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498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard. 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched 1873 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives. 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris. 1931 – Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq. 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France. 1948 – Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign. 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded. 1956 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia. 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards. 1963 – William Clay Ford Sr. buys the Detroit Lions for $4.5 million. 1963 – The Beatles release With the Beatles. 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement. 1968 – The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album). 1971 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains. 1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded. 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status. 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco. 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. 1986 – Mike Tyson from Brooklyn, New York becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history at age 20. 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom. 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed. 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him. 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership. 1994 – The Sega Saturn is released in Japan.[1] 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. 1995 – The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami. 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest. 2003 – Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land. 2003 – England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament. 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections. 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. 2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths. 2015 – A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar kills at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing. |
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1329 – Elisabeth of Meissen, Burgravine of Nuremberg (d. 1375) 1428 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (d. 1471) 1515 – Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots (d. 1560) 1519 – Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585) 1532 – Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (d. 1585) 1533 – Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1597) 1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (d. 1610) 1602 – Elisabeth of France (d. 1644) 1635 – Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (d. 1672) 1643 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (d. 1687) 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French pianist and composer (d. 1760) 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American soldier and politician, 10th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778) 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786) 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1784) 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1824) 1722 – Gregory Skovoroda, Ukrainian philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1794) 1728 – Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811) 1744 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818) 1780 – Conradin Kreutzer, German composer (d. 1849) 1780 – José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (d. 1834) 1787 – Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1823) 1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892) 1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (d. 1893) 1819 – George Eliot, English novelist and poet (d. 1880) 1820 – Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian (d. 1932) 1824 – Georg von Oettingen, Estonian-German physician and ophthalmologist (d. 1916) 1836 – George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (d. 1913) 1845 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (d. 1875) 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German painter and academic (d. 1938) 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) 1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945) 1857 – George Gissing, English novelist (d. 1903) 1859 – Cecil Sharp, English folk song scholar (d. 1924) 1861 – Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917) 1868 – John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967) 1869 – André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951) 1870 – Howard Brockway, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1951) 1870 – Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (d. 1911) 1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1955) 1873 – Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1930) 1876 – Percival Proctor Baxter, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969) 1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1934) 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919) 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930) 1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (d. 1922) 1884 – C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur (d. 1926) 1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar (d. 1953) 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (d. 1970) 1891 – Edward Bernays, Austrian-American publicist (d. 1995) 1893 – Harley Earl, American businessman (d. 1969) 1893 – Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (d. 1991) 1896 – David J. Mays, American lawyer and author (d. 1971) 1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer and educator (d. 1989) 1897 – Harry Wilson, English-American actor and singer (d. 1987) 1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935) 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981) 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980) 1900 – Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987) 1901 – Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1971) 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999) 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947) 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist and educator (d. 1942) 1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, 15th Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1990) 1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990) 1902 – Ethel Smith, American organist (d. 1996) 1904 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957) 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000) 1904 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005) 1906 – Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (d. 1983) 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970) 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005) 1911 – Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (d. 1987) 1912 – Doris Duke, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1993) 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1976) 1913 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player and coach (d. 2016) 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. 2006) 1913 – Jacqueline Vaudecrane, French figure skater and coach (d. 2018) 1914 – Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (d. 1995) 1915 – Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (d. 2014) 1917 – Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010) 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) 1917 – Sir Keith Shann, Australian diplomat (d. 1988) 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (d. 2009) 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976) 1920 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956) 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003) 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004) 1922 – Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984) 1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012) 1922 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997) 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2016) 1923 – Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006) 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987) 1924 – Les Johnson, Australian politician (d. 2015) 1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014) 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (d. 2015) 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2007) 1926 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007) 1927 – Steven Muller, German-American scholar and academic (d. 2013) 1927 – Robert E. Valett, American psychologist, teacher, and author (d. 2008) 1928 – Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (d. 2008) 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist 1929 – Keith Rayner, Australian Archbishop 1930 – Peter Hall, English actor, director, and manager (d. 2017) 1930 – Peter Hurford, English organist and composer 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (d. 2016) 1933 – Merv Lincoln, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2016) 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999) 1935 – Ludmila Belousova, Soviet ice skater (d. 2017) 1935 – Michael Callan, American actor 1936 – John Bird, English actor and screenwriter 1936 – Archie Gouldie, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2016) 1937 – Nikolai Kapustin, Russian pianist and composer 1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010) 1938 – Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist and academic 1939 – Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011) 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter 1940 – Roy Thomas, American author 1940 – Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 2016) 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1941 – Ron McClure, American jazz bassist 1941 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (d. 2013) 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996) 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player 1942 – Guion Bluford, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut 1942 – Floyd Sneed, Canadian drummer 1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster 1943 – William Kotzwinkle, American novelist and screenwriter 1943 – Ricky May, New Zealand-Australian jazz singer (d. 1988) 1943 – Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter 1945 – Elaine Weyuker, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic 1945 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (d. 2010)[2] 1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American businessman and academic 1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2005) 1947 – Nevio Scala, Italian footballer and manager 1947 – Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012) 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager 1948 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990) 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States 1949 – David Pietrusza, American author and historian 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978) 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager 1950 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor, director, and manager 1952 – Nicholas Suntzeff, American astronomer and cosmologist 1953 – Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer 1954 – Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Italy 1954 – Denise Epoté, Cameroonian journalist at the head of the Africa management of TV5 Monde [3] 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player 1955 – George Alagiah, British journalist 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor 1956 – Ron Randall, American author and illustrator 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host 1957 – Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player 1958 – Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor 1958 – Chic McSherry, Scottish musician, businessman and writer 1958 – Jason Ringenberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American