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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
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 +* [[51]] - [[Nero]], later to become [[Roman Emperor]], is given the title [[princeps iuventutis]] (head of the youth).
 +*[[303]] or [[304]] - [[Martyrdom]] of [[Saint]] [[Adrian of Nicomedia]].
 +* [[852]] - Croatian [[Duke]] [[Trpimir I of Croatia|Trpimir I]] issued a [[statute]], a document with the first known written mention of the [[Croats]] name in Croatian sources.
 +* [[932]] - Translation of the [[relics]] of [[martyr]] [[Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia]], Prince of the [[Czechs]].
 +*[[1152]] - [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick I Barbarossa]] is elected [[Germanic king|King]] of the [[Germany|Germans]].
 +*[[1215]] - King [[John of England]] makes an [[oath]] to the [[Pope]] as a [[The Crusades|crusader]] to gain the support of [[Innocent III]].
 +*[[1238]] - The [[Battle of the Sit River]] was fought in the northern part of the present-day [[Yaroslavl Oblast]] of [[Russia]] between the [[Mongol]] Hordes of [[Batu Khan]] and the Russians under [[Yuri II]] of [[Vladimir-Suzdal]] during the [[Mongol invasion]] of [[Russia]].
 +*[[1275]] - [[China|Chinese]] [[astronomers]] observe a [[total eclipse]] of the [[sun]].
 +*[[1351]] - [[Ramathibodi]] becomes King of [[Siam]].
 +*[[1386]] - [[Władysław II Jagiełło]] (Jogaila) was crowned [[King of Poland]].
 +*[[1461]] - [[Wars of the Roses]] in [[Kingdom of England|England]]: [[House of Lancaster|Lancastrian]] [[British monarchy|King]] [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] is deposed by his [[House of York|Yorkist]] cousin, who then becomes King [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]].
 +*[[1492]] - King [[James IV of Scotland]] concludes an [[Military alliance|alliance]] with [[France]] against [[England]].
 +*[[1493]] - Explorer [[Christopher Columbus]] arrives back in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]] aboard his ship [[Niña]] from his discovery voyage to [[the USA|America]]. He returned to [[Spain]] on [[March 15]].
 +*[[1519]] - [[Hernan Cortes]] arrives in [[Mexico]] in search of the [[Aztec]] civilization and their wealth.
 +*[[1570]] - King [[Philip II of Spain]] bans foreign [[Netherlands|Dutch]] students.
 +*[[1611]] - [[George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury|George Abbot]] is appointed [[Archbishop of Canterbury]].
 +*[[1621]] - [[Jakarta]], [[Java (island)|Java]] is renamed [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]].
 +*[[1629]] - [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]], which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a [[Royal charter]].
 +*[[1634]] - Samuel Cole opens the first [[tavern]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
 +*[[1665]] - [[England|English]] King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] declares war on [[The Netherlands]] which marked the start of the [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]].
 +*[[1675]] - [[John Flamsteed]] appointed first [[Astronomer Royal]] of [[England]].
 +*[[1681]] - [[Charles II of England]] grants a land charter to [[William Penn]] for the area that will later become [[Pennsylvania]].
 +*[[1774]] - First sighting of [[Orion Nebula]] by [[William Herschel]].
 +*[[1776]] - The American [[American Revolutionary War|War of Independence]]: The Americans capture "[[Dorchester Heights]]" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
 +*[[1778]] - The [[Continental Congress]] voted to [[ratify]] both the [[Treaty of Amity and Commerce (USA-France)|Treaty of Amity and Commerce]] and the [[Treaty of Alliance]] with [[France]]. The two treaties were the first entered into by the [[United States]] government.
 +*[[1789]] - In [[New York, New York|New York City]], the first [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] meets and declares the new [[United States Constitution|Constitution of the United States]] is in effect.
 +*[[1790]] - [[France]] is divided into 83 ''[[département in France|département]]s'', which cut across the [[provinces of France|former provinces]] in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
 +*[[1791]] - [[Vermont]] is admitted as the 14th [[U.S. state]].
 +* 1791 - A [[Constitutional Act of 1791|Constitutional Act]] is introduced by the [[British House of Commons]] in [[London]] which envisages the separation of [[Canada]] into [[Lower Canada]] ([[Quebec]]) and [[Upper Canada]] ([[Ontario]]).
 +*[[1793]] - [[France|French]] troops conquer [[Geertruidenberg]], [[Netherlands]].
 +*[[1794]] - The [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution|11th Amendment]] to the [[U.S. Constitution]] was passed by the [[U.S. Congress]].
 +*[[1797]] - In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, [[John Adams]] is sworn in as [[President of the United States]], succeeding [[George Washington]].
 +*[[1804]] - The [[Castle Hill convict rebellion|Battle of Vinegar Hill]], colony of [[New South Wales]] ([[Australia]]), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s [[Battle of Vinegar Hill]] in [[1798]]) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising. [http://www.hawkesburyhistory.org.au/articles/Battle_of_Vinegar.html]
 +*[[1813]] - [[Russia]]n troops fighting the army of [[Napoleon]] reach [[Berlin]] in [[Germany]] and the [[France|French]] garrison [[evacuate]] the city without a fight.
 +*[[1814]] - [[United States|Americans]] defeat the [[Armed Forces of the United Kingdom|British]] at the [[Battle of Longwoods]] between [[London]] and Thamesville near present-day [[Wardsville]], [[Ontario]].
 +*[[1824]] - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the [[United Kingdom]], later to be renamed The [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]] in [[1858]].
 +*[[1837]] - [[Chicago]] becomes incorporated as a city.
 +*[[1848]] - [[Charles Albert of Savoy|Carlo Alberto di Savoia]] signs the ''[[Statuto Albertino]]'' that will later represent the first [[constitution]] of the ''[[Italy|Regno d'Italia]]''
 +*[[1861]] - First national flag of the [[Confederate States of America]] (the 'Stars and Bars') adopted.
 +*[[1865]] - Third (and last) national flag of the [[Confederate States of America]] adopted.
 +*[[1877]] - [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s [[ballet]] ''[[Swan Lake]]'' premiers at the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] in [[Moscow]].
 +*[[1882]] - [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]]'s first electric trams run in [[East London, England|East London]].
 +*[[1887]] - [[Gottlieb Daimler]] unveils his first [[automobile]] which he test runs in [[Esslingen]] and [[Cannstatt]], [[Germany]].
