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Today In History
  October 14th
 
Events
 
222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I.
1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings: In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.
1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Tepes, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirch.
1773 – The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1773 – Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
1805 – Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
1806 – Battle of Jena–Auerstedt France defeats Prussia.
1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
1812 – Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.
1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
1843 – The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station: Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of Virginia.
1882 – University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
1884 – The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1898 – The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1915 – World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
1920 – Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 – Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1938 – The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
1939 – The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
1940 – Balham underground station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibσr extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
1943 – World War II: The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
1943 – Josι P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
1944 – World War II: Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head of government.
1944 – Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1956 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the throne in Ottawa, Canada.
1958 – The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas.
1958 – The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies, such as Alexei Kosygin, the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
1967 – The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 – Vietnam War: Twenty-seven soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
1968 – Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast, by American astronauts in orbit, was performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 – An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1969 – The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'ιtat led by Bernard Coard.
1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 – Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
2006 – The college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
 
Births
 
1257 – Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)
1404 – Marie of Anjou (d. 1463)
1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (d. 1568)
1542 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605)
1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)
1609 – Ernest Gόnther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1689)
1630 – Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)
1633 – James II of England (d. 1701)
1639 – Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician, 1st Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (d. 1712)
1641 – Joachim Tielke German instrument maker (d. 1719)
1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712)
1644 – William Penn, English businessman, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (d. 1768)
1712 – George Grenville, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813)
1733 – Franηois Sιbastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
1784 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
1790 – Thursday October Christian I, English son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831)
1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and academic, created the Phenakistoscope (d. 1883)
1806 – Preston King, American politician (d. 1865)
1824 – Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886)
1840 – Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (d. 1927)
1848 – Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924)
1853 – John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (d. 1924)
1853 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer and educator (d. 1883)
1861 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer and academic (d. 1944)
1867 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and literary critic (d. 1902)
1869 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939)
1872 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910)
1873 – Ray Ewry, American jumper (d. 1937)
1873 – Jules Rimet, French businessman (d. 1954)
1882 – Ιamon de Valera, American-Irish academic and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d. 1975)
1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959)
1884 – Jimmy Conlin, American actor and singer (d. 1962)
1888 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand-English author (d. 1923)
1888 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese entrepreneur, politician, and cabinet minister (d. 1947)
1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
1892 – Sumner Welles, American politician and diplomat, 11th Under Secretary of State (d. 1961)
1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1893 – Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (d. 1974)
1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (d. 1962)
1898 – Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1950)
1900 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, educator, and author (d. 1993)
1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (d. 1963)
1904 – Christian Pineau, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1995)
1906 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
1906 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975)
1907 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1908 – Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)
1909 – Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese officer, submarine commander in the Imperial Japanese Navy (d. 2000)
1909 – Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)
1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
1911 – Lκ Π?c Th?, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1914 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
1914 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1914 – Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
1914 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985)
1915 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal
1916 – C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)
1918 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (d. 1991)
1918 – Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015)
1918 – Frances E. Nealy, American actress (d. 1997)
1921 – Josι Arraρo Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
1923 – Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014)
1924 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
1925 – Clancy Lyall, American sergeant (d. 2012)
1926 – Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985)
1926 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (d. 1982)
1927 – Roger Moore, English actor and producer
1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (d. 1995)
1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007)
1930 – Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist
1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese soldier and politician, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
1930 – Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014)
1931 – Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 1986)
1932 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and actor (d. 2005)
1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
1932 – Dyanne Thorne, American model and actress
1935 – La Monte Young, American composer
1936 – Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and manager
1936 – Jόrg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014)
1938 – John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel
1938 – Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic
1938 – Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
1938 – Shula Marks, South African historian and academic
1938 – Farah Pahlavi, Iranian wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and as such the former Queen of Iran
1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation
1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer and politician
1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
1940 – Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor
1940 – Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter
1941 – Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
1941 – Art Shamsky, American baseball player and manager
1941 – Roger Taylor, English tennis player
1942 – Evelio Javier, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986)
1942 – Pιter Nαdas, Hungarian author and playwright
1942 – Suzzanna, Indonesian actor (d. 2008)
1944 – Udo Kier, German-American actor, singer, and director
1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player (Whitesnake and The Spencer Davis Group)
1945 – Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator
1945 – Lesley Joseph, English actress
1946 – Franηois Bozizι, Gabonese general and politician, President of the Central African Republic
1946 – Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moody Blues)
1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (Nazareth)
1946 – Al Oliver, American baseball player
1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic
1947 – Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (MFSB) (d. 1987)
1947 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler
1948 – Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer (Boney M)
1948 – Gerard Murphy, Irish-English actor (d. 2013)
1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host and actor
1949 – Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
1949 – Katy Manning, English-Australian actress and production manager
1949 – Franηoise Pascal, Mauritian-English actress
1949 – Katha Pollitt, American poet and author
1949 – Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
1950 – Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer
1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter
1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011)
1952 – Rick Aviles, American actor (d. 1995)
1953 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, actress, and singer
1953 – Greg Evigan, American actor and singer
1953 – Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist
1954 – Carole Malone, English journalist
1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic
1955 – Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic
1955 – Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer
1956 – Jennell Jaquays, American game designer
1956 – Valeri Tsyganov, Soviet alpine skier
1957 – Michel Desprιs, Canadian politician
1957 – Gen Nakatani, Japanese politician, head of the Japan Defense Agency
1957 – Kenny Neal, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Downchild Blues Band)
1957 – Ikuo Takahara, Japanese footballer
1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer
1958 – Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Finnish politician
1959 – A. J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister and Adrenaline Mob) (d. 2015)
1960 – Steve Cram, English runner and coach
1960 – Zbigniew Kruszynski, Polish footballer
1961 – Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer
1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
1962 – Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (d. 2003)
1962 – Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1963 – Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer (Sinawe)
1963 – Lori Petty, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1963 – Alessandro Safina, Italian tenor
1964 – Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
1964 – David Kaye, Canadian voice actor
1964 – Olu Oguibe, Nigerian-American painter, author, and critic
1964 – Jim Rome, American radio host
1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Jόri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician
1965 – Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
1965 – Karyn White, American singer-songwriter
1966 – Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
1967 – Cha In-pyo, South Korean actor and singer
1967 – Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Jason Plato, English race car driver
1967 – Savanna Samson, American porn actress
1967 – Stephen A. Smith, American sportscaster and actor
1968 – Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist (Sloan)
1968 – Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Goudie)
1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer and journalist
1968 – Timothy Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer
1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (d. 2012)
1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player
1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
1970 – Martin Barbaric, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013)
1970 – Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 – Takako Katou, Japanese actress and singer (Lip's and Nanatsuboshi)
1970 – Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer
1970 – Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer (Ribbon)
1970 – Daniela Peštovα, Czech model and actress
1970 – Jon Seda, American actor
1970 – Pδr Zetterberg, Swedish footballer
1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer and manager
1971 – Robert Jaworski, Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician
1972 – Erika de Lone, American tennis player
1972 – Julian O'Neill, Australian rugby league player
1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
1974 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress and director
1974 – Samuel Josι da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
1974 – Viktor Rφthlin, Swiss runner
1974 – Shaggy 2 Dope, American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Psychopathic Rydas, and Dark Lotus)
1975 – Michael Duberry, English footballer
1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints)
1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer
1976 – Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1976 – Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
1977 – Carmen Soo, Malaysian actress
1977 – Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer
1977 – Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian model
1977 – Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Joey Didulica, Australian-Croatian footballer and manager
1977 – Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer
1977 – Jeffrey Garcia, American voice actor
1977 – Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish guitarist (Narnia, Saviour Machine, Rob Rock, and Beautiful Sin)
1977 – Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor and composer
1977 – Kelly Schumacher, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
1978 – Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist (Most Precious Blood and Indecision)
1978 – Ryan Church, American baseball player
1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
1978 – Jana Macurovα, Czech tennis player
1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
1978 – Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1978 – Javon Walker, American football player
1979 – Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress
1979 – Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach
1980 – Paϊl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Amjad Khan, Danish-English cricketer
1980 – Scott Kooistra, American football player
1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
1980 – Terrence McGee, American football player
1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
1981 – Boof Bonser, American baseball player
1981 – Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
1982 – Ryan Hall, American runner
1982 – Matt Roth, American football player
1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
1983 – Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
1984 – Baby Fae, American medical patient (d. 1984)
1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player
1984 – Alex Scott, English foorballer
1985 – Sherlyn Gonzαlez, Mexican actress and singer
1985 – Daniel Clark, American actor
1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrγo, Brazilian race car driver
1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
1986 – Skyler Shaye, American actress
1987 – Jay Pharoah, American comedian and actor
1987 – Hisashi Takeda, Japanese pitcher
1988 – Will Atkinson, English footballer
1988 – MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress and singer
1988 – Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
1988 – Max Thieriot, American actor
1988 – Mario Titone, Italian footballer
1988 – Pia Toscano, American singer
1989 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
1990 – Jordan Clark, English cricketer
1990 – Raquel Diaz, American wrestler and singer
1991 – Shona McGarty, English actress
1992 – Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
1992 – Savannah Outen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1992 – Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepali dwarf
1999 – Daniel Roche, English actor
2001 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress and singer
2002 – Youssif, Iraqi burn victim
 
