η πιο ακριβή αεροπορική σουίτα στον κόσμο

Η Etihad μπορεί να υπερηφανεύεται για την Diamond First Class Suite

Ένα αεροπορικό ταξίδι μπορεί να μην είναι ευχάριστο πάντα. Υπάρχουν όμως φορές που το νόημα από το ποίημα του Κωνσταντίνου Καβάφη «Ιθάκη» ότι σημασία έχει το ταξίδι και όχι ο προορισμός, βρίσκουν την πλήρη εφαρμογή τους ακόμη και σε ένα ταξίδι με αεροπλάνο. Πότε ισχύει αυτό; Όταν ταξιδεύεις στην πρώτη θέση, σε μία από τις πιο πολυτελείς και ακριβές σουίτες αεροπλάνου παγκοσμίως. 

 

Ο λόγος για την Diamond First Class Suite της Etihad, η οποία για τρίτη συνεχόμενη χρονιά βραβεύτηκε με τον τίτλο της «Καλύτερης Πρώτης Θέσης» στον κόσμο. Σημείωσε, μάλιστα, ότι η αεροπορική εταιρεία με έδρα της το Άμπου Ντάμπι, το 2015 απέσπασε επίσης για δεύτερη χρονιά το βραβείο της «Καλύτερης Αεροπορικής Εταιρείας στον Κόσμο» στα World Travel Awards (WTA). 

H αεροπορική εταιρεία είναι πολύ περήφανη για τη συγκεκριμένη σουίτα, η οποία προσφέρει μια μοναδική ταξιδιωτική εμπειρία, με εξατομικευμένες υπηρεσίες και ανέσεις. Δίνοντας στον επιβάτη την αίσθηση ότι ταξιδεύει σε ένα... πολυτελές, ιδιωτικό σύμπαν, ξεχωρίζει για τις άκρως ιδιωτικές στιγμές που χαρίζει πίσω από τις κλειστές της πόρτες. 

Δερμάτινα καθίσματα που μετατρέπονται σε αναπαυτικά κρεβάτια, ρυθμιζόμενη, επίπεδη τηλεόραση 24 ιντσών, ντουλάπι για τα προσωπικά αντικείμενα και ντουλάπι για ποτά, κομψά υφάσματα και ατμοσφαιρικός φωτισμός στα βασικά χαρακτηριστικά της σουίτας. 

Στα συν το γεγονός ότι το γεύμα σερβίρεται prive, ενώ υπάρχει η δυνατότητα ακόμη και για επαγγελματικά ραντεβού στον... αέρα, καθώς η σουίτα διαθέτει δύο άνετα καθίσματα. 

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• 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
• 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
• 1347 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
• 1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1596 – Luis de Carabajal the younger is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico City.
• 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
• 1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
• 1807 – After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
• 1817 – Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
• 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
• 1855 – The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
• 1856 – Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
• 1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
• 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• 1879 – The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
• 1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
• 1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
• 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
• 1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• 1922 – United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
• 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• 1942 – World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
• 1945 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
• 1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
• 1948 – The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
• 1949 – Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
• 1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
• 1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
• 1955 – The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
• 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
• 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
• 1963 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 1963 – The first full color television program in the world, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican engineer Guillermo González Camarena.
• 1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
• 1965 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
• 1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
• 1969 – Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
• 1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
• 1971 – South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
• 1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
• 1974 – Military coup in Upper Volta.
• 1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• 1981 – Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• 1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
• 1986 – Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
• 1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
• 1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
• 1996 – The massive Internet collaboration 24 Hours in Cyberspace takes place.
• 2005 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
• 2010 – A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
• 2013 – A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
• 2014 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.

Births[edit]