actor 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress, singer, and politician 1960 – Jim Bob, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1960 – Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress 1961 – Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian engineer and author 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and educator 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1963 – Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer 1964 – Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster 1965 – Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player 1965 – Olga Kisseleva, Russian artist[4] 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer and manager 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor 1965 – Kristin Minter, American actress 1965 – Sen Dog, Cuban-American rapper and musician 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American wrestler and manager 1966 – Mark Pritchard, English lawyer and politician 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African director, producer, and screenwriter 1966 – Michael K. Williams, American actor and producer 1967 – Boris Becker, German-Swiss tennis player and coach 1967 – Tom Elliott, Australian investment banker 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor and activist 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater, coach, and sportscaster 1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer scientist and programmer, created PHP 1968 – Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach 1970 – Chris Fryar, American drummer 1970 – Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter 1971 – Cath Bishop, English rower 1971 – Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player 1971 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and producer 1972 – Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer, coach, and manager 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player and sportscaster 1973 – Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian activist 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer and scholar 1973 – Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter 1975 – Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (d. 2015) 1975 – Yusaku Maezawa, Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach 1976 – Regina Halmich, German boxer and businesswoman 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter 1977 – Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer 1978 – Colin Best, Australian rugby league player 1978 – Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer 1978 – Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist 1979 – Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014) 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer 1980 – David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster 1980 – Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper 1981 – Asmaa Abdol-Hamid (Arabic: أسماء عبد الحميد), Arab-Danish social worker and politician 1981 – Ben Adams, English-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer 1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer 1981 – Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress and singer 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player 1981 – Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 – Shangela Laquifa Wadley, American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality 1982 – Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian journalist and author 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress, director, and screenwriter 1982 – Yakubu, Nigerian footballer 1983 – Sei Ashina, Japanese actress 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist and songwriter 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer 1983 – Xiao Yu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress 1984 – Nathalie Nordnes, Norwegian singer-songwriter 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and producer 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer 1985 – Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer 1985 – Ava Leigh, English singer-songwriter 1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player 1985 – James Roby, English rugby player 1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player 1986 – Erika Padilla, Filipino actress and host 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter 1987 – Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player 1989 – Candice Glover, American singer-songwriter and actress 1989 – Minehiro Kinomoto, Japanese actor 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer 1990 – Jang Dongwoo, South Korean singer and dancer 1990 – Brock Osweiler, American football player 1990 – Kartik Aaryan, Indian actor 1991 – Tarik Black, American professional basketball player 1993 – Tridha Choudhury, Indian actress 1993 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress 1994 – Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater 1994 – Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer 1994 – Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player 1994 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor 1995 – Katherine McNamara, American actress 1996 – Hailey Baldwin, American model 1996 – Madison Davenport, American actress and singer 2000 – Auli'i Cravalho, Hawaiian-American actress and singer 2000 – Baby Ariel, American social media vlogger and singer 2001 – Zhong Chenle, Chinese singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor |
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365 – Antipope Felix II 950 – Lothair II of Italy (b. 926) 1249 – As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt 1286 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249) 1318 – Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271) 1392 – Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland (b. 1362) 1538 – John Lambert, English Protestant martyr 1617 – Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (b. 1590) 1694 – John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630) 1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635) 1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1637) 1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680) 1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (db. 1680) 1774 – Robert Clive, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire (b. 1725) 1794 – John Alsop, American merchant and politician (b. 1724) 1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759) 1819 – John Stackhouse, English botanist and phycologist (b. 1742) 1871 – Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (b. 1826) 1875 – Henry Wilson, American colonel, journalist, and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812) 1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823) 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859) 1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer and scholar (b. 1842) 1902 – Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851) 1913 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1837) 1916 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (b. 1876) 1917 – Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842) 1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852) 1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and author (b. 1884) 1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872) 1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862) 1941 – Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915) 1943 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895) 1944 – Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882) 1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (b. 1889) 1948 – Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868) 1954 – Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882) 1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1895) 1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882) 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905) 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (b. 1894) 1963 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917) 1963 – C. S. Lewis, British writer, critic and Christian apologist (b. 1898) 1963 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer (Dallas Police Department) (b. 1924) 1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892) 1976 – Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936) 1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913) 1980 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901) 1980 – Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893) 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) 1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910) 1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908) 1989 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910) 1989 – René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925) 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905) 1993 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1917) 1994 – Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (b. 1917) 1994 – Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920) 1996 – María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922) 1996 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936) 1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924) 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960) 1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953) 2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927) 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922) 2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915) 2001 – Theo Barker, English historian and academic (b. 1923) 2001 – Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918) 2002 – Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914) 2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932) 2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (b. 1920) 2006 – Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (b. 1917)[5] 2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942) 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1929) 2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935) 2008 – MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971) 2010 – Jean Cione, American baseball player and educator (b. 1928) 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (b. 1914) 2011 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926) 2011 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano and actress (b. 1921) 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938) 2011 – Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931) 2012 – Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909) 2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933) 2012 – Bennie McRae, American football player (b. 1939) 2012 – P. Govinda Pillai, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1926) 2013 – Don Dailey, American computer programmer (b. 1956) 2013 – Brian Dawson, English singer (b. 1939) 2013 – Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983) 2013 – Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (b. 1935) 2013 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (b. 1926) 2013 – Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (b. 1931) 2014 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916) 2014 – Don Grate, American baseball and basketball player (b. 1923) 2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947) 2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920) 2015 – Abubakar Audu, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Kogi State (b. 1947) 2015 – Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1949) 2015 – Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948) 2015 – Robin Stewart, Indian-English actor and game show host (b. 1946) 2015 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (b. 1929) 2016 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (b. 1930) 2017 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (b. 1962) 2017 – Tommy Keene, American singer songwriter (b. 1958) |
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