Δισκογραφία

• «Θεσσαλονίκη 1965: Φεστιβάλ Ελληνικού Τραγουδιού» (1965)
• «Το Νέο Κύμα στο Ελληνικό Τραγούδι» (1965)
• «Αποδημίες» (1965)
• «Τα τραγούδια της Καίτης Χωματά» (1967)
• «Ανθολογία 1-2» (του Γιάννη Σπανού, 1967-1968)
• «Το 'Νέο Κύμα'τραγουδά Χατζιδάκι» (1969)
• «Καίτη Χωματά, 3» (1969)
• «Σκιές στην άμμο» (1969)
• «Ερωφίλη» (1970)
• «Φωτογραφίες» (1971)
• «Θαλασσάκι μου» (1972)
• «Πικρές αλήθειες» (1974)
• «Καφενείον 'Η Ευρυτανία'» (1974)
• «Τα ωραιότερα τραγούδια» (1976)
• «Θα σου δώσω τις χαρές όλου του Κόσμου» (1977)
• «Σταύρος Κουγιουμτζής: Σε Α'εκτέλεση» (1983)
• «Από τραγούδι σε τραγούδι» (1984)
• «Αυθόρμητα» (1987)
• «Μεγάλες επιτυχίες» (1991)
• «Ένα καράβι όνειρα» (1992)
• «Μη χάνεσαι» (1992)
• «Μια φορά θυμάμαι» (1993)
• «Το άλλο 'Νέο Κύμα', 1-2» (1993)
• «Τζένη, Τζένη» (1994, κινηματογραφική ταινία: 1966)
• «Μια αγάπη για το καλοκαίρι» (1995)
• «18 μεγάλες επιτυχίες» (1995, CD)

• Μηνάς Πατρίκιος, 5.279 ψήφους (30%).
• Κωνσταντίνος Αγγελάκης (βενιζελικός), 4.536 ψήφους (26%).
• Παναγιώτης Οικονόμου, 3.327 ψήφους (18%). Υποστηρίχθηκε από το Κόμμα των Ελευθεροφρόνων του Ιωάννη Μεταξά.
• Πέτρος Συνδίκας (βενιζελικός), 2.640 ψήφους (12%).
• Κωνσταντίνος Ζήσης, 829 ψήφους (5%). Υποστηρίχθηκε από μερίδα του Λαϊκού Κόμματος.
• Γεώργιος Καρβωνίδης (βενιζελικός), 507 ψήφους (3%).
• Νικόλαος Γερμανός (αντιβενιζελικός, ιδρυτής της ΔΕΘ), 283 ψήφους (1,5%).

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• 473 – Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1147 – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
• 1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
• 1154 – Henry II becomes King of England.
• 1415 – The army of Henry V of England defeats the French at the Battle of Agincourt.
• 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
• 1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• 1760 – George III becomes King of Great Britain.
• 1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
• 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
• 1828 – St Katharine Docks open in London.
• 1854 – The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
• 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
• 1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
• 1917 – Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
• 1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
• 1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail. The Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win.
• 1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
• 1938 – The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as "a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". His warning is widely ignored.
• 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
• 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
• 1944 – The Romanian city of Carei is liberated by Romanian and Soviet forces from Nazi-Hungarian occupation.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf — the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
• 1945 – The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan's surrender to the Allies.
• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
• 1962 – Uganda joins the United Nations.
• 1962 – Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
• 1971 – The United Nations seats the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
• 1977 – Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
• 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
• 1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
• 1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
• 1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
• 2004 – Cuban President Fidel Castro announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
• 2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.

