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• 365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
• 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
• 1141 – Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of King of England.
• 1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
• 1214 – The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks.
• 1348 – The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
• 1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.
• 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
• 1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
• 1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1570 – The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
• 1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1611 – William Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
• 1612 – (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitay-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1683 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
• 1688 – William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
• 1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
• 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
• 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
• 1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
• 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
• 1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
• 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
• 1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse is lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (31 km) in good conditions.
• 1861 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
• 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
• 1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
• 1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
• 1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
• 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• 1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
• 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
• 1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
• 1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1911 – The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
• 1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
• 1914 – World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
• 1915 – Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
• 1916 – Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
• 1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
• 1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• 1918 – The short-lived Banat Republic is founded.
• 1920 – American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• 1922 – Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
• 1928 – The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used with the Latin alphabet, comes into force in Turkey.
• 1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
• 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
• 1939 – The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
• 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
• 1942 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
• 1943 – World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
• 1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
• 1944 – World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
• 1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
• 1945 – Australia joins the United Nations.
• 1946 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Kraków's archbishop, Adam Sapieha.
• 1948 – Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
• 1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
• 1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
• 1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
• 1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
• 1952 – Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons.
• 1953 – Andhra Pradesh attains statehood, with Kurnool as its capital.
• 1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
• 1955 – The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
• 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore State are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
• 1956 – In India, Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu state from Kerala.
• 1956 – The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
• 1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
• 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante wears a protective mask for the first time in an NHL game.
• 1959 – In Rwanda, Hutu politician Dominique Mbonyumutwa is beaten up by Tutsi forces, leading to a period of violence known as the wind of destruction.
• 1960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
• 1961 – Fifty thousand women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
• 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
• 1963 – The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins
• 1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with the ratings G, M, R, and X.
• 1970 – Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
• 1973 – The Indian state of Mysore is renamed as Karnataka to represent all the regions within Karunadu.
• 1979 – In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Dr. Wálter Guevara.
• 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
• 1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
• 2000 – Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
• 2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh killing 26 people and injuring 135.

Births[edit]

• 846 – Louis the Stammerer, French king (d. 879)
• 1339 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1365)
• 1351 – Leopold III, Duke of Austria (d. 1386)
• 1526 – Catherine Jagiellon, Polish-Swedish wife of John III of Sweden (d. 1583)
• 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and philosopher (d. 1563)
• 1539 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
• 1549 – Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
• 1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (d. 1626)
• 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
• 1607 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet and translator (d. 1658)
• 1611 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-French commander (d. 1656)
• 1625 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1681)
• 1636 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
• 1643 – John Strype, English priest, historian, and author (d. 1737)
