Births (50 years today): 1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach Births (50 years today): 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster Deaths (250 years today): 1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714) Deaths (200 years today): 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754) Deaths (100 years today): 1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858) ***

Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

1601–1900[edit]

See Meeuw

^[1]

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Battle of Seringapatam

Seringapatam

Tipu Sultan

General George Harris

Spanish Constitution of 1812

absolutism

1836

Ancient Order of Hibernians

Naval Battle of Hakodate

1901–present[edit]

^[2]

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

^[3]

Battle of the Coral Sea

Neuengamme concentration camp

Hamburg

British Army

German surrender at Lüneburg Heath

Treasure Island Naval Base

two-day riot

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary

The Old Man and the Sea

1959

1st Annual Grammy Awards

1961

American civil rights movement

Kent State University

Cambodian Campaign

South Vietnam

environmental organization

Don't Make A Wave Committee

Greenpeace Foundation

1973

Sears Tower

world's tallest building

^[4]

1978

South African Defence Force

^[5]

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Space Shuttle Atlantis

STS-30

Venus

Magellan

^[6]

1990

Latvia

declares independence

Sacramento, California

Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport

^[7]

Enhanced Fujita scale

^[8]

the inaugural season's

^[9]

^[10]

^[11]

^[12]

< / YEAR = 2023
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1006 – Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1088)
1559 – Alice Spencer, English noblewoman (d. 1637)

1601–1900[edit]

1634 – Katherine Ferrers, English aristocrat and heiress (d. 1660)
1649 – Chhatrasal, Indian ruler (d. 1731)
1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)
1677 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d.1749)
1715 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (d. 1804)
1733 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1752 – John Brooks, American soldier and politician, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1757 – Manuel Tolsá, Spanish sculptor and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City (d. 1816)
1767 – Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
1770 – François Gérard, French painter (d. 1837)
1772 – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)
1796 – William Pennington, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1862)
1796 – William H. Prescott, American historian and scholar (d. 1859)
1820 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1820 – John Whiteaker, American soldier, judge, and politician, 1st Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1822 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1915)
1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic (d. 1895)
1825 – Augustus Le Plongeon, English-American historian, photographer, and academic (d. 1908)
1826 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
1827 – John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (d. 1864)
1851 – Thomas Dewing, American painter (d. 1938)
1852 – Alice Liddell, English model (d. 1934)
1883 – Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (d. 1944)
1884 – Richard Baggallay, English army officer and cricketer (d. 1975)^[13]
1887 – Andrew Dasburg, French-American painter (d. 1979)
1889 – Francis Spellman, American cardinal (d. 1967)^[14]
1890 – Franklin Carmichael, Canadian painter (d. 1945)

1901–present[edit]