Births[edit]

• 1102 – William Clito, French son of Sybilla of Conversano (d. 1128)
• 1330 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (d. 1384)
• 1510 – Renée of France (d. 1574)
• 1683 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1757)
• 1709 – Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (d. 1753)
• 1759 – Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
• 1759 – William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1834)
• 1767 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (d. 1830)
• 1772 – Géraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
• 1782 – Levi Lincoln, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
• 1800 – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English poet, historian, and politician, Secretary at War (d. 1859)
• 1802 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (d. 1864)
• 1864 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English painter (d. 1828)
• 1806 – Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (d. 1856)
• 1811 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832)
• 1815 – Camillo Sivori, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer (d. 1894)
• 1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
• 1838 – Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
• 1856 – Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist (d. 1936)
• 1864 – John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (d. 1920)
• 1864 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian-American composer (d. 1956)
• 1867 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (d. 1937)
• 1868 – Dan Burke, American baseball player (d. 1933)
• 1868 – Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, American author and educator (d. 1961)
• 1877 – Adolf Möller, German rower (d. 1968)
• 1881 – Julius Frey, German swimmer (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1882 – John T. Flynn, American journalist and author (d. 1964)
• 1882 – Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1921)
• 1886 – Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (d. 1972)
• 1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American admiral (d. 1957)
• 1888 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
• 1889 – Abel Gance, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1889 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1891 – Charles Coughlin, Canadian-American priest and radio host (d. 1979)
• 1892 – Nell Shipman, Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1970)
• 1894 – Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Claude Cahun, French artist, photographer and writer (d. 1954)
• 1895 – Levi Eshkol, Ukrainian-Israeli politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1969)
• 1900 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Henry Steele Commager, American historian and author (d. 1998)
• 1902 – Eddie Lang, American guitarist (d. 1933)
• 1903 – Katharine Byron, American politician (d. 1976)
• 1903 – Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
• 1904 – Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor (d. 1985)
• 1908 – Edmond Pidoux, Swiss author and poet (d. 2004)
• 1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer, created Tennis for Two (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Jack Kent Cooke, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1997)
• 1912 – Minnie Pearl, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Klaus Barbie, German captain (d. 1991)
• 1914 – John Berryman, American poet and scholar (d. 1972)
• 1915 – Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1999)
• 1917 – Lee MacPhail, American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Chubby Jackson, American bassist and bandleader (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Michael I of Romania
• 1923 – Don Banks, Australian composer (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Jean Duceppe, Canadian actor (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Billy Barty, American actor and singer (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Earl Palmer, American drummer (The Wrecking Crew) (d. 2008)
• 1925 – Takis, Greek sculptor
• 1926 – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (Heath Brothers)
• 1926 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano and actress (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Barbara Cook, American singer and actress
• 1927 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay
• 1927 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (d. 1987)
• 1928 – Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Marion Ross, American actress and singer
• 1930 – Harold Brodkey, American short story writer and novelist (d. 1996)
• 1931 – Annie Girardot, French actress and singer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager
• 1933 – Eugene Gordon Lee, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Joe Mercer, English jockey
• 1935 – Rusty Schweickart, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
• 1935 – Sam Taylor, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress
• 1937 – Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1939 – Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Fred Marcellino, American author and illustrator (d. 2001)
• 1939 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1940 – Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach
• 1941 – Lynda Benglis, American artist
• 1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1941 – Anne Tyler, American author and critic
• 1944 – Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yes, Jon and Vangelis, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and The Warriors)
• 1944 – James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant
• 1944 – Ron Coote, Australian rugby league player
• 1944 – Fred Housego, Scottish-English taxi driver and game show host
• 1944 – Kati Kovács, Hungarian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1945 – Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1994)
• 1946 – Koji Yamamoto, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1947 – Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Judas Priest and The Flying Hat Band)
• 1948 – Diana Burrell, English viola player and composer
• 1948 – Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Daniel Mark Epstein, American poet and author
• 1948 – Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach
• 1948 – Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
• 1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1949 – Hans-Georg Kraus, German footballer
• 1949 – Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (Uncle Walt's Band) (d. 1996)
• 1950 – Max Krilich, Australian rugby league player
• 1950 – Chris Norman, English singer-songwriter (Smokie)
• 1951 – Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television and Rocket from the Tombs)
• 1952 – Samir Geagea, Lebanese commander and politician
• 1952 – Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic
• 1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1952 – Mollie O'Brien, American singer and guitarist
• 1954 – Mike Eruzione, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1954 – David Worrall, Australian composer and educator
