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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-* [[1926]]: premier of ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]'', silent film with [[Vitaphone|fully synchronized score]]+* [[1926]] - premier of ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]'', silent film with [[Vitaphone|fully synchronized score]]
-*[[1984]] - [[Pop music|Pop]] star [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] releases ''[[Purple Rain (album)|Purple Rain]]'', the album which would launch him to superstardom.+*[[1966]] - [[The War Game]] was scheduled for transmission in the United Kingdom but canceled at the last minute and not transmitted until 1985.
 +*[[1984]] - American musician [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] releases ''[[Purple Rain (album)|Purple Rain]]'', the album which would launch him to superstardom.
*[[1991]] - [[Tim Berners-Lee]] releases files describing his idea for the [[World Wide Web]]. *[[1991]] - [[Tim Berners-Lee]] releases files describing his idea for the [[World Wide Web]].
==Births== ==Births==
-*[[1180]] - [[Emperor Go-Toba]] of Japan (d. [[1239]]) 
-*[[1504]] - [[Matthew Parker]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1575]]) 
-*[[1619]] - [[Barbara Strozzi]], Italian singer and composer (d. [[1677]]) 
-*[[1638]] - [[Nicolas Malebranche]], French philosopher (d. [[1715]]) 
-*[[1644]] - [[Louise de la Vallière]], French mistress of [[Louis XIV of France]] (d. [[1710]]) 
-*[[1656]] - [[Claude de Forbin]], French naval commander (d. [[1733]]) 
-*[[1697]] - [[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1745]]) 
-*[[1715]] - [[Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues]], French writer (d. [[1747]]) 
-*[[1766]] - [[William Hyde Wollaston]], English chemist (d. [[1828]]) 
-*[[1768]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Bessières]], French marshal (d. [[1813]]) 
-*[[1775]] - [[Daniel O'Connell]], Irish politician (d. [[1847]]) 
-*[[1809]] - [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]], English poet (d. [[1892]]) 
-*[[1844]] - [[James Henry Greathead]], British engineer (d. [[1896]]) 
-* 1844 - [[Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (d. [[1900]]) 
-*[[1861]] - [[Edith Roosevelt]], American [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1948]]) 
-*[[1868]] - [[Paul Claudel]], French poet (d. [[1955]]) 
-*[[1874]] - [[Charles Fort]], American writer and researcher (d. [[1932]]) 
-*[[1877]] - [[Wallace H. White, Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1952]]) 
-*[[1880]] - [[Hans Moser (actor)|Hans Moser]], Austrian actor (d. [[1964]]) 
-*[[1881]] - [[Leo Carrillo]], American actor (d. [[1961]]) 
-* 1881 - [[Alexander Fleming]], Scottish scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1955]]) 
-* 1881 - [[Louella Parsons]], American gossip columnist (d. [[1972]]) 
-*[[1887]] - [[Dudley Benjafield]], British racing driver (d. [[1957]]) 
-*[[1888]] - [[Heinrich Schlusnus]], German baritone (d. [[1952]]) 
-*[[1889]] - [[John Middleton Murry]], English poet (d. [[1957]]) 
-* 1889 - [[George Kenney]], American Air Force General (d. [[1977]]) 
-*[[1891]] - [[William Slim]], British general (d. [[1970]]) 
-*[[1892]] - [[Hoot Gibson]], American actor (d. [[1962]]) 
-*[[1893]] - [[Wright Patman]], American politician (d. [[1976]]) 
