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Events

• 1869 - Folies Bergère, French cabaret, opens as the Folies Trévise
• 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Births

• 1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
• 1772 - Novalis, German Romanticist philosopher, poet and novelist
• 1859 - Jerome K. Jerome, English writer, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat
• 1873 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, and translator

Deaths

• 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance artist and scientist

• 1857 - Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist, an important figure in the French Romantic literary movement.

Births

• 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
• 1729 – Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (d. 1796)
• 1772 – Novalis, German writer (d. 1801)
• 1810 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)

• 1828 – Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (d. 1915)
• 1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-born Inventor (d. 1929)
• 1859 – Jerome Klapka Jerome, English writer (d. 1927)
• 1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist (d. 1904)
• 1865 – Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909)
• 1873 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1944)
• 1879 – James F. Byrnes, American statesman, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1972)
• 1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
• 1885 – Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (d. 1966)
• 1886 – Gottfried Benn, German author (d. 1956)
• 1887 – Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
• 1887 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player (d. 1951)
• 1890 – E. E. Smith, American writer (d. 1965)
• 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German World War I pilot – the Red Baron (d. 1918)
• 1895 – Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (d. 1943)
• 1896 – Helen of Greece and Denmark, queen of Romania (d. 1982)
• 1897 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
• 1903 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Bing Crosby, American actor and singer (d. 1977)
• 1906 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Aileen Riggin, American swimmer (d. 2002)
• 1907 – Pinky Lee, American vaudeville performer (d. 1993)
• 1910 – Alexander Bonnyman, U.S. Marine (d. 1943)
• 1912 – Axel Cäsar Springer, German publisher (d. 1985)
• 1913 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Peggy Mount, English actress (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder
• 1920 – Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian writer and ecological activist (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian director (d. 1992)
• 1922 – A.M. Rosenthal, Canadian-born newspaper editor (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Serge Reggiani, Italian-born French singer and actor (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-born actor and singer
• 1924 – Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1925 – John Neville, English theatre and film actor
• 1926 – Gérard D. Lévesque, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Ray Barrett, Australian actor
• 1929 – Link Wray, American guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
• 1932 – Maury Allen, American sportswriter
• 1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
• 1935 – Lance LeGault, American actor
• 1935 – Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, Indian-born singer
• 1936 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (d. 1972)
• 1937 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1938 – Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
• 1939 – Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
• 1941 – Clay Carroll, American baseball player
• 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian International Olympic Committee president
• 1945 – Sarah Weddington, American attorney
• 1945 – Gene Deckerhoff, American sports announcer
• 1945 – Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
• 1946 – Lesley Gore, American singer
• 1946 – David Suchet, English actor
• 1948 – Larry Gatlin, American musician
• 1949 – Alan Titchmarsh, English television presenter
• 1950 – Duncan Gay, Australian politician
• 1950 – Lou Gramm, American vocalist (Foreigner)
• 1950 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan socialite
• 1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
• 1952 – Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
• 1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian-born conductor
• 1954 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (d. 1982)
• 1955 – Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
• 1956 – David Rhodes, English guitarist
• 1956 – Amir Mokri, Iranian-born American cinematographer
• 1958 – David O'Leary, Irish football manager and player
• 1959 – Alan Best, Canadian animation director and producer
• 1959 – Tony Wakeford, English musician (Sol Invictus)
• 1961 – Steve James, English snooker player
• 1961 – Phil Vickery, English celebrity chef
• 1962 – Stephen Daldry, English film director
• 1962 – Elizabeth Berridge, American actress
• 1962 – Ray Traylor, American professional wrestler (d. 2004)
• 1962 – Jimmy White, English snooker player
• 1965 – Félix José, Dominican baseball player
• 1966 – Belinda Stronach, Canadian politician
• 1967 – Mika Brzezinski, American journalist
• 1968 – Midorikawa Hikaru, Japanese voice actor
• 1968 – Jeff Agoos, American soccer player
• 1968 – Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer and actress
• 1969 – Brian Lara, Trinidadian West Indies cricketer
• 1972 – Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
• 1972 – Paul Adcock, English footballer
• 1973 – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director and screenwriter
• 1974 – Horacio Carbonari, Argentine former footballer
• 1974 – Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor
• 1974 – Andy Johnson, Welsh footballer
• 1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
• 1977 – Luke Hudson, American baseball player
• 1977 – Jenna von Oy, American actress
• 1977 – Fredrik Malm, Swedish politician
• 1978 – Steve Bays, Canadian musician
• 1978 – Mike Weaver, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
• 1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer
• 1980 – Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
• 1980 – Miloš Glogovac, Serbian footballer
• 1980 – Zat Knight, English footballer
• 1980 – Troy Murphy, American basketball player
• 1980 – Brad Richards, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 – Matt Murray, English footballer
• 1981 – Chris Kirkland, English footballer
• 1982 – Lorie, French singer
• 1982 – Johan Botha, South African cricketer
• 1983 – Christa Rigozzi, Swiss model
• 1984 – Saulius Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1984 – Thabo Sefolosha, American basketball player
• 1985 – Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter
• 1985 – Kyle Busch, American race car driver
• 1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
• 1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
• 1985 – Jarrod Saltalamacchia, American baseball player
• 1986 – James Kirk, Canadian actor
• 1987 – Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
• 1987 – Kris Russell, Canadian hockey player
• 1988 – Lara Liang, Taiwanese-American Singer
• 1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actor
• 1995 – Kelsey Lewis, American actress
• 2000 – Angel Sy, Filipina child actor

Deaths

• 373 – Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298)
• 756 – Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)
• 907 – Boris I of Bulgaria
• 1230 – William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197)
• 1300 – Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)
• 1450 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)
• 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
• 1564 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
• 1627 – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
• 1667 – George Wither, English writer (b. 1588)
• 1683 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
• 1711 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
• 1802 – Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
• 1810 – Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b. 1740)
• 1819 – Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
• 1857 – Alfred de Musset, French writer (b. 1810)
• 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
• 1927 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi official (b. 1900)
• 1945 – Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
• 1945 – Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1947 – Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
• 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
• 1960 – Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (b. 1921)
• 1964 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1980 – George Pál, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
• 1983 – Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926)
• 1984 – Jack Barry, television game show producer and host (b. 1918)
• 1985 – Attilio Bettega, Italian rallydriver (b. 1951)
• 1985 – Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rallydriver (b. 1956)
• 1989 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
• 1989 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
• 1990 – David Rappaport, English actor (b. 1951)
• 1991 – Ronald McKie, Australian author (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Wilbur Mills, American politician (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1997 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
• 1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1998 – Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Ted Rogers, British comedian (b. 1935)
• 2001 – Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 – John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
• 2002 – W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Kenneth B. Clark, American psychologist (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)