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| + | ==Events== | ||
| + | * [[1096]] – Start of the [[First Crusade]] | ||
| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| *[[1914]] - A male servant of [[United States|American]] [[architect]] [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] set fire to the living quarters of the architect's [[Wisconsin]] home, [[Taliesin (studio)|Taliesin]], murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground. | *[[1914]] - A male servant of [[United States|American]] [[architect]] [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] set fire to the living quarters of the architect's [[Wisconsin]] home, [[Taliesin (studio)|Taliesin]], murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground. | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[John Coltrane]] plays in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]] for the [[Downbeat]] Jazz Festival with [[Elvin Jones]] and [[McCoy Tyner]]. | + | *[[1969]] - [[Woodstock Festival]] started its 3 day rally today at 5:08p.m. |
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| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1769]] - [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]], Emperor of the French (d. [[1821]]) | + | *[[1769]] - [[Napoleon]], Emperor of the French (d. [[1821]]) |
| - | *[[1771]] - Sir [[Walter Scott]], Scottish novelist and poet (d. [[1832]]) | + | *[[1771]] - [[Walter Scott]], Scottish novelist and poet (d. [[1832]]) |
| - | *[[1785]] - [[Thomas De Quincey]], English author (d. [[1859]]) | + | *[[1785]] - [[Thomas de Quincey]], English author (d. [[1859]]) |
| - | *[[1813]] - [[Jules Grévy]], 2nd [[President of the French Republic|President]] of the [[French Third Republic]] (d. [[1891]]) | + | *[[1903]] - [[Pascal Pia]], French writer (b. [[1903]]) |
| - | *[[1844]] - [[Thomas-Alfred Bernier]], Canadian journalist and politician (d. [[1908]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1856]] - [[Ivan Franko]], Ukrainian writer (d. [[1916]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1857]] - [[Albert Ballin]], German shipping tycoon (d. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1858]] - [[E. Nesbit]], English author (d. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1859]] - [[Charles Comiskey]], American baseball owner (d. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1860]] - [[Henrietta Vinton Davis]], American elocutionist (d. [[1941]]) | + | |
| - | * 1860 - [[Florence Harding]], American [[First Lady]] (d. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1863]] - [[Alexei Krylov]], Russian engineer and mathematician (d. [[1945]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Usui Mikao]], founder of [[Reiki]] (d. [[1926]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1872]] - [[Sri Aurobindo]], Indian writer and philosopher (d. [[1950]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1875]] - [[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]], English composer (d. [[1912]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1878]] - [[Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel]], Russian counter-revolutionary (d. [[1928]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Ethel Barrymore]], American actress (d. [[1959]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1881]] - [[Alfred Wagenknecht]], German-born American activist (d. [[1956]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1883]] - [[Ivan Mestrovic|Ivan Meštrović]], Croatian sculptor (d. [[1962]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1885]] - [[Edna Ferber]], American novelist (d. [[1968]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Elizabeth Bolden]], American [[Supercentenarian]] (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | * 1890 - [[Jacques Ibert]], French composer (d. [[1962]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1892]] - [[Louis, 7th duc de Broglie]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1987]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1893]] - [[Leslie Comrie]], New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. [[1950]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Gerty Cori]], Austrian-born biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1957]]) | + | |
| - | * 1896 - [[Catherine Doherty]], Russian-born Canadian activist (d. [[1985]]) | + | |
| - | * 1896 - [[Paul Outerbridge]], American photographer (d. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | * 1896 - [[Léon Theremin|Leon Theremin]], Russian inventor (d. [[1993]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1898]] - [[Jan Brzechwa]], Polish poet (d. [[1966]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Hugo Winterhalter]], American composer and bandleader (d. [[1973]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Signe Hasso]], Swedish actress (d. [[2002]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1912]] - [[Julia Child]], American cook (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | * 1912 - Dame [[Wendy Hiller]], English actress (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Paul Rand]], American graphic designer (d. [[1996]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Aleks Çaçi]], Albanian writer | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Jack Lynch]], fourth [[Taoiseach]] (d. [[1999]]) | + | |
