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| *[[1527]] – [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Germany|German]] troops sack [[Rome]]; some consider this the end of the [[Renaissance]]. 147 [[Swiss Guards]], including their commander, die fighting the forces of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] during the [[Sack of Rome]] in order to allow [[Pope]] [[Clement VII]] to escape into [[Castel Sant'Angelo]]. | *[[1527]] – [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Germany|German]] troops sack [[Rome]]; some consider this the end of the [[Renaissance]]. 147 [[Swiss Guards]], including their commander, die fighting the forces of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] during the [[Sack of Rome]] in order to allow [[Pope]] [[Clement VII]] to escape into [[Castel Sant'Angelo]]. | ||
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| *[[1966]] - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the [[Moors Murders]] in [[England]]. | *[[1966]] - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the [[Moors Murders]] in [[England]]. | ||
| * [[2002 ]] - [[Netherlands|Dutch]] politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist. | * [[2002 ]] - [[Netherlands|Dutch]] politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist. | ||
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| - | *[[1758]] - [[Maximilien Robespierre]], best-known leader of the French revolution | ||
| - | *[[1856]] - [[Sigmund Freud]], Austrian neurologist | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Carlo Mollino]], Italian architect and designer | ||
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Orson Welles]], American director, cinema's Shakespeare | ||
| - | *[[1868]] - [[Gaston Leroux]], French journalist and novelist, best known for ''The Phantom of the Opera'' | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Max Ophüls]], German born film director | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Andreas Baader]], first leader of the German [[terrorist]] organization Red Army | ||
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| - | == Deaths == | ||
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer (b. [[1862]]) | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Don Drummond]], Jamaican musician (The Skatalites) (b. [[1932]]) | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Marlene Dietrich]], German actress and singer | ||
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| *[[1880]] – [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]], German painter (d. 1938) | *[[1880]] – [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]], German painter (d. 1938) | ||
| *[[1895]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (d. 1926) | *[[1895]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (d. 1926) | ||
| - | + | *[[1902]] – [[Max Ophüls]], German-born director (d. 1957) | |
| - | *[[1897]] – [[Paul Alverdes]], German writer (d. 1979) | + | *[[1905]] – [[Carlo Mollino]], Italian architect and designer (d. 1973) |
| - | *[[1898]] – [[Konrad Henlein]], pro-Nazi Czechoslovakian politician (d. 1945) | + | |
| - | *[[1899]] – [[Billy Cotton]], British entertainer (d. 1969) | + | |
| - | *[[1902]] – [[Harry Golden]], American journalist (d. 1981) | + | |
| - | * 1902 – [[Max Ophüls]], German-born director (d. 1957) | + | |
| - | *[[1903]] – [[Toots Shor]], New York restaurateur (d. 1977) | + | |
| - | *[[1904]] – [[Raymond Bailey]], American actor (d. 1980) | + | |
| - | * 1904 – [[Moshe Feldenkrais]], Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984) | + | |
| - | * 1904 – [[Harry Martinson]], Swedish author and poet [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. 1978) | + | |
| - | *[[1906]] – [[Enrique Laguerre]], Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005) | + | |
| - | *[[1909]] – [[Loyd Sigmon]], American [[Amateur radio|amateur ("ham") radio]] broadcastor (d. 2004) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] – [[Carmen Cavallaro]], American pianist (d. 1989) | + | |
| - | * 1913 – [[Stewart Granger]], English film actor (d. 1993) | + | |
| *[[1915]] – [[Orson Welles]], American director (d. 1985) | *[[1915]] – [[Orson Welles]], American director (d. 1985) | ||
| - | * 1915 – [[Theodore White]], American writer (d. 1986) | + | *[[1920]] – [[Raymond Fernandez|Martha Beck]], American convicted murderer (d. 1951) |
| - | *[[1916]] – [[Robert H. Dicke]], American physicist (d. 1997) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] – [[Kal Mann]], American lyricist (d. 2001) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] – [[Ross Hunter]], American film producer (d. 1996) | + | |
