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538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantinegeneral, Belisarius 1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile. 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. 1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins. 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha. 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River. 1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain. 1885 – Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh. 1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn. 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.) 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years. 1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin. 1921 – İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. 1922 – Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people. 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". 1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties. 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria. 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated. 1942 – World War II: Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an ABDACOM surrender to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies. 1943 – Italian occupation of Greece: The Italian occupying forces abandon the town of Karditsa to the partisans. On the same day, an Italian motorized column razes the village of Tsaritsani, burning 360 of its 600 houses and shooting 40 civilians. 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. 1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time. 1961 – First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger. 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the MPRS inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia. 1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom. 1971 – The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Suleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. 1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. 1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests. 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. 2003 – WHO officially release global warning on pandemic SARS disease. 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history. 2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history. 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake. 2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. |
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1096 – Canute Lavard, Danish prince (d. 1131) 1270 – Charles, Count of Valois (d. 1325) 1386 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1428) 1475 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558) 1476 – Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503) 1479 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516) 1500 – Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558) 1501 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577) 1515 – Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (d. 1553) 1573 – Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (d. 1616) 1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (d. 1676) 1613 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (d. 1700) 1626 – John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (d. 1697) 1637 – Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1671) 1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727) 1672 – Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (d. 1729) 1685 – George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (d. 1753) 1701 – Johann Friedrich Cotta, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1779) 1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778) 1735 – François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (d. 1821) 1753 – Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (d. 1827) 1756 – Avram Mrazović, Serbian writer, translator, pedagogue and Senator (d. 1826) 1766 – Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (d. 1815) 1766 – Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos, Spanish bishop and cardinal (d. 1847) 1774 – Johann Caspar Horner, Swiss physicist, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1834) 1781 – Frederica of Baden (d. 1826) 1784 – William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (d. 1856) 1785 – Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen, Dutch and Prussian lawyer (d. 1864) 1795 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861) 1795 – George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (d. 1858) 1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863) 1807 – James Abbott, Indian Army officer (d. 1896) 1807 – Albert Mackey, American medical doctor and author (d. 1881) 1812 – Ignacio Comonfort, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1863) 1815 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (d. 1896) 1821 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893) 1821 – Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and politician (d. 1882) 1823 – Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (d. 1899) 1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (d. 1887) 1831 – Joseph Gérard, French Roman Catholic priest (d. 1914) 1832 – Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (d. 1897) 1832 – Jean Alfred Fournier, French dermatologist (d. 1914) 1834 – Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy (d. 1919) 1835 – Gregorio Maria Aguirre y Garcia, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain 1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909) 1837 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911) 1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (d. 1907) 1843 – Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (d. 1904) 1845 – William Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (d. 1895) 1848 – Cyrill Kistler, German composer (d. 1907) 1851 – Charles Chamberland, French microbiologist (d. 1908) 1852 – Richard Altmann, German pathologist and histologist (d. 1900) 1857 – William V. Ranous, American actor and director (d. 1915) 1857 – Andreas Voss, German botanist and horticulturist (d. 1924) 1858 – Adolph Ochs, American publisher (d. 1935) 1859 – Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (d. 1906) 1860 – Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist intellectual (d. 1934) 1860 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (d. 1895) 1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938) 1863 – Carl Holsøe, Danish artist (d. 1935) 1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945) 1864 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922) 1864 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist and composer (d. 1943) 1867 – Raul Brandão, Portuguese writer and journalist (d. 1930) 1869 – George Forbes, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947) 1874 – Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (d. 1949) 1877 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946) 1878 – Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Bosnian poet (d. 1915) 1878 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903) 1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952) 1881 – Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist and academic (d. 1923) 1881 – Pavel Janák, Czech architect (d. 1956) 1881 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland (d. 1966) 1882 – Erwin Baker, American motorcycle and automobile racing driver (d. 1960) 1882 – Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (d. 1943) 1883 – Max Braun, American tug of war medalist (d. 1967) 1883 – Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (d. 1961) 1885 – Mario Sironi, Italian artist (d. 1961) 1886 – Henri