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| + | * [[1679]] - The [[brigantine]] [[Le Griffon]], commissioned by [[René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]], is towed to the south-eastern end of the [[Niagara River]], to become the first ship to sail the upper [[Great Lakes]] of [[North America]]. | ||
| + | * [[1714]] - The first important victory of the [[Russian Navy]] - the [[Battle of Gangut]]. | ||
| + | * [[1782]] - [[George Washington]] orders the creation of the [[Badge of Military Merit]] to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic [[Purple Heart]]. | ||
| + | * [[1789]] - The [[United States War Department]] is established. | ||
| + | * [[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]] begins: [[Farmer]]s in the [[Monongahela Valley]] of [[Pennsylvania]] rebel against the federal tax on [[liquor]] and distilled drinks. | ||
| + | * [[1807]] - The [[Clermont]], designed by [[United States|American]] [[engineer]] [[Robert Fulton]] — embarked on its maiden voyage. | ||
| + | * [[1819]] - [[Simón Bolívar]] triumphs over [[Spain]] in the [[Battle of Boyacá]]. | ||
| + | * [[1879]] - The opening of the [[Poor Man's Palace]] in [[Manchester]]. | ||
| + | * [[1927]] - The [[Peace Bridge]] opens, between [[Fort Erie, Ontario]] and [[Buffalo, New York]]. | ||
| + | * [[1933]] - The [[Iraqi Government]] slaughtered over 3,000 [[Assyrians]] in the village of [[Sumail]]. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs day. | ||
| + | * [[1940]] - [[Alsace Lorraine]] is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during [[World War Two]] | ||
| + | * [[1942]] - [[World War II]]: [[Battle of Guadalcanal]] begins - [[U.S. Marines]] initiate the first [[United States|American]] offensive of the war with landings on [[Guadalcanal (Pacific Ocean island)|Guadalcanal]] and [[Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo|Tulagi]] in the [[Solomon Islands]]. | ||
| + | * [[1944]] - [[IBM]] dedicates the first program-controlled [[calculator]], the [[Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator]] (known best as the [[Harvard Mark I]]). | ||
| + | * [[1945]] - [[President]] [[Harry Truman]] announces the bombing of [[Hiroshima]] with an [[nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]] while returning from the [[Potsdam Conference]] aboard the heavy cruiser [[USS Augusta (CA-31)]] in the middle of the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. | ||
| + | * [[1947]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]]'s [[balsa wood]] raft the [[Kon-Tiki]], smashes into the [[reef]] at [[Raroia]] in the [[Tuamotu Islands]] after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the [[Pacific Ocean]] proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from [[South America]]. | ||
| + | * 1947 - The [[Bombay Municipal Corporation]] formally takes over the [[Bombay Electric Supply and Transport]] ([[BEST]]). | ||
| + | * [[1955]] - [[Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering]], the precursor to [[Sony]], begins selling its first [[Transistor radio]]s in [[Japan]]. | ||
| + | * [[1959]] - [[Cent (United States coin)]]: [[Lincoln Memorial]] Design on reverse debuted | ||
| + | * 1959 - [[Explorer program]]: [[Explorer 6]] launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]]. | ||
| + | * [[1960]] - [[Côte d'Ivoire]] becomes independent. | ||
| + | * [[1964]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]] giving [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] broad war powers to deal with [[North Vietnam]]ese attacks on [[United States|American]] forces. | ||
| + | * [[1966]] - [[Race riot]]s occur in [[Lansing, Michigan]]. | ||
| + | * [[1967]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[People's Republic of China]] agrees to give [[North Vietnam]] an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. | ||
| + | * [[1970]] - California judge [[Harold Haley]] is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free [[George Jackson (Black Panther)|George Jackson]] from police custody. | ||
| + | * [[1973]] - [[NBC]] airs the final day of the [[Watergate hearings]] on [[U.S.]] daytime television. | ||
| + | * [[1976]] - [[Viking program]]: [[Viking 2]] enters into orbit around [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. | ||
| + | * [[1978]] - [[United States]] [[President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] declares a federal emergency at [[Love Canal]]. | ||
