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| *[[1897]] - [[Dennis Wheatley]], British author (d. [[1977]]) | *[[1897]] - [[Dennis Wheatley]], British author (d. [[1977]]) | ||
| *[[1931]] - [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], German-born American music promoter (d. [[1991]]) | *[[1931]] - [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], German-born American music promoter (d. [[1991]]) | ||
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Charles Osgood]], American journalist and commentator | + | *[[1933]] - [[Straub-Huillet|Jean-Marie Straub]], French film director |
| - | * 1933 - [[Straub-Huillet|Jean-Marie Straub]], French film director | + | |
| - | * 1933 - [[Ko Un]], Korean poet | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Jacques Anquetil]], French cyclist (d. [[1987]]) | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Roy Kinnear]], English actor (d. [[1988]]) | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Alexandra Ripley]], American writer (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Gene Freese]], American baseball player | + | |
| *[[1935]] - [[Elvis Presley]], American singer and guitarist (d. [[1977]]) | *[[1935]] - [[Elvis Presley]], American singer and guitarist (d. [[1977]]) | ||
| *[[1937]] - [[Shirley Bassey]], Welsh singer | *[[1937]] - [[Shirley Bassey]], Welsh singer | ||
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Bob Eubanks]], American game show host | + | *[[1941]] - [[Boris Vallejo]], Peruvian illustrator |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Graham Chapman]], British comedian (d. [[1989]]) | + | |
| - | * 1941 - [[Boris Vallejo]], Peruvian illustrator | + | |
| *[[1942]] - [[Stephen Hawking]], English theoretical physicist and author | *[[1942]] - [[Stephen Hawking]], English theoretical physicist and author | ||
| * 1942 - [[Junichiro Koizumi]], Japanese politician | * 1942 - [[Junichiro Koizumi]], Japanese politician | ||
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Art and culture
- 1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- 1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.).
Births
- 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
- 1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)
- 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
- 1931 - Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
- 1933 - Jean-Marie Straub, French film director
- 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
- 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator
- 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
- 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
- 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- 1944 - Terry Brooks, American writer
- 1945 - Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-born American radio host
- 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
- 1947 - Don Bendell, American author & karate master
- 1947 - David Bowie, English musician
- 1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swiss politician
- 1947 - Terry Sylvester, British singer and musician (The Hollies)
- 1948 - Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
- 1951 - Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician
- 1951 - John McTiernan, American film director
- 1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
- 1955 - Mike Reno, Canadian musician (Loverboy)
- 1955 - Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer
- 1958 - Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican professional wrestler
- 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Crowded House) (d. 2005)
- 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
- 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese creator of Yu-Gi-Oh
- 1962 - Chris Marion, American musician (Little River Band)
- 1965 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
- 1966 - Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1966 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
- 1967 - R. Kelly, American singer
- 1968 - Keith Mullings, American boxer
- 1969 - Ami Dolenz, American actress
- 1969 - Jeff Abercrombie, American musician (Fuel)
- 1970 - Melissa Hill, American porn actress
- 1971 - Jason Giambi, American baseball player
- 1971 - Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer
- 1973 - Mark Knight, English sound designer
- 1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
- 1973 - Jason Stevens, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1975 - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
- 1976 - Jenny Lewis, American actress and musician (Rilo Kiley)
- 1976 - Josh Meyers, American actor
- 1976 - Carl Pavano, American baseball player
- 1977 - Amber Benson, American actress
- 1977 - Lee Yoo-jin, Korean actress
- 1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
- 1978 - Boris Avrukh, Israeli chess grandmaster
- 1979 - Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
- 1979 - Sarah Polley, Canadian actress
- 1979 - Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer
- 1980 - Rachel Nichols, American actress
- 1981 - Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
- 1982 - Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer
- 1982 - Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
- 1982 - John Utaka, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 - wiL Francis, American singer
- 1983 - Chris Mordetzky, American professional wrestler
- 1984 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
- 1985 - Rachael Lampa, American singer
- 1986 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003)
- 1986 - David Silva, Spanish footballer
- 1988 - Adam T. Siska, American Musician, (The Academy Is...)
- 1990 - Maci Wainwright, American singer
- 1991 - Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer
- 1995 - Hannah Robinson, American actress
- 2000 - Noah Cyrus, American actress, daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus
Deaths
- 482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum
- 1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
- 1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
- 1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
- 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
- 1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
- 1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
- 1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
- 1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
- 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
- 1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
- 1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
- 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
- 1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
- 1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
- 1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
- 1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
- 1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
- 1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
- 1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
- 1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
- 1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
- 1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
- 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
- 1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
- 1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
- 1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
- 1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
- 1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
- 1935 - Jesse Garon Presley, stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley
- 1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
- 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
- 1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
- 1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
- 1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
- 1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
- 1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
- 1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
- 1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
- 1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
- 1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
- 1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
- 1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
- 1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
- 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
- 1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
- 1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
- 1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
- 1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
- 1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
- 1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
- 1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
- 1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
- 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
- 1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
- 1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
- 1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
- 1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
- 2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
- 2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
- 2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
- 2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
- 2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
- 2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
- 2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
- 2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
- 2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
- 2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
Notes
Paul Verlaine Kurt Schwitters Elvis Presley Gilbert and George The Phantom of the Opera José Bénazéraf Lawrence Alma-Tadema Nicolas Schöffer Frank Nelson Doubleday Shirley Bassey Paul Scheerbart Bill Graham (promoter) Boris Vallejo David Bowie Galileo Galilei Dennis Wheatley Straub-Huillet Wilkie Collins
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