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Historical Events

64 – Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
532 – Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
711 – Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1195 – Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1380 – Thomas of Buckingham’s invasion army lands on Calais
1425 – Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 – 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1524 – Boer War begins in Germany’s Black Forest
1525 – Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1544 – Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1545 – King Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1551 – Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania
1553 – 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England’s Queen after 9 days
1572 – Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis’ mercenaries
1575 – Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
1590 – King Philip Ii’s secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1599 – Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
1639 – French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
1674 – Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1688 – Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
1702 – Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow
1760 – The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1799 – A group of Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.
1816 – Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1836 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention (Seneca Falls NY)
1848 – German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1850 – Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 – 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 – Forrest’s 1st raid
1863 – Battle of Buffington’s Island (St George Creek), Ohio
1864 – Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson’s Depot) [->JUL 20]
1866 – Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1867 – Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson’s veto
1867 – Dutch Red Cross forms
1870 – France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 – Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 – 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1880 – SF Public Library starts lending books
1899 – National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1900 – Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
1902 – NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1904 – Cleveland Nap’s Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
1904 – Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1908 – Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 – Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings
1912 – A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1913 – Billboard publishes earliest known “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs” Malinda’s Wedding Day is #1
1914 – Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1915 – Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 – Naval accident
1915 – Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning
1918 – German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1918 – Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1923 – WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1926 – 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1927 – Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 – King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1933 – 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
1933 – Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers
1936 – Indians’ Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1936 – Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1937 – Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1937 – Joris Ivens’ “Spanish Earth” premieres in Hollywood
1939 – Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1940 – Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1940 – Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 – Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films
1941 – 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 – BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (…-) 5th of Beethoven
1941 – British PM Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign
1941 – President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’ 7th Symphony, premieres in US
1942 – German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1943 – 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1944 – 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 – 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 – 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Munich
1944 – Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 – Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 – Democratic convention opens in Chicago
1944 – Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 – General Bradley flies to England
1944 – Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 – NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1944 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
1945 – Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1945 – USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
1947 – Prime minister of shadow Burma government ,Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were assassinated by British , which resulted in the political chaos in the country lasting until now.
1948 – French government of Schuman, resigns
1949 – Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1950 – French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 – NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes
1950 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
1951 – “2 in the Aisle” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs
1952 – “Paint Your Wagon” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs
1952 – 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1952 – Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952 – India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1953 – KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1955 – Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1956 – US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 – 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 – Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – “Oh, Captain!” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
1958 – Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
1959 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1960 – Italian government Tambroni, resigns
1960 – SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 – 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1962 – Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
1963 – NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 – Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1964 – 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio
1964 – Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women’s Golf Open
1964 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 – Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before”
1966 – France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 – Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 – 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 – Race riots in Durham NC
1967 – US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 – Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1970 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1971 – Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1973 – Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 – Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A’s, 4-0
1974 – David Bowie’s “Diamond Dog” tour ends in NYC
1974 – Soyuz 14 lands
1975 – Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1975 – NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson’s 1st-inning single & RBI are
1975 – Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18″ limit
1976 – Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1976 – Allman Brother’s roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman’s testimony
1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 – 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
1977 – All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1978 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 – Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 – 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 – Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 – Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 – Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1980 – 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1980 – David Bowie appears in role of “Elephant Man” in Denver
1981 – 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George
1981 – Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 – 1st Old Timer’s All star classic – AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC
1982 – Bolivian government resigns
1982 – David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982 – 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1984 – 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 – Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 – Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 – Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1985 – The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1986 – Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1986 – Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 – 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 – Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 – Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 – Cleve Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
1989 – United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 – BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 – Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
1990 – Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
1991 – Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1991 – Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1991 – With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
1992 – “Price” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
1992 – 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1992 – Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
1992 – Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1992 – Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1992 – NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
1993 – Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1993 – Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
1993 – Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1994 – 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1994 – Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
1994 – Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1996 – Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
1996 – Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
1996 – XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
1998 – 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
1998 – JAL Big Apple Golf Classic

