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| - | *[[1503]] - [[Christian III of Denmark and Norway]] (d. [[1559]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1566]] - [[Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain]] (d. [[1633]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1604]] - [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], Japanese shogun (d. [[1651]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1629]] - Tsar [[Alexei I of Russia]] (d. [[1676]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1643]] - King [[Afonso VI of Portugal]] (d. [[1683]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1644]] - [[Heinrich Ignaz Biber]], Bohemian composer (d. [[1704]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1647]] - [[Johann Heinrich Acker]], German writer (d. [[1719]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1686]] - [[John Balguy]], English philosopher (d. [[1748]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1696]] - [[Maurice Greene (composer)|Maurice Greene]], English composer (d. [[1755]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1720]] - [[Konrad Ekhof]], German actor (d. [[1778]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1762]] - King [[George IV of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1830]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1774]] - [[Robert Southey]], English poet and biographer (d. [[1843]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1856]] - [["Diamond Jim" Brady]], American financier (d. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1859]] - [[Katharine Lee Bates]], American poet (d. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1866]] - [[Jacinto Benavente]], Spanish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1954]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1867]] - [[Edith Hamilton]], German classicist (d. [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1876]] - [[Mary Roberts Rinehart]], American author (d. [[1958]]) | + | |
| *[[1880]] - [[Radclyffe Hall]], British author (d. [[1943]]) | *[[1880]] - [[Radclyffe Hall]], British author (d. [[1943]]) | ||
| * 1880 - [[Christy Mathewson]], American baseball player (d. [[1925]]) | * 1880 - [[Christy Mathewson]], American baseball player (d. [[1925]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
Births
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
- 1880 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (d. 1925)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
- 1883 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
- 1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
- 1885 - Marion Lorne, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
- 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
- 1889 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
- 1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1902 - Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
- 1904 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
- 1906 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
- 1907 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
- 1909 - Richard Bare, American Director
- 1910 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1911 - Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
- 1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
- 1914 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
- 1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
- 1924 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
- 1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
- 1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
- 1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
- 1925 - George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)
- 1926 - John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1926 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
- 1926 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
- 1927 - Porter Wagoner, American singer
- 1928 - Charles Blackman, Australian artist
- 1928 - Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director
- 1929 - Buck Owens, American singer (d. 2006)
- 1930 - George Soros American businessman
- 1930 - Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
- 1931 - William Goldman, American screenwriter
- 1932 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
- 1932 - Somdej Phra Nangchao Sirikit Phra Boromarajininat HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand
- 1933 - Parnelli Jones, American race car driver
- 1935 - John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
- 1937 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
- 1939 - George Hamilton, American actor
- 1939 - Roy Romanow, Canadian politician
- 1941 - Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
- 1943 - Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Ann M. Martin, American author
- 1947 - Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
- 1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1950 - Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
- 1951 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
- 1952 - Chen Kaige, Chinese film director
- 1954 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
- 1954 - Pat Metheny, American guitarist
- 1955 - Terry Taylor, American retired professional wrestler
- 1956 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
- 1960 - Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
- 1961 - Roy Hay, British guitarist and keyboardist (Culture Club)
- 1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
- 1963 - Sir Mix A Lot, American Rapper
- 1965 - Peter Krause, American actor
- 1967 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
- 1967 - Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
- 1967 - Andy Hui, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1968 - Andras Jones, American actor
- 1970 - Anthony Swofford, American novelist
- 1970 - Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach
- 1970 - Charles Mesure, British actor
- 1971 - Michael Ian Black, American comedian
- 1971 - Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
- 1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
- 1972 - Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
- 1972 - Takanohana, Sumo yokozuna
- 1973 - Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
- 1973 - Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive
- 1973 - Todd Marchant, American ice hockey player
- 1973 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
- 1973 - Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress
- 1973 - Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr - son of Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
- 1973 - Grey DeLisle, American voice actress/American singer
- 1974 - Matt Clement, American baseball player
- 1975 - Casey Affleck, American actor
- 1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
- 1976 - Antoine Walker, American basketball player
- 1976 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
- 1976 - Brad Lukowich, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 - Richard McCourt, English childrens television presenter
- 1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
- 1977 - Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
- 1977 - Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
- 1978 - Hayley Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 - Chris Chambers, American Football player
- 1979 - Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
- 1980 - Maggie Lawson, American actress
- 1980 - Dominique Swain, American actress
- 1980 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born musician (Relient K)
- 1980 - Jade Villalon, American Singer/Songwriter
- 1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
- 1982 - Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
- 1988 - Leah Pipes, American actress
Deaths
- 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
- 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)
- 1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460)
- 1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
- 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
- 1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
- 1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
- 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
- 1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
- 1638 - Johannes Althusius, German writer (b. 1557)
- 1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
- 1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
- 1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
- 1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
- 1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
- 1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
- 1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (b. 1769)
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- 1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
- 1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American editor and critic (b. 1815)
- 1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
- 1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
- 1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
- 1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
- 1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
- 1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
- 1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
- 1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
- 1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
- 1922 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
- 1928 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- 1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
- 1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
- 1943 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
- 1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
- 1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
- 1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
- 1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
- 1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
- 1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
- 1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
- 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
- 1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
- 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
- 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
- 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960)
- 1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
- 1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
- 1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
- 1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
- 1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
- 1996 - Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. 1945)
- 1996 - Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (b. 1953)
- 1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
- 1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
- 2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
- 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
- 2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
- 2007 - Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
- 2007 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1962)
Notes
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Marcellus Emants
- John Cage
- William Blake
- Thomas Mann
- Pierre Klossowski
- Samuel Fuller
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jean-Jacques Ampère
- Radclyffe Hall
- Teruo Ishii
- Tony Allen (musician)
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