1902 – Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (d. 1986)
1902 – Cola Debrot, Dutch physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1981)
1902 – William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (d. 1971)^[15]
1903 – Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
1903 – Paul Demel, Czech actor (d. 1951)
1905 – Al Dexter, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1906 – Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1987)
1907 – Lincoln Kirstein, American soldier and playwright, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1996)
1907 – Walter Walsh, American target shooter and FBI agent (d. 2014)
1908 – Wolrad Eberle, German decathlete (d. 1949)
1911 – Evald Seepere, Estonian boxer (d. 1990)
1913 – John Broome, American author (d. 1999)
1913 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
1914 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
1916 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1916 – Richard Proenneke, American soldier, carpenter, and meteorologist (d. 2003)
1917 – Edward T. Cone, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
1917 – Nick Joaquin, Filipino writer, journalist and historian (d. 2004)
1918 – Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (d. 2004)
1918 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
1919 – Dory Funk, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1973)
1919 – Basil Yamey, South African-English economist and academic (d. 2020)
1921 – Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1921 – John van Kesteren, Dutch-American tenor and actor (d. 2008)
1921 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2005)
1922 – Paul-Émile Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (d. 2014)
1922 – Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic (d. 2015)
1923 – Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (d. 2006)
1923 – Ed Cassidy, American jazz and rock drummer (d. 2012)
1923 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and producer (d. 1986)
1923 – Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian (d. 2012)
1923 – John Toner, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1925 – Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1925 – Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman and philanthropist
1926 – David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician (d. 2020)
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2006)
1928 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, and publisher (d. 2021)
1928 – Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian air marshal and politician, 4th President of Egypt (d. 2020)
1928 – Betsy Rawls, American golfer (d. 2023)
1928 – Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (d. 1961)
1929 – Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (d. 2015)
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian (d. 1993)
1929 – Paige Rense, American magazine editor (d. 2021)^[16]
1930 – Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson family
1930 – Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
1931 – Jan Pesman, Dutch speed skater (d. 2014)
1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor and educator (d. 2018)
1931 – Thomas Stuttaford, English physician, journalist, and politician (d. 2018)
1932 – Harlon Hill, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1932 – Alexander MacAra, Scottish epidemiologist and academic (d. 2012)
1933 – J. Fred Duckett, American journalist and educator (d. 2007)
1936 – El Cordobés, Spanish bullfighter
1936 – Med Hondo, Mauritanian filmmaker and actor (d. 2019)
1937 – Ron Carter, American bassist and educator
1937 – Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (d. 2019)
1937 – Wim Verstappen, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1938 – Tyrone Davis, American blues and soul singer (d. 2005)
1938 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican journalist, author, and critic (d. 2010)
1938 – Gillian Tindall, English historian and author
1939 – Neil Fox, English rugby league player and coach
1939 – Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author (d. 2018)
1939 – Leon Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Robin Cook, American physician and author
1940 – Peter Gregg, American race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)
1941 – George Will, American journalist and author
1943 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)
1943 – Mihail Chemiakin, Russian painter and sculptor
1943 – Prasanta Pattanaik, Indian economist and academic
1944 – Walker Boone, Canadian actor (d. 2021)^[17]^[18]
1944 – Steve Liebmann, Australian radio and television host
1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress (d. 2019)
1945 – Jan Mulder, Dutch footballer and journalist
1946 – John Barnard, English car designer
1946 – Gary Bauer, American political activist
1946 – John Watson, British race car driver
1947 – John Bosley, Canadian businessman and politician, 31st Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons (d. 2022)
1947 – Ronald Sørensen, Dutch historian and politician
1947 – Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician, 17th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1948 – Alison Britton, English sculptor and educator
1948 – Hurley Haywood, American race car driver
1948 – King George Tupou V of Tonga, (d. 2012)
1949 – Graham Swift, English novelist and short story writer
1950 – Darryl Hunt, English bass player (d. 2022)
1951 – Colin Bass, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1951 – Colleen Hanabusa, American lawyer and politician
1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1952 – Belinda Green, Australian beauty queen and 1972 Miss World
1953 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
1954 – Ryan Cayabyab, Filipino pianist, composer, and conductor
1954 – Trevor Ryan, Australian rugby league player^[19]
1956 – Michael L. Gernhardt, American astronaut and engineer
1956 – David Guterson, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
1956 – Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player and coach
1957 – Jaak Huimerind, Estonian architect
1957 – Kathy Kreiner, Canadian skier
1957 – Peter Sleep, Australian cricketer
1957 – Marijke Vos, Dutch educator and politician
1958 – Delbert Fowler, American football player
1958 – Keith Haring, American painter (d. 1990)
1958 – Jane Kennedy, English politician
1958 – Caroline Spelman, English politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1959 – Valdemaras Chomičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1959 – Bob Tway, American golfer
1960 – Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, 28th Chancellor of Austria
1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1964 – Silvia Costa, Cuban high jumper
1966 – Gary Elkins, English footballer and manager^[20]
1966 – Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation (d. 2008)
1967 – Kate Garraway, English journalist
1967 – Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer
1969 – Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Franz Resch, Austrian footballer and manager
1970 – Gregg Alexander, American singer-songwriter and producer
1970 – Will Arnett, Canadian actor and producer
1970 – Giovanni Mirabassi, Italian jazz musician
1970 – Dawn Staley, American basketball player
1970 – Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer and coach
1971 – Joe Borowski, American baseball player and sportscaster
1971 – Miles Stewart, Australian triathlete
1972 – Manny Aybar, Dominican baseball player
1972 – Mike Dirnt, American bass player and songwriter
1972 – Chris Tomlin, American singer-songwriter^[21]
1973 – Matthew Barnaby, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1973 – Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentinian footballer and coach
1973 – John Madden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster
1976 – Ben Grieve, American baseball player
1976 – Rory Hamill, Northern Irish international footballer^[22]
1976 – Jason Michaels, American baseball player
1976 – Indrek Visnapuu, Estonian basketball player and coach
1977 – John Tripp, Canadian-German ice hockey player
1978 – Erin Andrews, American sportscaster and journalist
1978 – Igor Biscan, Croatian footballer
1978 – Brett Burton, Australian footballer
1978 – James Harrison, American football player^[23]
1978 – Vladimíra Uhlířová, Czech tennis player
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, and producer
1979 – Kristin Harmel, American journalist and author
1979 – Marie Poissonnier, French pole vaulter
1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan rugby player
1980 – Andrew Raycroft, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
1981 – Ruth Negga, Ethiopian-Irish actress^[24]^[25]
1981 – Dallon Weekes, American singer-songwriter and musician
1982 – Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer
1982 – Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
1982 – Giorgos Tsiaras, Greek basketball player
1983 – Dan Christian, Australian cricketer
1983 – Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Robert Zwinkels, Dutch footballer
1984 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2007)
1984 – Brad Maddox, American wrestler and referee
1984 – Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater
1984 – Montell Owens, American football player
1984 – Kevin Slowey, American baseball player
1985 – Ravi Bopara, English cricketer
1985 – Anthony Fedorov, Ukrainian-born American singer and actor
1985 – Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Lester "Bo" McCalebb, American-Macedonian professional basketball player
1985 – Jamie Adenuga, English MC and rapper
1986 – Devan Dubnyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – George Hill, American basketball player
1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
1988 – Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer
1989 – Dániel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
1989 – Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater
1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
1989 – Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player
1989 – James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player
1990 – Irina Falconi, American tennis player
1990 – Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver^[26]
1990 – Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model
1991 – Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
1992 – Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
1993 – Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
1994 – Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
1994 – Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
1996 – Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist
1997 – Max King, Australian rugby league player^[27]

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1006

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

1559

Alice Spencer

1601–1900[edit]

Bartolomeo Cristofori

piano

1677

Françoise-Marie de Bourbon

1715

Richard Graves

1733

Jean-Charles de Borda

1752

John Brooks

Governor of Massachusetts

1757

Manuel Tolsá

Academy of San Carlos

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

1796

Horace Mann

William Pennington

Governor of New Jersey

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

First Lady of the United States

John Whiteaker

Governor of Oregon

1822

Charles Boucher de Boucherville

Frederic Edwin Church

^[13]

^[14]

1901–present[edit]

1902

Ronnie Aird

Cola Debrot

William Brown Meloney

^[15]

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark

Prime Minister of Japan

Paul-Émile Charbonneau

David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon

^[16]

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

^[17]

^[18]

Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons

Ronald Sørensen

Trivimi Velliste

Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs

^[19]

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chancellor of Austria

^[20]

^[21]