| + | * [[1981]] -''[[The Washington Star]]'' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. | ||
| + | * [[1985]] - [[Takao Doi]], [[Mamoru Mohri]] and [[Chiaki Mukai]] are chosen to be [[Japan|Japan's]] first [[astronaut]]s. | ||
| + | * [[1988]] - Rioting in [[New York City]]'s [[Tompkins Square Park]]. | ||
| + | * [[1989]] - [[U.S. Congress]]man [[Mickey Leland]] (D-[[Texas|TX]]) and 15 others die in a [[plane crash]] in [[Ethiopia]]. | ||
| + | * [[1991]] - [[World Wide Web]] debuts as a publicly available service on the [[Internet]]. | ||
| + | * [[1997]] - [[Garth Brooks]] plays to 750,000 people in [[Central Park]]. | ||
| + | * [[1998]] - [[1998 U.S. embassy bombings]]: Bombing of the [[United States]] embassies in [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Tanzania]], and [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], kill 224 people and injure over 4,500. | ||
| + | * [[1999]] - A group of [[India]]n army veterans launch the [[political party]] [[Rashtriya Raksha Dal]]. | ||
| - | == Births == | + | ==Births== |
| + | * [[317]] - [[Constantius II]], Roman emperor (d. [[361]]) | ||
| + | * [[1400]] - [[Guillaume Dufay]], French composer (d. [[1474]]) | ||
| + | * [[1533]] - [[Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga]], Basque soldier and poet (d. [[1595]]) | ||
| + | * [[1560]] - [[Elizabeth Báthory]], Hungarian serial killer (d. [[1614]]) | ||
| + | * [[1574]] - [[Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick]], English writer (d. [[1649]]) | ||
| + | * [[1598]] - [[Georg Stiernhielm]], Swedish poet (d. [[1672]]) | ||
| + | * [[1726]] - [[James Bowdoin]], American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. [[1790]]) | ||
| + | * [[1742]] - [[Nathanael Greene]], American Revolutionary general (d. [[1786]]) | ||
| + | * [[1779]] - [[Louis de Freycinet]], French explorer (d. [[1842]]) | ||
| + | * 1779 - [[Carl Ritter]], German geographer (d. [[1859]]) | ||
| + | * [[1844]] - [[Auguste Michel-Lévy]], French geologist (d. [[1911]]) | ||
| + | * [[1860]] - [[Alan Leo]], British astrologer (d. [[1917]]) | ||
| + | * [[1867]] - [[Emil Nolde]], German painter (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| + | * [[1876]] - [[Mata Hari]], Dutch spy (d. [[1917]]) | ||
| + | * [[1877]] - [[Ulrich Salchow]], Swedish figure skater (d. [[1949]]) | ||
| + | * [[1885]] - [[Billie Burke]], American actress (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| + | * [[1901]] - [[Ann Harding]], American actress (d. [[1981]]) | ||
| + | * [[1903]] - [[Louis Leakey]], British archaeologist (d. [[1972]]) | ||
| + | * [[1904]] - [[Ralph Bunche]], American diplomat, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (d. [[1971]]) | ||
| + | * [[1907]] - [[Albert Kotin]], American [[abstract expressionist]] painter of the [[New York School]] (d. [[1980]]) | ||
| + | * [[1911]] - [[Nicholas Ray]], American actor, director and scenarist (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| + | * [[1913]] - [[George Van Eps]], noted American guitarist (d. [[1998]]) | ||
| + | * [[1921]] - [[Manitas de Plata]], Gypsy guitarist | ||
| + | * [[1925]] - [[M. S. Swaminathan]], Indian scientist | ||
| + | * 1925 - [[Felice and Boudleaux Bryant|Felice Bryant]], American country songwriter and singer (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| + | * [[1926]] - [[Stan Freberg]], American voice comedian | ||
| + | * [[1927]] - [[Edwin W. Edwards]], four-term Louisiana governor | ||
| + | * 1927 - [[Art Houtteman]], baseball player (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| + | * 1927 - [[Carl Switzer]], American child actor (d. [[1959]]) | ||
| + | * [[1928]] - [[Romeo Muller]], American screenwriter (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| + | * 1928 - [[James Randi]], Canadian magician | ||
| + | * [[1929]] - [[Don Larsen]], baseball player | ||
| + | * [[1931]] - [[Charles E. Rice]], Legal Scholar and Author | ||
| + | * [[1932]] - [[Abebe Bikila]], Ethiopan athlete (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| + | * 1932 - [[Maurice Rabb, Jr.|Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr.]], African American ophthalmologist | ||
| + | * 1932 - [[Edward Hardwicke]], British actor | ||
| + | * [[1933]] - [[Eddie Firmani]], South African football(soccer) player and coach | ||
| + | * [[1936]] - [[Rahsaan Roland Kirk]], American saxophonist | ||
