• 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 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of 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.
• 1914 – Ottoman entry into World War I.
• 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 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; after, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
• 1948 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Israeli army kills at least 70 Palestinian villagers during the Al-Dawayima massacre.
• 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.
• 2018 – Lion Air Flight 610 of a Boeing 737 MAX crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board.^[1]

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)
• 1562 – George Abbot, English archbishop and academic (d. 1633)^[2]
• 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)
• 1816 – Ferdinand II of Portugal (d.1885)
• 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)
• 1837 – Harriet Powers, American folk artist and quilter (d. 1910)^[3]
• 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 – 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)
• 1935 – Michael Jayston, English actor^[4]
• 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 (d. 1996)
• 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 – Mike Gartner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – John Magufuli, Tanzanian politician, 5th President of Tanzania^[5]
• 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 – Thorsten Fink, German footballer and manager
• 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 Pires, 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 – Jérémy Mathieu, French footballer
• 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 – Janoris Jenkins, American football player
• 1988 – Roman Van Uden, New Zealand cyclist
• 1989 – Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist
• 1990 – Amarna Miller, former Spanish porn actress
• 1990 – Eric Saade, Swedish singer
• 1991 – Grant Hall, English footballer
• 1991 – Toby Tarrant, English DJ, and son of TV show host Chris Tarrant
• 1992 – Jacqueline Jossa, English actress
• 1993 – Ágnes Bukta, Hungarian tennis player
• 1993 – India Eisley, American actress
• 1996 – Astrid S, Norwegian singer, songwriter and model^[6]
• 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 – Grand Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich 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)
• 1804 – Sarah Crosby, the first female Methodist preacher (b. 1729)
• 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)

ΜΑΡΝΙ ΝΙΞΟΝ

Οι αόρατες «φωνές» του κινηματογράφου

1. MARTHA  MEARS (1908 – 86)
2. MARNI  NIXON (1930 -2016  )
3. EILEEN  WILSON(1923-2018)
4. BETTY  WAND?
5. JO ANN GREER(1927-2001)
6. BILL  LEE (1916 – 80)
7. TRUDY  ERWIN(1918-2000)
8. LUANE  HOGAN (1918 – 2006)
9. BONNIE  LOU  WILLIAMS?
10. CAROLE  RICHARDS (1922 – 2007)
11. ANITA   ELLIS  (1920 - 2015 )

• 561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, who divide the Frankish Kingdom.
• 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan.
• 903 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib deals a crushing defeat to the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama.
• 1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
• 1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.
• 1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
• 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
• 1732 – The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
• 1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
• 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
• 1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
• 1807 – Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil: John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
• 1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
• 1847 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
• 1847 – Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
• 1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sanders: Union forces under Ambrose Burnside successfully defend Knoxville, Tennessee from Confederate forces under James Longstreet.
• 1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.
• 1872 – American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
• 1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
• 1899 – FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
• 1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
• 1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
• 1943 – World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
• 1944 – World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
• 1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
• 1947 – Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
• 1947 – First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
• 1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
• 1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
• 1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
• 1972 – Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
• 1986 – The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
• 1987 – North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
• 2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
• 2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.

Births[edit]

