με προϊόντα τα οποία χρησιμοποιούνται στο εστιατόριο.

Ο Αγγελος Μιχόπουλος, που αποκαλείται από πολλούς «ο άρχοντας της Ιου»,

 μαζί με τη σύζυγό του Βασιλική Πετρίδου θέλουν να δώσου νέα πνοή στο νησί,

 μεταμορφώνοντάς το στις Μαλδίβες του Αιγαίου. Αυτό φυσικά με τον απόλυτο

 σεβασμό προς τον πολιτισμό, τις παραδόσεις και το περιβάλλον του νησιού.

Το Calilo δεν είναι το πρώτο ξενοδοχείο που έχει ο κ. Μιχόπουλος στο νησί, καθώς

 διαθέτει το «Agalia Luxury Suites» κοντά στην παραλία Τζαμαρία. Ακόμη, έχει

 δύο beach bar και ένα μπαρ.

• 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
• 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, Quraysh surrender.^[1]
• 947 – Emperor Tai Zong of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty invades the Later Jin, resulting in the destruction of the Later Jin.
• 1055 – Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1158 – Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes king of Bohemia.
• 1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
• 1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
• 1693 – A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
• 1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1779 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
• 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
• 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
• 1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
• 1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
• 1879 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
• 1912 – Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• 1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
• 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1923 – Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
• 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
• 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1942 – World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
• 1942 – World War II: The Japanese attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
• 1943 – The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
• 1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
• 1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
• 1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
• 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
• 1961 – Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
• 1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
• 1962 – An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
• 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
• 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
• 1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
• 1986 – The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
• 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
• 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• 1998 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
• 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
• 2013 – One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.

Births[edit]