| + | * [[1939]] - [[Anjanette Comer]], American actress | ||
| + | * [[1940]] - [[Jean-Luc Dehaene]], [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] | ||
| + | * [[1942]] - [[Garrison Keillor]], American writer and radio host | ||
| + | * 1942 - [[B.J. Thomas]], American singer | ||
| + | * 1942 - [[Caetano Veloso]], Brazilian musician | ||
| + | * 1942 - [[Carlos Monzón]], Argentine boxer | ||
| + | * [[1943]] - [[Dino Valente]], American musician [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]] (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| + | * 1943 - [[Alain Corneau]], French film director | ||
| + | * [[1944]] - [[David Rasche]], American actor | ||
| + | * [[1945]] - [[Alan Page]], American football player | ||
| + | * [[1946]] - [[Ed Seykota]], [[commodity market|commodities]] and [[Futures contract|futures]] [[trader (finance)|trader]] | ||
| + | * [[1947]] - [[Franciscus Henri]] (Franciscus Henricus Antheunis), children's entertainer, composer and artist | ||
| + | * [[1948]] - [[Greg Chappell]], Australian test cricket player, captain and coach | ||
| + | * [[1949]] - [[Walid Jumblatt]], Leader of the Lebanese Druze | ||
| + | * [[1952]] - [[Alexei Sayle]], British comedian | ||
| + | * [[1953]] - [[Greg Carmichael]], British guitarist | ||
| + | * 1953 - [[Anne Fadiman]], American writer, daughter of [[Clifton Fadiman]] | ||
| + | * [[1954]] - [[Jonathan Pollard]], Israeli spy | ||
| + | * [[1955]] - [[Vladimir Sorokin]], Russian writer | ||
| + | * 1955 - [[Wayne Knight]], American actor | ||
| + | * [[1957]] - [[Alexander Dityatin]], Soviet gymnast | ||
| + | * [[1958]] - [[Bruce Dickinson]], English singer ([[Iron Maiden]]) | ||
| + | * [[1958]] - [[Alberto Salazar]], Member, American National Distance Running Hall of Fame | ||
| + | * [[1960]] - [[David Duchovny]], American actor | ||
| + | * [[1961]] - [[Yelena Davydova]], Soviet gymnast | ||
| + | * [[1962]] - [[Bruno Pelletier]], [[Québécois]] singer | ||
| + | * [[1963]] - [[Harold Perrineau Jr.]], American actor | ||
| + | * [[1964]] - [[Michael Weishan]], American TV host, author | ||
| + | * [[1966]] - [[Jimmy Wales]], American founder of Wikipedia | ||
| + | * [[1967]] - [[Jason Grimsley]], American baseball player | ||
| + | * [[1971]] - [[Rachel York]], American actress and singer | ||
| + | * [[1973]] - [[Danny Graves]], American baseball player | ||
| + | * [[1975]] - [[Edgar Renteria]], Colombian baseball player | ||
| + | * 1975 - [[David Hicks]], Australian alleged terrorist | ||
| + | * 1975 - [[Charlize Theron]], South African actress | ||
| + | * [[1976]] - [[Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos]], Greek footballer | ||
| + | * [[1978]] - [[Jamey Jasta]], American singer ([[Hatebreed]]) | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Alexandre Aja]], French director | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Vanness Wu]], Taiwanese singer | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Linsey Dawn McKenzie]], English model and porn star | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Cirroc Lofton]], American actor | ||
| + | * 1978 - [[Shirley Yeung]], Hong Kong actress | ||
| + | * [[1980]] - [[Aurélie Claudel]], French supermodel | ||
| + | * [[1982]] - [[Yana Klochkova]], Ukrainian swimmer | ||
| + | * 1982 - [[Vasileios Spanoulis]], Greek basketball player | ||
| + | * [[1983]] - [[Tina O'Brien]], British actress | ||
| + | * 1983 - [[Christian Chávez]], Mexican singer and actor, member of RBD | ||
| + | *[[1987]] - [[Sidney Crosby]], Canadian hockey player | ||
| + | * [[1989]] - [[Sherman Cárdenas]], Colombian football player | ||
| + | * [[1996]] - [[Tessa Allen]], American actress | ||
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| + | * [[461]] - [[Majorian]], [[Roman Emperor]] (assassinated) (b. [[420]]) | ||
| + | * [[479]] - [[Emperor Yūryaku]] of Japan | ||
| + | * [[1106]] - [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1050]]) | ||
| + | * [[1485]] - [[Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany]], Scottish prince | ||
| + | * [[1613]] - [[Thomas Fleming (judge)|Thomas Fleming]], English judge (b. [[1544]]) | ||
| + | * [[1616]] - [[Vincenzo Scamozzi]], Italian architect (b. [[1548]]) | ||
| + | * [[1635]] - [[Friedrich von Spee]], German writer (b. [[1591]]) | ||
| + | * [[1639]] - [[Martin van den Hove]], Dutch scientist (b. [[1605]]) | ||
