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| - | == Births == | + | * [[338 BC]] - [[Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)]] |
| + | * [[219 BC]] - [[Second Punic War]]: [[Battle of Cannae]] - The [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] army lead by [[Hannibal (Barcid)|Hannibal]] defeats a numerically superior [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army under command of [[consul]]s [[Lucius Aemilius Paullus (General)|Lucius Aemilius Paullus]] and [[Gaius Terentius Varro]]. | ||
| + | * [[1610]] - [[Henry Hudson]] sails into what it is now known as [[Hudson Bay]], thinking he had made it through the [[Northwest Passage]] and reached the [[Pacific Ocean]]. | ||
| + | * [[1776]] - Delegates to the [[Continental Congress]] begin signing the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. | ||
| + | * [[1790]] - The first [[US Census]] is conducted. | ||
| + | * [[1798]] - [[French Revolutionary Wars]]: [[Battle of the Nile|Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay)]] concludes in an English victory | ||
| + | * [[1869]] - [[Japan|Japan's]] [[samurai]], [[farmer]], [[artisan]], [[merchant]] class system ([[Shinōkōshō]]) is abolished as part of the [[Meiji Restoration]] reforms. (Traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: [[June 25]], [[1869]]). | ||
| + | *[[1870]] - [[Tower Subway]], the world's first [[metro|underground tube railway]], opens in [[London]]. | ||
| + | *[[1903]] - [[Fall of the Ottoman Empire]]: Unsuccessful uprising of the [[Bulgarians]] in the [[Macedonia (region)|region of Macedonia]] from the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] against [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Turkey]], also known as the [[Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising]]. | ||
| + | *[[1916]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary|Austrian]] sabotage causes the sinking of the [[Italy|Italian]] battleship [[Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci|''Leonardo da Vinci'']] in [[Taranto]]. | ||
| + | *[[1918]] - [[Japan]] announces that it is deploying troops to [[Siberia]] in the aftermath of [[World War I]]. | ||
| + | *[[1931]] - [[Einstein]] urges all scientists to refuse [[military]] work. | ||
| + | *[[1934]] - [[Gleichschaltung]]: [[Adolf Hitler]] becomes [[Führer]] of [[Germany]]. | ||
| + | *[[1937]] - The [[1937 Marihuana Tax Act|Marihuana Tax Act of 1937]] is passed in America, essentially rendering [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] and all its by-products illegal. | ||
| + | *[[1939]] - [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Leó Szilárd]] write a letter to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon. | ||
| + | *[[1943]] - [[World War II]]: [[PT-109]] rammed by the [[Imperial Japanese Navy|Japanese]] destroyer [[Amagiri]] and sinks. Lt. [[John F. Kennedy]] saves all but two of his crew. | ||
| + | *[[1945]] - World War II: [[Potsdam Conference]], in which the [[Allied Powers]] discuss the future of defeated [[Germany]], concludes. | ||
| + | *[[1964]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Gulf of Tonkin Incident]] - [[North Vietnam|North Vietnamese]] gunboats allegedly fires on [[United States|U.S.]] destroyers, [[USS Maddox (DD-731)|USS ''Maddox'']] and the [[USS Turner Joy (DD-951)|USS ''Turner Joy'']]. | ||
| + | *[[1967]] - The second [[Blackwall Tunnel]] opens in [[Greenwich, London]]. | ||
| + | *[[1980]] - A [[Bologna Massacre|bomb explodes]] at the [[Bologna Central Station|railway station]] in [[Bologna]], [[Italy]], killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. | ||
| + | *[[1985]] - A [[Delta Air Lines]] [[Lockheed L-1011]] TriStar crashes at [[Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]] killing 137. | ||
| + | *[[1990]] - [[Gulf War]]: [[Iraq]] invades [[Kuwait]], eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces. | ||
| + | *[[2004]] - [[Monday demonstrations, 2004|Monday demonstrations]] against social cutbacks began in [[Germany]]. | ||
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| + | ==Births== | ||
| + | *[[1533]] - [[Theodor Zwinger]], Swiss scholar (d. [[1588]]) | ||
| + | *[[1672]] - [[Johann Jakob Scheuchzer]], Swiss scholar (d. [[1733]]) | ||
| + | *[[1674]] - [[Philip II, Duke of Orléans]], [[Regent#France|Regent of France]] (d. [[1723]]) | ||
| + | *[[1696]] - [[Mahmud I]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1754]]) | ||
