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AD 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Marcus Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius. 1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. 1590 – John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists. 1641 – Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard the leader of the Irish Rebellion issues his Proclamation of Dungannon justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to Charles I 1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. 1795 – Third Partition of Poland: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia. 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow. 1851 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus. 1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England. 1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed. 1871 – An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were tortured and lynched in the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles, California. 1889 – Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. 1902 – Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century. 1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with the Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire. 1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo). 1917 – Bolshevik Red Guards began takeover of buildings in Russia, among the first events associated with the October Revolution. 1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. 1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange. 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas is then installed as "provisional president". 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic. 1944 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Musashi is sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945 – Founding of the United Nations. 1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. 1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists. 1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid. 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam. 1957 – The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash. 1963 – An oxygen leak from an R-9 missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people. 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence). 1975 – In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality. 1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.) 1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union. 1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials. 1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s. 1992 – The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series. 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission. 2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C. 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight. 2004 – Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League. 2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage. 2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center. 2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. 2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth. 2015 – A driver, arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, killing four people and injuring 34. 2016 – A Fairchild Merlin airliner on a French surveillance mission crashes in Kirkop, Malta, killing all five people on board. |
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AD 51 – Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96) 1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (d. 1402) 1435 – Andrea della Robbia, Italian artist (d. 1525) 1503 – Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539) 1561 – Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586) 1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723) 1637 – Lorenzo Magalotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1712) 1650 – Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist (d. 1704) 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1749) 1713 – Marie Fel, French soprano and actress (d. 1794) 1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (d. 1839) 1784 – Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (d. 1885) 1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American author and poet (d. 1879) 1798 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (d. 1866) 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891) 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1885) 1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890) 1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator (d. 1921) 1840 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (d. 1919) 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907) 1855 – James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912) 1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894) 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969) 1872 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957) 1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1958) 1876 – Saya San, Burmese monk and activist (d. 1931) 1879 – B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956) 1882 – Sybil Thorndike, English actress (d. 1976) 1884 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (d. 1944) 1885 – Alice Perry, Irish engineer and poet (d. 1969) 1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969) 1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot (d. 1917) 1891 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961) 1891 – Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985) 1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987) 1895 – Jack Warner, English actor and singer (d. 1981) 1896 – Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman (d. 1994) 1898 – Peng Dehuai, Chinese general, 1st Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China (d. 1974) 1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1959) 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960) 1904 – Moss Hart, American director and playwright (d. 1961) 1904 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932) 1905 – Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian and academic (d. 1988) 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968) 1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993) 1909 – Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966) 1910 – Stella Brooks, American singer (d. 2002) 1910 – Joe L. Evins, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984) 1910 – Gunter d'Alquen, German SS officer and journalist (d. 1998) 1910 – James K. Woolnough, American general (d. 1996) 1910 – Yoel Zussman, Polish-Israeli lawyer and judge (d. 1982) 1911 – Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (d. 1993) 1911 – Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986) 1912 – Peter Gellhorn, German conductor (music) (d. 2004) 1912 – Murray Golden, American television director (d. 1991) 1912 – Silviu Bindea, Romanian footballer (d. 1992) 1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian actor and singer (d. 1984) 1914 – Charles Craig Cannon, American colonel (d. 1992) 1914 – Claude B. Duval, American lawyer and politician (d. 1986) 1914 – Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian Independence movement revolutionary and Officer of Indian National Army (d. 2012) 1915 – Bob Kane, American author and illustrator (d. 1998) 1915 – Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (d. 1988) 1915 – Roger Milliken, American businessman (d. 2010) 1916 – Anne Sharp, Scottish soprano and actress (d. 2011) 1917 – Marie Foster, American activist (d. 2003) 1918 – Doreen Tovey, English author (d. 2008) 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot (d. 2008) 1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and