Famous Birthdays on this Day in History

1592 – Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 – Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1735 – Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1750 – Alessio Prati, composer
1759 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1782 – Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1789 – John Martin, English painter
1797 – Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1800 – Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1811 – Vincenz Lachner, composer
1814 – Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)
1817 – Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
1819 – Gottfried Keller, writer
1822 – Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
1823 – George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1828 – Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1833 – John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899
1834 – Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1838 – Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
1846 – Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1848 – Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
1849 – F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1851 – Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1854 – Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
1860 – Lizzie Borden, Fall River Massachusetts, acquitted of murder (gave her mother forty whacks), (d. 1927)
1863 – Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1873 – Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1876 – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1876 – John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1877 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1878 – Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
1879 – Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)
1881 – Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
1881 – Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1888 – Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1892 – Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7]
1894 – Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1894 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981)
1898 – Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1899 – Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
1900 – Charles Barnet “Roscoe” Harvey, soldier
1900 – Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1902 – Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
1905 – Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 – Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1905 – Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 – Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1906 – Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
1907 – Gunter Bialas, composer
1907 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1909 – Jeno Vecsey, composer
1912 – Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 – Josef Palenicek, composer
1914 – Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 – James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)
1916 – Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 – Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)
1917 – William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 – Patricia Medina, Liverpool England, actress (High-Low), (d. 2012)
1919 – Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1920 – Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)
1920 – Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1921 – Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
1922 – George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)
1922 – Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson
1922 – Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1923 – William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 – Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson], Miami, Florida, American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Batman Returns)
1924 – Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino)
1924 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1925 – Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 – Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan’s Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1926 – Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
1926 – Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1927 – Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1928 – John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
1929 – Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1932 – Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
1934 – Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)
1934 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 – Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 – George Hamilton IV, NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 – Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
1937 – Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], New York City, New York, American actor (Dune, Gettysburg)
1938 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 – Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1940 – Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)
1940 – Dennis Cole, Detroit, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens’s World)
1941 – Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington)
1941 – Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977- )
1941 – Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1941 – Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD)/minister of Traffic
1943 – Roy Dunbard Bridges Jr, Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-F, 61-F)
1944 – Commander Cody, singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1945 – George Dzunda, Rosenheim Germany, actor (Deer Hunter, Law & Order)
1946 – Alan Gorrie, Scotland, rock bassist/singer (Average White Band)
1946 – Ilie Nastase, Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 – Bernie Leadon, Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 – Brian May, London, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 – Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1947 – Mike Dutfield, documentary prodcuer
1947 – Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1948 – Beverly Archer, Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama’s Family)
1948 – Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1949 – Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1950 – Simon Cadell, English actor (Hi-Di-Hi, Pride & Extreme Prejudice)
1950 – Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 – Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1951 – Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
1951 – Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
1952 – Alan Collins, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 – Dominic Muldowney, composer
1952 – Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 – Robert A. Ficano, American politician
1952 – John Griesheimer, American politician
1954 – Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
1955 – Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder (early 80′s)
1956 – Great [Yoshiaki] Yatsu, wrestler (NJPW/WCCW/WWF)
1956 – Peter Barton, Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1957 – Cathy Reynolds, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1981 Golden Lights)
1958 – Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1958 – David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1959 – Terri Treas, KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1960 – Atom Egoyan, Cairo Egypt, director (Adjuster, Next of Kin)
1961 – Suzi Schott, Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1961 – Campbell Scott, New York City, New York, American actor/director/producer (Saint Ralph, Big Night)
1961 – Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1961 – Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
1961 – Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
1962 – Anthony Edwards, Santa Barbara Ca, actor (It Takes Two, Dr Greene-ER)
1962 – Brad Wilson, Pomona California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 9 Pro-Am)
1962 – Craig Muni, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 – Mark Carreon, Chicago IL, outfielder (SF Giants)
1963 – Marla Duncan, Fairfield California, Miss Northern California fitness (1990)
1963 – Sandor Wladar, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 – Garth Nix, Australian author
1964 – Alexandra Curtis, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1964 – Gina Procaccio, Drexel Hills Pennsylvania, 5k runner
1964 – Teresa Edwards, Cairo GA, basketball forward (Oly-gold-1984, 88,92,96)
1964 – André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
1965 – Kathleen Raine, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1965 – Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1966 – David Segui, KC KS, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 – Kate Rogerson, Pitts PA, LPGA golfer (1990 Circle K LPGA Tucson-2nd)
1966 – Nancy Walls, American actress
1967 – Christian Bergstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1967 – Dale Hurley Jr, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 – Carolie DeVonne Howe, Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1968 – Leroy Butler, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers – Superbowl 31)
1968 – Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1969 – David Goldsmith, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Eric-Models Inc)
1969 – Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1970 – Brooks Thompson, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1970 – Kengy Gardiner, Providence RI, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1970 – Rhona Susan Robertson, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 – Rick Walters, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 – Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971 – Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1971 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1972 – Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper)
1972 – Andrew Kavovit, actor (Paul-As the World Turns)
1972 – John Paci, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 – Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 – Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1972 – Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1973 – Angeline Putt, Miss Universe-Singapore (1996)
1973 – Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1973 – Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
1974 – Vincent Spadea, Chicago Ill, tennis star
1974 – Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 – Preston Wilson, baseball player
1975 – Alexi Komarov, Yekaterinburg Russia, dance skater (& Carr-1995 Pac Champ)
1976 – R J Williams, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1976 – Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Vinessa Shaw, American actress
1977 – Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
1977 – Ed Smith, English cricketer
1977 – Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
1977 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1978 – Nené, Brazilian footballer
1979 – Luke Young, English footballer
1979 – Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder
1979 – Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 – Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
1980 – Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980 – Mark Webber, American actor
1981 – Naomi Grabow, lake Arrowhead California, pairs skater (& Benjamin Oberman)
1981 – Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981 – Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 – David Bernard, West Indian cricketer
1982 – Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
1982 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982 – Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1984 – Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
1984 – Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
1984 – Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1984 – Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
1990 – Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