Guillermo Barros Schelotto

1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster

1976 – Ben Grieve, American baseball player / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Rory Hamill, Northern Irish international footballer^[22] / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Jason Michaels, American baseball player / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Indrek Visnapuu, Estonian basketball player and coach / YEAR = 1976
1977 – John Tripp, Canadian-German ice hockey player / YEAR = 1977
1978 – Erin Andrews, American sportscaster and journalist / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Igor Biscan, Croatian footballer / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Brett Burton, Australian footballer / YEAR = 1978
1978 – James Harrison, American football player^[23] / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Vladimíra Uhlířová, Czech tennis player / YEAR = 1978
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, and producer / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Kristin Harmel, American journalist and author / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Marie Poissonnier, French pole vaulter / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan rugby player / YEAR = 1979
1980 – Andrew Raycroft, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1980
1981 – Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Ruth Negga, Ethiopian-Irish actress^[24]^[25] / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Dallon Weekes, American singer-songwriter and musician / YEAR = 1981
1982 – Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer / YEAR = 1982
1982 – Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer / YEAR = 1982
1982 – Giorgos Tsiaras, Greek basketball player / YEAR = 1982
1983 – Dan Christian, Australian cricketer / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Robert Zwinkels, Dutch footballer / YEAR = 1983
1984 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2007) / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Brad Maddox, American wrestler and referee / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Montell Owens, American football player / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Kevin Slowey, American baseball player / YEAR = 1984
1985 – Ravi Bopara, English cricketer / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Anthony Fedorov, Ukrainian-born American singer and actor / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Lester "Bo" McCalebb, American-Macedonian professional basketball player / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Jamie Adenuga, English MC and rapper / YEAR = 1985
1986 – Devan Dubnyk, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1986
1986 – George Hill, American basketball player / YEAR = 1986
1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer / YEAR = 1987
1988 – Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer / YEAR = 1988
1989 – Dániel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player / YEAR = 1989
1989 – James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player / YEAR = 1989
1990 – Irina Falconi, American tennis player / YEAR = 1990
1990 – Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player / YEAR = 1990
1990 – Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver^[26] / YEAR = 1990
1990 – Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model / YEAR = 1990
1991 – Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player / YEAR = 1991
1992 – Victor Oladipo, American basketball player / YEAR = 1992
1993 – Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player / YEAR = 1993
1994 – Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler / YEAR = 1994
1994 – Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player / YEAR = 1994
1996 – Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist / YEAR = 1996
1997 – Max King, Australian rugby league player^[27]

< / YEAR = 1997
HEADING = Deaths...
">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

408 – Venerius, archbishop of Milan
784 – Arbeo, bishop of Freising
1003 – Herman II, duke of Swabia
1038 – Gotthard of Hildesheim, German bishop (b. 960)
1406 – Coluccio Salutati, chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader
1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, son and heir of Henry VI of England (b. 1453)
1471 – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (b. 1438)
1483 – George Neville, Duke of Bedford (b. 1457)
1506 – Husayn Mirza Bayqara, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 – Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino (b. 1492)^[28]
1535 – John Houghton, Carthusian monk and saint
1562 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (b. 1525)
1566 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1571 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1511)

1601–1900[edit]

1604 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1615 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 – Arthur Lake, English bishop and scholar (b. 1569)
1677 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
1684 – John Nevison, English criminal (b. 1639)
1729 – Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 – James Thornhill, English painter and politician (b. 1675)
1737 – Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (b. 1686)
1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714)
1776 – Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (b. 1717)
1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American politician (b. 1718)
1799 – Tipu, ruler of Mysore (b. 1750)
1811 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1816 – Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)
1826 – Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (b. 1757)^[29]
1839 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1859 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1771)
1880 – Edward Clark, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

1901–present[edit]

1901 – John Jones Ross, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831)
1903 – Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary IMRO (b. 1872)
1912 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (b. 1861)^[30]
1916 – Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (b. 1891)
1916 – John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1851)
1916 – Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (b. 1881)
1916 – Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (b. 1887)
1919 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880)
1922 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (b. 1888)
1923 – Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
1938 – Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860)
1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1941 – Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1880)
1945 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1953 – Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)^[31]
1955 – George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)
1964 – Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
1969 – Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892)
1971 – William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (b. 1902)^[15]
1972 – Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905)^[32]
1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1973 – Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
1975 – Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1976 – Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1981 – C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913)
1983 – Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911)
1984 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
1985 – Fikri Sönmez, Turkish tailor and politician (b. 1938)
1985 – Clarence Wiseman, English-Canadian 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1942)^[33]
1987 – Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
1988 – Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1891)
1990 – Emily Remler, American guitarist (b. 1957)
1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902)
1992 – Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927)
1993 – France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
1995 – Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)^[34]
2000 – Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956)
2004 – David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (b. 1965)^[35]
2005 – David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)
2008 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918)^[36]
2009 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933)
2011 – Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
2012 – Mort Lindsey, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1923)
2012 – Bob Stewart, American television producer, founded Stewart Tele Enterprises (b. 1920)
2012 – Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (b. 1964)
2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
2013 – Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)
2013 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2013 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (b. 1948)
2013 – Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
2013 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914)
2013 – César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2014 – Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924)
2014 – Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983)
2014 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014 – Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938)
2014 – Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2014 – Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948)
2015 – William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931)
2015 – Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
2015 – Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946)^[37]
2016 – Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946)
2020 – Don Shula, American football player and coach (b. 1930)^[38]
2020 – Greg Zanis, American carpenter and activist (b. 1950)^[39]
2021 – Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (b. 1962)^[40]

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

Gotthard of Hildesheim

1406

Coluccio Salutati

1436

1471

Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset

Henry VI of England

1483

George Neville, Duke of Bedford

^[28]

1601–1900[edit]

Louis Antoine de Noailles

1774

1776 – Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (b. 1717) / YEAR = 1776
1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American politician (b. 1718) / YEAR = 1790
1799 – Tipu, ruler of Mysore (b. 1750) / YEAR = 1799
1811 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776) / YEAR = 1811
1816 – Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761) / YEAR = 1816
1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754) / YEAR = 1824
NEWS!! = 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)

1826 – Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (b. 1757)^[29] / YEAR = 1826
1839 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784) / YEAR = 1839
1859 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1771) / YEAR = 1859
1880 – Edward Clark, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

1901–present[edit]

^[30]

