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*[[1946]] - [[Gianni Versace]], Italian fashion designer (d. [[1997]]) | *[[1946]] - [[Gianni Versace]], Italian fashion designer (d. [[1997]]) | ||
*[[1981]] - [[Britney Spears]], American singer | *[[1981]] - [[Britney Spears]], American singer | ||
- | *[[1982]] - [[Matt Ware]], American football player | ||
- | * 1982 - [[Pizon]], American rapper/producer | ||
- | * 1982 - [[Hristos Karipidis]], Greek footballer | ||
- | *[[1983]] - [[Bibiana Candelas]], Mexican volleyball player | ||
- | * 1983 - [[Chris Burke (footballer)]], Scottish footballer plays for [[Rangers F.C.]] | ||
- | * 1983 - [[Aaron Rodgers]], American football player for [[Green Bay Packers]] | ||
- | *[[1984]] - [[Jess Cozzetta]], Casting PA([[Stickfigure Productions]]) | ||
- | *[[1985]] - [[Dorell Wright]], American basketball player | ||
- | *[[1986]] - [[Claudiu Keserü]], Romanian football player ([[FC Nantes Atlantique]]) | ||
- | *[[1987]] - [[Teairra Mari]], American R&B singer | ||
- | *[[1988]] - [[Alfred Enoch]], British Actor | ||
- | *[[1989]] - [[Cassie Steele]], Canadian actress | ||
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- 1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
Births
- 1859 - Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)
- 1891 - Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)
- 1923 - Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
- 1931 - Edwin Meese, American politician
- 1946 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
- 1981 - Britney Spears, American singer
Deaths
- 1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan (b. 1297)
- 1381 - John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic
- 1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria (b. 1418)
- 1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1416)
- 1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (b. 1453)
- 1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror (b. 1485)
- 1552 - Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (b. 1506)
- 1615 - Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general
- 1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (b. 1588)
- 1694 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (b. 1622)
- 1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
- 1726 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (b. 1665)
- 1747 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)
- 1748 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
- 1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (b. 1720)
- 1814 - Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
- 1844 - Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (b. 1768)
- 1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
- 1859 - John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (b. 1800)
- 1860 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
- 1892 - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
- 1918 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
- 1924 - Kazimieras Būga, Lithuanian philologist (b. 1879)
- 1931 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
- 1936 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
- 1943 - Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1902)
- 1944 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
- 1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (b. 1876)
- 1950 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (b. 1917)
- 1957 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
- 1963 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
- 1963 - Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (b. 1924)
- 1968 - Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (b. 1902)
- 1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (b. 1881)
- 1974 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
- 1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
- 1980 - Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
- 1980 - Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (b. 1914)
- 1982 - Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1933)
- 1983 - Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)
- 1985 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914)
- 1985 - Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (b. 1922)
- 1986 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (b. 1917)
- 1987 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
- 1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (b. 1908)
- 1993 - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (b. 1949)
- 1995 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913)
- 1997 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
- 1997 - Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (b. 1953)
- 2002 - Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
- 2002 - Arno Peters, German historian (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Alicia Markova, British ballerina (b. 1910)
- 2005 - Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (b. 1919)
- 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (b. 1980)
- 2005 - Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1948)
- 2006 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (b. 1947)
Notes
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