• 826 – William of Septimania, Frankish nobleman (d. 850)
• 968 – Kazan, emperor of Japan (d. 1008)
• 1310 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English Baron (d. 1361)
• 1329 – John I, duke of Bavaria (d. 1340)
• 1338 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, Belgian-English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1368)
• 1422 – Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont, English Baron (d. 1460)
• 1427 – Zhengtong, emperor of the Ming Dynasty (d. 1464)
• 1463 – Andrea della Valle, Italian cardinal (d. 1534)
• 1484 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician, scholar, and politician (d. 1551)
• 1528 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (d. 1592)
• 1627 – John Ray, English biologist and botanist (d. 1705)
• 1690 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (d. 1747)
• 1705 – Michael Christian Festing, English violinist and composer (d. 1752)
• 1752 – Jemima Wilkinson, American evangelist (d. 1819)^[1]
• 1781 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet and philosopher (d. 1865)
• 1797 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (d. 1848)
• 1798 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter and architect, designed the Pulkovo Observatory (d. 1877)
• 1799 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and academic (d. 1888)
• 1802 – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and author (d. 1827)
• 1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist (d. 1853)
• 1803 – Gottfried Semper, German architect and academic, designed the Semper Opera House (d. 1879)
• 1816 – Morrison Waite, American jurist and politician, 7th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1888)
• 1818 – George Brown, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 10th Premier of West Canada (d. 1880)
• 1818 – William Ellery Channing, American poet and author (d. 1901)
• 1823 – La Fayette Grover, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911)
• 1825 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and psychologist (d. 1893)
• 1831 – Frederick Townsend Ward, American sailor and soldier (d. 1862)
• 1832 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist and poet (d. 1888)
• 1835 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (d. 1908)
• 1843 – Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (d. 1932)
• 1849 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (d. 1945)
• 1856 – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1921)
• 1857 – Theodor Escherich, German-Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1911)
• 1861 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek playwright and composer (d. 1917)
• 1873 – Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
• 1874 – Francis Dodd, Welsh-English painter and academic (d. 1949)
• 1874 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1876 – Nellie Tayloe Ross, American educator and politician, 14th Governor of Wyoming (d. 1977)
• 1878 – John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1881 – Artur Phleps, Romanian-German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 – Abdülhalik Renda, Turkish civil servant and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Defence (d. 1957)
• 1882 – Henri Fabre, French pilot and engineer (d. 1984)
• 1888 – Joe Slater, Australian footballer and captain (d. 1917)
• 1891 – Julius Raab, Austrian engineer and politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1964)
• 1895 – Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (d. 1976)
• 1895 – William Tubman, Liberian lawyer and politician, 19th President of Liberia (d. 1971)
• 1898 – C. S. Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1963)
• 1899 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian Minister of Interior (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, oldest Italian person ever, last verified person born in the 1800s (d. 2017)
• 1900 – Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster, employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988) ^[2]
• 1901 – Mildred Harris, American actress (d. 1944)
• 1904 – Egon Eiermann, German architect, designed the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (d. 1970)
• 1904 – Margaret Barr (choreographer), Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama^[3]
• 1905 – Marcel Lefebvre, French-Swiss archbishop and theologian (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American pastor and politician (d. 1972)
• 1908 – Afet İnan, Turkish historian and sociologist (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Elizabeth Choy, Malaysian-Singaporean educator and politician (d. 2006)
• 1910 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian actor and director (d. 1961)
• 1915 – Ludu Daw Amar, Burmese journalist and author (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Billy Strayhorn, American pianist and composer (d. 1967)
• 1916 – Fran Ryan, American actress and comedian (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Pierre Gaspard-Huit, French director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• 1917 – Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1983)
• 1918 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Yegor Ligachyov, Russian engineer and politician
• 1920 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Michael Howard, English-American historian, author, and academic
• 1922 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Chuck Daigh, American race car driver (b. 2008)
• 1924 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Charles E. Mower, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
• 1926 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian lawyer and politician, President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
• 1927 – Vin Scully, American sportscaster and game show host
• 1928 – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
• 1928 – Paul Simon, American soldier and politician, 39th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Ernie Vossler, American golfer (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Derek Jameson, English journalist and radio host (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Woo Yong-gak, North Korean soldier
• 1930 – Shirley Porter, English politician, Lord Mayor of Westminster
• 1930 – Vladimir Šenauer, Croatian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Alan Lee Williams, English academic and politician
• 1931 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
• 1931 – André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz guitarist
• 1932 – Jacques Chirac, French soldier and politician, 22nd President of France
• 1932 – John Gary, American singer and television host (d. 1998)
• 1932 – Fernando Guillén, Spanish actor (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Marc Vaux, English painter
• 1933 – John Mayall, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1933 – James Rosenquist, American painter and illustrator (d. 2017)
• 1934 – Willie Morris, American writer (d. 1999)
• 1935 – Diane Ladd, American actress
• 1935 – Thomas J. O'Brien, American bishop
• 1937 – Jan Mangerud, Norwegian geologist and academic
• 1938 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (d. 1996)
• 1939 – Peter Bergman, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1939 – Meco, American record producer and musician
