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Today In History
  July 01st
 
Events
 
69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded.
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1569 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1643 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1766 – Franηois-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1770 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by Franηois Arago.
1837 – A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[1]
1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 – Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Fliegertruppe air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1916 – The first attack of the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 occurs.
1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is founded.
1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1932 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 – Independence of Somalia.
1960 – Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1968 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
1970 – President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 – The Wonderland murders occur in the early morning hours in Los Angeles, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over άberlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board.
2003 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China.
2007 – The Concert for Diana is held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 – Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2013 – The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) begins its operative peacekeeping mandate in Mali.
2013 – Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered.
2015 – Militants launch attacks on Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoints in North Sinai, leaving dozens of security personnel and insurgents killed.
 
Births
 
1481 – Christian II of Denmark (d. 1559)
1506 – Louis II of Hungary (d. 1526)
1534 – Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1574 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and mystic (d. 1656)
1586 – Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (d. 1630)
1633 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1698)
1646 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)
1663 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (d. 1738)
1723 – Pedro Rodrνguez, Count of Campomanes, Spanish politician, adviser to the king (d. 1802)
1725 – Rhoda Delaval, English painter (d. 1757)
1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (d. 1807)
1731 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan Scottish-English admiral (d. 1804)
1742 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (d. 1799)
1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1839)
1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1867)
1804 – Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (d. 1886)
1804 – George Sand, French author and playwright (d. 1876)
1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founded Clemson University (d. 1888)
1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (d. 1865)
1818 – Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist, and academic (d. 1884)
1822 – Nguy?n Πμnh Chi?u, Vietnamese poet and activist (d. 1888)
1834 – Jadwiga Luszczewska, Polish poet and author (d. 1908)
1838 – William Paine Lord, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Oregon (d. 1911)
1858 – Willard Metcalf, American painter (d. 1925)
1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892)
1869 – William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (d. 1946)
1872 – Louis Blιriot, French pilot and engineer (d. 1936)
1872 – William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (d. 1917)
1873 – Alice Guy-Blachι, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1873 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1954)
1878 – Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (d. 1944)
1879 – Lιon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1881 – Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (d. 1965)
1882 – Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1962)
1883 – Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1933)
1885 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (d. 1968)
1886 – Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (d. 1980)
1887 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (d. 1981)
1892 – James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d. 1977)
1892 – Lαszlσ Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1963)
1899 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (d. 1993)
1899 – Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (d. 1962)
1899 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (d. 1987)
1901 – Irna Phillips, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1902 – William Wyler, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1903 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, English actress, director, and author (d. 1979)
1906 – Jean Dieudonnι, French mathematician and academic (d. 1992)
1906 – Estιe Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estιe Lauder Companies (d. 2004)
1907 – Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (d. 1997)
1907 – Bill Stern, American actor and sportscaster (d. 1971)
1908 – Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (d. 1954)
1909 – Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (d. 1971)
1910 – Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (d. 1975)
1911 – Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (d. 1990)
1911 – Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (d. 2012)
1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist, founded Sierra Club Foundation (d. 2000)
1912 – Sally Kirkland, American journalist (d. 1989)
1913 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1913 – Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1979)
1914 – P. Kandiah, Ceylonese academic and politician (d. 1960)
1915 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
1915 – Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1915 – Jean Stafford, American author and academic (d. 1979)
1915 – Nguy?n Van Linh, Vietnamese politician (d. 1998)
1916 – Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress
1916 – Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
1916 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer (d. 2012)
1917 – Humphry Osmond, English-American lieutenant and psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1919 – Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (d. 2009)
1920 – Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (d. 2007)
1920 – Harold Sakata, Japanese-American wrestler and actor (d. 1982)
1921 – Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)
1921 – Michalina Wislocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (d. 2005)
1922 – Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (d. 2013)
1924 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1924 – Florence Stanley, American actress and director (d. 2003)
1925 – Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
1926 – Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1926 – Carl Hahn, German businessman
1926 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (d. 2012)
1927 – Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (d. 1997)
1928 – Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Hollywood Flames and Bob & Earl) (d. 1990)
1929 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
1930 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (d. 2005)
1930 – Carol Chomsky, American linguist and academic (d. 2008)
1931 – Leslie Caron, French-American actress and dancer
1932 – Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (d. 2007)
1933 – C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2010)