| - | * 1920 – [[Kamisese Mara]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Fiji]] and [[President of Fiji]] (d. 2004) | + | |
| - | * 1920 – [[Raymond Fernandez|Martha Beck]], American convicted murderer (d. 1951) | + | |
| - | *[[1921]] – [[Erich Fried]], German author (d. 1988) | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] – [[Camille Laurin]], Quebec psychiatrist and politician (d. 1999) | + | |
| - | * 1922 – [[Otmar Suitner]], Austrian conductor | + | |
| - | *[[1923]] – [[Vladimir Etush]], Russian actor | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] – [[Denny Wright]], British guitarist (d. 1992) | + | |
| - | * 1924 – [[Patricia Kennedy Lawford]], American socialite (d. 2006) | + | |
| - | *[[1926]] – [[Gilles Grégoire]], Quebec politician (d. 2006) | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] – [[Robert Poujade]], French politician | + | |
| - | *[[1929]] – [[Paul Lauterbur]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. 2007) | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] – [[Willie Mays]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] – [[Richard Shelby]], American politician | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] – [[Bernard Lemaire]], French Canadian businessman | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] – [[Rubin Carter]], American boxer | + | |
| - | *[[1938]] – [[Jean Garon]], Quebec economist and politician | + | |
| - | * 1938 – [[Larry Gogan]], Irish radio personality | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] – [[Rin Kaiho]], professional [[Go (board game)|Go]] [[Go players|player]] | + | |
| *[[1943]] – [[Andreas Baader]], member of the Red Army Fraction (d. 1977) | *[[1943]] – [[Andreas Baader]], member of the Red Army Fraction (d. 1977) | ||
| - | *[[1944]] – [[Anton Furst]], American production designer (d. 1991) | + | *[[1945]] – [[Bob Seger]], American singer/songwriter |
| - | * 1944 – [[Masanori Murakami]], First Japanese baseball player in major leagues | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] – [[Jimmie Dale Gilmore]], American musician | + | |
| - | * 1945 – [[Bob Seger]], American singer/songwriter | + | |
| *[[1947]] – [[Martha Nussbaum]], American philosopher | *[[1947]] – [[Martha Nussbaum]], American philosopher | ||
| - | * 1947 – [[Alan Dale]], New Zealand actor | ||
| - | *[[1948]] – [[Mary MacGregor]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1951]] – [[Samuel Doe]], Liberian politician (d. 1990) | ||
| - | *[[1952]] – [[Christian Clavier]], French actor | ||
| - | * 1952 – [[Gregg Henry]], American actor and country musician | ||
| - | * 1952 – [[Michael O'Hare]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1953]] – [[Tony Blair]], former British prime minister | ||
| - | * 1953 – [[Lynn Whitfield]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1953 – [[Michelle Courchesne]], Quebec politician | ||
| - | * 1953 – [[Graeme Souness]], Scottish footballer/manager | ||
| - | *[[1954]] – [[Dora Bakoyannis]], Greek politician | ||
| - | *[[1955]] – [[Tom Bergeron]], American game show host | ||
| - | *[[1956]] – [[Lakis Lazopoulos]], Greek comedian and script writer | ||
| - | *[[1958]] – [[Lolita Flores]], Spanish singer and actress | ||
| - | *[[1960]] – [[Roma Downey]], Northern Irish actress | ||
| - | * 1960 – [[John Flansburgh]], American musician ([[They Might Be Giants]]) | ||
| - | * 1960 – [[Anne Parillaud]], French actress | ||
| - | * 1960 – [[Phyllis Treigle]], American soprano | ||
| *[[1961]] – [[George Clooney]], American actor | *[[1961]] – [[George Clooney]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1962]] – [[Adam Yellin]], American record producer | ||
| - | *[[1964]] – [[Dana Hill]], American actress (d. 1996) | ||
| *[[1965]] – [[Leslie Hope]], Canadian actress | *[[1965]] – [[Leslie Hope]], Canadian actress | ||
| - | *[[1968]] – [[Lætitia Sadier]], French singer ([[Stereolab]]) | ||
| - | * 1968 – [[Dave Levine]], "Sextoy Dave", American millionaire | ||
| - | *[[1969]] – [[Jim Magilton]], Northern Irish footballer | ||
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Kavan Smith]], Canadian actor | ||
| - | * 1970 – [[Roland Kun]], Nauruan politician | ||
| - | *[[1971]] – [[Chris Shiflett]], Guitarist for [[Foo Fighters]] | ||
| - | *[[1972]] – [[Martin Brodeur]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | * 1972 – [[Naoko Takahashi]], Japanese long-distance runner | ||
| - | *[[1977]] – [[Christophe Brandt]], Belgian cyclist | ||
| - | * 1977 – [[Marc Chouinard]], French Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | * 1977 – [[Mark Eaton]], American ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1978]] – [[John Abraham (football player)|John Abraham]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Fredrick Federley]], Swedish politician | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Alexander Fedorov]], Russian bodybuilder | ||
