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Events

• 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.

Births

• 1555 - Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
• 1864 - Max Weber, German political economist and sociologist.
• 1930 - Silvana Mangano, the sexiest actress of Italy's neo-realistic period.
• 1947 - Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)

Deaths

• 1910 - Mark Twain, famous and popular American humorist.
• 2003 - Nina Simone, an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. (b. 1933)

Births

• 1555 – Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)
• 1651 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)
• 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)
• 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
• 1673 – Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1742)
• 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793)
• 1767 – Elisabeth of Württemberg, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1790)
• 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (d. 1862)
• 1775 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (d. 1870)
• 1810 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician (d. 1864)
• 1811 – Alson Sherman, American politician (d. 1903)
• 1814 – Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist (d. 1906)
• 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855)
• 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
• 1838 – John Muir, American environmentalist (d. 1914)
• 1851 – Charles Barrois, French geologist (d. 1939)
• 1854 – William Stang, Roman Catholic Bishop (d. 1907)
• 1864 – Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
• 1870 – Edwin S. Porter, American film pioneer (d. 1941)
• 1879 – Kartini, Indonesian national figure (d. 1904)
• 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
• 1898 – Maurice Wilson, Everest climber, Yorkshire hero (d. 1934)
• 1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi (d. 1945)
• 1905 – Pat Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Ivan Combe, American inventor (d. 2000)
• 1912 – Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born American actor (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
• 1920 – Ronald Magill, British actor (d. 2007)
• 1923 – John Mortimer, English barrister and writer (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Ira Louvin, Country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1965)
• 1925 – Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice of Australia
• 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• 1926 – Arthur Rowley, English Footballer (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Gerald Flood, British actor (d. 1989)
• 1930 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
• 1932 – Elaine May, American comedian
• 1935 – Charles Grodin, American actor
• 1935 – Thomas Kean, American politician
• 1936 – James Dobson, American evangelist
• 1938 – Ernie Maresca, American singer and record executive
• 1939 – Helen Prejean, American writer
• 1944 – Adrian Hurley, Australian basketball coach
• 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1947 – Iggy Pop, American musician (The Stooges)
• 1947 – John Weider, British rock musician (Eric Burdon and the Animals, Family)
• 1948 – Gary Condit, American politician
• 1948 – Paul Davis, American singer
• 1949 – Patti LuPone, American singer and actress
• 1951 – Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
• 1951 – Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
• 1951 – Robert Gotobed, English drummer (Wire)
• 1951 – Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – James Morrison, American actor
• 1954 – Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer
• 1956 – Phillip Longman, American demographer
• 1957 – Edward Leslie, American professional wrestler
• 1958 – Andie MacDowell, American actress
• 1958 – Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist
• 1958 – Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
• 1959 – Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
• 1959 – Jerry Only, American musician (The Misfits)
• 1959 – Michael Timmins, Canadian musician (Cowboy Junkies)
• 1959 – Tim Jacobus, American artist (Goosebumps)
• 1960 – Michel Goulet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Les Lancaster, American baseball player
• 1963 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1963 – Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor
• 1963 – John Cameron Mitchell, American film director
• 1964 – Alex Baumann, Canadian Olympic swimmer
• 1964 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete
• 1965 – Ed Belfour, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Karen Foster, American model (Playboy)
• 1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic
• 1966 – Michael Franti, American musician
• 1969 – Robin Meade, American reporter
• 1970 – Glen Hansard, Irish songwriter and actor
• 1970 – Rob Riggle, American comedian
• 1970 – Nicole Sullivan, American actress
• 1971 – Alexander Kravchenko, Russian professional poker player
• 1971 – Hasan Akbar, American convicted murderer
• 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist
• 1972 – Gwendal Peizerat, French ice dancer
• 1972 – Severina Vučković, Croatian singer
• 1973 – Jonathan Nsenga, Belgian athlete
• 1976 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
• 1977 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
• 1977 – Doseone, American rapper
• 1978 – Jacob Burns, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer (Nightwish)
• 1978 – Branden Steineckert, American drummer (Rancid), (The Used)
• 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
• 1980 – Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
• 1980 – Tony Romo, American football player
• 1980 – Jeff Keppinger, American baseball player
• 1981 – Stephanie Larimore, American model
• 1982 – Carnell "Cadillac" Williams, American football player
• 1983 – Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
• 1986 – Audra Cohen, American tennis player
• 1986 – Alexander Edler, Swedish hockey player
• 1987 – Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1987 – Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
• 1988 – Robbie Amell, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
• 2007 – Princess Isabella of Denmark

Deaths

• 1073 – Pope Alexander II
• 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1142 – Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
• 1329 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
• 1509 – King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
• 1551 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
• 1557 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
• 1574 – Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
• 1699 – Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
• 1701 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
• 1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
• 1720 – Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
• 1722 – Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
• 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
• 1793 – John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
• 1815 – Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
• 1825 – Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
• 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
• 1868 – Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
• 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 – Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
• 1924 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1938 – Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1971 – François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
• 1973 – Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
• 1978 – Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
• 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
• 1980 – Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
• 1983 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
• 1985 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910)
• 1986 – Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b. 1930)
• 1989 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
• 1991 – Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944)
• 1998 – Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
• 2003 – Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
• 2004 – Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
• 2006 – T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)