Deaths
 
1066 – Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022)
1066 – Leofwine Godwinson, brother of King Harold II of England (b. 1035)
1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
1256 – Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 – Edward Bruce, Irish king (b. 1280)
1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1488)
1565 – Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch composer (b. 1507)
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1540)
1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562)
1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623)
1703 – Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634)
1711 – Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708)
1758 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1792 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)
1880 – Victorio, Mexican tribal chief (b. 1825)
1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
1923 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
1929 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
1930 – Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician (b. 1837)
1943 – Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (Sobibσr uprising) (b. 1910)
1943 – Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (Sobibσr uprising) (b. 1916)
1943 – Johann Niemann, German SS officer (Sobibσr uprising) (b. 1913)
1944 – Erwin Rommel, German general (b. 1891)
1953 – Ιmile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)
1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909)
1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880)
1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
1965 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
1967 – Marcel Aymι, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
1969 – Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1969 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
1973 – Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)
1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian engineer and general (b. 1929)
1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Rhythm Boys) (b. 1903)
1983 – Johannes O., Indonesian-Dutch physician and murderer (b. 1916)
1983 – Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1989 – Michael Carmine, American actor and singer (b. 1959)
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
1997 – Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
1998 – Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)
1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
2000 – Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964)
2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (b. 1911)
2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913)
2004 – Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek actor and singer (b. 1949)
2006 – Jared Anderson, American bass player (Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal) (b. 1975)
2006 – Chun Wei Cheung, Dutch rower (b. 1972)
2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven) (b. 1937)
2006 – Maurice Grosse, English paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
2006 – Nancy Lynn, American pilot (b. 1956)
2006 – Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926)
2006 – Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (b. 1937)
2007 – Big Moe, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1974)
2007 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
2008 – Richard Cooey, American murderer (b. 1967)
2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915)
2008 – Kazys Petkevicius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2009 – Lou Albano, Italian-American wrestler, manager, and actor (b. 1933)
2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2009 – Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935)
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924)
2011 – Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American son of Anwar al-Awlaki (b. 1995)
2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2011 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist (b. 1949)
2012 – Kyle Bennett, American BMX racer (b. 1979)
2012 – John Clive, English actor and author (b. 1933)
2012 – Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (b. 1920)
2012 – James R. Grover, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
2012 – Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (b. 1922)
2012 – Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Marc Swayze, American author and illustrator (b. 1913)
2012 – Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (b. 1923)
2012 – Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
2013 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1965)
2013 – Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (b. 1936)
2013 – Bob Elliott, Canadian politician (b. 1927)
2013 – Koichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (b. 1930)
2013 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954)
2013 – Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946)
2013 – Kδty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940)
2014 – Encke, American-English race horse (b. 2009)
2014 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923)
2014 – Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933)
2014 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (The Mars Volta, De Facto, and Free Moral Agents) (b. 1975)
2014 – Elizabeth Peρa, American actress and director (b. 1959)

 

 
 
 
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