Gagnebin, Swiss composer (d. 1977) 1888 – Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1965) 1888 – Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (d. 1965) 1888 – Florence Lee, American actress (d. 1962) 1888 – Erich Rothacker, German philosopher (d. 1965) 1889 – Idris of Libya (d. 1983) 1890 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950) 1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976)) 1893 – Jean Brochard, French actor (d. 1972) 1894 – Yoshiki Hayama, Japanese author (d. 1945) 1895 – William C. Lee, American general (d. 1948) 1896 – Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976) 1898 – Tian Han, Chinese playwright (d. 1968) 1898 – Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (d. 1984) 1899 – Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (d. 1955) 1900 – Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972) 1900 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975) 1903 – Max Gordon, Village Vanguard jazz club founder (d. 1989) 1904 – Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (d. 1976) 1904 – Bodo Uhse, German writer, journalist and political activist (d. 1963) 1905 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (d. 1982) 1907 – Ricardo Faccio, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (d. 1970) 1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (d. 2007) 1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970) 1908 – David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995) 1909 – Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (d. 1947) 1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980) 1910 – László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (d. 1986) 1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979) 1911 – Manyi Kiss, Hungarian actress (d. 1971) 1911 – William Patrick Stuart-Houston, nephew of Adolf Hitler (d. 1987) 1912 – Ghazi of Iraq, King of The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (d. 1939) 1912 – César Benavides, Chilean Army general (d. 2011) 1912 – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (d. 2006) 1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1984) 1913 – Ace Gruenig, American basketball player (d. 1958) 1913 – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010) 1914 – Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (d. 1958) 1914 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (d. 1991) 1915 – Saifuddin Azizi, first chairman of Xinjiang of the People's Republic of China (d. 2003) 1915 – Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1995) 1915 – Bruno Knežević, Croatian footballer (d. 1982) 1915 – Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (d. 1991) 1915 – László Fejes Tóth, Hungarian mathematician (d. 2005) 1917 – Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969) 1917 – Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009) 1917 – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (d. 2011) 1918 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (d. 2012) 1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (d. 1989) 1920 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (d. 2008) 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001) 1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986) 1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969) 1922 – Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (d. 1999) 1923 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013) 1923 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005) 1923 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007) 1923 – Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014) 1924 – Valerio Bacigalupo, Italian goalkeeper (d. 1949) 1925 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (d. 1983) 1925 – Georges Delerue, French pianist and composer (d. 1992) 1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1925 – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (d. 2012) 1926 – George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii 1926 – Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (d. 2015) 1926 – John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (d. 1988) 1926 – David Nadien, American violinist (d. 2014) 1927 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (d. 2009) 1927 – Emmett Leith, professor of electrical engineering (d. 2005) 1927 – Gajo Petrović, Yugoslavian theorist (d. 1993) 1927 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2006) 1928 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (d. 2016) 1928 – Werner Krolikowski, former East German political official 1928 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007) 1930 – Antony Acland, British former diplomat and Provost of Eton College 1930 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014) 1931 – Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (d. 2000) 1932 – Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d. 2014) 1932 – Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1933 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (d. 1973) 1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress 1933 – Niède Guidon, Brazilian archeologist 1934 – Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher 1934 – Virginia Hamilton, American author (d. 2002) 1935 – Valentyna Shevchenko, Ukrainian politician 1936 – Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author 1936 – Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy 1936 – Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach 1937 – Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer 1937 – Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (d. 2017) 1938 – Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor, (d. 2010) 1938 – Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster 1938 – Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop 1939 – Jude Milhon, American hacker and author (d. 2003) 1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017) 1940 – Grigori Gorin, Soviet/Russian playwright (d. 2000) 1941 – Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer 1943 – Stanislav Galić, Bosnian soldier and commander 1943 – Ratko Mladić, Serbian general 1944 – Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (d. 2018) 1946 – Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director 1946 – Ludo Martens, Belgian Communist political activist (d. 2011) 1946 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer 1946 – Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer 1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician 1947 – Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician 1947 – David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter 1947 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts 1948 – Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 1948 – Sandra Brown, American author 1948 – Kent Conrad, American politician 1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1949 – Yuri Balashov, Russian chess grandmaster 1949 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager 1952 – Boris Anatolyevich Gavrilov, Russian football player and manager 1952 – Julius Carry, American actor (d. 2008) 1952 – André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher 1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer 1953 – Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor 1953 – Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion 1954 – Inese Galante, Latvian soprano 1954 – Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor 1955 – Wang Yang, Chinese politician 1956 – Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier 1956 – Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (d. 2010) 1956 – Jost Gippert, German linguist, Caucasiologist and author 1956 – Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter 1956 – László