Milan Rastislav Štefánik

1938 – Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860) / YEAR = 1938
1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) / YEAR = 1938
1941 – Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1880) / YEAR = 1941
1945 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880) / YEAR = 1945
1953 – Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)^[31] / YEAR = 1953
1955 – George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881) / YEAR = 1955
1964 – Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883) / YEAR = 1964
1969 – Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892) / YEAR = 1969
1971 – William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (b. 1902)^[15] / YEAR = 1971
1972 – Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905)^[32] / YEAR = 1972
1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886) / YEAR = 1972
1973 – Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917) / YEAR = 1973
1975 – Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897) / YEAR = 1975
1976 – Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886) / YEAR = 1976
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) / YEAR = 1980
1981 – C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913) / YEAR = 1981
1983 – Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911) / YEAR = 1983
1984 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931) / YEAR = 1984
1985 – Fikri Sönmez, Turkish tailor and politician (b. 1938) / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Clarence Wiseman, English-Canadian 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907) / YEAR = 1985
1987 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1942)^[33] / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930) / YEAR = 1987
1988 – Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1891) / YEAR = 1988
1990 – Emily Remler, American guitarist (b. 1957) / YEAR = 1990
1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902) / YEAR = 1991
1992 – Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927) / YEAR = 1992
1993 – France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919) / YEAR = 1993
1995 – Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)^[34] / YEAR = 1995
2000 – Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909) / YEAR = 2000
2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956) / YEAR = 2001
2004 – David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (b. 1965)^[35] / YEAR = 2004
2005 – David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930) / YEAR = 2005
2008 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918)^[36] / YEAR = 2008
2009 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933) / YEAR = 2009
2011 – Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924) / YEAR = 2011
2012 – Mort Lindsey, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1923) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Bob Stewart, American television producer, founded Stewart Tele Enterprises (b. 1920) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (b. 1964) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963) / YEAR = 2012
2013 – Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (b. 1948) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922) / YEAR = 2013
2014 – Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948) / YEAR = 2014
2015 – William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931) / YEAR = 2015
2015 – Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913) / YEAR = 2015
2015 – Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946)^[37] / YEAR = 2015
2016 – Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946) / YEAR = 2016
2020 – Don Shula, American football player and coach (b. 1930)^[38] / YEAR = 2020
2020 – Greg Zanis, American carpenter and activist (b. 1950)^[39] / YEAR = 2020
2021 – Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (b. 1962)^[40]

< / YEAR = 2021
Sending back... Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster
Deaths (250 years ago today): 1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714)
Deaths (200 years ago today): 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
^^^||Births (50 years today): 1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach Births (50 years today): 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster Deaths (250 years today): 1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714) Deaths (200 years today): 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754) Deaths (100 years today): 1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858) ***

Births (50 years today): 1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach Births (50 years today): 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster Deaths (250 years today): 1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714) Deaths (200 years today): 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754) Deaths (100 years today): 1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858) ***

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HEADING = Events...

">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.

1601–1900[edit]

1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1738 – The Imperial Theatrical School, now known as Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, was founded under the reign of Empress Anna.^[1] It is the first ballet school in Russia and second in the world.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814 – King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism.
1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England.
1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians.

1901–present[edit]

1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.^[2]
1912 – Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes.
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1926 – The United Kingdom general strike begins.
1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.^[3]
1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1945 – World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot.
1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.^[4]
1978 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.^[5]
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
1989 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe.^[6]
1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
2002 – One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.^[7]
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.^[8]
2019 – The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.^[9]
2023 – Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.^[10]^[11]^[12]

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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

Licet ecclesiae catholicae

Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

1601–1900[edit]

See Meeuw

^[1]

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Battle of Seringapatam

Seringapatam

Tipu Sultan

General George Harris

Spanish Constitution of 1812

absolutism

1836

Ancient Order of Hibernians

Naval Battle of Hakodate

1901–present[edit]

^[2]

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

^[3]

Battle of the Coral Sea

Neuengamme concentration camp

Hamburg

British Army

German surrender at Lüneburg Heath

Treasure Island Naval Base

two-day riot

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary

The Old Man and the Sea

1959

1st Annual Grammy Awards

1961

American civil rights movement

Kent State University

Cambodian Campaign

South Vietnam

environmental organization

Don't Make A Wave Committee

Greenpeace Foundation

1973

Sears Tower

world's tallest building

^[4]

1978

South African Defence Force

^[5]

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Space Shuttle Atlantis

STS-30

Venus

Magellan

^[6]

1990

Latvia

declares independence

Sacramento, California

Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport

^[7]

Enhanced Fujita scale

^[8]

the inaugural season's

^[9]

^[10]

^[11]

^[12]

< / YEAR = 2023
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1006 – Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1088)
1559 – Alice Spencer, English noblewoman (d. 1637)

1601–1900[edit]

1634 – Katherine Ferrers, English aristocrat and heiress (d. 1660)
1649 – Chhatrasal, Indian ruler (d. 1731)
1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)
1677 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d.1749)
1715 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (d. 1804)
1733 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1752 – John Brooks, American soldier and politician, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1757 – Manuel Tolsá, Spanish sculptor and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City (d. 1816)
1767 – Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
1770 – François Gérard, French painter (d. 1837)
1772 – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator and politician (d. 1859)
1796 – William Pennington, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1862)
1796 – William H. Prescott, American historian and scholar (d. 1859)
1820 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1820 – John Whiteaker, American soldier, judge, and politician, 1st Governor of Oregon (d. 1902)
1822 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1915)
1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic (d. 1895)
1825 – Augustus Le Plongeon, English-American historian, photographer, and academic (d. 1908)
1826 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
1827 – John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (d. 1864)
1851 – Thomas Dewing, American painter (d. 1938)
1852 – Alice Liddell, English model (d. 1934)
1883 – Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (d. 1944)
1884 – Richard Baggallay, English army officer and cricketer (d. 1975)^[13]
1887 – Andrew Dasburg, French-American painter (d. 1979)
1889 – Francis Spellman, American cardinal (d. 1967)^[14]
1890 – Franklin Carmichael, Canadian painter (d. 1945)

1901–present[edit]

