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| *[[1913]] – [[Charles Trenet]], French singer and songwriter (d. 2001) | *[[1913]] – [[Charles Trenet]], French singer and songwriter (d. 2001) | ||
| *[[1918]] – [[Massimo Girotti]], Italian actor (d. 2003) | *[[1918]] – [[Massimo Girotti]], Italian actor (d. 2003) | ||
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| *[[1919]] – Dame [[Margot Fonteyn]], English ballet dancer (d. 1991) | *[[1919]] – Dame [[Margot Fonteyn]], English ballet dancer (d. 1991) | ||
| *[[1920]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] (d. 2005) | *[[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 (sportscaster)|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 sculpture|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) | *[[1944]] – [[W. G. Sebald]], German-born writer (d. 2001) | ||
| - | *[[1946]] – [[Bruce Gilbert]], English musician ([[Wire (band)|Wire]]) | + | *[[1950]] – [[Mark Mothersbaugh]], American composer, musician, and singer ([[Devo]]) |
| - | * 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 (band)|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 (musical project)|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 (band)|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 (snooker)|John Higgins]], Scottish snooker player | + | |
| - | * 1975 – [[Jack Johnson (musician)|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]], [[Pakistan]]i singer and model | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] – [[Aileen Campbell]], Scottish Politician | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Mahamadou Diarra]], Malian footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] – [[Jason Brown (football (soccer) player)|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 | + | |
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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)
- 1897 – Frank Capra, American film producer, director, and writer (d. 1991)
- 1912 – Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001)
- 1913 – Charles Trenet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1918 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
- 1919 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
- 1920 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
- 1944 – W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001)
- 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, musician, and singer (Devo)
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
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