• 1955 – Glynis Barber, South African-English actress
• 1955 – Danny Darwin, American baseball player and coach
• 1955 – Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator (SFJAZZ Collective)
• 1955 – Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter (Scorpions)
• 1956 – Jüri Mõis, Estonian businessman and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior
• 1956 – Paul Regina, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress and singer
• 1957 – Bernard Hogan-Howe, English police officer
• 1958 – Philip A. Beachy, scientist
• 1958 – Phil Daniels, English actor and singer
• 1958 – Kornelia Ender, German swimmer
• 1958 – Lynn Toler, American lawyer and judge
• 1959 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Divinyls) (d. 2013)
• 1960 – June Brigman, American illustrator
• 1961 – Ward Burton, American race car driver
• 1961 – Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chickenfoot, and Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats)
• 1961 – Janice Tanton, Canadian illustrator
• 1961 – Willie Walsh, Irish-English businessman
• 1962 – Nick Hancock, English actor and screenwriter
• 1962 – Steve Hodge, English footballer and manager
• 1962 – Darlene Vogel, American actress
• 1962 – Roy Stuart, American photographer and director
• 1963 – Dominic Dromgoole, English director, playwright, and critic
• 1963 – John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe)
• 1963 – Tracy Nelson, American actress
• 1964 – Nicole, German singer
• 1964 – Michael Boatman, American actor
• 1964 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American voice actor and singer
• 1965 – Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director
• 1965 – Þorsteinn Bachmann, Icelandic actor
• 1965 – Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic
• 1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon, American-English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1965 – 2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler
• 1966 – Keisha, American pornographic actress
• 1966 – Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Perry Saturn, American wrestler
• 1968 – Speech, American rapper (Arrested Development)
• 1968 – Sean Sasser, American chef and activist (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1969 – Nika Futterman, American voice actress and singer
• 1969 – Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer
• 1969 – Alex Webster, American bass player (Cannibal Corpse and Blotted Science)
• 1970 – J. A. Adande, American journalist
• 1970 – Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1970 – Adam Goldberg, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Adam Pascal, American actor and singer
• 1970 – Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Barenaked Ladies and Yukon Kornelius)
• 1970 – Daniel Scheinhardt, German footballer
• 1970 – Chely Wright, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 – Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager
• 1971 – Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1971 – Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Clutch, The Company Band, and The Bakerton Group)
• 1971 – Midori Gotō, Japanese-American violinist and educator
• 1971 – Leslie Grossman, American actress
• 1971 – Rosie Ledet, American singer-songwriter and accordion player
• 1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1971 – Craig Robinson, American actor, stand-up comedian and singer
• 1971 – Elif Şafak, Turkish author, columnist, speaker and academic
• 1972 – Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Sayuri Uchida, Japanese actress
• 1973 – Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (d. 2005)
• 1974 – Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player
• 1974 – Goya Jaekel, German footballer
• 1975 – Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kings of Convenience and Skog)
• 1975 – Ryan Clement, American football player
• 1975 – Zadie Smith, English author and academic
• 1975 – Giorgos Tsalikis, Greek singer
• 1976 – Steve Jones, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Brett Kirk, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 – The Alchemist, American rapper, DJ, and producer (The Whooliganz and Gangrene)
• 1977 – Yehonathan Gatro, Israeli singer and actor
• 1977 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer and psychologist
• 1977 – Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor
• 1977 – Kateryna Serebrianska, Ukrainian gymnast
• 1978 – Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish sprinter
• 1978 – Maria Takagi, Japanese actress
• 1979 – Eddie Argos, English singer-songwriter (Art Brut)
• 1979 – Bat for Lashes, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Rob Hulse, English footballer
• 1979 – Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model
• 1979 – Ivana Sert, Serbian-Turkish model and fashion designer
• 1979 – Sarah Thompson, American actress
• 1979 – Tony Torcato, American baseball player
• 1980 – Mehcad Brooks, American model and actor
• 1980 – Hubert Radke, Polish basketball player
• 1981 – Josh Henderson, American actor and singer
• 1981 – Young Rome, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (IMx)
• 1981 – Austin Winkler, American singer-songwriter (Hinder)
• 1981 – Jon Wood, American race car driver
• 1981 – Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer
• 1982 – Jerome Carter, American football player
• 1982 – Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer-songwriter (at17)
• 1983 – Gyptian, Jamaican singer
• 1983 – Hotaru Akane, Japanese actress and activist
• 1983 – Mirjam Liimask, Estonian hurdler
• 1983 – Tim McGarigle, American football player
• 1983 – Taylor Vixen, American porn actress and director
• 1983 – Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer and dancer (A-Teens)
• 1984 – Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 – Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1985 – Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer
• 1985 – Dani López, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Daniele Padelli, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Ayahi Takagaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1986 – Eddie Gaven, American soccer player
• 1986 – DJ Webstar, American DJ and producer
• 1987 – Bill Amis, American basketball player
• 1987 – Black Angelika, Romanian porn actress
• 1987 – Darron Gibson, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
• 1988 – Chandler Parsons, American basketball player
• 1988 – Shane Edwards, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Mandi Lampi, Finnish actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1989 – Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Niall Donohue, Irish hurler (d. 2013)
• 1990 – Filipe Galvão, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1990 – Austin Peralta, American pianist and composer (d. 2012)
• 1992 – Kamie Crawford, American model, Miss Teen USA 2010
• 1993 – Ediz Yıldırımer, Turkish freestyle swimmer
• 1994 – Jack Payne, English footballer
• 2001 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
• 2006 – Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian conjoined twins

