What is the special of 26 March?

• 1526 King Francis I returns from Spanish captivity to France
• 1534 Lübeck accepts free Dutch ships into East Sea
• 1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru
• 1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
• 1663 The Quebec Seminary established by François de Montmorency-Laval, First Bishop of New France. North America's first institution of higher learning. [1]
• 1668 England takes control of Bombay, India
• 1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
• 1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
• 1790 US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
• 1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
• 1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
• 1804 Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase

• 1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna
• 1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York
• 1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta on the river Thames, England
• 1845 Joseph Francis from NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
• 1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
• 1852 Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
• 1856 New South Wales's first 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW wins
• 1859 1st supposed sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury; it doesn't exist
• 1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
• 1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
• 1871 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris to form Commune government
• 1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
• 1872 Thomas J. Martin, of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system
• 1874 36th Grand National: Mr. J. M. Richardson wins his second consecutive GN aboard French 5/1 favourite Reugny
• 1878 Hastings College of Law founded in California
• 1878 Sabi Game Reserve opens in South Africa, the world's 1st officially designated game reserve
• 1881 Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again
• 1885 1st modern, legal cremation held in England at Woking, Surrey [1]
• 1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film

• 1886 48th Grand National: Tommy Skelton wins aboard 25/1 chance Old Joe
• 1889 Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
• 1889 Johnny Briggs takes 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
• 1889 South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
• 1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
• 1897 59th Grand National: Terry Kavanagh aboard 6/1 favourite Manifesto wins by 20 lengths from Filbert
• 1898 Sabie Game Reserve proclaimed in the Transvaal - the beginnings of Kruger National Park
• 1900 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam)
• 1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
• 1909 71st Grand National: Georges Parfrement wins aboard French 100/9 hope Lutteur III
• 1909 August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm
• 1909 In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz
• 1910 US forbids immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
• 1910 William H. Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
• 1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
• 1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami and Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously
• 1915 77th Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his second of 3 GN's aboard 100/8 bet Ally Sloper
• 1915 Stanley Cup Final, Denman Arena, Vancouver, BC: Barney Stanley scores 5 goals as Vancouver Millionaires beat Ottawa Senators, 12-3 for a 3-0 sweep of first non-challenge series; Vancouver first PCHA champions
• 1917 British win a battle against Turks at Gaza
• 1917 Stanley Cup Final, Seattle Ice Arena, Seattle, WA: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 9-1 for a 3-1 series victory; first US team to win SC
• 1920 79th Grand National: legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his record 3rd GN aboard 6/1 Troytown
• 1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan" opens in London
• 1926 85th Grand National: Billy Watkinson victorious aboard 25/1 bet Jack Horner; first Australian jockey to win the race
• 1926 ACD de Graeff appointed governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1926 First lip-reading tournament held in America
• 1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
• 1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
• 1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
• 1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
• 1931 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
• 1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
• 1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
• 1935 RJ Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Supermarine Spitfire
• 1936 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
• 1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
• 1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska

• 1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye
• 1937 William H. Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)

• 1942 Explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton, Pennsylvania, kills 21

• 1943 Battle of Komandorski Islands, naval battle between American navy and Japanese Imperial forces in the Pacific Ocean, ends inconclusively
• 1943 Elsie S. Ott is 1st woman to be awarded US Air Force Medal
• 1944 705 British bombers attack Essen, Germany

• 1945 Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
• 1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
• 1945 Venray soccer team forms
• 1949 103rd Grand National: Leo McMorrow aboard 66/1 outsider Russian Hero wins by a comfortable 8 lengths ahead of Roimond
• 1949 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State, 46-36; Wildcats' back-to-back titles; center Alex Groza MOP

• 1952 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St. Johns, 80-63; first tournament to have a true "Final Four" format
• 1952 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi" premieres in Munich
• 1953 "Ugetsu", Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, starring Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō and Kinuyo Tanaka, is released

• 1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
• 1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" version recorded by Bill Hayes becomes the #1 record in US
• 1955 109th Grand National: Pat Taaffe wins aboard Quare Times at 100/9; third consecutive GN victory for trainer Vincent O'Brien
• 1955 France misses out on a maiden Grand Slam after losing, 16-11 to Wales at Stade Colombes; share Five Nations Rugby Championship with Wales with 3-1 record
• 1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms
• 1956 Red Buttons stars as an angel on TV anthology series "Studio One" episode "Tale of St. Emergency"

• 1958 The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris
• 1958 US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
• 1959 Test debut for Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad v West Indies, aged 15 years
• 1960 114th Grand National: Gerry Scott wins aboard 13/2 favourite Merryman II; first clear favourite to win in 33 years
• 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim
• 1960 Orioles-Reds series planned for Havana is moved to Miami
• 1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title
• 1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature

• 1966 120th Grand National: Tim Norman aboard 50/1 outsider Anglo wins by 20 lengths, giving Freddie 2nd place for a second straight year
• 1966 Large-scale anti-Vietnam War protests take place in the United States, including in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago
• 1966 Wales beats France, 9-8 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch their 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship
• 1967 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win

1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio

• 1969 "Marcus Welby, M.D.", starring Robert Young and James Brolin debuts as a TV movie on ABC-TV, prior to becoming a weekly series
• 1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
• 1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
• 1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
• 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made San Francisco city landmark

1970 Musical "Minnie's Boys", starring Shelley Winters as the mother of the Marx Brothers, and Drama Desk Award winner Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho, opens at the Imperial Theater, New York City; runs for 80 performances

• 1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl and serves 3 months in prison; granted a presidential pardon in 1981
• 1970 The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
• 1971 "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
• 1971 "Cannon" starring William Conrad as a private detective premieres on CBS-TV; airs for 5 seasons

• 1972 "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 performances
• 1972 LA Lakers break NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13), record will stand for 24 years
• 1972 William Whitelaw appointed as the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

• 1973 Susan Shaw is first woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
• 1973 TV soap opera "The Young & the Restless" premieres on CBS

• 1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president

• 1975 The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
• 1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17 straight loses
• 1976 AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M

• 1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
• 1977 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Delta State beat Louisiana State University 68-55 in Minneapolis

• 1977 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

• 1979 Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game winning streak
• 1979 MLB San Diego Padres & San Francisco Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
• 1979 OPEC makes full 14.5% oil price increase for 1979 effective on April 1
• 1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
• 1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo, Yugoslavia
• 1981 Soviet space mission Soyuz T-4 lands
• 1982 Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial

• 1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
• 1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
• 1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it fails to reach orbit
• 1987 National Federation of State High School Associations adopt the college 3 point shot (21 feet)
• 1988 American Janet Evans swims 1,500m freestyle female world record 15:52.10 in the USA Spring Nationals in Orlando, Florida

• 1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
• 1991 Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London
• 1991 Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
• 1991 Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final

• 1992 NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years

• 1994 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
• 1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
• 1994 Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
• 1995 "Defending the Caveman" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 performances
• 1995 "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 performances
• 1995 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Color of Night" wins
• 1995 Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
• 1995 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Nanci Bowen wins her only major title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Susie Redman; her sole LPGA Tour victory

• 1995 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.

• 1996 The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia
• 1997 "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City, and runs for 239 performances.
• 1997 NHL announces Anaheim Mighty Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 season in Japan
• 1997 Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides
• 1998 Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.

• 1999 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.

2000 Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Karrie Webb of Australia wins the first of her 2 titles in this event, 10 strokes ahead of defending champion Dottie Pepper

• 2001 Kazakhstan's Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets
• 2001 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Tiger Woods wins the first of his 2 PC's, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Vijay Singh of Fiji

• 1638 Palamedes Palamedesz, Dutch painter, dies at about 30

• 1657 Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist and carillonneur, dies at 69
• 1679 Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
• 1697 Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer involved in a clan feud, executed by Maiden (Scottish guillotine) (b. 1640)
• 1713 Paul Esterhazy, Hungarian prince, composer and patron, dies at 77
• 1726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
• 1736 Georg Balthasar Schott, German composer, dies at 49
• 1772 Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
• 1776 Samuel Ward, American politician (31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations), dies at 50
• 1780 Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dies at 66
• 1793 John Mudge, English physician (telescope mirrors) (b. 1721)

• 1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, Italian tenor and composer, dies at 68
• 1814 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician and freemason who proposed and became the namesake of the guillotine, dies of natural causes at 75
• 1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux, French ballet dancer and composer, dies at 71

• 1831 Richard Allen, 1st African American ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church, dies at 71
• 1837 Joseph Lincke, German cellist and composer, dies at 53
• 1848 Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish poet and short-story writer (E Binddstouw), dies at 65
• 1850 Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (1833- 36), dies at 65
• 1857 Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar and geographer of Qing Dynasty, dies at 62
• 1858 John Addison Thomas, American soldier and US Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 47
• 1865 Thomas Hancock, English pioneer of the rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies at 79
• 1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, Spanish composer, dies at 62
• 1881 Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general, dies at 80
• 1888 Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
• 1892 Anton Wallerstein, German composer, dies at 78

• 1894 Alfred H. Colquitt, American lawyer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
• 1900 Isaac Mayer Wise, American rabbi and founder (American Hebrew Congregations), dies at 80

• 1905 Maurice Barrymore [Herbert Blythe], Indian-born British actor and patriarch of the Barrymore family, dies from syphilis at 55
• 1909 Nikolai Arkas, Ukrainian composer, dies at 56
• 1910 An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist and assassin of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, executed by Japanese authorities at 30
• 1910 Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
• 1918 Caesar A. Cui, Lithuanian fort builder and composer, dies at 83
• 1920 William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)

• 1924 Augusto (de Oliveira) Machado, Portuguese composer (Lauriane; Camões es os Luziadas), dies at 78

• 1926 Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
• 1929 Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
• 1932 Jean Cartan, French composer, dies at 25
• 1933 Eddie Lang [Salvatore Massaro], American jazz guitarist known as the "father of jazz guitar", dies at 30
• 1934 Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and poet (Geliebte Schatten), dies at 51
• 1937 Albert Relf, English cricket all-rounder (13 Tests, 1 x 50, 25 wickets, BB 5/85; Sussex CCC, Auckland CA), commits suicide at 52
• 1940 Spyridon Louis, Greek distance runner (winner first modern Olympics marathon 1896), dies at 67
• 1942 Jimmy Burke, American MLB third baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates), coach (World Series 1932, NY Yankees) and manager (St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 67
• 1943 Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer, dies at 73
• 1943 Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world's 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, dies at 91
• 1945 Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander, dies at 62

• 1945 Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
• 1946 Alexandru Zirra, Romanian composer, dies at 62
• 1948 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
• 1951 James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico, dies at 86
• 1956 Thomas de Hartmann, Russian composer, dies at 70
• 1957 Édouard Herriot, French politician (served 3 times as Prime Minister of France), dies at 84
• 1958 Phil Mead, English cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI), dies at 71
• 1959 Raymond Chandler, British-American mystery writer novelist and screenwriter (Farewell My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; The Big Sleep), dies at 71
• 1960 Ian Keith, American actor (Abraham Lincoln, Queen Christina, Cleopatra, 3 Musketeers), dies from a heart attack at 61
• 1962 Augusta Savage (née Fells), African-American sculptor and equal rights advocate dies of cancer at 72 [1]
• 1962 Marjorie Colton, American inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
• 1964 Hedwig Kohn, Prussian-born Jewish physics pioneer, dies at 77
• 1969 Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, dies at 66
• 1970 Fritz Ascher, German Expressionist artist, dies at 76
• 1973 Don Messer, Canadian folk fiddler, and television host (Jubilee, 1959-73), dies of a heart attack at 63
• 1973 George Sisler, American Baseball HOF first baseman (AL MVP 1922; AL batting champion 1920, 22 St. Louis Browns) and manager (St. Louis Browns 1924–26), dies at 80
• 1973 Johnny Drake, American NFL football running back, 1937-41 (Cleveland Rams), dies at 56

• 1973 Safford Cape, American-Belgian conductor, composer and music historian, dies at 67
• 1976 Josef Albers, German artist, dies at 88
• 1976 Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, dies at 80
• 1978 Alix Combelle, French swing saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (Quintette du Hot Club de France), dies at 65
• 1979 Jean Stafford, American writer (Pulitzer Prize 1970-The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford), dies at 63
• 1980 Jon-Jon Poulos, American drummer (Buckinghams), dies at 32
• 1981 Cyril Dean Darlington, English biologist and geneticist who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover and its role in inheritance and evolution, dies at 77
• 1981 Tim Wall, Australian cricketer (SA v NSW 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies at 76
• 1982 Agathe Henriette de Beaufort, Dutch writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91
• 1983 Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy for USSR, dies at 75
• 1984 Ahmed Sékou Touré, first President of Guinea (1958-84), dies of a heart attack at 62
• 1986 Bartlett Robinson, American actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
• 1987 Eugen Jochum, German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra), dies at 84
• 1987 Walter Abel, American actor (Fury; Suspicion; Dream Girl), dies at 88
• 1988 Musa Kaleem [Orlando Wright], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 67
• 1990 Halston, American fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame), dies of AIDs at 68
• 1990 International Chrysis, American Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
• 1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
• 1992 Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
• 1993 Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
• 1993 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
• 1994 Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at 41
• 1994 Jan Bor, Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
• 1995 Eazy-E [Eric Lynn Wright], American rapper (N.W.A.), dies from AIDS-related illness at 30
• 1995 Vladimir Maksimov, Russian writer and dissident, dies at 64
• 1996 David Packard, American electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83
• 1996 Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary of State (1980-81), dies at 81
• 1996 Tom Wakefield, British writer, dies at 60
• 1996 [Elizabeth] Cissie Charlton, English football matriarch, dies at 83
• 1997 Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (Heaven's Gate), dies leading a mass suicide at 65
• 2000 Alex Comfort, English author (The Joy of Sex), dies at 80
• 2002 (Randolpho) Randy Castillo, American rock and mariachi drummer (Ozzy Osbourne; Mötley Crüe; Azul), dies of cancer at 51
• 2003 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician and Senator (NY), dies at 72
• 2004 Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) dies after a stroke at 62
• 2004 Jan Sterling [Jane Adriance], American actress (Ace in the Hole, The High and the Mighty), dies of diabetes and a stroke at 82
• 2005 Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909)

• 2005 Marius Russo, American baseball player (New York Yankees), dies at 90
• 2005 Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
• 2006 Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
• 2006 Nikki Sudden, British singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 2006 Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
• 2008 Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
• 2008 Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP, dies of a heart attack at 77
• 2008 Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
• 2008 Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925)
• 2011 Diana Wynne Jones, British sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet; Witch Week), dies of lung cancer at 76

• 2011 Paul Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of Arpanet, dies at 84
• 2011 Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian (Air Farce Live) (b. 1946)
• 2013 Don Payne, American television and screenwriter, dies from bone cancer at 48
• 2013 Tom Boerwinkle, American NBA player, dies at 67
• 2013 Yury Rudov, Soviet fencer, dies at 82
• 2015 John Renbourn, British jazz and folk guitarist and songwriter (Pentangle), dies of a heart attack at 70
• 2015 Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (Nobel Prize for Literature - 2011), dies at 83
• 2016 David Baker, American jazz trombonist and cellist, jazz and classical composer (Reflections), and educator (Indiana University), dies at 84
• 2016 Jim Harrison, American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall), dies at 78
• 2017 Alain Gagnon, Canadian composer (Chansons d'Orient), and music educator (Université Laval, 1967-2008), dies at 78
• 2017 Brian Oldfield, American shot-putter (credited with making rotational technique popular), dies at 71
• 2017 Darlene Cates, American actress (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), dies at 69
• 2019 Heinz Winbeck, German composer, conductor and teacher, dies at 73
• 2019 Ranking Roger [Roger Charlery], British rock vocalist (The Beat, General Public), dies of cancer at 56
• 2020 Curly Neal, American basketball guard (Harlem Globetrotters 1963-85), dies at 77
• 2020 Jimmy Wynn, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1967, 74, 75; Houston Colt 45s/Astros, LA Dodgers), dies at 78
• 2020 John O'Leary, Irish golfer (Irish Open 1982; Ryder Cup 1975; director European Tour 1985-2019), dies at 70
• 2020 Michel Hidalgo, French soccer midfielder (1 cap; Monaco) and manager (France 1976-84; UEFA Euro 1984), dies at 87
• 2022 Joe Williams, American men's college basketball coach (Jacksonville Uni 1964-70; Furman Uni 1970-78; Florida State Uni 1978-86), dies at 88

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• 1773 Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician, astronomer and author (Marine Sextant), born in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1838)
• 1783 Johann Baptist Weigl, German composer and clergyman, born in Hahnbach, Bavaria (d. 1852)
• 1794 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1872)
• 1806 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, born in Jince, Czech Republic (d. 1833)
• 1813 Thomas West Sherman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1879)
• 1817 Herman Haupt, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1905)
• 1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa, Portuguese composer, born in Lamego, Portugal (d. 1855)
• 1819 Louise Otto-Peters, German suffragist, women's rights movement activist and author (The Wandering Star), born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1895)
• 1821 Ernst Engel, German statistician and economist (Law of Engel), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 1896)
• 1827 Emanuel Kania, Polish composer, born in Uszyce, Poland (d. 1887)
• 1830 Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar, poet and writer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1908)
• 1830 John Rogers Thomas, American composer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1896)
• 1833 Betsy Perk [Christina Elizabeth], Dutch journalist, writer and pioneer of the Dutch women's movement, born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1906)
• 1840 Carli Zoeller, German composer, born in Berlin (d. 1889)
• 1840 George Smith, English archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform script), born in London (d. 1876)
• 1849 Edwin Evans, Australian cricket spin bowler (6 Tests; 7 wickets), born in Emu Plains, Australia (d. 1921)
• 1850 Edward Bellamy, American author (Looking Backward) and socialist, born in Chicopee, Massachusetts (d. 1898)
• 1854 Braulio Dueno Colon, Puerto Rican composer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1934)
• 1856 David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, Welsh coal-mining entrepreneur, born in Ysgyborwen, Wales (d. 1918)
• 1859 A. E. Housman, English poet (A Shropshire Lad), born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England (d. 1936)
• 1859 Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), born in Hildesheim, Germany (d. 1919)
• 1859 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, Russian composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1922)
• 1868 Fuʾād I [Aḥmad Fuʾād Pasha], King of Egypt (1922-36), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1936)
• 1871 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, born in Kukui‘ula, Kōloa, Kauaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
• 1873 Gerald du Maurier, British actor (Power, Escape!, Masks and Faces), born in London, England (d. 1934)
• 1874 Oskar Nedbal, Czech composer, born in Tábor, Czech Republic (d. 1930)

• 1876 Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (1914-25), born in Neuwied, German Empire (d. 1945)
• 1879 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer (George Washington Bridge; Walt Whitman Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1965)
• 1880 Duncan Hines, American restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky (d. 1959)
• 1881 Guccio Gucci, Italian founder of Gucci fashion house, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1953)
• 1882 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist, member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Grenchen, Switzerland (d. 1940)
• 1884 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein Competition winner, 1905), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1969)
• 1885 Julius Harrison, British composer and conductor (Bredon Hill), born in Stourport, Worcestershire (d. 1963)
• 1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer and the founder of Blackburn Aircraft, born in Kirkstall, Leeds (d. 1955)
• 1886 Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
• 1888 Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse who helped POWs in Siberia, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (d. 1948)
• 1889 Václav Kaprál, Czech composer, pianist, and pedagogue, born in Určice (d. 1947)
• 1890 Jozef Arras, Flemish writer, born in Lier (d. 1919)
• 1893 James B. Conant, American chemist and President of Harvard University, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1978)

• 1894 Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian operatic soprano, the favorite of Richard Strauss, born in Czernowitz, Duchy of Bukovina, Austrian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) (d. 1985)
• 1894 Will Wright, American actor (Adam's Rib, Living Christ Story), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1962)
• 1896 Richard Flury, Swiss composer, born in Biberist, Switzerland (d. 1967)
• 1896 Rudolf Dassler, German entrepreneur who founded sportswear company Puma, born in Herzogenaurach, Germany (d. 1974)
• 1898 Charles Shadwell, British conductor, bandleader, and founder of the Cambridge Concert Orchestra, born in Pershore, Worcestershire (d. 1979)
• 1898 Renzo Massarani, Italian-Brazilian composer and music critic, born in Mantova, Italy (d. 1975)
• 1899 James B. Connant, American chemist, President of Harvard and diplomat, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
• 1899 William Baines, English composer, born in Hornbury, England (d. 1922)
• 1900 Isadore Freed, Russian American composer, born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (d. 1960)
• 1902 Leslie Melville, Australian economist, born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2002)
• 1904 Emilio Fernandez, Mexican director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), born in El Seco Mexico (d. 1986)
• 1904 Hermann Schroeder, German composer, born in Bernkastel, Germany (d. 1984)
• 1904 Joseph Campbell, American professor of comparative mythology (Mythic Image), born in White Plains, New York (d. 1987)
• 1904 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
• 1905 Pablo Garrido, Chilean composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Valparaíso, Chile (d. 1982)
• 1905 Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning) and founder of logotherapy, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1997)
• 1906 Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
• 1907 Leigh Harline, American composer and conductor, born in Salt Lake City (d. 1969)
• 1907 Louis Saguer, German born French composer (Lili Merveille), born in Charlottenburg, Germany (d. 1991)
• 1907 Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and freedom fighter, born in Farrukhabad, British India (d. 1987)
• 1908 Betty MacDonald [nee Bard], American humor writer (The Egg and I), in Boulder, Colorado (d. 1958)
• 1908 Hank Sylvern, American orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1908 Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (Wimbledon 1931, 1936 runner-up), born in Essen, Germany (d. 1981)
• 1908 Kenneth Mellanby, English entomologist (scabies) (d. 1993)
• 1909 (Christiaan) "Chris" Reumer, Dutch operatic tenor, born in Netherlands
• 1909 Chips Rafferty [John William Pilbean Goffage], Australian actor (Wake in Fright, Desert Rats), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales (d. 1971)
• 1911 Bernard Katz, German-born Australian biophysicist (Nobel Prize 1970), born in Leipzig, German Empire
• 1911 T. Hee, American animator (Dance of the Hours - Fantasia), born in Oklahoma (d. 1988)

