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| *[[1367]] - [[Richard II of England]] (d. [[1400]]) | *[[1367]] - [[Richard II of England]] (d. [[1400]]) | ||
| *[[1412]] - [[Joan of Arc]], [[Roman Catholic]] [[Saint]] and national [[hero]]ine of [[France]] (legendary date) (d. [[1431]]) | *[[1412]] - [[Joan of Arc]], [[Roman Catholic]] [[Saint]] and national [[hero]]ine of [[France]] (legendary date) (d. [[1431]]) | ||
| - | *[[1486]] - [[Martin Agricola]], German composer (d. [[1556]]) | ||
| - | *[[1488]] - [[Helius Eobanus Hessus]], German poet (d. [[1540]]) | ||
| - | *[[1525]] - [[Caspar Peucer]], German reformer (d. [[1602]]) | ||
| - | *[[1561]] - [[Thomas Fincke]], Danish mathematician (d. [[1656]]) | ||
| - | *[[1587]] - [[Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares]], Spanish statesman (d. [[1645]]) | ||
| - | *[[1595]] - [[Claude Favre de Vaugelas]], French man of letters (d. [[1650]]) | ||
| - | *[[1617]] - [[Kristoffer Gabel]], Danish statesman (d. [[1673]]) | ||
| - | *[[1655]] - [[Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg]], Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. [[1720]]) | ||
| - | *[[1706]] - [[Benjamin Franklin]], American statesman (d. [[1790]]) | ||
| - | *[[1714]] - [[Percivall Pott]], English physician (d. [[1788]]) | ||
| - | *[[1745]] - [[Montgolfier Brothers|Étienne Montgolfier]], French inventor (d. [[1799]]) | ||
| - | *[[1793]] - [[James Madison Porter]], American politician (d. [[1862]]) | ||
| - | *[[1795]] - [[Anselme Payen]], French chemist (d. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | *[[1807]] - [[Jozef Maximilián Petzval]], Slovak inventor (d. [[1891]]) | ||
| - | *[[1808]] - [[Joseph Pitty Couthouy]], American naval officer (d. [[1864]]) | ||
| - | *[[1822]] - [[Heinrich Schliemann]], German archaeologist (d. [[1890]]) | ||
| *[[1832]] - [[Gustave Doré]], French painter and sculptor (d. [[1883]]) | *[[1832]] - [[Gustave Doré]], French painter and sculptor (d. [[1883]]) | ||
| - | *[[1838]] - [[Max Bruch]], German composer (d. [[1920]]) | ||
| - | *[[1848]] - [[Hristo Botev]], Bulgarian poet (d. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | *[[1850]] - [[Franz Xaver Scharwenka]], Polish-German pianist and composer (d. [[1924]]) | ||
| - | *[[1861]] - [[George Exton Lloyd]], Anglican bishop and theologian (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Gustav Bauer]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1944]]) | ||
| - | *[[1872]] - [[Alexander Scriabin]], Russian composer (d. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1878]] - [[Carl Sandburg]], American poet and historian (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | *[[1880]] - [[Tom Mix]], American actor (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | *[[1882]] - [[Aleksandra Ekster]], Russian painter (d. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | * 1882 - [[Fan S. Noli]], Albanian bishop (d. [[1965]]) | ||
| - | * 1882 - [[Sam Rayburn]], [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] (d. [[1961]]) | ||
| - | *[[1883]] - [[Khalil Gibran]], Lebanese writer (d. [[1931]]) | ||
| - | *[[1898]] - [[James Fitzmaurice]], Irish aviation pioneer (d. [[1965]]) | ||
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Phyllis Haver]], American actress (d. [[1960]]) | ||
| - | * 1899 - [[Heinrich Nordhoff]], German automobile engineer (d. [[1968]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Helmut Poppendick]], Nazi physician (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Maurice Abravanel]], Greek-born conductor (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Idris Davies]], Welsh poet (d. [[1953]]) | ||
| *[[1910]] - [[Wright Morris]], American writer (d. [[1998]]) | *[[1910]] - [[Wright Morris]], American writer (d. [[1998]]) | ||
| *[[1913]] - [[Edward Gierek]], Polish politician (d. [[2001]]) | *[[1913]] - [[Edward Gierek]], Polish politician (d. [[2001]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1977 - The music publisher EMI ends its contract with the notorious punk rock group the Sex Pistols after reports of abusive behaviour at Heathrow Airport, London.
Births
- 1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
- 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
- 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
- 1910 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
- 1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1914 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer (d. 1973)
- 1916 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
- 1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
- 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
- 1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
- 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
- 1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
- 1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
- 1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
- 1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel laureate
- 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
- 1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1931 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
- 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
- 1931 - Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
- 1933 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
- 1934 - Tassos Papadopoulos, president of the Republic of Cyprus
- 1935 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
- 1935 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
- 1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
- 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
- 1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
- 1937 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
- 1937 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
- 1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
- 1938 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
- 1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
- 1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
- 1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
- 1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
- 1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate
- 1945 - Allen Appel,
- 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
- 1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
- 1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
- 1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
- 1952 - Moondog Spot, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
- 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
- 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
- 1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
- 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
- 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
- 1955 - Richard Corbett, Labour Member of the European Parliament
- 1956 - Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
- 1958 - Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist, television presenter and newspaper editor
- 1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
- 1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
- 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
- 1960 - Paul Azinger, American golfer
- 1960 - Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
- 1960 - Howie Long, American football player
- 1962 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
- 1964 - Charles Haley, American football player
- 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
- 1964 - Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
- 1964 - Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler
- 1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
- 1964 - Yuri, Mexican actress and singer
- 1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
- 1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
- 1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
- 1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
- 1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
- 1968 - John Singleton, American film director
- 1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
- 1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
- 1972 - Nek, Italian singer
- 1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Nicole DeHuff. American actress (d. 2005)
- 1975 - James Farrior, American football player
- 1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
- 1975 - Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1)
- 1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
- 1976 - Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1976 - Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
- 1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
- 1978 - Casey Fossum, American baseball player
- 1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
- 1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
- 1981 - Mike Jones, American rapper
- 1981 - Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
- 1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
- 1981 - Asante Samuel, American football player
- 1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
- 1982 - Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
- 1984 - A.J. Hawk, American football player
- 1984 - Sean O'Brien, Australian Professional Windsurfer (AUS120.com)
- 1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
- 1986 - Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
- 1989 - Andy Carroll, English footballer
- 1990 - Charlie King, Classical guitarist and Actor
Deaths
- 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
- 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
- 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
- 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
- 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
- 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
- 1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1671)
- 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
- 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
- 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
- 1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
- 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
- 1734 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
- 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
- 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
- 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
- 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
- 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
- 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
- 1885 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
- 1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
- 1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
- 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
- 1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- 1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal and Huddersfield Town (b. 1878)
- 1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
- 1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
- 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
- 1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
- 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
- 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
- 1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
- 1972 - Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
- 1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
- 1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
- 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
- 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
- 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
- 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
- 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
- 1999 - Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
- 2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
- 2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
- 2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
- 2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
- 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
- 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
- 2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
- 2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
Notes
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