| + | * [[1661]] - [[Jin Shengtan]], Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. [[1608]]) | ||
| + | * [[1817]] - [[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours]], French industrialist (b. [[1739]]) | ||
| + | * [[1834]] - [[Joseph Marie Jacquard]], French weaver and inventor (b. [[1752]]) | ||
| + | * [[1848]] - [[Jöns Jakob Berzelius]], Swedish chemist (b. [[1779]]) | ||
| + | * [[1855]] - [[Mariano Arista]], [[President of Mexico]] (b. [[1802]]) | ||
| + | * [[1912]] - [[François-Alphonse Forel]], Swiss hydrologist (b. [[1841]]) | ||
| + | * [[1917]] - [[Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning]], first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. [[1891]]) | ||
| + | * [[1938]] - [[Konstantin Stanislavski]], Russian/Soviet actor, producer, dramatist (b. [[1863]]) | ||
| + | * [[1941]] - [[Rabindranath Tagore]], Indian author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1861]]) | ||
| + | * [[1957]] - [[Oliver Hardy]], American comedian and actor (b. [[1892]]) | ||
| + | * [[1969]] - [[Joseph Kosma]], French composer ([[Autumn Leaves (song)|Autumn Leaves]]) (b. [[1905]]) | ||
| + | * [[1972]] - [[Joi Lansing]], American model and actress (b. [[1929]]) | ||
| + | * [[1974]] - [[Rosario Castellanos]], Mexican poet (b. [[1925]]) | ||
| + | * 1974 - [[Sylvio Mantha]], professional ice hockey player (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| + | * [[1984]] - [[Esther Phillips]], American singer (b. [[1935]]) | ||
| + | * [[1985]] - [[Grayson Hall]], American actress (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| + | * [[1987]] - [[Camille Chamoun]], Lebanese President (b. [[1900]]) | ||
| + | * [[1989]] - [[Mickey Leland]], American politician, [[United States Congressional Delegations from Texas|United States Congressman from Texas]] (b. [[1944]]) | ||
| + | * [[1992]] - [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]], American actor (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| + | * [[1994]] - [[Larry Martyn]], comedy actor (b. [[1934]]) | ||
| + | * [[1995]] - [[Brigid Brophy]], British author (b. [[1929]]) | ||
| + | * [[1999]] - [[Brion James]], American actor (b. [[1945]]) | ||
| + | * [[2003]] - [[Mickey McDermott]], baseball player (b. [[1929]]) | ||
| + | * [[2004]] - [[Red Adair]], American firefighter (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| + | * 2004 - [[Colin Bibby]], English ornithologist (b. [[1948]]) | ||
| + | * [[2005]] - [[Peter Jennings]], Canadian-born news anchor (b. [[1938]]) | ||
| + | * [[2006]] - [[Mary Anderson Bain]], American [[New Deal]] politician (b. [[1911]]) | ||
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| == Notes == | == Notes == | ||
| *[[Elizabeth Báthory]] | *[[Elizabeth Báthory]] | ||
| *[[Mata Hari]] | *[[Mata Hari]] | ||
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
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Art and culture
- 1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
- 1714 - The first important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Gangut.
- 1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
- 1789 - The United States War Department is established.
- 1794 - Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
- 1807 - The Clermont, designed by American engineer Robert Fulton — embarked on its maiden voyage.
- 1819 - Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
- 1879 - The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester.
- 1927 - The Peace Bridge opens, between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
- 1933 - The Iraqi Government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes Assyrian Martyrs day.
- 1940 - Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) during World War Two
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Guadalcanal begins - U.S. Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
- 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
- 1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
- 1947 - The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
- 1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan.
- 1959 - Cent (United States coin): Lincoln Memorial Design on reverse debuted
- 1959 - Explorer program: Explorer 6 launched from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1960 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
- 1966 - Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant.