• 1913 Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1996)
• 1914 Ian McGeoch, Scottish Vice-Admiral with Royal Navy (submarine HMS Splendid WWII), born in Helensburgh, Scotland (d. 2007)
• 1914 Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematics educator (Kumon Institute of Education,), born in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan (d. 1995)

• 1916 Bill Edrich, English cricketer (Middlesex & England batsman, Compton's mate)
• 1916 Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972), born in Monessen, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
• 1916 Mort Abrahams, American producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes), born in New York
• 1916 Sterling Hayden, American actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra), born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey (d. 1986)
• 1916 Vic Schoen, American arranger, composer, and orchestra leader (The Andrews Sisters: Dinah Shore; Patti Page), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2000)
• 1917 Ed Peck, American character actor (Zoot Suit; Bullitt; Happy Days - "Officer Kirk"}, born in New York City (d. 1992)
• 1917 Jean Graham Hall, English circuit court judge
• 1917 Rufus Thomas [Mr. Swing], American R&B musician (Do the Funky Chicken), born in Cayce, Mississippi (d. 2001)
• 1919 Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)

• 1920 George Brown Jr, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73-99), born in Holtsville, California (d. 1999)
• 1920 Sergio Livingstone, Chilean football player and journalist (52 caps), born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2012)
• 1921 George Jefferson, British CEO (British Telecom)
• 1921 Joe Loco [Jose Esteves, Jr], American Latin jazz musician (d. 1988)
• 1922 Oscar Sala, Italian-born Brazilian nuclear physicist, born in Milan, Italy (d. 2010)
• 1922 William Milliken, American politician, longest serving Governor of Michigan (1969-83), born in Traverse City, Michigan
• 1923 Bob Elliott, American comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
• 1923 Clifton Williams, American composer (The Ramparts,;Sinfonians), born in Traskwood, Arkansas (d. 1976)
• 1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius), (d. 2014)
• 1923 Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
• 1925 Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer (MP for Montgomeryshire 1962-79), (d. 2012)
• 1925 Ben Mondor, Canadian baseball executive (International League Executive of the Year 1978, 99), born in St-Ignace-du-Lac, Maskinongé, Quebec (d. 2010)
• 1925 Claudio Spies, Chilean American composer, born in Santiago, Chile (d. 2020)
• 1925 Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56), born in Amritsar, British India (d. 1999)
• 1925 Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (Visage Nuptial), born in Montbrison, France (d. 2016)
• 1925 Ted Graham, Lord Graham of Edmonton, English politician, House of Lords (chief opposition whip), born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 2020)
• 1928 Carole Carr [Carless], British singer and actress (Down Among the Z Men), born in London, England (d. 1997)
• 1928 G. Harry Stine, American science fiction writer (d. 1997)
• 1929 Maurice Simon, American jazz musician, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2019)
• 1930 Cristóbal Halffter, Spanish conductor, and composer (Yes, speak out, yes; Lazarus), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 2021)
• 1930 Gregory Corso, American beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man), born in New York City (d. 2001)

• 1932 Al Bianchi, American basketball guard, coach and general manager (Philadelphia 76ers, Virginia Squires; GM NY Knicks), born in Queens, NY (d. 2019)
• 1932 Dick Nolan, American NFL football coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
• 1934 Alan Arkin, American actor (Catch-22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark), born in NYC, New York
• 1934 Gino Cappelletti, American football running back (AFL All-Star 1961, 63-66; AFL MVP 1964; Boston Patriots), born in Keewatin, Minnesota (d. 2022)

• 1936 Éder Jofre, Brazilian boxer (WBA, WBC & The Ring Bantamweight, WBC Featherweight titles; International Boxing HOF), born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 2022)
• 1936 Erich Urbanner, Austrian composer and educator, born in Innsbruck, Austria
• 1936 Fred Parris, American doo-wop singer and songwriter (The Five Satins - "In The Still Of The Night"), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2022)
• 1936 Pierre Kerkhoffs, Dutch soccer striker (5 caps; SC Enschede, PSV, Lausanne Sport), born in Geleen, Netherlands (d. 2021)
• 1937 Barbara Pearl Jones, American 4X100m relayer (Olympic gold 1952, 60), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1937 Wayne Embry, American Basketball HOF center (5 x NBA All Star; NBA C'ship 1968 Boston Celtics) and executive (NBA Executive of the Year 1992 Cleveland Cavaliers, 1998 Toronto Raptors), born in Springfield, Ohio
• 1938 Anthony James Leggett, English physicist, (Nobel Prize for Physics 2013 for superfluidity), born in London, England
• 1939 Colin Webb, British fleet street editor and journalist (Press Association) (d. 2013)
• 1939 Jonathan Tod, British Vice-Admiral (Royal Navy)
• 1939 Phillip R. Allen, American stage and screen actor (Hardy Boys Mysteries - "Harry"; Star Trek III - "Captain Esteban"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
• 1939 Stuart Sutherland, British psychologist, educator (Sussex University), and writer (Breakdown) (d. 1998)
• 1940 Braulio Baeza, American jockey, 1st Latin American to win Kentucky Derby (National Horse Racing Hall of Fame), born in Panama City
• 1940 James Caan, American actor (Brian's Song; The Godfather; Rollerball; Misery; Elf), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2022)

• 1940 Rod Lauren, American rocker (If I Had a Girl), born in Fresno, California (d. 2007)
• 1941 Barclay Plager, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (NHL All-Star 1970, 71, 73, 74 St. Louis Blues) and coach (St. Louis Blues 1977-83), born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (d. 1988)
• 1941 Bob Plager, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (St. Louis Blues 1969-77) and coach (St. Louis Blues 1992), born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (d. 2021)
• 1941 Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist (The God Delusion), born in Nairobi, Kenya Colony
• 1941 Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician, born in Lévis, Quebec
• 1942 Erica Jong [Mann], American author (Fear of Flying), born in NYC, New York

• 1945 Mikhail Voronin, Russian and Soviet gymnast (1968 Olympics: 7 medals including 2 gold, 1972 Olympics: 2 silver medals), born in Moscow (d. 2004)
• 1946 Johnny Crawford, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; The Rifleman - "Mark"), singer ("Sandy"), and bandleader (JCO), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2021)
• 1947 Dar Robinson, American stuntman, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1986)
• 1948 Kyung-Wha Chung, Korean violinist (Chung Sisters), born in Seoul, Korea
• 1948 Richard Tandy, British rock bassist (ELO), born in Birmingham, England
• 1948 Steven Tyler, American rock vocalist (Aerosmith - "Walk This Way"; "Dude Looks Like A Lady"), born in New York City
• 1949 Baroness Hayman [Helene Hayman], British politician (Lord Speaker of the House of Lords, 2006-11), born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands
• 1949 Fran Sheehan, American rock bassist (Boston - "More Than A Feeling"), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1949 Francisco Aguilar, Spanish soccer forward (3 caps; Real Madrid), born in Santander, Spain (d. 2020)
• 1949 Patrick Süskind, German novelist and screenwriter ("Perfume: The Story of a Murderer"), born in Ambach, Bavaria, Germany
• 1949 Rudi Koertzen, South African cricket umpire (Tests 108 1992-2010; ODIs 209; T20Is 14), born in Knysna, South Africa (d. 2022)
• 1949 Vicki Lawrence, American television actress (The Carol Burnett Show; Mama's Family), and singer ("The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia"), born in Inglewood, California
• 1950 Alan Silvestri, American film score composer (Back To The Future films; Forrest Gump, Cosmos), born in NYC, New York
• 1950 Ernest Thomas, American actor (What's Happening!!), born in Gary, Indiana
• 1950 Graham Barlow, English cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)

• 1950 Theodore "Teddy" Pendergrass, American singer (Turn Off the Lights), born in Kingstree, South Carolina (d. 2010)
• 1950 Tony Papenfuss, American actor (Daryl-Newhart), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1952 David Amess, British politician (C), born in London
• 1952 Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver, born in Villecresnes, France (d. 1987)
• 1953 Billy Lyall, Scottish rock keyboardist (Bay City Rollers, 1969-71; Pilot, 1973-76; Alan Parsons Project - Irobot), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1989)
• 1953 Elaine Chao, American politician (U.S. Secretary of Transportaion, 2017-21; U.S. Secretary of Labor, 2001-2009), born in Taipei, Taiwan
• 1953 Lincoln Chafee, American politician (Governor of Rhode Island, 2011-15; US Senator (R) - Rhode Island, 1999-2007), born in Providence, Rhode Island
• 1953 Michael Bonagura, American country singer (Baille & Boys - "Oh Heart"), born in Newark, New Jersey
• 1953 Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner (world record)
• 1953 Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
• 1954 Curtis Sliwa, American activist, founder of the Guardian Angels, born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1954 Dorothy Porter, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), librettist, (The Eternity Man), and lyricist (The Fiery Maze), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2008)
• 1954 Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
• 1954 Piers Gardner, British human rights lawyer (British Institute of Intl & Comparative Law)
• 1955 Dean Dillon, American country music singer (Chair), born in Lake City, Tennessee
• 1956 Charly McClain, American country singer (Radio Heart), born in Jackson, Tennessee
• 1956 Tatyana Kochergina, Ukrainian handball player (Olympic gold 1976, 80 USSR), born in Ovidiopol, Ukraine
• 1957 Leeza Gibbons, American TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza), born in Hartsville, South Carolina
• 1958 Chris Codiroli, American baseballer, born in Oxnard, California
• 1959 Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent (Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator, 2004-07), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1959 Chris Whitten, British session drummer (Paul McCartney - "Flowers In The Dirt"; Edie Brickell; The Waterboys), born in England
• 1960 Jennifer Grey, American actress (Dirty Dancing), born in NYC, New York
• 1960 Marcus Allen, American College and Pro Football Hall of Fame running back (Heisman Trophy 1981, USC; Super Bowl MVP 1984, LA Raiders; 6 x Pro Bowl), born in San Diego, California
• 1961 Billy Warlock, American actor (Baywatch), born in Hawthorne, California
• 1961 Leigh Bowery, Australian performance artist and designer, born in Sunshine, Australia (d. 1996)
• 1961 William Hague, English politician, Secretary of State, Leader of the Opposition, born in Rotherham, England

• 1962 Kevin Seitzer, MLB baseball infielder, 1986-97, 2X All-Star (Kansas City Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, and 2 other teams), born in Springfield, Illinois
• 1962 Richard Coles, Britiish synth-pop musician (Communards - "Don't Leave Me This Way"), now a Church of England priest, and BBC broadcaster, born in Northampton
• 1962 Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Ukrainian-Russian Air Force pilot and officer, and cosmonaut Mir; International Space Station), born in Elanets, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
• 1963 Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
• 1963 Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer (Mōryō no Hako), born in Hokkaido, Japan
• 1963 Paul de Leeuw, Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
• 1963 Rebecca Twigg, American cyclist (Olympic silver 1984, 92, 96), born in Seattle, Washington
• 1964 Ab Plugboer, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht) and manager, born in Edam, Netherlands
• 1964 Barry "Baz" Warne, British rock guitarist and singer (The Stranglers, 2000 - present), born in Sunderland, England
• 1964 Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• 1964 Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish American NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Rangers), born in Fagersta, Sweden

• 1760 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist/pamphleteer/revolution leader
• 1769 DeWitt Clinton, (Gov/Sen-NY)
• 1770 Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French nobleman (Duke of Albufera), and military commander (Marshal of the Empire), born in Lyon, France (d. 1826)
• 1779 Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman and botanist (d. 1851)

• 1800 Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)

• 1813 George Alexander Macfarren, British composer and musicologist, born in London, England (d. 1887)
• 1815 Antonio Buzzolla, composer
• 1816 Alexander H. Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
• 1817 Janos Arany, Hungarian epic poet (Toldi, Death of King Buda)
• 1820 Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), born in Amsterdam (d. 1887)
• 1824 Henry Beebee Carrington, American lawyer, professor, prolific author, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1912)
• 1824 Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationalist, credited as the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia
• 1824 [Friedrich] Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (The Bartered Bride; Má Vlast; Moldau), born in Litomyšl, Bohemia (d. 1884)
• 1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Clark County, Indiana (d. 1879)
• 1829 Carl Schurz, German-American journalist and Major General (Union Army), born in Erftstadt, Germany (d. 1906)
• 1836 Henry Billings Brown, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1913)
• 1838 David Duffle Wood, composer
• 1842 Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
• 1843 Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (d. 1911)
• 1844 Dr. Schaepman [Herman Schaepman], Dutch poet, Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and politician
• 1849 Robert Means Thompson, U.S. Naval Officer (d. 1930)
• 1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the Dairyman), born in Pereyaslav, Russian Empire (d. 1916)
• 1860 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961)
• 1862 Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
• 1862 John Jay Chapman, US advocate, poet, and writer (Learning & Other Essays)
• 1865 Théophile "Théo" Ysaÿe, Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium (d. 1918)
• 1875 Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian

• 1878 Wander J de Haas, Dutch physicist/son-in-law of Lorentz
• 1878 William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1944)
• 1882 Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), born in Essex, England (d. 1961)
• 1884 Léon Jongen, Belgian organist, composer, and academic, born in Liège (d. 1969)
• 1886 Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
• 1890 Oscar Egg, Swiss track and road bicycle racer (3 x world hour record), born in Schlatt, Switzerland (d. 1961)
• 1892 Felix Bressart, German actor (Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads), born in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany (d. 1949)
• 1893 Maxime Dumoulin, composer
• 1894 Renaat Veremans, Flemish organist, composer, and conductor (Flemish Opera, Antwerp, 1921-44), born in Lierre, Belgium (d. 1969)
• 1896 Clair Bee, American College Basketball and Basketball Hall of Fame coach (Long Island University undefeated 1936, 39; National Invitation Tournament 1939, 41), born in Grafton, West Virginia (d. 1983)
• 1899 Harald Søltoft Agersnap, Danish cellist, pianist, conductor, and composer (Royal Danish Theatre, 1931-66), born in Vinding, Denmark  (d. 1982)
• 1899 Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame
• 1900 Kurt J Weill, German composer/Bertolt Brecht collaborator (Mahogany), born in Dessau, Germany
• 1901 Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber-merchant
• 1902 Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist (Manhattan Project)

• 1905 Marc Blitzstein, American opera and theater composer, librettist (The Cradle Will Rock), and translator (Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill works), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
• 1907 Jheri [Robert] Redding, American hairdresser and businessman (created the Jheri curl and hair conditioner), born in Rantoul, Illinois (d. 1998)
• 1908 Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
• 1908 Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
• 1908 Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
• 1909 Hanoch Jacoby, Israeli violist (Israel Philharmonic, 1958-74), educator, and composer, born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1990)
• 1909 Mel Ott, American Baseball HOF right fielder and manager (12 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1933; 6 × NL home run leader; NY Giants), born in Gretna, Louisiana (d. 1958)
• 1910 Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector
• 1911 William Hansen, American actor (1776, Pinky, Side Street, Homebodies), born in Washington, District of Columbia (d. 1975)
• 1912 (Theodore) "Red" Saunders, American jazz drummer and bandleader, based in Chicago, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1981)
• 1912 Arthur Langton, South African cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 40 wickets), born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa (d. 1942)
• 1913 Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
• 1913 Georgy Nikolaevich Flerov, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Physicist (nuclear fission)
• 1913 Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, Dutch humorist/writer (Pieter Bas)
• 1913 Marjorie Weaver, American actress (Michael Shayne: Private Detective, Young Mr Lincoln), born in Crossville, Tennessee (d. 1994)
• 1913 Mort Cooper, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1942, 43, 45, 46; World Series 1942, 44; NL MVP 1942), born in Atherton, Missouri (d. 1958)
• 1915 Lona Andre [Launa Anderson], American actress (Death in the Air, Case of Baby Sitter), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1992)
• 1916 Bernard George Stevens, British composer, born in London, England (d. 1983)

1917 (Desiderio) "Desi" Arnaz, Cuban-American singer ("Babalú"), bandleader, actor (I Love Lucy - "Ricky Riccardo"), and television producer (The Untouchables), born in Santiago de Cuba (d. 1986)

• 1917 Alex Graham, Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip "Fred Basset", born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1991)
• 1917 David Goodis, American writer (d. 1967)
• 1917 Jim Konstanty, American MLB relief pitcher (MLB All Star 1950; NL MVP 1950; Philadelphia Phillies), born in Strykersville, New York (d. 1976)
• 1917 John Gardner, English classical composer, born in Manchester, England (d. 2011)
• 1919 Eddie Lawrence, comedian

• 1919 Tamara Toumanova, dancer
• 1920 Enrique Franco, Spanish pianist, composer (Cuerda de presos), music promoter, and broadcaster (National Spanish Radio; Radio Clásica), born in Madrid Spain (d. 2009)
• 1921 Norman T. Hatch, American oscar-winning marine cinematographer during WWII (With the Marines at Tarawa), born in Boston (d. 2017)
• 1921 Robert Simpson, British classical composer, and broadcaster (BBC), born in Leamington, Warwickshire, England (d. 1997)
• 1922 Bill Quackenbush, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman (8 x NHL All-Star; Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings) and coach (Princeton), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1999)
• 1922 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz saxophonist (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band), born in Culver City, California (d. 1986)
• 1922 Eric Feldbush [Désiré Feldbusch], Belgian cellist, conductor, and composer (Pastels), born in Grivegnée, Belgium (d. 2007)
• 1922 Mario Zafred, Italian composer, music critic, and opera director, born in Trieste, Italy (d. 1987)
• 1923 György Pásztor, Hungarian ice hockey forward (6 x Hungarian C'hip; Budapest SC, Red Meteor SC; Hungarian IHHOF) and administrator (est. Hungarian IH Federation), born in Törökbálint, Hungary (d. 2022)
• 1923 Orrin Keepnews, American jazz producer and founder of Riverside Records and Milestone Records labels, born in The Bronx, New York
• 1923 Robert H. Michel, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1957-95), born in Peoria, Illinois (d. 2017)
• 1924 Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist
• 1924 Alexander "Papa" Lightfoot, American blues singer and harmonica player, born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1971)
• 1925 Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis [Charles Thompson], American blues musician (Cold Hands), born in Tippo, Mississippi (d. 1995)
• 1926 Murray Rothbard, American economist, and libertarian, born in The Bronx, NYC (d. 1995)
• 1927 Ray Prosser, Welsh rugby union prop (22 caps Wales, 1 British & Irish Lions; Pontypool) and coach (Pontypool RFC 1969-87), born in Pontypool, Wales (d. 2020)
• 1927 Roger Walkowiak, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1956), born in Montluçon, France (d. 2017)
• 1927 Siegfried Kohler, German composer (Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom), born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1984)
• 1927 Witold Szalonek, Polish composer (Satire), educator, and musicologist, born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland (d. 2001) [1]
• 1928 Father John Romanides, Greek priest and professor (d. 2001)
• 1928 John Manduell, British-based South African composer and educator (Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, 1973-96), born in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa (d. 2017)
• 1928 José Luis Pérez-Payá, Spanish soccer forward (2 caps; Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid), born in Alcoy, Spain (d. 2022)
• 1929 Sir Donald Gosling, British former-Chairman of "National Car Parks" and multi-millionaire, born in England
• 1930 Emma Penella, Spanish actress, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 2007)
• 1930 Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
• 1930 John Cullum, American Tony Award-winning stage and screen singer and actor (Hamlet; 1776; Hawaii; Northern Exposure - "Holling"; The Middle -"Big Mike"), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
• 1931 Duane Graveline, doctor and astronaut, born in Newport Vermont (d. 2016)

• 1931 Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author (The Right Stuff), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 2018)
• 1932 Frank E. Petersen Jr, American soldier and 1st African American Marine aviator & General, born in Topeka Kansas (d. 2015)
• 1934 Bernard Rands, composer (Wildtrack), born in Sheffield, England
• 1934 Howard Cassady, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1955, Ohio State; NFL C'ship 1957, Detroit Lions), born in Hendrysburg, Ohio (d. 2019)
• 1934 Joyce "Dottie" Rambo (nee Luttrell), American gospel singer and songwriter, born in Madisonville, Kentucky (d. 2008)
• 1935 Al Waxman, Canadian actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs 3, Spasms), born in Toronto, Ontario
• 1935 Porky Pig, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Friz Freleng and Frank Tashlin (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "I Haven't Got a Hat"
• 1936 Buell Neidlinger, American pop, jazz, and classical session cellist and double bassist (Cecil Taylor; Frank Zappa; Duane Eddy), born in New York City (d. 2018)
• 1936 Henny Boskamp [Hoelscher], actor (Troeleke)