• 347 – Theodosius I, Roman emperor (d. 395)
• 889 – Abd-ar-Rahman III, first Caliph of Córdoba (d. 961)
• 1113 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese religious leader and poet (d. 1170)
• 1209 – Möngke Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1259)
• 1322 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1380)
• 1359 – Emperor Go-En'yū of Japan (d. 1393)
• 1395 – Michele of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France (d. 1422)
• 1503 – Parmigianino, Italian artist (d. 1540)
• 1589 – William Strode, English politician (d. 1666)
• 1591 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (d. 1646)
• 1624 – Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, Dutch painter (d. 1680)
• 1630 – John Rogers, English-American minister, physician, and academic (d. 1684)
• 1638 – Nicolas Steno, Danish bishop and anatomist (d. 1686)
• 1642 – Johann Friedrich Alberti, German organist and composer (d. 1710)
• 1650 – Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (d. 1721)
• 1671 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general and diplomat (d. 1745)
• 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
• 1757 – Samuel Bentham, English engineer and architect (d. 1831)
• 1760 – Oliver Wolcott Jr., American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury, 24th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1833)
• 1777 – Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (d. 1837)
• 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist (d. 1869)
• 1788 – William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic (d. 1866)
• 1800 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (d. 1895)
• 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University (d. 1874)
• 1814 – James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
• 1815 – John A. Macdonald, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
• 1825 – Bayard Taylor, American poet, author, and critic (d. 1878)
• 1839 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican lawyer, philosopher, and sociologist (d. 1903)
• 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher (d. 1910)
• 1843 – Adolf Eberle, German painter (d. 1914)
• 1845 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
• 1850 – Joseph Charles Arthur, American pathologist and mycologist (d. 1942)
• 1852 – Constantin Fehrenbach, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Weimar Germany (d. 1926)
• 1853 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 1932)
• 1856 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian pianist and composer (d. 1941)
• 1857 – Fred Archer, English jockey (d. 1886)
• 1858 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (d. 1947)
• 1859 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (d. 1925)
• 1864 – Thomas Dixon, Jr., American minister, lawyer, and politician (d. 1946)
• 1867 – Edward B. Titchener, English psychologist and academic (d. 1927)
• 1868 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor and educator (d. 1945)
• 1872 – G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic (d. 1956)
• 1873 – John Callan O'Laughlin, American soldier and journalist (d. 1949)
• 1875 – Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and academic (d. 1956)
• 1876 – Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1876 – Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1952)
• 1878 – Theodoros Pangalos, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (d. 1952)
• 1885 – Alice Paul, American activist and suffragist (d. 1977)
• 1887 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (d. 1948)
• 1888 – Joseph B. Keenan, American jurist and politician (d. 1954)
• 1889 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (d. 1938)
• 1890 – Max Carey, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
• 1890 – Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian poet and critic (d. 1954)
• 1891 – Andrew Sockalexis, American runner (d. 1919)
• 1893 – Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (d. 1969)
• 1893 – Charles Fraser, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1981)
• 1893 – Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
• 1895 – Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Bernard DeVoto, American historian and author (d. 1955)
• 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress, director, and producer (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Kwon Ki-ok, North Korean pilot (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French organist and composer (d. 1986)
• 1903 – Alan Paton, South African author and activist (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Clyde Kluckhohn, American anthropologist and theorist (d. 1960)
• 1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008)
• 1907 – Pierre Mendès France, French lawyer and politician, 142nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-American rabbi, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1972)
• 1908 – Lionel Stander, American actor and activist (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Arthur Lambourn, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1999)
• 1910 – Shane Paltridge, Australian soldier and politician (d. 1966)
• 1911 – Tommy Duncan, American singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
• 1911 – Nora Heysen, Australian painter (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Don "Red" Barry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Luise Krüger, German javelin thrower (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Paddy Mayne, British colonel and lawyer (d. 1955)
• 1916 – Bernard Blier, Argentinian-French actor (d. 1989)
• 1917 – John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Robert C. O'Brien, American author and journalist (d. 1973)
• 1920 – Mick McManus, English wrestler (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Gory Guerrero, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Juanita M. Kreps, American economist and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, engineer, and businessman, founded Carroll Shelby International (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 – Sam B. Hall, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Slim Harpo, American blues singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1970)
• 1925 – Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises (d. 2016)
• 1926 – Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Alan Bowness, English historian and curator
• 1928 – David L. Wolper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist
• 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian lawyer and politician, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
• 1933 – Goldie Hill, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Jean Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1936 – Eva Hesse, German-American sculptor and educator (d. 1970)