• 120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175)
• 412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)
• 882 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt (d. 946)
• 1191 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (d. 1246)
• 1291 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
• 1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1453)
• 1487 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
• 1552 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
• 1561 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (d. 1619)
• 1577 – Robert Burton, English priest, physician, and scholar (d. 1640)
• 1685 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (d. 1770)
• 1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1782)
• 1708 – Václav Jan Kopřiva, Bohemian organist and composer (d. 1789)
• 1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
• 1741 – André Grétry, Belgian-French organist and composer (d. 1813)
• 1762 – Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1820)
• 1764 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1846)
• 1792 – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1873)
• 1798 – Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (d. 1849)
• 1804 – Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (d. 1834)
• 1807 – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and zoologist (d. 1889)
• 1819 – John Ruskin, English author, critic, and academic (d. 1900)
• 1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (d. 1891)
• 1822 – Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894)
• 1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892)
• 1828 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1905)
• 1829 – Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (d. 1902)
• 1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907)
• 1850 – Kate Chopin, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1904)
• 1866 – Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (d. 1947)
• 1878 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic (d. 1965)
• 1880 – Franz Marc, German soldier and painter (d. 1916)
• 1880 – Viktor Schwanneke, German actor and director (d. 1931)
• 1882 – Thomas Selfridge, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1908)
• 1883 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and political scientist (d. 1950)
• 1884 – Reginald Baker, Australian boxer, rugby player, and actor (d. 1953)
• 1886 – Charlie Ruggles, American actor and singer (d. 1970)
• 1888 – Edith Evans, English actress (d. 1976)
• 1890 – Claro M. Recto, Filipino lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Elizabeth Ryan, American tennis player (d. 1979)
• 1893 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (d. 1977)
• 1894 – Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher and author (d. 1971)
• 1894 – King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Zakir Hussain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd president of India (d. 1969)
• 1899 – Lonnie Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Russian animator and director (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian activist (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1977)
• 1903 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (d. 1942)
• 1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography (d. 1968)
• 1909 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (d. 2012)
• 1911 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (d. 1979)
• 1913 – Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1913 – Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Bill Finger, American screenwriter and author (d. 1974)
• 1915 – Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Lisel Mueller, German-American poet and academic
• 1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (d. 1968)
• 1928 – Osian Ellis, Welsh harp player and composer
• 1928 – Jack Larson, American actor, producer, and playwright (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Gene Lees, Canadian journalist and songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Claude Rich, French actor and screenwriter
• 1930 – James Deetz, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-American actor and director (d. 1987)
• 1930 – Arlan Stangeland, American farmer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
• 1932 – Cliff Allison, English race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Vladas Garastas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1932 – John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1933 – Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
• 1939 – Ken Iman, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1939 – Jose Maria Sison, Filipino activist and theorist
• 1940 – Ted Koppel, English-American journalist
• 1941 – Nick Nolte, American actor and producer
• 1941 – Tom Rush, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1941 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Robert Klein, American comedian, actor, and singer
• 1942 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (Bruce & Terry) (d. 2004)
• 1943 – Creed Bratton, American actor and singer (The Grass Roots)
• 1943 – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
• 1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Tony Minson, English virologist and academic
• 1944 – Barbro Hedvall, Swedish journalist
• 1947 – Yi Zhongtian, Chinese writer
• 1947 – Kerrie Biddell, Australian jazz and session singer (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Henry Oden, American blues musician
• 1948 – Dan Seals, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (England Dan & John Ford Coley) (d. 2009)
• 1948 – Ron Tyson, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations)
• 1949 – Brooke Adams, American actress and producer
• 1949 – Niels Arestrup, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Cristina Ferrare, American model and actress
• 1952 – Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
• 1952 – Daisuke Gōri, Japanese actor (d. 2010)
• 1953 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1955 – John Grisham, American lawyer and author
• 1955 – Jim Neidhart, American wrestler
• 1956 – Marques Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1956 – Dave Meros, American bass player (Spock's Beard)
• 1957 – Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist
• 1959 – Andrew Hoy, Australian jockey
• 1959 – Mauricio Macri, Argentinian businessman and politician, President of Argentina
• 1960 – Benigno Aquino III, Filipino politician, 15th President of the Philippines
• 1960 – Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Stuart Hamm, American bass player
• 1961 – Vince Neil, American singer-songwriter (Mötley Crüe) and actor
• 1961 – Bruce Timm, American animator and producer
• 1962 – Daniel Levy, English businessman
• 1962 – Dennis Padilla, Filipino actor
• 1963 – Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer and politician
• 1963 – Joshua Kadison, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1964 – Trinny Woodall, English fashion designer and author
• 1965 – Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Big Four)
• 1965 – Miguel Pardeza, Spanish footballer
• 1966 – Sean Harris, English actor
• 1966 – Bruno Labbadia, German footballer and manager
• 1966 – Sarah Montague, English journalist and radio host
• 1966 – Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1966 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
• 1967 – Rachel Cusk, Canadian-English author
• 1968 – Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1969 – Mary Robinette Kowal, American puppeteer and author
• 1969 – Mary McCormack, American actress and producer
• 1970 – John Filan, Australian footballer and coach
• 1970 – Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
• 1970 – Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering, University of Cambridge
• 1971 – Andre El Haddad, Lebanese footballer and referee
• 1971 – Mika Karppinen, Swedish-Finnish drummer (HIM and To Separate the Flesh from the Bones)
• 1971 – Aidy Boothroyd, English footballer and manager
• 1972 – Big Show, American wrestler and actor
• 1972 – Hiroshi Tsuchida, Japanese voice actor and actor
• 1973 – Keith McDonald, Japanese-American baseball player
• 1973 – Project Pat, American rapper
• 1974 – Seth Green, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Chris Waitt, English singer and director
• 1976 – Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1976 – Adam Piatt, American baseball player
• 1976 – Nicolas Vouilloz, French race car driver and biker
• 1977 – Barry Hall, Australian footballer
• 1977 – Roman Kostomarov, Russian ice dancer
• 1977 – Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan-American poet and graphic designer
• 1979 – Aaron Cook, American baseball player
• 1979 – Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
• 1980 – Ralf Little, English footballer and actor
• 1980 – Jenny Miller, Canadian-Filipino actress
• 1980 – Cameron Muncey, Australian singer and guitarist (Jet)
• 1981 – Sophie Choudry, English actress and singer
• 1981 – Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer (d. 2015)
• 1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
• 1982 – Carlene Aguilar, Filipino model and actress, Miss Philippines Earth 2001
• 1982 – Liam McIntyre, Australian actor
• 1982 – Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
• 1983 – Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player
• 1983 – Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Elina Partõka, Estonian swimmer
• 1984 – Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier
• 1984 – Cecily Strong, American actress
• 1984 – Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1985 – Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player
• 1985 – Jeremy Davis, American bass player and songwriter (Paramore)
• 1985 – Nao Matsushita, Japanese actress and singer
• 1987 – Javi García, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
• 1988 – Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese model
• 1989 – Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player
• 1989 – Dani Harmer, English actress and singer
• 1989 – JaJuan Johnson, American basketball player
• 1989 – Courtney Vandersloot, American basketball player
• 1990 – Trần Thị Thùy Dung, Vietnamese model, Miss Vietnam 2008
• 1990 – Jonathan Page, English footballer
• 1990 – Daniel Vidot, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1991 – Aristidis Soiledis, Greek footballer
• 1991 – Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer, dancer and actor (Infinite and Toheart)
• 1992 – Carl Jenkinson, English-Finnish footballer
• 1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1995 – Ksenia Gaydarzhi, Russian tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 1204 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1182)
• 1250 – Robert I, Count of Artois (b. 1216)
• 1250 – William II Longespée, English martyr (b. 1212)
• 1265 – Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
• 1296 – Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
• 1572 – Cho Shik, Korean poet, scholar, and educator (b. 1501)
• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
• 1599 – Robert Rollock, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1555)
• 1676 – Alexis of Russia (b. 1629)
• 1623 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (b. 1546)
• 1696 – Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
• 1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1658)
• 1725 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (b. 1672)
• 1749 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
• 1750 – Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet (b. 1685)
• 1768 – George Dance the Elder, English architect, designed St Leonard's and St Botolph's Aldgate (b. 1695)
• 1772 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (b. 1719)
• 1847 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Lord Mayor of Marburg (b. 1781)
• 1849 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781)
• 1849 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (b. 1800)
• 1856 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and academic (b. 1773)
• 1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1915 – François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 – George Formby Snr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Gee Jon, Chinese-American criminal (b. 1895)
• 1932 – Mad Dog Coll, Irish-American mob boss (b. 1908)
• 1932 – Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 – Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 – Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Italo Santelli, Italian fencer (b. 1866)
• 1956 – Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)
• 1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1957 – John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1960 – J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
• 1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
• 1963 – George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)
• 1964 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1972 – Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1905)
• 1975 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1982 – John Hay Whitney, American financier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1904)
• 1984 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
• 1985 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company (b. 1901)
• 1985 – Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1987 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1992 – Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Raymond Scott, American pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1998 – Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1998 – Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born English philosopher and author (b. 1919)
• 2000 – Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
• 2001 – Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Julius Schwartz, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 2005 – A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Keith Knudsen, American singer-songwriter and drummer (The Doobie Brothers and Southern Pacific) (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Chua Ek Kay, Chinese-Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (b. 1903)
• 2009 – Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
• 2010 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1912)
• 2012 – Jimmy Sabater, American singer and timbales player (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinian singer-songwriter (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso and Invisible) (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Ralph Braun, American businessman (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Chris Brinker, American director and producer (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
• 2013 – James DePreist, American conductor and educator (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Dick Berk, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)
• 2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1918)