Deaths[edit]

• 625 – Pope Boniface V
• 686 – Prince Ōtsu of Japan (b. 663)
• 1047 – Magnus the Good, Norwegian king (b. 1024)
• 1154 – Stephen, King of England (b. 1096)
• 1200 – Conrad of Wittelsbach, German cardinal (b. 1120)
• 1221 – Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford, Master Chamberlain of England (b. c. 1165)
• 1230 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1180)
• 1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (b. 1343)
• 1415 – Killed in the Battle of Agincourt:
  • Charles I of Albret
  • Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389)
  • Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont (b. 1371)
  • Jean I, Duke of Alençon (b. 1385)
  • Anthony, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384)
  • Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (b. 1394)
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (b. 1373)
• 1478 – Catherine of Bosnia (b. 1425)
• 1492 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (b. 1455)
• 1495 – John II of Portugal (b. 1455)
• 1514 – William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop, founded University of Aberdeen (b. 1431)
• 1555 – Olympia Fulvia Morata, Italian-German scholar (b. 1526)
• 1557 – William Cavendish, English courtier and civil servant (b. 1505)
• 1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
• 1683 – William Scroggs, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1623)
• 1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
• 1757 – Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (b. 1672)
• 1760 – George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
• 1773 – Johann Georg Estor, German historian and theorist (b. 1699)
• 1806 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (b. 1750)
• 1826 – Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (b. 1745)
• 1833 – Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (b. 1789)
• 1852 – John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (b. 1793)
• 1879 – Nachum Kaplan, preacher and philanthropist (b. 1811)
• 1889 – Émile Augier, French playwright (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1902 – Frank Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
• 1910 – Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1878)
• 1916 – William Merritt Chase, American painter (b. 1849)
• 1920 – Alexander of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1920 – Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright and politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (b. 1879)
• 1921 – Bat Masterson, American journalist and police officer (b. 1853)
• 1924 – Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and political activist (b. 1876)
• 1938 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet (b. 1892)
• 1941 – Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1945 – Robert Ley, German politician (b. 1890)
• 1949 – Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (b. 1867)
• 1953 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1955 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of the atomic bomb (b. 1943)
• 1957 – Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mobster (b. 1902)
• 1957 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company (b. 1884)
• 1962 – Louis Abell, American rower (b. 1884)
• 1962 – William Funnell, Australian public servant (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (b. 1898)
• 1963 – Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian-American geologist and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Eduard Einstein, Swiss son of Albert Einstein (b. 1910)
• 1967 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1970 – Ülo Sooster, Estonian artist (b. 1924)
• 1973 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
• 1973 – Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1973 – Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (b. 1891)
• 1974 – Fahrettin Altay, Turkish general (b. 1880)
• 1975 – Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1937)
• 1976 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (b. 1903)
• 1979 – Gerald Templer, English field marshal (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1921)
• 1985 – Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter and actor (Heavy Metal Kids) (b. 1952)
• 1986 – Forrest Tucker, American actor and singer (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Mary McCarthy, American author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Zara Mints, Russian-Estonian philologist and academic (b. 1927)
• 1991 – Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (b. 1931)
• 1992 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter (b. 1916)
• 1993 – Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1958)
• 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Te Ata Fisher, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1995 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1920)
• 1995 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Roland Wilson, Australian public servant (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Warren Wiebe, American singer (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
• 2000 – Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese officer and submarine commander (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Nejat Saydam, Turkish film director, screenwriter, and actor from Istanbul (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Richard Harris, Irish-English actor and singer (b. 1930)
• 2002 – René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Robert Strassburg, American conductor and composer (b. 1915)
• 2003 – Behram Kurşunoğlu, Turkish physicist (b. 1922)
• 2004 – John Peel, English radio host and producer (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Barbara Keogh, English actress (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Wellington Mara, American commander and businessman (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Danny Rolling, American serial killer (b. 1954)
• 2008 – Gerard Damiano, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Anne Pressly, American journalist and actress (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (b. 1957)
• 2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (b. 1907)
• 2012 – Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2012 – John Connelly, English footballer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Aung Gyi, Burmese general and politician (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Les Mueller, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Nigel Davenport, English actor (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Marcia Wallace, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (Cream, Blues Incorporated, The Graham Bond Organisation, and West, Bruce and Laing) (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Reyhaneh Jabbari, Iranian murderer (b. 1988)
• 2014 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican politician, 34th Vice President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1940)

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• 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki.