| - | * 1917 - [[Oscar Romero]], [[El Salvador]] Roman catholic priest (d. [[1980]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1919]] - [[Huntz Hall]], American actor (d. [[1999]]) | + | |
| - | * 1919 - [[Benedict Kiely]], Irish author | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Lukas Foss]], German-born composer | + | |
| - | *[[1923]] - [[Rose Marie]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Robert Bolt]], English playwright and [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning screenwriter (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Mike Connors]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1925 - [[Oscar Peterson]], Canadian jazz pianist | + | |
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Costis Stephanopoulos]], Greek politician | + | |
| *[[1928]] - [[Nicolas Roeg]], English film director | *[[1928]] - [[Nicolas Roeg]], English film director | ||
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Ageeda Paavel]], Estonian freedom fighter | + | *[[1934]] - [[Bobby Byrd]] United States musician and songwriter, (d. 2007) |
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Jim Lange]], American game show host | + | *[[1935]] - [[Régine Deforges]], French author (d. 2014) |
| - | * 1933 - [[Bobby Helms]], American pop singer (d. [[1997]]) | + | *[[1937]] - [[Noboru Tanaka]], Japanese filmmaker (d. [[2006]]) |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Nino Ferrer]], French-Italian singer (d. [[1998]]) | + | *[[1941]] - [[Laura Mulvey]], British film theorist best known for her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" |
| - | * 1934 - [[Bobby Byrd]], American soul/funk singer (d. [[2007]]) | + | *[[1943]] - [[Barbara Bouchet]], Czech actress |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Vernon Jordan Jr.]], American presidential advisor | + | *[[1948]] - [[Uschi Digard]], American actress and model |
| - | * 1935 - [[Lionel Taylor]], American football player | + | *[[1963]] - [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]], Mexican film director |
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Maxine Waters]], American politician | + | *[[1968]] - [[Wolfgang Tillmans]], German photographer |
| - | * 1938 - [[Janusz A. Zajdel]], Polish writer | + | *[[1950]] - [[Andres Serrano]], United States artist |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Gudrun Ensslin]], German terrorist | + | *[[1959]] - [[Hisayasu Sato]], Japanese filmmaker |
| - | * 1940 - [[Rita Shane]], American soprano | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Larry Hartsell]], American martial arts instructor (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[María Rojo]], Mexican actress and politician | + | |
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Linda Ellerbee]], American journalist | + | |
| - | * 1944 - [[Tom Murphy (mayor)|Tom Murphy]], American politician | + | |
| - | * 1944 - [[Sylvie Vartan]], Bulgarian pop singer | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda]], Indian guru | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Begum Khaleda Zia]], [[Bangladesh]]i politician | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Gene Upshaw]], American NFL executive | + | |
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Tony Robinson]], English actor and television presenter | + | |
| - | * 1946 - [[Jimmy Webb]], American musician and composer | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Raakhee Gulzar]], Indian actress | + | |
| - | * 1947 - [[Jenny Hanley]], British TV presenter | + | |
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Uschi Digard]], American pornographic actress and model | + | |
| - | * 1948 - [[Patsy Gallant]], Canadian pop singer | + | |
| - | * 1948 - [[George Ryton]], British engineer | + | |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Richard Deacon]], Welsh sculptor | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Tommy Aldridge]], American musician | + | |
| - | * 1950 - [[Anne, Princess Royal|The Princess Anne, Princess Royal]] of the United Kingdom | + | |
| - | * 1950 - [[Tom Kelly (baseball)|Tom Kelly]], American baseball manager | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Daba Diawara]], Malian politician | + | |
| - | * 1951 - [[Bobby Caldwell]], American singer and musician | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Mary Jo Salter]], American poet | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Lorraine Desmarais]], French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Željko Ivanek]], Slovenian-American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Victor Shenderovich]], Russian satirist | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Craig MacTavish]], Canadian ice hockey player/coach | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Rondell Sheridan]], American actor and comedian | + | |