| + | *[[1703]] - [[Lorenzo Ricci]], Italian [[Jesuit]] leader (d. [[1775]]) | ||
| + | *[[1754]] - [[Pierre Charles L'Enfant]], French-born architect and city planner (d. [[1825]]) | ||
| + | *[[1788]] - [[Leopold Gmelin]], German chemist (d. [[1853]]) | ||
| + | *[[1815]] - [[Adolf Friedrich von Schack]], German writer (d. [[1894]]) | ||
| + | *[[1834]] - [[Frédéric Bartholdi]], French sculptor (d. [[1904]]) | ||
| + | *[[1835]] - [[Elisha Gray]], American inventor and entrepreneur (d. [[1901]]) | ||
| + | *[[1865]] - [[Irving Babbitt]], American literary critic (d. [[1933]]) | ||
| + | * 1865 - [[John Radecki]], Australian stained glass artist (d. [[1955]]) | ||
| + | *[[1868]] - King [[Constantine I of Greece]] (d. [[1923]]) | ||
| + | *[[1871]] - [[John French Sloan]], American artist (d. [[1951]]) | ||
| + | *[[1875]] - [[Mstislav Dobuzhinsky]], Russian artist (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| + | *[[1878]] - [[Georg Hackenschmidt]], Estonian wrestler (d. [[1968]]) | ||
| + | *[[1882]] - [[Red Ames]], baseball player (d. [[1936]]) | ||
| + | *[[1890]] - [[Marin Sais]], American actress (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| + | *[[1891]] - [[Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky]], Russian literary historian, linguist (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| + | *[[1892]] - [[Jack Warner]], Canadian film producer (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| + | *[[1896]] - [[Lorenzo Herrera]], Venezuelan singer and composer (d. [[1960]]) | ||
| + | *[[1897]] - [[Max Weber (politician)|Max Weber]], Swiss Federal Councilor (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| + | * 1897 - [[Karl Otto Koch]], German SS-officer (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| + | *[[1899]] - [[Charles Bennett (screenwriter)|Charles Bennett]], British screenwriter (d. [[1995]]) | ||
| + | *[[1900]] - [[Helen Morgan]], American actress (d. [[1941]]) | ||
| + | *[[1905]] - [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]], German composer (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| + | * 1905 - [[Myrna Loy]], American actress (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| + | *[[1907]] - [[Mary Hamman]], American writer (d. [[1984]]) | ||
| + | *[[1910]] - [[Roger MacDougall]], writer (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| + | *[[1912]] - [[Vladimir Zerjavic]], Croatian statistician (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| + | * 1912 - [[Ann Dvorak]], American actress (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| + | *[[1914]] - [[Beatrice Straight]], American actress (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| + | * 1914 - [[Félix Leclerc]], Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| + | *[[1915]] - [[Gary Merrill]], American actor (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| + | *[[1924]] - [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]], American author (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| + | * 1924 - [[Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| + | *[[1925]] - [[Jorge Rafael Videla]], Argentinian dictator | ||
| + | * 1925 - [[Alan Whicker]], British journalist and broadcaster | ||
| + | *[[1930]] - [[Vali Myers (artist)]], Australian painter (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| + | *[[1931]] - [[Pierre DuMaine]], Catholic bishop | ||
| + | *[[1932]] - [[Lamar Hunt]], American sports executive (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| + | * 1932 - [[Peter O'Toole]], Irish-born actor | ||
| + | *[[1934]] - [[Valery Bykovsky]], cosmonaut | ||
| + | *[[1935]] - [[Hank Cochran]], American country music singer and songwriter | ||
| + | *[[1937]] - [[Garth Hudson]], Canadian musician ([[The Band]]) | ||
| + | *[[1938]] - [[Pierre de Bané]], French Canadian politician | ||
| + | *[[1939]] - [[Wes Craven]], American film director | ||
| + | *[[1941]] - [[Doris Coley]], American singer ([[Shirelles]]) (d. [[2000]]) | ||
| + | *[[1942]] - [[Isabel Allende]], Chilean author | ||
| + | *[[1943]] - [[Max Wright]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1943 - [[Tom Burgmeier]], American baseball player | ||
| + | *[[1944]] - [[Jim Capaldi]], British musician and songwriter ([[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]) (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| + | *[[1945]] - [[Joanna Cassidy]], American actress | ||
| + | * 1945 - [[Alex Jesaulenko]], Australian footballer | ||