-*[[1900]] - [[Cecil H. Green]], American geophysicist (d. [[2003]]) 
-*[[1902]] - [[Dutch Schultz]], American bootlegger (d. [[1935]]) 
-*[[1904]] - [[Henry Iba]], American basketball coach (d. [[1993]]) 
-*[[1906]] - [[Vic Dickenson]], American trombonist (d. [[1984]]) 
-*[[1908]] - [[Helen Jacobs]], American tennis player (d. [[1997]]) 
-* 1908 - [[Will Lee]], American actor (d. [[1982]]) 
-*[[1911]] - [[Lucille Ball]], American actress (d. [[1989]]) 
-*[[1914]] - [[Arthur Charles Dobson]], British racing driver (d. [[1980]]) 
-*[[1916]] - [[Richard Hofstadter]], American historian (d. [[1970]]) 
-* 1916 - [[Dom Mintoff]], Maltese [[Prime Minister]] 
-*[[1917]] - [[Robert Mitchum]], American actor (d. [[1997]]) 
-*[[1918]] - [[Norman Granz]], American record producer (d. [[2001]]) 
-*[[1920]] - [[Ella Raines]], American actress (d. [[1988]]) 
-*[[1922]] - Sir [[Freddie Laker]], English entrepreneur (d. [[2006]]) 
-*[[1923]] - [[Jess Collins]], American artist (d. [[2004]]) 
-*[[1926]] - [[Clem Labine]], American baseball player (d. [[2007]]) 
-*[[1926]] - [[Norman Wexler]], American screenwriter (d. [[1999]]) 
*[[1928]] - [[Andy Warhol]], American artist (d. [[1987]]) *[[1928]] - [[Andy Warhol]], American artist (d. [[1987]])
-* 1928 - [[Herb Moford]], American baseball player (d. [[2005]])+*[[1931]] - [[Umberto Lenzi]], [[Italy|Italian]] [[film director]]
-*[[1930]] - [[Abbey Lincoln]], American jazz singer+
-*[[1932]] - [[Howard Hodgkin]], British painter+
-*[[1934]] - [[Piers Anthony]], English writer+
-*[[1937]] - [[Barbara Windsor]], English actress+
*[[1938]] - [[Paul Bartel]], American actor (d. [[2000]]) *[[1938]] - [[Paul Bartel]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
-* 1938 - [[Peter Bonerz]], American actor+*[[1926]] - [[Harrison Marks]], British glamour photographer (d. [[1997]])
-*[[1940]] - [[Mukhu Aliyev]], [[Dagestan]]ian politician+*[[1969]] - [[Elliott Smith]], American musician (b. [[2003]])
-*[[1941]] - [[Lyle Berman]], American poker player+
-* 1941 - [[Ray Culp]], American baseball player+
-*[[1942]] - [[George Jung]], American convicted drug felon+
-*[[1943]] - [[Jon Postel]], American computer scientist (d. [[1998]])+
-*[[1945]] - [[Andy Messersmith]], American baseball player+
-* 1945 - [[Ron Jones (television director)|Ron Jones]], British TV director (d. [[1995]])+
-*[[1946]] - [[Allan Holdsworth]], British musician+
-* 1946 - [[Roh Moo-hyun]], [[South Korea]]n politician+
-* 1946 - [[Masaaki Sakai]], Japanese comedian+
-*[[1948]] - [[Dino Bravo]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[1993]])+
-*[[1949]] - [[Alan Campbell (pastor)|Alan Campbell]], Northern Irish clergyman+
-* 1949 - [[Clarence Richard Silva]], Catholic Bishop of [[Honolulu]]+
-*[[1950]] - [[Dorian Harewood]], American actor+
-*[[1951]] - [[Daryl Somers]], Australian television personality+
-* 1951 - [[Catherine Hicks]], American actress+
-*[[1952]] - [[Vinnie Vincent]], American musician (ex-[[Kiss (band)|Kiss]])+
-*[[1954]] - [[Paul Steigerwald]], American sports announcer+
-*[[1957]] - [[Jim McGreevey]], American politician+
-* 1957 - [[Bob Horner]], American baseball player+
-*[[1962]] - [[Michelle Yeoh]], Chinese-Malaysian actress+
-*[[1963]] - [[Kevin Mitnick]], American computer hacker+
-*[[1964]] - [[Moosie Drier]], American actor and director+
-*[[1965]] - [[Yuki Kajiura]], Japanese composer+