• 1938 – Arthur Scargill, English miner, activist, and politician
• 1939 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian alpine skier
• 1940 – Andres Tarand, Estonian geographer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1941 – Gérson, Brazilian footballer
• 1942 – Bud Acton, American basketball player
• 1942 – Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist and actor (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Leo Cullum, American soldier, pilot, and cartoonist (d. 2010)
• 1942 – George Mira, American football player
• 1943 – Jim Hightower, American journalist and politician
• 1944 – Mohammed Abdul-Hayy, Sudanese poet and academic (d. 1989)
• 1944 – Shibu Soren, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Jharkhand
• 1945 – Christine Kaufmann, German actress, author, and businesswoman (d. 2017)
• 1946 – Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1946 – Tony Kaye, English progressive rock keyboard player and songwriter (Yes)
• 1946 – John Piper, American theologian and author
• 1947 – Hamish Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
• 1948 – Fritz Bohla, German footballer and manager
• 1948 – Joe Harper, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1948 – Madeline Manning, American runner and coach
• 1948 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 54th Yokozuna
• 1948 – Terry Williams, Welsh drummer
• 1949 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran
• 1951 – Charlie Huhn, American rock singer and guitarist
• 1951 – Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
• 1951 – Philip Tartaglia, Scottish archbishop
• 1952 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer and architect
• 1952 – Michael Forshaw, Australian lawyer and politician
• 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, American author
• 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer, and producer
• 1953 – Graham Allen, English politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
• 1953 – Kostas Skandalidis, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Agricultural Development and Food
• 1954 – Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian physicist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Defence
• 1954 – Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 – Big Bank Hank, American rapper (d. 2014)
• 1956 – Robert Earl Keen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1957 – Peter Moore, Australian rules footballer and coach
• 1957 – Bryan Robson, English footballer and manager
• 1958 – Vicki Peterson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 – Brett Bodine, American race car driver
• 1959 – Rob Ramage, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (d. 1989)
• 1962 – Chris Bryant, Welsh politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1962 – Susan Lindauer, American journalist and activist
• 1962 – Brian Moore, English rugby player
• 1963 – Tracy Caulkins, Australian swimmer
• 1963 – Petra Schneider, German swimmer
• 1964 – Ralph Recto, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1964 – Albert Dupontel, French actor and director
• 1965 – Mascarita Sagrada, Mexican wrestler
• 1965 – Aleksey Zhukov, Russian footballer and coach
• 1966 – Marc Acito, American author and screenwriter
• 1967 – Michael Healy-Rae, Irish politician
• 1968 – Anders Borg, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Finance
• 1968 – Tom Dumont, American guitarist and producer
• 1969 – Manny Acta, Dominican-American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster
• 1970 – Manfredi Beninati, Italian painter and sculptor
• 1970 – Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 – Malcolm D. Lee, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 1970 – Ken Ueno, American composer
• 1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1971 – Chris Willsher, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
• 1972 – Christian Jacobs, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1972 – Anthony Lledo, Danish composer
• 1972 – Amanda Peet, American actress and playwright
• 1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, American actor
• 1973 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer and captain
• 1974 – Roman Görtz, German footballer
• 1974 – Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
• 1974 – Jens Nowotny, German footballer
• 1975 – Rory Fitzpatrick, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Dan Luger, English rugby player and coach
• 1975 – Matteo Renzi, Italian politician, 56th Prime Minister of Italy
• 1976 – Efthimios Rentzias, Greek basketball player
• 1977 – Shamari Buchanan, American football player
• 1977 – Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
• 1977 – Olexiy Lukashevych, Ukrainian long jumper
• 1977 – Billy Taylor, English cricketer and umpire
• 1978 – Vallo Allingu, Estonian basketball player
• 1978 – Holly Brisley, Australian actress
• 1978 – Michael Duff, Irish footballer
• 1978 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
• 1978 – Stijn Schaars, Dutch footballer
• 1979 – Darren Lynn Bousman, American director and screenwriter
• 1979 – Michael Lorenz, German footballer
• 1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
• 1980 – Josh Hannay, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 – Mike Williams, American football player
• 1982 – Tony Allen, American basketball player
• 1982 – Son Ye-jin, South Korean actress
• 1983 – Turner Battle, American basketball player
• 1983 – André Myhrer, Swedish skier
• 1983 – Matthew Palleschi, Canadian soccer player
• 1983 – Ted Richards, Australian rules footballer
• 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German race car driver
• 1984 – Kevin Boss, American football player
• 1984 – Dario Krešić, Croatian footballer
• 1984 – Matt Mullenweg, American web developer and businessman, co-created WordPress
• 1985 – Newton Faulkner, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 – Lucy Knisley, American author and illustrator
• 1987 – Scotty Cranmer, American Professional BMX rider
• 1987 – Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoer
• 1987 – Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Jamie Vardy, English footballer
• 1987 – Kim Young-kwang, South Korean actor and model
• 1988 – Rodrigo José Pereira, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 – Kane Linnett, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Ryan Griffin, American football player
• 1991 – Andrea Bertolacci, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper and dancer
• 1993 – Michael Keane, English footballer
• 1993 – Will Keane, English footballer
• 1995 – Klaartje Liebens, Belgian tennis player
• 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Deaths[edit]

