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| *[[1905]] - [[Christian Dior]], French fashion designer (d. [[1957]]) | *[[1905]] - [[Christian Dior]], French fashion designer (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| *[[1924]] - [[Benny Hill]], English actor, comedian, and singer (d. [[1992]]) | *[[1924]] - [[Benny Hill]], English actor, comedian, and singer (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Steve Reeves]], American actor (d. [[2000]]) | + | *[[1938]] - [[Wolfman Jack]], American disk jockey and actor (d. [[1995]]) |
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Clive Churchill]], Australian rugby league footballer (d. [[1985]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1932]] - [[John Chaney (basketball coach)|John Chaney]], American basketball coach | + | |
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Joseph W. Eschbach]], American doctor (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Audrey Dalton]], Irish actress | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Koji Hashimoto (director)|Koji Hashimoto]], Japanese film director (d. [[2005]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria]] | + | |
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Altair Gomes de Figueiredo|Altair]], Brazilian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1938 - [[John Savident]], British actor | + | |
| - | * 1938 - [[Wolfman Jack]], American disk jockey and actor (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Jack Nicklaus]], American golfer | + | |
| *[[1941]] - [[Plácido Domingo]], Spanish tenor | *[[1941]] - [[Plácido Domingo]], Spanish tenor | ||
| - | * 1941 - [[Stathis Giallelis]], Greek actor | ||
| * 1941 - [[Richie Havens]], American musician | * 1941 - [[Richie Havens]], American musician | ||
| - | * 1941 - [[Ivan Putski]], Polish-born American professional wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Mac Davis]], American musician | ||
| - | * 1942 - [[Edwin Starr]], American singer (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Johnny Oates]], American baseball player and manager (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Jill Eikenberry]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Pye Hastings]], English singer and musician ([[Caravan (band)|Caravan]]) | ||
| *[[1950]] - [[Billy Ocean]], West Indian musician | *[[1950]] - [[Billy Ocean]], West Indian musician | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Marco Camenisch]], Swiss environmental activist | + | *[[1952]] - [[Louis Menand]], American writer and critic |
| - | * 1952 - [[Louis Menand]], American writer and critic | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Paul Allen]], American entrepreneur | + | |
| *[[1955]] - [[Jeff Koons]], American artist | *[[1955]] - [[Jeff Koons]], American artist | ||
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| *[[1956]] - [[Robby Benson]], American actor | *[[1956]] - [[Robby Benson]], American actor | ||
| * 1956 - [[Geena Davis]], American actress | * 1956 - [[Geena Davis]], American actress | ||
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Art and culture
- 1525 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
- 1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1999 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
Births
- 1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
- 1924 - Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
- 1938 - Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
- 1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
- 1941 - Richie Havens, American musician
- 1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
- 1952 - Louis Menand, American writer and critic
- 1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
- 1956 - Robby Benson, American actor
- 1956 - Geena Davis, American actress
- 1957 - Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
- 1958 - Michael Wincott, Canadian actor
- 1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
- 1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
- 1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player
- 1963 - Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
- 1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
- 1966 - Robert Del Naja, English musician
- 1968 - Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
- 1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress
- 1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
- 1970 - Ken Leung, American actor
- 1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
- 1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
- 1971 - Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
- 1972 - Alan Benes, American baseball player
- 1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
- 1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
- 1974 - Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
- 1974 - Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
- 1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer
- 1975 - Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
- 1975 - Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
- 1975 - Ito, Spanish footballer
- 1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
- 1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
- 1977 - Phil Neville, English footballer
- 1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
- 1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1978 - Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
- 1978 - Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
- 1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
- 1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
- 1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
- 1980 - Dave Kitson, English footballer
- 1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
- 1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
- 1981 - Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer
- 1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 - Andy Lee, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
- 1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model
- 1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
- 1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
- 1983 - Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian model and professional wrestler
- 1983 - Moritz Volz, German footballer
- 1985 - Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
- 1985 - Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
- 1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer
- 1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
- 2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
Deaths
- 304 - Saint Agnes (martyred)
- 917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia
- 1118 - Pope Paschal II
- 1519 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
- 1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador
- 1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
- 1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
- 1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer
- 1683 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
- 1699 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
- 1706 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
- 1710 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
- 1722 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
- 1731 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
- 1766 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
- 1773 - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
- 1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1740 or 1742)
- 1793 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
- 1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
- 1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
- 1814 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
- 1823 - Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
- 1831 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
- 1851 - Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
- 1870 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
- 1872 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
- 1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
- 1891 - Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
- 1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
- 1914 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
- 1919 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
- 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
- 1926 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
- 1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
- 1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
- 1932 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
- 1933 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
- 1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
- 1950 - George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
- 1955 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
- 1956 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
- 1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
- 1959 - Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1961 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
- 1967 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
- 1968 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
- 1977 - Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
- 1978 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
- 1984 - Jackie Wilson, American musician (b. 1934)
- 1984 - Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
- 1985 - James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
- 1985 - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
- 1987 - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
- 1989 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
- 1989 - Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
- 1993 - Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1996 - René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
- 1997 - Colonel Tom Parker, American manager of Elvis Presley (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1999 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
- 2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)
- 2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
- 2003 - Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
- 2004 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
- 2005 - Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
- 2005 - John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
- 2005 - Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
- 2006 - Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
- 2007 - Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
Births
Deaths
Notes
Radley Metzger Jeff Koons Georges Méliès Blaise Cendrars Ludwig Achim von Arnim Christian Dior Tyler Cowen Noe Ito Louis XVI of France Louis Menand Peer Raben Cecil B. DeMille Jean-Louis Trintignant Matthias Claudius Alexander Herzen George Orwell Benny Hill Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
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