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Events

• 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
• 1775 - Portland, Maine burnt by the United Kingdom.
• 1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the Revolutionary War.
• 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1793 - Battle of Wattignies (1793).
• 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon I of France in the Battle of Leipzig.
• 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down.
• 1841 - Queen's University, Canada is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1843 - William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a commutative extension of complex numbers.
• 1859 - John Brown (abolitionist) leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
• 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered.
• 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
• 1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1882 - The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad opens for business.
• 1905 - The Partition of Bengal (1905) (India) occurred.
• 1906 - The Wilhelm Voigt fools the City hall (administration) of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• 1916 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
• 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
• 1934 - China Communism begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
• 1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe.
• 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established.
• 1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
• 1946 - Ten war criminals of the World War II, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged.
• 1949 - Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1961 - Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began.
• 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
• 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1969 - United States - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
• 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
• 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II.
• 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South England killing 23 people.
• 1991 - Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
• 1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
• 1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
• 1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football (soccer) fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
• 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in Classical antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
• 2002 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President George W. Bush.

Births

• 1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
• 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
• 1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• 1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1752 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
• 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
• 1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
• 1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
• 1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
• 1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
• 1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
• 1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
• 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
• 1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
• 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1854 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
• 1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
• 1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
• 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
• 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1953)
• 1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1890 - Michael Collins (Irish leader), Irish patriot (d. 1922)
• 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
• 1898 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
• 1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
• 1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
• 1906 - León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
• 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
• 1922 - Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1923 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
• 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• 1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
• 1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
• 1931 - James Chace, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1934 - Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
• 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
• 1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
• 1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
• 1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
• 1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor
• 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
• 1943 - Fred Turner (musician), Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• 1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
• 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
• 1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
• 1947 - David Zucker, American film director
• 1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
• 1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
• 1952 - Ron Taylor (actor), American actor (d. 2002)
• 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow (band), Planet P Project)
• 1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
• 1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
• 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
• 1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1959 - Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
• 1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
• 1959 - Brian Harper, baseball player
• 1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
• 1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1962 - Michael Balzary, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the National Basketball Association
• 1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• 1965 - Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
• 1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
• 1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
• 1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1969 - Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
• 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 1972 - Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
• 1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, National Hockey League player
• 1973 - Chad Gray, American singer (Mudvayne)
• 1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
• 1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
• 1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter

1975 - [Christopher B. Houtchens, regular guy

• 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress
• 1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 - Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
• 1977 - John Mayer (musician), American musician
• 1979 - Erin Brown, American B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician
• 1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
• 1980 - Jeremy Jackson, American actor
• 1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
• 1981 - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
• 1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
• 1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1984 - Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
• 1984 - Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
• 1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor (TV series), The X Factor (UK series 2)
• 1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
• 1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Deaths

• 1355 - Louis of Sicily, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
• 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
• 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
• 1555 - Nicholas Ridley (martyr), English Protestant (martyred)
• 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
• 1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
• 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
• 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
• 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
• 1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Roman Catholic saint (b. 1725)
• 1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
• 1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
• 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
• 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov (Hasidic dynasty) (b. 1772)
• 1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
• 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
• 1888 - John Wentworth (mayor), Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
• 1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
• 1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
• 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
• 1946 - Nuremberg trial executions
• Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
• Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
• Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
• Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
• Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
• Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
• Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
• 1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
• 1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
• 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
• 1966 - George O'Hara (actor), American actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
• 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)
• 1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic music musician (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
• 1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
• 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
• 1983 - Kelso (horse), American racehorse (b. 1957)
• 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
• 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
• 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
• 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
• 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
• 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
• 2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
• 2005 - Elmer Dresslar, Jr., American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 - David Reilly (singer), American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
• 2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
• 2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
• 2006 - Tommy Johnson (session musician), American tubist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)

Holidays and observances

• Boss's Day in the United States
• Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
• World Food Day
• Calendar of Saints - Gerard Majella and Hedwig of Andechs

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
• 1775 - Portland, Maine burnt by the United Kingdom.
• 1780 - Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the Revolutionary War.
• 1781 - George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI of France is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
• 1793 - Battle of Wattignies (1793).
• 1813 - The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon I of France in the Battle of Leipzig.
• 1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down.
• 1841 - Queen's University, Canada is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• 1843 - William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a commutative extension of complex numbers.
• 1859 - John Brown (abolitionist) leads raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
• 1869 - Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered.
• 1869 - England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
• 1875 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• 1882 - The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad opens for business.
• 1905 - The Partition of Bengal (1905) (India) occurred.
• 1906 - The Wilhelm Voigt fools the City hall (administration) of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
• 1916 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
• 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
• 1934 - China Communism begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
• 1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe.
• 1940 - Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army.
• 1940 - Warsaw Ghetto established.
• 1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
• 1946 - Ten war criminals of the World War II, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged.
• 1949 - Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
• 1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 1961 - Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began.
• 1964 - People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
• 1968 - Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
• 1969 - United States - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
• 1970 - Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
• 1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1975 - The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
• 1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes Pope John Paul II.
• 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1987 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South England killing 23 people.
• 1991 - Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
• 1991 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
• 1995 - The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
• 1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football (soccer) fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
• 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in Classical antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
• 2002 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President George W. Bush.

