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| - | *[[1267]] - King [[James II of Aragon]] (d. [[1327]]) | ||
| - | *[[1296]] - [[John I, Count of Luxemburg]] (d. [[1346]]) | ||
| - | *[[1360]] - [[Francesco Zabarella]], Italian jurist (d. [[1417]]) | ||
| - | *[[1397]] - [[Albert II of Germany]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1439]]) | ||
| - | *[[1489]] - [[Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck]], German statesman and reformer (d. [[1553]]) | ||
| - | *[[1520]] - [[Madeleine de Valois]], wife of [[James V of Scotland]] (d. [[1537]]) | ||
| - | *[[1560]] - [[Hieronymus Praetorius]], German composer (d. [[1629]]) | ||
| - | *[[1602]] - [[Gilles de Roberval]], French mathematician (d. [[1675]]) | ||
| - | *[[1645]] - [[Eusebio Kino]], Italian Catholic missionary (d. [[1711]]) | ||
| - | *[[1737]] - [[Anton Losenko]], Russian painter (d. [[1773]]) | ||
| - | *[[1744]] - [[Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles]] (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan [[Madame de Pompadour]] (d. [[1754]]) | ||
| - | *[[1821]] - [[Jay Cooke]], American financier (d. [[1905]]) | ||
| - | *[[1823]] - [[Hugh Stowell Brown]], Manx preacher (d.[[1886]]) | ||
| - | *[[1839]] - [[Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov]], Russian physicist (d. [[1896]]) | ||
| - | *[[1845]] - [[Abai Kunanbaev]], Kazakh poet (d. [[1904]]) | ||
| - | *[[1856]] - [[William Willett]], English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1860]] - [[Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande]], Indian musician (d. [[1936]]) | ||
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Alexander Glazunov]], Russian composer (d. [[1936]]) | ||
| - | *[[1869]] - [[Laurence Binyon]], British poet (d. [[1943]]) | ||
| - | *[[1872]] - [[Bill Johnson (jazz musician)|Bill Johnson]], American musician (d. [[1972]]) | ||
| - | *[[1874]] - [[Herbert Hoover|Herbert Clark Hoover]], 31st [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | *[[1877]] - [[Frank Marshall]], American chess player (d. [[1944]]) | ||
| - | *[[1878]] - [[Alfred Döblin]], German writer (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | *[[1880]] - [[Robert L. Thornton]], American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. [[1964]]) | ||
| - | *[[1884]] - [[Panait Istrati]], Romanian writer (d. [[1935]]) | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Angus L. MacDonald]], Canadian politician (d. [[1954]]) | ||
| - | *[[1894]] - [[Varahagiri Venkata Giri]], Fourth President of India (d. [[1980]]) | ||
| - | *[[1898]] - [[Jack Haley]], American actor (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Arthur Espie Porritt]], New Zealand politician and athlete (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Norma Shearer]], Canadian actress (d. [[1983]]) | ||
| - | * 1902 - [[Curt Siodmak]], German-born author (d. [[2000]]) | ||
| - | * 1902 - [[Arne Tiselius]], Swedish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Era Bell Thompson]], American journalist (d. [[1986]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Leo Fender]], American luthier (d. [[1991]]) | ||
| - | *[[1912]] - [[Jorge Amado]], Brazilian novelist (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Wolfgang Paul]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | * 1913 - [[Noah Beery, Jr.]], American actor (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Jeff Corey]], American actor (d. [[2002]]) | ||
| - | * 1914 - [[Carlos Menditéguy]], Argentine racing driver (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| - | *[[1919]] - [[Sacha Vierny]], French cinematographer (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1923]] - [[Rhonda Fleming]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Vernon Washington]], American actor (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Jimmy Dean]], American singer | ||
| - | * 1928 - [[Gus Mercurio]], American-born Australian actor | ||
| - | * 1928 - [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Doyle Brunson]], American poker player | ||
| - | * 1933 - [[Rocky Colavito]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Anatoly Sobchak]], Russian politician | ||
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Kate O'Mara]], British actress | ||
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Bobby Hatfield]], American singer ([[Righteous Brothers]]) (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Ronnie Spector]], American singer ([[Ronettes]]) | ||
| - | * 1943 - [[Louise Forestier]], French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress | ||
| - | * 1943 - [[Jimmy Griffin]], American guitarist ([[Bread (band)|Bread]]) (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Harriet Miers]], [[White House counsel]] | ||
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Ian Anderson (singer and musician)|Ian Anderson]], Scottish musician ([[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]) | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Anwar Ibrahim]], Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Patti Austin]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Rémy Girard]], [[Québécois]] actor | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Daniel Hugh Kelly]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Fred Ottman]], American wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Rosanna Arquette]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1959 - [[Florent Vollant]], [[Innu]]-Canadian musician ([[Kashtin]]) | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Antonio Banderas]], Spanish actor | ||