-* 1965 - [[David Robinson (basketball)|David Robinson]], American basketball player+
-*[[1967]] - [[Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko)]]+
-* 1967 - [[Mike Greenberg]], American sportscaster+
-*[[1969]] - [[Elliott Smith]], American musician (d. [[2003]])+
-*[[1970]] - [[M. Night Shyamalan]], Indian-born American film director+
-*[[1972]] - [[Geri Halliwell]], British singer+
-*[[1973]] - [[Stuart O'Grady]], Australian cyclist+
-* 1973 - [[Max Kellerman]], American sportscaster+
-*[[1974]] - [[Luis Vizcaino]], Dominican baseball player+
-*[[1975]] - [[Victor Zambrano]], Venezuelan baseball player+
-*[[1976]] - [[Melissa George]], Australian actress+
-* 1976 - [[Soleil Moon Frye]], American actress+
-*[[1977]] - [[Jimmy Nielsen]], Danish footballer+
-* 1977 - [[Leandro Amaral]], Brazilian footballer+
-*[[1978]] - [[Marisa Miller]], American supermodel+
-*[[1982]] - [[Karl Davies]], British actor+
-* 1982 - [[Adrianne Curry]], American model+
-* 1982 - [[Ryan Sypek]], American actor+
-*[[1983]] - [[Robin van Persie]], Dutch footballer+
-*[[1986]] - [[Bryan Young (ice hockey)|Bryan Young]], Canadian ice hockey player+
-*[[1990]] - [[JonBenét Ramsey]], American murder victim (d. [[1996]])+
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==Deaths== ==Deaths==
-* [[258]] - Saint [[Pope Sixtus II]] 
-* [[523]] - Saint [[Pope Hormisdas]] 
-*[[1162]] - [[Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona]] 
-*[[1195]] - [[Henry the Lion]], Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. [[1129]]) 
-*[[1221]] - [[Saint Dominic]], Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. [[1170]]) 
-*[[1272]] - King [[Stephen V of Hungary]] 
-*[[1414]] - King [[Ladislas of Naples]] (b. [[1377]]) 
-*[[1458]] - [[Pope Callixtus III]] (b. [[1378]]) 
-*[[1623]] - [[Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)]] (b. [[1556]]) 
-*[[1628]] - [[Johannes Junius]], Mayor of Bamberg (b. [[1573]]) 
-*[[1637]] - [[Ben Jonson]], English writer (b. [[1572]]) 
-*[[1645]] - [[Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex]], English merchant (b. [[1575]]) 
-*[[1657]] - [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]], Polish-Lithuanian noble 
*[[1660]] - [[Diego Velázquez]], Spanish painter (b. [[1599]]) *[[1660]] - [[Diego Velázquez]], Spanish painter (b. [[1599]])
-*[[1679]] - [[John Snell]], English royalist (b. [[1629]]) 
-*[[1694]] - [[Antoine Arnauld]], French philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1612]]) 
-*[[1695]] - [[François de Harlay de Champvallon]], French Catholic archbishop (b. [[1625]]) 
-*[[1753]] - [[Georg Wilhelm Richmann]], Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. [[1711]]) 
-*[[1759]] - [[Eugene Aram]], English [[philologist]] (b. [[1704]]) 
-*[[1794]] - [[Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst]], British politician (b. [[1714]]) 
-*[[1815]] - [[James A. Bayard (elder)]], [[United States Congressional Delegations from Delaware|United States Senator from Delaware]] (b. [[1767]]) 
-*[[1828]] - [[Konstantin von Benckendorff]], Russian general and statesman 
-*[[1850]] - [[Edward Walsh]], Irish poet (b. [[1805]]) 
-*[[1866]] - [[John Mason Neale]], English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. [[1818]]) 
-*[[1881]] - [[James White]], co-founder of the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] (b. [[1821]]) 