| - | *[[1979]] – [[Nikki Hayes]], Irish radio personality | ||
| - | *[[1979]] – [[Kerry Ellis]], West End actress | ||
| - | *[[1980]] – [[Scott Colton]], American professional wrestler | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Mario Stojić]], Croatian basketball player | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Ricardo Oliveira]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Taebin]], Korean singer ([[1TYM]]) | ||
| - | * 1980 – [[Kelly van der Veer]], Dutch reality TV star | ||
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Mark O'Connell (drummer)|Mark O'Connell]], American drummer ([[Taking Back Sunday]]) | ||
| - | * 1981 – [[Matthew Leone]] and [[Nathan Leone]], American musicians | ||
| - | * 1981 – [[Nicholas Setta]], American [[Canadian football]] player | ||
| - | * 1981 – [[Edyta Sliwinska]], Polish dancer | ||
| - | *[[1983]] – [[Adrianne Palicki]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1984]] – [[Anton Babchuk]], Ukrainian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1985]] – [[Chris Paul]], American basketball player | ||
| - | *[[1986]] – [[Cindy Daniel]], Quebec singer | ||
| - | * 1986 – [[Tyler Hynes]], Canadian actor | ||
| - | *[[1987]] – [[Moon Geun-young]], South Korean actress | ||
| - | *[[1989]] – [[Dominika Cibulkova]], Slovakian tennis player | ||
| - | *[[1996]] – [[Dominic Scott Kay]], American actor | ||
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| - | *[[680]] – [[Muawiyah I]], caliph (b. 602) | ||
| - | *[[1502]] – [[James Tyrrell]], alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) | ||
| - | *[[1596]] – [[Giaches de Wert]], Flemish composer (b. 1535) | ||
| - | *[[1620]] – [[Hayyim ben Joseph Vital]], Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) | ||
| - | *[[1631]] – [[Robert Bruce Cotton]], English politician | ||
| - | *[[1638]] – [[Cornelius Jansen]], French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585) | ||
| - | *[[1708]] – [[François de Laval]], first bishop of New France (b. 1623) | ||
| - | *[[1757]] – [[Maximilian Ulysses Browne|Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne]], Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) | ||
| - | * 1757 – [[Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton]], British politician (b. 1683) | ||
| - | * 1757 – [[Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin]], Prussian field marshal (b. 1684) | ||
| - | *[[1840]] – [[Francisco de Paula Santander]], [[Colombian people|Colombian]] president and independence leader (b. 1792) | ||
| *[[1859]] – [[Alexander von Humboldt]], German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769) | *[[1859]] – [[Alexander von Humboldt]], German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769) | ||
| *[[1862]] – [[Henry David Thoreau]], American author and philosopher (b. 1817) | *[[1862]] – [[Henry David Thoreau]], American author and philosopher (b. 1817) | ||
| - | *[[1877]] – [[Johan Ludvig Runeberg]], Finnish poet (b. 1804) | ||
| - | *[[1882]] – [[Thomas Henry Burke]], civil servant (b. 1829) | ||
| - | * 1882 – [[Lord Frederick Cavendish]], British politician (b. 1836) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] – [[Bret Harte]], American author (b. 1836) | ||
| *[[1910]] – King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1841) | *[[1910]] – King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1841) | ||
| - | *[[1919]] – [[L. Frank Baum]], American writer (b. 1856) | ||
| - | *[[1939]] – [[Konstantin Somov]], Russian writer (b. 1869) | ||
| *[[1949]] – [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1862) | *[[1949]] – [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1862) | ||
| - | *[[1951]] – [[Élie Cartan]], French mathematician (b. 1869) | + | *[[1969]] - [[Don Drummond]], Jamaican musician (The Skatalites) (b. [[1932]]) |
| - | *[[1952]] – [[Maria Montessori]], Italian educator (b. 1870) | + | |
| - | *[[1961]] – [[Lucian Blaga]], Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895) | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] – [[Theodore von Kármán]], Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1881) | + | |
| - | * 1963 – [[Monty Woolley]], American actor (b. 1888) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] – [[Zhou Zuoren]], Chinese writer (b. 1885) | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Aleksandr Rodzyanko]], Russian general (b. 1879) | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] – [[Deniz Gezmiş]], Turkish Left-wing Political Activist (b. 1947) | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] – [[Ernest MacMillan]], Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (b. 1893) | + | |