• 1661 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (d. 1725)
• 1666 – James Sherard, English botanist and curator (d. 1738)
• 1720 – Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
• 1727 – Ivan Shuvalov, Russian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1797)
• 1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1822)
• 1762 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1812)
• 1769 – Garlieb Merkel, German author and activist (d. 1850)
• 1778 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
• 1782 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1859)
• 1808 – John Taylor, English-American religious leader, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1887)
• 1831 – Harry Atkinson, English-New Zealand politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1892)
• 1838 – 11th Dalai Lama (d. 1856)
• 1839 – Pál Luthár Slovene-Hungarian organist, educator, and author (d. 1919)
• 1847 – Emma Albani, Canadian-English soprano (d. 1930)
• 1847 – Hiệp Hòa, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
• 1849 – William Merritt Chase, American painter (d. 1916)
• 1852 – Honinbo Shuei, Japanese Go player (d. 1907)
• 1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, American educator, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1912)
• 1860 – Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (d. 1921)
• 1862 – Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (d. 1941)
• 1864 – Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1918)
• 1871 – Stephen Crane, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1900)
• 1872 – Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter (d. 1946)
• 1877 – Roger Quilter, English composer (d. 1953)
• 1878 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (d. 1925)
• 1878 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1880 – Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright (d. 1957)
• 1880 – Grantland Rice, American journalist (d. 1954)
• 1880 – Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral (d. 1965)
• 1881 – Edward Van Sloan, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1886 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (d. 1951)
• 1886 – Sakutarō Hagiwara, Japanese poet and critic (d. 1942)
• 1887 – L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator (d. 1976)
• 1888 – George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Michał Sopoćko, known as the Apostle of Divine Mercy (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer (d. 1978)
• 1889 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1974)
• 1898 – Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver (d. 1960)
• 1898 – Sippie Wallace, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1943)
• 1902 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
• 1903 – Max Adrian, Irish-English actor and singer (d. 1973)
• 1903 – Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter (d. 1960)
• 1906 – Johnny Indrisano, American boxer and actor (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Mingun Sayadaw, Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Henri Troyat, French historian and author (d. 2007)
• 1912 – Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (d. 2012)
• 1914 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American painter, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Siegfried Jamrowski, Russian-German soldier and pilot (d. 2012)
• 1917 – R. W. B. Lewis, American scholar and critic (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Clarence E. Miller, American engineer and politician (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Hermann Braun, American-German actor (d. 1945)
• 1918 – Ken Miles, English-American race car driver (d. 1966)
• 1919 – Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – James J. Kilpatrick, American journalist and author (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Ted Lowe, English sportscaster (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Wadih El Safi, Lebanese singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (d. 2013)
• 1921 – John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Harald Quandt, German businessman (d. 1967)
• 1922 – George S. Irving, American actor and singer
• 1923 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish soprano (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Süleyman Demirel, Turkish engineer and politician, 9th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
• 1924 – Jean-Luc Pépin, Canadian academic and politician, 19th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Colette Renard, French actress and singer (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Stephen Antonakos, Greek-American sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Lou Donaldson, American saxophonist and composer
• 1926 – Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1997)
• 1926 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1927 – Vic Power, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1928 – James Bradford, American weightlifter (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Emmaline Henry, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (d. 2003)
• 1930 – A. R. Gurney, American playwright and author
• 1930 – Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestler and coach (d. 1972)
• 1931 – Chosuke Ikariya, Japanese bass player and actor (The Drifters) (d. 2004)
• 1931 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
• 1931 – Arne Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal
• 1932 – John Clark, English actor, director, and producer
• 1933 – Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Gillian Knight, English soprano and actress
• 1934 – William Mathias, Welsh pianist and composer (d. 1992)
• 1935 – Gary Player, South African golfer and sportscaster
• 1935 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1936 – Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer and conductor
• 1936 – Shizuka Kamei, Japanese politician
• 1937 – Bill Anderson, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1939 – Barbara Bosson, American actress and singer
• 1940 – Roger Kellaway, American pianist and composer
• 1940 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Indian jurist, 35th Chief Justice of India
• 1940 – Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott, English academic and politician
• 1940 – Barry Sadler, American sergeant, singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1989)