1934 – Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1934 – Jamie Farr, American actor and screenwriter
1934 – Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter
1934 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
1935 – James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1935 – David Prowse, English bodybuilder and actor
1936 – Syl Johnson, American singer, guitarist, and producer
1938 – Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach
1938 – Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer
1939 – Karen Black, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1939 – Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Delaney & Bonnie) (d. 2008)
1940 – Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager
1940 – Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician
1940 – Cahit Zarifoglu, Turkish poet and author (d. 1987)
1941 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1941 – Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1941 – Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
1942 – Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (d. 2015)
1942 – Geneviθve Bujold, Canadian actress
1942 – Andraι Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (d. 2015)
1942 – Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic
1943 – Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist
1943 – Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn
1943 – Jeff Wayne, American pianist and composer
1944 – Lew Rockwell, American author and activist
1945 – Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer
1945 – Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress (Blondie and The Wind in the Willows)
1946 – Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2013)
1946 – Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs
1947 – Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver
1947 – Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (d. 2012)
1948 – John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strawbs, The Monks, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera)
1949 – Nιjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter
1949 – John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band)
1949 – David Hogan, American composer and educator (d. 1996)
1949 – Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician
1950 – David Duke, American activist, author, and politician
1951 – Trevor Eve, English actor and producer
1951 – Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist
1951 – Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic
1951 – Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner
1951 – Tom Kozelko, American basketball player
1951 – Terrence Mann, American actor, singer, and dancer
1951 – Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The B-52's and The Superions)
1951 – Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (Village People)
1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – David Lane, English oncologist and academic
1952 – Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1952 – Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (d. 2006)
1953 – Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta
1953 – Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia
1954 – Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1989)
1955 – Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator
1955 – Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China
1955 – Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author
1957 – Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010)
1957 – Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1957 – Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager
1958 – Jack Dyer Crouch, II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor
1960 – Michael Beattie, Australian rugby player and coach
1960 – Lynn Jennings, American runner
1960 – Kevin Swords, American rugby player
1961 – Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist
1961 – Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner
1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1961 – Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Andre Braugher, American actor and producer
1963 – Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
1963 – Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (d. 2006)
1964 – Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
1965 – Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer
1965 – Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach
1965 – Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer
1966 – Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach
1966 – Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2013)
1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
1967 – Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and academic (d. 2011)
1967 – Marisa Monte, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Tribalistas)
1968 – Jordi Mollΰ, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Sιamus Egan, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Solas)
1971 – Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer, and actress
1971 – Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 – Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 – Sunshine Becker, American singer (Furthur)
1972 – Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 – Alex Machacek, Austrian guitarist (BPM and CAB)
1972 – Steffi Nerius, German javelin thrower
1974 – Jefferson Pιrez, Ecuadorian race walker
1975 – Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach
1975 – Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Danielson and Marzuki)
1976 – Plies, American rapper
1976 – Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach
1976 – Justin Lo, American-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
1976 – Thomas Sadoski, American actor
1976 – Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager
1976 – Szymon Ziσlkowski, Polish hammer thrower
1977 – Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician
1977 – Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Greg Pattillo, American flute player (Project Trio)
1977 – Liv Tyler, American model and actress
1979 – Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor
1980 – Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
1980 – Nelson Cruz, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player
1981 – Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer
1982 – Hilarie Burton, American actress
1982 – Carmella DeCesare, American model and wrestler
1982 – Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 – Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 – Adrian Ward, American football player
1983 – Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (M2M)
1983 – Leeteuk, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Super Junior, Super Junior-T, and Super Junior-H)
1984 – Morgane Dubled, French model
1984 – Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
1985 – Chris Perez, American baseball player
1986 – Andrew Lee, Australian footballer
1986 – Julian Prochnow, German footballer
1987 – Emily Glenister, English actress
1987 – Michael Schrader, German decathlete
1988 – Dedι, Brazilian footballer
1989 – Kent Bazemore, American basketball player
1989 – Mitch Hewer, English actor, singer, and dancer
1989 – Leah McFall, Northern Irish singer-songwriter
1989 – Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver
1990 – Young B., American rapper
1990 – Ben Coker, English footballer
1990 – Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48)
1991 – Serenay Sarikaya, Turkish model and actress, Miss Turkey 2010
1991 – Michael Wacha, American baseball player
1992 – Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player
1995 – Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgium footballer
1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
1998 – Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater
 