Famous Deaths

514 – Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
931 – Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 – Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies
1234 – Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 – Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 – Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
1415 – Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 – Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70
1543 – Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 – George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 – Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 – Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1627 – Dirck R “Didericus” Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41
1631 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 – Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 – Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
1700 – Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1740 – Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
1742 – John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45
1742 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 – Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
1811 – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1814 – Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1824 – Agustín de Iturbide [crowned Agustin I], Mexican army general, politician and the 1st emperor of Mexico is executed by firing squad at 40
1838 – Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 – Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1850 – Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 – [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies
1852 – Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 – Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
1892 – Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
1895 – Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
1895 – Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 – Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1913 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 – Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1918 – Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
1922 – Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1930 – Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1939 – Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies
1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1940 – Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1944 – Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 – Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944 – Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1945 – George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1947 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 – U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 – Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 – Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 – Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1957 – Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 – Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 – Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1965 – Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy’s car, drowns at 28
1969 – Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1970 – Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1972 – Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 – Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1973 – Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1974 – Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1974 – Joe Flynn, actor (McHale’s Navy), dies at 59
1974 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 – Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73
1976 – Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
1977 – John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80
1981 – Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1981 – Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 – John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 – Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
1984 – Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 – Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 – Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 – Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1990 – Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
1990 – Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
1992 – Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1992 – Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 – Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993 – Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 – Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1994 – Frederik “Frits” van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
1994 – Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1994 – Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 – Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
1995 – Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can’t Get Up), dies at 87
1995 – James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 – Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
1995 – Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1995 – Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
1996 – David Nicolson, British businessman and politician, dies at 73
1996 – Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
1996 – Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61
1996 – Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
1996 – Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
1996 – Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81
1998 – Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 – Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 – Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 – Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 – John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005 – Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2007 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2008 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
2009 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
2009 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)
2010 – Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2012 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer, dies from a heart attack at 76

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