• 1937 Denny Crum, American College Basketball & Basketball Hall of Fame coach (University of Louisville 1971-2001; NCAA C'ship 1980, 86; 6 x Final Fours), born in San Fernando, California
• 1938 Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire
• 1938 Donald Schwall, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1961²; AL Rookie of the Year 1961; Boston Red Sox), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
• 1938 Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
• 1938 Simon Estes, American bass-baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos), born in Centerville, Iowa
• 1939 Barbara Luna, American actress (5 Weeks in a Balloon, Gentle Savage), born in NYC, New York
• 1939 Gerard van Tongeren, Dutch pop guitarist and singer (The Buffoons - "Tomorrow Is Another Day; "It's The End")
• 1940 Billy McNeill MBE, Scottish soccer defender (29 caps; Celtic) and manager (Celtic, Manchester City, Aston Villa), born in Bellshill, Scotland (d. 2019)
• 1940 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman (South African Prog Fed Party, 1979-86)
• 1940 Tony Croatto {Hermes Martinis], Italian-Puerto Rican folk song singer and composer (Los TNT; Haciendo Punto en Otro Son), and television presenter, born in Udine, Italy (d. 2005)
• 1941 David Satcher, Amdniral and 16th United States Surgeon General (1998-2001), born in Anniston, Alabama
• 1941 John Cornell, Australian screenwriter (Paul Hogan Show; Crocodile Dundee), and director (Crocodile Dundee II), born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (d. 2021)
• 1942 Claude Larose, Canadian NHL right wing (Stanley Cup 1965, 66, 68, 71, 73; Montreal Canadiens), born in Hearst, Ontario
• 1942 John Irving, American short-story writer (The World According to Garp; The Cider House Rules), born in Exeter, New Hampshire
• 1942 Kwang Jo Choi, the founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original Masters of Taekwon-Do.
• 1942 Lou Reed, American rock vocalist, songwriter and guitarist (Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane"; "Walk On The Wild Side"), born in NYC, New York (d. 2013)
• 1942 Luc Plamondon, French Canadian musical lyricist, born in Saint-Raymond, Quebec
• 1943 (Daniel) Tony Meehan, British rock drummer (Vipers; Drifters: Shadows), born in Hampstead, North West London, England (d. 2005)
• 1943 Gordon Black, English industrialist
• 1943 Juan Carlos Masnik, Uruguayan soccer defender (26 caps; NY Skyliners, Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Nacional, NY Cosmos), born in Soriano, Uruguay (d. 2021)
• 1943 Peter Straub, American award-winning fantasy and horror author, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• 1943 Rosa DeLauro, American politician (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1991-), born in New Haven, Connecticut
• 1943 Stephen Dickman, American composer and librettist (Tibetan Dreams; Rabbi Nathan's Prayer), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1944 Katherine Crawford, actress (Captains & Kings, Gemini Man)
• 1944 Leif Segerstam, Finnish violinist, conductor, and composer of 342 symphonies (...and counting!), born in Vaasa, Finland
• 1944 Uschi Glas, German actress
• 1945 Derek Watkins, British trumpet player and composer ("The Spy Who Loved Me"; "Skyfall"), born in Reading, England (d. 2013)
• 1945 Gordon Thompson, Canadian actor (Adam Carrington in Dynasty), born in Ottawa
• 1945 Joy Garrett, American actress (Jo Johnson-Days of Our Lives), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1993)
• 1946 Brian J. Donnelly, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1979-93), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1947 Harry Redknapp, English soccer winger (West Ham United; AFC Bournemouth) and manager (Bournemouth, West Ham, Tottenham, Portsmouth, QPR, Southampton), born in London, England
• 1948 Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
• 1948 Larry Carlton, American jazz and rock session and touring guitarist (Crusaders; Joni Mitchell; Steely Dan), born in Torrance, California
• 1948 Rory Gallagher, Irish rock and blues guitarist and songwriter ("Born on the Wrong Side of Time"), born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland (d. 1995)
• 1949 Alain Chamfort [Le Govic], French rock singer-songwriter, and piano player, born in Paris, France
• 1949 Gates McFadden, American actress (Beverly Crusher-Star Trek Next Generation), born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
• 1949 J. P. R. Williams, Welsh rugby union fullback (55 caps Wales, 8 British & Irish Lions; Grand Slam 1971, 76, 78), born in Bridgend, Wales
• 1950 Jeffrey Chodorow, American restaurateur and financier
• 1950 Karen Carpenter, American pop vocalist and drummer ("We've Only Just Begun"; "Rainy Days And Mondays"; "Top Of The World"), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1983)
• 1950 Matthew Laurance, actor (Duet)
• 1950 Mitchel Laurance, actor (LA Law, Not Necessarily the News)
• 1951 Cassie Yates, Macon Ga, actress (Osterman Weekend, Dynasty)
• 1952 Laraine Newman, comedienne/actress (Saturday Night Live), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1952 Mark Evanier, American writer
• 1953 William Simmons, American R&B saxophonist and keyboardist (Midnight Star - "No Parking On The Dance Floor"; "Operator")
• 1954 Hunt Sales, American rock drummer (Todd Rundgren; Iggy Pop; Tin Machine), born in Detroit, Michigan
• 1954 John Sciarra, American College Football Hall of Fame safety (UCLA; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1954 Pete Johnson, American NFL running back (Pro Bowl, All Pro 1981; Cincinnati Bengals), born in Fort Valley, Georgia
• 1954 Stone Phumelele Sizani, South African treasurer (UDF)
• 1955 Dale Bosworth, TV host (America's Most Wanted)
• 1955 Dale Bozzio, vocalist (Missing Persons-Destination Unknown), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1955 Jawanza Kobie, American jazz pianist and composer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1955 Jay Osmond, American singer and drummer (Osmond Brothers - "One Way Ticket to Anywhere"), born in Ogden, Utah
• 1955 Ken Salazar, American politician
• 1955 Shoko Asahara [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader
• 1956 Eusebio Pedroza, Panamanian boxer (WBA featherweight champion 1978-85), born in Panama City, Panama (d. 2019)
• 1956 Gary Pearce, English rugby union prop (36 caps; Northampton Saints), born in Dinton, England
• 1956 John Cowsill, American rock drummer (The Cowsills - "We Can Fly"; Beach Boys, 2000-present), born in Newport, Rhode Island
• 1956 Mark Evans, Australian rock bassist (AC/DC), born in Melbourne, Victoria
• 1958 Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer (US Masters 1991), born in Oswestry, England
• 1958 Kevin Curren, South African tennis player (US Open doubles, mixed doubles 1982; Wimbledon doubles 1982; US Open mixed doubles 1981), born in Durban, South Africa
• 1958 Peter Arnold, American architect
• 1959 Larry Stewart, American country singer (Restless Heart - "Alright Already"), born in Paducah, Kentucky
• 1961 Simone Young, Australian conductor (Hamburg State Opera and Hamburg Philharmonic, 2005-15), born in Sydney, Australia
• 1962 Jon Bon Jovi [John Bongiovi], American rock singer-songwriter (Bon Jovi - "You Give Love a Bad Name"; "Who Says You Can't Go Home"), born in Sayreville, New Jersey
• 1962 Michael Salinger, American poet
• 1962 Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
• 1962 Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey left wing (World C'Ships gold 1995; NHL: Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks) and coach (Finland; HIFK), born in Jyväskylä, Finland
• 1962 Terry Steinbach, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1988, 89, 93; World Series 1989; Oakland A's), born in New Ulm, Minnesota
• 1963 Anthony Albanese, Australian politician (Prime Minister of Australia 2022-), born in Sydney, Australia
• 1963 Suzette Charles, Miss NJ, replaces Vanessa Williams as Miss America (1983)
• 1963 Tanyu Kiryakov, Bulgarian pistol shooter (Olympic gold 10m air pistol 1988, 50m pistol 2000), born in Ruse, Bulgaria
• 1963 Tuff Hedeman, American bull rider (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) World C'ship 1986, 89, 91); Professional Bull Riders (PBR) World C'ship 1995), born in El Paso, Texas
• 1964 Laird Hamilton, American big-wave surfer (co-inventor of tow-in surfing; heaviest wave ever ridden successfully, Teahupo'o 2000), born in San Francisco, California
• 1965 Lembit Öpik, British politician

1965 Ron Gant, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1992, 95; Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds) and broadcaster (WAGA-TV, co-host 'Good Day Atlanta', born in Victoria, Texas

• 1965 Wolfgang Muthspiel, Austrian jazz guitarist, born in Judenburg, Austria
• 1966 Judith Wiesner, Austrian tennis player (World #12 1997; captain Austria's Federation Cup team 2001), born in Hallein Austria
• 1966 Stevie Rachelle, American hard rock vocalist (Tuff - "What Comes Around Goes Around"), born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• 1967 Dennis Seaton, British reggae-rock singer (Musical Youth - "Pass the Dutchie"), born in Birmingham, England

• 1729 Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist, dies at 66
• 1755 Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)
• 1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
• 1772 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73
• 1787 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, dies at 73

• 1793 Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist
• 1797 Horace Walpole, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto), dies at 79
• 1800 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86
• 1822 Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40
• 1829 Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1768)
• 1830 Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)
• 1835 Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
• 1840 Wilhelm Olbers, German astronomer and physician who discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta), dies at 81
• 1855 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
• 1862 Frederick West Lander, American Union brigadier general and poet, dies at 40
• 1865 Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
• 1867 French-Andries Durlet, Belgian sculptor and architect, dies at 50
• 1868 Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81
• 1879 John Eberhard Faber, German-American pencil manufacturer and built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US, dies at 56
• 1880 Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)
• 1882 Louis Kufferath, German-Belgian composer, dies at 70
• 1887 August W. Eichler, German botanist (developed a new system of classification of plants to reflect the concept of evolution), dies at 47
• 1887 Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer, and voice teacher, dies at 63
• 1895 Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54
• 1895 Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64
• 1916 Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
• 1918 Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian, ethnologist (History of Pacific States), dies at 85
• 1919 Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
• 1921 Champ Clark, American politician (b. 1850)
• 1921 Henryk Pachulski, Polish pianist, composer, and educator (Moscow Conservatory, 1886-1917), dies at 61

• 1936 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies at 59
• 1937 Gustav Wohlgemuth, German composer, dies at 73
• 1938 Ben Harney, American composer and 'Father of Ragtime Piano' ("You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down"), dies of a heart attack at 66

• 1940 Matt Kilroy, American baseball pitcher (MLB single-season record 513 strikeouts 1886; MLB no-hitter 1886; Baltimore Orioles), dies at 73
• 1942 Charlie Christian, American jazz and swing guitarist (Benny Goodman Sextet), dies of tuberculosis at 25 [1]
• 1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), dies at 79
• 1945 Emily Carr, Canadian painter, dies at 73
• 1946 Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary), dies at 50
• 1946 George E. Stewart, American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 73
• 1949 Sarojini Naidu, Indian freedom fighter and poet, dies at 70
• 1950 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76
• 1950 Rosli Dhobi, pro-Indonesian Malay student, hanged in Kuching for the assassination of Duncan Stewart, British Governor of Sarawak
• 1953 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), dies at 70
• 1957 Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
• 1959 Eric Blore, British actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad, Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70
• 1960 Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising, dies at 85
• 1962 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (Prime number theorem), dies at 95
• 1962 Walt Kiesling, American Pro Football Hall of Fame guard (NFL 1920s All-Decade Team; First-team All-Pro 1929, 30, 32; Chicago Cardinals) and coach (Pittsburgh Pirates/Steelers), dies from bacteremia at 58
• 1967 Gordon Harker, British actor (Facts of Love, Champagne, Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81
• 1967 José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
• 1970 Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888)
• 1970 Paul Christman, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (University of Missouri; All-Pro 1946, 47; Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers), dies from a heart attack at 51
• 1971 Charles W Engelhard, US silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54
• 1972 Bill Lawrence, American news anchor (ABC), dies at 56
• 1973 Cleo Noel, US ambassador to Sudan, assassinated
• 1974 Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 43
• 1974 Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
• 1975 Jean Kurt Forest, German composer, dies at 65
• 1975 Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b.1929)
• 1977 Eugénie Brazier, French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars (1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants, dies at 81
• 1979 Christy Ring, Irish hurler (Cork 65 games, scoring tally [33-208], 8 x All-Ireland medals), dies at 58
• 1979 Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
• 1981 Janear Hines, American actress (Julia - "Roberta"), dies of Bright's disease at 30
• 1981 Tony Gulotta, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1927 3rd), dies at 78
• 1982 Philip K Dick, American Sci-fi author (Hugo-1963; Dr Futurity), dies after a series of strokes at 53
• 1984 Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48
• 1985 John Kelly Jr, American rower (Olympic bronze single sculls 1956; president US Olympic Committee) and brother of Grace Kelly, dies at 57
• 1986 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56
• 1986 Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered
• 1987 Randolph Scott, American actor (Ride the High Country, Last of the Mohicans, Western Union), dies at 89
• 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies
• 1991 Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies
• 1991 Serge Gainsbourg, Russian-French singer (Ford Mustang), dies at 62
• 1993 Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15
• 1993 Paul D Zimmerman, American screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54
• 1994 Charles Brink, German-born British classical scholar (Horace), dies at 86
• 1994 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
• 1994 Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70
• 1995 Hugo Cole, British composer and critic, dies at 77
• 1995 Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48
• 1996 Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (1978-82), dies at 61
• 1996 Lyle Talbot [Lysle Henderson], American stage and screen actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - "Joe"), dies of congestive heart failure at 94
• 1996 Yrrah [Harry Lammertink], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland), dies at 63
• 1998 Henry Steele Commager, American historian (Atlas of Civil War), dies at 95
• 1999 David Ackles, American singer-songwriter (American Gothic), dies of lung cancer at 62
• 1999 Dusty Springfield [Mary O'Brien], English vocalist (Growing Pains), dies at 59
• 2000 Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (Olympic gold 1998), dies at 36
• 2001 John Diamond, British journalist, dies of cancer at 47
• 2003 Hank Ballard [John Henry Kendricks], American rocker (The Midnighters - "The Twist" - pre-Chubber Checker), dies at 75
• 2003 Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, dies at 71
• 2004 Marge Schott, American MLB owner (Cincinnati Reds), dies of pneumonia at 75
• 2004 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (All the King's Men, The Exorcist, Giant), dies at 87
• 2005 Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian, dies at 111
• 2005 Ivan Parik, Czech classical and electro-acoustic composer (Quadrophony), dies at 68
• 2005 Martin Denny, American exotica musician, dies at 93
• 2007 Clem Labine, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1956, 57; World Series 1955, 59, 60; Brooklyn / LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers), dies after exploratory brain surgery at 80
• 2007 Henri Troyat, Russian-French author and historian, dies at 95
• 2007 Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
• 2007 Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
• 2008 Jeff Healey, Canadian blues singer and lap-steel guitarist ("Angel Eyes"), dies of sarcoma at 41
• 2009 Chris Finnegan, British boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1968), dies of pneumonia at 64
• 2009 João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
• 2010 Paul Drayton, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1964), dies from a pulmonary embolism at 70
• 2010 Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
• 2011 Čestmír Gregor, Czech composer, dies at 84
• 2012 James Wilson, American criminologist, dies at 80
• 2012 Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61
• 2012 Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, British MP (1964-1987), dies at 82
• 2012 Nydia Ecury, celebrated Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera), dies at 86
• 2012 Van Barfoot, American army colonel and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 92
• 2014 Justin Kaplan, American editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain - Pulitzer Prize 1967), dies at 88
• 2015 Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89
• 2015 Mal Peet, British children's author, dies at 67
• 2017 Simon Hobday, South African golfer (US Senior Open 1994), dies of cancer at 76
• 2018 Sammy Stewart, American MLB pitcher (World Series 1983; AL ERA leader 1981; Cleveland Indians), dies of hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at 63
• 2018 Van McLain [McElvain], American rock guitarist (Shooting Star), dies at 62 from West Nile virus
• 2020 Henry N. Cobb, American architect (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners), dies at 93
• 2020 James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio, dies at 93
• 2021 Bunny Wailer [Neville O'Riley Livingston], Jamaican vocalist and percussionist (The Wailers with Bob Marley), dies of stroke complications at 73
• 2021 Chris Barber, English jazz trombonist ("Petite Fleur"), dies at 90
• 2021 Peter Grosser, German soccer midfielder (2 caps; Bayern Munich, 1860 Munich, Austria Salzburg), dies at 82
• 2022 Johnny Brown, American stage and screen comic actor (Good Times - "Bookman"; Laugh-In), and singer, dies of heart failure at 84
• 2022 Robert Cohen, French boxer (NYSAC, NBA, The Ring bantamweight titles 1954-56), dies at 91
• 2022 Tony Walton, British Tony, Oscar, and Emmy Award-winning set and costume designer (Pippin; Mary Poppins; All That Jazz), dies from stroke complications at 87

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1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island

• 1657 Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo, killing an estimated 100,000 people

• 1717 The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
• 1776 American troops begin shelling the British in Boston

• 1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
• 1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris

• 1799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures
• 1807 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808

• 1808 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
• 1815 Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King
• 1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Pennsylvania
• 1819 Territory of Arkansas organized
• 1819 US passed its 1st immigration law
• 1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control
• 1825 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC
• 1829 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
• 1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission

• 1842 4th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 7/1 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
• 1853 15th Grand National: Tom Oliver aboard Peter Simple wins his third GN Steeplechase and the stallion's second; oldest horse to win event at 15
• 1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
• 1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
• 1858 Frederick Cook of New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
• 1859 21st Grand National: Chris Green aboard 7/1 Half Caste wins by only a short neck from Jean Du Quesne
• 1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
• 1861 US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories
• 1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
• 1865 Conferate General Early's army is defeated at the battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, during American Civil War
• 1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
• 1865 Second Taranaki War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
• 1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
• 1867 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress

• 1867 US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
• 1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education
• 1868 University of Illinois opens

• 1874 National Association of Professional Baseball Players officially adopts the batter's box; decide any player betting on his own team will be expelled; any player betting on any other team to forfeit his pay

• 1888 The Convention of Constantinople signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace
• 1889 Kansas passes 1st US antitrust law
• 1890 Norwegian speed skater Oskar Fredriksen sets inaugural 5,000m world record of 9:19.8 in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1893 1st US federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features
• 1895 US Congress renames the Office of Immigration as the Bureau of Immigration
• 1896 Best 9-wicket haul in cricket history; George Lohmann takes 9-28 as England beats South Africa by an innings and 197 runs in 2nd Test at Johannesburg
• 1898 Chasing winning target of 275, Australian cricket batsman Joe Darling bashes 160 in 171 minutes with 30 fours to lead Australia to a 6-wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; complete 4-1 series rout
• 1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier National Park (5th in US)
• 1901 Hawaii's first telegraph company opens
• 1901 United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops

• 1904 Gabriele d'Annunzio's "La figlia di Iorio" premieres in Milan
• 1904 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers and Ottawa HC tie, 5-5; Montreal disqualified for refusing to play second game in Ottawa

• 1907 Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille" premieres in Paris
• 1909 Great Britain, France, Germany & Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
• 1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
• 1915 British vice admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden begins bombardment of Dardanelles forts
• 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
• 1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted

• 1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
• 1920 Karel Čapek "Loupeznik" premieres in Prague
• 1922 WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
• 1922 WLW-AM in Cincinnati OH begins radio transmissions
• 1925 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
• 1925 Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
• 1925 Nationwide road numbering system & US shield marker adopted
• 1925 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament

• 1929 US Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
• 1930 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
• 1932 Australian golf trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood posts an incredible 83 using only his putter over 18 holes at Belleaire, Florida; round includes 6 pars and 1 birdie

• 1933 Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan, country's most powerful earthquake in 180 years
• 1934 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha

• 1937 Mexico nationalizes oil
• 1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles California)
• 1938 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union

1939 Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII

• 1939 Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights - 147 years late
• 1940 Beaten by a nose in both the 1937 and 1938 Santa Anita Handicaps, Seabiscuit finally wins the Big 'Cap in his final race; retires the leading money-winning horse in the world
• 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island, Finland
• 1940 The first televised intercollegiate track meet is seen in NYC on W2XBS; NYU wins the meet presented live from Madison Square Garden
• 1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.