• 1941 – Alfio Basile, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1941 – Robert Foxworth, American actor and director
• 1942 – Larry Flynt, American publisher, founded Larry Flynt Publications
• 1942 – Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Marcia Wallace, American actress, voice artist, comedian, and game show panelist (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Salvatore Adamo, Italian-Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1943 – Jacques Attali, French economist and civil servant
• 1943 – John McEnery, English actor
• 1944 – Mike Burney, English saxophonist (Wizzard) (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter and author
• 1944 – Bobby Heenan, American wrestler, manager, and sportscaster
• 1944 – Oscar Temaru, French-Polynesian politician, President of French Polynesia
• 1944 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist, founded Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Ric Grech, French-English bass player (Family, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Blind Faith, and Traffic) (d. 1990)
• 1946 – Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
• 1946 – Lynne Russell, American journalist and author
• 1946 – Yuko Shimizu, Japanese designer
• 1947 – Nick Owen, English journalist
• 1947 – Jim Steinman, American songwriter and producer
• 1948 – Phil Myre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1948 – Amani Abeid Karume, Zanzibar accountant and politician, 6th President of Zanzibar
• 1948 – Bill Woodrow, English sculptor
• 1949 – David Foster, Canadian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Skylark, Attitudes, and Airplay)
• 1949 – Michael D. Griffin, American physicist and engineer
• 1949 – Gerald Ratner, English businessman
• 1950 – Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation
• 1950 – Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Dan Peek, American guitarist (America) (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Ronald Bell, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (Kool & the Gang)
• 1951 – Fabrice Luchini, French actor
• 1951 – Belita Moreno, American actress
• 1953 – Jan Davis, American engineer and astronaut
• 1953 – Paul Wellings, English ecologist and academic
• 1955 – Beth Leavel, American actress and singer
• 1955 – Mike Mendoza, English radio host and politician
• 1957 – Lyle Lovett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1957 – Peter Ostrum, American actor and veterinarian
• 1957 – Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
• 1958 – Mark Austin, English journalist
• 1958 – Joe DeRenzo, American drummer, composer, and producer
• 1958 – Robert Hart, English singer-songwriter (Bad Company, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Company of Snakes, Distance, and The Jones Gang)
• 1958 – Jim Steinmeyer, American magician and author
• 1958 – Rachel Ticotin, American actress
• 1959 – Susanna Clarke, English author
• 1959 – Eriko Hara, Japanese voice actress
• 1960 – Tim Cook, American businessman
• 1960 – Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1961 – Louise Boije af Gennäs, Swedish author and screenwriter
• 1961 – Nicky Grist, Welsh race car driver
• 1961 – Calvin Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, The Microphones, Cool Rays, and The Go Team)
• 1961 – Kim Krizan, American actress and screenwriter
• 1962 – Sharron Davies, English swimmer and sportscaster
• 1962 – Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (A-ha and Apparatjik)
• 1962 – Anthony Kiedis, American singer-songwriter and actor (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1963 – Rick Allen, English drummer (Def Leppard)
• 1963 – Mark Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1963 – Big Kenny, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Big & Rich)
• 1963 – Katja Riemann, German actress and singer
• 1964 – Karen Marie Moning, American author
• 1964 – Daran Norris, American voice actor and singer
• 1965 – Inka Friedrich, German actress
• 1965 – Patrik Ringborg, Swedish conductor
• 1965 – Mia Korf, American actress
• 1966 – Barbara Becker, German actress and model
• 1966 – Willie D, American rapper and producer (Geto Boys)
• 1966 – Gary Howell, American businessman and politician
• 1966 – Jeremy Hunt, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Health
• 1967 – Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1967 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Carla van de Puttelaar, Dutch photographer
• 1968 – Park Shin-yang, South Korean actor
• 1969 – Tie Domi, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1971 – Vikram Chatwal, Ethiopian-American actor and businessman
• 1971 – Metal Yoshida, Japanese actor and musician
• 1972 – Toni Collette, Australian actress, singer, and producer
• 1972 – Paul Dickov, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1972 – Jenny McCarthy, American model, actress, and author
• 1972 – Sean Roberge, Canadian actor (d. 1996)
• 1973 – Assia, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Geoff Horsfield, English footballer and manager
• 1973 – Aishwarya Rai, Indian model and actress, Miss World 1994
• 1974 – V. V. S. Laxman, Indian cricketer
• 1975 – Bo Bice, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – Manuel Ferrara, French porn actor and director
• 1975 – Keryn Jordan, South African footballer (d. 2013)
• 1975 – Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1976 – Sergei Artyukhin, Russian-Belarusian wrestler (d. 2012)
• 1976 – Logan Marshall-Green, American actor
• 1977 – Anine Kruse, Norwegian singer and choral conductor (Pitsj)
• 1978 – Tyler Reks, American wrestler
• 1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
• 1978 – Jessica Valenti, American blogger and author, founded Feministing
• 1978 – Manju Warrier, Indian actress and dancer
• 1979 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player
• 1979 – Luís Manuel Ferreira Delgado, Angolan footballer
• 1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
• 1979 – Alex Prager, American photographer and film-maker
• 1981 – LaTavia Roberson, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Destiny's Child)
• 1981 – Matt L. Jones, American actor
• 1982 – Bradley Orr, English footballer
• 1982 – Warren Spragg, English-Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Tanel Toom, Estonian director and screenwriter
• 1983 – Matt Moulson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Yuko Ogura, Japanese model and singer
• 1983 – Micaela Schäfer, German actress, model, television host, DJ, and singer
• 1983 – Josh Wicks, American soccer player
• 1983 – Jon Wilkin, English rugby player