academic (d. 1996) 1921 – Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (d. 2005) 1921 – R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator (d. 2015) 1922 – George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson (d. 2014) 1923 – Robin Day, English lieutenant and journalist (d. 2000) 1923 – Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997) 1924 – John Brereton Barlow, South African cardiologist and physician (d. 2008) 1924 – Mary Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1996) 1924 – Fuat Sezgin, Turkish historian and academic 1925 – Bob Azzam, Egyptian-Monacan singer (d. 2004) 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (d. 2003) 1925 – Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (d. 2014) 1925 – Willie Mabon, American-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985) 1925 – Ken Mackay, Australian cricketer (d. 1982) 1925 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician co-founded the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013) 1925 – Paul Vaughan, English journalist and radio host (d. 2014) 1926 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (d. 2008) 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player (d. 2017) 1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2001) 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992) 1927 – Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (d. 2013) 1928 – George Bullard, American baseball player (d. 2002) 1929 – Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977) 1929 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014) 1929 – George Crumb, American composer and educator 1929 – Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012) 1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004) 1929 – Gustav Ranis, American economist and academic (d. 2013) 1929 – Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (d. 2013) 1930 – Jack Angel, American voice actor 1930 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959) 1930 – Elaine Feinstein, English poet, author, and playwright 1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician 1930 – James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish racing driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (d. 1969) 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-German pianist and composer 1931 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014) 1932 – Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012) 1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) 1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008) 1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1933 – Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000) 1933 – Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995) 1933 – Norman Rush, American author and educator 1934 – John G. Cramer, American physicist and author 1934 – Glen Glenn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1934 – Jean-Baptiste Gourion, Algerian-French bishop (d. 2005) 1934 – Margie Masters, Australian golfer 1934 – Sammy Petrillo, American actor (d. 2009) 1934 – Sanger D. Shafer, American singer-songwriter 1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist, musicologist, and educator 1935 – Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013) 1935 – Mark Tully, Indian-English journalist and author 1936 – Jüri Arrak, Estonian painter 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013) 1936 – David Nelson, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2011) 1936 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings) 1937 – Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer and educator 1937 – Barry Davies, English journalist and sportscaster 1937 – Santo Farina, American guitarist and songwriter 1937 – John Goetz, American baseball player (d. 2008) 1937 – Heribert Offermanns, German chemist and academic 1937 – M. Rosaria Piomelli, Italian-American architect and academic 1937 – Petar Stipetić, Croatian general 1938 – Michael Graydon, English air marshal 1938 – Odean Pope, American saxophonist (Catalyst) 1938 – Stephen Resnick, American economist and academic (d. 2013) 1939 – John Adye, English intelligence officer 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand director and producer 1940 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012) 1940 – David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, English businessman and academic 1940 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015) 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher (d. 2004) 1941 – Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese archbishop 1942 – Ruthann Aron, American politician 1942 – Stephen R. Bloom, English physician and academic 1942 – Maggie Blye, American actress (d. 2016) 1942 – Ian Collins, Australian footballer and coach 1942 – Frank Delaney, Irish journalist and author 1942 – Don Francis, American epidemiologist and virologist 1942 – Don Gant, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1987) 1942 – Rafael Cordero Santiago, Puerto Rican politician, 132nd Mayor of Ponce (d. 2004) 1942 – Fernando Vallejo, Colombian biologist and author 1943 – Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler and manager 1943 – Phil Hawthorne, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 1994) 1944 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2007) 1944 – Bettye Swann, American singer-songwriter 1944 – Ted Templeman, American singer, guitarist, and producer 1945 – Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader 1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (d. 1993) 1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor and singer 1948 – Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player 1948 – Dale Griffin, English rock drummer and producer (d. 2016) 1948 – Barry Ryan, English singer-songwriter 1948 – Paul Ryan, English singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1992) 1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American lawyer and politician 1949 – Chester Marcol, American football player 1949 – John Markoff, American journalist and author 1949 – Keith Rowley, Trinidadian volcanologist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1949 – Stan White, American football player and sportscaster 1950 – Iggy Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2012) 1950 – Karen Austin, American actress 1950 – Pablove Black, Jamaican singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player 1950 – Steven Greenberg, American singer-songwriter and producer 1950 – Tom Myers, American football player 1950 – Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Argentinian lawyer and politician 1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician 1950 – Gabriella Sica, Italian poet and author 1950 – Maria Teschler-Nicola, Austrian biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist 1951 – George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor 1952 – Keith Bain, Canadian educator and politician 1952 – Francesco Camaldo, Italian priest 1952 – Jane Fancher, American author and illustrator 1952 – Mark Gray, American country music singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2016) 1952 – Peter Smagorinsky, American theorist and educator 1952 – Ángel Torres, Dominican baseball player 1952 – Reggie Walton, American baseball player 1952 – David Weber, American author 1953 – John Barton, English footballer and manager 1953 – Charles Colbourn, Canadian computer scientist and mathematician 1953 – Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager 1953 – Steven Hatfill, American physician and virologist 1953 – Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player 1953 – Andrew Turner, English academic and politician 1953 – David Wright, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1954 – Doug Davidson, American actor 1954 – Tom Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician 1954 – Jožo Ráž, Slovak singer-songwriter and bass player 1954 – Mike Rounds, American businessman and politician, junior senator from South Dakota 1954 – Brad Sherman, American accountant, lawyer, and politician 1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia 1955 – Cheryl Studer, American soprano and actress 1956 – Dale Maharidge, American journalist and author 1956 – Jeff Merkley, American businessman and politician 1956 – David Stergakos, American-Greek basketball player 1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager 1957 – John Kassir, American actor and voice actor 1958 – Vincent K. Brooks, American general 1958 – Chip Hooper, American tennis player and coach 1959 – Dominique Baert, French lawyer and politician 1959 – Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician, 65th Mayor of Bergen 1959 – Mike Brewer, American baseball player 1959 – Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese director and composer 1959 – Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer and politician 1959 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009) 1959 – Dave Meltzer, American journalist and historian 1959 – Shawn Moody, American businessman and politician 1959 – Ruth Perednik, English-Israeli psychologist and academic 1959 – Denis Troch, French footballer and manager 1959 – Annette Vilhelmsen, Danish educator and politician, Danish Minister of Social Affairs 1959 – Anthony Waller, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer and sportscaster 1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (d. 1999) 1960 – Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver 1960 – BD Wong, American actor 1961 – Mary Bono, American gymnast and politician 1961 – Bruce Castor, American lawyer and politician 1962 – Yves Bertucci, French footballer and manager 1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver 1962 – Ian Dalziel, English footballer and manager 1962 – Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player and television host 1962 – Debbie Googe, English bass player and songwriter 1962 – Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician 1962 – Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballer (d. 2000) 1962 – Mark Miller, American motorcycle racer 1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player and coach 1963 – Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster 1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager 1964 – Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1964 – Paul Bonwick, Canadian businessman and politician 1964 – Grant Gee, English film maker, photographer, cinematographer 1964 – Dmitri Gorkov, Russian footballer and manager 1964 – Janele Hyer-Spencer, American lawyer and politician 1964 – Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey player 1964 – Doug Lee, American basketball player 1964 – Paul Vigay, English computer programmer (d. 2009) 1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek journalist and politician 1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician 1966 – Simon Danczuk, English academic and politician 1967 – Ian Bishop, Trinidadian cricketer and sportscaster 1967 – Olo Brown, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player 1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress 1967 – Esther McVey, English television host and politician 1968 – Francisco Clavet, Spanish tennis player 1968 – Mark Walton, American voice actor and illustrator 1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist and critic 1969 – Emma Donoghue, Irish-Canadian author 1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, English field hockey player and engineer 1970 – Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1971 – Aaron Bailey, American football wide receiver 1971 – Gustavo Jorge, Argentina international rugby union player 1971 – Zephyr Teachout, American academic 1971 – Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Athlete (track and field) at the 1991 Pan American Games 1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress 1972 – Pat Williams, American football player and coach 1972 – Jeremy Wright, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales 1973 – Meelis Friedenthal, Estonian author and academic 1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist 1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer and manager 1973 – Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973 – Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and radio host 1974 – Gábor Babos, Hungarian footballer 1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player 1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player and scout 1974 – Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1974 – Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor 1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer 1975 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013) 1976 – Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player 1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer 1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer 1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer 1978 – James Hopes, Australian cricketer 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter 1979 – Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player 1980 – Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress 1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer 1980 – Kerrin McEvoy, Australian jockey 1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer 1980 – Christian Vander, German footballer 1980 – Casey Wilson, American actress and screenwriter 1981 – Kemal Aslan, Turkish footballer 1981 – Sebastián Bueno, Argentinian footballer 1981 – Fredrik Mikkelsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer 1981 – Tila Tequila, Singaporean-American model, actress, and singer 1981 – Alfred Vargas, Filipino actor and politician 1982 – Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian race car driver 1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player 1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress 1983 – Chris Colabello, American baseball player 1983 – Hernán Garin, Argentinian footballer 1983 – Michael Gordon, Australian rugby league player 1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver 1984 – Lougee Basabas, Filipino singer-songwriter 1984 – Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player 1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese singer-songwriter 1985 – Robert Cornthwaite, English-Australian footballer 1985 – Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (d. 2014) 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer 1985 – Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer 1986 – Drake, Canadian rapper and actor 1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer 1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer 1987 – Charlie White, American figure skater 1988 – Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player 1988 – Christopher Linke, German race walker 1988 – Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer 1989 – Will Bruin, American footballer 1989 – Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer 1989 – Eric Hosmer, American baseball player 1989 – PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber 1989 – Eliza Taylor, Australian actress 1990 – Peyton Siva, American expatriate basketball player in Germany 1990 – Mohammed Jahfali, Saudi Arabia international footballer 1990 – Jake Knott, American football linebacker 1990 – Elijah Greer, American male middle-distance runner 1990 – Danilo Petrucci, Italian motorcycle racer 1990 – İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer 1991 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer 1991 – Marek Bednar, Slovak ice hockey player 1991 – Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player 1992 – Marcus Tell, Israeli film director 1992 – Marrion Gopez, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer 1993 – Nabil Jeffri, Malaysian race car driver 1994 – Krystal, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (f(x) and SM the Ballad) 1994 – Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player 1994 – Jalen Ramsey, American football player 1995 – Vincent Leuluai, Australian rugby league player 1996 – Kyla Ross, American gymnast 1997 – Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast 1998 – Daya, American singer |
