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Art and culture

• 1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.

Births

• 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
• 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
• 1803 - Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844)
• 1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
• 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930)
• 1859 - Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football" (d. 1925)
• 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
• 1867 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953)
• 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919)
• 1873 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
• 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966)
• 1886 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
• 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998)
• 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958)
• 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
• 1897 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972)
• 1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
• 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
• 1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
• 1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996)
• 1913 - Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1915 - Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)
• 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958)
• 1916 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1917 - R.G. Armstrong, American actor
• 1918 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
• 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer
• 1919 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992)
• 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
• 1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
• 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
• 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
• 1928 - James Garner, American actor
• 1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American film producer and director (d. 1998)
• 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007)
• 1930 - Andrew Sachs, English actor
• 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author
• 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor
• 1934 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
• 1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician
• 1935 - Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
• 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
• 1938 - Jerry Brown, American politician
• 1938 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005)
• 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter
• 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
• 1939 - Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host
• 1941 - Gorden Kaye, British actor
• 1944 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002)
• 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
• 1944 - Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 - Martin Lewis, British newsreader
• 1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
• 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef
• 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director
• 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005)
• 1947 - Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
• 1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
• 1947 - Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist
• 1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
• 1949 - John Oates, American musician (Hall & Oates)
• 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
• 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
• 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player
• 1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
• 1956 - Annika Billström, Swedish politician
• 1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor
• 1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor
• 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
• 1962 - Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist
• 1962 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber
• 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty
• 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor
• 1964 - Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian
• 1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist
• 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
• 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
• 1968 - Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer
• 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player
• 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
• 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor
• 1971 - Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater
• 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress
• 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier
• 1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model
• 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player
• 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player
• 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
• 1976 - Kevin Alejandro, American actor
• 1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
• 1977 - Guido van der Werve, Dutch artist
• 1978 - Vladimir Voltchkov, Belarusian tennis player
• 1979 - Tony Malone, British designer and activist
• 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian American professional wrestler
• 1986 - Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity
• 2007 - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, of Jordan

Deaths

• 1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)
• 1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
• 1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)
• 1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
• 1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
• 1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
• 1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
• 1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)
• 1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
• 1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (b. 1651)
• 1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
• 1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
• 1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1702)
• 1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
• 1767 - Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)
• 1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)
• 1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
• 1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
• 1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
• 1804 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (b. 1743)
• 1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
• 1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)
• 1833 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775)
• 1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
• 1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
• 1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (b. 1781)
• 1868 - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
• 1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
• 1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
• 1920 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
• 1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
• 1943 - Jovan Dučić, Serbian poet
• 1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
• 1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)
• 1950 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
• 1955 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
• 1968 - Jimmy Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1981 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
• 1981 - Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)
• 1982 - Brenda Benet, American actress (b. 1945)
• 1982 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
• 1984 - Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1924)
• 1990 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1992 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
• 1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
• 1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
• 1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
• 1997 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
• 1997 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
• 1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)
• 2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
• 2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
• 2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
• 2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
• 2005 - Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (b. 1932)
• 2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
• 2007 - Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)

Notes

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