 +*[[1890]] - The longest bridge in the [[United Kingdom]], the [[Forth Bridge (railway)]] (1,710 ft) in [[Scotland]] is opened by the [[Prince of Wales]], who later became King [[Edward VII of England|Edward VII]]. [http://archive.scotsman.com/article.cfm?id=TSC/1890/03/04/Ar00401]
 +*[[1893]] - [[Congo Free State]]: The army of [[Francis, Baron Dhanis]] attacks the [[Lualaba]], enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper [[Congo River|Congo]] and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
 +*[[1894]] - Great fire in [[Shanghai]]. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
 +*[[1899]] - [[Cyclone Mahina]] sweeps in north of [[Cooktown]], [[Queensland]], with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
 +*[[1902]] - In [[Chicago]], the [[American Automobile Association]] is established.
 +*[[1904]] - [[Russo-Japanese War]]: [[Russia]]n troops in [[Korea]] retreat toward [[Manchuria]] followed by 100,000 [[Japan]]ese troops.
 +*[[1908]] - The [[Collinwood School Fire]], [[Collinwood]] near [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], kills 174 people.
 +*[[1911]] - [[Victor Berger]] (Wisconsin) becomes the first [[socialist]] [[congressman]] in [[United States|U.S.]].
 +*[[1917]] - [[Jeannette Rankin]] of [[Montana]] becomes the first female member of the [[United States House of Representatives]].
 +* 1917 - [[Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia]]'s renunciation of the [[throne]] is made public, and Tsar [[Nicholas II]] of [[Russia]] publicly issues his [[abdication]] [[manifesto]]. The victory of the February Revolution.
 +*[[1925]] - [[Calvin Coolidge]] becomes the first [[President of the United States]] to have his [[inauguration]] broadcast on radio.
 +*[[1929]] - [[Charles Curtis]] becomes the first [[Native Americans in the United States|native-American]] [[Vice President]].
 +*[[1930]] - Terrible floods ransack [[Languedoc]] and the surrounds in south-west [[France]], resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
 +*[[1931]] - The British [[Viceroy]] of [[India]], [[Governor-General]] [[Edward Frederick Lindley Wood]] and [[Mohandas Gandhi]] ([[Mahatma Gandhi]]) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
 +*[[1933]] - [[Frances Perkins]] becomes [[United States Secretary of Labor]], first female member of the [[United States Cabinet]].
 +* 1933 - [[Bertha Wilson]] is appointed as first woman to sit on the [[Supreme Court of Canada]].
 +* 1933 - The [[Parliament of Austria]] is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellor]] [[Engelbert Dollfuss]] initiates [[authoritarian]] rule by decree (see [[Austrofascism]]).
 +*[[1941]] - The [[United Kingdom]] launches [[Operation Claymore]] on the [[Lofoten Islands]], during [[World War II]].
 +* 1941 - [[Adolf Hitler]] applies pressure on [[Yugoslavia]] to join the [[Tripartite Pact]].
 +*[[1944]] - First [[United States|U.S.]] daylight bombing of [[Berlin]] and Anti-[[Germany]] strikes in northern [[Italy]].
 +*[[1945]] - In the [[United Kingdom]], [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Princess Elizabeth]], later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the [[British Army]] as a driver.
 +* 1945 - [[Lapland War]]: [[Finland]] declares war on [[Nazi Germany]].
 +*[[1954]] - [[Peter Bent Brigham Hospital]] in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful [[kidney]] [[transplant]].
 +*[[1957]] - The [[S&P 500]] [[stock market index]] is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
 +*[[1959]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[Pioneer 4]] misses [[Moon]] and becomes the second ([[United States|U.S.]] first) artificial planet.
 +*[[1960]] - [[France|French]] freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]] killing 100. [[Fidel Castro]] blames the [[U.S.]]
 +*[[1962]] - [[United States Atomic Energy Commission]] announces that the first atomic power plant at [[McMurdo Station]] in [[Antarctica]] is in operation.
 +* 1966 - [[Canadian Pacific Air Lines]] [[DC-8]]-43 explodes on landing at [[Tokyo International Airport]], killing 64 people.
 +*[[1970]] - [[France|French]] submarine ''Eurydice'' explodes.
 +*[[1972]] - [[Libya]] and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a cooperation treaty.
 +*[[1976]] - The [[Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention]] is formally dissolved in [[Northern Ireland]] resulting in [[direct rule]] of [[Northern Ireland]] from [[London]] via the [[British parliament]].
 +*[[1977]] - The [[1977 Bucharest Earthquake]] in southern and eastern [[Europe]] kills more than 1,500.
 +* 1977 - The first [[Cray-1]] [[supercomputer]] is shipped to the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], [[New Mexico]].
 +*[[1979]] - The first [[encyclical]] written by [[Pope John Paul II]], [[Redemptor Hominis]] ([[Latin]] for "The Redeemer of Man") is [[promulgate]]d less than five months after his installation as [[pope]].
 +*[[1980]] - [[Nationalist]] leader [[Robert Mugabe]] wins a sweeping election victory to become [[Zimbabwe]]'s first black [[prime minister]].
 +*[[1982]] - [[NASA]] launches "Intelsat V".
 +*[[1985]] - The [[Food and Drug Administration]] approves a [[blood test]] for [[AIDS]], used since then for screening all [[blood donation]]s in the [[United States]].
 +*[[1991]] - [[Sheikh]] [[Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah]], the [[Prime Minister of Kuwait]], returned to his country for the first time since [[Iraq]]'s invasion.
 +*[[1994]] - [[Space shuttle]] [[STS-62]] ([[Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']] 16) launches into orbit.
 +* 1994 - [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]]'s [[Croats]] and [[Moslems]] sign an agreement to form a [[federation]] in a loose economic union with [[Croatia]].
 +*[[1997]] - US President [[Bill Clinton]] bans federally funded [[human cloning]] research.
 +*[[1998]] - [[LGBT rights in the United States|Gay rights]]: ''[[Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that federal laws banning on-the-job [[sexual harassment]] also apply when both parties are the same sex.
 +*[[2001]] - [[4 March 2001 BBC bombing]]: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the [[BBC Television Centre]] in [[London]], seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the [[Real IRA]].
 +* 2001 - [[Hintze Ribeiro disaster]], a bridge collapses in northern [[Portugal]], killing up to 70 people.
 +*[[2002]] - [[Canada]] bans human [[embryo]] [[cloning]] but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from [[fertility]] treatment or [[abortions]].
 +* 2002 - [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Multinational Force in Afghanistan]]: Seven American [[Special Operations Forces]] soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the [[Shahi Kot Valley]] on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
 +*[[2005]] - The car of released [[Italy|Italian]] hostage [[Giuliana Sgrena]] is fired on by [[Military of the United States|US soldiers]] in [[Iraq]], causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
 +* 2005 - [[United Nations]] warns that about 90 million [[Africans]] could be infected by the [[HIV virus]] in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
 +*[[2006]] - Final contact attempt with [[Pioneer 10]] by the [[Deep Space Network]]. No response was received.