Births

• 1396 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
• 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1483 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1535 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1663 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
• 1710 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• 1726 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1752 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 1754 - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
• 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
• 1762 - Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (d. 1816)
• 1789 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
• 1802 - Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
• 1806 - William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
• 1815 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
• 1819 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
• 1840 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
• 1841 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
• 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1854 - Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
• 1855 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1861 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1863 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
• 1878 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
• 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
• 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1953)
• 1888 - Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1890 - Michael Collins (Irish leader), Irish patriot (d. 1922)
• 1890 - Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1897 - Louis de Cazenave, France's oldest living man
• 1898 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
• 1900 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1900 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
• 1903 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
• 1906 - León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
• 1908 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1919 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
• 1922 - Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1923 - Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
• 1927 - Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
• 1928 - Mary Daly, American feminist
• 1928 - Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 - Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 - Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
• 1931 - James Chace, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1934 - Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
• 1936 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1936 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1936 - Peter Bowles, English actor
• 1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
• 1938 - Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
• 1938 - Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
• 1940 - Barry Corbin, American actor
• 1940 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1941 - Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
• 1943 - Fred Turner (musician), Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• 1946 - Suzanne Somers, American actress
• 1947 - Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
• 1947 - Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
• 1947 - David Zucker, American film director
• 1948 - Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
• 1952 - Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
• 1952 - Ron Taylor (actor), American actor (d. 2002)
• 1953 - Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1953 - Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow (band), Planet P Project)
• 1954 - Stephen Mellor, American actor
• 1956 - Johnny Chavis, American football coach
• 1958 - Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
• 1958 - Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1959 - Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
• 1959 - Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
• 1959 - Brian Harper, baseball player
• 1960 - Bob Mould, American musician
• 1961 - Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1961 - Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1962 - Michael Balzary, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1962 - Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the National Basketball Association
• 1962 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• 1965 - Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
• 1967 - Davina McCall, British television presenter
• 1968 - Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1968 - Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
• 1969 - Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1969 - Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
• 1970 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1970 - Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 1972 - Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
• 1972 - Darius Kasparaitis, National Hockey League player
• 1973 - Chad Gray, American singer (Mudvayne)
• 1973 - Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - David Unsworth, English professional footballer
• 1974 - Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
• 1974 - Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter

1975 - [Christopher B. Houtchens, regular guy

• 1975 - Kellie Martin, American actress
• 1975 - Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 - Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1976 - Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
• 1977 - John Mayer (musician), American musician
• 1979 - Erin Brown, American B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician
• 1980 - Sue Bird, American basketball player
• 1980 - Jeremy Jackson, American actor
• 1980 - Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
• 1981 - Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
• 1981 - Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
• 1982 - Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1982 - Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1984 - Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
• 1984 - Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
• 1984 - Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor (TV series), The X Factor (UK series 2)
• 1985 - Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion
• 1988 - Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Deaths

• 1355 - Louis of Sicily, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death
• 1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
• 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
• 1555 - Nicholas Ridley (martyr), English Protestant (martyred)
• 1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
• 1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
• 1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
• 1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
• 1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
• 1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)
• 1680 - Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)
• 1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
• 1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Roman Catholic saint (b. 1725)
• 1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
• 1791 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
• 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
• 1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
• 1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov (Hasidic dynasty) (b. 1772)
• 1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
• 1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
• 1888 - John Wentworth (mayor), Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
• 1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
• 1909 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
• 1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
• 1946 - Nuremberg trial executions
• Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)
• Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)
• Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
• Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
• Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
• Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1894)
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1892)
• Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
• 1956 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (b. 1873)
• 1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
• 1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
• 1966 - George O'Hara (actor), American actor (b. 1899)
• 1968 - Ellis Kinder, baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)
• 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)
• 1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1974 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic music musician (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• 1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
• 1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
• 1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
• 1983 - Kelso (horse), American racehorse (b. 1957)
• 1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
• 1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1990 - Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)
• 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1997 - James Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
• 1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2002 - Angela Dawson, American murder victim
• 2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)
• 2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
• 2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
• 2005 - Elmer Dresslar, Jr., American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
• 2005 - David Reilly (singer), American singer (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
• 2006 - Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
• 2006 - Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
• 2006 - Tommy Johnson (session musician), American tubist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Toše Proeski, Macedonian music star (b. 1981)

Holidays and observances

• Boss's Day in the United States
• Pope John Paul II Day in Poland
• World Food Day
• Calendar of Saints - Gerard Majella and Hedwig of Andechs

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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