Events

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Events

    * 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army.
    * 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
    * 1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
    * 1453 – The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years’ War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
    * 1466 – The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
    * 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
    * 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
    * 1649 – New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
    * 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’ sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
    * 1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
    * 1812 – Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
    * 1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
    * 1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
    * 1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroy the Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
    * 1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
    * 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
    * 1904 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O’Reilley.
    * 1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
    * 1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
    * 1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
    * 1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
    * 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
    * 1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
    * 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
    * 1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
    * 1950 – The military of the People’s Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
    * 1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu
    * 1959 – The first discothèque opens.
    * 1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
    * 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
    * 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
    * 1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
    * 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d’état led by Bernard Coard.
    * 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
    * 1987 – In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran’s offshore oil platforms.
    * 1987 – Black Monday – the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
    * 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
    * 2001 – SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
    * 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
    * 2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on charges of corruption.
    * 2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
    * 2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
    * 2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
    * 2007 – Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.

[edit] Births

    * 1276 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
    * 1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
    * 1562 – Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
    * 1582 – Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich (d. 1591)
    * 1605 – Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)
    * 1610 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
    * 1658 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
    * 1680 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
    * 1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
    * 1718 – Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
    * 1720 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
    * 1721 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
    * 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859)
    * 1784 – John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
    * 1810 – Cassius Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
    * 1850 – Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer (d. 1935)
    * 1851 – Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
    * 1858 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
    * 1862 – Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
    * 1868 – Bertha Landes, first woman mayor of a major US city (d. 1943)
    * 1873 – Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925)
    * 1873 – John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
    * 1876 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (d. 1945)
    * 1882 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
    * 1885 – Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
    * 1895 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)
    * 1895 – Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999)
    * 1896 – Bob O’Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
    * 1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
    * 1899 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
    * 1900 – Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
    * 1900 – Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
    * 1900 – Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
    * 1901 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996)
    * 1903 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
    * 1907 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
    * 1908 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
    * 1909 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
    * 1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
    * 1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
    * 1910 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
    * 1913 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
    * 1915 – Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
    * 1916 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
    * 1916 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
    * 1918 – Charles Evans, British mountaineer, leader of the expedition that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955 (d. 1995)
    * 1920 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
    * 1922 – Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
    * 1926 – Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
    * 1926 – Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
    * 1928 – Lou Scheimer, American animation producer
    * 1931 – John le Carré, English novelist
    * 1932 – Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
    * 1936 – Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
    * 1936 – James Bevel, American activist (d. 2008)
    * 1937 – Peter Max, American artist
    * 1937 – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
    * 1940 – Michael Gambon, Irish actor
    * 1941 – Simon Ward, British actor
    * 1942 – Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
    * 1943 – Robin Holloway, British composer
    * 1943 – Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
    * 1944 – George McCrae, American soul singer
    * 1945 – Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
    * 1945 – Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist
    * 1945 – John Lithgow, American actor
    * 1945 – Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
    * 1946 – Philip Pullman, English writer
    * 1947 – Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
    * 1948 – Patrick Simmons, American musician
    * 1948 – Dave Mallow, American voice actor
    * 1949 – Lynn Dickey, American football player
    * 1949 – Jamie McGrigor, British politician
    * 1951 – Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
    * 1952 – Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer
    * 1953 – Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
    * 1954 – Joe Bryant, American basketball player
    * 1954 – Sam Allardyce, English football manager
    * 1954 – Deborah Blum, American writer
    * 1955 – Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
    * 1956 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
    * 1956 – Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach
    * 1956 – Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
    * 1957 – Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic
    * 1957 – Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician
    * 1957 – Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide
    * 1958 – Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
    * 1958 – Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
    * 1958 – Michael Steele, American political figure
    * 1959 – Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem (2008 – )
    * 1960 – Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
    * 1961 – Sunny Deol, Indian actor
    * 1962 – Tracy Chevalier, American author
    * 1962 – Evander Holyfield, American boxer
    * 1963 – Prince Laurent of Belgium
    * 1964 – Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
    * 1965 – Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
    * 1965 – Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
    * 1966 – Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
    * 1966 – Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
    * 1966 – Sinitta, American singer
    * 1967 – Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
    * 1967 – Amy Carter, daughter of US President Jimmy Carter
    * 1969 – Trey Parker, American cartoonist and actor
    * 1969 – Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
    * 1969 – DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
    * 1969 – John Edward, American TV Psychic
    * 1970 – Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
    * 1972 – Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
    * 1972 – Pras, American musician
    * 1973 – Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
    * 1973 – Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1976 – Joy Bryant, American actress
    * 1976 – Omar Gooding, American actor
    * 1976 – Desmond Harrington, American actor
    * 1976 – Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1976 – Michael Young, baseball player
    * 1977 – Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
    * 1977 – Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
    * 1977 – Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
    * 1977 – Habib Beye, Senegalese footballer
    * 1978 – Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
    * 1978 – James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player
    * 1978 – Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
    * 1978 – Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
    * 1979 – José Luis López, Mexican footballer
    * 1979 – Brian Robertson, American trombonist (Suburban Legends)
    * 1980 – Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
    * 1981 – Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
    * 1982 – Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
    * 1985 – Terry Etim, English mixed martial artist
    * 1989 – Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
    * 1990 – Janet Leon, Swedish singer and dancer (Play)