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935 – Li Yu, Chinese official and chancellor 996 – Hugh Capet, French king 1152 – Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer 1168 – William IV, French nobleman 1260 – Qutuz, Egyptian sultan 1375 – Valdemar IV, Danish king (b. 1320) 1537 – Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508) 1572 – Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508) 1601 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546) 1633 – Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3) 1642 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (b. 1582) 1655 – Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592) 1669 – William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600) 1672 – John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611) 1725 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1660) 1799 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739) 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740) 1824 – Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (b. 1752) 1852 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782) 1875 – Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817) 1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824) 1915 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828) 1917 – James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852) 1922 – George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839) 1935 – Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902) 1937 – Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886) 1938 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870) 1943 – Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912) 1944 – Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877) 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887) 1948 – Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870) 1948 – Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877) 1949 – Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (b. 1902) 1958 – G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (b. 1873) 1960 – Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924) 1964 – Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931) 1965 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879) 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896) 1969 – Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908) 1970 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916) 1971 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876) 1971 – Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936) 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919) 1972 – Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1897) 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908) 1975 – İsmail Erez, Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (b. 1919) 1975 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian, author, and academic (b. 1888) 1979 – Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (b. 1908) 1983 – Jiang Wen-Ye, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1910) 1985 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941) 1985 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905) 1989 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948) 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921) 1991 – Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915) 1992 – Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1944) 1993 – Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930) 1994 – Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (b. 1930) 1994 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940) 1997 – Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (b. 1926) 1999 – Berthe Qvistgaard, Danish actress (b. 1910) 2001 – Kathleen Ankers, American actress and set designer (b. 1919) 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author and critic (b. 1937) 2001 – Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1935) 2002 – Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921) 2002 – Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969) 2002 – Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912) 2002 – Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (b. 1918) 2004 – Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954) 2004 – Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1980) 2004 – James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920) 2004 – Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941) 2005 – Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (b. 1932) 2005 – José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926) 2005 – Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928) 2005 – Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923) 2005 – Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913) 2005 – Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926) 2006 – Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904) 2006 – William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909) 2007 – Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (b. 1929) 2007 – Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928) 2007 – Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981) 2007 – Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929) 2008 – Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943) 2010 – Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (b. 1927) 2010 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922) 2010 – Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912) 2011 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1967) 2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927) 2012 – Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917) 2012 – Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923) 2012 – Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957) 2012 – Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) 2012 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918) 2013 – Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951) 2013 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993) 2013 – Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934) 2013 – Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920) 2014 – Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (b. 1980) 2014 – S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928) 2014 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948) 2014 – Alvin Wiederspahn, American lawyer and politician (b. 1949) 2015 – Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (b. 1923) 2015 – Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (b. 1928) 2015 – Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (b. 1960) 2015 – Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (b. 1924) 2015 – Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920) 2016 – Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943) 2016 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (b. 1927) 2017 – Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (b. 1928) 2017 – Robert Guillaume, American actor (b. 1927) 2017 – Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (b. 1929) |
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