- 1970 - California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
- 1973 - NBC airs the final day of the Watergate hearings on U.S. daytime television.
- 1976 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
- 1978 - United States President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal.
- 1981 -The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
- 1985 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
- 1988 - Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
- 1989 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
- 1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
- 1997 - Garth Brooks plays to 750,000 people in Central Park.
- 1998 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500.
- 1999 - A group of Indian army veterans launch the political party Rashtriya Raksha Dal.
Births
- 317 - Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
- 1400 - Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474)
- 1533 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)
- 1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
- 1574 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)
- 1598 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
- 1726 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
- 1742 - Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (d. 1786)
- 1779 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842)
- 1779 - Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
- 1844 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
- 1860 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
- 1867 - Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
- 1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
- 1877 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
- 1885 - Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1901 - Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1903 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
- 1904 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1971)
- 1907 - Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter of the New York School (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Nicholas Ray, American actor, director and scenarist (d. 1979)
- 1913 - George Van Eps, noted American guitarist (d. 1998)
- 1921 - Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
- 1925 - M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
- 1925 - Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003)
- 1926 - Stan Freberg, American voice comedian
- 1927 - Edwin W. Edwards, four-term Louisiana governor
- 1927 - Art Houtteman, baseball player (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Carl Switzer, American child actor (d. 1959)
- 1928 - Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992)
- 1928 - James Randi, Canadian magician
- 1929 - Don Larsen, baseball player
- 1931 - Charles E. Rice, Legal Scholar and Author
- 1932 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopan athlete (d. 1973)
- 1932 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist
- 1932 - Edward Hardwicke, British actor
- 1933 - Eddie Firmani, South African football(soccer) player and coach
- 1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist
- 1939 - Anjanette Comer, American actress
- 1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1942 - Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
- 1942 - B.J. Thomas, American singer
- 1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
- 1942 - Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer
- 1943 - Dino Valente, American musician Quicksilver Messenger Service (d. 1994)
- 1943 - Alain Corneau, French film director
- 1944 - David Rasche, American actor
- 1945 - Alan Page, American football player
- 1946 - Ed Seykota, commodities and futures trader
- 1947 - Franciscus Henri (Franciscus Henricus Antheunis), children's entertainer, composer and artist
- 1948 - Greg Chappell, Australian test cricket player, captain and coach
- 1949 - Walid Jumblatt, Leader of the Lebanese Druze
- 1952 - Alexei Sayle, British comedian
- 1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist
- 1953 - Anne Fadiman, American writer, daughter of Clifton Fadiman
- 1954 - Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
- 1955 - Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer
- 1955 - Wayne Knight, American actor
- 1957 - Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
- 1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
- 1958 - Alberto Salazar, Member, American National Distance Running Hall of Fame
- 1960 - David Duchovny, American actor
- 1961 - Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
- 1962 - Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
- 1963 - Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
- 1964 - Michael Weishan, American TV host, author
- 1966 - Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
- 1967 - Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
- 1971 - Rachel York, American actress and singer
- 1973 - Danny Graves, American baseball player
- 1975 - Edgar Renteria, Colombian baseball player
- 1975 - David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist
- 1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
- 1976 - Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer
- 1978 - Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
- 1978 - Alexandre Aja, French director
- 1978 - Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
- 1978 - Linsey Dawn McKenzie, English model and porn star
- 1978 - Cirroc Lofton, American actor
- 1978 - Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress
- 1980 - Aurélie Claudel, French supermodel
- 1982 - Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1982 - Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
- 1983 - Tina O'Brien, British actress
- 1983 - Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor, member of RBD
- 1987 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
- 1989 - Sherman Cárdenas, Colombian football player
- 1996 - Tessa Allen, American actress
Deaths
- 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
- 479 - Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
- 1106 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
- 1485 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
- 1613 - Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
- 1616 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
- 1635 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
- 1639 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
- 1661 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
- 1817 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
- 1834 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
- 1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
- 1855 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
- 1912 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
- 1917 - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
- 1938 - Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet actor, producer, dramatist (b. 1863)
- 1941 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
- 1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
- 1969 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
- 1972 - Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
- 1974 - Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
- 1974 - Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
- 1984 - Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
- 1985 - Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1987 - Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
- 1989 - Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)
- 1992 - John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1994 - Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
- 1995 - Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
- 1999 - Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
- 2003 - Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
- 2004 - Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
- 2004 - Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
- 2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
- 2006 - Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
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