Births

    * 1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512)
    * 1496 – Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550)
    * 1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
    * 1620 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691)
    * 1632 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723)
    * 1656 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746)
    * 1660 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723)
    * 1677 – Stanislaus I LeszczyÅ„ski, King of Poland (d. 1766)
    * 1700 – Charlotte Aglaé of Orléans, Duchess of Modena (d. 1761)
    * 1711 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795)
    * 1719 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
    * 1759 – Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
    * 1780 – Pauline Bonaparte, princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1825)
    * 1784 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
    * 1785 – George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1873)
    * 1808 – Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875)
    * 1819 – The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
    * 1819 – Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897)
    * 1822 – Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896)
    * 1832 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
    * 1854 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
    * 1858 – John Burns, English politician (d. 1943)
    * 1859 – John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
    * 1864 – James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1951)
    * 1873 – Nellie McClung, Canadian feminist (d. 1951)
    * 1874 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
    * 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
    * 1889 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
    * 1890 – Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
    * 1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
    * 1891 – Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
    * 1893 – Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
    * 1894 – Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
    * 1895 – Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
    * 1897 – Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
    * 1900 – Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
    * 1904 – Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
    * 1904 – Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
    * 1905 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist (d. 1965)
    * 1905 – Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
    * 1907 – Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
    * 1909 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
    * 1913 – Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
    * 1914 – Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006)
    * 1917 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
    * 1918 – Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
    * 1919 – Tracy Hall, American inventor (d. 2008)
    * 1922 – John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
    * 1923 – Robert Craft, American conductor
    * 1925 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007)
    * 1925 – Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
    * 1925 – Roger Hanin, French actor
    * 1927 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (d.2007)
    * 1927 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist and advice columnist
    * 1931 – Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
    * 1931 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
    * 1932 – Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
    * 1932 – William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
    * 1934 – Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
    * 1934 – Michiko, empress of Japan
    * 1935 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
    * 1935 – Barrie Chase, American dancer
    * 1937 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
    * 1937 – Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
    * 1938 – Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
    * 1940 – Kathy Kirby, British singer
    * 1940 – Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
    * 1942 – Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
    * 1942 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    * 1943 – Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
    * 1944 – David Mancuso, American disc jockey
    * 1944 – Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan theoretical physicist, philosopher and a political analyst
    * 1946 – Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (d. 1994)
    * 1946 – Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1946 – Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
    * 1948 – Melih Gökçek, Turkish politician
    * 1949 – Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
    * 1950 – Tom Petty, American musician
    * 1951 – Patrick Hall, British politician
    * 1951 – Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
    * 1951 – Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
    * 1951 – Ken Ham, Australian evangelist and businessman
    * 1953 – Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
    * 1953 – Bill Nunn, American actor
    * 1954 – Steve Orich, orchestrator
    * 1954 – Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist
    * 1955 – Thomas Newman, American composer
    * 1955 – David Profumo, English novelist
    * 1955 – Aaron Pryor, American boxer
    * 1956 – Danny Boyle, English film director
    * 1957 – Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
    * 1957 – Hilda Solis, American politician
    * 1958 – Valerie Faris, American film director
    * 1958 – Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
    * 1958 – Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
    * 1958 – Mark King, English musician and singer (Level 42)
    * 1958 – Dave Krieg, American football player
    * 1958 – Viggo Mortensen, American actor
    * 1958 – Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
    * 1958 – Dave Finlay, Irish professional wrestler
    * 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
    * 1960 – Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer
    * 1961 – Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
    * 1961 – Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
    * 1962 – David M. Evans, American screenwriter and film director
    * 1962 – Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
    * 1963 – Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
    * 1963 – Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
    * 1965 – Norman Blake, Scottish musician
    * 1965 – Jil Caplan, French singer and songwriter
    * 1965 – Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
    * 1965 – William Zabka, American actor
    * 1966 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
    * 1966 – Allan Donald, former South African cricketer
    * 1966 – Fred Coury, American drummer (Cinderella)
    * 1966 – Stefan Raab, German entertainer
    * 1966 – Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
    * 1967 – Luigi Lo Cascio, Italian actor
    * 1967 – Elizabeth Carling, English Actress and Singer
    * 1967 – Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
    * 1967 – Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
    * 1969 – Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
    * 1969 – Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
    * 1969 – Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
    * 1970 – Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
    * 1970 – Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
    * 1971 – Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
    * 1971 – Eddie Jones, American basketball player
    * 1971 – Snoop Dogg, American rapper
    * 1972 – Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
    * 1976 – Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
    * 1977 – Matt Jansen, English footballer
    * 1977 – Leila Josefowicz, Canadian classical violinist
    * 1977 – Sam Witwer, American actor
    * 1978 – Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
    * 1978 – Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player (Snow Patrol)
    * 1979 – Paul Ifill, Barbadian footballer
    * 1979 – John Krasinski, American actor
    * 1979 – Paul O’Connell, Irish rugby player
    * 1980 – Gary Jarman, English musician
    * 1980 – Niall Matter, Canadian actor
    * 1980 – Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
    * 1981 – Willis McGahee, American football player
    * 1981 – Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
    * 1981 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Mexican footballer
    * 1982 – Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi footballer
    * 1982 – Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
    * 1983 – Alex Nackman, musician
    * 1983 – Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
    * 1983 – Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
    * 1984 – Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
    * 1984 – Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player
    * 1985 – Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
    * 1985 – Alphonso Smith, American football player
    * 1985 – Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
    * 1985 – James Sutton, British racing driver
    * 1986 – Priyanka Sharma, Indian actress
    * 1988 – Candice Swanepoel, South African model
    * 1988 – Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
    * 1990 – Andrew Johnson, American astronaut
    * 1992 – Ksenia Semenova, Russian Olympic gymnast.
    * 1994 – Morgan Featherstone, Australian model

