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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)
• 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)