• 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, ruled by the Asen dynasty.
• 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor at Didymoteicho.
• 1377 – Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of Bosnia.
• 1520 – Charles V is crowned.
• 1597 – Imjin War: Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
• 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England.
• 1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
• 1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
• 1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
• 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
• 1811 – The Argentine government declare the freedom of expression for the press by decree.
• 1813 – War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of the Chateauguay.
• 1825 – The Erie Canal opens: Passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
• 1859 – The Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, north Wales with 459 dead.
• 1860 – Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.
• 1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
• 1863 – The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
• 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
• 1905 – Sweden accepted the independence of Norway.
• 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
• 1917 – World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat to the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommelcaptures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
• 1917 – World War I: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
• 1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
• 1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
• 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
• 1940 – The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
• 1943 – World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 "Pfeil".
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
• 1947 – The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu agrees to allow his kingdom to join India.
• 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares permanent neutrality.
• 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
• 1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
• 1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
• 1968 – Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
• 1970 – Muhammad Ali faces off against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus from evading to be drafted in the Vietnam War.
• 1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
• 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-gyu. Choi Kyu-hah becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
• 1984 – "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
• 1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines.
• 1991 – History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
• 1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
• 1992 – The London Ambulance Service is thrown into chaos after the implementation of a new CAD, or Computer Aided Dispatch, system which failed.
• 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
• 1995 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
• 1999 – Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
• 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
• 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
• 2002 – Moscow theater hostage crisis: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
• 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
• 2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick which started on June 20, 2002 after 12 years four months and seven days.

Births[edit]

• 1416 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (d. 1490)
• 1427 – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (d. 1496)
• 1474 – Friedrich of Saxony (d. 1510)
• 1491 – Zhengde Emperor of China (d. 1521)
• 1529 – Anna of Hesse (d. 1591)
• 1564 – Hans Leo Hassler German organist and composer (d. 1612)
• 1609 – William Sprague, English-American settler, co-founded Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
• 1673 – Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian geographer, historian, and philosopher (d. 1723)
• 1684 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (d. 1757)
• 1685 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1757)
• 1694 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (d. 1758)
• 1747 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1804)
• 1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1823)
• 1759 – Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 1794)
• 1768 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (d. 1844)
• 1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (d. 1881)
• 1795 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer and theorist (d. 1872)
• 1797 – Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (d. 1865)
• 1799 – Margaret Agnes Bunn, Scottish actress (d. 1883)
• 1800 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (d. 1891)
• 1802 – Miguel I of Portugal (d. 1866)
• 1803 – Joseph Hansom, English architect, designed Birmingham Town Hall (d. 1882)
• 1842 – Vasily Vereshchagin, Russian soldier and painter (d. 1904)
• 1849 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (d. 1917)
• 1850 – Grigore Tocilescu, Romanian archaeologist and historian (d. 1909)
• 1854 – C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (d. 1914)
• 1860 – Frank Eaton, American Deputy U.S. Marshal (d. 1958)
• 1865 – Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (d. 1912)
• 1869 – Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (d. 1957)
• 1871 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer (d. 1941)
• 1872 – Harold Fraser, American golfer (d. 1945)
• 1873 – A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bangladeshi-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Pakistani Minister of Interior (d. 1962)
• 1873 – Thorvald Stauning, Danish union leader and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1942)
• 1874 – Martin Lowry, English chemist and academic (d. 1936)