• 1942 Admiral Helfrich departs Java for Ceylon
• 1943 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp

• 1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocate 521 in Italy
• 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
• 1945 US 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
• 1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali

• 1946 Kingman Douglass becomes deputy director of CIA
• 1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)
• 1949 Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452-mis in 94 hrs
• 1951 1st NBA All-Star Game, Boston Garden: East beats West, 111-94; MVP: Ed Macauley, Boston Celtics, G
• 1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father
• 1955 William Inge's "Bus Stop" premieres in NYC

• 1956 Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declaring independence from France
• 1958 1st surface crossing of Antarctic continent is completed in 99 days
• 1958 Yemen announces it would join the United Arab Republic
• 1959 Ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, Sydney
• 1961 Eaton Magoon's musical "13 Daughters", starring Don Ameche and Sylvia Syms, opens at 54th St Theater, NYC; runs for 28 performances
• 1962 In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup

• 1963 10th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, NC: Duke beats Wake Forest, 68-57

• 1965 Montcalm Community College founded in Sidney, Mich

• 1965 US Air Force begins Operation Rolling Thunder, a three year sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam
• 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
• 1966 After suffering a hairline fracture of his right hind foot, 5-time US Horse of the Year Kelso is immediately retired; racing's all-time leading money winner with lifetime earnings of $1,977,896

1966 Black Hawks right wing Bobby Hull becomes the NHL's first 2-time 50-goal scorer when he strikes in a 5-4 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Chicago Stadium

• 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1968 19 year-old American Peggy Fleming wins her 3rd consecutive World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva, Switzerland; announces her retirement, turns professional and eventually goes into broadcasting
• 1968 Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
• 1968 Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov of the Soviet Union
• 1968 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer of Austria
• 1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world, with a cargo compartment 37m long
• 1968 USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
• 1969 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde

1969 Boston center Phil Esposito becomes first player in NHL history to record 100 points in a season when he scores 2 3rd-period goals in the Bruins' 4-0 win over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins

• 1969 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)

• 1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747

• 1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be penalized after 5 years
• 1970 White government of Rhodesia declares itself a republic

• 1972 NASA launches its Pioneer 10 space probe to Jupiter, NASA's first mission to the outer planets
• 1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum

• 1974 1st class postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents
• 1974 Australian cricket batsman Greg Chappell makes 247no in drawn 1st Test vs NZ in Wellington; also hits 133 in 2nd innings; brother Ian 145 and 121 also scores twin centuries

• 1976 Musical revue featuring song from the Harlem Renaissance "Bubbling Brown Sugar" opens at ANTA Theater, NYC; runs for 766 performances
• 1976 Walt Disney World logs its 50 millionth guest

• 1977 Libya amends constitution
• 1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
• 1980 Phoenix point guard Mike Bratz ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games with a miss in the Suns' 123-115 home win over the LA Lakers
• 1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists

• 1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington, D.C.
• 1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru
• 1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
• 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984 Iran offensive against Iraq fails
• 1985 FDA in the US approves an ELISA screening test for AIDS antibody for all blood banks
• 1986 1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita

1986 Edmonton's Finnish right wing Jari Kurri scores 2 goals, including the overtime winner, to lead Oilers to a 2-1 win over Philadelphia; Kurri, 100 points for the 4th straight NHL season

• 1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US
• 1986 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history

1988 30th Grammy Awards: Record of the year - Paul Simon "Graceland"; Album of the Year - U2 "The Joshua Tree"; Jody Watley Best New Artist

• 1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
• 1988 The flaming basketball is adopted as NBA franchise Miami Heat’s official logo from over 13,000 entries; Mark Henderson submits the winning entry
• 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000

• 1989 Tanker Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
• 1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
• 1991 "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 performances
• 1991 "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances
• 1991 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
• 1991 NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest

1991 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes a 70-goal scorer for the 2nd straight season and has 3 assists to help the Blues earn a 4-4 tie in Philadelphia; finishes season with NHL career-best 86 goals

• 1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
• 1991 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed
• 1992 American swimmer Anita Hall breaks the 200m breaststroke world record twice in the one day at the US Swimming championships in Indianapolis; wins final in 2:25.35
• 1992 Moldova joins the United Nations.

• 1993 Winnipeg Jets Finnish right wing Teemu Selänne breaks NHL record for goals by a rookie with a hat-trick in a 7-4 loss to the visiting Quebec Nordiques; passes Mike Bossy's mark of 52
• 1994 American politician William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
• 1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't

• 1995 "Smokey Joe's Cafe" opens at Virginia Theater NYC
• 1995 British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC
• 1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed
• 1995 Joe Mullen becomes 2nd NHL player to appear in 300 NHL games with 3 different teams when he plays for the Penguins in a 6-3 loss in Buffalo; Pittsburgh 379, St. Louis 301, Calgary 345

• 2004 University of Miami star defensive tackle & probable NFL draft pick Vince Wilfork (22) weds Bianca Farinas at Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
• 2006 "Gata Salvaje" telenovela actress Carolina Tejera (29) weds Costa Rican businessman Don Stockwell at the Hotel Marriott in San Jose, Costa Rica
• 2007 Countess of Frederiksborg Alexandra Christina (42) weds Martin Jorgensen at Oster Egende Church in Fakse City, Denmark

• 2017 Bachelorette TV personality Ali Fedotowsky (32) weds TV and radio host Kevin Manno (33) at Terranea Resort in Los Angeles, California
• 2018 Supermodel Chanel Iman (Victoria's Secret Angel), weds New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard in Los Angeles

• 1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.

• 1634 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole)
• 1638 Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden
• 1776 American commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau, Bahamas
• 1789 First whale harpooned in the Pacific Ocean by English ship Emilia off the coast of South America [1]
• 1791 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
• 1791 Congress establishes US Mint
• 1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D 9"The Clock") at the HAnover Rooms, in London, England
• 1794 Richard Allen founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
• 1801 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
• 1803 1st impeachment trial of a US federal judge, John Pickering, begins
• 1803 Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello.
• 1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
• 1812 US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
• 1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms
• 1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
• 1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
• 1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there.
• 1835 Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana
• 1837 Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

• 1838 Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada
• 1841 3rd Grand National: Horatio Powell wins aboard 14/1 Charity; first mare to win the race

• 1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
• 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
• 1845 Florida becomes 27th state of the Union
• 1845 For the first time the US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
• 1845 US Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery
• 1847 9th Grand National: Denny Wynne wins aboard 10/1 Mathew; regarded as the first Irish-trained horse to win the race
• 1847 US Post Office Department is authorized to issue postage stamps

• 1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin and the $1 Gold Liberty coin in the USA
• 1849 Territory of Minnesota organizes
• 1849 US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress
• 1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
• 1852 14th Grand National: Alec Goodman wins first of 2 GN victories (1866) aboard Miss Mowbray
• 1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by US Congress
• 1853 US Assay Office in NYC authorized
• 1855 US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
• 1855 US Congress authorizes registered mail
• 1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China

• 1862 Union forces under General Pope lay siege to New Madrid, Missouri (US Civil War)
• 1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted

• 1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada
• 1863 Federal ironclad ships bombard Fort McAllister, Georgia
• 1863 Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
• 1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by US Congress
• 1863 Idaho Territory forms

• 1865 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
• 1865 US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks
• 1869 31st Grand National: George Stevens wins his 4th GN aboard 100/7 outsider The Colonel; repeats with back-to-back victories the following year
• 1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races
• 1871 US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
• 1871 US Congress establishes the civil service system
• 1873 US Congress & government retroactively raise own salaries
• 1873 US Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps
• 1873 US Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail
• 1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)

• 1875 US Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years

• 1878 Treaty of San Stefano signed by Russian and Ottoman empires grants independence to Bulgaria after 500 years of Turkish rule
• 1879 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
• 1879 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
• 1882 NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
• 1883 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
• 1883 In the series decider England beats Scotland, 2 tries to 1 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh to win the inaugural Home Nations Rugby Championship with an undefeated record
• 1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
• 1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
• 1885 US Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)
• 1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
• 1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa

• 1889 US President Harrison announced the government would open the 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely at noon on April 22
• 1891 The Penalty Spot Kick rule in Association Football is conceived, but does not come into effect until the next season.
• 1891 US Congress creates Courts of Appeal
• 1891 US Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept)
• 1891 US Congress establishes the Office of Immigration
• 1892 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
• 1893 Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
• 1893 US Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture
• 1894 "NY Atlantis" 1st Greek-language publication in US begins
• 1894 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns

• 1899 US Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
• 1900 US Steel Corporation organizes
• 1901 US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
• 1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses

• 1904 England cricket all-rounder Bernard Bosanquet takes 6 for 51 as tourists dismiss Australia for 171 in the 4th Test in Sydney to regain the Ashes; take an unassailable, 3-1 series lead

1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to summon a 'consultative assembly' and concedes other points including an edict of religious toleration, relief for Jews, and the cancellation of certain debts

• 1905 US Forest Service forms
• 1906 Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traian Vuia tested in France

• 1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate graves opens, Missouri

• 1915 US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA
• 1917 1st major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [OS=Feb 18]
• 1917 German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admits the "Zimmermann Telegram" is genuine. Generates support for the US declaration of war on Germany in April.
• 1917 Mexico and the USA renew diplomatic relations
• 1917 US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
• 1918 Facing internal counterrevolutionary pressures and external German offensive, Bolsheviks forced to sign harsh Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and Austria
• 1918 Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht" premieres in Berlin
• 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
• 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
• 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs
• 1921 The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, established by the South African Government, proposes a system of voluntary repatriation and segregation of Indians and prohibits Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the coast
• 1921 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin
• 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume & Rijeka
• 1922 WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
• 1923 Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of Representatives)
• 1923 US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
• 1924 German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
• 1924 Sean O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" premieres in Dublin
• 1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
• 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814, set to John Stafford Smith's 18th century tune "The Anacreontic Song"
• 1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
• 1933 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
• 1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated

• 1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
• 1936 Clarence Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa
• 1937 Australia snatches series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
• 1938 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)

• 1940 American bandleader Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label

• 1942 1st combat flight for Canadian British-built Avro Lancaster bomber
• 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Australian and American air forces devastate Japanese navy convoy
• 1943 Bethnal Green Tube disaster: 173 die in a stampede sheltering in an air raid, UK's greatest loss of civilian life in WWII (details censored till January 20 1945)
• 1943 F Ryerson & Cohn Claues' "Harriet" premieres in NYC

• 1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
• 1945 Roermond & Venlo, Netherlands, liberated
• 1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
• 1945 US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

• 1946 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
• 1946 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
• 1950 National-American Football League reverts to calling itself the NFL after 3 months
• 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
• 1952 Puerto Rico approves its 1st self-written constitution
• 1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
• 1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed

• 1956 3rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 76-64
• 1956 Dutch swimmer Cockie Gastelaars breaks 20-year old world record for 100m freestyle (1:04.2)
• 1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
• 1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
• 1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
• 1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
• 1957 2nd Eurovision Song Contest: Corry Brokken for Netherlands wins singing "Net als toen" in Frankfurt
• 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham & Jones of Great Britain
• 1957 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of Canada
• 1957 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins of the USA
• 1957 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (US)
• 1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
• 1959 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
• 1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
• 1959 San Francisco Giants rename their stadium Candlestick Park
• 1959 The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts opens in Yerevan, Armenia, with a collection of over 23,000 manuscripts [1]
• 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
• 1961 King Hassan II ascends to throne of Morocco
• 1962 9th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest beats Clemson, 77-66
• 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
• 1963 American country blues musician "Mississippi" John Hurt 're-discovered' by musicologist Tom Hoskins in Avalon, Mississippi [1]
• 1963 Senegal adopts a new constitution
• 1965 The Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
• 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• 1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter" premieres in NYC

• 1966 Twister hits Jackson Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
• 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
• 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
• 1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC
• 1968 Greek, Portuguese & Spanish embassies bombed in the Hague

• 1968 Pirate station "Radio Caroline" goes off the air when its ships Mi Amigo and Caroline are boarded and seized before the day's broadcasting began
• 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
• 1971 South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles

• 1707 Aurangzeb, 6th Mughal Emperor (1658-1707), dies at 88
• 1717 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
• 1744 Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist
• 1765 William Stukeley, English physician and archaeologist (pioneered investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury), dies at 77
• 1766 Gregor Joseph Werner, Austrian Baroque composer and kapellmeister, dies at 73
• 1768 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer, and voice teacher, dies at 81
• 1792 Robert Adam, Scottish architect and designer (Adelphi Terrace, London), dies at 63
• 1800 Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, German composer, dies at 64
• 1806 Heinrich Christian Boie, German author and editor, dies at 61
• 1808 Johann Christian Fabricius, Danish Entomologist, dies at 63
• 1822 Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, dies at 81
• 1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 70
• 1848 Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
• 1850 Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (Later Day Saint apostle), dies at 43
• 1858 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
• 1864 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
• 1878 Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English artist and Egyptologist, dies at 81
• 1889 (Edward) Sydney Smith, British pianist and composer, dies at 49
• 1894 Ned Williamson, American baseball player (Chicago White Stockings), dies at 36
• 1899 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
• 1902 Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
• 1908 Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely, German Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 77
• 1920 Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter, dies at 79
• 1921 P.J.H. [Pierre] Cuypers, Dutch architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
• 1926 Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 58
• 1927 J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1927 Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
• 1928 James Foulis, Scottish golfer (US Open 1896), dies at 56
• 1928 Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
• 1932 Alfieri Maserati, Italian auto racer and engineer (established Maserati Racing), dies from poorly executed kidney surgery at 44
• 1932 Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist and composer (Golem), dies at 67
• 1934 Norman O'Neill, English theatrical composer (Mary Rose) and conductor, dies from injuries sustained after being struck by a package delivery tricycle at 58
• 1935 Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
• 1941 Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
• 1941 Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
• 1942 Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
• 1943 George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
• 1945 Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
• 1945 Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch cabaret singer, killed in the RAF's bombing of the Bezuidenhout at 75
• 1948 Antonin Artaud, French songwriter and director (Theatre Seraphin), dies at 51

• 1955 Katharine Drexel, American philanthropist and Roman Catholic Saint, dies at 96
• 1956 Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79

• 1960 Sammy White, American comedian and actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
• 1961 Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born left-handed pianist, dies at 72
• 1965 Carlo Gatti, Italian musicologist (Verdi), dies at 88
• 1966 Alice Pearce, American Emmy Award-winning comedienne and actress (On the Town; Bewitched - "Mrs. Kravitz" (the 1st one)), dies from ovarian cancer at 48
• 1966 William Frawley, American vaudeville, silent and sound screen actor (I Love Lucy - "Fred"; My Three Sons - "Bub"; Miracle on 34th Street), dies of a heart attack at 79
• 1967 Georges Lonque, Belgian composer, dies at 66
• 1969 Fred Alexander, American tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1908, 5-time US Indoor winner), dies at 88
• 1974 Barbara Ruick, American actress (Carousel; Fearless Fagan), dies of an aneurysm at 43
• 1974 Frank Wilcox, American actor (Beverly Hillbillies), dies from a heart attack at 66
• 1976 Alfred Sendrey [Szendrei], Hungarian-American organist, conductor, musicologist, and composer, dies at 92
• 1976 Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer, dies at 75
• 1977 Percy Marmont, British actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon, Captain Apache), dies at 93
• 1979 Tom Creavy, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1931), dies of a heart attack at 68
• 1982 Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45

• 1984 Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor, dies at 81
• 1985 Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
• 1987 Danny Kaye [David Daniel Kaminski], American comedian and actor (Danny Kaye Show, White Christmas), dies of heart failure at 76
• 1988 Lois Wilson, actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies
• 1988 Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
• 1990 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
• 1990 Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
• 1991 Arthur Murray [Moses Teichman], American ballroom dancer and businessman (Arthur Murray Dance Party), dies at 95 of pneumonia
• 1991 Clara Eggink, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
• 1991 Johnny Revolta, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1935; 18 PGA Tour titles), dies at 79
• 1991 William Penney, British physicist (developed Britain's 1st atomic bomb), dies at 81
• 1992 Robert Beatty, Canadian actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare), dies from pneumonia at 82
• 1992 Sandy Dennis, American actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
• 1992 Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of a heart attack at 72

• 1993 Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
• 1993 Carlos Montoya, American flamenco guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966), dies at 89
• 1993 Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
• 1994 Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
• 1994 Bob Crisp, South African cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 20 wickets; Rhodesia, Western Province, Worcestershire), dies at 82
• 1994 Ezra Stone [Chaim Feinstone], American director, actor and producer (My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich), dies in a road accident at 76
• 1994 Karel Kryl, Czechoslovak folk singer, dies at 49
• 1994 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian and senator, dies at 90
• 1994 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Polish-Israeli composer and music editor, dies at 75
• 1995 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84
• 1995 Howard Hunter, US leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1994-95), dies at 87
• 1995 Howard Yanks, American founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
• 1995 Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
• 1996 David Bowman, Scottish trade unionist (National Union of Railwaymen) dies at 82
• 1996 John Joseph Krol, American clergyman (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1961-88), dies at 85
• 1996 Leo Malet, French crime novelist, dies at 86
• 1996 Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, German journalist, dies at 76
• 1996 Marguerite Duras, French novelist and playwright (Sea Wall), dies at 81
• 1996 Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, dies at 91
• 1997 Finn Høffding, Danish composer (Karlsvognen), dies at 97
• 1997 Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies
• 1998 Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and broadcast executive, dies at 82
• 1999 Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1999 Lee Philips, American actor and director (Peyton Place, Ellery Queen), dies of progressive supranuclear palsy at 72
• 2000 Toni Ortelli, Italian composer ("La Montanara" (The Song of the Mountains), conductor, and alpinist, dies at 95
• 2001 Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2002 Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter, dies at 74
• 2003 Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (Beatitudines), dies at 98
• 2003 Horst Buchholz, German actor (Magnificent 7; Raid on Entebbe), dies at 69
• 2003 Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
• 2003 Peter Smithson, English architect, dies at 79
• 2004 Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
• 2005 Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2006 Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
• 2006 William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
• 2007 Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist and creator of "La Linea" animated cartoons, dies at 87
• 2008 Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor, dies at 86
• 2008 Norman "Hurricane" Smith, British sound engineer (The Beatles, 1962-65), producer (Pink Floyd; The Pretty Things), and musician ("Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?"; "Don't Let It Die"), dies at 85
• 2008 Norman O'Neill, Australian cricket batsman (42 Tests @ 45.55, 6 x 100s; NSW CA), dies at 71
• 2009 Sydney Chaplin, American actor and son of Charlie Chaplin (Limelight, Adding Machine), dies at 82
• 2010 Dudley "Big Tiny" Little Jr, American pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 79
• 2010 Keith Alexander, British soccer forward (3 caps St Lucia; Grimsby Town FC, Lincoln City FC) and manager (Lincoln, Peterborough, Macclesfield), dies from a brain aneurysm at 56
• 2010 Michael Foot, British politician (L) and writer, Leader of the Opposition (1980-83), dies at 96
• 2011 Aldo Clementi, Italian composer (Collage), and teacher (University of Bologna, 1971-92), dies at 85
• 2011 Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedienne (Siedem Kotów, Kabaret Starszych Panów), dies at 98
• 2011 May Cutler, Canadian politician and publisher (b. 1923)
• 2012 Alex Webster, American football coach (NY Giants), dies at 80
• 2012 Dave Charnley, British lightweight boxer (Dartford Destroyer), dies at 72
• 2012 Frank Marocco, American jazz, pop, classical, and session accordionist, arranger and composer, dies at 81
• 2012 Leonardo Cimino, Italian-American actor (The Monster Squad, V, Dune, Waterworld, Hudson Hawk), dies from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 94
• 2012 Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer (Star Wars, E.T.), dies at 82
• 2012 Ronnie Montrose, American rock guitarist (Montrose, Gamma), dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 64
• 2013 Bobby Rogers, American pop and soul tenor vocalist (The Miracles - "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"), and songwriter ("Going To A Go-Go"; "The Way You Do the Things You Do"), dies from complications from diabetes at 73
• 2014 William R. Pogue, American astronaut, dies at 84

• 2017 Jim Fuller, American 'Godfather of Surf Guitar' and songwriter (The Safaris - "Wipe Out"), dies at 69
• 2017 Lyle Ritz, American jazz ukulele and session bassist, dies at 87
• 2017 Misha Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist and composer (Reconstruction), dies at 81

• 2017 Stephen Ross, American economist (arbitrage pricing theory), dies at 73
• 2017 Tommy Page, American pop singer ("I'll Be Your Everything"), found dead of apparent suicide at 46
• 2018 David Ogden Stiers, American stage and screen actor (M*A*S*H, 1977-83 - "Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III"; Lilo & Stitch), dies of bladder cancer at 75
• 2018 Patrick Doyle, English drummer (Veronica Falls; Boys Forever), dies at 32

• 2019 Bobbi Fiedler, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), dies at 81
• 2019 Peter Hurford, British organist, composer and choral conductor (St. Albans Cathedral), dies at 88
• 2021 Joe Altobelli, American baseball utility (Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins) and manager (SF Giants, World Series Baltimore Orioles 1983, Chicago Cubs), dies at 88
• 2021 Yuri Rozanov, Russian sports broadcaster (NTV Plus, Match TV; TEFI Award 2012), dies from cancer at 59
• 2022 Dean Woods, Australian track cyclist (Olympic gold team pursuit 1984; silver individual pursuit 1988; bronze team pursuit 1988, 96), dies from cancer at 55
• 2022 Frank Connor, Scottish soccer manager (Cowdenbeath FC, Berwick Rangers FC, Celtic FC, Raith Rovers FC), dies at 86
• 2022 Tim Considine, American actor (Spin & Marty; My Three Sons, 1960-65 - "Mike"), and photographer, dies at 81