Kiss, Hungarian football player and coach 1956 – Lesley Manville, English actress 1956 – Dale Murphy, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster 1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach 1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer 1957 – Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player 1958 – Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist 1959 – Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska 1959 – Kenji Fukaya, Japanese mathematician 1959 – Luenell, American comedian and actress 1959 – Hermann Parzinger, German historian 1959 – Michael Walter, German luger (d. 2016) 1960 – Jason Beghe, American actor 1960 – Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player 1960 – Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter 1961 – Titus Welliver, American actor 1962 – Julia Campbell, American actress 1962 – Andreas Köpke, former German footballer 1962 – Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor 1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister 1963 – John Andretti, American race car driver 1963 – Candy Costie, American swimmer 1963 – Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach 1963 – Reiner Gies, German boxer 1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager 1963 – Farahnaz Pahlavi, eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 1963 – Paul Way, English golfer 1964 – Dieter Eckstein, retired German footballer 1964 – Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna 1965 – Rolands Bulders, Latvian footballer 1965 – Steve Finley, American baseball player 1965 – Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party 1965 – Liza Umarova, Chechen singer and actress 1966 – David Daniels, American countertenor 1966 – Suleyman Kerimov, Russian businessman, investor, philanthropist and politician 1966 – Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster 1967 – Jenny Erpenbeck, German writer and opera director 1967 – Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager 1968 – Dylan Carlson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician 1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer 1968 – Jason Lively, former American actor 1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1969 – Aleksandr Shmarko, Russian footballer 1969 – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author 1970 – Karen Bradley, British politician 1970 – Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter 1970 – Mathias Gronberg, Swedish golfer 1970 – Roy Khan, Norwegian singer-songwriter 1970 – Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach 1971 – Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper 1971 – Ogün Sanlısoy, Turkish rock musician 1971 – Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper 1972 – Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player 1974 – María Adánez, Spanish actress 1974 – Charles Akonnor, former Ghanaian footballer 1974 – Walid Badir, former Israeli footballer 1974 – Matt Barela, American wrestler and actor 1974 – Scarlet Ortiz, Venezuelan actress 1974 – Lisa Werlinder, Swedish actress and jazz musician/singer 1975 – Nicolae Grigore, former Romanian footballer 1975 – Edgaras Jankauskas, former Lithuanian footballer 1975 – Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer 1976 – Deron Quint, American ice hockey defenseman 1976 – Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer 1977 – Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete 1977 – Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player 1977 – Amdy Faye, former Senegalese footballer 1977 – Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player 1978 – Casey Mears, American race car driver 1978 – Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer 1978 – Claudio Sanchez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1978 – Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator 1979 – Rhys Coiro, American actor 1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist 1979 – Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach 1979 – Gerard López, former Spanish footballer 1979 – Mike Mago, Dutch DJ, music producer and record label owner 1979 – Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer 1979 – Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer 1979 – Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian goalkeeper 1979 – Liu Xuan, Chinese gymnast 1980 – Césinha, Brazilian footballer 1980 – Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter 1980 – Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist 1980 – Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player 1981 – Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer 1981 – Chiwa Saitō, Japanese voice actress 1981 – Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player 1981 – Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1982 – Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress 1982 – Samm Levine, American actor and comedian 1982 – Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player 1982 – Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer 1982 – Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer 1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer 1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor 1984 – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer 1984 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress 1985 – Macarena Aguilar, Spanish handballer 1985 – Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver 1985 – Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer 1985 – Choi Cheol-han, South Korean Go player 1985 – Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist 1985 – Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer 1986 – Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player 1986 – Campbell Best, Cook Islands footballer 1986 – Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer 1986 – Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1986 – Ben Offereins, Australian runner 1986 – František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (d. 2017) 1987 – Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist 1987 – Jessica Hardy, American swimmer 1987 – Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player 1987 – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player 1987 – Chris Seitz, American soccer player 1987 – Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player 1987 – Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer 1988 – Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer 1988 – Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer 1988 – Cristian Chagas Tarouco, Brazilian footballer 1989 – Jordan Adéoti, French footballer 1989 – Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer 1989 – Tyler Clary, former American swimmer 1989 – Richard Eckersley, English footballer 1989 – Nathan Haas, Australian cyclist 1989 – Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player 1989 – Siim Luts, Estonian footballer 1990 – Lawrence Clarke, English hurdler 1990 – Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer 1990 – Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer 1990 – Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper 1990 – Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player 1990 – Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer 1990 – Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer 1990 – Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer 1991 – Felix Kroos, German footballer 1991 – Niclas Heimann, German footballer 1991 – Hanna Pysmenska, Ukrainian diver 1991 – Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer 1992 – Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer 1992 – Jordan Ferri, French footballer 1992 – Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner 1992 – Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer 1993 – Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer 1993 – Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer 1993 – Alex Bellemare, Canadian skier 1993 – Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer 1994 – Jerami Grant, American basketball player 1994 – Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist 1994 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016) 1996 – Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer 1996 – Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer 1996 – Robert Murić, Croatian footballer 1997 – Dean Henderson, English footballer 1997 – Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer 1997 – Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer 1998 – Alina Müller, Swiss ice hockey player 1998 – Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater 1998 – Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater 1999 – Sakura Oda, Japanese pop singer 2003 – Malina Weissman, American child actress and model |