Η 83χρονη Μαίρη Χρονοπούλου  τραγούδησε «Του αγοριού απέναντι» στη Θεσσαλονικη

Λάδι και ξύδι με... γεύσεις που μοσχοβολούν

 

ΣΗΜΕΡΑ Ο ΤΖΗΝ ΚΕΛΛΥ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΡΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

”Ο Χορος ειν’ η ζωη μου’ τιτλοφορειται το αφιερωμα στον σπουδαιο χορευτη,χορογραφο,ηθοποιο,τραγουδιστη και σκηνοθετη Τζην Κελλυ

   που θα παρουσιασει στο Μεγαρο Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης με υλικο απο το προσωπικο 

του αρχειο ο δημοσιογραφος Λευτερης 

Κογκαλιδης.

Το 80λεπτο προγραμμα οργανωνουν το Μεγαρο Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης και ο

 Συλλογος Φιλων Μουσικης Θεσσαλονικης.

Χορηγος επικοινωνιας ειναι το Πρακτορειο ,FM 104,9.

Η εκδηλωση που θα πραγματοποιηθει ΑΥΡΙΟ Δευτερα  8 Φεβρουαριου,8μμ,στον πεμπτο

 οροφο του Μ2(αιθουσα Μωρις Σαλτιελ) περιλαμβανει αποσπασματα απο τα 18 πιο

 σημαντικα μιουζικαλ στα οποια πρωταγωνιστει ο Κελλυ,απο το 1942-67.

ΕΙΣΟΔΟΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗ

Στα αποσπασματα εμφανιζονται  οι

 Τζουντυ Γκαρλαντ,Ριτα Χαιηγουωρθ,Καθρυν Γκραιησον ,Βερα Ελλεν,Μιτσι 

Γκαιηνορ,Λεσλι Καρον κι ακομα οι Φρεντ Ασταιρ,Φρανκ Σινατρα,

Βαν Τζονσον,Νταν Νταιηλυ,ο αδελφος του  Φρεντ Κελλυ,κ.α.

Το αφιερωμα ολοκληρωνεται με το μπαλετο-φιναλε της ταινιας “Ενας Αμερικανος

 στο Παρισι” και το τραγουδι μεσα στην βροχη που 

συμβολιζει την πιο εμβληματικη σκηνη στην ιστορια των μιουζικαλ.