 +*[[2007]] - [[Estonian parliamentary election, 2007]]: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of [[electronic voting in Estonia]], the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote [[electronic voting]] via the [[Internet]].
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==Births== ==Births==
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 +*[[1188]] - [[Blanche of Castile]], wife of [[Louis VIII of France]] (d. [[1252]])
 +*[[1394]] - [[Henry the Navigator]] (d. [[1460]])
 +*[[1492]] - [[Francesco de Layolle]], Italian composer (d. c.[[1540]])
 +*[[1525]] - [[Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina]], Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. [[1594]])
 +*[[1610]] - [[William Dobson]], English portraitist and painter (d. [[1646]])
 +*[[1651]] - [[John Somers, 1st Baron Somers]] (d. [[1716]])
 +*[[1665]] - [[Philip Christoph von Königsmarck]], Swedish soldier (d. [[1694]])
 +*[[1678]] - [[Antonio Vivaldi]], Italian composer (d. [[1741]])
 +*[[1702]] - [[Jack Sheppard]], English burglar and escapee (d. [[1724]])
 +*[[1706]] - [[Lauritz de Thurah]], Danish architect and architectural writer (d. [[1759]])
 +*[[1715]] - [[James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave]], British statesman (d. [[1763]])
 +*[[1719]] - [[George Pigot, Baron Pigot]], British governor of Madras (d. [[1777]])
 +*[[1745]] - [[Charles Dibdin]], English composer (d.[[1814]])
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 +*[[1746]] - [[Kazimierz Pułaski]], American Revolutionary War general (d. [[1779]])
 +*[[1756]] - [[Sir Henry Raeburn]], Scottish painter (d. [[1823]])
 +*[[1781]] - [[Rebecca Gratz]], American educator and philanthropist (d. [[1869]])
 +*[[1782]] - [[Johann Rudolf Wyss]], Swiss folklorist (d. [[1830]])
 +*[[1792]] - [[Samuel Slocum]], American inventor (d. [[1861]])
 +*[[1793]] - [[Karl Lachmann]], German philologist (d. [[1851]])
 +*[[1817]] - [[Edwards Pierrepont]], American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th [[United States Attorney General]] (d. [[1892]])
 +*[[1819]] - [[Charles Oberthur]], German-born harpist (d. [[1895]])
 +*[[1822]] - [[Jules Antoine Lissajous]], French mathematician (d. [[1880]])
 +*[[1826]] - [[John Buford]], American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. [[1863]])
 +* 1826 - [[Theodore Judah]], American railroad engineer (d. [[1863]])
 +*[[1835]] - [[John Hughlings Jackson]], English neurologist (d. [[1911]])
 +*[[1847]] - [[Karl Bayer]], Austrian chemist (d. [[1904]])
 +*[[1854]] - Sir [[Napier Shaw]], British meteorologist (d. [[1945]])
 +*[[1856]] - [[Toru Dutt]], English and French poet and author (d. [[1877]])
 +* 1856 - [[Alfred William Rich]], English painter (d. [[1921]])
 +*[[1859]] - [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov]], Russian physicist (d. [[1905]])
 +*[[1862]] - [[Jacob Robert Emden]], Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. [[1940]])
 +*[[1863]] - [[Reginald Innes Pocock]], British zoologist (d. [[1947]])
 +*[[1863]] - [[Guilląme Furrét]], Portuguese playwright and political activist (d. [[1937]])
 +* 1863 - [[John Henry Wigmore]], American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. [[1943]])
 +*[[1864]] - [[David W. Taylor]], U.S. Navy architect (d. [[1940]])
 +*[[1870]] - [[Thomas Sturge Moore]], English poet (d. [[1944]])
 +*[[1871]] - [[Boris Galerkin]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1945]])
 +*[[1873]] - [[Guy Wetmore Carryl]], American humorist and poet (d. [[1904]])
 +* 1873 - [[John H. Trumbull]], 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. [[1961]])
 +*[[1875]] - [[Mihály Károlyi]], former [[Prime Minister of Hungary]] and [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[1955]])
 +*[[1876]] - [[Léon-Paul Fargue]], French poet (d. [[1947]])
 +* 1876 - [[Theodore Hardeen]], Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. [[1945]])
 +*[[1877]] - [[Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike]], Russian composer (d. [[1957]])
 +* 1877 - [[Fritz Graebner]], German ethnologist (d. [[1934]])
 +* 1877 - [[Garrett Morgan]], American inventor (d. [[1963]])
 +*[[1878]] - [[Egbert Van Alstyne]], American songwriter and pianist (d. [[1951]])
 +* 1878 - [[Peter D. Ouspensky]], Russian philosopher (d. [[1947]])
 +* 1878 - [[Arishima Takeo]], Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. [[1923]])
 +*[[1879]] - [[Josip Murn Aleksandrov]], Slovenian poet (d. [[1901]])
 +*[[1880]] - [[Channing Pollock (writer)|Channing Pollock]], American playwright and critic (d. [[1946]])
 +*[[1881]] - [[Todor Aleksandrov]], 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. [[1924]])
 +* 1881 - [[Maude Fealy]], American actor (d. [[1971]])
 +* 1881 - [[Thomas Sigismund Stribling]], American writer (d. [[1965]])
 +* 1881 - [[Richard C. Tolman]], American mathematical physicist (d. [[1948]])
 +*[[1882]] - [[Nicolae Titulescu]], Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. [[1941]])
 +*[[1883]] - [[Sam Langford]], Canadian boxer (d. [[1956]])
 +*[[1884]] - [[Red Murray]], American professional baseball player (d. [[1958]])
 +*[[1886]] - [[Paul Bazelaire]], French cellist (d. [[1958]])
 +*[[1887]] - [[Violet MacMillan]], American Broadway theatre actress (d. [[1953]])
 +*[[1888]] - [[Jeff Pfeffer]], American professional baseball pitcher (d. [[1972]])
 +* 1888 - [[Knute Rockne]], American football player and coach (d. [[1931]])
 +*[[1889]] - [[Oscar Chisini]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1967]])