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• 1793 Charles Sealsfield [Carl Anton Postl], Austrian-American writer, born in Popice u Znojma, Moravia (d. 1864)
• 1793 William Charles Macready, British actor, manager, and diarist, born in London, England (d. 1873)
• 1800 Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
• 1805 Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)
• 1811 Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review)
• 1814 Charles Kensington Salaman, British pianist and synagogue music composer, born in London, England (d. 1901)
• 1823 Gyula Andrássy Sr, Prime Minister of Hungary (1867-71), born in Kassa, Austrian Empire (d. 1890)
• 1831 George M Pullman, inventor (railway sleeping car)
• 1838 George William Hill, US astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit)
• 1839 Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)
• 1841 John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
• 1845 Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers)
• 1846 Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker/marathon runner Dorando's father

• 1848 Adelaide Neilson, English stage actress (The Hunchback), born in Leeds, England (d. 1880)
• 1849 Jacques Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer
• 1851 Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
• 1857 Alfred Bruneau, French cellist, and composer, chiefly of opera (Le Rêve; Messidor), born in Paris, France (d. 1934)
• 1860 John Montgomery Ward, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1880; NL ERA leader 1878; NL strikeout leader & NL wins leader 1879; Providence Grays), born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (d. 1925)
• 1863 Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)
• 1865 Alexander Winkler, Russian composer, born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1935)
• 1866 Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)
• 1867 Gustav Strube, German-American conductor (Baltimore Symphony, 1916-30), composer (The Captive), and educator (Peabody Conservatory), born in Ballenstadt, Saxony (d. 1953)
• 1868 Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer
• 1869 Henry Wood, British conductor associated with London's "Proms" concerts, vocal teacher (Gentle Art of Singing), and composer (Fantasia on British Sea Songs), born in London, England (d. 1944)
• 1871 Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
• 1872 Willie Keeler, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (highest career AB-per-strikeout ratio in MLB history; NL batting champion 1897, 98 Baltimore Orioles), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1923)
• 1873 William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52)
• 1880 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic
• 1880 Florence Auer, American actress (Eradicating Aunty), born in Albany, New York (d. 1962)
• 1882 Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1949)
• 1882 Floris H L Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp
• 1883 Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
• 1886 (Reginald Owen) R.O. Morris, British composer and music teacher, born in York, England (d. 1948)
• 1886 James Friskin, Scottish-American concert pianist and composer, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1967)
• 1886 Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
• 1889 Fritz Behrend, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1972)
• 1890 Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor, communist and humanitarian (Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War), born in Gravenhurst, Ontario (d. 1939)
• 1891 Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (Luisa Fernanda), conductor, and music promoter, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1982)
• 1891 Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice/president High Council
• 1892 Edmund Lowe, American actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper), born in San Jose, California (d. 1971)
• 1892 Rui Coelho, Portuguese composer, born in Alcacer do Sal (d. 1986)
• 1893 Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author
• 1893 Bill Nestell, American actor (Dangerous Venture, Buckskin Frontier), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1966)
• 1895 Alexander Nicolaas Voormolen, Dutch composer (d. 1980)
• 1895 Juanita Hansen, American actress (Fast Company, Broadway Love), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1961)
• 1895 Matthew Ridgway, American general (World War II, Korean War, NATO Supreme Commander) and Chief of Staff of the US Army (1953-55), born in Fort Monroe, Virginia (d. 1993)
• 1895 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (1st winner of the Nobel prize in economics-1969), born in Oslo, Norway
• 1895 Robert Gordon, American silent film actor (Loveless), born in Belleville, Kansas (d. 1971)
• 1897 Jose Moreno Gans, Sapnish composer, born Algemesí, Spain (d. 1976)
• 1899 Alfred M Gruenther, American commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
• 1899 Yuri Olesha, Russian writer, born in Jelisawetgrad, Russian Empire (d. 1960)
• 1900 Edna Best, British actress (Key, Calendar, Escape, Intermezzo), born in Hove, England (d. 1974)
• 1900 Ruby Dandridge [Ruby Jean Butler], American actress (Father of the Bride), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 1987)
• 1901 Roger Turner, American figure skater (7x US National Champion), born in Milton, Massachusetts (d. 1993)
• 1903 Gilbert Adrian [Greenberg], Naugatuck CT, costume designer
• 1903 Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen)
• 1906 Albany "Barney" Bigard, Creole-American jazz clarinetist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-42 - "Mood Indigo"), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1980)
• 1906 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy (Agadir)
• 1906 Donald Novis, British-American singer and actor (Monte Carlo; The Singing Plumber), born in Hastings, East Sussex, England (d. 1966)
• 1906 Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist/diplomat
• 1907 Aar van de Werfhorst [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
• 1907 Canada Lee [Leonard Canegata], African-American actor (Lost Boundaries), born in NYC, New York (d. 1952)
• 1907 Joy Finzi [Joyce A Black], British painter
• 1908 Riccardo Nielsen, Italian composer and music director, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1982)
• 1909 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician
• 1909 Kenton Kilmer, American writer, born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1995)
• 1910 Kittens Reichert [Catherine Alma Reichert], American silent screen child actor [House of Cards, Les Misérables], born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1990)
• 1911 Francesco Siciliani, Italian opera impresario (La Scala; San Carlo; Le Fenice), and composer (Fragments From the Canticle of Canticles), born in Perugia, Italy (d. 1996)
• 1911 Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)

• 1912 Joe Stydahar, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
• 1913 Margaret Allison Bonds, American composer (The Ballad of the Brown King), pianist, arranger, and teacher, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1972) [1]
• 1913 Roger Caillois, French writer (Les Jeux et les Hommes)
• 1914 Martin Ritt, American actor and director (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Slugger's Wife, End of the Game), born in NYC, New York (d. 1990)
• 1915 George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
• 1917 Bert van Aerschot, Flemish writer (Elevator, Women)
• 1917 Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)
• 1918 Arnold Newman, photographer (Faces USA)
• 1918 Arthur Kornberg, US biochemist (Nobel 1959)
• 1918 Frank Wigglesworth, American composer (The Willowdale Handcar), born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1996)
• 1918 Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
• 1918 Peter O'Sullevan, British horse racing commentator 'the voice of racing', born in Kenmare, Ireland (d. 2015)
• 1918 San Yu, Burmese General and the 5th President of Burma (1981-88), born in Thegon, Pegu Province, British Burma, British India (d. 1996)
• 1919 Enzo Stuarti [Scapone], Italian-American pop tenor ("That's A'Nice!"), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2005)
• 1920 James Doohan, Canadian actor (Star Trek), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2005)
• 1920 Julius Boros, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1968, US Open 1952, 63), born in Fairfield, Connecticut (d. 1994)
• 1921 Diana Barrymore, American actress (Nightmare, Lady Courageous, Fired Wife), born in NYC, New York (d. 1960)
• 1922 Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer and co-founder of the Warsaw Autumn Festival, born in Toruń, Poland (d. 1981)
• 1922 Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
• 1923 (Arthel) "Doc" Watson, American Grammy Award-winning bluegrass, folk, and blues guitarist, songwriter, and singer, born in Deep Gap, North Carolina (d. 2012)
• 1923 Barney Martin, American actor, comedy writer and NYPD detective (Seinfeld), born in Queens, New York (d. 2005)
• 1924 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (d. 1995)
• 1924 Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (Sa Kabukiran), born in Cebu City, Philippine Islands (d. 1948)
• 1926 James Ingram Merrill, American poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant)
• 1926 Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu (1982-1993), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
• 1926 Lys Assia, Swiss singer who won the 1st Eurovision Song Contest in 1956, born in Rupperswil, Switzerland (d. 2018)
• 1927 Bruton Smith, American motor sports promoter and owner (CEO NASCAR; track owner Speedway Motorsports, Inc.), born in Oakboro, North Carolina (d. 2022)
• 1927 Charles O. Whitley, American politician (Rep-D-NC, 1977-87), born in Siler City, North Carolina (d. 2002)
• 1927 Frank Singleton, librarian
• 1927 Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council
• 1927 William Kurelek, Canadian artist and writer (The Maze, Passion of Christ series), born near Whitford, Alberta (d. 1977)
• 1928 Gudrun Pausewang, Eastern Bohemia, German writer
• 1928 Jack Gordon, Canadian ice hockey coach (Minnesota North Stars 1970-75) and executive (GM Minnesota NS 1974-78, Vancouver Canucks 1985-87), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 2022)
• 1929 Nikos Mamangakis, Greek classical and electronic music composer, born in Rethymno, Crete (d. 2013)
• 1930 Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 1930 Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
• 1931 Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
• 1931 Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
• 1932 Fred Storey, Canadian curler (World C'ship gold 1966, 68, 69), born in Empress, Alberta (d. 2019)
• 1933 Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (The Crach, Sinatra), born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 2013)
• 1933 Lee Radziwell Ross, American princess (Jackie O's sister), born in NYC, New York
• 1933 Marco Antonio Muñoz, Mexican Latin pop singer (Que Murmurmen; Escandallo), and actor (Sinful), born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
• 1934 Gia Scala, Italian actress (Angry Hills, Don't Go Near the Water)
• 1935 Zhelyu Zhelev, Veselinovo, Shumen Province, Bulgarian President (1990-97)
• 1937 Bobby Driscoll, American Academy Juvenile Award-winning actor (Song Of The South; The Window), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1968)
• 1938 Douglas Leedy, American composer, born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2015)
• 1938 Willie Chambers, American rock guitarist, and songwriter (Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today"), born in Flora, Mississippi
• 1939 Hans Pieter Verhagen, Dutch poet (Hoepla/Holland's Hole)
• 1939 M L Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties)
• 1940 Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
• 1940 Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman
• 1942 Mike Pender [Prendergast], British rock vocalist and guitarist (The Searchers - "Needles & Pins"), born in Liverpool, England
• 1942 Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovolyonok, USR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29/31, T-4)
• 1943 Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
• 1944 Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
• 1945 Farooq Hamid, cricketer (1-107 in Test, Pakistan v Australia 1964)
• 1945 Hattie Winston, actress (Nurse, Electric Company), born in Greenville, Mississippi
• 1946 James C Adamson, Lt Col USA/astronaut (STS 28, STS 43), born in Warsaw, New York
• 1946 John Virgo, British snooker player
• 1947 Clifton Snider, American poet and writer
• 1947 Dave Mount, English rocker (Mud), born in Carshalton, Surrey (d. 2006)
• 1947 Jennifer Warnes, American singer, arranger, and producer ("Up Where We Belong; "Famous Blue Raincoat"), born in Seattle, Washington
• 1947 Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)
• 1948 Byron MacGregor, newscaster
• 1948 Reed Hundt, FCC chairman
• 1948 Terence "Snowy" White, British rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy, 1980-82; Roger Waters), born in Barnstaple, Devon, England
• 1949 Bonnie J Dunbar, Sunnyside Wash, PhD/astro (STS 61-A, 32, 50, 71, 89)
• 1949 James S Voss, Cordova Alabama, Major USA/astronaut (STS 44, 53, 69)
• 1949 Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
• 1949 Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist
• 1949 Richie Cannata, American music producer, multi-instrumentalist and studio owner, born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1950 Re Styles [Shirley Macleod], Dutch-American actress (Space Is The Place), designer, and rock vocalist (The Tubes, 1976-79), born in the Netherlands (d. 2022)
• 1950 Tim Kazurinsky, American comic actor and screenwriter (SNL, 1980-84; Police Academy 2, 3, 4), born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• 1951 Lindsay Cooper, British bassoonist, oboe player, and composer (Henry Cow; News from Babel), born in Hornsey, North London, England (d. 2013)
• 1951 Rustee Allen, American funk and jazz fusion bass guitar player (Sly and the Family Stone, 1972-75; Robin Trower; Bobby Womack), born in Monroe, Louisiana
• 1951 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1952 Robyn Hitchcock, British rock and folk singer-songwriter (The Soft Boys - "Balloon Man"; solo - Moss Elixir), born in Paddington, London, England
• 1953 Aleksandr Viktorovich Borodin, Russian cosmonaut
• 1953 Dave Amato, American rock guitarist (REO Speedwagon, 1989-present), born in Framingham, Massachusetts.
• 1953 Zico, Brazilian footballer
• 1954 Chris Hughes, English record producer and rock drummer (Adam & The Ants), born in London, England
• 1954 John Lilley, American rock guitarist and dobro player (The Hooters - "All You Zombies"; "And We Danced"), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania
• 1954 Keith Fergus, American golfer (3 PGA Tour titles), born in Temple, Texas
• 1956 John F Reid, New Zealand cricket batsman (19 Tests, 1296 runs @ 46.28, 6 x 100s), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2020)
• 1956 Stephanie McCallum, Australian concert pianist and educator, born in Sydney
• 1956 Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer
• 1958 Bob Bradley, soccer coach (Olympic gold 1996), born in Montclair, New Jersey
• 1958 Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)
• 1958 Miranda Richardson, Southport England, actress (Damage, Crying Game)
• 1959 Romeo Zondervan, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
• 1960 Neal Heaton, American baseball player
• 1961 Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian
• 1961 Mary Page Keller, actress (Ryan's Hope, Duet), born in Monterey Park, California
• 1961 Perry McCarthy, English racing driver, born in Stepney, London
• 1962 Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist
• 1962 Herschel Walker, American College Football Hall of Fame running back (Heisman Trophy 1982, U of Georgia; Pro Bowl 1987, 88), Dallas Cowboys), born in Wrightsville, Georgia
• 1962 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, E St Louis IL, heptathele (Olympic gold 1988, 92)
• 1962 Steve Blackmore, Welsh rugby union prop (4 caps; Cardiff RFC), born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 2020)
• 1963 Kelly Miller, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals), born in Detroit, Michigan
• 1963 Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter
• 1964 Atif Rauf, cricketer (Pakistani Test batsman v New Zealand 1994)
• 1964 Duncan Phillips, Australian Christian-rock drummer (Newsboys, 1993-present), born in Nambour, Australia
• 1964 Laura Martinez-Herring, Mexican-American actress (Mulholland Drive; General Hospital) and Miss USA 1985, born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
• 1964 Lisa Ann Poggi, American actress (Candyman; Loving), born in Grand Rapids Michigan
• 1964 Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist, born in Monterrey, Mexico
• 1965 A J Sager, pitcher (Detroit Tigers), born in Columbus, Ohio

• 1966 Claus Boekweg, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, FC Zwolle)
• 1966 Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer (world record)
• 1966 Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor and director (Pasión, Ladrón que roba a ladrón), born in Mexico City, Mexico
• 1966 Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
• 1966 Tone-Lōc [Anthony Terrell Smith], American rapper ("Funky Cold Medina"), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1967 Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis star
• 1967 Calvin Williams, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
• 1967 Elizabeth Cheshire, actress (Jill-Sunshine), born in Burbank, California
• 1968 Brian Cox, English physicist and musician (BBC Wonders of... series), born in Oldham, England
• 1968 Brian Leetch, NHL defenseman (Team USA, NY Rangers), born in Corpus Christi, Texas
• 1968 Diann Roffe-Steinrotter, alpine skier (Olympic gold/silver-92), born in Warsaw, New York

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• 1702 Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
• 1706 Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
• 1715 James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
• 1719 Aert Schouman, Dutch bird and portrait painter
• 1719 George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
• 1742 Johann Heinrich Egli, Swiss composer and violinist, born in Seegraben (d. 1810)
• 1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School, and smallpox vaccine pioneer,, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846)
• 1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, Flemish composer, baptized in Liège, Belgium (d. 1833)
• 1756 Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (portrait painter of George IV), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1823)
• 1757 Ignaz Malzat, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1804)
• 1765 Charles Dibdin, British composer, author (Sea Songs), and actor, baptized in Hampshire, England (d. 1814)
• 1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
• 1769 Muhammad ʿAlī of Egypt, Albanian-born Pasha and viceroy of Egypt (founder of modern Egypt), born in Kaval, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire (d. 1849)
• 1781 Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• 1782 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), born in Bern (d. 1830)
• 1789 Pavel Gagarin, Russian politician (d. 1872)
• 1793 Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
• 1798 John Joseph Abercrombie, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1877)
• 1813 Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch romantic and water color painter (Wrecked), born in Den Haag, Netherlands (d. 1839)
• 1815 Mykhailo Verbytsky, Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer (Prostachka; The State Anthem of Ukraine), born in Nadsyannia, Russian Empire (now Poland) (d. 1870)
• 1817 Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
• 1819 Charles Oberthur, German composer and harpist, born in Munich (d. 1895)
• 1820 Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
• 1822 Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
• 1826 John Buford, American Major General (Union Army), born in Woodford County, Kentucky (d. 1863)
• 1826 Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
• 1828 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
• 1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, German-Baltic composer, born in Riga (d. 1911)
• 1835 John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
• 1838 Paul Lacôme, French composer, born in Le Houga, Gascony (d. 1920)
• 1841 Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
• 1844 Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
• 1847 Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (invented Beyer Process to produce aluminium), born in the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia (now Poland) (d. 1904)
• 1854 Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
• 1856 Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
• 1856 Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
• 1862 Robert Emden, Swiss astronomer and physicist (book on Gas Spheres), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1940)
• 1863 John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
• 1863 Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
• 1864 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (1st towing tank), born in Louisa County, Virginia (d. 1940)
• 1870 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
• 1871 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
• 1873 Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
• 1873 John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
• 1874 Helen Hellwig, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1894), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1960)
• 1875 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
• 1875 Enrique Larreta [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat and writer (Gloria de Don Ramiro), born in Buenos Aires (d. 1961)
• 1875 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
• 1876 Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
• 1876 Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
• 1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer and pianist, born in Moscow (d. 1957)
• 1877 Daniel van Beuningen, Dutch art collector
• 1877 Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
• 1877 Garrett Morgan, American inventor (gas mask and traffic signal), born in Claysville, Kentucky (d. 1963)
• 1878 Egbert Van Alstyne, American popular music songwriter and ragtime pianist ("In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"; "For Your Boy and My Boy"), born in Marengo, Illinois (d. 1951) [1]
• 1878 Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian esotericist, born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (d. 1947)
• 1879 Bernhard Kellermann, German writer (Der Tunnel), born in Fürth, Germany (d. 1951)
• 1880 Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
• 1881 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
• 1881 Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (Pulitzer Prize 1933), born in Clifton, Tennessee (d. 1965)
• 1881 Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, Macedonian freedom fighter, and teacher, born in Novo Selo, Ottoman Empire (now Štip< North Macedonia) (d. 1924)
• 1882 Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
• 1883 Maude Fealy, American actor and drama coach (The Ten Commandments), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1971)
• 1883 Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
• 1884 Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1885 Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao)
• 1886 Paul Bazelaire, French cellist, composer, and poet, born in Sedan, France (d. 1958)
• 1887 Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (The Magic Cloak), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1953)
• 1888 Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
• 1888 Knute Rockne, American College Football Hall of Fame receiver, coach, (Notre Dame, 13 National titles), born in Voss, Norway (d. 1931)
• 1888 Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (Grand Hotel, The Devil-Doll), born in Venice, Italy (d. 1942)
• 1889 Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
• 1889 Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
• 1889 Pearl White [Victoria], American actress and stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), born in Green Ridge, Missouri (d. 1938)
• 1891 Dazzy Vance, American Baseball HOF pitcher (7 x NL strike-out leader; World Series 1934 St Louis Cardinals; NL MVP & Triple Crown 1924 Brooklyn Robins), born in Orient, Iowa (d. 1961)
• 1891 Lois Wilson, American actress and co-founder of Al-Anon, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1988)
• 1895 Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1978)
• 1895 Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (Count Screwloose), born in The Bronx. New York (d. 1953)
• 1896 Rhys Gemmell, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ships singles & doubles 1921), born in Melbourne, Victoria (d. 1972)
• 1897 Lefty O'Doul, American Baseball HOF left fielder (MLB All-Star, World Series 1933; NL batting champion 1929, 32 NY Yankees), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1969)
• 1898 Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
• 1899 Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
• 1900 Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 1900 Roberto Soundy, Salvadorean trap shooter (Olympic-1968), born in San Salvador, El Salvador
• 1901 Charles H. Goren 'Mr Bridge', American bridge master (26 US Titles), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
• 1901 Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937)
• 1903 Harold Berens, British comedian and actor, born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1995)
• 1903 John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
• 1903 William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
• 1904 Chief Tahachee [Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert], Cherokee stage and film actor, born in James Mill, Arkansas (d. 1978)
• 1904 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born American nuclear physicist and writer (Big Bang Theory, DNA), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1968)
• 1904 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (Der Liebesexpreß; A Star Fell from Heaven), born in Storozhynets, Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)
• 1906 Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., American businessman (President of Walgreens), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2007)
• 1906 Georges Ronsse, Belgian road cyclist (UCI Road World C'ship 1928, 29), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1969)
• 1906 Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
• 1907 Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), born in NYC, New York (d. 1964)
• 1907 Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)
• 1909 Harry B. Helmsley, American billionaire real estate developer (purchased Empire State Building, 1961), born in NYC, New York
• 1910 Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (Prime Minister and elected President 1985), born in São João del-Rei, Brazil (d. 1985)
• 1912 Afro [Basaldella], Italian painter
• 1912 Carl Marzani, Italian-born American leftwing political activist, publisher and documentarian, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1994)
• 1913 John Garfield [Jacob Garfinkle], American actor (Four Daughters, Body and Soul), born in NYC, New York (d. 1952)
• 1913 Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer (Jacinthe noir), and Kabyle singer, born in Tunis, Tunisia (d. 1976)
• 1914 Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
• 1914 Robert R. Wilson, American physicist (The Manhattan Project), sculptor and architect, born in Frontier, Wyoming (d. 2000)
• 1914 Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (worked for Walt Disney), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2002)
• 1915 Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer, most notably of ballet music (Feast of Ashes), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1997)
• 1915 Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
• 1916 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure)
• 1916 Hans Eysenck, German born British psychologist, born in Berlin, Germany
• 1917 Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• 1918 Alfred Judson Force Moody, US Army Brigadier General, WWII and Vietnam veteran, born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1967)
• 1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player (6-time Grand Slam singles winner), born in Joseph, Oregon (d. 2012)
• 1919 Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
• 1920 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (To Serve Them All My Days), born in Bearsden, Dumbartonshire, Scotland (d. 2002)
• 1920 Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
• 1921 Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (Australian C'ship 1947), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1986)
• 1921 Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American pianist, darabukha drummer, and composer (Martha Graham ballet scores), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2017)
• 1921 Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (Kind Hearts and Coronets, Amorous Mr Prawn), born in London, England (d. 1987)
• 1922 Dina Pathak [Ghandi], Indian Gujarati theatre actress, director and activist (President-National Federation of Indian Women), born in Amreli, Gujarat, India (d. 2002)
• 1922 Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress, dancer and socialite (Young and Willing; Blonde Alibi), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1998)
• 1922 Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
• 1923 Patrick Moore, England, astronomer and writer (A-Z of Astronomy), (d. 2012)
• 1923 Piero J d'Inzeo, French equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64)
• 1923 Willie Johnson, American electric blues guitarist (Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years"), born in Senatobia, Mississippi (d. 1995)
• 1925 Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and arranger ("Love Is Blue"), born in Marseille (d. 2006)
• 1926 Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger, born in Plymouth, Devon (d. 2015)
• 1926 Fran Warren [Wolff], American big band and pop singer ("A Sunday Kind of Love"; "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)"), born in The Bronx, NYC (d. 2013)
• 1926 James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
• 1926 Pascual Pérez, Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)