• 1940 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Cuban-Spanish economist and journalist (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Chuck Mangione, American horn player and composer
• 1940 – Janet Smith, English lawyer and judge
• 1940 – Henry T. Yang, Taiwanese/Chinese-American engineer and academic
• 1941 – Bill Freehan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1941 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Felix Cavaliere, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1942 – Michael Craze, British actor (d. 1998)^[4]
• 1942 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and academic (d. 1995)
• 1942 – Maggie Thompson, American author and critic
• 1942 – John Grillo, English actor and playwright
• 1943 – Janet Holmes à Court, Australian businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1943 – Bobbi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2000)
• 1943 – Sue Miller, American novelist and short story writer
• 1945 – Csaba Pléh, Hungarian psychologist and linguist
• 1946 – Brian Cadd, Australian singer-songwriter, keyboard player and producer
• 1946 – Suzy Chaffee, American skier
• 1946 – Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Petra Kelly, German activist and politician (d. 1992)
• 1947 – Ronnie Montrose, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Yōichi Masuzoe, Japanese politician
• 1949 – Yvon Labre, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 – Jerry Lawler, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1949 – Dutch Mantel, American wrestler and manager
• 1949 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
• 1949 – Steve Smith, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1950 – Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., American author (d. 2012)
• 1951 – Carl Finch, American polka musician, songwriter, and record producer (Brave Combo)
• 1951 – Barry Goudreau, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1951 – Roger Troutman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1999)
• 1951 – Don Walker, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1952 – Jeff Fahey, American actor and producer
• 1952 – Dusty Hare, English rugby player and cricketer
• 1953 – Jackie French, Australian author
• 1953 – Vlado Kreslin, Slovenian singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Huub Stevens, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1954 – Joel Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1955 – Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, and television host
• 1956 – Hinton Battle, German-American actor, dancer, and choreographer
• 1956 – Yvonne Fovargue, English lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Eric Laakso, American football player (d. 2010)
• 1956 – Katrin Saks, Estonian lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Jennifer Batten, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1957 – Janet Napolitano, American lawyer, academic, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security
• 1957 – Matthew Rubel, American businessman
• 1957 – Mario Salieri, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Michael Dempsey, Zimbabwean-English bass player
• 1958 – John Dramani Mahama, Ghanaian historian and politician, 4th President of Ghana
• 1959 – Richard Borcherds, South African-English mathematician and academic
• 1959 – Neal Broten, American ice hockey player
• 1959 – Rich Camarillo, American football player and coach
• 1959 – Rahm Emanuel, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago
• 1960 – Marco Bucci, Italian discus thrower (d. 2013)
• 1960 – Howard Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1960 – Cathy Moriarty, American actress
• 1962 – Ronny Jordan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1962 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor and director
• 1962 – Michael Veitch, Australian comedian and actor
• 1963 – Will Downing, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1963 – Lalit Modi, Indian businessman
• 1964 – Don Cheadle, American actor and producer
• 1964 – Ken Monkou, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
• 1965 – Lauren Child, English author
• 1965 – Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian and actress
• 1965 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese poet and pianist (d. 1992)
• 1968 – Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (d. 2016)
• 1968 – Jonathan Knight, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1969 – Kasey Keller, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1969 – Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American baseball player
• 1969 – Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
• 1969 – Tomas Brolin, Swedish footballer
• 1970 – Larry Joe Campbell, American actor and director
• 1970 – Mark Pembridge, Welsh footballer and coach
• 1970 – Ryu Seung-ryong, South Korean actor
• 1971 – Brad May, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Willie Bain, Scottish academic and politician
• 1972 – Brian Baumgartner, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Jamal Mashburn, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1972 – Roger Shah, German electronic music producer
• 1972 – Minoru Tanaka, Japanese wrestler and boxer
• 1973 – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1973 – Sarah Jones, American actress and playwright
• 1974 – Pavol Demitra, Slovak ice hockey player (d. 2011)
• 1975 – Andreas Ioannides, Cypriot footballer
• 1976 – Chris Akins, American football player
• 1976 – Lindsay Benko, American swimmer
• 1976 – Anna Faris, American actress
• 1976 – Michalis Kakiouzis, Greek basketball player
• 1977 – Eddie Howe, English footballer and manager
• 1977 – Younis Khan, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 – Maria Petrova, Russian figure skater
• 1978 – Alessandro Fei, Italian volleyball player
• 1978 – Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1979 – Adam Barrett, English footballer
• 1979 – Francis Beltrán, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – The Game, American rapper
• 1979 – Neal Horgan, American-Irish footballer
• 1980 – P. J. Fleck, American football player and coach
• 1980 – Janina Gavankar, American actress and singer
• 1980 – Chun Jung-myung, South Korean actor
• 1980 – Ilias Kasidiaris, Greek soldier and politician
• 1981 – Fawad Khan, Pakistani actor, model and singer
• 1983 – Tanner Glass, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Jennifer Oeser, German heptathlete
• 1983 – Aylin Tezel, German actress
• 1984 – Ji Hyun-woo, South Korean actor and guitarist
• 1984 – Katlego Mphela, South African footballer
• 1985 – Evangelia Aravani, Greek model
• 1985 – Shannon Brown, American basketball player
• 1987 – Stephen O'Halloran, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Sandro Wagner, German footballer
• 1988 – Dana Brooke, American wrestler and bodybuilder
• 1988 – Lee Hyun-ho, South Korean footballer
• 1988 – Russell Wilson, American football player
• 1990 – Sheldon Richardson, American football player
• 1991 – Terunofuji Haruo, Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1994 – Shaun Lane, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Karl Lawton, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Siobhan-Marie O'Connor, British swimmer
• 1996 – Akvilė Paražinskaitė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1997 – Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 521 – Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologian (b. 451)
• 524 – Ahkal Mo' Naab' I, ruler of Palenque (b. 465)