 +* 1889 - [[Oren E. Long]], 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. [[1965]])
 +* 1889 - [[Pearl White]], American actress (d. [[1938]])
 +*[[1891]] - [[Dazzy Vance]], American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. [[1961]])
 +* 1891 - [[Lois Wilson (activist)|Lois Wilson]], founder of [[Al-Anon]] (d. [[1988]])
 +*[[1895]] - [[Bjarne Brustad]], Norwegian violinist (d. [[1978]])
 +* 1895 - [[Milt Gross]], American comic book illustrator (d. [[1953]])
 +* 1895 - [[Shemp Howard]], American comedian ([[Three Stooges]]) (d. [[1955]])
 +*[[1897]] - [[Lefty O'Doul]], American baseball player (d. [[1969]])
 +*[[1898]] - [[Georges Dumézil]], French philologist (d. [[1940]])
 +*[[1899]] - [[Emilio Prados]], Spanish poet and editor (d. [[1962]])
 +*[[1900]] - [[Herbert Biberman]], American screenwriter (d. [[1971]])
 +*[[1901]] - [[Charles Goren]], American bridge player and writer (d. [[1991]])
 +* 1901 - [[Jean Joseph Rabearivelo]], Malagasy/French poet (d. [[1937]])
 +*[[1903]] - [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], Spanish statesman (d. [[1973]])
 +* 1903 - [[William C. Boyd]], American immunochemist (d. [[1983]])
 +* 1903 - [[Dorothy Mackaill]], British-born actress (d. [[1990]])
 +* 1903 - [[John Scarne]], American magician (d. [[1985]])
 +*[[1904]] - [[George Gamow]], Ukrainian-born physicist (d. [[1968]])
 +* 1904 - [[Joseph Schmidt]] Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. [[1942]])
 +* 1904 - [[Chief Tahachee (actor)|Chief Tahachee]], American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. [[1978]])
 +*[[1906]] - [[Meindert DeJong]] American author (d. [[1991]])
 +* 1906 - [[Georges Ronsse]], Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. [[1969]])
 +* 1906 - [[Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.]], American businessman (d. [[2007]])
 +*[[1907]] - [[Eleanor "Sis" Daley]], wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (d. [[2003]])
 +*[[1908]] - [[T.R.M. Howard]], American civil rights leader (d. [[1976]])
 +*[[1909]] - [[Harry Helmsley]], American real estate entrepreneur (d.[[1997]])
 +*[[1912]] - [[Afro Basaldella]], Italian painter (d. [[1976]])
 +* 1912 - [[Judith Furse]], British character actress (d. [[1974]])
 +* 1912 - [[Carl Marzani]], American documentarian (d. [[1994]])
 +*[[1913]] - [[Taos Amrouche]], Algerian writer and singer (d. [[1976]])
 +* 1913 - [[John Garfield]], American actor (d. [[1952]])
 +* 1913 - [[Willie Johnson (guitarist)]], American guitarist (d. [[1995]])
 +*[[1914]] - [[Gino Colaussi]] (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. [[1991]])
 +* 1914 - [[Ward Kimball]], American cartoonist (d. [[2002]])
 +* 1914 - [[Robert R. Wilson]], American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. [[2000]])
 +*[[1915]] - [[Carlos Surinach]], Spanish composer (d. [[1997]])
 +*[[1916]] - [[William Alland]], American actor, producer, writer and director (d. [[1997]])
 +* 1916 - [[Giorgio Bassani]], Italian writer (d. [[2000]])
 +* 1916 - [[Hans Eysenck]], German-born psychologist (d. [[1997]])
 +*[[1917]] - [[Clyde McCullough]], American baseball player (d. [[1982]])
 +*[[1918]] - [[Margaret Osborne duPont]], American tennis player
 +*[[1919]] - [[Buck Baker]], American racecar driver (d. [[2002]])
 +*[[1920]] - [[Jean Lecanuet]], French politician (d. [[1993]])
 +* 1920 - [[Alan MacNaughtan]], Scottish actor (d. [[2002]])
 +*[[1921]] - [[Halim El-Dabh]], Egyptian-born composer
 +* 1921 - [[Joan Greenwood]], English actress (d. [[1987]])
 +* 1921 - [[Wilson Harris]], Guyanese writer
 +* 1921 - [[Dinny Pails]], Australian tennis player
 +*[[1922]] - [[Richard E. Cunha]], American cinematographer and film director (d. [[2005]])
 +* 1922 - [[Martha O'Driscoll]], American film actress (d. [[1998]])
 +* 1922 - [[Dina Pathak]] (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. [[2002]])
 +*[[1923]] - [[Sir Patrick Moore]], British astronomer
 +*[[1924]] - [[Kenneth O'Donnell]], aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. [[1977]])
 +*[[1925]] - [[Paul Mauriat]], French musician (d. [[2006]])
 +*[[1926]] - [[Richard DeVos]], American billionaire, co-founder of [[Amway]]
 +* 1926 - [[James J. Eagan]], Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. [[2000]])
 +* 1926 - [[Pascual Pérez (boxing)]], Argentine flyweight boxer (d. [[1977]])
 +* 1926 - [[Don Rendell]], English jazz musician and arranger
 +* 1926 - [[Fran Warren]], American singer
 +*[[1927]] - [[Philip Batt]], 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
 +* 1927 - [[Thayer David]], American actor (d. [[1978]])
 +* 1927 - [[Robert Orben]], American magician
 +* 1927 - [[Dick Savitt]], American tennis player
 +* 1927 - [[Cy Touff]], American jazz musician (d. [[2003]])
 +*[[1928]] - [[Samuel Adler (composer)|Samuel Adler]], American composer
 +* 1928 - [[Alan Sillitoe]], English writer
 +*[[1929]] - [[Bernard Haitink]], Dutch conductor
 +* 1929 - [[Josep Mestres Quadreny]], Catalan composer
 +*[[1931]] - [[Wally Bruner]], American journalist and television host (d. [[1997]])
 +* 1931 - [[Bob Johnson (ice hockey)|Bob Johnson]], American ice hockey coach (d. [[1991]])
 +* 1931 - [[William Henry Keeler]], American Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
 +* 1931 - [[Alice Rivlin]], American economist
 +*[[1932]] - [[Ryszard Kapuściński]], Polish journalist (d. [[2007]])
 +* 1932 - [[Miriam Makeba]], South African singer
 +* 1932 - [[Ed Roth|Ed "Big Daddy" Roth]], American car designer (d. [[2001]])
 +* 1932 - [[Frank Wells]], American entertainment businessman (d. [[1994]])
 +*[[1933]] - [[Ann Burton]], Dutch jazz singer (d. [[1989]])