• 1874 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American philanthropist (d. 1948)
• 1880 – Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1934)
• 1881 – Louis Bastien, French cyclist and fencer (d. 1963)
• 1883 – Napoleon Hill, American philosopher and author (d. 1970)
• 1883 – Paul Pilgrim, American runner (d. 1958)
• 1884 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (d. 1965)
• 1890 – Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and politician (d. 1931)
• 1893 – Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and author (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Judy Johnson, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
• 1902 – Beryl Markham, Kenyan horse trainer and author (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (d. 1994)
• 1902 – Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Mahn Ba Khaing, Burmese martyr (d. 1947)
• 1905 – George Bernard Flahiff, Canadian cardinal (d. 1989)
• 1906 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1909 – Ignace Lepp, French psychologist and author (d. 1966)
• 1909 – Dante Quinterno, Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1910 – John Krol, American cardinal (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer and actress (d. 1972)
• 1911 – Sorley MacLean, Scottish poet and educator (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Don Siegel, American director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1913 – Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Jackie Coogan, American actor and director (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Joe Fry, English race car driver (d. 1950)
• 1916 – François Mitterrand, French lawyer and politician, 21st President of France (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Boyd Wagner, American colonel and pilot (d. 1942)
• 1918 – Diana Serra Cary, American actress
• 1919 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Edward Brooke, American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (d. 2015)
• 1919 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Persian king (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Sarah Lee Lippincott, American astronomer
• 1921 – George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (d. 1968)
• 1922 – Madelyn Dunham, American grandmother of Barack Obama (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Fred Wood, English actor
• 1923 – Robert Hinde, English zoologist and academic
• 1924 – Shaw Taylor, English actor and television host (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor, painter, and author (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Panos Gavalas, Greek singer (d. 1988)
• 1927 – Warne Marsh, American saxophonist (Supersax) (d. 1987)
• 1928 – Francisco Solano López, Argentinian illustrator (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (The Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1933 – Andrew P. O'Rourke, American judge and politician (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Hot Rod Hundley, American basketball player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1934 – Hans-Joachim Roedelius, German keyboard player and producer (Cluster, Harmonia, Kluster, and Aquarello)
• 1935 – Mike Gray, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Gloria Conyers Hewitt, American mathematician and academic
• 1936 – Shelley Morrison, American actress
• 1936 – György Pauk, Hungarian violinist and educator
• 1940 – Eddie Henderson, American trumpet player and educator
• 1940 – John Horgan, Irish academic and politician
• 1941 – Steven Kellogg, American author and illustrator
• 1941 – Charlie Landsborough, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 – Bob Hoskins, English actor, singer, and director (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Milton Nascimento, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Clube da Esquina)
• 1942 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Jonathan Williams, English race car driver
• 1944 – Jim McCann, Irish singer and guitarist (The Dubliners and The Ludlows) (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Pat Conroy, American author
• 1945 – Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author
• 1945 – Nancy Davis Griffeth, American computer scientist
• 1945 – Jaclyn Smith, American actress and producer
• 1946 – Sir Kevin Barron, English politician
• 1946 – Keith Hopwood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Herman's Hermits)
• 1946 – Pat Sajak, American game show host
• 1946 – Holly Woodlawn, American performer
• 1947 – Ricardo Asch, Argentinian gynecologist and endocrinologist
• 1947 – Ian Ashley, German-English race car driver
• 1947 – Hillary Rodham Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 44th First Lady of the United States
• 1947 – Reg Empey, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast
• 1947 – Trevor Joyce, Irish poet and scholar
• 1947 – Kenzo Kitakata, Japanese novelist
• 1948 – Toby Harrah, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Antonio Carpio, Filipino lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• 1949 – Steve Rogers, American baseball player
• 1949 – Kevin Sullivan, American wrestler and booker
• 1951 – Bootsy Collins, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Parliament-Funkadelic and Praxis)
• 1951 – Tommy Mars, American keyboard player
• 1951 – Julian Schnabel, American painter, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Bobby Bandiera, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)
• 1952 – Edward Garnier, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
• 1952 – Andrew Motion, English poet and author
• 1952 – David Was, American singer-songwriter and producer (Was (Not Was))
• 1953 – Roger Allam, English actor and singer
• 1953 – Tim Hely Hutchinson, English publisher
• 1953 – Joe Meriweather, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Keith Strickland, American guitarist and songwriter (The B-52's)
• 1953 – Maureen Teefy, American actress and singer
• 1953 – Lauren Tewes, American actress
• 1954 – Vasilis Hatzipanagis, Greek footballer
