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Art and culture

• 1947 - Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1952 - Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.

Births

• 1841 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
• 1843 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919)
• 1844 - Karl Benz, German engineer (d. 1929)
• 1845 - José Maria Eça de Queiróz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900)
• 1846 - Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911)
• 1858 - Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
• 1862 - Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
• 1869 - Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer (d. 1934)
• 1870 - Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937)
• 1874 - Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
• 1880 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
• 1881 - Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
• 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939)
• 1883 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968)
• 1887 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian physicist (d. 1943)
• 1890 - Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918)
• 1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991)
• 1895 - Ludvík Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
• 1895 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986)
• 1896 - Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989)
• 1900 - Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
• 1901 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1948)
• 1902 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• 1904 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964)
• 1904 - Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005)
• 1904 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
• 1907 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
• 1913 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
• 1914 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1915 - Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President (d. 2006)
• 1920 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor
• 1920 - Noel Neill, American actress
• 1922 - Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (d. 2005)
• 1923 - Mauno Koivisto, former president of Finland
• 1924 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
• 1926 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1926 - Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001)
• 1933 - Kathryn Grant, American actress
• 1936 - Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
• 1940 - Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1940 - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
• 1941 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author and spiritual leader (d. 2001)
• 1941 - Percy Sledge, American musician
• 1942 - Bob Lind, American folk singer and songwriter
• 1944 - Ben Stein, American actor
• 1945 - George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1946 - Bev Bevan, English rock drummer (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra)
• 1947 - Jonathan Kaplan, American filmmaker
• 1947 - John Larroquette, American actor
• 1948 - Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician
• 1951 - Bucky Dent, American baseball player
• 1951 - Bill Morrissey, American musician
• 1951 - Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
• 1952 - Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer
• 1953 - Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron
• 1953 - Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player
• 1956 - Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
• 1957 - Bob Ehrlich, Jr., former Maryland governor
• 1959 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
• 1959 - Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion)
• 1960 - Amy Grant, American singer
• 1960 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (d. 1999)
• 1960 - Kasey Smith, American keyboardist
• 1962 - Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 - Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer.
• 1963 - Bernie Kosar, American football player
• 1964 - Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees)
• 1965 - Cris Carter, American football player
• 1965 - Dougray Scott, Scottish television and film actor
• 1966 - Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants)
• 1967 - Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
• 1967 - Gregg Turkington, American comedian (as Neil Hamburger) and musician
• 1968 - Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
• 1968 - Erick Sermon, American rap music artist
• 1968 - Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and talk show host
• 1968 - Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 1969 - Anthony Peeler, American basketball player
• 1971 - Christina Applegate, American actress
• 1971 - Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1973 - Erick Strickland, American basketball player
• 1976 - Donovan McNabb, American football player
• 1977 - Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver
• 1978 - Shina Ringo, Japanese musician
• 1979 - Thea Gilmore, British songwriter
• 1979 - Brooke Haven, American porn star
• 1980 - Josh Lomberger, American professional wrestling backstage interviewer
• 1980 - Kushan Liyanarachchi, Prominent Live Buddhism Practitioner, Sri Lanka
• 1980 - Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
• 1981 - Xabi Alonso, Spanish international footballer
• 1981 - Barbara Bush and Jenna Bush, daughters of George W. Bush and Laura Bush
• 1981 - Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
• 1983 - Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter
• 1984 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
• 1986 - Craig Gardner, English footballer
• 1986 - Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system (d. 1996)
• 1986 - Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
• 1987 - Joe Gatting, English footballer
• 1987 - Anwar Ali, Pakistan Under-19 Cricketer

Deaths

• 311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr
• 1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland
• 1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (drowned) (b. 1104)
• 1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• 1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
• 1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
• 1456 - Jacques Cœur, French merchant
• 1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
• 1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
• 1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
• 1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
• 1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b. 1643)
• 1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
• 1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
• 1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
• 1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
• 1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
• 1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
• 1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
• 1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
• 1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
• 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
• 1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
• 1948 - Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
• 1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1950 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Sedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
• 1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
• 1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
• 1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
• 1968 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
• 1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
• 1972 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
• 1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
• 1978 - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
• 1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
• 1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
• 1997 - Kamuzu Banda, President of Malawi (b. ca. 1898)
• 1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
• 2001 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Internationally renowned Spiritual Leader of Pakistan (b. 1941)
• 2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
• 2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
• 2005 - Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
• 2006 - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
• 2006 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
• 2006 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
• 2006 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
• 2006 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist and children's book publisher (b. 1916)

Notes

1. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
2. Maurice Denis
3. Lotte H. Eisner
4. Leonard Woolf
5. Yukio Mishima
6. Jocelyn Brown
7. David Gascoyne
8. List of Belgian painters
9. Alexander Dovzhenko
10. Nick Drake
11. The Libertine (2005 film)
12. Enrico Sabbatini
13. Ossip Zadkine
14. Mark Lanegan
15. Harley Granville-Barker
16. Karel Reisz
17. 1968 in film
18. Connie Palmen

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• David Gascoyne