 +* 1933 - [[John W Mills]], British sculptor
 +* 1933 - [[Nino Vaccarella]], former Italian sports car racing and [[Formula One]] driver
 +*[[1934]] - [[Mario Davidovsky]], Argentinian composer
 +* 1934 - [[John Duffey]], American bluegrass musician (d. [[1996]])
 +* 1934 - [[Anne Haney]], American actress (d. [[2001]])
 +* 1934 - [[Barbara McNair]], American singer and actress (d. [[2007]])
 +* 1934 - [[Janez Strnad]], Slovenian physicist
 +* 1934 - [[Gleb Yakunin]], Russian priest and dissident
 +*[[1935]] - [[Bent Larsen]], Danish chess player
 +* 1935 - [[Nancy Whiskey]], Scottish folk singer (d. [[2003]])
 +*[[1936]] - [[Jim Clark]], [[OBE]], Scottish racing driver and two-time [[F1]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|world champion]] (d. [[1968]])
 +* 1936 - [[Aribert Reimann]], German composer
 +*[[1937]] - [[Graham Dowling]], New Zealand cricketer
 +* 1937 - [[Leslie Gelb]], American foreign policy advisor
 +* 1937 - [[Yuri Senkevich]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2003]])
 +* 1937 - [[Barney Wilen]], French jazz saxophonist (d. [[1996]])
 +*[[1938]] - [[Angus MacLise]], American percussionist (d. [[1979]])
 +* 1938 - [[Don Perkins]], American football player
 +* 1938 - [[Paula Prentiss]], American actress
 +* 1938 - [[Adam Daniel Rotfeld]], Polish diplomat and researcher
 +*[[1939]] - [[Jack Fisher]], American baseball player
 +* 1939 - [[Carlos Vereza]], Brazilian actor
 +*[[1940]] - [[Volodymyr Morozov]], Ukrainian flatwater canoer
 +*[[1941]] - [[John Aprea]], American actor
 +* 1941 - [[Adrian Lyne]], English film director
 +* 1941 - [[Bobby Shew]], American jazz musician
 +*[[1942]] - [[Gloria Gaither]], American gospel songwriter
 +* 1942 - [[Charles C. Krulak]], 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
 +* 1942 - [[David Matthews (keyboardist)|David Matthews]], American keyboardist, pianist, and arranger
 +*[[1943]] - [[Lucio Dalla]], Italian singer and songwriter
 +* 1943 - [[Zoltan Jeney]], Hungarian composer
 +*[[1944]] - [[Ulrich Roski]], German singer-songwriter (d. [[2003]])
 +* 1944 - [[Harvey Postlethwaite]], English engineer and race car designer (d. [[1999]])
 +* 1944 - [[Bobby Womack]], American singer
 +*[[1945]] - [[Tara Browne]], British socialite (d. [[1966]])
 +* 1945 - [[Dieter Meier]], Swiss singer
 +* 1945 - [[Tommy Svensson]], Swedish football manager
 +* 1945 - [[Gary Williams]], American basketball coach
 +*[[1946]] - [[Michael Ashcroft]], English entrepreneur
 +* 1946 - [[Haile Gerima]], Ethiopian filmmaker
 +* 1946 - [[Harvey Goldsmith]], British impresario
 +*[[1947]] - [[David Franzoni]], American screenwriter
 +* 1947 - [[Jan Garbarek]], Norwegian musician
 +* 1947 - [[Gunnar Hansen]], Icelandic actor
 +* 1947 - [[Gwen Welles]], American actress (d. [[1993]])
 +*[[1948]] - [[Lindy Chamberlain]], Australian author
 +* 1948 - [[James Ellroy]], American writer
 +* 1948 - [[Tom Grieve]], American baseball player
 +* 1948 - [[Leron Lee]], American baseball player
 +* 1948 - [[Jean O'Leary]], American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician (d. [[2005]])
 +* 1948 - [[Chris Squire]], English bassist ([[Yes (band)|Yes]])
 +* 1948 - [[Shakin' Stevens]], Welsh singer
 +*[[1949]] - [[Carroll Baker (singer)|Carroll Baker]], Canadian country singer and songwriter
 +*[[1950]] - [[Ofelia Medina]], Mexican actress and screenwriter
 +* 1950 - [[Rick Perry]], [[Governor of Texas]]
 +*[[1951]] - [[Edelgard Bulmahn]], German politician
 +* 1951 - [[Kenny Dalglish]], Scottish footballer and manager
 +* 1951 - [[Theresa Hak Kyung Cha]], American novelist (d. [[1982]])
 +* 1951 - [[Sam Perlozzo]], American Major League Baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
 +* 1951 - [[Mike Quarry]], American light heavyweight boxer (d. [[2006]])
 +* 1951 - [[Chris Rea]], English singer
 +* 1951 - [[Linda Yamamoto]], Japanese singer
 +*[[1952]] - [[Ronn Moss]], American actor
 +* 1952 - [[Umberto Tozzi]], Italian singer
 +*[[1953]] - [[Emilio Estefan]], Cuban percussionist
 +* 1953 - [[Scott Hicks]], Ugandan-born film director
 +* 1953 - [[Paweł Janas]], Polish football manager and former footballer
 +* 1953 - [[Kay Lenz]], American actress
 +* 1953 - [[Chris Smith (US politician)|Chris Smith]], American politician
 +*[[1954]] - [[Mark Chorvinsky]], American author and editor (d. [[2005]])
 +* 1954 - [[François Fillon]], French politician, Prime Minister of France
 +* 1954 - [[Peter Jacobsen]], American professional golfer
 +* 1954 - [[Catherine O'Hara]], Canadian actress
 +* 1954 - [[Irina Ratushinskaya]], Russian writer and dissident
 +* 1954 - [[Willie Thorne]], English snooker player
 +* 1954 - [[Adrian Zmed]], American actor
 +*[[1955]] - [[Rowland Charles Gould]] (Boon Gould) English musician ([[Level 42]])
 +* 1955 - [[Dominique Pinon]], French actor
 +* 1955 - [[James Weaver (racing driver)|James Weaver]], English race car driver
 +*[[1956]] - [[Kermit Driscoll]], American jazz bassist
 +*[[1957]] - [[Jim Dwyer]], American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
 +* 1957 - [[Rick Mast]], American NASCAR driver
 +*[[1958]] - [[Patricia Heaton]], American actress
 +* 1958 - [[Lennie Lee]], British artist
 +*[[1959]] - [[Rick Ardon]], Australian news presenter
 +*[[1960]] - [[Mikko Kuustonen]], Finnish singer and songwriter
 +* 1960 - [[John Mugabi]], Ugandan boxer
 +* 1960 - [[Christina Sussiek]], former German athlete
 +* 1960 - [[Mykelti Williamson]], American actor
 +*[[1961]] - [[Sabine Everts]], former German track athlete
 +* 1961 - [[Ray Mancini]], American boxer