| - | * 1960 - [[Todd David Hess]], First USAF Member to receive Military Medical Merit. | ||
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Jon Farriss]], Australian musician ([[INXS]]) | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Andrew Sullivan]], English-born journalist | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Claudia Christian]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1965 - [[Mike E. Smith]], American jockey | ||
| - | * 1965 - [[John Starks (basketball player)|John Starks]], American basketball player | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Hansi Kürsch]], German singer | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Riddick Bowe]], American boxer | ||
| - | * 1967 - [[Mart Sander]], Estonian singer and actor | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Michael Bivins]], American singer ([[New Edition]] & [[Bell Biv DeVoe]]) | ||
| - | * 1968 - [[Greg Hawgood]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | * 1968 - [[Peter Docter]], American film director | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Roy Keane]], Irish footballer | ||
| - | * 1971 - [[Mario César Kindelán Mesa]], Cuban boxer | ||
| - | * 1971 - [[Justin Theroux]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1971 - [[Sal Fasano]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Angie Harmon]], American model | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Christofer Johnsson]], Swedish musician | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Lisa Raymond]], American tennis player | ||
| - | * 1973 - [[Javier Zanetti]], Argentinian footballer | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[David Sommeil]], French footballer | ||
| - | * 1974 - [[Luis Marín]], Costa Rican footballer | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Michael Depoli]], American wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Danny Griffin]], Northern Irish footballer | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Aaron Kamin]], American musician ([[The Calling]]) | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Matt Morgan (comedian)|Matt Morgan]], British comedian | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Chris Read]], English cricketer | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Yannick Schroeder]], French racing driver | ||
| - | * 1979 - [[Joanna Garcia]], actress | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Kaysar Ridha]], Iraqi-American reality TV contestant | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Natsumi Abe]], Japanese singer | ||
| - | * 1981 - [[Dimitris Salpigidis]], Greek footballer | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Devon Aoki]], American supermodel and actress | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Alexander Perezhogin]], Russian ice hockey player | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Mathieu Roy]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Mark Harrison]], music critic and publisher | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Ben Sahar]], Israeli footballer | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Ko Ah-seong]], South Korean actress. | ||
| - | * 1992 - [[T-yanna Wallace]], first born child and daughter of [[The Notorious B.I.G.]] | ||
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Births
Deaths
- 612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
- 258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
- 1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
- 1633 - Anthony Munday, English writer (b. 1553)
- 1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
- 1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
- 1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
- 1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
- 1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
- 1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
- 1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
- 1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
- 1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
- 1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
- 1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
- 1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
- 1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
- 1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
- 1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
- 1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- 1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
- 1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
- 1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
- 1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
- 1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
- 1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
- 1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
- 1976 - Bert Oldfield, Australian test cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
- 1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
- 1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
- 1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
- 1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholor in India (b. 1899)
- 2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
- 2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
- 2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
Notes
- René Crevel
- Emmy Hennings
- Rodolphe Töpffer
- Adah Isaacs Menken
- Jean-François Lyotard
- James Tenney
- Fakir Musafar
- Carey Estes Kefauver
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