• 1954 – Adam Mars-Jones, English author and critic
• 1954 – D. W. Moffett, American actor
• 1956 – Stephen Gumley, Australian engineer and businessman
• 1956 – Rita Wilson, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1957 – Julie Dawn Cole, English actress and singer
• 1957 – Bob Golic, American football player and radio host
• 1958 – Shaun Woodward, English politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• 1959 – Brian Bovell, English actor
• 1959 – François Chau, Cambodian-American actor
• 1959 – Paul Farmer, American anthropologist and physician
• 1959 – Andreas Hinze, German footballer
• 1959 – Marilyn Jess, French porn actress
• 1959 – Evo Morales, Bolivian politician, 80th President of Bolivia
• 1960 – Patrick Breen, American actor and screenwriter
• 1961 – Gerald Malloy, American lawyer and politician
• 1961 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
• 1961 – Stacy Schiff, American author and critic
• 1962 – Cary Elwes, English actor and producer
• 1963 – Ted Demme, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2002)
• 1963 – Natalie Merchant, American singer-songwriter and pianist (10,000 Maniacs)
• 1964 – Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and producer
• 1965 – Aaron Kwok, Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actor
• 1965 – Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress and producer
• 1966 – Jane Hajduk, American actress
• 1966 – Masaharu Iwata, Japanese keyboard player and composer
• 1966 – Sverre Gjørvad, Norwegian drummer (Dingobats)
• 1966 – Steve Valentine, Scottish actor
• 1966 – Jeanne Zelasko, American journalist and sportscaster
• 1967 – Douglas Alexander, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Europe
• 1967 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Ranch)
• 1968 – Miyuki Imori, Japanese entertainer, actress, and singer
• 1970 – Lisa Ryder, Canadian actress
• 1970 – Dian Bachar, American actor
• 1971 – Jim Butcher, American author
• 1971 – Audley Harrison, English boxer
• 1971 – Ronnie Irani, English cricketer
• 1971 – Anthony Rapp, American actor and singer
• 1972 – Matsuko Deluxe, Japanese columnist, essayist, and television personality
• 1972 – Daniel Elena, Monegasque race car driver
• 1973 – Austin Healey, English rugby player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Seth MacFarlane, American voice actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Taka Michinoku, Japanese wrestler and trainer
• 1974 – Lisa, Japanese singer and producer (M-Flo)
• 1974 – Anita Rinaldi, Hungarian porn actress, director, and producer
• 1974 – Raveena Tandon, Indian actress and producer
• 1975 – Ivo Posti, Estonian tenor
• 1976 – Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1976 – Shinji Takao, Japanese Go player
• 1977 – Jon Heder, American actor and producer
• 1978 – Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1978 – Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer and actor
• 1978 – Eva Kaili, Greek journalist and politician
• 1978 – CM Punk, American wrestler and actor
• 1978 – Dave Zastudil, American football player
• 1979 – Movsar Barayev, Chechen militia leader (d. 2002)
• 1979 – Josh Portman, American guitarist (Near Miss and Yellowcard)
• 1980 – Cristian Chivu, Romanian footballer
• 1980 – Claire Cooper, English actress
• 1980 – Koichi Watanabe, Japanese kick-boxer
• 1981 – Sam Brown, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Martina Schild, Swiss skier
• 1981 – Guy Sebastian, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 – Chou Ssu-Chi, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1981 – Girl Talk, American DJ and producer (Trey Told 'Em)
• 1982 – Nicola Adams, English boxer
• 1982 – Adam Carroll, Irish race car driver
• 1982 – Niña Dolino, Filipino actress
• 1983 – Francisco Liriano, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
• 1983 – Luke Watson, South African rugby player
• 1984 – Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
• 1984 – Adriano Correia, Brazilian footballer
• 1984 – Mathieu Crépel, French snowboarder
• 1984 – Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
• 1984 – Amanda Overmyer, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Asin, Indian model and actress
• 1985 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player
• 1985 – Kafoumba Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
• 1985 – Monta Ellis, American basketball player
• 1985 – Kieran Read, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 – Soko, French singer and actress
• 1986 – Ibor Bakar, French footballer
• 1986 – Emilia Clarke, English actress
• 1986 – Jakub Rzeźniczak, Polish footballer
• 1986 – Marco Ruben, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 – Schoolboy Q, German-American rapper (Black Hippy)
• 1987 – Abudramae Bamba, Ivorian footballer
• 1987 – Shawn Lauvao, American football player
• 1988 – Greg Zuerlein, American figure skater
• 1989 – Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer
• 1990 – Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player
• 1991 – Riho Iida, Japanese actress and model
• 1991 – Amala Paul, Indian actress
• 1991 – Shu Watanabe, Japanese actor
• 1994 – Allie DeBerry, American actress
• 1996 – Rebecca Tunney, English gymnast

Deaths[edit]

• 664 – Cedd, English monk and bishop (b. 620)
• 899 – Alfred the Great, English king (b. 849)
• 1440 – Gilles de Rais, French knight (b. 1404)
• 1609 – Matsudaira Tadayori, Japanese samurai and daimyo (b. 1582)
• 1633 – Horio Tadaharu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1596)
• 1671 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
• 1675 – William Sprague, English-American settler, co-founded Charlestown, Massachusetts (b. 1609)
• 1686 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1623)
• 1717 – Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (b. 1657)
• 1751 – Philip Doddridge, English minister and hymn-writer (b. 1702)
• 1764 – William Hogarth, English painter and engraver (b. 1697)
• 1773 – Amédée-François Frézier, French mathematician, engineer, and explorer (b. 1682)
• 1803 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1721)