 +* 1961 - [[Steven Weber (actor)|Steven Weber]], American actor
 +* 1961 - [[Roger Wessels]], South African golfer
 +*[[1962]] - [[Simon Bisley]], British comic book artist
 +* 1962 - [[Lolo Ferrari]], French actress (d. [[2000]])
 +* 1962 - [[Greg Kragen]], American footballer
 +* 1962 - [[David Sparrow]], English actor
 +*[[1963]] - [[Barbara Bubula]], Polish politician
 +* 1963 - [[Janey Lee Grace]], English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
 +* 1963 - [[Jason Newsted]], American bassist ([[Metallica]])
 +* 1963 - [[Daniel Roebuck]], American actor
 +*[[1964]] - [[Tom Lampkin]], American baseball player
 +*[[1965]] - [[Paul W. S. Anderson]], English filmmaker
 +* 1965 - [[Andrew Collins (broadcaster)|Andrew Collins]], English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster
 +* 1965 - [[Stacy Edwards]], American actress
 +* 1965 - [[Gary Helms]], American country singer
 +* 1965 - [[Khaled Hosseini]], Afghan author and physician
 +* 1965 - [[WestBam]] (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
 +* 1965 - [[Yuri Lonchakov]], Russian cosmonaut
 +* 1965 - [[Jonathan Shearer]], Scottish castaway
 +*[[1966]] - [[Daniela Amavia]], Greek-American actress and international model
 +* 1966 - [[Steve Bastoni]], Italian Australian actor
 +* 1966 - [[Emese Hunyady]], Hungarian speed skater
 +* 1966 - [[Kevin Johnson]], American basketball player
 +* 1966 - [[Dav Pilkey]], American author
 +* 1966 - [[Grand Puba]], American rapper
 +* 1966 - [[Wash West]], English gay porn film director
 +*[[1967]] - [[Daryll Cullinan]], South African cricketer
 +* 1967 - [[Evan Dando]], American musician ([[The Lemonheads]])
 +* 1967 - [[Andrew Osmond]], English writer
 +* 1967 - [[Kubilay Türkyılmaz]], former Turkish-Swiss footballer
 +*[[1968]] - [[Giovanni Carrara]], Venezuelan baseball player
 +* 1968 - [[Patsy Kensit]], English actress
 +* 1968 - [[Kyriakos Mitsotakis]], Greek politician
 +*[[1969]] - [[Chastity Bono]], American actress and gay rights activist
 +* 1969 - [[Pierluigi Casiraghi]], Italian football manager
 +* 1969 - [[Annie Shizuka Inoh]], Taiwanese actress
 +* 1969 - [[Stina Nordenstam]], Swedish experimental pop singer, songwriter and musician
 +* 1969 - [[Patrick Roach]], Canadian actor
 +* 1969 - [[Jason Townsend]], American artist and record producer
 +*[[1970]] - [[Andrea Bendewald]], American actress
 +* 1970 - [[Àlex Crivillé]], Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
 +*[[1971]] - [[Iain Baird]], Canadian soccer player
 +* 1971 - [[Fergal Lawler]], Irish drummer ([[The Cranberries]])
 +* 1971 - [[Satoshi Motoyama]], Japanese racing driver
 +* 1971 - [[Shavar Ross]], American actor-turned film director, writer, film producer and editor
 +* 1971 - [[Nick Stabile]], American actor
 +* 1971 - [[Jovan Stanković]], Serbian footballer
 +*[[1972]] - [[Pae Gil-Su]], North Korean gymnast
 +* 1972 - [[Ivy Queen]], American composer and singer
 +* 1972 - [[Robert Smith (football)|Robert Smith]], American footballer
 +* 1972 - [[Jos Verstappen]], Dutch Formula One driver
 +* 1972 - [[Alison Wheeler]], British singer ([[The Beautiful South]])
 +*[[1973]] - [[Summer Cummings]], American actress
 +* 1973 - [[Phillip Daniels]], American footballer
 +* 1973 - [[Len Wiseman]], American director
 +*[[1974]] - [[ICS Vortex]] (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist ([[Arcturus (band)|Arcturus]])
 +* 1974 - [[Karol Kučera]], Slovak tennis player
 +* 1974 - [[Ariel Ortega]], Argentine footballer
 +* 1974 - [[Tommy Phelps]], American baseball player
 +*[[1975]] - [[Kirsten Bolm]], German hurdler
 +* 1975 - [[Patrick Femerling]], German-born professional basketball player
 +* 1975 - [[Kim Jung-Eun]], South Korean actress
 +* 1975 - [[Myrna Veenstra]], Dutch field hockey player
 +* 1975 - [[Antti Aalto]], Finnish ice hockey player
 +* 1975 - [[Hawksley Workman]], Canadian rock singer-songwriter
 +*[[1976]] - [[Hiram Bocachica]], Puerto Rican baseball player
 +* 1976 - [[Sean Covel]], American film producer
 +* 1976 - [[Scott Sturgeon]] (Stza Crack), American musician ([[Choking Victim]] and [[Leftover Crack]])
 +* 1976 - [[Thierry Renaer]], Belgian field hockey player
 +* 1976 - [[Vic Wunderle]], American archer
 +*[[1977]] - [[Ana Gabriela Guevara]], Mexican athlete
 +* 1977 - [[Juha Helppi]], Finnish professional poker player
 +* 1977 - [[Daniel Klewer]], German footballer
 +* 1977 - [[Jason Marsalis]], American musician
 +*[[1978]] - [[Nate Ackerman]], British-American logician and wrestler
 +* 1978 - [[Pierre Dagenais]], Canadian ice hockey player
 +* 1978 - [[Denis Dallan]], Italian rugby union footballer
 +* 1978 - [[Rachel Roberts (model)|Rachel Roberts]], Canadian model and actress
 +* 1978 - [[Philip Marston]], Model and sexual deviant, well hung.
 +*[[1979]] - [[Ben Fouhy]], New Zealand flatwater canoeist
 +* 1979 - [[Geoff Huegill]], Australian swimmer
 +* 1979 - [[John Lawler (musician)|John Lawler]] (John Fratelli), Scottish singer ([[The Fratellis]])
 +*[[1980]] - [[Omar Bravo]], Mexican footballer
 +* 1980 - [[Jung Da Bin]], South Korean actress (d. [[2007]])
 +* 1980 - [[Jack Hannahan]], American baseball player
 +* 1980 - [[Arash Markazi]], American sportswriter
 +*[[1981]] - [[Carol Banawa]], Filipina singer and celebrity
 +* 1981 - [[Donny Tourette]], English punk rock singer ([[Towers of London]])
 +*[[1982]] - [[Mariano Altuna]], Argentine racing driver
 +* 1982 - [[Landon Donovan]], American soccer player
 +* 1982 - [[Charity Rahmer]], American actress
 +*[[1983]] - [[Max Vergara Poeti]], Colombian writer
 +* 1983 - [[Ryan Lonie]], Australian football player.
