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Art and culture

• 1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French.
• 1917 - Parade ballet by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau premiered in Paris.
• 1964 - Mods and Rockers jailed after seaside riots in the U. K..

Births

• 1883 - Walter Gropius, German architect
• 1912 - Perry Como, American singer
• 1966 - Alton Miller, American techno and house music musician.

Deaths

• 1980 - Ian Curtis, English musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
• 1999 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)

Events

• 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
• 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.
• 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
• 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.

Births

• 1610 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
• 1868 – Nicholas II of Russia, Tsar of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
• 1883 – Walter Gropius, German architect (d. 1969)

• 1887 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
• 1889 – Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
• 1891 – Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Ezio Pinza, Italian-born bass (d. 1957)
• 1897 – Frank Capra, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Meredith Willson, American composer (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Jacob K. Javits, American politician (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1907 – Carl Mydans, American photographer (d. 2004)
• 1909 – Fred Perry, British former tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1911 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Richard Brooks, American film director, writer and producer (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (d. 2000)
• 1913 – Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1913 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
• 1918 – George Welch, American pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
• 1918 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
• 1920 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1922 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Bill Macy, American actor
• 1922 – Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
• 1923 – Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Jean-Louis Roux, French Canadian actor and artistic director
• 1924 – Priscilla Pointer, American actress
• 1924 – Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster
• 1926 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor (d. 1980)
• 1928 – Pernell Roberts, American actor
• 1929 – Jack Sanford, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Warren Rudman, American politician
• 1931 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
• 1931 – Robert Morse, American actor
• 1933 – Bernadette Chirac, French politician
• 1934 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor and television executive
• 1937 – Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
• 1937 – Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman
• 1939 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
• 1939 – Gordon O'Connor, Canadian politician
• 1940 – Gaston Laperse, Belgian stone sculptor
• 1941 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Miriam Margolyes, British actress
• 1942 – Albert Hammond, British musician and composer
• 1942 – Nobby Stiles, English footballer
• 1943 – James Reiher, American professional wrestler
• 1944 – W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001)
• 1946 – Bruce Gilbert, English musician (Wire)
• 1946 – Frank Hsieh, former Premier of Taiwan
• 1946 – Reggie Jackson, American baseball player
• 1946 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1947 – John Bruton, ninth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
• 1948 – Tom Udall, American politician
• 1948 – Yi Munyol, South Korean writer
• 1949 – Rick Wakeman, English composer and musician (Yes)
• 1949 – Bill Wallace, Canadian musician (The Guess Who)
• 1950 – Thomas Gottschalk, German television show host
• 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
• 1951 – Jim Sundberg, American baseball player
• 1952 – Diane Duane, American writer
• 1952 – George Strait, American musician
• 1952 – Jeana Yeager, American aviator
• 1954 – Reinhold Heil, German composer
• 1955 – Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
• 1957 – Michael Cretu, German musician (Enigma)
• 1958 – Toyah Willcox, English actor and singer
• 1959 – Jay Wells, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1960 – Yannick Noah, French tennis player
• 1961 – Jim Bowden, American baseball executive
• 1962 – Mike Whitmarsh, American Volleyball Player
• 1962 – Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer
• 1962 – Sandra Cretu, German singer
• 1962 – Mike Darnell, American television executive
• 1963 – Marty McSorley, hockey player
• 1965 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995)
• 1966 – Michael Tait, American musician (dc Talk, Tait)
• 1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German F1 driver
• 1967 – Rob Base, American rapper
• 1969 – Martika, Cuban-American singer
• 1970 – Tina Fey, American writer/actress
• 1971 – Brad Friedel, American soccer player
• 1971 – Desiree Horton, American helicopter pilot/television reporter
• 1971 – Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese racing driver
• 1972 – Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Dario Franchitti, Scottish racecar driver
• 1974 – Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player
• 1975 – John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
• 1975 – Jack Johnson, American musician
• 1975 – Peter Iwers, Swedish bass player (In Flames)
• 1976 – Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Lee Hendrie, English footballer
• 1977 – Danny Mills, English footballer
• 1978 – Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• 1978 – Marcus Giles, American baseball player
• 1979 – Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1979 – Michal Martikán, Slovak slalom canoiest
• 1979 – David Nail, country singer
• 1979 – Julián Speroni, Argentine footballer
• 1979 – Milivoje Novakovič, Slovenian footballer
• 1980 – Jeff Roehl, American football player
• 1980 – Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer and model
• 1980 – Aileen Campbell, Scottish Politician
• 1981 – Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer
• 1982 – Jason Brown, English footballer
• 1983 – Gary O'Neil, English footballer
• 1983 – Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Vince Young, American football player
• 1984 – Scarlett Keegan, American model and actress
• 1984 – Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
• 1984 – Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
• 1986 – Ryan Lamb, English rugby union player
• 1987 – Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and model
• 1988 – Ryan Cooley, Canadian television actor
• 1988 – Koji Seto Japanese actor and singer
• 1992 – Spencer Breslin, American actor

Deaths

• 1401 – Władysław Opolczyk (Template:Lang-de, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 – 1378, count palatine of Poland
• 1450 – Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1397)
• 1550 – John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (b. 1498)
• 1551 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (d. 1486)
• 1584 – Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
• 1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (b. 1623)
• 1675 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
• 1692 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
• 1733 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1761)
• 1780 – Charles Hardy, British governor of Newfoundland
• 1781 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru (b. 1742)
• 1799 – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
• 1800 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b. 1721)
• 1808 – Elijah Craig, American minister and inventor
• 1829 – Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (b. 1803)
• 1844 – Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
• 1889 – Isabella Glyn Dallas, Scottish Shakepearean actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 – Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1909 – George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1910 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
• 1927 – Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (b. 1872)
• 1941 – Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1963 – Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
• 1967 – Andy Clyde, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
• 1973 – Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)
• 1975 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Ian Curtis, English musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
• 1980 – Harry Truman, victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1896)
• 1980 – David A. Johnston, a U.S. Volcanologist was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1949)
• 1980 – Reid Blackburn, a photojournalist for National Geographic was also a victim of Mount St. Helens eruption (b. 1952)
• 1981 – Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 – William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Skip Stephenson, American TV personality (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Alexander Godunov, Russian ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
• 1999 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
• 1999 – Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician and arranger (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi, Muslim scholar
• 2002 – Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican beauty contest organizer (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Barb Tarbox, Canadian anti-smoking crusader (b. 1961)
• 2004 – Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Andrew Martinez, U.C. Berkeley's "Naked Guy" (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Yoyoy Villame, Philippine novelty singer and movie actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Joseph Pevney, American television director