1902 – Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (d. 1986)
1902 – Cola Debrot, Dutch physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1981)
1902 – William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (d. 1971)^[15]
1903 – Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
1903 – Paul Demel, Czech actor (d. 1951)
1905 – Al Dexter, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
1906 – Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1987)
1907 – Lincoln Kirstein, American soldier and playwright, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1996)
1907 – Walter Walsh, American target shooter and FBI agent (d. 2014)
1908 – Wolrad Eberle, German decathlete (d. 1949)
1911 – Evald Seepere, Estonian boxer (d. 1990)
1913 – John Broome, American author (d. 1999)
1913 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
1914 – Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
1916 – Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1916 – Richard Proenneke, American soldier, carpenter, and meteorologist (d. 2003)
1917 – Edward T. Cone, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)
1917 – Nick Joaquin, Filipino writer, journalist and historian (d. 2004)
1918 – Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (d. 2004)
1918 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
1919 – Dory Funk, American wrestler and trainer (d. 1973)
1919 – Basil Yamey, South African-English economist and academic (d. 2020)
1921 – Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1921 – John van Kesteren, Dutch-American tenor and actor (d. 2008)
1921 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2005)
1922 – Paul-Émile Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (d. 2014)
1922 – Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic (d. 2015)
1923 – Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (d. 2006)
1923 – Ed Cassidy, American jazz and rock drummer (d. 2012)
1923 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and producer (d. 1986)
1923 – Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian (d. 2012)
1923 – John Toner, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1925 – Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1925 – Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman and philanthropist
1926 – David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician (d. 2020)
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2006)
1928 – Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, translator, and publisher (d. 2021)
1928 – Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian air marshal and politician, 4th President of Egypt (d. 2020)
1928 – Betsy Rawls, American golfer (d. 2023)
1928 – Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (d. 1961)
1929 – Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (d. 2015)
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian (d. 1993)
1929 – Paige Rense, American magazine editor (d. 2021)^[16]
1930 – Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson family
1930 – Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
1931 – Jan Pesman, Dutch speed skater (d. 2014)
1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor and educator (d. 2018)
1931 – Thomas Stuttaford, English physician, journalist, and politician (d. 2018)
1932 – Harlon Hill, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1932 – Alexander MacAra, Scottish epidemiologist and academic (d. 2012)
1933 – J. Fred Duckett, American journalist and educator (d. 2007)
1936 – El Cordobés, Spanish bullfighter
1936 – Med Hondo, Mauritanian filmmaker and actor (d. 2019)
1937 – Ron Carter, American bassist and educator
1937 – Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (d. 2019)
1937 – Wim Verstappen, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1938 – Tyrone Davis, American blues and soul singer (d. 2005)
1938 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican journalist, author, and critic (d. 2010)
1938 – Gillian Tindall, English historian and author
1939 – Neil Fox, English rugby league player and coach
1939 – Amos Oz, Israeli journalist and author (d. 2018)
1939 – Leon Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Robin Cook, American physician and author
1940 – Peter Gregg, American race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)
1941 – George Will, American journalist and author
1943 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)
1943 – Mihail Chemiakin, Russian painter and sculptor
1943 – Prasanta Pattanaik, Indian economist and academic
1944 – Walker Boone, Canadian actor (d. 2021)^[17]^[18]
1944 – Steve Liebmann, Australian radio and television host
1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress (d. 2019)
1945 – Jan Mulder, Dutch footballer and journalist
1946 – John Barnard, English car designer
1946 – Gary Bauer, American political activist
1946 – John Watson, British race car driver
1947 – John Bosley, Canadian businessman and politician, 31st Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons (d. 2022)
1947 – Ronald Sørensen, Dutch historian and politician
1947 – Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician, 17th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1948 – Alison Britton, English sculptor and educator
1948 – Hurley Haywood, American race car driver
1948 – King George Tupou V of Tonga, (d. 2012)
1949 – Graham Swift, English novelist and short story writer
1950 – Darryl Hunt, English bass player (d. 2022)
1951 – Colin Bass, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1951 – Colleen Hanabusa, American lawyer and politician
1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1952 – Belinda Green, Australian beauty queen and 1972 Miss World
1953 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
1954 – Ryan Cayabyab, Filipino pianist, composer, and conductor
1954 – Trevor Ryan, Australian rugby league player^[19]
1956 – Michael L. Gernhardt, American astronaut and engineer
1956 – David Guterson, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
1956 – Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player and coach
1957 – Jaak Huimerind, Estonian architect
1957 – Kathy Kreiner, Canadian skier
1957 – Peter Sleep, Australian cricketer
1957 – Marijke Vos, Dutch educator and politician
1958 – Delbert Fowler, American football player
1958 – Keith Haring, American painter (d. 1990)
1958 – Jane Kennedy, English politician
1958 – Caroline Spelman, English politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1959 – Valdemaras Chomičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1959 – Bob Tway, American golfer
1960 – Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, 28th Chancellor of Austria
1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1964 – Silvia Costa, Cuban high jumper
1966 – Gary Elkins, English footballer and manager^[20]
1966 – Jane McGrath, English-Australian activist, co-founded the McGrath Foundation (d. 2008)
1967 – Kate Garraway, English journalist
1967 – Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer
1969 – Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Franz Resch, Austrian footballer and manager
1970 – Gregg Alexander, American singer-songwriter and producer
1970 – Will Arnett, Canadian actor and producer
1970 – Giovanni Mirabassi, Italian jazz musician
1970 – Dawn Staley, American basketball player
1970 – Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer and coach
1971 – Joe Borowski, American baseball player and sportscaster
1971 – Miles Stewart, Australian triathlete
1972 – Manny Aybar, Dominican baseball player
1972 – Mike Dirnt, American bass player and songwriter
1972 – Chris Tomlin, American singer-songwriter^[21]
1973 – Matthew Barnaby, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1973 – Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentinian footballer and coach
1973 – John Madden, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster
1976 – Ben Grieve, American baseball player
1976 – Rory Hamill, Northern Irish international footballer^[22]
1976 – Jason Michaels, American baseball player
1976 – Indrek Visnapuu, Estonian basketball player and coach
1977 – John Tripp, Canadian-German ice hockey player
1978 – Erin Andrews, American sportscaster and journalist
1978 – Igor Biscan, Croatian footballer
1978 – Brett Burton, Australian footballer
1978 – James Harrison, American football player^[23]
1978 – Vladimíra Uhlířová, Czech tennis player
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, and producer
1979 – Kristin Harmel, American journalist and author
1979 – Marie Poissonnier, French pole vaulter
1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan rugby player
1980 – Andrew Raycroft, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer
1981 – Ruth Negga, Ethiopian-Irish actress^[24]^[25]
1981 – Dallon Weekes, American singer-songwriter and musician
1982 – Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer
1982 – Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
1982 – Giorgos Tsiaras, Greek basketball player
1983 – Dan Christian, Australian cricketer
1983 – Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Robert Zwinkels, Dutch footballer
1984 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2007)
1984 – Brad Maddox, American wrestler and referee
1984 – Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater
1984 – Montell Owens, American football player
1984 – Kevin Slowey, American baseball player
1985 – Ravi Bopara, English cricketer
1985 – Anthony Fedorov, Ukrainian-born American singer and actor
1985 – Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Lester "Bo" McCalebb, American-Macedonian professional basketball player
1985 – Jamie Adenuga, English MC and rapper
1986 – Devan Dubnyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – George Hill, American basketball player
1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
1988 – Radja Nainggolan, Belgian footballer
1989 – Dániel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
1989 – Henna Lindholm, Finnish figure skater
1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
1989 – Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player
1989 – James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player
1990 – Irina Falconi, American tennis player
1990 – Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver^[26]
1990 – Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model
1991 – Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
1992 – Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
1993 – Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
1994 – Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
1994 – Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
1996 – Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist
1997 – Max King, Australian rugby league player^[27]

