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| *[[1957]] - [[Carole Bouquet]], French actress | *[[1957]] - [[Carole Bouquet]], French actress | ||
| * 1957 - [[Denis Leary]], American comedian and actor | * 1957 - [[Denis Leary]], American comedian and actor | ||
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Madeleine Stowe]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Tom Prichard]], American wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Fat Lever]], American basketball player | ||
| - | * 1960 - [[Mike LaValliere]], baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Bob Woodruff]], American journalist, anchor | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Felipe Calderón]], [[President of Mexico|President]] of [[Mexico]] | ||
| - | * 1962 - [[Geoff Courtnall]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Edith Frost]], American singer/songwriter | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Koji Kikkawa]], Japanese singer | ||
| - | * 1965 - [[Jim Florentine]], American comedian | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Gustavo Charif]], Argentine artist | ||
| - | * 1966 - [[Kang Soo-yeon]], South Korean actress | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Brian Michael Bendis]], American comic book writer | ||
| - | * 1967 - [[Daler Mehndi]], Indian bhangra/pop singer | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Lee Seung-yeon]], South Korean actress | ||
| - | * 1968 - [[Dan Peters]], American musician | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Masta Killa]], American rapper | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Everlast (singer)|Everlast]], American musician | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Edward Norton]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1969 - [[Christian Slater]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Jessica Hsuan]], Hong Kong actress | ||
| - | * 1970 - [[Malcolm-Jamal Warner]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Richard D James]], Irish-born musician ([[Aphex Twin]]) | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Keiko Yamada]], Japanese singer | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Leo Ku]], Hong Kong singer | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Shaun Wilson]], Australian artist | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Shivnarine Chanderpaul]], West Indian cricketer | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Daphnee Duplaix Samuel]], American actress, Playboy Playmate | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Andy Samberg]], American comedian | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Selena Silver]], pornographic actress | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Esteban Cambiasso]], Argentine footballer | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Preeti Jhangiani]], Indian actress | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Rob Nguyen]], Australian racing driver | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Athina Papayianni]], Greek race walker | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Jeremy Shockey]], American football [[Tight End]] | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Jonathan Schneck]], American musician ([[Relient K]]) | ||
| - | * 1981 - [[César Delgado]], Argentine footballer | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Danny!|Daniel Keith Swain]] (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Mica Penniman]] (Mika), Lebanese-born musician | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Kris Boyd]], Scottish footballer | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Robert Huth]], German footballer | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Mika Boorem]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Frances Bean Cobain]], daughter [[Kurt Cobain]] and [[Courtney Love]] | ||
| - | * 1992 - [[Riko Narumi]], Japanese actress | ||
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Jessie Flower]], American actress and voice actress | ||
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Parker McKenna Posey]], American actress | ||
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| - | * [[353]] - [[Decentius]], [[Roman usurper]] | ||
| - | * [[472]] - [[Ricimer]], Roman general | ||
| - | * [[849]] - [[Walafrid Strabo]], German monk and theologian | ||
| - | *[[1227]] - [[Genghis Khan]], Khagan of Mongol Empire | ||
| - | *[[1258]] - [[Theodore II Lascaris]], Emperor of the [[Empire of Nicaea]] | ||
| - | *[[1276]] - [[Pope Adrian V]] | ||
| - | *[[1318]] - [[Clare of Montefalco]], Italian Abbess and religious leader (born c. [[1268]]) | ||
| - | *[[1430]] - [[Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros]], English soldier and politician (drowned) (b. [[1406]]) | ||
| *[[1503]] - [[Pope Alexander VI]] (b. [[1431]]) | *[[1503]] - [[Pope Alexander VI]] (b. [[1431]]) | ||
| *[[1559]] - [[Pope Paul IV]] (b. [[1476]]) | *[[1559]] - [[Pope Paul IV]] (b. [[1476]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1634 - Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, burned alive in Loudun, France.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.
- 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
- 1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
Births
- 1906 - Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
- 1920 - Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1922 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer
- 1925 - Brian Aldiss, English writer
- 1933 - Roman Polanski, French-born director and actor
- 1957 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
- 1957 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
Deaths
- 1503 - Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
- 1559 - Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
- 1563 - Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (b. 1530)
- 1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
- 1620 - Wanli, Emperor of China (b. 1563)
- 1634 - Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
- 1642 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (b. 1575)
- 1645 - Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia (b. 1608)
- 1683 - Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
- 1707 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (b. 1640)
- 1712 - Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier
- 1765 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
- 1809 - Matthew Boulton, English manufacturer and engineer (b. 1728)
- 1815 - Chauncey Goodrich, American politician (b. 1759)
- 1842 - Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (b. 1779)
- 1850 - Honoré de Balzac, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1919 - Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (b. 1841)
- 1940 - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
- 1943 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
- 1949 - Paul Mares, American musician (b. 1900)
- 1963 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (b. 1906)
- 1981 - Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
- 1983 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)
- 1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
- 1990 - B.F. Skinner, American psychological theorist (b. 1904)
- 1992 - John Sturges, American film director (b. 1911)
- 1994 - Martin Cahill, The General, infamous Dublin criminal (b. 1949)
- 1998 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (b. 1950)
- 2001 - David Peakall, British scientist (b. 1931)
- 2002 - Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (b. 1918)
- 2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
- 2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Christopher Bauman, American wrestler (b. 1982)
- 2005 - Gao Xiumin, Chinese comedy actress (b. 1959)
- 2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
- 2006 - Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
- 2007 - Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
Notes
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Roman Polanski
Roberto Baldazzini
Honoré de Balzac
Brian Aldiss
Pope Alexander VI
Shelley Winters
Soledad Miranda
Roaring Twenties
Stefano Tamburini
Erwin Schulhoff
Nikolaus Pevsner
Urbain Grandier
Carole Bouquet
Marcel Carné
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