| + | *[[1947]] - [[Massiel]], Spanish singer | ||
| + | *[[1948]] - [[Andy Fairweather Low]], British guitarist | ||
| + | * 1948 - [[Dennis Prager]], American radio talk show host and author | ||
| + | *[[1949]] - [[James Fallows]], American journalist | ||
| + | *[[1950]] - [[Lance Ito]], American judge | ||
| + | * 1950 - [[Sue Rodriguez]], Canadian [[assisted suicide]] advocate (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| + | *[[1951]] - [[Andrew Gold]], American musician and songwriter | ||
| + | * 1951 - [[Per Westerberg]], Swedish politician | ||
| + | *[[1953]] - [[Butch Patrick]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1953 - [[Marjo]], Quebec singer | ||
| + | *[[1954]] - [[Sammy McIlroy]], Northern Irish footballer and manager | ||
| + | *[[1955]] - [[Caleb Carr]], American novelist and military historian | ||
| + | *[[1956]] - [[Fulvio Melia]], Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author | ||
| + | * 1956 - [[Jim Neidhart]], American professional wrestler | ||
| + | *[[1957]] - [[Mojo Nixon]], American musician and actor | ||
| + | *[[1959]] - [[Victoria Jackson]], American comedian | ||
| + | * 1959 - [[Apollonia Kotero]], American singer and actress | ||
| + | *[[1960]] - [[Neal Morse]], American musician ([[Spock's Beard]] and [[Transatlantic]]) | ||
| + | *[[1961]] - [[Linda Fratianne]], American figure skater | ||
| + | *[[1964]] - [[Mary-Louise Parker]], American actress | ||
| + | *[[1966]] - [[Tim Wakefield]], American baseball player | ||
| + | *[[1967]] - [[Aaron Krickstein]], American tennis player | ||
| + | * 1967 - [[Aline Brosh McKenna]], American screenwriter | ||
| + | *[[1969]] - [[Fernando Couto]], Portuguese footballer | ||
| + | * 1969 - [[Richard Hallebeek]], Dutch guitarist | ||
| + | *[[1970]] - [[Tony Amonte]], American ice hockey player | ||
| + | * 1970 - [[Kevin Smith]], American director and screenwriter | ||
| + | *[[1971]] - [[Michael Hughes (footballer)|Michael Hughes]], Irish footballer | ||
| + | *[[1972]] - [[Jacinda Barrett]], Australian model and actress | ||
| + | * 1972 - [[Jimmy Pop]], American musician ([[The Bloodhound Gang]]) | ||
| + | * 1972 - [[Justyna Steczkowska]], Polish singer | ||
| + | *[[1973]] - [[Hiroyuki Goto]], Japanese game designer | ||
| + | *[[1974]] - [[Jeremy Castle]], American singer and songwriter | ||
| + | * 1974 - [[Angie Cepeda]], Colombian actress | ||
| + | *[[1975]] - [[Carlos Luciano da Silva|Mineiro]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| + | * 1975 - [[Xu Huaiwen]], Chinese-born badminton player | ||
| + | *[[1977]] - [[Edward Furlong]], American actor | ||
| + | *[[1982]] - [[Hélder Postiga]], Portuguese footballer | ||
| + | * 1982 - [[Grady Sizemore]], American baseball player | ||
| + | *[[1983]] - [[Nick Diaz]], American MMA fighter | ||
| + | *[[1984]] - [[Giampaolo Pazzini]], Italian footballer | ||
| + | *[[1985]] - [[Harry Smith (wrestler)|Harry Smith]], Canadian professional wrestler | ||
| + | *[[1986]] - [[Mathieu Razanakolona]], Malagasy skier | ||
| + | *[[1988]] - [[Brittany Hargest]], American singer ([[Jump5]]) | ||
| + | *[[1992]] - [[Hallie Kate Eisenberg]], American actress | ||
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| + | ==Deaths== | ||
| + | * [[686]] - [[Pope John V]] | ||
| + | * [[924]] - [[Ælfweard of Wessex]] | ||
| + | *[[1100]] - King [[William II of England]] | ||
| + | *[[1222]] - Count [[Raymond VI of Toulouse]] (b. [[1156]]) | ||
| + | *[[1511]] - [[Andrew Barton]], Scottish naval leader | ||
| + | *[[1589]] - King [[Henry III of France]] (b. [[1551]]) | ||
| + | *[[1611]] - [[Kiyomasa Kato|Kato Kiyomasa]], Japanese warlord and samurai (b. [[1562]]) | ||
| + | *[[1696]] - [[Robert Campbell of Glenlyon]], Scottish military commander (b. [[1630]]) | ||
| + | *[[1769]] - [[Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea]], English politician (b. [[1689]]) | ||
| + | *[[1776]] - [[Louis François I, Prince of Conti]], French military leader (b. [[1717]]) | ||
| + | *[[1788]] - [[Thomas Gainsborough]], English artist (b. [[1727]]) | ||
| + | *[[1815]] - [[Guillaume Marie Anne Brune]], French marshal (b. [[1763]]) | ||
| + | *[[1823]] - [[Lazare Carnot]], French general, politician, and mathematician (b. [[1753]]) | ||
| + | *[[1849]] - Governor [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]] (b. [[1769]]) | ||
| + | *[[1859]] - [[Horace Mann]], American educator and abolitionist (b. [[1796]]) | ||