• 140 – Pope Hyginus, Bishop of Rome (b. 74)
• 705 – Pope John VI (b. 655)
• 782 – Emperor Kōnin of Japan (b. 709)
• 812 – Staurakios, Byzantine emperor
• 844 – Michael I Rangabe, Byzantine emperor (b. 770)
• 887 – Boso of Provence, Frankish nobleman
• 937 – Cao, empress of Later Tang
• 937 – Li Chongmei, prince of Later Tang
• 937 – Li Congke, emperor of Later Tang (b. 885)
• 937 – Liu, empress of Later Tang
• 1055 – Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1000)
• 1068 – Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen
• 1083 – Otto of Nordheim (b. 1020)
• 1266 – Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania
• 1344 – Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford and Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• 1372 – Eleanor of Lancaster, English noblewoman (b. 1318)
• 1396 – Isidore Glabas, Metropolitan bishop of Thessalonica (b.c. 1341)
• 1397 – Skirgaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania
• 1494 – Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian painter (b. 1449)
• 1495 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (b. 1428)
• 1546 – Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian painter and sculptor (b. c. 1471)
• 1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian poet, scholar, and theorist (b. 1470)
• 1554 – Min Bin, king of Arakan (b. 1493)
• 1641 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (b. 1583)
• 1696 – Charles Albanel, French priest, missionary, and explorer (b. 1616)
• 1703 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (b. 1632)
• 1713 – Pierre Jurieu, French priest and theologian (b. 1637)
• 1735 – Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (b. 1670)
• 1753 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (b. 1660)
• 1762 – Louis-François Roubiliac, French-English sculptor (b. 1695)
• 1763 – Caspar Abel, German poet, historian, and theologian (b. 1676)
• 1771 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (b. 1704)
• 1788 – François Joseph Paul de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
• 1791 – William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh composer and poet (b. 1717)
• 1798 – Heraclius II of Georgia (b. 1720)
• 1801 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (b. 1749)
• 1836 – John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763)
• 1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779)
• 1866 – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Irish actor (b. 1818)
• 1866 – John Woolley, English minister and academic (b. 1816)
• 1867 – Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1812)
• 1882 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1810)
• 1891 – Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French urban planner (b. 1809)
• 1902 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (b. 1862)
• 1904 – William Sawyer, Canadian merchant and politician (b. 1815)
• 1914 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and philanthropist (b. 1842)
• 1920 – Steinar Schjøtt, Norwegian philologist and lexicographer (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
• 1928 – Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (b. 1840)
• 1931 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852)
• 1937 – Nuri Conker, Turkish colonel and politician (b. 1882)
• 1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German mathematician, philosopher, and chess player (b. 1868)
• 1944 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903)
• 1947 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian singer (b. 1879)
• 1952 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (b. 1889)
• 1952 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Noe Zhordania, Georgian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1868)
• 1954 – Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and politician, Solicitor-General of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1958 – Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 – Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
• 1965 – Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
• 1966 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
• 1969 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Padraic Colum, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1881)
• 1975 – Max Lorenz, German tenor and actor (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1982 – Paul Lynde, American Actor and comedian (b. 1926)
• 1985 – Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1985 – William McKell, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
• 1986 – Sid Chaplin, English author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1987 – Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1988 – Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Ray Moore, English radio host (b. 1942)
• 1990 – Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (b. 1902)
• 1995 – Josef Gingold, Belarusian-American violinist and educator (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (b. 1936)
• 1995 – Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (b. 1918)
• 1995 – Theodor Wisch, German general (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1999 – Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Betty Archdale, English-Australian cricketer and educator (b. 1907)
• 2000 – Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Louis Krages, German-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, co-designed the Royal National Theatre (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director and playwright (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Carl Karcher, American businessman, co-founded Carl's Jr. (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Miep Gies, Austrian-Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
• 2010 – Éric Rohmer, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1920)
• 2011 – David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Iranian physicist and academic (b. 1980)
• 2012 – Gilles Jacquier, French journalist and photographer (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Edgar Kaiser, Jr, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Wally Osterkorn, American basketball player (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Steven Rawlings, English astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1961)
• 2012 – David Whitaker, English composer and conductor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer (b. 1986)
• 2013 – Guido Forti, Italian businessman, founded the Forti Racing Team (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Alemayehu Shumye, Ethiopian runner (b. 1988)
• 2014 – Keiko Awaji, Japanese actress (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Indian-Bangladeshi jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Chai Trong-rong, Taiwanese educator and politician (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Ariel Sharon, Israeli general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish-Italian model and actress (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Chashi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi director and producer (b. 1941)
• 2015 – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2016 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 2016 – David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2017 – Adenan Satem, Malaysian politician and Chief Minister of Sarawak, Malaysia (b. 1944)