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1006

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

1559

Alice Spencer

1601–1900[edit]

Bartolomeo Cristofori

piano

1677

Françoise-Marie de Bourbon

1715

Richard Graves

1733

Jean-Charles de Borda

1752

John Brooks

Governor of Massachusetts

1757

Manuel Tolsá

Academy of San Carlos

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

1796

Horace Mann

William Pennington

Governor of New Jersey

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

First Lady of the United States

John Whiteaker

Governor of Oregon

1822

Charles Boucher de Boucherville

Frederic Edwin Church

^[13]

^[14]

1901–present[edit]

1902

Ronnie Aird

Cola Debrot

William Brown Meloney

^[15]

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark

Prime Minister of Japan

Paul-Émile Charbonneau

David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon

^[16]

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

^[17]

^[18]

Canadian Speaker of the House of Commons

Ronald Sørensen

Trivimi Velliste

Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs

^[19]

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chancellor of Austria

^[20]

^[21]

Guillermo Barros Schelotto

1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster

< / YEAR = 1997
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">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

408 – Venerius, archbishop of Milan
784 – Arbeo, bishop of Freising
1003 – Herman II, duke of Swabia
1038 – Gotthard of Hildesheim, German bishop (b. 960)
1406 – Coluccio Salutati, chancellor of Florence (b. 1331)
1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader
1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, son and heir of Henry VI of England (b. 1453)
1471 – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (b. 1438)
1483 – George Neville, Duke of Bedford (b. 1457)
1506 – Husayn Mirza Bayqara, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 – Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino (b. 1492)^[28]
1535 – John Houghton, Carthusian monk and saint
1562 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (b. 1525)
1566 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1571 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1511)

1601–1900[edit]

1604 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522)
1615 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 – Arthur Lake, English bishop and scholar (b. 1569)
1677 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
1684 – John Nevison, English criminal (b. 1639)
1729 – Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 – James Thornhill, English painter and politician (b. 1675)
1737 – Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (b. 1686)
1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714)
1776 – Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (b. 1717)
1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American politician (b. 1718)
1799 – Tipu, ruler of Mysore (b. 1750)
1811 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1816 – Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761)
1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)
1826 – Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (b. 1757)^[29]
1839 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1859 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1771)
1880 – Edward Clark, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

1901–present[edit]

1901 – John Jones Ross, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831)
1903 – Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary IMRO (b. 1872)
1912 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (b. 1861)^[30]
1916 – Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (b. 1891)
1916 – John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1851)
1916 – Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (b. 1881)
1916 – Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (b. 1887)
1919 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880)
1922 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (b. 1888)
1923 – Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
1938 – Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860)
1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1941 – Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1880)
1945 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
1953 – Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)^[31]
1955 – George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881)
1964 – Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
1969 – Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892)
1971 – William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (b. 1902)^[15]
1972 – Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (b. 1905)^[32]
1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1973 – Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917)
1975 – Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897)
1976 – Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886)
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1981 – C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913)
1983 – Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911)
1984 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
1985 – Fikri Sönmez, Turkish tailor and politician (b. 1938)
1985 – Clarence Wiseman, English-Canadian 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1942)^[33]
1987 – Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
1988 – Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1891)
1990 – Emily Remler, American guitarist (b. 1957)
1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902)
1992 – Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927)
1993 – France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
1995 – Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)^[34]
2000 – Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956)
2004 – David Reimer, Canadian man, born male but reassigned female and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision (b. 1965)^[35]
2005 – David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)
2008 – Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918)^[36]
2009 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933)
2011 – Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
2012 – Mort Lindsey, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1923)
2012 – Bob Stewart, American television producer, founded Stewart Tele Enterprises (b. 1920)
2012 – Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (b. 1964)
2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
2013 – Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)
2013 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2013 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (b. 1948)
2013 – Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
2013 – Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914)
2013 – César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2014 – Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924)
2014 – Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983)
2014 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014 – Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938)
2014 – Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2014 – Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948)
2015 – William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931)
2015 – Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
2015 – Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946)^[37]
2016 – Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946)
2020 – Don Shula, American football player and coach (b. 1930)^[38]
2020 – Greg Zanis, American carpenter and activist (b. 1950)^[39]
2021 – Nick Kamen, English model, songwriter (b. 1962)^[40]

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

Gotthard of Hildesheim

1406

Coluccio Salutati

1436

1471

Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset

Henry VI of England

1483

George Neville, Duke of Bedford

^[28]

1601–1900[edit]

Louis Antoine de Noailles

1774

Second Council of Constantinople

1901–present[edit]

^[30]

Milan Rastislav Štefánik

< / YEAR = 2021
Sending back... Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster
Deaths (250 years ago today): 1774 – Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714)
Deaths (200 years ago today): 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754)
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
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HEADING = Events...