• 561 – Chlothar I, Frankish king (b. 497)
• 997 – Seongjong, Korean king (b. 961)
• 999 – Li Chun'an, Chinese merchant (b. 921)
• 1039 – Adalbero, duke of Carinthia (b. 980)
• 1253 – Otto II, duke of Bavaria (b. 1206)
• 1268 – Clement IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1190)
• 1314 – Philip IV, king of France (b. 1268)
• 1330 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1287)
• 1342 – Michael of Cesena, Italian general, priest, and theologian (b. 1270)
• 1378 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1316)
• 1396 – Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme, English nobleman (b. 1373)
• 1463 – Marie of Anjou, queen and wife of Charles VII of France (b. 1404)
• 1530 – Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1470)
• 1543 – Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist and printmaker
• 1544 – Jungjong of Joseon, Korean king (b. 1488)
• 1577 – Cuthbert Mayne, English priest (b. 1543)
• 1590 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
• 1595 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (b. 1533)
• 1626 – Ernst von Mansfeld, German commander (b. 1580)
• 1628 – John Felton, English soldier and assassin of the Duke of Buckingham (b. c. 1595)
• 1632 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine (b. 1596)
• 1643 – William Cartwright, English priest and playwright (b. 1611)
• 1643 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer (b. 1567)
• 1646 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (b. 1565)
• 1661 – Brian Walton, English bishop and scholar (b. 1600)
• 1694 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (b. 1628)
• 1695 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1619)
• 1699 – Patrick Gordon, Scottish-Russian general (b. 1635)
• 1759 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1687)
• 1780 – Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1717)
• 1797 – Samuel Langdon, American pastor, theologian, and academic (b. 1723)
• 1830 – John Maurice Hauke, Polish general (b. 1775)
• 1846 – Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1778)
• 1847 – Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802)
• 1872 – Mary Somerville, Scottish-Italian astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1780)^[5]
• 1883 – Hiệp Hòa, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1847)
• 1894 – Juan N. Méndez, Mexican general and interim president, 1876-1877 (b. 1820)^[6]
• 1918 – Prince Antônio Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (b. 1881)
• 1924 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator (b. 1858)
• 1927 – George Giffen, Australian cricketer (b. 1859)
• 1932 – Abdullah Cevdet, Kurdish-Turkish physician and academic (b. 1869)
• 1939 – Philipp Scheidemann, German lawyer and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1865)
• 1941 – Frank Waller, American sprinter and hurdler (b. 1884)
• 1942 – Boyd Wagner, American colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1946 – Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, physician, and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1890)
• 1953 – Sam De Grasse, Canadian-American actor (b. 1875)
• 1954 – Dink Johnson, American pianist, clarinet player, and drummer (b. 1892)
• 1957 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1967 – Ferenc Münnich, Hungarian soldier and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886)
• 1970 – Robert T. Frederick, American general (b. 1907)
• 1972 – Carl Stalling, American pianist and composer (b. 1888)
• 1974 – James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905)
• 1975 – Tony Brise, English race car driver (b. 1952)
• 1975 – Graham Hill, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1929)
• 1980 – Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement (b. 1897)
• 1980 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (b. 1923)
• 1981 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1982 – Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (b. 1894)
• 1982 – Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Nora Thompson Dean, American Lenape educator and author (b. 1907)^[7]
• 1986 – Cary Grant, English-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Irene Handl, English actress (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1992 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 1993 – J. R. D. Tata, French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Dan Flavin, American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Denis Jenkinson, English journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Maus Gatsonides, Dutch race car driver and businessman (b. 1911)
• 1999 – John Berry, American-French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Gene Rayburn, American game show panelist and host (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian-Swedish poet and publicist (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Mic Christopher, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1969)
• 2001 – George Harrison, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and music producer (b. 1943)
• 2001 – John Knowles, American novelist (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2004 – John Drew Barrymore, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (b. 1911)
• 2005 – David Di Tommaso, French footballer (b. 1979)
• 2006 – Allen Carr, English-Spanish accountant and author (b. 1934)
• 2007 – James Barber, Canadian chef and author (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Ralph Beard, American basketball player (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Henry Hyde, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Robert Holdstock, English author (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2010 – S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Stephen J. Solarz, American academic and politician (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Maurice Wilkes, English physicist and computer scientist (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian (b. 1969)
• 2011 – Guillermo O'Donnell, Argentine political scientist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Joelmir Beting, Brazilian journalist (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Sherab Palden Beru, Tibetan painter (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Merv Pregulman, American football player and businessman (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Buddy Roberts, American wrestler and manager (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Oliver Cheatham, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Colin Eglin, South African soldier and politician (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Russian-Polish poet and activist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Brian Torrey Scott, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1976)
• 2014 – Dwayne Alons, American general and politician (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Dick Bresciani, American businessman (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Joe Marston, Australian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Otto Newman, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Oʻtkir Sultonov, Uzbek lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Marcos Danilo Padilha, Brazilian football player (b. 1985)
• 2017 – Jim Nabors, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Slobodan Praljak, Croatian general (b. 1945)