Events

    * 1740 – Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
    * 1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
    * 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
    * 1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
    * 1827 – Battle of Navarino – a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied British, French, and Russian naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, Greece.
    * 1883 – Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru’s involvement in the War of the Pacific.
    * 1905 – Turkish sport club Galatasaray founded.
    * 1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
    * 1935 – The Long March ends
    * 1941 – World War II: Thousands of civilians in Kragujevac in German-occupied Serbia are killed in the Kragujevac massacre.
    * 1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia
    * 1944 – Liquid natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland, then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130.
    * 1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.
    * 1947 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
    * 1947 – United States of America and Pakistan establish Diplomatic relations for the first time.
    * 1951 – The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
    * 1952 – Governor Evelyn Baring declared a state of emergency in Kenya and began arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, including Jomo Kenyatta, the future first President of Kenya.
    * 1967 – A purported bigfoot is filmed by Patterson and Gimlin.
    * 1968 – Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
    * 1970 – Siad Barre declares Somalia a socialist state.
    * 1971 – The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses.
    * 1973 – Saturday Night Massacre: President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
    * 1973 – The Sydney Opera House opens.
    * 1976 – The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River between Destrehan and Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died; only 18 people aboard the ferry survived.
    * 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.
    * 1979 – The John F Kennedy library is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
    * 1982 – During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
    * 1984 – The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.
    * 1991 – The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage.