-*[[1884]] - [[Robert Spear Hudson (soap)|Robert Spear Hudson]], English businessman (b. [[1812]]) 
-*[[1893]] - [[Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel]], member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. [[1811]]) 
-*[[1904]] - [[Eduard Hanslick]], Austrian music critic (b. [[1825]]) 
-*[[1914]] - [[Ellen Louise Wilson]], [[First Lady of the United States|first wife of President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] (b. [[1860]]) 
-*[[1920]] - [[Stefan Bastyr]], Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. [[1890]]) 
-*[[1931]] - [[Bix Beiderbecke]], American musician (b. [[1903]]) 
-*[[1945]] - [[Wu, Prince of Korea|Prince Wu of Korea]] (b. [[1912]]) 
-* 1945 - [[Richard Bong]], America's all time [[Ace of Aces]] (b. [[1920]]) 
-* 1945 - [[Hiram Johnson]], American politician (b. [[1866]]) 
-*[[1946]] - [[Tony Lazzeri]], American baseball player (b. [[1903]]) 
-*[[1959]] - [[Preston Sturges]], American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. [[1898]]) 
-*[[1964]] - Sir [[Cedric Hardwicke]], English actor (b. [[1893]]) 
-*[[1966]] - [[Cordwainer Smith]], American writer (b. [[1913]]) 
*[[1969]] - [[Theodor Adorno]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1903]]) *[[1969]] - [[Theodor Adorno]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1903]])
-*[[1973]] - [[Fulgencio Batista]], [[List of Presidents of Cuba|Cuban president]] and [[de facto]] leader (b. [[1901]]) 
-*[[1973]] - [[Memphis Minnie]], American blues singer (b. [[1897]]) 
-*[[1974]] - [[Gene Ammons]], American jazz saxophonist (b. [[1925]]) 
-*[[1976]] - [[Gregor Piatigorsky]], Russian cellist (b. [[1903]]) 
-*[[1978]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] (b. [[1897]]) 
-*[[1979]] - [[Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen]], German biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1911]]) 
*[[1983]] - [[Klaus Nomi]], German singer (b. [[1944]]) *[[1983]] - [[Klaus Nomi]], German singer (b. [[1944]])
-*[[1985]] - [[Forbes Burnham]], [[President of Guyana]] (b. [[1923]]) 
-*[[1986]] - [[Emilio Fernández]], Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. [[1904]]) 
-*[[1987]] - [[Ira Eaker]], American Air Force leader (b. [[1896]]) 
-* 1987 - [[Quinn Martin]], American television producer (b. [[1922]]) 
-*[[1990]] - [[Jacques Soustelle]], French anthropologist (b. [[1912]]) 
-*[[1991]] - [[Harry Reasoner]], American reporter (b. [[1923]]) 
-*[[1993]] - [[Tex Hughson]], American baseball player (b. [[1916]]) 
-*[[1994]] - [[Domenico Modugno]], Italian singer and songwriter (b. [[1928]]) 
-*[[1998]] - [[Andre Weil]], French mathematician (b. [[1906]]) 
-*[[2001]] - [[Jorge Amado|Jorge Amado de Faria]], Brazilian writer (b. [[1912]]) 
-* 2001 - [[Dorothy Tutin]], English actress (b. [[1930]]) 
-*[[2002]] - [[Edsger Dijkstra]], Dutch computer scientist (b. [[1930]])  
-*[[2004]] - [[Rick James]], American musician (b. [[1948]]) 
-*[[2005]] - [[Keter Betts]], American jazz bassist (b. [[1928]]) 
-* 2005 - [[Robin Cook]], British politician (b. [[1946]]) 
-* 2005 - [[Ibrahim Ferrer]], Cuban musician ([[Buena Vista Social Club]]) (b. [[1927]]) 
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-== Notes == 
-*[[Theodor Adorno]] 
-*[[Andy Warhol]] 
-*[[Paul Bartel]] 
-*[[Klaus Nomi]] 
-*[[The War Game]] 
-*[[Harrison Marks]] 
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