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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
 +*[[1956]] - ''[[This is Tomorrow]]'' exposition opens in London.
*[[1966]] - The [[Beatles]] landmark album ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]'' is released in the United States. *[[1966]] - The [[Beatles]] landmark album ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]'' is released in the United States.
==Births== ==Births==
-*[[1079]] - [[Emperor Horikawa]] of Japan (d. [[1107]]) 
-*[[1605]] - [[Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore]], colonial Governor of Maryland (d. [[1675]]) 
-*[[1646]] - [[Godfrey Kneller]], German-born painter (d. [[1723]]) 
*[[1673]] - [[John Ker]], Scottish spy (d. [[1726]]) *[[1673]] - [[John Ker]], Scottish spy (d. [[1726]])
-*[[1693]] - [[Laurent Belissen]], French composer (d. [[1762]])+*[[1848]] - [[Marcellus Emants]], Dutch writer (d. [[1924]])
-*[[1694]] - [[Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)|Francis Hutcheson]], Irish philosopher (d. [[1746]])+*[[1940]] - [[Just Jaeckin]], French filmmaker
-*[[1720]] - [[Carl Fredrik Pechlin]], Swedish politician (d. [[1796]])+
-*[[1807]] - [[Emilie Flygare-Carlén]], Swedish novelist (d. [[1892]])+
-*[[1814]] - [[Esther Hobart Morris|Esther Morris]], first U. S. female judge (d. [[1902]])+
-*[[1839]] - [[Nelson Miles]], U.S. general (d. [[1925]])+
-*[[1866]] - [[Matthew Henson]], Arctic explorer (d. [[1955]])+
-*[[1875]] - [[Artur da Silva Bernardes]], [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1955]])+
-*[[1879]] - [[Emiliano Zapata]], Mexican revolutionary (d. [[1919]])+
-*[[1880]] - [[Earle Page]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1961]])+
-*[[1881]] - [[Albert Kesselring]], German field marshal (d. [[1960]])+
-* 1881 - [[Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist]], German field marshal (d. [[1954]])+
-*[[1882]] - [[Ladislas Starevich]], Polish stop-motion animation filmmaker (d. [[1965]])+
-*[[1884]] - [[Sara Teasdale]], American poet (d. [[1933]])+
-*[[1891]] - [[Adolf Busch]], German violinist (d. [[1952]])+
-*[[1892]] - [[Rafael Moreno Aranzadi]], Spanish footballer (d. [[1922]])+
-*[[1898]] - [[Alexis Minotis]], Greek actor (d. [[1990]])+
-*[[1896]] - [[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]], American author (d. [[1953]])+
-*[[1901]] - [[Ernest O. Lawrence]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])+
-*[[1902]] - [[Paul Dirac]], English physicist [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1984]])+
-*[[1904]] - [[Achille Varzi]], Italian race car driver (d. [[1948]])+
-*[[1905]] - [[André Jolivet]], French composer (d. [[1974]])+
-*[[1907]] - [[Benny Carter]], American musician (d. [[2003]])+
-*[[1908]] - [[Arthur Goldberg]], U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. [[1980]])+
-*[[1910]] - [[Sylvia Sidney]], American actress (d. [[1999]])+
-*[[1911]] - [[Rosetta LeNoire]], American actress (d. [[2002]])+
-*[[1915]] - [[Jumbo Elliott]], American track coach (d. [[1981]])+
-*[[1919]] - [[Dino De Laurentiis]], Italian film producer+
-*[[1920]] - [[Leo Chiosso]], Italian lyricist (d. [[2006]])+
-* 1920 - [[Jimmy Witherspoon]], American singer (d. [[1997]])+
-* 1920 - [[Carol Lambrino]], son of [[Carol II of Romania]] and [[Zizi Lambrino]] (d. [[2006]])+
-*[[1921]] - [[William Asher]], American film producer +
-* 1921 - [[John Herbert Chapman]], British physicist (d. [[1979]])+
-* 1921 - [[Webb Pierce]], American singer (d. [[1991]])+
-* 1921 - [[Vulimiri Ramalingaswami]], Indian medical scientist (d. [[2001]])+
-* 1921 - [[Esther Williams]], American actress and swimmer+
-*[[1922]] - [[Rory Calhoun]], American actor (d. [[1999]])+
-* 1922 - [[Rudi Gernreich]], Austrian-born fashion designer (d. [[1985]])+
-*[[1925]] - [[Alija Izetbegovic]], President of [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]] (d. [[2003]])+
-*[[1926]] - [[Richard Anderson]], American actor+
-*[[1927]] - [[Johnny Temple]], American baseball player (d. [[1994]])+
-*[[1928]] - [[Don Burrows]], Australian musician+
-*[[1929]] - [[Larisa Bogoraz]], Soviet dissident (d. [[2004]])+