Births

    * 1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
    * 1405 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
    * 1517 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570)
    * 1547 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (d. 1606)
    * 1569 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625)
    * 1595 – Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655)
    * 1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
    * 1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
    * 1662 – Matthew Henry, English non-conformist minister (d. 1714)
    * 1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
    * 1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
    * 1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
    * 1706 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
    * 1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
    * 1777 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
    * 1785 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
    * 1831 – Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (d. 1888)
    * 1854 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
    * 1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
    * 1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
    * 1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
    * 1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
    * 1870 – Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)
    * 1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
    * 1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
    * 1893 – Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
    * 1894 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
    * 1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist (d. 1980)
    * 1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
    * 1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
    * 1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
    * 1903 – Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
    * 1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
    * 1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
    * 1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first President of Côte d’Ivoire (d. 1993)
    * 1906 – James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)
    * 1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
    * 1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
    * 1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
    * 1918 – Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999)
    * 1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
    * 1919 – Anita O’Day, American singer (d. 2006)
    * 1919 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
    * 1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and Minister for Culture of Greece (d. 1994)
    * 1921 – Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)
    * 1924 – Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
    * 1925 – Ramiz Alia, political leader of Albania
    * 1926 – Chuck Berry, American musician
    * 1926 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
    * 1927 – George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
    * 1928 – Keith Jackson, American football commentator
    * 1929 – Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
    * 1931 – Chris Albertson, American jazz historian
    * 1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
    * 1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player
    * 1934 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
    * 1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
    * 1934 – Chuck Swindoll, American evangelist
    * 1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
    * 1938 – Dawn Wells, American actress
    * 1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and commentator
    * 1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
    * 1939 – Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council
    * 1940 – Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
    * 1942 – Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
    * 1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
    * 1945 – Chris Shays, Member of the United States Congress from Connecticut
    * 1945 – Huell Howser, American TV host
    * 1945 – Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
    * 1946 – James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
    * 1946 – Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
    * 1946 – Frank Beamer, American football coach Virginia Tech Hokies football
    * 1947 – Job Cohen, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam
    * 1947 – Joe Morton, American actor
    * 1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997)
    * 1947 – Paul Chuckle, British comedian
    * 1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author
    * 1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
    * 1949 – Joe Egan, British musician (Stealers Wheel)
    * 1949 – George Hendrick, baseball player
    * 1949 – Gary Richrath, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
    * 1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor
    * 1950 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
    * 1950 – Sheila White, English actress
    * 1951 – Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
    * 1951 – Terry McMillan, American author
    * 1951 – Pam Dawber, American actress
    * 1952 – Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer, first to complete the Seven Summits
    * 1952 – Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
    * 1952 – Jerry Royster, American baseball player
    * 1954 – Liz Burch, Australian actress
    * 1954 – Arliss Howard, American actor
    * 1955 – Timmy Mallett, British TV presenter
    * 1955 – David Twohy, American movie director and screenwriter
    * 1955 – Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
    * 1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer and songwriter (Pylon (band) & Supercluster)
    * 1956 – Martina Navrátilová, Czech-born tennis player
    * 1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator
    * 1956 – Jim Talent, American politician
    * 1957 – Catherine Ringer, French singer and songwriter (Les Rita Mitsouko)
    * 1958 – Corinne Bohrer, American actress
    * 1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer
    * 1958 – Kjell Samuelsson, National Hockey League defenseman
    * 1959 – Kirby Chambliss, Aerobatic pilot and Red Bull Air Racer
    * 1959 – Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian film director and screenwriter
    * 1959 – John Nord, former American pro wrestler
    * 1959 – Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports talk show host
    * 1959 – Steve Swayne, Dartmouth Professor
    * 1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
    * 1960 – Erin Moran, American actress
    * 1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American jazz musician
    * 1961 – Rick Moody, American author
    * 1962 – Vincent Spano, American actor
    * 1964 – Dan Lilker, American musician, bassist for Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, and Brutal Truth
    * 1964 – Charles Stross, British speculative-fiction author
    * 1965 – Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and saxophonist.
    * 1965 – Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic speaker and doctor.
    * 1966 – Slavi Trifonov, Bulgarian showman
    * 1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentine former footballer
    * 1970 – José Padilla, American former gang member and alleged supporter of terrorism
    * 1970 – Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player
    * 1972 – Alex Tagliani, Quebec racing driver
    * 1972 – Jake Farrow, actor
    * 1973 – Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
    * 1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
    * 1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
    * 1974 – Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
    * 1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
    * 1976 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
    * 1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
    * 1977 – David Vuillemin, Pro Motocross Rider
    * 1978 – Wesley Jonathan, American actor
    * 1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby union player
    * 1978 – Jyothika Saravanan, Indian actress popular in Tamil
    * 1978 – Priyanka Trivedi, Indian actress
    * 1978 – Jake Farrow, American actor
    * 1980 – Josh Gracin, American singer
    * 1981 – Greg Warren, American football player
    * 1982 – Ne-Yo, American R&B singer
    * 1982 – Thierry Amiel, French singer
    * 1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
    * 1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
    * 1985 – Derrick Tribbett, American musician (Twisted Method)
    * 1987 – Zac Efron, American actor
    * 1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
    * 1990 – Carly Schroeder, American actress
    * 1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor
    * 1998 – Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
    * 2001 – Annelise Manojlovic, English actress

    * 1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.
    * 1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
    * 1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
    * 1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV .
    * 1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroyed the town of Basel, Switzerland.
    * 1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg
    * 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
    * 1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
    * 1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
    * 1767 – Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
    * 1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
    * 1851 – Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
    * 1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
    * 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
    * 1898 – United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
    * 1912 – The First Balkan War begins.
    * 1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
    * 1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
    * 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
    * 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
    * 1929 – Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
    * 1936 – Adolf Hitler announces the Four Year Economic Plan to the German people. The plan details the rebuilding of the German military from 1936 to 1940.
    * 1944 – Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia.
    * 1944 – Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
    * 1944 – Adolf Hitler orders the public funeral procession of Nazi field Marshall Erwin Rommel, commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps
    * 1945 – The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
    * 1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, staged a coup d’état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
    * 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
    * 1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
    * 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
    * 1968 – The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
    * 1968 – Bob Beamon sets a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump at the Mexico City games.
    * 1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is executed and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
    * 1989 – East German leader Erich Honecker resigns.
    * 1991 – Azerbaijan declares independence from USSR.
    * 2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
    * 2007 – 2007 Karachi bombings: attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Births