">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.^[1]
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.^[2]
1494 – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.^[3]

1601–1900[edit]

1609 – Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.^[4]
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.^[5]
1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1821 – The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.^[6]
1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1886 – Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.^[7]
1887 – The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.^[8]
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1901–present[edit]

1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1912 – The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published.^[9]
1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1930 – The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.^[10]
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1945 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1945 – World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
1961 – Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:592⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1985 – Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.^[11]
2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.^[12]
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
2023 – The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.^[13]

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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

553

^[1]

^[2]

^[3]

1601–1900[edit]

Daimyō

his successful invasion

^[4]

^[5]

Cromwell's Act of Grace

Treaty of St. Petersburg

The Manchester Guardian

The Guardian

^[6]

1835

first railway in continental Europe

Battle of the Wilderness

Spotsylvania County

1865

Confederate government

Wisconsin National Guardsmen

Bay View Massacre

^[7]

1887

Peruvian Academy of Language

^[8]

1891

Carnegie Hall

Tchaikovsky

1901–present[edit]

1904

Pitching

Philadelphia Athletics

Huntington Avenue Grounds

Stratton Brothers case

fingerprint

1912

Bolshevik

Pravda

^[9]

1920

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

^[10]

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Battle of Castle Itter

1946

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

war crimes

crimes against humanity

2⁄5

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Sudan Liberation Army

^[11]

2007

Kenya Airways Flight 507

Douala International Airport

^[12]

Greek government-debt crisis

2023

World Health Organization

COVID-19 pandemic

^[13]

< / YEAR = 2023
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1210 – Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)^[14]
1282 – Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (d. 1348)^[15]
1310 – Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (d. 1376)
1352 – Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410)
1479 – Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
1504 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
1530 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (d. 1574)
1542 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623)
1582 – John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1628)

1601–1900[edit]

1684 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (d. 1739)
1747 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
1749 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer (d. 1794)
1764 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (d. 1812)
1800 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)
1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
1826 – Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)^[16]
1830 – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906)
1832 – Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (d. 1918)
1833 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (d. 1905)
1834 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (d. 1873)
1843 – William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (d. 1900)
1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)^[17]
1858 – John L. Leal, American physician (d. 1914)
1859 – Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor (d. 1926)^[18]
1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (d. 1922)^[19]
1865 – Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (d. 1943)
1866 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (d. 1938)
1869 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (d. 1937)
1869 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
1873 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (d. 1901)^[20]
1874 – Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1941)
1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960)
1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950)
1883 – Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966)^[21]
1884 – Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (d. 1954)
1885 – Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (d. 1924)
1887 – Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)
1889 – Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1973)
1890 – Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (d. 1957)
1892 – Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (d. 1968)^[22]
1898 – Elsie Eaves, American engineer (d. 1983)^[23]
1898 – Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (d. 1959)
1899 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1900 – Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988)^[24]

1901–present[edit]