• 1927 Dick Savitt, American tennis player
• 1927 Philip Batt, American politician, 29th Governor of Idaho, born in Wilder, Idaho
• 1927 Robert DiDomenica, American flautist, composer and educator, born in NYC, New York (d. 2013)
• 1927 Robert Orben, American magician
• 1927 Thayer David, American actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages), born in Medford, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
• 1928 Alan Sillitoe, English writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), born in Nottingham (d. 2010)
• 1928 Samuel Adler, German-American composer, and educator (Eastman School of Music; Juilliard School), born in Mannheim, Germany
• 1929 Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (Concertgebouw, 1961-88; London Philharmonic, 1967-79; Royal Opera Covent Garden, 1987-2002), born in Amsterdam, Nethetlands (d. 2021) [1]
• 1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny, Spanish composer, born in Manresa, Spain (d. 2021)
• 1931 Alice Rivlin, American economist
• 1931 Bob Johnson, American collegiate and NHL ice hockey coach (University of Wisconsin Badgers, 1966-82; US Olympic team, 1976; Calgary Flames, 1982-87; Pittsburgh Penguins, 1990-91), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1991)
• 1931 Han Jansen, Dutch painter (d. 1994)
• 1931 Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
• 1932 Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom hot rod car designer, born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2001)
• 1932 Frank Wells, American entertainment executive (President of Walt Disney), born in Coronado, California (d. 1994)
• 1932 Guido Baggiani, Italian composer, born in Naples, Italy
• 1932 Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (Grammy for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, 1965), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2008) [1]
• 1933 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], Dutch jazz singer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1989)
• 1933 John Mills, British sculptor, born in London, England
• 1933 Nino Vaccarella, Italian auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1964; 12 Hours of Sebring 1970), born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy (d. 2021)
• 1934 Anne Haney, American actress (Mrs. Doubtfire - "Mrs. Sellner"; Liar Liar - "Greta"), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2001)
• 1934 Barbara McNair, American singer ("Till There Was You") and actress (They Call Me MR. Tibbs), born in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 2007)
• 1934 Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident, born in Moscow (d. 2014)
• 1934 Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist,, and author (We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made Of), born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) (d. 2017)
• 1934 John Duffey, American bluegrass guitarist, dobro, and mandolin player (Country Gentlemen), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1996)
• 1934 Mario Davidovsky, Argentine-American electro-acoustic composer (Synchronisms), born in Médanos, Argentina (d. 2019)
• 1935 Nancy Whiskey [Anne Wilson], Scottish folk singer and guitarist ("Freight Train"), born in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2003)
• 1936 Aribert Reimann, German composer (Lear), born in Berlin, Germany
• 1936 David Thompson, British food magnate
• 1936 Eric Allandale [Dubuisson], West Indian-British rock and soul trombonist, and songwriter (The Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"), born in Dominica, West Indies (d. 2001)
• 1936 Jim Clark, Scottish auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1965; F1 World Champion 1963, 65), born in Kilmany, Fife, Scotland (d. 1968)
• 1937 Barney Wilen, French tenor, composer and saxophonist, born in Nice, France (d. 1996)
• 1937 Graeme Dowling, New Zealand cricket batsman (39 Tests, 3 x 100s, TS 239 v India 1968; Canterbury CA), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
• 1937 Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
• 1937 Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
• 1938 Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
• 1938 Alpha Condé, Guinean politician (President of Guinea, 2010-21), born in Boke, Lower Guinea
• 1938 Angus MacLise, American percussionist, mystic, shaman, and composer (Velvet Underground), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1979)
• 1938 Don Perkins, American football fullback (Pro Bowl 1961–63, 66–68; All-Pro 1962, 67, 68; Dallas Cowboys), born in Waterloo, Iowa (d. 2022)
• 1938 Paula Prentiss [Ragusa], American actress (Parallax View, He & She), born in San Antonio, Texas
• 1939 Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 1940 Kas Garas, Lithuanian-American actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report), born in Kaunas, Lithuania
• 1940 Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
• 1941 John Aprea, American actor (Lucas-Another World, The Godfather Part II), born in Englewood, New Jersey
• 1941 John Hancock, American actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights), born in Hazen, Arkansas (d. 1992)
• 1942 Alexander Tekeliev, Bulgarian composer, and pedagogue, born in Svilengrad, Bulgaria
• 1942 Bob Wootton, American guitarist, born in Paris, Arkansas
• 1942 Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, born at Quantico, Virginia
• 1943 Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian composer and educator (Franz Liszt Academy, 1995-2019), born in Szolnok, Hungary (d. 2019)
• 1944 Bobby Womack, American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer ("It's All Over Now"; "Woman's Got to Have It"; "Across 110th Street"), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2014)
• 1945 Dieter Meier, Swiss singer (Yello - "Oh Yeah"), conceptional artist, and actor, born in Zürich, Switzerland
• 1945 Frank Novak, American actor, born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1945 Jaime Tirelli, American actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four), born in NYC, New York
• 1945 Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
• 1945 Tommy Svensson, Swedish soccer midfielder (40 caps; Östers IF, Standard Liège) and manager (Östers IF, Sweden), born in Växjö, Sweden
• 1946 Haile Gerima, Ethiopian film director (Ashes & Embers), born in Gondor, Ethiopia
• 1946 Harvey Goldsmith, English impresario (Live Aid, Prince's Trust), born in Edgeware, England
• 1946 Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur (Hawley-ADT)
• 1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, American cellist (RNCM Manchester International Festival), born in Denton, Texas
• 1946 Red Stripe [David Gittins], British actor and songer (The Flying Pickets - "Only You"; Poets of the Machine), born in England

• 1238 Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
• 1238 Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir, beheaded by his own forces after being caught by Mongolian forces (b. 1189)
• 1303 Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
• 1484 Saint Casimir, Crown Prince of Poland dies at 25
• 1496 Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (b. 1427)
• 1561 Carlo Carafa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41
• 1583 Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
• 1604 Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian and founder of Socinianism, dies at 64
• 1615 Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
• 1617 Arcangelo Crivelli, Italian composer, dies at 70
• 1710 Louis III, Prince of Condé and Duke de Bourbon, dies at 41
• 1733 Claude de Forbin, French naval commander, dies at 76
• 1744 John Anstis, English Garter King of Arms, dies at 74
• 1762 Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
• 1793 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter and cartoonist, dies at 44
• 1794 Henri de La Rochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
• 1795 John Collins, American politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (1786-90), dies at 77
• 1804 Carl Leopold Röllig, German composer, glass-harmonica player, composer, and inventor (bowed pianos - orphica and xänorphika), dies at about 65 [birth date uncertain]
• 1805 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
• 1807 Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
• 1825 Raphaelle Peale, American painter (After the Rain, 1823), dies at 51
• 1831 Georg Michael Telemann, German composer, dies at 82
• 1832 Jean-François Champollion, French scholar who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics with the Rosetta Stone, dies at 41
• 1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, Austrian pianist and composer, dies at 72
• 1842 James Forten, African-American abolitionist and businessman who used his wealth to push for civil rights and the abolition of slavery, dies at 75
• 1851 James Richardson, British explorer (Sahara Desert), dies of an illness near Lake Chad at 41
• 1851 Michael Henkel, German composer and organist, dies at 70
• 1852 Nikolai Gogol [Nikolay], Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General), dies at 43
• 1853 Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist, dies at 78

• 1864 Thomas Starr King, American Unitarian clergyman and lecturer who advocated for California to remain in the Union (Christianity & Humanity), dies of an illness at 39
• 1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish-American clergyman and Founder of Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
• 1866 Félix Danjou, French church organist, arranger, music teacher, organ builder, and political journalist, dies at 53
• 1868 Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
• 1872 Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
• 1876 Alfred Holmes, English violinist and composer, dies at 38
• 1877 Hendrik van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42

• 1888 Amos Bronson Alcott, American reformer, philosopher and poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
• 1903 Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
• 1906 John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
• 1910 Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
• 1915 William Willett, British inventor of Daylight Saving Time, dies of influenza at 58
• 1916 Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
• 1918 Eugène d'Harcourt, French composer and conductor, dies at 58
• 1922 Bert Williams, African American comedian and entertainer, dies at 46
• 1925 James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 John Montgomery Ward, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1880; NL ERA leader 1878; NL strikeout leader & NL wins leader 1879; Providence Grays), dies of pneumonia at 65
• 1925 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German composer, dies at 70
• 1927 Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
• 1933 Willie Walker, American jazz singer and guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
• 1936 Ruben Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 64
• 1938 George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
• 1938 Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1940 Hamlin Garland, American writer (Middle Border), dies at 79
• 1941 Edoardo Mascheroni, Italian composer, dies at 81
• 1942 Yuliya Veysberg, Russian composer, dies at 62
• 1943 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
• 1943 Pieter C. Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
• 1944 Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
• 1944 Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)

• 1944 Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
• 1945 Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
• 1945 Mark Sandrich [Goldstein], American film director, writer and producer (The Gay Divorcee; Top Hat; Holiday Inn), dies of a heart attack at 44
• 1946 Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
• 1948 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
• 1950 Adam Rainer, Austrian man, only record human to ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
• 1952 Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist (Nobel 1932-functions of neurons), dies at 94
• 1954 Georg Göhler, German composer (Rückert), dies at 79
• 1954 Noel Gay [Reginald Moxon Armitage], British composer (Who's Been Polishing the Sun), dies at 55
• 1958 Albert Kuyle [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
• 1959 Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
• 1960 Herbert O'Conor, American politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1960 Leonard Warren [Warenoff], American baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1939-60), dies of a heart attack during a performance of Verddi's "La forza del destino" at 48
• 1962 Cairine R. Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
• 1962 George Mogridge, American MLB pitcher, dies at 73
• 1963 William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet (Pictures from Brueghel, and Other Poems), dies at 79
• 1966 Jānis Mediņš, Latvian composer, dies at 75
• 1967 Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
• 1967 Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
• 1967 Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan, American Baseball HOF pitcher, outfielder, manager (Kansas City Monarchs NgL 1920-38), dies at 73
• 1968 Alexandre Eugène Cellier, French organist and composer, dies at 84
• 1969 Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
• 1973 Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
• 1974 Adolph Gottlieb, American painter, dies at 71
• 1974 Mihail Andricu, Romanian pianist, composer, violinist, and music professor (Bucharest Conservatory, 1926-59), dies at 79
• 1976 Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (Thermodynamik), dies at 89
• 1977 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
• 1977 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
• 1977 Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
• 1978 Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
• 1979 Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer (First ascent of the West Ridge of Mount Everest), dies at 52
• 1981 Torin Thatcher, British actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies of cancer at 76
• 1984 Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
• 1984 Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
• 1984 Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1984 Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze, Russian composer, dies at 79
• 1986 Ding Ling, Chinese writer (The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River), dies at 81

• 1986 Henri Knap, Dutch journalist and writer, dies at 75
• 1986 Howard Greenfield, American song lyricist ("Calendar Girl"; "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"; "Love Will Keep Us Together"; theme to "Bewitched"), dies of a brain tumor at 50
• 1986 Richard Manuel, Canadian rock vocalist and pianist (The Band - "The Shape I'm In"; "Tears Of Rage"), commits suicide at 42
• 1987 Siro Cisilino, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 83
• 1989 Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (Art Tatum), dies of meningitis at 72
• 1990 Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
• 1991 Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur), dies at 72
• 1992 Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), die at 84 of heart failure
• 1992 C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon), dies
• 1992 Christian K. Nelson, American inventor of Eskimo Pie (now Edy's Pie)), dies at 98
• 1992 Mary Osborne, American jazz guitarist, dies of liver cancer at 70
• 1992 Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 61
• 1993 Art Hodes, Ukrainian-born American jazz, blues pianist and editor (Jazz Record), dies at 88
• 1993 Nicholas Ridley, Lord Ridley of Liddesdale, English politician, Minister of Finance, dies at 64
• 1993 Richard Sale, American pulp writer and director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80

• 1995 Eden Ahbez [George Aberle], American songwriter ("Nature Boy"; "Lonely Island), dies in a car accident at 86
• 1996 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
• 1996 Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley], American country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry, Hee-Haw), dies at 84
• 1997 Carey Loftin, American actor (Duel, The French Connection), dies at 83
• 1997 Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
• 1999 Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1999 Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and jurist (Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), dies at 90
• 1999 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
• 2001 Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 2001 Glenn Hughes, American disco singer (The Village People (Biker)), dies of cancer at 50
• 2001 Harold Stassen, American politician (25th Governor of Minnesota) and perennial presidential candidate, dies at 93
• 2001 Jim Rhodes, American politician, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
• 2002 Claire Davenport, English actress (The Elephant Man), dies at 68
• 2002 Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
• 2002 Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (b. 1939)
• 2002 Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
• 2003 Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
• 2003 Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
• 2004 Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
• 2004 George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
• 2004 John McGeoch, Scottish rock guitarist (Magazine: Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Spellbound"; Visage; Public Image Ltd.), dies at 48
• 2004 Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
• 2005 Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
• 2005 Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
• 2005 Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
• 2005 Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
• 2005 Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
• 2006 Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
• 2006 Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
• 2006 Jan Felderhof, Dutch violinist and composer, dies at 98
• 2006 John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
• 2006 Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
• 2007 Bob Hattoy, American gay rights, AIDS, and environmental activist, dies from AIDS-related causes at 56
• 2007 Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (Daily Mail), and broadcaster, dies of cancer at 75
• 2007 Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian Commmunist Party politician
• 2007 Natalie Bodanya [Bodanskaya], American soprano, dies at 98
• 2007 Richard Joseph, British computer and video game soundtrack composer, dies of lung cancer at 53
• 2007 Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian, assassinated by Communist rebels at 41
• 2007 Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish rock and blues composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist, dies at 63
• 2007 Thomas Eagleton, American politician (38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri), dies at 77
• 2008 Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
• 2008 Gary Gygax, American fantasy author and role-playing games creator (Dungeons & Dragons), dies at 69
• 2008 George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
• 2008 Leonard Rosenman, American Academy and Emmy Award-winning film and television composer (Rebel Without A Cause; Star Trek IV; Bound for Glory; Sybill), dies of a heart attack at 83
• 2008 Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
• 2009 George McAfee, American football player, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears), dies at 90
• 2009 Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
• 2009 Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2009 John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
• 2009 Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
• 2009 Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
• 2009 Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
• 2009 Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
• 2010 Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
• 2010 Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
• 2010 Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
• 2010 Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
• 2010 Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
• 2010 Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
• 2010 Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
• 2010 Lolly Vegas [Candido Vasquez], American rock singer (Redbone - "Come And Get Your Love") dies of cancer at 70
• 2010 Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2010 Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
• 2010 Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
• 2010 Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917)
• 2010 Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
• 2010 Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934)
• 2010 Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
• 2011 Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
• 2011 Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
• 2011 Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
• 2011 Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
• 2011 Johnny Preston, American pop singer (Running Bear), dies at 71
• 2011 Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
• 2011 Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
• 2011 Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia, dies at 85
• 2011 Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
• 2012 Don Mincher, American Major League Baseball 1st baseman, dies at 73
• 2012 Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, dies in a traffic collision at 33
• 2013 Fran Warren [Wolff], American big band and pop singer ("A Sunday Kind of Love"; "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)"), dies on her 87th birthday

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• 306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia
• 852 Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources
• 938 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, the patron saint of the Czech state

• 1238 Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance
• 1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam
• 1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) crowned King of Poland

• 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
• 1611 George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1621 Jacarta, Java, renamed Batavia

• 1653 Dutch commodore Johan van Galen leads a Dutch fleet to victory against an English naval force at the Battle of Leghorn (Livorno) during the Anglo Dutch wars, later dies from his wounds on March 23

• 1699 Jews are expelled from Lübeck, Germany
• 1741 British fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)

• 1776 American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts

• 1789 US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, Fx. Muhlenberg 1st speaker
• 1790 France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land
• 1791 First Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
• 1791 President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session
• 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
• 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
• 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
• 1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)

• 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews

• 1804 The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.

• 1824 The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.

• 1826 1st US railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts

• 1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball
• 1830 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
• 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion (Chile)
• 1837 Chicago becomes incorporated as a city

• 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American

• 1846 8th Grand National: William Taylor aboard outsider Pioneer wins by 3 lengths from Culverthorpe
• 1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
• 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution

• 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
• 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US vice-president
• 1857 19th Grand National: Charlie Boyce wins aboard Emigrant at 10/1

• 1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War)
• 1861 US President Abraham Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
• 1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee
• 1863 Territory of Idaho established

• 1865 US Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
• 1868 30th Grand National: George Ede victorious aboard Irish 9/1 shot The Lamb; horse wins second GN in 1871

• 1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap

• 1877 Tchaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow
• 1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan
• 1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation

• 1881 Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begin their 1st case together in "A Study in Scarlet"

• 1882 Britain's first electric trams run in East London

• 1893 Francis Dhanis' Belgian Congo Free State army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
• 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
• 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
• 1895 Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his incomplete 2nd Symphony ("Resurrection") in Berlin, Germany, with the Berlin Philharmonic; complete version debuts in December

• 1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
• 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer)
• 1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
• 1901 William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as US president; Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President
• 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
• 1903 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory

• 1908 Primary school catches fire in Collingwood, Ohio (180 killed)
• 1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds

• 1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
• 1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
• 1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Pénélope", based on Homer's "The Odyssey", premieres at the Salle Garnie, in Monte Carlo, Monaco
• 1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
• 1913 US Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments

• 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
• 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
• 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas

• 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
• 1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
• 1925 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
• 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office

• 1928 "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne

• 1929 National Revolutionary Party founded in Mexico by Plutarco Elías Calles (will go on to hold power until 2000)

• 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
• 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
• 1930 Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.

1931 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1

• 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
• 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
• 1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st female member of the US Cabinet

• 1933 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
• 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
• 1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated

• 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
• 1941 Chicago Black Hawks goaltender Sam LoPresti faces NHL record 83 shots in a 3-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston

• 1941 The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.

• 1943 Transport #50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
• 1944 1st US bombing of Berlin
• 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
• 1945 Finland declares war on Nazi Germany

• 1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1949 Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
• 1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
• 1954 James E. Wilkins appointed 1st black US sub-cabinet member
• 1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant
• 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
• 1957 Gold Coast officially changes its name to Ghana ahead of its independence
• 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
• 1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
• 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
• 1961 8th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest beats Duke, 96-81
• 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
• 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
• 1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering

• 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die

• 1966 North Sea Gas 1st pumped ashore by BP
• 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
• 1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
• 1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
• 1967 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)

1968 Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti regains world middleweight title with a 15-round points decision over American champion Emile Griffith at Madison Square Garden, NY; last of famous trilogy of fights

• 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
• 1969 London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.
• 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost
• 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
• 1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
• 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
• 1972 Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
• 1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
• 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick, UK
• 1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
• 1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
• 1974 David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London
• 1974 Educational series "The Letter People" debuts on KETC-TV (PBS) in St. Louis, Missouri

• 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
• 1976 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
• 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
• 1977 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541
• 1977 Roger Sessions' 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with José Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra
• 1977 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies
• 1978 25th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 85-77
• 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
• 1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
• 1979 "The Ordeal of Patty Hearst", television movie directed by Paul Wendkos, premieres on CBS
• 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"

• 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

• 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
• 1982 Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada

• 1540 German Protestant Count Philip of Hessen bigamously marries 2nd wife Margarethe von der Saale, causing a scandal

• 2000 "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (21) weds cinematographer Robert Brinkmann (38)

• 1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
• 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson

• 1993 Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi

• 1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
• 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes
• 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht

• 1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
• 1645 Battle of Jankau in Bohemia: Sweden defeats Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III
• 1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
• 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
• 1713 Handel's "Jubilate" first performance in a public rehearsal at St. Paul's Cathedral, London
• 1731 Mission San Francisco de la Espada, first of the San Antonio missions, reestablished by Spanish missionaries on the bank of the San Antonio River [1]
• 1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published in Boston
• 1746 Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen

• 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Territory from the French

1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.