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Tom Colicchio]], American chef | + | |
| - | * 1962 - [[Paraskevas Karasoulos]], Greek lyricist | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]], Mexican film director | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Melinda French Gates]], American wife of [[Bill Gates]] | + | |
| - | * 1964 - [[Debi Mazar]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Rob Thomas (writer)|Rob Thomas]], American writer | + | |
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Scott Brosius]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1966 - [[Shirley Kwan]], Hong Kong singer | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Peter Hermann]] American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Debra Messing]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Kevin Cheng]], Hong Kong actor and singer | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Anthony Anderson]], American comedian and actor | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Maddie Corman]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Ben Silverman]], American TV executive | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Ben Affleck]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1972 - [[Chris Morrissey (actor/film director)|Chris Morrissey]], American film director/actor | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Natasha Henstridge]], Canadian actress | + | |
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Kara Wolters]], American basketball player | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Boudewijn Zenden]], Dutch football player | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Nicole Paggi]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1977 - [[Igor Cassina]], Italian gymnast | + | |
| - | * 1977 - [[Martin Biron]], professional ice hockey goaltender | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Tim Foreman]], American bassist ([[Switchfoot]]) | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Lilia Podkopayeva]], Ukrainian gymnast | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Stavros Tziortziopoulos]], Greek footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Carl Edwards]], American NASCAR driver | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Nathalie Press]], English actress | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Brendan Hansen]], American swimmer | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Oliver Perez]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Sung Ji Hyo]], South Korean actress | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Belinda (singer)|Belinda]], Mexican singer | + | |
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[423]] - [[Honorius (emperor)|Flavius Honorius]], Western Roman Emperor (b. [[384]]) | ||
| - | * [[778]] - [[Roland]], Frankish commander | ||
| - | *[[1038]] - King [[Stephen I of Hungary]] | ||
| - | *[[1040]] - King [[Duncan I of Scotland]] | ||
| - | *[[1057]] - King [[Macbeth of Scotland]] | ||
| - | *[[1118]] - [[Alexius I Comnenus]], [[Byzantine Emperor]] (b. [[1048]]) | ||
| - | *[[1196]] - [[Conrad II, Duke of Swabia]] (b. [[1173]]) | ||
| - | *[[1274]] - [[Robert de Sorbon]], French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. [[1201]]) | ||
| - | *[[1369]] - [[Philippa of Hainault]], [[Queen consort]] of [[Edward III of England]] | ||
| - | *[[1528]] - [[Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec]], French military leader (b. [[1485]]) | ||
| - | *[[1552]] - [[Hermann of Wied]], German Catholic archbishop (b. [[1477]]) | ||
| - | *[[1621]] - [[John Barclay (1582-1621)|John Barclay]], Scottish writer (b. [[1582]]) | ||
| - | *[[1666]] - [[Johann Adam Schall von Bell]], German Jesuit missionary (b. [[1591]]) | ||
| - | *[[1714]] - [[Constantin Brâncoveanu]], Prince of Wallachia (b. [[1654]]) | ||
| - | *[[1728]] - [[Marin Marais]], French composer and viol player (b. [[1656]]) | ||
| - | *[[1758]] - [[Pierre Bouguer]], French mathematician (b. [[1698]]) | ||
| - | *[[1799]] - [[Giuseppe Parini]], Italian poet (b. [[1729]]) | ||
| - | *[[1852]] - [[Johan Gadolin]], Finnish scientist (b. [[1760]]) | ||
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Joseph Joachim]], Austrian violinist (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Euclides da Cunha]], Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. [[1866]]) | ||
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Thomas J. Higgins]], decorated Union Army soldier (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Konrad Mägi]], Estonian artist (b. [[1878]]) | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Wiley Post]], American pilot (airplane crash) (b. [[1898]]) | ||
| - | * 1935 - [[Will Rogers]], American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. [[1879]]) | ||