    * 1253 – Ivo of Kermartin, Patron saint of lawyers (d. 1303)
    * 1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartographer (d. 1611)
    * 1577 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (d. 1621)
    * 1582 – Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
    * 1623 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
    * 1688 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (d. 1726)
    * 1711 – Jupiter Hammon, American writer (d. 1806)
    * 1719 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
    * 1811 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch/American religious leader (d. 1876)
    * 1813 – Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
    * 1814 – Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian writer and professor (d. 1888)
    * 1817 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian intellectual (d. 1898)
    * 1853 – Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1920)
    * 1864 – Elinor Glyn, British writer (d. 1943)
    * 1865 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (d. 1950)
    * 1886 – Spring Byington, American actress (d. 1971)
    * 1890 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928)
    * 1892 – Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (d. 1943)
    * 1892 – Herbert Howells, English Composer (d. 1983)
    * 1898 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher (d. 1998)
    * 1898 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (d. 1971)
    * 1900 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
    * 1902 – Irene Ryan, American actress (d. 1973)
    * 1903 – Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
    * 1906 – Paul Derringer, American baseball player (d. 1987)
    * 1908 – Red Rolfe, American baseball player (d. 1969)
    * 1912 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
    * 1912 – Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner, American singer/songwriter (d. 1982)
    * 1914 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (d. 1996)
    * 1915 – Arthur Miller, American playwright (d. 2005)
    * 1917 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
    * 1917 – Marsha Hunt (actress), American actress
    * 1918 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
    * 1918 – Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills
    * 1919 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
    * 1920 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer
    * 1920 – Montgomery Clift, American actor (d. 1966)
    * 1921 – Tom Poston, American actor and comedian (d. 2007)
    * 1921 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
    * 1922 – Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive
    * 1922 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian composer (d. 2001)
    * 1923 – Charles McClendon, American football coach (d. 2001)
    * 1923 – Barney Kessel, American musician (d. 2004)
    * 1925 – Harry Carpenter, English sports commentator
    * 1926 – Julie Adams, American film actress
    * 1926 – Beverly Garland, American actress (d. 2008)
    * 1930 – Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
    * 1930 – Jimmy Breslin, American newspaper columnist and author
    * 1931 – Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
    * 1933 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (d. 1985)
    * 1934 – Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
    * 1935 – Sydney Chapman, English politician and architect
    * 1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
    * 1937 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
    * 1938 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007)
    * 1940 – Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner
    * 1940 – Jim Smith, English footballer and manager
    * 1941 – Earl Thomas Conley, American singer
    * 1941 – Jim Seals American singer (Seals and Crofts)
    * 1942 – Gary Puckett, American musician
    * 1942 – Steve Jones, American basketball player
    * 1946 – Sir Cameron Mackintosh, British stage producer
    * 1946 – Adam Michnik, Polish activist
    * 1946 – Bob Seagren, American athlete
    * 1946 – Michael Hossack, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
    * 1946 – Drusilla Modjeska, Australian writer and editor
    * 1947 – Gene Green, American politician
    * 1947 – Michael McKean, American actor
    * 1948 – Margot Kidder, Canadian actress
    * 1948 – George Wendt, American actor
    * 1948 – Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
    * 1950 – Howard Rollins, American actor (d. 1996)
    * 1951 – Roger Pontare, Swedish singer
    * 1954 – Carlos Buhler, American high altitude mountaineer
    * 1955 – Georgios Alogoskoufis, Greek politician
    * 1956 – Mae Jemison, American astronaut
    * 1956 – Patrick McCrory, American politician
    * 1957 – Lawrence Bender, American film producer
    * 1957 – Steve McMichael, American football player
    * 1958 – Alan Jackson, American singer and songwriter
    * 1959 – Ron Drummond, American writer
    * 1959 – Mark Peel, Australian historian and academic
    * 1959 – Richard Roeper, American film critic
    * 1959 – Russell Gilbert, Australian comedian
    * 1960 – Rob Marshall, American director
    * 1960 – Guy Henry, English actor
    * 1962 – Mike Judge, American cartoonist, filmmaker and voice actor
    * 1963 – Sergio Goycochea, Argentine footballer
    * 1963 – Norm Macdonald, Canadian comedian and actor
    * 1965 – Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
    * 1966 – Mark Gatiss, English actor and writer
    * 1966 – Tommy Kendall, American race car driver and television personality
    * 1966 – Danny Ferry, American basketball player
    * 1967 – René Dif, Danish musician (Aqua)
    * 1968 – Ziggy Marley, Jamaican musician
    * 1969 – Wood Harris, American actor
    * 1969 – Ernie Els, South African golfer
    * 1969 – Rick Mercer, Canadian comedian
    * 1970 – Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
    * 1970 – John Mabry, American baseball player
    * 1970 – Blues Saraceno, American guitarist
    * 1971 – Chris Kirkpatrick, American singer (‘N Sync)
    * 1972 – Eminem, American rapper
    * 1972 – Tarkan, Turkish singer
    * 1972 – Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer
    * 1972 – Sharon Leal, American actress
    * 1972 – Joe McEwing, American baseball player
    * 1974 – Matthew Macfadyen, British actor
    * 1974 – Ariel Levy, American feminist writer
    * 1974 – Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboardist (HIM)
    * 1974 – John Rocker, American baseball player
    * 1975 – Francis Bouillon, American hockey player
    * 1976 – Sebastián Abreu, Uruguayan footballer
    * 1977 – Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
    * 1977 – Bryan Bertino, American film director and screenwriter
    * 1979 – Marcela Bovio, Mexican singer and violinist (Stream of Passion)
    * 1979 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
    * 1979 – Kostas Tsartsaris, Greek basketball player
    * 1980 – Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
    * 1980 – Alessandro Piccolo, Italian racing driver
    * 1982 – Nick Riewoldt, Australian football player
    * 1983 – Daniel Booko, American actor
    * 1983 – Ivan Saenko, Russian football player
    * 1984 – Jelle Klaasen, Dutch darts player
    * 1984 – Chris Lowell, American actor
    * 1984 – Randall Munroe, American cartoonist
    * 1985 – Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
    * 1987 – Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress
    * 1987 – JarosÅ‚aw Fojut, Polish footballer
    * 1992 – Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor

Events

    * 539 BC – King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
    * 1091 – T8/F4 tornado strikes the heart of London.
    * 1346 – Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
    * 1448 – Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II.
    * 1456 – The University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
    * 1604 – Kepler’s Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
    * 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Rheims.
    * 1660 – Nine Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of Charles I, are hanged, drawn and quartered.
    * 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
    * 1777 – American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
    * 1781 – General Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the American revolutionists at Yorktown, Virginia.
    * 1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
    * 1800 – England takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.

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    * 1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I of Haiti is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
    * 1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London killing nine.
    * 1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
    * 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
    * 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
    * 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
    * 1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
    * 1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
    * 1933 – Albert Einstein, fleeing Nazi Germany, moves to the U.S..
    * 1941 – For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks an American ship.
    * 1941 – German troops execute the male population of the villages Kerdyllia in Serres, Greece and burn the houses down.
    * 1945 – A massive number of people, headed by CGT and Evita, gather in the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina to demand Juan Peron’s release. This is known to the Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty). It’s considered the birthday of Peronism.
    * 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
    * 1961 – Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
    * 1965 – The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
    * 1966 – A fire at a building in New York, New York kills 12 firefighters, the New York City Fire Department’s deadliest day until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
    * 1970 – Montreal, Quebec: Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
    * 1973 – OPEC starts an oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Syria.
    * 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
    * 1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
    * 1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
    * 1987 – First commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
    * 1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
    * 1998 – At Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline.
    * 2000 – Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
    * 2003 – The pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the World’s tallest highrise.
    * 2006 – The United States population reaches 300 million.
    * 2007 – The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.

Births

    * 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
    * 1430 – King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
    * 1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
    * 1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
    * 1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
    * 1710 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
    * 1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
    * 1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
    * 1751 – Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
    * 1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
    * 1754 – Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
    * 1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
    * 1762 – Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804–06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809–12) (d. 1816)
    * 1789 – William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859–63) (d. 1866)
    * 1795 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
    * 1802 – Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (d. 1882)
    * 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (d. 1869)
    * 1815 – Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
    * 1819 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
    * 1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
    * 1841 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
    * 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
    * 1854 – Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (d. 1938)
    * 1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
    * 1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
    * 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
    * 1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913)
    * 1878 – Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
    * 1883 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)