Την Δευτερα 7 Μαρτιου το προγραμμα ειναι αφιρωμενο στην Κατερινα Βαλεντε.

Η Disneyland ψάχνει 45 Ελληνες για να εργαστούν στο Παρίσι 

• Ouvertüre (Εισαγωγή)
• Chor: Tochter des mächtigen Zeus (Χορωδιακό: Κόρη του πανίσχυρου Διός)
• Duett (ein Grieche und ein griechisches Mädchen): Ohne Verschulden Knechtschaft dulden [Ντουέτο (ένα Ελληνόπουλο και μια Ελληνοπούλα): Χωρίς αιτία υπομένουμε τον ζυγό της σκλαβιάς]
• Chor der Derwische: Du hast in deines Ärmels Falten (Χορωδιακό των Δερβίσηδων: Στα μανίκια σου κρυμμένο)
• Marcia alla turca (Τουρκικό Εμβατήριο)
• Zwischenmusik (Ιντερμέδιο)
• Marsch mit Chor: Schmückt die Altare (Εμβατήριο με χορωδιακό: Στολίστε τους βωμούς)
• Rezitativ (Hohepriester): Mit reger Freude, die nie erkältet [Ρετσιτατίβο (Αρχιερέας): Με ζωντανή και φλογερή χαρά]
• Chor: Wir tragen empfängliche Herzen im Busen (Χορωδιακό: Φέρνουμε τις δεκτικές καρδιές στα στήθη μας)
• Arie (Hohepriester) und Chor: Will unser Genius noch einen Wunsch gewähren [Άρια (Αρχιερέας) και Χορωδιακό: Εάν το πνεύμα που μας καθοδηγεί, θα μας χαρίσει την επιθυμία ]
• Chor: Heil unserm König! Heil! (Χορωδιακό: Ζήτω ο βασιλιάς μας! Ζήτω!)

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• 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
• 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
• 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
• 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
• 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
• 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
• 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
• 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
• 1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina
• 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
• 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
• 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
• 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
• 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
• 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
• 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
• 1954 – United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
• 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
• 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
• 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
• 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1981 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel–casino kills eight and injures 198.
• 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• 1996 – The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
• 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
• 2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
• 2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

Births[edit]