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417 – Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church 604 – Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 540) 951 – Ælfheah the Bald, bishop of Winchester 969 – Mu Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b. 931) 1022 – Symeon the New Theologian, Byzantine monk (b. 949) 1289 – Demetrius II, king of Georgia (b. 1259) 1316 – Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia (b. 1253) 1374 – Go-Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1338) 1496 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425) 1507 – Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (b. 1475) 1539 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477) 1608 – Kōriki Kiyonaga, Japanese daimyō (b. 1530) 1628 – John Bull, English organist and composer (b. 1562) 1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish monk and poet (b. 1571) 1681 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1635) 1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (b. 1635) 1703 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, English jurist and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1627) 1731 – Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1660) 1790 – András Hadik, Hungarian field marshal (b. 1710) 1820 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and politician (b. 1764) 1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish pianist and composer (b. 1786) 1858 – William James Blacklock, English-Scottish painter (b. 1816) 1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1811) 1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840) 1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818) 1909 – Joseph Petrosino, American police officer (b. 1860) 1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846) 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830) 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866) 1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851) 1929 – William Turner Dannat, American painter (b. 1853) 1930 – William George Barker, Canadian colonel and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1894) 1930 – Alois Jirásek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1851) 1935 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858) 1937 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1858) 1937 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844) 1942 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861) 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869) 1945 – Friedrich Fromm, German general (b. 1888) 1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897) 1947 – Winston Churchill, American author and playwright (b. 1871) 1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879) 1954 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870) 1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920) 1955 – Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892) 1956 – Bolesław Bierut, Polish Communist leader (b. 1892) 1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877) 1960 – Kshitimohan Sen, Indian historian, author, and academic (b. 1880) 1963 – Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894) 1964 – Abbās al-Aqqād, Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic (b. 1889) 1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873) 1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898) 1974 – George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904) 1979 – Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928) 1984 – Arnold Ridley, English actor and playwright (b. 1896) 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899) 1987 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (b. 1913) 1989 – Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901) 1989 – Jakob Gimpel, Polish concert pianist and educator (b. 1906) 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900) 1992 – Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1921) 1992 – Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890) 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893) 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916) 2000 – Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (b. 1924) 2001 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933) 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927) 2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916) 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932) 2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923) 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952) 2003 – Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914) 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948) 2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917) 2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist and producer (b. 1943) 2005 – Stavros Kouyioumtzis, Greek composer (b. 1932) 2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947) 2007 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1924) 2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949) 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897) 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920) 2011 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian and journalist (b. 1920) 2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919) 2012 – Samuel Glazer, American businessman, co-founded Mr. Coffee (b. 1923) 2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930) 2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946) 2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938) 2013 – George Burditt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1921) 2013 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1957) 2013 – Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936) 2013 – Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937) 2014 – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929) 2014 – George Donaldson, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1968) 2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) 2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931) 2014 – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936) 2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924) 2015 – Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934) 2015 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924) 2015 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948) 2016 – Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b. 1942) 2016 – Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (b. 1935) 2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) 2018 – Craig Mack American rapper (b. 1970) |
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