    * 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
    * 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
    * 1888 – Eugene O’Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
    * 1888 – Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
    * 1890 – Michael Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922)
    * 1890 – Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
    * 1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
    * 1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
    * 1898 – William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
    * 1900 – Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
    * 1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
    * 1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971)
    * 1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
    * 1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
    * 1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
    * 1914 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
    * 1916 – George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
    * 1917 – Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
    * 1918 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
    * 1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
    * 1922 – Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
    * 1922 – Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
    * 1923 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
    * 1923 – Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
    * 1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
    * 1927 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1928 – Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian
    * 1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
    * 1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
    * 1930 – Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
    * 1931 – Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator
    * 1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
    * 1931 – Valery Klimov, Russian violinist
    * 1932 – John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
    * 1932 – Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (d. 1996)
    * 1934 – Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
    * 1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
    * 1936 – Akira Machida, Japanese judge
    * 1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor
    * 1938 – Nico (born Christa Päffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (d. 1988)
    * 1938 – Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (d. 1999)
    * 1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor
    * 1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
    * 1940 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
    * 1941 – Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator
    * 1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
    * 1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress
    * 1947 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
    * 1947 – Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
    * 1947 – David Zucker, American film director
    * 1948 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
    * 1948 – Hema Malini, Indian Actress
    * 1952 – Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
    * 1952 – Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
    * 1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
    * 1953 – Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
    * 1953 – Al Sobotka, Zamboni driver
    * 1954 – Stephen Mellor, American actor
    * 1956 – John Chavis, American football coach
    * 1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
    * 1958 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
    * 1959 – Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
    * 1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
    * 1959 – Brian Harper, baseball player
    * 1960 – Bob Mould, American musician
    * 1961 – Randy Vasquez, American actor
    * 1961 – Marc Levy, French novelist
    * 1962 – Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
    * 1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA
    * 1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
    * 1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian musician
    * 1965 – Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
    * 1967 – Davina McCall, British television presenter
    * 1968 – Randall Batinkoff, American actor
    * 1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
    * 1969 – Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
    * 1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
    * 1969 – Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
    * 1969 – Takao ÅŒmori, Japanese professional wrestler
    * 1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
    * 1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
    * 1971 – Chad Gray, American singer
    * 1972 – Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
    * 1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Russian Super League player
    * 1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player
    * 1973 – Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
    * 1973 – David Unsworth, English professional footballer
    * 1974 – Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
    * 1975 – Kellie Martin, American actress
    * 1975 – Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
    * 1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
    * 1976 – Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality
    * 1977 – John Mayer, American musician
    * 1978 – Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
    * 1979 – Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician
    * 1980 – Sue Bird, American basketball player
    * 1980 – Jeremy Jackson, American actor
    * 1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
    * 1981 – Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
    * 1981 – Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
    * 1981 – Martin Halle, Danish footballer
    * 1982 – Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
    * 1982 – Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
    * 1983 – Jennifer Hurt, model
    * 1984 – Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor
    * 1984 – Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
    * 1984 – Shayne Ward, UK singer
    * 1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
    * 1986 – Craig Pickering, British sprinter
    * 1988 – Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Events

    * 456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
    * 1780 – Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
    * 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
    * 1793 – Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
    * 1793 – The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory.
    * 1813 – The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
    * 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt to the ground.
    * 1841 – Queen’s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
    * 1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
    * 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia.
    * 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
    * 1869 – Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England’s first residential college for women.
    * 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
    * 1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
    * 1905 – The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
    * 1906 – The Captain of Köpenick fools the city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
    * 1916 – Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
    * 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
    * 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
    * 1939 – World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
    * 1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
    * 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
    * 1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
    * 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
    * 1949 – Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
    * 1949 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
    * 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
    * 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins.
    * 1964 – The People’s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
    * 1964 – Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively.
    * 1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the USA’s team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
    * 1968 – Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
    * 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
    * 1973 – Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
    * 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
    * 1975 – Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
    * 1978 – Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
    * 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
    * 1986 – Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
    * 1987 – Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane force winds hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
    * 1991 – Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
    * 1993 – Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
    * 1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
    * 1995 – The Skye Bridge is opened.
    * 1996 – Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
    * 1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
    * 2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.