 +*[[1984]] - [[Ai Iwamura]], Japanese actress
 +* 1984 - [[Zak Whitbread]], American-born English soccer player
 +*[[1985]] - [[Chinedum Ndukwe]], American football player
 +*[[1986]] - [[Margo Harshman]], American actress
 +* 1986 - [[Tom De Mul]], Belgian footballer
 +* 1986 - [[Bohdan Shust]], Ukrainian footballer
 +*[[1990]] - [[Andrea Bowen]], American actress
 +*[[1991]] - [[Diandra Newlin]], American actress, singer, and fashion model
 +*[[1992]] - [[Jazmin Grace Grimaldi]], daughter of [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]]
 +*[[1993]] - [[Jenna Boyd]], American actress
 +* 1993 - [[Alice Jones]], British actress
 +* 1993 - [[Abigail Mavity]], American actress
 +* 1993 - [[Yves Michel-Beneche]], American actor
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 +If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order.
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==Deaths== ==Deaths==
 +* [[251]] - [[Pope Lucius I]]
 +* [[480]] - [[Landry of Sées|Saint Landry]], [[bishop of Sées]]
 +* [[561]] - [[Pope Pelagius I]]
 +*[[1172]] - [[Stephen III of Hungary]] (b. [[1147]])
 +*[[1193]] - [[Saladin]], Kurdish sultan (b. [[1137]])
 +*[[1238]] - [[Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland]], wife of [[Alexander II of Scotland|Alexander II]] (b. [[1210]])
 +* 1238 - [[Yuri II]], [[Grand Prince]] of [[Vladimir]] (b. [[1189]])
 +*[[1303]] - [[Daniel of Moscow]], Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. [[1261]])
 +*[[1484]] - [[Saint Casimir]], Prince of Poland (b. [[1458]])
 +*[[1496]] - [[Sigismund of Austria]] (b. [[1427]])
 +*[[1583]] - [[Bernard Gilpin]], English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. [[1517]])
 +*[[1604]] - [[Fausto Paolo Sozzini]], Italian theologian (b. [[1539]])
 +*[[1615]] - [[Hans von Aachen]], German painter (b. [[1552]])
 +*[[1619]] - [[Anne of Denmark]], wife of [[James I of England|James I]] (b. [[1574]])
 +*[[1710]] - [[Louis III, Prince of Condé]] (b. [[1668]])
 +*[[1733]] - [[Claude de Forbin]], French naval commander (b. [[1656]])
 +*[[1744]] - [[John Anstis]], [[Garter King of Arms]] (b. [[1669]])
 +*[[1762]] - [[Johannes Zick]], German fresco painter (b. [[1702]])
 +*[[1793]] - [[Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre|Louis de Bourbon]], French admiral (b. [[1725]])
 +*[[1795]] - [[John Collins (delegate)|John Collins]], American politician (b. [[1717]])
 +*[[1805]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Greuze]], French painter (b. [[1725]])
 +*[[1807]] - [[Abraham Baldwin]], American politician (b. [[1754]])
 +*[[1821]] - [[Princess Elizabeth of Clarence]], daughter of King [[William IV of the United Kingdom|William IV]], granddaughter of King [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] (b. [[1820]])
 +*[[1832]] - [[Jean-François Champollion]], French scholar (b. [[1790]])
 +*[[1851]] - [[James Richardson (explorer of the Sahara)|James Richardson]], British explorer (b. [[1809]])
 +*[[1852]] - [[Nikolai Gogol]], Russian writer (b. [[1809]])
 +*[[1853]] - [[Christian Leopold von Buch]], German geologist (b. [[1774]])
 +*[[1858]] - [[Matthew Perry (naval officer)|Matthew Perry]], U.S. naval officer (b. [[1794]])
 +*[[1864]] - [[Thomas Starr King]], influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. [[1824]])
 +*[[1866]] - [[Alexander Campbell (Restoration movement)|Alexander Campbell]], Irish founder of the [[Disciples of Christ]] (b. [[1788]])
 +*[[1868]] - [[Jesse Chisholm]], American pioneer of the [[Chisholm Trail]] (b. [[1805]])
 +*[[1872]] - [[Johannes Carsten Hauch]], Danish poet (b. [[1790]])
 +*[[1883]] - [[Alexander Hamilton Stephens]], former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. [[1812]])
 +*[[1888]] - [[Amos Bronson Alcott]], American philosopher (b. [[1799]])
 +*[[1903]] - [[Joseph Henry Shorthouse]], English novelist (b. [[1834]])
 +*[[1906]] - [[John McAllister Schofield]], former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. [[1831]])
 +*[[1910]] - [[Knut Ångström]], Swedish physicist (b. [[1857]])
 +*[[1915]] - [[William Willett]], inventor of [[Daylight Saving Time]] (b. [[1856]])
 +*[[1916]] - [[Franz Marc]], German artist (b. [[1880]])
 +*[[1922]] - [[Bert Williams]], American entertainer (b. [[1874]])
 +*[[1925]] - [[Moritz Moszkowski]], Polish/German composer (b. [[1854]])
 +* 1925 - [[James Ward (psychologist)|James Ward]], English psychologist and philosopher (b. [[1843]])
 +* 1925 - [[John Montgomery Ward]], American baseball player (b. [[1860]])
 +*[[1927]] - [[Ira Remsen]] American chemist (b. [[1846]])
 +*[[1938]] - [[George Foster Peabody]], American politician (b. [[1852]])
 +* 1938 - [[Jack Taylor (20th century baseball player)|Jack Taylor]], American baseball player (b. [[1874]])
 +*[[1940]] - [[Hamlin Garland]], American novelist (b. [[1860]])
 +*[[1941]] - [[Ludwig Quidde]], German pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1858]])
 +*[[1944]] - [[Louis Buchalter]], Jewish American mobster (b.[[1897]]) (executed)
 +* 1944 - [[Louis Capone]], New York organized crime figure (b. [[1896]]) (executed)
 +* 1944 - [[Emanuel Weiss]], American hitman (b. [[1906]]) (executed)
 +* 1944 - [[Fannie Barrier Williams]], American educator and political activist (b. [[1855]])
 +*[[1945]] - [[Lucille La Verne]], American actress (d. [[1972]])