-* 1929 - [[Ronald Biggs]], British criminal+
-*[[1931]] - Sir [[Roger Penrose]], British physicist+
-*[[1932]] - [[Mel Tillis]], American singer+
-* 1932 - [[Luis García Meza Tejada]], Bolivian dictator+
-*[[1935]] - [[Donald P. Bellisario]], American television producer+
-* 1935 - [[John Laws]], Australia radio personality+
-*[[1936]] - [[Keith Barron]], English actor+
-* 1936 - [[Frank Howard (baseball player)|Frank Howard]], American baseball player+
-*[[1937]] - [[Dustin Hoffman]], American actor+
-*[[1938]] - [[Connie Stevens]], American singer and actress+
-*[[1939]] - [[Alexander Watson]], American ambassador and diplomat+
-*[[1940]] - [[Dennis Tito]], first space tourist+
-*[[1944]] - [[Brooke Bundy]], American actress+
-*[[1947]] - [[Ken Dryden]], Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian+
-* 1947 - [[José Cruz]], Puerto Rican baseball player+
-*[[1948]] - [[Svetlana Savitskaya]], Russian cosmonaut+
-*[[1949]] - [[Keith Carradine]], American actor+
-* 1949 - [[Ricardo Londoño]], Colombian racing driver+
*[[1951]] - [[Mamoru Oshii]], Japanese film director *[[1951]] - [[Mamoru Oshii]], Japanese film director
-* 1951 - [[Randy Shilts]], American journalist and author (d. [[1994]]) 
-*[[1952]] - [[Jostein Gaarder]], Norwegian author 
-* 1952 - [[Robin Quivers]], American radio personality 
-*[[1953]] - [[Don Most]], American actor 
-* 1953 - [[Nigel Mansell]], English one-time [[Formula One]] World Champion 
-*[[1955]] - [[Herbert Prohaska]], Austrian footballer 
-*[[1956]] - [[Branscombe Richmond]], American actor 
-*[[1958]] - [[Deborah Norville]], American television host 
-*[[1960]] - [[Ulrich Maly]], Mayor of Nuremberg 
-*[[1961]] - [[The Edge]], Irish guitarist ([[U2]]) 
-* 1961 - [[Daniel House]], Owner [[C/Z Records]] 
-* 1961 - [[Rikki Rockett]], American drummer ([[Poison (band)|Poison]]) 
-*[[1962]] - [[Mike Zanier]], Canadian ice hockey player 
-*[[1963]] - [[Jon Turteltaub]], American director 
-* 1963 - [[Stephen Walkom]], Canadian ice hockey official and executive 
-*[[1964]] - [[Anastasia Ashman]], American writer 
-*[[1966]] - [[Chris Eubank]], English boxer 
-* 1966 - [[John Hudek]], American baseball player 
-*[[1967]] - [[Marcelo Balboa]], American soccer player 
-* 1967 - [[Lee Unkrich]], American director and film editor 
-*[[1969]] - [[Faye Wong]], Hong Kong singer and actress 
-*[[1970]] - [[Trev Alberts]], American football player 
-* 1970 - [[Pascal Duquenne]], Belgian actor 
-*[[1972]] - [[Axel Merckx]], Belgian bicycle racer 
-* 1972 - [[Lüpüs Thünder]], American musician ([[The Bloodhound Gang (band)|The Bloodhound Gang]]) 
-*[[1973]] - [[Scott Stapp]], American singer ([[Creed (band)|Creed]]) 
-* 1973 - [[Senta Moses]], American actress 
-*[[1974]] - [[Ulises De la Cruz]], Ecuadoran footballer 
-* 1974 - [[Scott D'Amore]], professional wrestler and manager 
-* 1974 - [[Andy Priaulx]], British racing driver 
-*[[1976]] - [[JC Chasez]], American singer ([[*NSYNC]]) 
-* 1976 - [[Tawny Cypress]], American actress 
-* 1976 - [[Drew Lachey]], American singer 
-* 1976 - [[Seung-Yeop Lee]], Korean baseball player 
-*[[1977]] - [[Kurt Bernard]], Costa Rican footballer 
-* 1977 - [[Rocky Thompson]], Canadian ice hockey player 
-* 1977 - [[Szilard Nemeth]], Slovak footballer 
-*[[1978]] - [[Louis Saha]], French footballer 
-* 1978 - [[Alan Maybury]], Irish footballer 
-*[[1979]] - [[Richard Harwood]], British cellist 
-* 1979 - [[Paris Latsis]], Greek shipping heir 
-*[[1980]] - [[Sabine Klaschka]], German tennis player 
-* 1980 - [[Pat Noonan]], American soccer player 
-* 1980 - [[Michael Urie]], American actor and director 
-*[[1981]] - [[Vanessa Amorosi]], Australian singer and songwriter 
-* 1981 - [[Roger Federer]], Swiss tennis player 
-* 1981 - [[Meagan Good]], American actress 
-* 1981 - [[Kaori Iida]], Japanese singer and actress 
-* 1981 - [[Bradley McIntosh]], British pop singer 
-*[[1983]] - [[Guy Burnet]], British actor 
-*[[1985]] - [[Brayan Ruiz]], Costa Rican soccer player 
-*[[1986]] - [[Peyton List]], American actress 
-*[[1987]] - [[Katie Leung]], Scottish actress 
-*[[1988]] - [[Princess Beatrice of York]] 