• 1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582)
• 1524 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician (d. 1580)
• 1606 – Christine Marie of France (d. 1663)
• 1609 – John Suckling, English poet and playwright (d. 1642)
• 1685 – Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (d. 1750)
• 1696 – Johann Melchior Molter, German violinist and composer (d. 1765)
• 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819)
• 1766 – Benjamin Smith Barton, American botanist, naturalist, and physician (d. 1815)
• 1775 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
• 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836)
• 1795 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (d. 1858)
• 1821 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter (d. 1908)
• 1824 – Samuel Plimsoll, English merchant and politician (d. 1898)
• 1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer (d. 1907)
• 1846 – Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician (d. 1919)
• 1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927)
• 1847 – Nabinchandra Sen, Bangladeshi poet and author (d. 1909)
• 1859 – Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (d. 1943)
• 1867 – Robert Garran, Australian public servant (d. 1957)
• 1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 1879)
• 1868 – William Allen White, American journalist and author (d. 1944)
• 1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (d. 1932)
• 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954)
• 1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet (d. 1970)
• 1889 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish army officer, political leader and the fifth President of Turkey (d. 1982)
• 1890 – Fanny Kaplan, Ukrainian-Russian activist and rebel (d. 1918)
• 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (d. 1950)
• 1893 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (d. 1953)
• 1894 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1986)
• 1897 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
• 1897 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (d. 1956)
• 1898 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (d. 1979)
• 1901 – Stella Adler, American actress and acting coach (d. 1992)
• 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Franco Cortese, Italian race car driver (d. 1986)
• 1903 – Karl Deichgräber, German philologist and academic (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
• 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939)
• 1904 – John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Walter A. Brown, American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Chick Webb, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1939)
• 1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Min Thu Wun, Burmese poet, writer and scholar (d. 2004)
• 1909 – Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and traditional fork music composer (d. 1988)
• 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
• 1910 – Stanley Vann, English composer, organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer (d. 2010)
• 1913 – Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer
• 1914 – Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor
• 1919 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and author (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1920 – José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author (d. 2001)
• 1922 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Allie Sherman, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Max Ferguson, Canadian radio host and actor (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
• 1927 – Brian Priestman, English conductor and educator (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
• 1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor and producer
• 1933 – Jay Conrad Levinson, American educator and author (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Richard Schickel, American journalist, author, and critic
• 1933 – Faramarz Payvar, Iranian santur player and composer (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor
• 1937 – Anne Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1983)
• 1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1939 – Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor General of Canada
• 1939 – Peter Purves, English actor
• 1940 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, Saudi Arabian scholar and academic, 4th Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
• 1940 – Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper
• 1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Michael Apted, English director and producer
• 1941 – John Hampshire, English cricketer
• 1942 – Lawrence Weiner, American artist
• 1944 – Miyoko Akaza, Japanese actress
• 1944 – Peter Allen, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992)
• 1944 – Frank Keating, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Oklahoma
• 1944 – Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
• 1944 – Rufus Reid, American bassist and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra)
• 1944 – Hideki Takahashi, Japanese actor
• 1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
• 1947 – Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Nicholas Owen, English journalist
• 1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican economist and politician (d. 1994)
• 1949 – Jim Corcoran, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Nigel Olsson, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Spencer Davis Group and Plastic Penny)
• 1949 – Harold Sylvester, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
• 1951 – Bob Iger, American businessman
• 1952 – Lee Hsien Loong, Singaporean general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
• 1955 – Chris Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2001)
• 1955 – Jim Cramer, American television presenter and author, co-founded TheStreet.com
• 1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster
• 1956 – James Martin Graham, American Roman Catholic priest (d. 1997)
• 1956 – Enele Sopoaga, Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
• 1958 – Michael Weiss, American pianist and composer
• 1959 – John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Jim Kent, American biologist, computer programmer, academic
• 1961 – Alexander Payne, American director and screenwriter
• 1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American journalist
• 1962 – Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (Metallica, Trauma, and EZ-Street) (d. 1986)
• 1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer and sportscaster
• 1962 – Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
• 1963 – Candan Erçetin, Turkish composer, singer-songwriter, teacher
• 1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
• 1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
• 1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
• 1966 – Natalie Bennett, Australian-English journalist and politician
• 1966 – Daryl Johnston, American football player and sportscaster
• 1966 – Ji Suk-jin, South Korean comedian, actor, and singer
• 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
• 1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster
• 1967 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (d. 1999)
• 1967 – Vince Gilligan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
• 1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian journalist
• 1969 – Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor
• 1970 – Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
• 1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
• 1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese race car driver
• 1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
• 1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1970 – Iván Velázquez Caballero, Mexican drug lord
• 1971 – Anna-Maria Hallgarn Swedish actress, musician, and singer
• 1971 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (d. 2015)
• 1971 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1972 – Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
• 1973 – Ajdar, Turkish singer-songwriter and engineer
• 1973 – Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician, co-founded Lastminute.com
• 1973 – Sergei Shishkin, Russian footballer
• 1973 – Núria Añó, Spanish writer
• 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress, director, and producer
• 1974 – Ty Law, American football player
• 1974 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer-songwriter and producer (The Young Professionals)
• 1974 – Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player
• 1975 – Scott Elrod, German-American actor
• 1975 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach
• 1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress and singer
• 1976 – Carmelo Imbriani, Italian footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1976 – Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
• 1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
• 1979 – Joey Hand, American race car driver
• 1979 – Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
• 1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American singer-songwriter (Glassjaw, Head Automatica, and Color Film)
• 1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Bruno Šundov, Croatian basketball player
• 1981 – Uzo Aduba, American actress and singer
• 1981 – Christian Fickert, German footballer
• 1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
• 1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
• 1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
• 1982 – Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
• 1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
• 1983 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast
• 1983 – Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pierce the Veil, Isles & Glaciers, and Cinematic Sunrise)
• 1983 – Taiji Ishimori, Japanese wrestler
• 1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
• 1985 – Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer
• 1986 – Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
• 1986 – Josh Akognon, Nigerian-American basketball player
• 1986 – Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
• 1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
• 1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 – Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player
• 1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 – Yuja Wang, Chinese pianist
• 1988 – Jade Ramsey, English actress
• 1988 – Daniil Ratnikov, Estonian footballer
• 1988 – Olga Zadvornova, Latvian figure skater
• 1989 – Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player
• 1989 – Neelofa Noor, Malaysian actress, television host, and model
• 1990 – Barbara Guarischi, Italian cyclist
• 1990 – Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer (Girls' Generation)
• 1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
• 1992 – Misha B, English rapper
• 1992 – Haruka Nakagawa, Japanese singer (JKT48, AKB48, and Watariroka Hashiritai)
• 1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
• 1993 – Tomasz Mokwa, Polish professional footballer
• 1993 – Chaochih Liu, Taiwanese-American figure skater
• 1993 – Max Kepler, German professional baseball outfielder
• 1993 – Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer
• 1993 – Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer
• 1995 – Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese model and actress
• 1996 – Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
• 2005 – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and entertainer

Deaths[edit]