1774 John Hancock delivers the fourth annual Massacre Day oration, a commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's stature as a leading Patriot

• 1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
• 1784 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, is named President of the Board of Trade.
• 1793 French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured
• 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
• 1795 Treaty of Basel - Prussia ends war with France
• 1803 First newspaper published in Australia the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser by government printer and ex-convict George Howe [1]

• 1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
• 1821 Monroe is 1st US President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sunday
• 1824 First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma

• 1840 2nd Grand National: Bartholomew Bretherton wins aboard 16/1 Jerry; a then smallest field of 13
• 1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
• 1842 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
• 1845 7th Grand National: William Loft aboard outsider Cure-All wins in record time of 10 minutes, 47 seconds
• 1848 Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance

• 1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened

• 1856 Covent Garden Opera House, London, destroyed in a fire
• 1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
• 1858 Abolitionists establish "Crispus Attucks Day" in Boston
• 1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia
• 1862 Union troops under Brigadier General Wright occupy Fernandina, Florida (US Civil War)
• 1864 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
• 1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele" premieres in Milan
• 1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
• 1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson

• 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
• 1896 Italian governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa
• 1896 Italian premier Francesco Crispi resigns
• 1897 American Negro Academy forms
• 1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
• 1900 American Hall of Fame founded
• 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn up

• 1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
• 1907 The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops
• 1908 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
• 1910 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres
• 1910 Stanley Cup, Dey's Arena, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
• 1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
• 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
• 1915 World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

• 1919 Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC
• 1921 The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or occupation of property in white areas, South Africa
• 1921 The US warns Costa Rica and Panama to settle disputes peacefully
• 1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
• 1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
• 1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
• 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
• 1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
• 1928 Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" premieres in Berlin

• 1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
• 1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas)
• 1935 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)

• 1936 Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
• 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia

• 1943 Anti-fascist strikes in Italy
• 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany

• 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands

• 1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
• 1945 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
• 1945 World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins.
• 1946 Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.

• 1948 US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height

• 1949 The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.

• 1953 6th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "The Sound Barrier" Best Film
• 1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
• 1955 2nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Duke, 87-77
• 1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 "King Kong" 1st televised

• 1957 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
• 1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
• 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast

• 1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
• 1960 7th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 63-59

• 1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)
• 1960 Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)

• 1960 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
• 1960 The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
• 1960 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)

• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"
• 1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
• 1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
• 1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony (his last), by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
• 1965 Ernie Terrell beats Eddie Machen by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Chicago, Illinois to win vacant WBA heavyweight boxing title
• 1965 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence
• 1966 11th Eurovision Song Contest: Udo Jurgens for Austria wins singing "Merci, Cherie" in Luxembourg
• 1966 13th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats NC State, 71-66
• 1966 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
• 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
• 1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association
• 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
• 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
• 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West Germany
• 1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw" premieres in London

• 1970 Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
• 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
• 1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
• 1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC

• 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
• 1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
• 1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater, NYC; runs for 740 performances
• 1974 First performance in 3,000 years of world's oldest known song "Hymn to Nikkal" a 3,400 year old Hurrian hymn to moon god Nikkal from Ugarit in Syria, played at Berkeley University by Anne Kilmer and Richard Crocker [1]
• 1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot

• 1976 British pound falls below $2 for 1st time
• 1977 24th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 75-69

• 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
• 1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
• 1979 Iran resumes petroleum exports
• 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
• 1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49

• 1981 Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & I Lisovski (URS)

• 1981 Michael Stewart's musical "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC for 4 performances
• 1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
• 1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
• 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data

• 1983 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
• 1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
• 1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
• 1985 38th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "The Killing Fields" Best Film, Wim Wenders Best Director
• 1985 Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar

• 1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national colour newspaper); it folded in 1995
• 1988 Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
• 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
• 1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
• 1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
• 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana Pacers) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
• 1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks

• 1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
• 1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
• 1994 Jefffesron Airplane/Starship singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
• 1994 Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate in Nelspruit, South Africa
• 1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber

• 1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election

• 1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)

• 1999 Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut
• 2001 In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

• 2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
• 2005 The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention.

• 1726 Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
• 1732 Joseph François Salomon, French composer, dies at 82

• 1776 Yeongjo of Joseon, 21st king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty, dies at 81

• 1790 Flora MacDonald, Scottish woman who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape, buried in the sheet he slept in at 67 or 68
• 1795 Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42
• 1815 Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (Mesmerism), dies at 80

• 1827 Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system), dies at 77
• 1829 John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
• 1849 David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
• 1853 August Kestner, German art collector and diplomat, dies at 75
• 1873 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, French composer, dies at 34
• 1876 Marie d'Agoult [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70
• 1893 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher and historian (Voyage in Italy), dies at 64
• 1893 Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 37
• 1895 Henry Rawlinson, British army officer and oriental scholar (major role in deciphering cuneiform), dies at 84
• 1895 Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
• 1903 George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
• 1904 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal and Chief of the German General Staff, dies at 71
• 1907 Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
• 1919 Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67
• 1923 (Theodora) "Dora" Pejačević, Croatian countess and composer (Symphony in F-sharp minor, Op. 41), dies of kidney failure at 37
• 1926 Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
• 1927 Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
• 1929 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American automobile pioneer (Buick Motor Company), dies at 74
• 1931 Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities, dies ta 91
• 1932 Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
• 1940 Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
• 1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
• 1944 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
• 1945 Lena Baker, American murderer, convicted of capital murder of her employer, Ernest Knight, dies at 44
• 1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, conductor (Boston Pops, 1927-29), and composer (La Giara; Concerto Romana), dies at 63
• 1948 Charles Prince, cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa), dies
• 1950 Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology), dies at 81
• 1950 Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian nationalist and military leader, dies at 42
• 1952 Vladimir Scherbachov, Soviet-Russian composer (Blokovskaya; The Thunderstorm) and professor (Leningrad Conservatory; Tbilisi Conservatory), dies at 63
• 1953 Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)

• 1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (Peter and the Wolf; Alexander Nevsky), dies at 61
• 1954 Julian Coolidge, American mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
• 1955 Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
• 1956 Erich Itor Kahn, German composer of Jewish descent, dies at 50
• 1962 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82
• 1962 Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at 69
• 1963 Cyril Smith, Scottish actor (The Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies from a heart attack at 70
• 1963 Harold "Hawkshaw" Hawkins, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee; "Lonesome 7-7203"), dies in a plane crash at 41
• 1963 Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas, American country singer ("Candy Kisses"; "Alabam"), dies in a plane crash at 49

• 1965 Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
• 1965 John "Pepper" Martin, American baseball utility (MLB All-Star 1933–35, 37; World Series 1931, 34; NL stolen base leader 1933, 34, 36; St. Louis Cardinals), dies of a heart attack at 61
• 1966 Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76
• 1966 Enrique E Ecker, Curacaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79
• 1967 Georges Vanier, French Canadian soldier and 19th Governor General of Canada, dies at 78
• 1967 Mischa Auer [Ounskowsky], Russian actor (My Man Godfrey), dies from a heart attack at 61

• 1971 Winnie Lightner [Winifred Reeves], American vaudeville stage and screen actress, and singer (Gold Diggers of Broadway; Gold Dust Gertie; Sit Tight), dies at 71
• 1972 Nils Björkander, Swedish composer, dies at 78
• 1973 Michael Jeffery, British music manager (The Animials; Jimi Hendrix), dies in a mid-air plane collision over France at 39)
• 1973 Rupert Crosse, American actor, 1st African-American to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award (The Reivers), dies of lung cancer at 45
• 1974 Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (Good Morning World), dies of lung cancer at 67
• 1974 Sol Hurok, American theatrical impresario, dies at 85
• 1977 Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshal at the 1977 South African Grand Prix, dies in a car crash at 19
• 1977 Lockrem Johnson, American composer, dies at 52
• 1977 Moses Pergament, Finnish-Swedish classical composer (The Jewish Song Choral Symphony) and music critic, dies at 83
• 1977 Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver, dies at 27
• 1979 Vicente Ascone, Italian composer, dies at 81
• 1980 Jay Silverheels [Harold J. Smith], Canadian actor (The Lone Ranger, Key Largo), dies from a stroke at 67
• 1980 Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82
• 1981 (Theodore) "Red" Saunders, American jazz drummer and bandleader, based in Chicago, dies at 69
• 1981 Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64
• 1981 Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86
• 1981 Yip Harburg [Isidore Hochberg], American lyricist ("Over The Rainbow"; "It's Only A Paper Moon"), dies in a car crash at 84
• 1982 Clifford P. Case, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey, dies at 77
• 1982 John Belushi, American comedian, actor, and singer (Saturday Night Live; Animal House; The Blues Brothers), dies of a drug overdose at 33
• 1984 Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85
• 1984 Michael Sklar, American comedian (Laugh-In; Sha Na Na), dies at 39
• 1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 70
• 1984 William Powell, American actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91
• 1986 Teddy Hoad, West Indies cricket batsman, captain (4 Tests), dies at 90
• 1988 Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
• 1990 Gary Merrill, American actor (Young Dr. Kildare (TV series); All About Eve), dies of a lung cancer at 74
• 1990 Gloria Carter Spann, US President Jimmy Carter's sister, dies of cancer at 63
• 1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
• 1991 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109
• 1992 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
• 1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
• 1993 Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80
• 1993 Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
• 1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
• 1994 Joe Daley, American jazz tenor, clarinet and flute player, dies at 75
• 1994 Paul Vincze, Jewish-Hungarian designer of coins and medal, dies at 86
• 1995 (Victor) "Vivian" Stanshall, British singer and comic songwriter (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - "I'm The Urban Spaceman"; Magical Mystery Tour), dies in a fire at his home, at 51
• 1995 Ed Flanders, American actor (St Elsewhere - "Dr. Westphal"), takes his own life at 60
• 1995 Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer, dies at 42
• 1995 Lord Benson [Henry Alexander], British accountant (Coopers & Lybrand), dies at 85
• 1995 Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86
• 1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
• 1996 Joshua Compston, English art impresario, dies at 26
• 1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies
• 1996 Nicolás Cotoner, 23rd Marquess of Mondéjar, Spanish nobleman and military officer, dies at 90
• 1996 Whitner "Whit" Bissell, American actor (Time Machine, Soylent Green, The Magnificent Seven), dies at 86
• 1997 Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
• 1998 Donald Woods, Canadian actor (True Grit, Craig Kennedy; Criminologist), dies at 91
• 1999 Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (Kismet; Man of La Mancha; Endless Love), dies at 76
• 2000 Lolo Ferrari [Eve Valois], French adult actress and dancer, dies from an overdose of prescription drugs at 37
• 2003 Gerhard Rosenfeld, German opera and film score composer, dies at 72
• 2004 Walter "Walt" Gorney, American character actor (Friday the 13th, Trading Places), dies from natural causes at 91
• 2005 Sergiu Comissiona, Romanian-Israeli-American conductor (Haifa Symphony 1959-64), dies at 76

• 2008 Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b.1923)
• 2010 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999, dies at 103
• 2012 Philip Madoc, Welsh actor (The Life and Times of David Lloyd George), dies of cancer at 77
• 2012 William Heirens, American serial killer, dies at 83
• 2013 Calvin Fowler, American basketball point guard (Olympic gold 1968 co-captain; Saint Francis University), dies at 73

• 2014 Geoff Edwards, American game show host, dies from pneumonia at 83
• 2016 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (Early Music Movement), dies at 86
• 2016 Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (invented email and the @ sign), dies at 74
• 2017 Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), dies at 84
• 2017 Kurt Moll, German bass opera singer, dies at 78
• 2017 Leonard Manasseh, British architect (Rutherford School), dies at 100
• 2018 André S. Labarthe, French actor, film producer and director (Vivre sa vie, Cinéastes de notre temps), dies at 86
• 2018 Hayden White, American "literary criticism" historian (Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe), dies at 89
• 2018 Helmut Maucher, German businessman, CEO of Nestlé (1990-97), dies at 90
• 2018 Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92
• 2018 Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio, dies of Crohn's disease at 80
• 2019 Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer who created jazz arrangements of Bach and other classical music, dies at 84
• 2020 Antonio Permunian, Swiss soccer goalkeeper (11 caps; AC Bellinzona, FC Luzern), dies at 89
• 2021 Michael Stanley [Gee], American rocker (Michael Stanley Band- "My Town"), dies of lung cancer at 72

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• 580 Bilal ibn Rabah, Arabic companion of prophet Muhammad, first mu'azzin in history, born in Mecca (d. 640)

• 1324 David II, last Scottish ruler from House of Bruce (1329-71), born in Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland (d. 1371)
• 1326 Louis I [the Great], King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
• 1512 Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
• 1563 John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
• 1574 William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
• 1585 Johann Georg I, elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)
• 1637 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor (fire hose; street lighting), born in Gorinchem, South Holland
• 1658 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, french colonial governor of America
• 1693 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
• 1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice)
• 1703 Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
• 1723 Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
• 1733 Vincenzo Galeotti [Tomazelli], Italian dancer/choreographer
• 1739 Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819)
• 1746 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain
• 1748 Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
• 1748 William Shield, composer
• 1750 Jean B G d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)
• 1751 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
• 1756 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart" (d. 1778)
• 1774 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
• 1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
• 1794 Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
• 1805 Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, born in Paris, France (d. 1870)
• 1814 Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
• 1815 John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
• 1817 Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat
• 1824 Elisha Harris, American physician/found American Public Health Assoc
• 1824 James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman (Currier and Ives), born in NYC, New York (d. 1895)
• 1825 Hans Balatka, Moravian-American conductor (Milwaukee Musikverein; Chicago Oratorio Society), author (Condensed History of Music), and composer, born in Hoffnungsthal bei Olmütz, Moravia (d. 1899)
• 1825 John Dunovant, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
• 1825 Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype)
• 1836 Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
• 1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
• 1843 William F. Sudds, American composer, music publisher, and teacher, born in London, England (d. 1920) [1]
• 1845 Alphonse Hasselmans, Belgian-French harpist, composer (La Source), and educator (Paris Conservatoire, 1884-1912), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1912)
• 1850 Daniel Brink Towner, American hymn composer (d. 1919)
• 1852 Isabella Gregory, Irish writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
• 1853 Arthur Foote, American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six" (Suite for Strings in E), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1937)
• 1853 Howard Pyle, illustrator/painter/author (King Stork)
• 1860 Sam Thompson, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL batting champion 1887 Detroit Wolverines; NL HR leader 1889, 1895 Philadelphia Quakers), born in Danville, Indiana (d. 1922)
• 1862 Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
• 1867 Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
• 1868 Prosper Poullet, Belgian viscount/jurist/minister
• 1869 Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
• 1870 Frank Norris, journalist and writer (McTeague, Octopus), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1902)
• 1871 Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian lives to be at least 126
• 1871 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, born in Zamość, Poland (d. 1919)
• 1873 Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
• 1874 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
• 1874 Henry Travers [Travers John Heagerty], British actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra), born in Prudhoe, Northumberland, England (d. 1965)
• 1876 Elizabeth Moore, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1896, 1901, 03, 05), born in Brooklyn, NY (d. 1959)
• 1879 Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
• 1879 Walter Long, American actor (Moby-Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol), born in Nashua, New Hampshire (d. 1952)
• 1883 Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (d. 1969)
• 1886 Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
• 1886 Paul Radmilovic, England, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1908)
• 1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, cellist, guitarist, and conductor (Bachianas Brasileiras), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 1959)
• 1888 Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
• 1889 Frits Slomp [Frits de Rover], Dutch vicar/resistance fighter
• 1891 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen & Johnson), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1893 Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization
• 1894 Henry Daniell, British actor (The Great Dictator, Camille, Philadelphia Story, Body Snatchers), born in London, England (d. 1963)
• 1895 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
• 1897 Set Persson, Swedish communist politician, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1960)

• 1899 Patrick Hadley, composer
• 1901 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
• 1904 Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
• 1905 Sophie Stewart, Scottish actress (As You Like It; Under the Red Robe), born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland (d. 1977)
• 1907 Carroll Rosenbloom, American businessman and NFL team owner (Baltimore Colts, LA Rams), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1979)
• 1908 Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)

• 1909 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
• 1910 Joseph Tomelty, Irish actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby-Dick, Melba), born in Portaferry, Ireland (d. 1995)

• 1913 Yulian Krein [Kreyn], Riussian composer and musicologist, born in Moscow (d. 1996)
• 1914 Joan Sterndale-Bennett, British actress (Brighton Rock, Those Fantastic Flying Fools), born in London, England (d. 1996)
• 1914 Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
• 1914 Ursula Reit [Reith], German actress (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), born in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (d. 1998)
• 1915 Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
• 1916 Ian Parrott, British-Welsh composer (The Black Ram), born in Streatham, England (d. 2012)
• 1918 Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest
• 1918 James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
• 1918 Milt Schmidt, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (Stanley Cup 1939, 41; Boston Bruins) and coach/GM (Stanley Cup 1970, 72; Boston Bruins), born in Kitchener, Ontario (d. 2017)
• 1918 Paul Christman, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (University of Missouri; All-Pro 1946, 47; Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1970)
• 1918 Ranga Sohoni, Indian cricket all-rounder (4 Tests, top score 29 no, 2 wickets), born in Nimbahera, Rajasthan, India (d. 1993)
• 1918 Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
• 1920 Delbert L. Latta, American politician (Rep-R-OH, 1959-89), born in Weston, Ohio (d. 2016)
• 1920 José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
• 1920 Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st African American female bishop (Methodist)
• 1920 Virginia Christine [Ricketts], American actress (Mrs Olson, Tales of Wells Fargo), born in Stanton, Iowa (d. 1996)
• 1921 Berkley Bedell, American politician (Rep-D-IA, 1975-87), born in Spirit Lake, Iowa (d. 2019)
• 1921 Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 1922 Ebrahim Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests 1952)
• 1922 James Noble, American actor (Benson, 1776, Airplane II: The Sequel), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2016)
• 1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
• 1923 Laurence Tisch, American businessman (CEO of CBS Television, 1985-96; co-founder of Loews Corp), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 2003)
• 1926 Joan Shawlee [Fulton], American actress (Some Like It Hot, Prehistoric Women, Abbott & Costello Show), born in Forest Hills, New York (d. 1987)
• 1927 John "Jack" Cassidy, American singer and actor (Oscar-He & She, The Eiger Sanction), born in Richmond Hill, Virginia (d. 1976)
• 1928 Lou Levy, American jazz pianist (Woody Herman, Stan Getz), and accompanist (Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2001)
• 1929 Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
• 1929 J. B. Lenoir, African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the 1950s, born in Monticello, Mississippi (d. 1967)
• 1930 Del Crandall, American baseball catcher (11 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1957; 4 × Gold Glove Award; Boston/Milwaukee Braves) and manager (Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners), born in Ontario, California (d. 2021)
• 1931 Anthony Hedges, British light music and orchestral composer (Humberside Cantata), born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England (d. 2019)
• 1931 Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player (London Symphony, 1955-68), born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• 1931 Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
• 1932 Earl Woods, American author (father of Tiger Woods; 2 x books about upbringing & coaching), born in Manhattan, Kansas (d. 2006)
• 1932 Robert Lombardo, American composer and composition teacher (The Music Conservatory of Chicago College. 1964-99), born in Hartford, Connecticut
• 1932 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist
• 1933 Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess grandmaster (World Senior Champion 1995), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2018)
• 1933 İsmail Ogan, Turkish freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 78kg 1964, silver 1960), born in Macun, Turkey (d. 2022)
• 1933 Norbert Linke, German composer

