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Events
- 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
- 1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
- 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
- 1631 - Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
- 1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- 1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778) signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native Americans in the United States tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
- 1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
- 1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
- 1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
- 1862 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
- 1894 - Battle of Yalu River (1894), the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipino people under Juan Cailles defeat United States under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
- 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the Germany Luftwaffe, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- 1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
- 1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- 1928 - The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
joined Nazi Germany's invasion of
Poland.
- 1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Invasion of Poland (1939) of 1939.
- 1939 - World War II: A Germany U-boat Unterseeboot 29 sinks the United Kingdom aircraft carrier HMS Courageous (50).
- 1941 - A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued
- 1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
- 1944 - Allies of World War II Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
- 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense.
- 1948 - Lehi (group) (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
- 1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
- 1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
- 1957 - The North East Humanists group was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
- 1975 - Television development executive Josh Anisfeld is brought into the world in London, England.
- 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
- 1978 - The Camp David Accords (1978) were signed by Israel and Egypt.
- 1983 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia join the United Nations.
- 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- 2001 - The New York Stock Exchange opened for the first time since the September 11 attacks; the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest point drop in its history, closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
- 2004 - Tamil language is declared first classical language in India.
Births
- 64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
- 879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
- 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
- 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
- 1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
- 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
- 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
- 1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
- 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
- 1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
- 1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
- 1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
- 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
- 1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
- 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
- 1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
- 1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
- 1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
- 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
- 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
- 1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
- 1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
- 1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
- 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
- 1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
- 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
- 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
- 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
- 1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
- 1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
- 1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
- 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
- 1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
- 1926 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
- 1926 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
- 1927 - George Blanda, American football player
- 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
- 1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
- 1930 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
- 1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
- 1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
- 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1933 - Chuck Grassley, American politician
- 1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
- 1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- 1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
- 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
- 1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
- 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1940 - Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
- 1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
- 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
- 1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
- 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber
- 1945 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
- 1945 - Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
- 1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
- 1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
- 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
- 1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
- 1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
- 1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
- 1950 - Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
- 1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
- 1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
- 1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
- 1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
- 1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
- 1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
- 1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
- 1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
- 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
- 1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
- 1963 - Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
- 1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
- 1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
- 1963 - Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
- 1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
- 1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
- 1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxing
- 1967 - Malik Yoba, American actor
- 1973 - Anastacia, American singer
- 1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
- 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- 1969 - Keith Flint, Member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy
- 1969 - Matthew Settle, American actor
- 1970 - Mark Brunell, American football player
- 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
- 1971 - Mike Catt, English rugby player
- 1971 - Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
- 1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
- 1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
- 1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- 1974 - Mirah, American musician
- 1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
- 1975 - Josh Anisfeld, Televison producer and development executive
- 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- 1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
- 1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
- 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
- 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
- 1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
- 1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
- 1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
- 1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
- 1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
- 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
- 1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
- 1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
- 1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler
Deaths
- 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
- 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
- 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
- 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
- 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
- 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
- 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
- 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
- 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
- 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
- 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
- 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
- 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
- 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
- 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
- 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
- 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
- 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
- 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
- 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
- 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
- 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
- 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
- 1938 - Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- 1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
- 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
- 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
- 1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
- 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
- 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
- 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
- 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
- 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
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Events
- 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
- 1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
- 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
- 1631 - Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
- 1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- 1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778) signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native Americans in the United States tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
- 1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
- 1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
- 1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
- 1862 - American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
- 1894 - Battle of Yalu River (1894), the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipino people under Juan Cailles defeat United States under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
- 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the Germany Luftwaffe, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- 1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
- 1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- 1928 - The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
joined
Nazi Germany's invasion of
Poland.
- 1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Invasion of Poland (1939) of 1939.
- 1939 - World War II: A Germany U-boat Unterseeboot 29 sinks the United Kingdom aircraft carrier HMS Courageous (50).
- 1941 - A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued
- 1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
- 1944 - Allies of World War II Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
- 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense.
- 1948 - Lehi (group) (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
- 1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
- 1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
- 1957 - The North East Humanists group was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
- 1975 - Television development executive Josh Anisfeld is brought into the world in London, England.
- 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
- 1978 - The Camp David Accords (1978) were signed by Israel and Egypt.
- 1983 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia join the United Nations.
- 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- 2001 - The New York Stock Exchange opened for the first time since the September 11 attacks; the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest point drop in its history, closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
- 2004 - Tamil language is declared first classical language in India.
Births
- 64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
- 879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
- 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
- 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
- 1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
- 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
- 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
- 1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
- 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (d. 1704)
- 1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
- 1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
- 1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
- 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
- 1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
- 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
- 1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
- 1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
- 1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
- 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
- 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935)
- 1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
- 1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938)
- 1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
- 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
- 1883 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
- 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
- 1890 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
- 1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
- 1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
- 1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
- 1903 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
- 1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
- 1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
- 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
- 1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
- 1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
- 1926 - Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
- 1926 - Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
- 1927 - George Blanda, American football player
- 1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
- 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
- 1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
- 1930 - Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut
- 1930 - Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
- 1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
- 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1933 - Chuck Grassley, American politician
- 1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
- 1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- 1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
- 1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
- 1938 - Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
- 1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
- 1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1940 - Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
- 1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
- 1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
- 1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
- 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber
- 1945 - David Emerson, Canadian politician
- 1945 - Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
- 1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
- 1946 - Billy Bonds, English footballer
- 1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
- 1948 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
- 1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
- 1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
- 1950 - Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
- 1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
- 1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
- 1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
- 1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian
- 1959 - Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
- 1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
- 1960 - John Franco, American baseball player
- 1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
- 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
- 1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
- 1963 - Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
- 1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
- 1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
- 1963 - Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
- 1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
- 1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
- 1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxing
- 1967 - Malik Yoba, American actor
- 1973 - Anastacia, American singer
- 1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
- 1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- 1969 - Keith Flint, Member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy
- 1969 - Matthew Settle, American actor
- 1970 - Mark Brunell, American football player
- 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková, Slovak supermodel
- 1971 - Mike Catt, English rugby player
- 1971 - Ian Whyte (actor), Welsh actor and basketball player
- 1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
- 1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
- 1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- 1974 - Mirah, American musician
- 1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
- 1975 - Josh Anisfeld, Televison producer and development executive
- 1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- 1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
- 1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
- 1976 - Daniella Rush, Czech pornographic actress
- 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
- 1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
- 1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
- 1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
- 1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
- 1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
- 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
- 1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
- 1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
- 1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
- 1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler
Deaths
- 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
- 1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
- 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
- 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
- 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
- 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
- 1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
- 1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
- 1665 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
- 1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
- 1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
- 1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
- 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
- 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
- 1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
- 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
- 1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- 1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
- 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
- 1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
- 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
- 1907 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
- 1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
- 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
- 1938 - Bruno Jasienski, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- 1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
- 1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
- 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
- 1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
- 1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
- 1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
- 1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
- 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
- 1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
- 2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
- 2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
- 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
- 2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
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