Births

    * 70 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
    * 1471 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526)
    * 1542 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
    * 1608 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)
    * 1686 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)
    * 1701 – Marie-Marguerite d’Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)
    * 1711 – Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)
    * 1784 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
    * 1785 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (d. 1821)
    * 1814 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (d. 1841)
    * 1825 – Queen Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)
    * 1829 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (d. 1907)
    * 1836 – James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902)
    * 1840 – Honoré Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
    * 1844 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
    * 1858 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (d. 1918)
    * 1872 – Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956)
    * 1874 – Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (d. 1899)
    * 1878 – Paul Reynaud, French politician (d. 1966)
    * 1879 – Jane Darwell, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1967)
    * 1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist (d. 1975)
    * 1882 – Charley O’Leary, American baseball player (d. 1941)
    * 1884 – Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910)
    * 1893 – King Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
    * 1894 – Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
    * 1898 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1951)
    * 1900 – Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (d. 1987)
    * 1905 – C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980)
    * 1906 – Hiram Leong Fong, American politician (d. 2004)
    * 1907 – Varian Fry, American journalist (d. 1967)
    * 1908 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born US economist (d. 2006)
    * 1909 – Robert Trout, American reporter (d. 2000)
    * 1909 – Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer (d. 2002)
    * 1915 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician
    * 1917 – Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004)
    * 1917 – Arthur Schlesinger Jr., American historian and political commentator (d. 2007)
    * 1919 – Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (d. 1985)
    * 1920 – Mario Puzo, American novelist (d. 1999)
    * 1920 – Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002)
    * 1922 – Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese writer
    * 1923 – Italo Calvino. Italian writer (d. 1985)
    * 1924 – Lee Iacocca, American industrialist
    * 1924 – Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
    * 1924 – Marguerite Andersen, German writer
    * 1924 – Warren Miller, American director
    * 1925 – Mickey Baker, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia)
    * 1926 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
    * 1926 – Evan Hunter, American author (d. 2005)
    * 1926 – Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
    * 1926 – Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
    * 1930 – Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
    * 1931 – Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India
    * 1934 – N. Ramani, Indian flutist
    * 1935 – Bobby Joe Morrow, American sprinter
    * 1935 – Barry McGuire, American singer
    * 1935 – Willie O’Ree, Canadian Hockey Player

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    * 1937 – Linda Lavin, American actress
    * 1938 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician (d. 1997)
    * 1938 – Marv Johnson, American singer (d. 1993)
    * 1940 – Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player
    * 1940 – Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, Nobel laureate
    * 1942 – Penny Marshall, American actress and movie director
    * 1944 – Sali Berisha, President of Albania
    * 1944 – David Trimble, Irish politician, Nobel laureate
    * 1944 – Haim Saban, Egyptian-born American media proprietor
    * 1945 – Jere Burns, American actor
    * 1945 – Jim Palmer, American baseball player
    * 1946 – Richard Carpenter, American musician (The Carpenters)
    * 1946 – Stewart Stevenson, Scottish politician
    * 1948 – Chris de Burgh, Irish singer and songwriter
    * 1949 – Laurie McBain, U.S.American novelist.
    * 1949 – Prannoy Roy, Journalist, Psephologist, CEO – NDTV
    * 1953 – Tito Jackson, American musician
    * 1953 – Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
    * 1953 – Betsy Clifford, Canadian alpine skier
    * 1954 – Peter Bakowski, Australian poet
    * 1954 – Princess Friederike of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
    * 1955 – Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player
    * 1955 – Tanya Roberts, American actress
    * 1957 – Mira Nair, Indian director
    * 1957 – Stacy Peralta, American director
    * 1958 – Stephen Clarke, British author of A Year in the Merde
    * 1959 – Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
    * 1959 – Emeril Lagasse, American chef
    * 1959 – Todd Solondz, American film director
    * 1960 – Daniel Mazur, American mountaineer
    * 1961 – John Kenny, Irish sports broadcaster and journalist
    * 1964 – Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut
    * 1966 – Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer
    * 1968 – Jyrki 69, Finnish musician The 69 Eyes
    * 1968 – Didier Deschamps, French footballer
    * 1969 – Paige Davis, American television personality and Broadway actress
    * 1969 – Vanessa Marcil, American actress
    * 1969 – Dominic West, British actor
    * 1969 – Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
    * 1970 – Eric Benét, American singer
    * 1971 – Andy Cole, British footballer
    * 1971 – Jason Arhndt, American wrestler
    * 1972 – Matt Keeslar, American actor
    * 1972 – Sandra Kim, Belgian singer
    * 1973 – Dax Riggs, American musician
    * 1975 – Ginuwine, American singer
    * 1975 – Glen Little, English footballer
    * 1976 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer
    * 1977 – Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
    * 1977 – Erin McKeown, American musician
    * 1977 – David Trezeguet, French football player
    * 1977 – Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
    * 1978 – Devon Gummersall, American actor
    * 1978 – Takeshi Morishima Japanese professional wrestler
    * 1979 – Paul Robinson, English footballer
    * 1979 – Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
    * 1979 – Blue Adams, American Football Player
    * 1979 – Tomas Kalnoky, American Singer
    * 1980 – Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
    * 1980 – Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer (Killer)
    * 1981 – Keyshia Cole, American R&B singer
    * 1981 – Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
    * 1981 – Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver
    * 1981 – Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
    * 1982 – Paulini Curuenavuli, Fijian/Australian singer
    * 1982 – Charline Labonté, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1983 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
    * 1985 – Walter López, Uruguayan footballer
    * 1985 – Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver
    * 1986 – Donghae, Korean singer (Super Junior)
    * 1987 – Jesse Levine, Canadian/American tennis player
    * 2005 – Prince Christian of Denmark