• 1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
• 1162 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• 1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
• 1278 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)
• 1307 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (b. 1265)
• 1576 – Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (b. 1532)
• 1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
• 1686 – William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (b. 1605)
• 1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
• 1755 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689)
• 1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
• 1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (b. 1702)
• 1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
• 1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799)
• 1857 – David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)
• 1865 – Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1879 – Honoré Daumier, French illustrator and painter (b. 1808)
• 1887 – Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814)
• 1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850)
• 1904 – John A. Roche, American politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
• 1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy, American-Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1912 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (b. 1827)
• 1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888)
• 1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-English soldier and painter (b. 1849)
• 1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
• 1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
• 1920 – Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1879)
• 1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1928 – José Sánchez del Río Mexican martyr and saint (b. 1913)
• 1932 – Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
• 1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)
• 1945 – Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Wilbert Coffin, Canadian murderer (b. 1915)
• 1956 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872)
• 1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos, Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1882)
• 1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
• 1958 – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (b. 1899)
• 1958 – Nezihe Muhiddin, Ottoman and Turkish women's rights activist, journalist, writer and political leader (b. 1889)
• 1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian engineer (b. 1905)
• 1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)
• 1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910)
• 1985 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Sadequain, Pakistani painter and calligrapher (b. 1930)
• 1990 – Bill Sherwood, American director and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 1992 – Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1929)
• 1995 – Paul Monette, American author and activist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Brian Connolly, Scottish-English singer-songwriter (Sweet) (b. 1945)
• 1998 – Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Jim Varney, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
• 2001 – Lewis Arquette, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2001 – Abraham Beame, American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
• 2001 – Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Ramón Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (b. 1964)
• 2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler and manager (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Albert J. Ruffo, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Ron Ziegler, American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and essayist (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Gordon Barker, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian physician and activist (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
• 2007 – Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and racing driver (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Adeline Geo-Karis, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Steve Gerber, American author (b. 1947)
• 2008 – Ron Leavitt, American writer and producer (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American motocross racer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Enn Soosaar, Estonian translator, literary critic and columnist (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricketer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Ronald Fraser, English historian and author (b. 1930)
• 2012 – David Anthony Pizzuto, Canadian-American voice actor (b. 1951)
• 2012 – Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
• 2013 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927)
• 2013 – David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Eugenio Trías Sagnier, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Zhuang Zedong, Chinese table tennis player (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Tomaž Pengov, Slovenian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Bill Enyart, American football player (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Matías Funes, Honduran philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1952)
• 2015 – Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (b. 1915)

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• 474 – Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
• 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
• 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
• 1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
• 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
• 1849 – New Roman Republic established
• 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
• 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
• 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.
• 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
• 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
• 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
• 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
• 1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
• 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
• 1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
• 1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.
• 1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
• 1951 – Korean War: Geochang massacre
• 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
• 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
• 1965 – The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
• 1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.
• 1971 – The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
• 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
• 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
• 1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
• 1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
• 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
• 2001 – The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
• 2009 – First winter ascent of Makalu by Simone Moro and Denis Urubko.
• 2013 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 15 people.

Births[edit]