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Grazia Deledda]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1871]]) | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Korechika Anami]], Japanese [[Ministry of War of Japan#Ministers of War of Japan, 1900-1945|War Minister]] (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Artur Schnabel]], Polish pianist (b. [[1882]]) | ||
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Ludwig Prandtl]], German physicist (b. [[1875]]) | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Blind Willie McTell]], American singer (b. [[1901]]) | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Lei Feng]], Chinese revolutionary (b. [[1940]]) | ||
| *[[1967]] - [[René Magritte]], Belgian painter (b. [[1898]]) | *[[1967]] - [[René Magritte]], Belgian painter (b. [[1898]]) | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Paul Lukas]], Hungarian-born actor (b. [[1887]]) | + | *[[1987]] - [[Louis Scutenaire]]; Belgian surrealist writer (b. [[1905]]) |
| - | *[[1974]] - Yuk Young-soo, wife of the [[President of South Korea|president of the Republic of Korea]] Park Chung-hee (b. 1925) | + | *[[1998]] - [[Nino Ferrer]], French - Italian singer (b. [[1934]]) |
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], [[President of Bangladesh]] (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Clay Shaw]], alleged [[John F. Kennedy]] assassination conspiracist & businessman (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Hugo Theorell]], Swedish scientist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Viktor Tsoi]], Russian musician (b. [[1962]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] - [[John Cameron Swayze]], American journalist (b. [[1906]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] - Sir [[Hugh Casson]], British architect and artist (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Richard Chelimo]], Kenyan athlete (b. [[1972]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Gösta Sundqvist]], Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. [[1957]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Semiha Berksoy]], first Turkish opera singer (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Sune Bergström]], Swedish biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1916]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Amarsinh Chaudhary]], Indian politician (b. [[1941]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Te Atairangi Kaahu]], Māori queen (b. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] - [[John Gofman]], American [[Manhattan Project]] scientist and advocate (b. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Geoffrey Orbell]], New Zealand bush walker (b. [[1908]]) | + | |
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| - | *[[Andres Serrano]] | + | |
| - | *[[Pascal Pia]] | + | |
| - | *[[Thomas de Quincey]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nicolas Roeg]] | + | |
| - | *[[René Magritte]] | + | |
| - | *[[Louis Scutenaire]] | + | |
| - | *[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] | + | |
| - | *[[Laura Mulvey]] | + | |
| - | *[[Uschi Digard]] | + | |
| - | *[[Wolfgang Tillmans]] | + | |
| - | *[[Hisayasu Sato]] | + | |
| - | *[[Noboru Tanaka]] | + | |
| - | *[[Alejandro González Iñárritu]] | + | |
| - | *[[Walter Scott]] | + | |
| - | *[[Régine Deforges]] | + | |
| - | *[[Alfred H. Barr, Jr.]] | + | |
| - | *[[Bobby Byrd]] | + | |
| - | *[[Barbara Bouchet]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nino Ferrer]] | + | |
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Events
- 1096 – Start of the First Crusade
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Art and culture
- 1914 - A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright set fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the ground.
- 1969 - Woodstock Festival started its 3 day rally today at 5:08p.m.
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Births
- 1769 - Napoleon, Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
- 1771 - Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
- 1785 - Thomas de Quincey, English author (d. 1859)
- 1903 - Pascal Pia, French writer (b. 1903)
- 1928 - Nicolas Roeg, English film director
- 1934 - Bobby Byrd United States musician and songwriter, (d. 2007)
- 1935 - Régine Deforges, French author (d. 2014)
- 1937 - Noboru Tanaka, Japanese filmmaker (d. 2006)
- 1941 - Laura Mulvey, British film theorist best known for her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
- 1943 - Barbara Bouchet, Czech actress
- 1948 - Uschi Digard, American actress and model
- 1963 - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director
- 1968 - Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
- 1950 - Andres Serrano, United States artist
- 1959 - Hisayasu Sato, Japanese filmmaker
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Deaths
- 1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
- 1987 - Louis Scutenaire; Belgian surrealist writer (b. 1905)
- 1998 - Nino Ferrer, French - Italian singer (b. 1934)
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