| + | *[[1876]] - [[Wild Bill Hickok|James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok]], American gunfighter (b. [[1837]]) | ||
| + | *[[1889]] - [[Eduardo Gutiérrez]], Argentinian author (b. [[1851]]) | ||
| + | *[[1890]] - [[Louise-Victorine Ackermann]], French poet (b. [[1813]]) | ||
| + | *[[1903]] - [[Edmond Nocard]], French veterinarian (b. [[1850]]) | ||
| + | *[[1920]] - [[Ormer Locklear]], American stunt pilot (b. [[1891]]) | ||
| + | *[[1921]] - [[Enrico Caruso]], Italian tenor (b. [[1873]]) | ||
| + | *[[1922]] - [[Alexander Graham Bell]], Scottish-born inventor (b. [[1847]]) | ||
| + | *[[1923]] - [[Warren G. Harding]], 29th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1865]]) | ||
| + | *[[1934]] - [[Paul von Hindenburg]], German field marshal and [[President of Germany]] (b. [[1847]]) | ||
| + | *[[1936]] - [[Louis Bleriot|Louis Blériot]], French aviation pioneer (b. [[1872]]) | ||
| + | *[[1939]] - [[Harvey Spencer Lewis]], American Rosacrucian mystic (b. [[1883]]) | ||
| + | *[[1945]] - [[Pietro Mascagni]], Italian composer (b. [[1863]]) | ||
| + | *[[1955]] - [[Alfred Lépine]], French Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1901]]) | ||
| + | *[[1972]] - [[Helen Hoyt]], American poet (b. [[1887]]) | ||
| + | * 1972 - [[Brian Cole]], American bass player ([[The Association]]) (b. [[1942]]) | ||
| + | *[[1973]] - [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], French film director (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| + | *[[1974]] - [[W. Douglas Hawkes]], British racing driver (b. [[1893]]) | ||
| + | *[[1976]] - [[Fritz Lang]], Austrian film director (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| + | *[[1978]] - [[Carlos Chávez]], Mexican composer (b. [[1899]]) | ||
| + | *[[1979]] - [[Thurman Munson]], American baseball player (b. [[1947]]) | ||
| + | *[[1986]] - [[Roy Cohn]], American politician (b. [[1927]]) | ||
| + | *[[1988]] - [[Raymond Carver]], American writer (b. [[1938]]) | ||
| + | * 1988 - [[Joe Carcione]], American consumer advocate (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| + | *[[1990]] - [[Norman Mclean]], American writer (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| + | *[[1992]] - [[Michel Berger]], French singer and songwriter (b. [[1947]]) | ||
| + | *[[1996]] - [[Michel Debré]], French politician (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| + | *[[1997]] - [[William S. Burroughs]], American writer (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| + | *[[1998]] - [[Shari Lewis]], American puppeteer (b. [[1933]]) | ||
| + | *[[2001]] - [[Ron Townson]], American singer ([[The Fifth Dimension]]) (b. [[1933]]) | ||
| + | *[[2003]] - [[Don Estelle]], British actor (b. [[1933]]) | ||
| + | * 2003 - [[Mike Levey]], American television personality (b. [[1948]]) | ||
| + | * 2003 - [[Peter Safar]], Austrian physician (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| + | *[[2004]] - [[Don Tosti]], American musician (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| + | * 2004 - [[François Craenhals]], Belgian comics artist (b. [[1926]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 338 BC - Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
- 219 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
- 1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1790 - The first US Census is conducted.
- 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an English victory
- 1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
- 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
- 1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians in the region of Macedonia from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
- 1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
- 1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1931 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.
- 1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- 1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
- 1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
- 1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy saves all but two of his crew.
- 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
- 1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opens in Greenwich, London.
- 1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
- 1985 - A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
- 1990 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces.
- 2004 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany.