| - | *[[1975]] – [[József Mindszenty]], Hungarian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1892) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] – [[Kai Winding]], American trombonist and jazz composer (b. 1922) | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] – [[Bonner Pink]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician | + | |
| - | * 1984 – [[Mary Cain]], [[Mississippi]] newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] – [[Julie Vega]], Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968) | + | |
| - | *[[1987]] – [[William Casey]], American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913) | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] – [[Earl Blaik]], Former American football coach (b. 1897) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] – [[Charles Farrell]], American actor (b. 1901) | + | |
| - | *[[1991]] – [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]], English actor (b. 1903) | + | |
| *[[1992]] – [[Marlene Dietrich]], German actress (b. 1901) | *[[1992]] – [[Marlene Dietrich]], German actress (b. 1901) | ||
| - | * 1992 – [[Gaston Reiff]], Belgian athlete (b. 1921) | + | *[[2002]] – [[Pim Fortuyn]], Dutch politician (b. 1948) |
| - | * 1992 – [[Jilly Rizzo]], restaurateur (b. 1917) | + | *[[2007]] – [[Curtis Harrington]], American film director (b. 1926) |
| - | *[[1993]] – [[Ann Todd]], English actress (b. 1909) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] – [[Noel Brotherston]], Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956) | + | |
| - | * 1995 – [[Hilda Toledano]] (b. 1907) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] – [[Otis Blackwell]], American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932) | + | |
| - | * 2002 – [[Pim Fortuyn]], Dutch politician (b. 1948) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] – [[Art Houtteman]], baseball player (b. 1927) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] – [[Philip Kapleau]], American Zen teacher (b. 1912) | + | |
| - | * 2004 – [[Barney Kessel]], American jazz guitarist (b. 1923) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] – [[Lillian Asplund]], last American [[RMS Titanic]] survivor (b. 1906) | + | |
| - | * 2006 – [[Shigeru Kayano]], [[Japan]]ese [[Ainu people|Ainu]] activist (b. 1926) | + | |
| - | * 2006 – [[Grant McLennan]], co-founder of Australian band [[The Go-Betweens]] (b. 1958) | + | |
| - | * 2006 – [[Lorne Saxberg]], [[Canada|Canadian]] television journalist (b. 1958) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] – [[Enéas Carneiro]], Brazilian politician (b. 1938) | + | |
| - | * 2007 – [[Curtis Harrington]], American film director (b. 1926) | + | |
| - | * 2007 – [[Đorđe Novković]], Croatian songwriter (b. 1943) | + | |
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Events
- 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V during the Sack of Rome in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
- 1889 - Exposition Universelle, world fair opens in Paris
- 1933 - Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) destroyed by the Nazis
- 1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
- 2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist.
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Births
- 1713 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
- 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
- 1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914)
- 1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
- 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
- 1902 – Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957)
- 1905 – Carlo Mollino, Italian architect and designer (d. 1973)
- 1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
- 1920 – Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (d. 1951)
- 1943 – Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Fraction (d. 1977)
- 1945 – Bob Seger, American singer/songwriter
- 1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
- 1961 – George Clooney, American actor
- 1965 – Leslie Hope, Canadian actress
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Deaths
- 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
- 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
- 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1969 - Don Drummond, Jamaican musician (The Skatalites) (b. 1932)
- 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
- 2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
- 2007 – Curtis Harrington, American film director (b. 1926)
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