• 1441 – Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkish poet, linguist, and painter (d. 1501)
• 1533 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (d. 1611)
• 1645 – Johann Aegidius Bach, German viola player (d. 1716)
• 1666 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish field marshal (d. 1737)
• 1711 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla, Spanish sailor and commander (d. 1762)
• 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American philosopher, author, and activist (d. 1809)
• 1741 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, German-French composer (d. 1799)
• 1747 – Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet, English admiral and politician, Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1817)
• 1751 – Antoine Bullant, Czech bassoon player and composer (d. 1821)
• 1756 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech organist and composer (d. 1785)
• 1763 – Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
• 1769 – George W. Campbell, Scottish-American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1848)
• 1773 – William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (d. 1841)
• 1775 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856)
• 1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix, German biologist and explorer (d. 1826)
• 1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (d. 1852)
• 1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849)
• 1792 – Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (d. 1870)
• 1800 – Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
• 1814 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
• 1834 – Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author (d. 1912)
• 1839 – Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1896)
• 1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German businessman, founded Maybach (d. 1929)
• 1846 – Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier (d. 1904)
• 1847 – Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian (d. 1902)
• 1859 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (d. 1930)
• 1863 – Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (d. 1933)
• 1864 – Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)
• 1865 – Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress (d. 1940)
• 1865 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (d. 1949)
• 1867 – Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1871 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician (d. 1910)
• 1874 – Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (d. 1925)
• 1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959)
• 1883 – Jules Berry, French actor and director (d. 1951)
• 1885 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1935)
• 1885 – Clarence Haring, American historian (d. 1960)
• 1887 – Toivo Aro, Finnish diver (d. 1962)
• 1889 – Larry Semon, American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1928)
• 1891 – Ronald Colman, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1958)
• 1892 – Peggy Wood, American actress and singer (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1987)
• 1895 – Hermann Brill, German lawyer and politician, 8th Minister-President of Thuringia (d. 1959)
• 1896 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot (d. 1935)
• 1898 – Jūkichi Yagi, Japanese poet (d. 1927)
• 1901 – Brian Donlevy, Irish-born American actor and producer (d. 1972)
• 1901 – James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
• 1902 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German activist (d. 1999)
• 1906 – André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist (d. 1999)
• 1907 – Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
• 1909 – Heather Angel, English-American actress (d. 1986)
• 1909 – Harald Genzmer, German composer and academic (d. 2007)
• 1909 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1955)
• 1909 – Dean Rusk, American colonel and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• 1911 – William Orlando Darby, American general (d. 1945)
• 1912 – Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (d. 1968)
• 1912 – Ginette Leclerc, French actress (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Bill Justice, American animator and director (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Chic Murray, Canadian politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
• 1914 – Bill Veeck, American businessman (d. 1986)
• 1915 – Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1916 – Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Moon Mullen, American baseball and basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and soprano (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Jim Laker, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1986)
• 1922 – C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Brendan Behan, Irish activist, poet, and playwright (d. 1964)
• 1923 – Tonie Nathan, American radio host, producer, and politician (d. 2014)
• 1925 – John B. Cobb, American philosopher and theologian
• 1925 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer and politician, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Richard A. Long, American historian and author (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Frank Frazetta, American painter and illustrator (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Rinus Michels, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Roger Mudd, American journalist
• 1929 – A. R. Antulay, Indian social worker and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Clement Meadmore, Australian-American sculptor (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist and author (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and author (d. 1989)
• 1931 – Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter
• 1932 – Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 1932 – Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer
• 1933 – Loris Azzaro, Tunisian-French fashion designer (d. 2003)
• 1934 – John Ziegler, Jr., American lawyer and businessman
• 1935 – Lionel Fanthorpe, English-Welsh priest, journalist, and author
• 1936 – Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Clive Swift, English actor
• 1936 – Barbara Young, English actress
• 1937 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
• 1939 – Janet Suzman, South African actress and director
• 1940 – Brian Bennett, English drummer and songwriter (The Shadows)
• 1940 – J. M. Coetzee, South African novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Sheila Kuehl, American actress, lawyer, LGBT rights activist and politician
• 1942 – Carole King, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1942 – Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Barbara Lewis, American singer-songwriter
• 1943 – Joe Pesci, American actor
• 1943 – Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-Australian radio and television host
• 1944 – Alice Walker, American author and poet
• 1945 – Mia Farrow, American actress and singer
• 1946 – Bob Eastwood, American golfer
• 1946 – Seán Neeson, Northern Irish educator and politician
• 1946 – Vince Papale, American football player and sportscaster
• 1946 – Jim Webb, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of the Navy
• 1947 – Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat
• 1947 – Joe Ely, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Flatlanders and Los Super Seven)
• 1947 – Major Harris, American singer (The Delfonics) (d. 2012)
• 1948 – Guy Standing, English economist and academic
• 1949 – Bernard Gallacher, Scottish golfer and journalist
• 1949 – Judith Light, American actress and producer
• 1950 – Richard F. Colburn, American sergeant and politician
• 1952 – Danny White, American football player and sportscaster
• 1952 – Mümtaz Sevinç, Turkish actor (d. 2006)
• 1953 – Ciarán Hinds, Irish actor
• 1953 – Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary, priest, and martyr (d. 1985)
• 1953 – Gabriel Rotello, American journalist and author, founded OutWeek
• 1954 – Omar Belhouchet, Algerian journalist
• 1954 – Jo Duffy, American author
• 1954 – Chris Gardner, American businessman, founded Gardner Rich & Co
• 1954 – Gina Rinehart, Australian businesswoman
• 1954 – Kevin Warwick, English engineer and academic
• 1955 – Jerry Beck, American historian and author
• 1955 – Jimmy Pursey, English singer-songwriter and producer (Sham 69, Sham Pistols, and Day 21)
• 1955 – Charles Shaughnessy, English actor
• 1956 – Margaret Gilmore, South African-English journalist
• 1956 – Mookie Wilson, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 – Terry McAuliffe, American businessman and politician, 72nd Governor of Virginia
• 1957 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1958 – Chris Nilan, American ice hockey player, coach, and radio host
• 1960 – David Bateson, South African-Danish actor
• 1960 – Holly Johnson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Big in Japan)
• 1960 – Peggy Whitson, American biochemist and astronaut
• 1961 – John Kruk, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1962 – Anik Bissonnette, Canadian ballerina
• 1962 – Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1988)
• 1963 – Brian Greene, American physicist and academic
• 1963 – Travis Tritt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1964 – Debrah Miceli, Italian-American wrestler and manager
• 1964 – Dewi Morris, English rugby player
• 1965 – Dieter Baumann, German runner
• 1965 – Darren Dalton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Stephin Merritt, American singer-songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths)
• 1966 – Harald Eia, Norwegian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Ellen van Langen, Dutch runner
• 1967 – Todd Pratt, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
• 1968 – Derek Strong, American basketball player and race car driver
• 1969 – Tom Scharpling, American comedian and radio host
• 1969 – Ian Eagle, American sportscaster
• 1969 – Jimmy Smith, American football player
• 1970 – Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1970 – Eldbjørg Raknes, Norwegian singer
• 1971 – Sharon Case, American model and actress
• 1971 – Matt Gogel, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1972 – Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1972 – Crispin Freeman, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1972 – Jason Winston George, American actor
• 1973 – Svetlana Boginskaya, Belarusian gymnast
• 1973 – Colin Egglesfield, American actor
• 1973 – Shaun Parkes, English actor
• 1974 – Erra Fazira, Malaysian actress and singer
• 1974 – Brad Maynard, American football player
• 1974 – Amber Valletta, American model and actress
• 1974 – John Wallace, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 – Kurt Asle Arvesen, Norwegian cyclist and coach
• 1975 – Clinton Grybas, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1975 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1976 – Charlie Day, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – A.J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Hiroko Anzai, Japanese actress and model
• 1979 – Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
• 1979 – Toshiaki Kasuga, Japanese comedian
• 1979 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
• 1979 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
• 1980 – Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Margarita Levieva, Russian-born American actress and gymnast
• 1980 – Shelly Martinez, American wrestler and actress
• 1981 – Joël Camathias, Swiss race car driver
• 1981 – Rina Chinen, Japanese entertainer, singer, model, and actress
• 1981 – Tom Hiddleston, English actor
• 1981 – The Rev, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Avenged Sevenfold, Pinkly Smooth, and Suburban Legends) (d. 2009)
• 1981 – Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1982 – Domingo Cisma González, Spanish footballer
• 1982 – Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
• 1982 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 – Chris Weale, English footballer
• 1983 – Mikel Arruabarrena Aranbide, Spanish footballer
• 1984 – Maurice Ager, American basketball player
• 1984 – Han Geng, Chinese singer, actor, and dancer (Super Junior and Super Junior-M)
• 1984 – Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 – David Gallagher, American actor and producer
• 1986 – Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein of Jordan
• 1987 – Sam Coulson, English guitarist (Asia)
• 1987 – Michael B. Jordan, American actor
• 1987 – Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
• 1989 – Gia Farrell, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Wu Jia-qing, Taiwanese pool player
• 1992 – Avan Jogia, Canadian actor, singer, dancer, model and martial artist
• 1993 – Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer
• 1995 – André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1996 – Jimmy Bennett, American actor and musician
• 1997 – Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greek tennis player