Births
- 1533 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
- 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
- 1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
- 1696 - Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
- 1703 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
- 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born architect and city planner (d. 1825)
- 1788 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
- 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
- 1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
- 1835 - Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
- 1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
- 1865 - John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
- 1868 - King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
- 1871 - John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
- 1875 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
- 1878 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian wrestler (d. 1968)
- 1882 - Red Ames, baseball player (d. 1936)
- 1890 - Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
- 1891 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (d. 1971)
- 1892 - Jack Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
- 1896 - Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
- 1897 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
- 1897 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)
- 1899 - Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1900 - Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
- 1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
- 1905 - Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1907 - Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
- 1910 - Roger MacDougall, writer (d. 1993)
- 1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
- 1912 - Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
- 1914 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)
- 1915 - Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1924 - James Baldwin, American author (d. 1987)
- 1924 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator
- 1925 - Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
- 1930 - Vali Myers (artist), Australian painter (d. 2003)
- 1931 - Pierre DuMaine, Catholic bishop
- 1932 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
- 1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
- 1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
- 1935 - Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
- 1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)
- 1938 - Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician
- 1939 - Wes Craven, American film director
- 1941 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
- 1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author
- 1943 - Max Wright, American actor
- 1943 - Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
- 1944 - Jim Capaldi, British musician and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
- 1945 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress
- 1945 - Alex Jesaulenko, Australian footballer
- 1947 - Massiel, Spanish singer
- 1948 - Andy Fairweather Low, British guitarist
- 1948 - Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
- 1949 - James Fallows, American journalist
- 1950 - Lance Ito, American judge
- 1950 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
- 1951 - Andrew Gold, American musician and songwriter
- 1951 - Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
- 1953 - Butch Patrick, American actor
- 1953 - Marjo, Quebec singer
- 1954 - Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1955 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
- 1956 - Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author
- 1956 - Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
- 1957 - Mojo Nixon, American musician and actor
- 1959 - Victoria Jackson, American comedian
- 1959 - Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
- 1960 - Neal Morse, American musician (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic)
- 1961 - Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
- 1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
- 1966 - Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
- 1967 - Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
- 1967 - Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
- 1969 - Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
- 1969 - Richard Hallebeek, Dutch guitarist
- 1970 - Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
- 1970 - Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter
- 1971 - Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
- 1972 - Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
- 1972 - Jimmy Pop, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
- 1972 - Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
- 1973 - Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
- 1974 - Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
- 1974 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
- 1975 - Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
- 1975 - Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born badminton player
- 1977 - Edward Furlong, American actor
- 1982 - Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
- 1982 - Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
- 1983 - Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
- 1984 - Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
- 1985 - Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1986 - Mathieu Razanakolona, Malagasy skier
- 1988 - Brittany Hargest, American singer (Jump5)
- 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
Deaths
- 686 - Pope John V
- 924 - Ælfweard of Wessex
- 1100 - King William II of England
- 1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)
- 1511 - Andrew Barton, Scottish naval leader
- 1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
- 1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
- 1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, Scottish military commander (b. 1630)
- 1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)
- 1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti, French military leader (b. 1717)
- 1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (b. 1727)
- 1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (b. 1763)
- 1823 - Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (b. 1753)
- 1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769)
- 1859 - Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist (b. 1796)
- 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)
- 1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851)
- 1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (b. 1813)
- 1903 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
- 1920 - Ormer Locklear, American stunt pilot (b. 1891)
- 1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873)
- 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
- 1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
- 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and President of Germany (b. 1847)
- 1936 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
- 1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American Rosacrucian mystic (b. 1883)
- 1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (b. 1863)
- 1955 - Alfred Lépine, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
- 1972 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (b. 1887)
- 1972 - Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)
- 1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
- 1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
- 1976 - Fritz Lang, Austrian film director (b. 1890)
- 1978 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899)
- 1979 - Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
- 1986 - Roy Cohn, American politician (b. 1927)
- 1988 - Raymond Carver, American writer (b. 1938)
- 1988 - Joe Carcione, American consumer advocate (b. 1914)
- 1990 - Norman Mclean, American writer (b. 1902)
- 1992 - Michel Berger, French singer and songwriter (b. 1947)
- 1996 - Michel Debré, French politician (b. 1912)
- 1997 - William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1998 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (b. 1933)
- 2001 - Ron Townson, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) (b. 1933)
- 2003 - Don Estelle, British actor (b. 1933)
- 2003 - Mike Levey, American television personality (b. 1948)
- 2003 - Peter Safar, Austrian physician (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Don Tosti, American musician (b. 1923)
- 2004 - François Craenhals, Belgian comics artist (b. 1926)
Notes
- Ludwig Marcuse
- Fela Kuti
- Wayland Young
- William S. Burroughs
- Fritz Lang
- Philippe Soupault
- Raymond Carver
- Renaat Braem
- Irving Babbitt
- Fourteenth Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association
- Enrico Caruso
- Wild Bill Hickok
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Luigi Colani
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