• 1806 – John Graves Simcoe, English general and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1752)
• 1817 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Dutch-Austrian chemist and botanist (b. 1727)
• 1861 – Edward "Ned" Kendall American bugle player and bandleader (b. 1808)
• 1864 – William T. Anderson, American captain (b. 1838)
• 1866 – John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer, founded the Labatt Brewing Company (b. 1803)
• 1890 – Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1826)
• 1896 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French philosopher, academic, and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
• 1902 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American activist (b. 1815)
• 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)
• 1919 – Akashi Motojiro, Japanese general (b. 1864)
• 1927 – Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (b. 1898)
• 1930 – Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss physician and microbiologist (b. 1860)
• 1930 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
• 1931 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1859)
• 1932 – Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1867)
• 1937 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
• 1941 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (b. 1904)
• 1943 – Aurel Stein, Hungarian-English archaeologist and academic (b. 1862)
• 1944 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese flying ace (b. 1920)
• 1944 – William Temple, English archbishop (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1945 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (b. 1878)
• 1946 – Ioannis Rallis, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Edwin Sidney Savage, English cleric (b. 1862)
• 1949 – Lionel Halsey, English admiral and courtier (b. 1872)
• 1952 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress and singer (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
• 1957 – Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1957 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (b. 1883)
• 1960 – Toshizō Nishio, Japanese general (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Louise Beavers, American actress and singer (b. 1902)
• 1963 – Elizabeth Gunn, New Zealand paediatrician (b. 1879)
• 1965 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (b. 1949)
• 1966 – Alma Cogan, English singer (b. 1932)
• 1971 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1972 – Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Bidia Dandaron, Russian author and educator (b. 1914)
• 1978 – Alexander Gerschenkron, Ukrainian-American historian, critic, and educator (b. 1904)
• 1979 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (b. 1917)
• 1984 – Gus Mancuso, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
• 1989 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Oro, Mexican wrestler (b. 1971)
• 1994 – Wilbert Harrison, American singer and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American author and educator (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Johannes Käbin, Estonian politician (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish, Sunni Islamic scholar (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Movsar Barayev, Russian militia leader (b. 1979)
• 2002 – Jacques Massu, French general (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Bobby Ávila, Mexican baseball player and politician (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Keith Parkinson, American illustrator (b. 1958)
• 2005 – George Swindin, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Tillman Franks, American bassist and songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and curator (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and television host (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Tony Hillerman, American journalist, author, and educator (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Delmar Watson, American actor and photographer (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Teel Bivins, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Ambassador to Sweden (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Yoshirō Muraki, Japanese designer and director (b. 1924)
• 2009 – George Naʻope, American singer and dancer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Glen Little, American clown (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Mbah Maridjan, Indonesian spiritual leader (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Paul the Octopus, English octopus (b. 2008)
• 2010 – Romeu Tuma, Brazilian police officer and politician (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian physician and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Mac Ahlberg, Swedish-Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Arnold Greenberg, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1932)
• 2012 – John M. Johansen American architect, designed the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Alan Kirschenbaum, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (Blaque) (b. 1979)
• 2012 – Björn Sieber, Austrian skier (b. 1989)
• 2012 – Alan Stretton, Australian general (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Ritva Arvelo, Finnish actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Ron Davies, Welsh photographer (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Doug Ireland, American journalist and activist (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Al Johnson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Unifics) (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Andries Maseko, South African footballer (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Gabriel of Komana (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Vic Allen, English sociologist, economist, and historian (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Mo Collins, American football player and coach (b. 1976)
• 2014 – Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer (b. 1987)
• 2014 – Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (b. 1992)