• 1984 – Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer
• 1984 – Natalia Tena, English actress and singer
• 1986 – Penn Badgley, American actor
• 1986 – Ksenija Balta, Estonian high jumper, sprinter, and heptathlete
• 1987 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
• 1988 – Aditya Dev, Indian bodybuilder (d. 2012)
• 1988 – Ai Fukuhara, Japanese table tennis player
• 1988 – Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1991 – Eyþór Arnarson, Icelandic skier
• 1991 – Reece Brown, English footballer
• 1991 – Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast
• 1997 – Alex Wolff, American actor and singer (Nat & Alex Wolff)

Deaths[edit]

• 955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 919)
• 1296 – Guillaume Durand, French bishop (b. 1230)
• 1391 – Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (b. 1360)
• 1399 – John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)
• 1423 – Nicholas Eudaimonoioannes, Byzantine diplomat
• 1461 – David of Trebizond (b. 1408)
• 1546 – Giulio Romano, Italian painter and architect (b. 1499)
• 1588 – Jean Daurat, French poet and scholar (b. 1508)
• 1596 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
• 1642 – Jean Nicolet, French-Canadian explorer (b. 1598)
• 1676 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1589)
• 1678 – William Coddington, American judge and politician, 1st Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)
• 1700 – Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)
• 1814 – Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1744)
• 1888 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1838)
• 1894 – Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)
• 1903 – Theodor Mommsen, German archaeologist, journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
• 1907 – Alfred Jarry, French author and playwright (b. 1873)
• 1924 – Bill Tilghman, American police officer (b. 1854)
• 1938 – Charles Weeghman, American businessman (b. 1874)
• 1942 – Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1947 – Man o' War, American race horse (b. 1917)
• 1952 – Dixie Lee. American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1955 – Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (b. 1942)
• 1968 – Georgios Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, 134th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Robert Staughton Lynd, American sociologist and academic (b. 1892)
• 1971 – Jadwiga Smosarska, Polish actress (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish novelist (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Robert MacArthur, Canadian-American ecologist and academic (b. 1930)
• 1972 – Ezra Pound, American poet and critic (b. 1885)
• 1979 – Mamie Eisenhower, American wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 36th First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
• 1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1982 – James Broderick, American actor and director (b. 1927)
• 1982 – King Vidor, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1983 – Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch-Swiss musicologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1983 – Maurice Woods, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1984 – Norman Krasna, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 – Arnold Pihlak, Estonian-English footballer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Phil Silvers, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 1987 – René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1993 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Noah Beery, Jr., American actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 1995 – W. E. D. Ross, Canadian writer (b. 1912)
• 1996 – J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Jean Coutu, Canadian actor and director (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (b. 1954)
• 2000 – George Armstrong, English footballer (b. 1944)
• 2000 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
• 2001 – John S. Romanides, Greek priest, author, and educator (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (b. 1970)
• 2004 – Terry Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (Terry Knight and the Pack) (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Skitch Henderson, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1966)
• 2006 – William Styron, American author (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Meredith Kercher, English murder victim (b. 1985)
• 2007 – S. Ali Raza, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Paul Tibbets, American general (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Nathaniel Mayer, American singer (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Shakir Stewart, American record producer (b. 1974)
• 2008 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian-American soprano (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Endel Laas, Estonian scientist and academic (b. 1915)
• 2009 – Robert H. Rines, American violinist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Ernesto Presas, Filipino martial artist, founded Kombatan (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Shannon Tavarez, American actress and singer (b. 1999)
• 2010 – Diana Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Dorothy Howell Rodham, American mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Brad Armstrong, American wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Chong Chee Kin, Singaporean journalist (b. 1973)
• 2012 – Agustín García Calvo, Spanish poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter (Suicide Silence) (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Chen Zude, Chinese Go player (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Tato Laviera, Puerto Rican-American poet (b. 1950)
• 2013 – John Y. McCollister, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistani Taliban leader (b. 1979)
• 2013 – Paul Dennis Reid, American murderer (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Piet Rietveld, Dutch economist and academic (b. 1952)
• 2014 – Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Jackie Fairweather, Australian runner and coach (b. 1967)
• 2014 – Brittany Maynard, American activist (b. 1984)
• 2014 – Abednigo Ngcobo, South African footballer (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Donald Saddler, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Beverly Schmidt Blossom, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Static-X) (b. 1965)