• 1934 James B Sikking, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Lt. Howard Hunter"; Star Trek 3; Doogie Howser), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1934 Nicholas Smith, English actor (Are You Being Served?), born in Surrey, England (d. 2015)
• 1935 Billy Tubbs, American college basketball coach (Southwestern Uni, Lamar Uni, Uni of Oklahoma, Texas Christian Uni), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2020)
• 1935 Malcolm J Anderson, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
• 1935 Philip K Chapman, Australian astronaut (Apollo 14 support), born in Melbourne, Victoria
• 1936 Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (1980-87), born in Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia (d. 2003)
• 1936 Dale Douglass, American golfer (3 x PGA Tour titles; 11 x Champions Tour titles; US Senior Open 1986), born in Wewoka, Oklahoma (d. 2022)
• 1936 Dean Stockwell, American stage and screen actor (The Werewolf of Washington; Blue Velvet; Quantum Leap), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2021)
• 1937 Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
• 1937 Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur
• 1938 Fred "Hammer" Williamson, NFLer (Chiefs)/actor (Julia), born in Gary, Indiana
• 1938 Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
• 1938 Paul Evans, singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
• 1939 Charles Fuller, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (A Soldier's Play; Zooman and the Sign; The Brownsville Raid), and screenwriter (A Soldier's Story; A Gathering of Old Men), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d.2022) [1]
• 1939 Norman Seeff, South African-American photographer, filmmaker, and album cover artist (Joni Mitchell; Captain & Tenille; Fleetwood Mac), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
• 1939 Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
• 1939 Samantha Eggar, English actress (Collector, Dr Doolittle) [or May 3], born in London, England
• 1939 Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire
• 1940 Graham McRae, New Zealand auto racer (Tasman Formula 5000 Series 1971, 72, 73; L&M Continental 5000 C'ship 1972), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2021)
• 1940 Malcolm Hebden, English actor (Coronation Street), born in Chester, England
• 1940 Mary Rose Oakar, American politician (Rep-D-Ohio 1977-93), born in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1940 Tetsuya Noda, Japanese artist, photographer and printmaker (Diary series), born in Uki, Japan
• 1942 Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain, 1982-96, born in Seville
• 1942 Michael "Mike" Resnick, American sci-fi author (Sideshow; Eros Ascending), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1943 Billy Backus, American boxer
• 1943 Hugh Scully, British TV presenter (The Antiques Roadshow), born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 2015)
• 1943 Lucio Battisti, Italian pop singer and composer, born in Poggio Bustone, Italy (d. 1998)
• 1944 Paul Sands, comedian and actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1944 Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
• 1945 Randy Matson, American field athlete (Olympic gold shot putt 1968), born in Pampa, Texas
• 1946 Michael Warren, American actor (Hill Street Blues - "Ofc. Bobby Hill"), born in South Bend, Indiana
• 1946 Murray Head, British singer (Jesus Vhrist Superstar; "One Night in Bangkok"), born in London
• 1946 Richard Bell, Canadian musician (Full Tilt Boogie Band), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2007)
• 1946 Rocky Bleier, Wisc, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
• 1947 (Samuel) "Eddie" Hodges, American stage and screen actor and singer ("High Hopes", The Music Man - "Gary, Indiana"; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• 1947 Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer ("Come Back and Shake Me"), born in Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland
• 1947 Kent Tekulve, American MLB baseball relief pitcher, 1980 All-Star (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1974-85 and 2 other teams), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1948 (Edmond) "Eddy" Grant, Guyanese–British reggae singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist ("Electric Avenue"), born in Plaisance, British Guiana
• 1948 Elaine Paige, British musical theater singer and actress (Evita; Sunset Boulevard), born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
• 1948 Jacques Kloes, Dutch rock singer (Dizzy Man's Band - "The Show"; "Matter of Facts"), born in Heemskerk, Holland (d. 2015)
• 1948 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
• 1948 Richard Hickox, British organist, musical director, and conductor (City of London Sinfonia,,1971-2008; London Symphony Chorus from 1976-91), born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire, England (d. 2008)
• 1949 Bernard Arnault, French businessman (LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), born in Roubaix, France
• 1949 Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
• 1950 Eugene Fodor, American classical violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2011)
• 1950 Harvey Jacob Alperin, actor (Cocktail), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1951 Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
• 1951 Rodney Hogg, cricketer (prolific Australian wicket-taker 1978-84)
• 1952 Alan Clark, British keyboardist (Dire Straits, 1980-95 - "Money for Nothing"; Tina Turner; Eric Clapton), producer, and composer, born in County Durham, England
• 1953 Russel D Feingold, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
• 1953 Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun, Russian colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24)
• 1954 João Lourenço, Angolan politician (President of Angola 2017-), born in Luanda, Angola
• 1954 Marsha Warfield, American comedian, and actress (Night Court, 1986-92 - "Roz"), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1955 Juraj Filas, Slovak composer (Oratio Spei (Prayer of Hope)), born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) (d. 2021)
• 1955 Marcia McCabe, American actress (Alice Grande - One Life to Live), born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

• 1956 Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
• 1956 Mark Handley, writer (Nell)
• 1956 Teena Marie, American singer
• 1957 Mark E. Smith, British rock vocalist (The Fall; The Post - "Nearly Man"), born in Broughton, Lancashire, England (d. 2018)
• 1957 Tim Holden, American politician (Rep-D-Pennsylvania 1993-2013), born in St. Clair, Pennsylvania

• 1958 William "Bill" Timoney, American actor, voice actor, director, script writer and producer (Addicted to Love, All My Children), born in Teaneck, New Jersey
• 1959 David Fury, American television writer and producer
• 1959 Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. 1999)
• 1960 David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
• 1960 Nicolas Launay, British record producer, composer and recording engineer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Arcade Fire; Kate Bush; Talking Heads), born in London, England
• 1961 Dan Stuart, American singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
• 1961 Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
• 1962 Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish rock musicians (The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"), born in Leith, Scotland
• 1962 Elise Burgin, tennis star, born in Baltimore, Maryland
• 1962 Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
• 1962 Robert L Curbeam Jr, astronaut (STS 85, sk: 99), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• 1963 Eddo Brandes, Zimbabwe cricket fast bowler (10 Tests, 26 wickets; ODI hat-trick v England 1997), born in Port Shepstone, Natal Province, South Africa
• 1966 Aasif Mandvi [Mandviwala], British-American comedian, actor, and writer (The Mystic Masseur; The Daily Show, 2006-15; Today's Special), born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
• 1966 Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
• 1966 Feng Congde, Chinese dissident (A Tiananmen Journal: Republic on the Square) and one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, born in Sichuan province, China
• 1966 Michael Irvin, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1967 Nicole Boegman, Australian long jumper (Olympics 1988, 92, 96)
• 1968 Roman Phifer, linebacker (Los Angeles/St Louis Rams), born in Plattsburgh, New York
• 1968 Shjon Podein, NHL left wing (Philadelphia Flyers), born in Rochester, New York
• 1969 MC Solaar [Claude M'Barali], Chadian-French rapper ("Hasta la vista"), born in Dakar, Senagal
• 1969 Moussa Saïb, former Algerian footballer

• 1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney/president of Romagna
• 1492 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
• 1495 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
• 1615 Jan Zoet, Dutch actor, author, playwright and poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y), born in Flanders, Belgium (d. 1674)
• 1616 Malachias Siebenhaar, German composer, born in Creibitz, Bohemia (now Chřibská, Czech Republic (d. 1685)
• 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose
• 1663 Francis Atterbury, English man of letters, politician, and priest (Church of England Bishop of Rochester, 1713-23), born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (d. 1732)
• 1698 John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
• 1706 George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
• 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Italy (d. c. 1763)
• 1716 Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
• 1740 Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)

• 1761 Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General and diplomat (d. 1828)
• 1763 Jean Xavier Lefevre, French clarinetist and composer, born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1829)
• 1765 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
• 1779 Philipp Roth, German cellist, and composer, born at Tarnowitz in Prussian Silesia (now Tarnowskie Góry, Poland) (d. 1898)
• 1785 Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (Pygmalion), born in Włoszakowice, Poland (d. 1857)
• 1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
• 1791 Anna Claypoole Peale, American painter of miniatures, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1878)
• 1793 Bernhard Joseph Klein, German sacred and secular music composer, and educator, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1832)

• 1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
• 1817 Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
• 1818 William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
• 1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, American Major General (Union Army), born in Clinton, Connecticut (d. 1899)
• 1831 Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
• 1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, Major General (Union Army), born in Albany, New York
• 1834 George du Maurier, Franco-British illustrator and writer (Trilby), born in Paris, France (d. 1896)
• 1835 Charles Ewing, American attorney and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1883)
• 1835 Ludwik Grossman, Polish composer (Duch Wojewody - The Ghost of Voyvode), born in Tureck, Poland (d. 1915)
• 1843 Artur Napoleão dos Santos, Portuguese pianist, composer, and music publisher, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1925)
• 1852 Josef Bayer, Austrian composer, and music director (Austrian Court Ballet, 1883-1913), born in Vienna, Austra (d. 1913)

• 1870 Oscar Straus [Strauss], Viennese composer (Ein Walzertraum), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1954)
• 1871 Ben Harney, American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano" (You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down), born on the Mississippi River (d. 1938)
• 1882 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
• 1882 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1962)
• 1882 Guy Kibbee, American actor (Big Shot), born in El Paso, Texas (d. 1956)

• 1885 Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, US sports writer (You Know Me Al)
• 1887 Henri Gagnon, Canadian organist (Notre-Dame Basilica (Quebec), 1915-1961), composer (Rondel de Thibaut de Champagne), and music educator, born in Quebec City, Quebec (d. 1961)
• 1890 Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
• 1891 Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
• 1893 Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
• 1893 [Walter] "Furry" Lewis, American blues musician, born in Greenville, Mississippi (d. 1981) [birth year disputed]
• 1897 Knudåge Riisager, Danish composer, and music director (Royal Danish Academy of Music, 1956-67), born in Kunda, Estonia (d. 1974)
• 1898 (Johanne) "Jo" Vincent, Dutch concert soprano (St. Matthew's Passion; Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony), and voice teacher, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1989)
• 1898 Jimmy Conzelman, American Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, coach, team owner (Chicago Cardinals), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1970)
• 1899 Jay C Flippen, American actor (Jet Pilot, The Killing, Thunder Bay), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1971)
• 1900 John Henry Pyle Pafford, British librarian (University of London), born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 1996)
• 1900 Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco, Jolson Sings Again), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungar (d. 1967)
• 1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove, American Baseball HOF pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1929, 30; AL MVP 1931; Triple Crown 1930, 31; Philadelphia A's, Boston Red Sox), born in Lonaconing, Maryland (d. 1975)
• 1901 Mark Donskoy, Soviet-Ukrainian film director (Rainbow, A Mother's Heart) and screenwriter, born in Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1981)
• 1903 Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, American platform diver (Olympic gold 1924 and 1928), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
• 1903 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1904 Chris Baay, Dutch actor (Tomorrow It Will Be Better, Klatergoud, Surprise Raid), born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1991)
• 1904 Hugh Williams, British dramatist, actor and writer (Wuthering Heights, Bank Holiday), born in East Sussex, England (d. 1969)
• 1904 José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
• 1905 Bob Wills, American western-swing singer, and bandleader, known as the 'King of Western Swing' (Texas Playboys -"Steel Guitar Rag"), born in Limestone County, Texas (d. 1975)

• 1909 Dave Clark, American blues music promoter, and songwriter ("Why I Sing The Blues"), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1995)
• 1909 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian statesman and nationalist, born in Ikenne, British Nigeria (d. 1987)
• 1911 Charles Frank, physicist
• 1911 Roland Leich, American composer, chiefly of art songs, vocal, and choral music, and educator (Carnegie Institute, 1946-76), born in Evansville, Illinois (d. 1995)
• 1912 Madge Adam, astronomer
• 1913 David Bowman, trade unionist
• 1913 Ella Logan [Ina Allan], Scottish actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man, Top of the Town), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1969)
• 1914 Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, 1943-56; Moscow Philharmonic, 1960-75; Concertgebouw, 1978-81), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1981)
• 1915 Benny de Weille, German swing jazz clarinetist and bandleader, born in Lübeck, Germany (d. 1977)
• 1915 Leonard Tose, owner NFL Philadelphia Eagles 1969-85, born in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
• 1915 Pete Gray [Wyshner], MLB one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns), born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
• 1915 Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
• 1916 George "Red" Callender, American jazz and session string bass and tuba player, born in Haynesville, Virginia (d. 1982)
• 1916 Rochelle Hudson, American actress (Les Misérables, Imitation of Life, That's My Boy), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (d. 1972)
• 1917 Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
• 1917 Roy Scott, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1947, 18, 1-74)
• 1917 Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
• 1918 Howard McGhee, American be-bop jazz trumpeter, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1987)
• 1919 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
• 1919 Wanda Luzzato, Italian concert violinist and teacher, born in Varese, Lombardy, Italy (d. 2002)
• 1920 Lewis Gilbert, British director, producer and screenwriter (You Only Live Twice, Sink the Bismarck!), born in London, England (d. 2018)
• 1920 Peter Brinson, British ballet and dance writer, lecturer, and promoter (Ballet For All), born in Llandudno, Wales (d. 1995)
• 1921 Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor (NYC Opera, 1944-79), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2014)
• 1921 Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US)
• 1921 Ross Hunter, American film producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996) date of birth disputed)
• 1922 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
• 1923 (John) "Wes" Montgomery, American influential and Grammy Award-winner jazz guitarist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1968)
• 1923 (Raymond) "Bill" Hoffenberg, South African-British endocrinologist and college president (Wolfson at Oxford, 1985-93), born in Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa (d. 2007)
• 1923 Ed McMahon, American TV side-kick (Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), and host (Star Search), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2009)
• 1923 Erhard Karkoschka, German composer, conductor (Contac-Ensemble), educator, and music scholar, born in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (d. 2009)
• 1924 Sarah Caldwell, American conductor and opera director (Flagstaff), born in Maryville, Missouri (d. 2006)

• 1926 Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes & Diamonds, Man of Iron), born in Suwalki (d. 2016)
• 1926 Ann Curtis, 400m/800m US swimmer (Olympics 2 gold-1948), (d. 2012)
• 1926 Elwood Hillis, American politician (Rep-R-IN, 1971-87), born in Kokomo, Indiana
• 1926 H.C. Robbins Landon, American musicologist (Haydn: Chronicle and Works), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2009)
• 1926 Jón Nordal, Icelandic composer (Choralis), born in Reykjavik
• 1926 Miroslav Klega, Czech composer (Pantomime Suite), born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (d. 1993)
• 1927 (Adanelle) "Norman" Treigle, American operatic bass-baritone, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1975)

• 1927 John Fairchild, CEO (Fairchild publishing), born in Newark, New Jersey
• 1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
• 1927 William J Bell, soap opera creator (Young & Restless), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1928 Ronald Stevenson, composer
• 1929 David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman)
• 1929 Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
• 1929 Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2013)
• 1930 Lorin Maazel, American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1972-82; Orchestre National de France, 1977-91; NY Philharmonic 2001-09), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 2014)
• 1931 Carmen de Lavallade, American actress, dancer and choreographer (Aida), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1931 David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
• 1931 Ed Whitlock, British-born runner, oldest person to run marathon under 4 hrs (at 85), born in London (d. 2017)
• 1931 Hal Needham, American stuntman, (d. 2013)
• 1931 John Smith, American actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1995)
• 1932 Jan Jindra, Czech rower (Olympic gold Coxed four 1952, bronze Eight 1960), born in Třeboň, Czech Republic (d. 2021)
• 1932 Jean Boht, English actress (Bread, Distant Voices, Still Lives), born in Bebington, England
• 1933 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, English folk musician and composer
• 1933 Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
• 1933 Kim Elgie, South African cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl)
• 1933 Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1933 William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
• 1934 John Noakes, British TV presenter, born in Yorkshire, England (d. 2017)
• 1935 Derek Kevan, Ripon, England, footballer (14 caps), (d. 2013)
• 1935 Ron Delany, Irish 1500m runner (Olympic gold 1956), born in Arklow, Republic of Ireland
• 1936 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
• 1936 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington, D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
• 1936 Sylvia Robinson, American rocker (Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"), born in Harlem, New York (d. 2011)
• 1937 Ben Keith [Schaeufele], American musician and record producer (Neil Young, Great Speckled Bird), born in Fort Riley, Kansas (d. 2010)
• 1937 Doug Dillard, American country rock musician (The Dillards; Gene Clark; Dillard & Clark) and actor (Popeye - "Clem"), born in East St. Louis, Illinois (d. 2012)
• 1937 Ivan Boesky, stockbroker inside trading, born in Detroit, Michigan
• 1937 Paul Mefano, French composer, born in Basra, Iraq

• 1938 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey (d. 1995)
• 1938 Nikolai Manoshin, Russian soccer midfielder (8 caps; FC Torpedo Moscow, CSKA Moscow) and manager (Somalia, Yemen, Mali), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2022)
• 1938 Pauline Boty, English artist, born in London (d. 1966)
• 1939 Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
• 1939 Cookie Rojas, baseball player
• 1939 David Spielberg, Weslaco Tx, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice)
• 1939 Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
• 1939 Jerry Naylor, American rock vocalist (Crickets), born in Stephenville, Texas
• 1940 Joanna Miles, Nice France, actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA)

• 1941 Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show), born in Karyn Kupcinet (d. 1963)
• 1941 Peter Brötzmann, German free jazz saxophonist and clarinet player, born in Remscheid, Germany
• 1942 Ben Murphy, Jonesboro, Arkansas, American actor (Name of the Game, Alias Smith and Jones)
• 1942 Charles Tolliver, American jazz trumpeter (Impact), born in Jacksonville, Florida
• 1942 Flora Purim, Brazilian jazz singer (Return To Forever; Airto), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand operatic soprano (Don Giovanni), born in Gisborne, New Zealand
• 1944 Mary Wilson, American pop vocalist (Supremes - "Where Did Our Love Go?"), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2021) [1]
• 1945 Anna Maria Horsford, American actress (Thelma Frye-Amen), born in NYC, New York
• 1945 Hugh Grundy, British rock drummer (The Zombies - "She's Not There"; "Time Of The Season"), born in Winchester, Hampshire, England

• 1946 Martin Kove, American actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey), born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1946 Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
• 1946 Richard Noble, Scottish businessman (land speed record 1983-97), born in Edinburgh
• 1946 Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1947 Dick Fosbury, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1968, "Fosbury Flop"), born in Portland, Oregon
• 1947 Judy Loe, British actress (Singles, Meaning of Life), born in Urmston, England
• 1947 Kiki Dee [Pauline Matthews], British pop singer ("Don't Go Breaking My Heart"), born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England
• 1947 Rob Reiner, American Emmy Award-winning actor (All In The Family -"Mike/Meathead") and film director (Stand By Me; When Harry Met Sally; This Is Spinal Tap; The Princess Bride), born in The Bronx, New York City
• 1947 Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
• 1948 James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist
• 1949 Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
• 1951 Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch road cyclist (World Road Race Champion 1978; Amstel Gold Race 1974, 85), born in Amsterdam, New Holland (d. 2004)
• 1951 Walter Trout, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (Canned Heat; Bluesbreakers), born in Ocean City, New Jersey
• 1952 Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC)
• 1953 Jackie Zeman, actress (Bobbie-General Hospital), born in Englewood, New Jersey
• 1953 Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
• 1955 Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (1994) who was assassinated at the start of the Rwandan genocide, born in Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi (d. 1994)
• 1956 Peter Roebuck, English cricketer and journalist, born in Oddington, Oxfordshire, England (d. 2011)
• 1957 Edward "Eddie" Deezen, American actor (Grease; I Wanna Hold Your Hand), born in Cumberland, Maryland
• 1959 Saul Anuzis, American politician
• 1959 Thomas "Tom" Arnold, American actor (Tom, True Lies) and former husband of actress Rosanne Barr, born in Iowa
• 1960 [Eris] Sleepy Floyd, NBA guard
• 1962 Alison Nicholas, English golfer (US Open 1997), born in Gibraltar
• 1962 Sergei Yashin, Russian & Soviet Hockey HOF left winger (Olympic gold 1988; HC Dynamo Moscow, EC Wilhelmshaven-Stickhausen), born in Penza, Russia (d. 2022)
• 1962 Valerie French, American animatronics art director
• 1963 D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor (ComicView), born in Portsmouth, Virginia
• 1963 Suzanne Crough, American child actress, and tambourinist (The Partridge Family - "Tracy"), born in Fullerton, California (d. 2015)
• 1964 Madonna Wayne Gacy [Stephen Bier, Jr.], American musician (Marilyn Manson), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• 1964 Reniet Vrieze, Dutch rock singer and guitarist (Pilgrims - "White Men")
• 1965 Tammy Liley, volleyball mid blocker/capt (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Long Beach, California

• 1966 Cliff Meidl, American sprint kayak (Olympics 1996 & 2000), born in Manhattan Beach, California
• 1966 Michelle Edwards, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
• 1966 Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian militant (chief bombmaker for Hamas), born in Rafat, West Bank (d. 1996)
• 1967 Bennie Dekker, Dutch football player (NEC/AZ/De Graafschap), born in Ermelo, Netherlands
• 1967 Connie Britton, American actress (Spin City, Friday Night Lights), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1967 Julio Bocca, Argentine ballet dancer (American Ballet Theater, 1986-2006; Ballet Argentino, 1990-2007), and artistic director (National Ballet of Uruguay, 2010-18), born in Munro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1967 Mihai Tudose, Romanian politician, Prime Minister (2017-), born in Brăila, Romania
• 1967 Özlem Türeci, German scientist (BioNTech - created 1st mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19), born in Siegen, West Germany
• 1968 Carla McGhee, American basketball forward (Olympic gold, 1996), born in Peoria, Illinois
• 1968 Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
• 1968 Moira Kelly, actress (Cutting Edge)
• 1969 Andrea Elson, American actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids), born in NYC, New York

• 
  20-29
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  30-39
• 
  40-49
• 
  50-59
• 
  80-89
• 
  Over 90