Deaths
 
552 – Totila, Ostrogoth king
1109 – Alfonso VI of Leσn and Castile (b. 1040)
1242 – Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1183)
1277 – Baibars, Egyptian sultan (b. 1223)
1555 – John Bradford, English Reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's, and martyr (b. 1510)
1589 – Lady Saigo, Japanese wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1552)
1592 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and educator (b. 1535)
1614 – Isaac Casaubon, French philologist and scholar (b. 1559)
1622 – William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (b. 1575)
1681 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (b. 1629)
1736 – Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1673)
1774 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1705)
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English admiral and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1730)
1784 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1710)
1787 – Charles, Prince of Soubise (b. 1715)
1819 – Jemima Wilkinson, American evangelist (b. 1752)
1839 – Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1785)
1860 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (b. 1800)
1863 – John F. Reynolds, American general (b. 1820)
1884 – Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (b. 1819)
1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (b. 1811)
1905 – John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (b. 1838)
1912 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1925 – Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (b. 1866)
1943 – Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist, author, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (b. 1894)
1943 – Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich,
1944 – Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (b. 1894)
1944 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (b. 1930)
1948 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
1950 – Ιmile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (b. 1865)
1950 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (b. 1873)
1951 – Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (b. 1922)
1961 – Louis-Ferdinand Cιline, French physician and author (b. 1894)
1962 – Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
1962 – Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1882)
1964 – Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (b. 1875)
1965 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
1965 – Robert Ruark, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
1966 – Frank Verner, American runner (b. 1883)
1967 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (b. 1888)
1968 – Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (b. 1903)
1971 – William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1971 – Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer, and politician (b. 1901)
1974 – Juan Perσn, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
1976 – Anneliese Michel, German woman believed to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 – Kurt Student, German general and pilot (b. 1890)
1981 – Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (b. 1921)
1981 – Rushton Moreve, American bass player and songwriter (Steppenwolf) (b. 1948)
1983 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphθre (b. 1895)
1984 – Moshι Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1904)
1987 – Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Residents and Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1949)
1991 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
1992 – Franco Cristaldi, Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1994 – Merriam Modell, American author (b. 1908)
1995 – Wolfman Jack, American radio host (b. 1938)
1995 – Ian Parkin, English guitarist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (b. 1950)
1996 – William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904)
1996 – Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (b. 1954)
1996 – Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (b. 1942)
1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
1997 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1999 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1908)
1999 – Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, created M&M's and the Mars bar (b. 1904)
1999 – Guy Mitchell, American singer and actor (b. 1927)
1999 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 – Walter Matthau, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
2001 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2001 – Jean-Louis Rosier, French race car driver (b. 1925)
2003 – Herbie Mann, American flute player and saxophonist (b. 1930)
2003 – Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2003 – N!xau ?Toma, Namibian farmer and actor (b. 1944)
2004 – Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2004 – Marlon Brando, American actor and director (b. 1924)
2004 – Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (b. 1909)
2005 – Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (b. 1936)
2005 – Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1923)
2005 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (b. 1951)
2006 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2006 – Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (b. 1952)
2006 – Fred Trueman, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1931)
2008 – Mel Galley, English guitarist (Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers, and Phenomena) (b. 1948)
2009 – Alexis Argόello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2009 – Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (b. 1917)
2009 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
2010 – Don Coryell, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
2010 – Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
2010 – Geoffrey Hutchings, English actor (b. 1939)
2010 – Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (b. 1929)
2011 – Leslie Brooks, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2012 – Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (b. 1938)
2012 – Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaries) (b. 1950)
2012 – Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (b. 1926)
2012 – Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1961)
2012 – Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (b. 1934)
2013 – Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (b. 1926)
2013 – Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (b. 1930)
2013 – William H. Gray, American minister and politician (b. 1941)
2013 – Paul Jenkins, American actor (b. 1938)
2013 – Gary Shearston, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
2013 – Maureen Waaka, New Zealand model and politician, Miss New Zealand 1962 (b. 1943)
2014 – Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1938)
2014 – Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founded The Farm (b. 1935)
2014 – Bob Jones, English lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
2014 – Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (b. 1942)
2014 – Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (b. 1937)
2015 – Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (b. 1927)
2015 – Czeslaw Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1931)
2015 – Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (b. 1909)

 

 
 
 
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