-*[[1989]] - [[Sesil Karatantcheva]], Bulgarian tennis player 
-*[[1995]] - [[Malin Reitan]], Norwegian singer 
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==Deaths== ==Deaths==
-* [[869]] - [[Lothair II of Lotharingia]] (b. [[825]]) 
-*[[1445]] - [[Oswald von Wolkenstein]], Austrian composer 
-*[[1553]] - [[Girolamo Fracastoro]], Italian physician (b. [[1478]]) 
-*[[1555]] - [[Oronce Finé]], French mathematician (b. [[1494]]) 
-*[[1588]] - [[Alonso Sánchez Coello]], Spanish painter 
-*[[1604]] - [[Horio Tadauji]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1578]]) 
-*[[1631]] - [[Konstantinas Sirvydas]], Lithuanian lexicographer (b. [[1579]]) 
-*[[1684]] - [[George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer]] (b. [[1622]]) 
-*[[1759]] - [[Carl Heinrich Graun]], German composer (b. [[1704]]) 
-*[[1827]] - [[George Canning]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1770]]) 
-*[[1828]] - [[Carl Peter Thunberg]], Swedish naturalist (b. [[1743]]) 
-*[[1879]] - [[Immanuel Hermann Fichte]], German philosopher (b. [[1797]]) 
-*[[1887]] - [[Alexander William Doniphan]], American lawyer and soldier (b. [[1808]]) 
*[[1897]] - [[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss art historian (b. [[1818]]) *[[1897]] - [[Jacob Burckhardt]], Swiss art historian (b. [[1818]])
-*[[1898]] - [[Eugène Boudin]], French painter (b. [[1824]]) 
-*[[1902]] - [[James Tissot]], French artist (b. [[1836]]) 
-*[[1911]] - [[William P. Frye]], American politician (b. [[1830]]) 
*[[1933]] - [[Adolf Loos]], Austrian architect (b. [[1870]]) *[[1933]] - [[Adolf Loos]], Austrian architect (b. [[1870]])
-*[[1940]] - [[Johnny Dodds]], American musician (b. [[1892]]) 
-*[[1944]] - [[Chaim Soutine]], Russian painter (b. [[1894]]) 
-* 1944 - [[Erwin von Witzleben]], German field marshal (b. [[1881]]) 
-*[[1944]] - [[Michael Wittmann]], German Tank ace and [[Iron Cross|Knight's Cross]] holder, [[killed in action]], [[Normandy]]. (b. [[1914]]) 
-*[[1947]] - [[Anton Ivanovich Denikin]], Russian general (b. [[1872]]) 
*[[1965]] - [[Shirley Jackson]], American author (b. [[1916]]) *[[1965]] - [[Shirley Jackson]], American author (b. [[1916]])
-*[[1969]] - [[Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer]], German eugenicist and nazi physician (b. [[1896]])+*[[1982]] - [[Ferre Grignard]], Belgian musician (b. [[1932]])
-*[[1972]] - [[Andrea Feldman]], American actor (b. [[1948]])+
-*[[1973]] - [[Vilhelm Moberg]], Swedish author and historian (b. [[1898]])+
-*[[1975]] - [[Julian "Cannonball" Adderley]], American jazz saxophonist (b. [[1928]])+
-*[[1977]] - [[Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian]], [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1889]])+
-*[[1982]] - [[Eric Brandon]], British racing driver (b. [[1920]])+
*[[1985]] - [[Louise Brooks]], American actress (b. [[1906]]) *[[1985]] - [[Louise Brooks]], American actress (b. [[1906]])
-*[[1987]] - [[Danilo Blanuša]], Croatian mathematician (b. [[1903]]) 
-*[[1988]] - [[Alan Napier]], English actor (b. [[1903]]) 
-* 1988 - [[Ramón Valdés]], Brazilian actor (b. [[1923]]) 
-*[[1991]] - [[James Irwin]], astronaut (b. [[1930]]) 
-*[[1992]] - [[Grand Ayatollah]] [[Abul-Qasim Khoei]], considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death  
-*[[1996]] - [[Nevill Mott]], [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize Laureate]] (b. [[1905]]) 
*[[2004]] - [[Fay Wray]], American actress (b. [[1907]]) *[[2004]] - [[Fay Wray]], American actress (b. [[1907]])
-* 2004 - [[Dimitris Papamichael]], Greek actor (b. [[1934]]) 
-*[[2005]] - [[Barbara Bel Geddes]], American actress (b. [[1922]]) 
-* 2005 - [[John H. Johnson]], African-American publisher (b. [[1918]]) 
-* 2005 - [[Gene Mauch]], American athlete (b. [[1925]]) 
-* 2005 - [[Monica Sjöö]], Swedish artist (b. [[1938]]) 
-* 2005 - [[Ilse Werner]], German actress (b. [[1921]]) 
-* 2005 - [[Ahmed Deedat]], Islamic scholar (b. [[1918]]) 
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-== Notes == 
-*[[Adolf Loos]] 
-*[[Marcellus Emants]] 
-*[[Ferre Grignard]] 
-*[[Just Jaeckin]] 
-*[[Louise Brooks]] 
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