 +* 1945 - [[Mark Sandrich]], American film director, writer and producer (b. [[1900]])
 +*[[1946]] - [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke]], Danish big-game hunter (b. [[1886]])
 +*[[1948]] - [[Antonin Artaud]], French actor/director (b. [[1896]])
 +*[[1950]] - [[Adam Rainer]], the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. [[1899]])
 +*[[1952]] - [[Charles Scott Sherrington]], English scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1857]])
 +*[[1954]] - [[Noel Gay]], English composer, (b. [[1898]])
 +*[[1959]] - [[Maxey Long]], American athlete (b. [[1878]])
 +*[[1960]] - [[Herbert O'Conor]], 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. [[1896]])
 +* 1960 - [[Leonard Warren]], American baritone (b. [[1911]])
 +*[[1962]] - [[George Mogridge]], Major League Baseball pitcher (b. [[1889]])
 +*[[1963]] - [[William Carlos Williams]], American poet (b. [[1883]])
 +*[[1967]] - [[Vladan Desnica]], Croatian and Serbian writer (b. [[1905]])
 +* 1967 - [[José Martínez Ruiz]], Spanish poet and writer (b. [[1873]])
 +* 1967 - [[Michel Plancherel]], Swiss mathematician (b. [[1885]])
 +*[[1969]] - [[Nicholas Schenck]], Russian-born film empresario (b. [[1881]])
 +*[[1973]] - [[Samuel Tolansky]], British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. [[1907]])
 +*[[1974]] - [[Adolph Gottlieb]], American painter (b. [[1903]])
 +*[[1976]] - [[Walter H. Schottky]], German physicist (b. [[1886]])
 +*[[1977]] - [[Andrés Caicedo]], Colombian writer (b. [[1951]])
 +* 1977 - [[Toma Caragiu]], Romanian actor (b. [[1925]])
 +* 1977 - [[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk]], German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. [[1887]])
 +*[[1978]] - [[Wesley Bolin]], former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. [[1909]])
 +*[[1979]] - [[Willi Unsoeld]], American mountain climber (b. [[1926]])
 +*[[1981]] - [[Yip Harburg]], American lyricist (b. [[1896]])
 +* 1981 - [[Torin Thatcher]], Indian actor (b. [[1905]])
 +*[[1984]] - [[Ernest Buckler]], Canadian novelist (b. [[1908]])
 +* 1984 - [[Jewel Carmen]], American actress (b. [[1897]])
 +* 1984 - [[Geoffrey Lumsden]], British actor (b. [[1914]])
 +*[[1986]] - [[Howard Greenfield]], American songwriter (b. [[1936]])
 +* 1986 - [[Richard Manuel]], Canadian musician ([[The Band]]) (b. [[1943]])
 +*[[1989]] - [[Tiny Grimes]], American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. [[1916]])
 +*[[1990]] - [[Hank Gathers]], American basketball player (b. [[1967]])
 +*[[1992]] - [[Art Babbitt]], American animator (b. [[1907]])
 +*[[1993]] - [[Art Hodes]], American jazz pianist (b. [[1904]])
 +*[[1994]] - [[John Candy]], Canadian comedian (b. [[1950]])
 +*[[1995]] - [[Eden Ahbez]], American composer (b. [[1908]])
 +*[[1996]] - [[Minnie Pearl]], American comedian (b. [[1912]])
 +*[[1997]] - [[Robert H. Dicke]], American physicist (b. [[1916]])
 +* 1997 - [[Carey Loftin]], American actor/stuntman (b. [[1914]])
 +*[[1999]] - [[Harry Blackmun]], Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. [[1908]])
 +* 1999 - [[Del Close]], American actor (b. [[1934]])
 +* 1999 - [[Karel van het Reve]], Dutch writer (b. [[1921]])
 +*[[2001]] - [[Glenn Hughes (American singer)|Glenn Hughes]], American singer ([[The Village People]]) (b. [[1950]])
 +* 2001 - [[Fred Lasswell]], American cartoonist (b. [[1916]])
 +* 2001 - [[Jim Rhodes]], Governor of Ohio (b. [[1909]])
 +* 2001 - [[Harold Stassen]], American politician (b. [[1907]])
 +*[[2002]] - [[Claire Davenport]], English actress (b. [[1933]])
 +* 2002 - [[Eric Flynn]], British actor/singer (b. [[1939]])
 +* 2002 - [[Elyne Mitchell]], Australian author (b. [[1913]])
 +* 2002 - [[Velibor Vasović]], Yugoslavian footballer (b. [[1939]])
 +*[[2003]] - [[Jaba Ioseliani]], Georgian bank robber (b. [[1926]])
 +* 2003 - [[Sébastien Japrisot]], French author, screenwriter and film director (b. [[1931]])
 +*[[2004]] - [[John McGeoch]], Scottish musician (b. [[1955]])
 +* 2004 - [[Claude Nougaro]], French singer (b. [[1929]])
 +* 2004 - [[George Pake]], American physicist (b. [[1924]])
 +* 2004 - [[Stephen Sprouse]], American fashion designer (b. [[1953]])
 +*[[2005]] - [[Nicola Calipari]], Italian secret service agent (b. [[1953]])
 +* 2005 - [[Robert Consoli]], American actor and musician (b. [[1964]])
 +* 2005 - [[Una Hale]], Australian soprano (b. [[1922]])
 +* 2005 - [[Yuriy Kravchenko]], Ukrainian statesman (b. [[1951]])
 +* 2005 - [[Carlos Sherman]], Uruguayan-born writer (b. [[1934]])
 +*[[2006]] - [[Roman Ogaza]], Polish footballer (b. [[1952]])
 +* 2006 - [[John Reynolds Gardiner]], American engineer (b. [[1944]])
 +* 2006 - [[Dave Rose]], American artist (b. [[1910]])
 +* 2006 - [[Edgar Valter]], Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. [[1929]])
 +*[[2007]] - [[Natalie Bodanya]] (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. [[1908]])
 +* 2007 - [[Thomas Eagleton]], American politician (b. [[1929]])
 +* 2007 - [[Bob Hattoy]], American activist (b. [[1950]])
 +* 2007 - [[Richard Joseph]], British games soundtrack composer (b. [[1954]])
 +* 2007 - [[Sunil Kumar Mahato]], Indian parliamentarian (b. [[1966]])
 +* 2007 - [[Tadeusz Nalepa]], Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. [[1934]])
 +* 2007 - [[Ian Wooldridge]], British sports journalist (b. [[1932]]
==Notes== ==Notes==
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