Deaths[edit]

• 967 – Sayf al-Dawla, Syrian ruler (b. 916)
• 1011 – Bernard I, Duke of Saxony (b. 950)
• 1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
• 1450 – Agnès Sorel, French mistress of Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
• 1555 – John Hooper, English bishop and martyr (b. 1495)
• 1555 – Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (b. 1510)
• 1588 – Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (b. 1526)
• 1619 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian physician and philosopher (b. 1585)
• 1670 – Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
• 1675 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
• 1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti (b. 1664)
• 1752 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish biologist and explorer (b. 1722)
• 1777 – Seth Pomeroy, American general and gunsmith (b. 1706)
• 1782 – Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Lebanese orientalist and academic (b. 1710)
• 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier, poet, and philosopher (b. 1716)
• 1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and translator (b. 1798)
• 1874 – Jules Michelet, French historian, philosopher, and academic (b. 1798)
• 1881 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist (b. 1821)
• 1891 – Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
• 1906 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1872)
• 1930 – Richard With, Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
• 1932 – Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)
• 1932 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
• 1936 – Caroline Furness, American astronomer (b. 1869)
• 1951 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1910)
• 1957 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary (b. 1868)
• 1960 – Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)
• 1960 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1965 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and educator (b. 1874)
• 1966 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-American actress and singer (b. 1884)
• 1969 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Arthur Smith, Australian public servant (b. 1893)
• 1973 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek-American actress (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Max Yasgur, American farmer, owned the site of the Woodstock Festival (b. 1919)
• 1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 – Alia al-Hussein, Egyptian wife of Hussein of Jordan (b. 1948)
• 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 1979 – Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 – M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1981 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
• 1984 – Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1991 – James Cleveland, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Caravans) (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
• 1995 – J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1995 – David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)
• 1997 – Georges Groulx, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Bryan Mosley, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2001 – Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Vicente Sardinero, Spanish opera singer (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Tyrone Davis, American singer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Ian Richardson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Scot Halpin, American drummer (b. 1954)
• 2008 – Christopher Hyatt American occultist and author (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian painter, poet, and sculptor (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Eluana Englaro, Italian medical patient (b. 1970)
• 2009 – Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Phil Harris, American captain and fisherman (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American toymaker, invented the Frisbee (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Adam Adamowicz, American illustrator (b. 1968)
• 2012 – O. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2012 – John Hick, English philosopher and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Joe Moretti, Scottish-South African guitarist and songwriter (Nero and the Gladiators) (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Don Panciera, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (b. 1913)
• 2013 – Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Hal Herring, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Graham John Hills, Scottish chemist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Mauro Pane, Italian race car driver (b. 1963)
• 2014 – Logan Scott-Bowden, English general (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Abdul Rauf Aliza, Afghan commander (b. 1981)
• 2015 – Liu Han, Chinese businessman (b. 1965)
• 2015 – Ed Sabol, American film producer, co-founded NFL Films (b. 1916)

Βαγγέλης Πολυδώρου: Ο Ελληνας που μάγεψε το βρετανικό The Voice 

Eλληνικό χρώμα θα έχει το φετινό The Voice UK.

Ο 24χρονος Βαγγέλης Πολυδώρου, ο οποίος κατάγεται από την Ελλάδα και τη 

Σκωτία, αποφάσισε να δοκιμαστεί στο βρετανικό The Voice. Και τα κατάφερε,

 καθώς πέρασε από τη δύσκολη δοκιμασία των blind auditions.

Το τραγούδι που επέλεξε για να διαγωνιστεί ήταν το “Do You Really Want To

 Hurt Me” του Boy George, ο οποίος είναι και ένας από τους coaches του σόου.

O Boy George έδειξε από την αρχή το ενδιαφέρον του για τον Βαγγέλη και λίγο

 μετά πάτησε το κουμπί διεκδικώντας τον.

Λίγο πριν από το τέλος του τραγουδιού κατάφερε να πείσει και άλλους δύο κριτές, 

την Paloma Faith και τον Ricky Wilson, αλλά και να μαγέψει το κοινό.

Τελικά, ο Βαγγέλης Πολυδώρου διάλεξε την ομάδα του Boy George.