1903 – James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)
1905 – Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1906 – Charles Exbrayat, French author and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1907 – Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (d. 1982)^[25]
1908 – Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (d. 1989)
1909 – Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet and author (d. 1944)
1910 – Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (d. 1999)
1911 – Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1911 – Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player (d. 2010)
1911 – Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (d. 1932)^[26]
1913 – Duane Carter, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
1915 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d. 1998)
1916 – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (d. 1994)
1917 – Pío Leyva, Cuban singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1918 – Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest (d. 2005)
1919 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999)
1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1922 – Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian (d. 2003)
1923 – William C. Campbell, American golfer (d. 2013)
1923 – James Gilbert, Scottish television producer and director (d. 2016)
1923 – Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (d. 2017)^[27]
1923 – Richard Wollheim, English philosopher and academic (d. 2003)
1925 – Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (d. 1978)
1927 – Pat Carroll, American actress (d. 2022)
1929 – Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010)
1930 – Hans Abramson, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1931 – Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1999)
1932 – Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (d. 2014)
1932 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsled racer (d. 2002)
1933 – Igor Kashkarov, Russian high jumper
1933 – Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1959)
1934 – Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2023)^[28]
1934 – Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (d. 2022)
1935 – Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor
1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer
1935 – Robert Rehme, American film producer
1936 – Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
1936 – Patrick Gowers, English composer and educator (d. 2014)
1936 – Ervin Lázár, Hungarian author (d. 2006)
1937 – Beryl Burton, English racing cyclist (d. 1996) ^[29]
1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (d. 2001)^[30]
1938 – Michael Murphy, American actor
1938 – Barbara Wagner, Canadian figure skater and coach
1939 – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (d. 2013)
1940 – Lance Henriksen, American actor
1940 – Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American director and producer
1941 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1942 – István Bujtor, Hungarian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1942 – Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician
1942 – Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon, English politician (d. 2015)
1942 – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
1943 – Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
1943 – Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author
1944 – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2023)
1944 – John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter
1944 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 2015)
1945 – Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic
1945 – Dianne Willcocks, English sociologist and academic
1946 – Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (d. 2013)^[31]
1946 – Aydın Menderes, Turkish politician (d. 2011)
1948 – Bella van der Spiegel-Hage, Dutch cyclist
1948 – Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
1949 – Eppie Bleeker, Dutch speed skater
1950 – Rex Caldwell, American golfer
1950 – Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer
1951 – Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach
1951 – Toomas Vilosius, Estonian physician and politician, 2nd Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia
1952 – Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 2017)
1952 – Jorge Llopart, Spanish race walker
1952 – Maria Catarina Sumarsih, Indonesian human rights activist, civil servant, and teacher^[32]
1952 – Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician (d. 2014)
1955 – Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
1956 – Steve Scott, American runner and coach
1957 – Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter
1957 – Peter Howitt, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1958 – Ron Arad, Israeli colonel and pilot (d. 1986)
1958 – Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1958 – Vanessa Downing, Australian actress
1958 – Jack Wishna, American businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (d. 2012)
1959 – Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player
1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Steve Stevens, American guitarist and songwriter
1959 – Brian Williams, American journalist
1960 – Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1961 – Marg Downey, Australian actress
1961 – Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
1961 – Rob Williams, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1962 – Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer and conductor
1963 – James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter
1963 – Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
1963 – Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer
1964 – Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget
1964 – Heike Henkel, German high jumper
1964 – Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1964 – Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 – Efrat Mishori, Israeli poet and filmmaker
1965 – Glenn Seton, Australian race car driver
1966 – Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer
1966 – Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria^[33]
1966 – Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer
1967 – Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator
1967 – Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
1969 – Pieter Muller, South African rugby player
1970 – Kyan Douglas, American television host and author
1970 – Todd Newton, American game show host
1971 – Harold Miner, American basketball player
1971 – Mike Redmond, American baseball player and manager
1972 – James Cracknell, English rower
1972 – Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
1972 – Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1975 – Meb Keflezighi, American runner
1976 – Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (d. 2021)
1976 – Jean-François Dumoulin, Canadian race car driver
1976 – Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer
1976 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster
1977 – Tiffany Roberts, American footballer^[34]
1978 – Morgan Pehme, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1979 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
1980 – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
1980 – Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger
1980 – DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player
1981 – Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1981 – Danielle Fishel, American actress
1982 – Ferrie Bodde, Dutch footballer
1982 – Vanessa Bryant, American philanthropist and model^[35]
1982 – Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprinter
1982 – Randall Gay, American football player
1982 – Corey Parker, Australian rugby league footballer
1983 – James Anyon, English cricketer
1983 – Henry Cavill, English actor
1983 – Mabel Gay, Cuban triple jumper
1983 – Annie Villeneuve, Canadian singer-songwriter
1983 – Scott Ware, American football player
1984 – Johanna Hedva, Korean-American artist and genderqueer activist^[36]
1984 – Wade MacNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Christian Valdez, Mexican footballer
1985 – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer
1985 – Marcos Rogério Oliveira Duarte, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
1985 – Tsepo Masilela, South African footballer
1985 – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player^[37]
1985 – Terrence Wheatley, American football player
1987 – Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
1988 – Adele, English singer-songwriter
1988 – Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
1989 – Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1989 – Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler^[38]
1991 – Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
1991 – Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
1992 – Loïck Landre, French footballer
1996 – Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player^[39]
1998 – Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player^[40]
1999 – Nathan Chen, American figure skater
1999 – Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
2003 – Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player^[41]
2003 – Tanisha Crasto, Emirati-Indian badminton player^[42]
2004 – Kirsty Muir, Scottish freestyle skier^[43]

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1210

Afonso III of Portugal

^[14]

1282

Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

^[15]

Gabriel, comte de Montgomery

1542

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter

Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire

1582

John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg

1601–1900[edit]

1684

Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné

Adrien Maurice de Noailles

1747

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

1749

Jean-Frédéric Edelmann

1764

Robert Craufurd

1800

Louis Christophe François Hachette

^[16]

John Batterson Stetson

John B. Stetson Company

1832

Hubert Howe Bancroft

1833

Ferdinand von Richthofen

^[17]

^[18]

^[19]

^[20]

Premier of New South Wales

1874

Thomas Bavin

Premier of New South Wales

1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960) / YEAR = 1882
1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950) / YEAR = 1883
1883 – Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966)^[21] / YEAR = 1883
1884 – Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (d. 1954) / YEAR = 1884
1885 – Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (d. 1924) / YEAR = 1885
1887 – Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941) / YEAR = 1887
1889 – Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1973) / YEAR = 1889
1890 – Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (d. 1957) / YEAR = 1890
1892 – Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (d. 1968)^[22] / YEAR = 1892
1898 – Elsie Eaves, American engineer (d. 1983)^[23] / YEAR = 1898
1898 – Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (d. 1959) / YEAR = 1898
1899 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982) / YEAR = 1899
1900 – Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988)^[24]

1901–present[edit]

Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk

^[25]

^[26]

Georgios Papadopoulos

Prime Minister of Greece

1921

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Cathleen Synge Morawetz

^[27]

President of Côte d'Ivoire

^[28]

Victor Garland

Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs

^[29]

^[30]

Jean Corston, Baroness Corston

Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon

^[31]

Bella van der Spiegel-Hage

Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia

1952

Ed Lee

Mayor of San Francisco

Jorge Llopart

Maria Catarina Sumarsih

^[32]

Robert DiPierdomenico

Prime Minister of Bulgaria

^[33]

Jean-François Dumoulin

^[34]

^[35]

^[36]

Marcos Rogério Oliveira Duarte

^[37]

^[38]

^[39]

^[40]

^[41]

^[42]

^[43]

< / YEAR = 2004
HEADING = Deaths...
">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

465 – Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan
1194 – Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (b. 1138)
1243 – Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (b. c. 1160)
1306 – Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general (b. 1261)
1309 – Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
1316 – Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (b. 1282)
1338 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
1380 – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr^[44]
1432 – Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer
1525 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
1582 – Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (b. 1547)
1586 – Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)

1601–1900[edit]

1671 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (b. 1602)
1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist (b. 1609)
1700 – Angelo Italia, Italian architect (b. 1628)
1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
1760 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)
1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
1808 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
1821 – Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)^[45]
1827 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
1833 – Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)
1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
1859 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)
1860 – Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)
1883 – John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1818)
1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)

1901–present[edit]

1901 – Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (b. 1825)^[46]
1902 – Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (b. 1836)^[47]
1907 – Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)
1913 – Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856)
1916 – John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b. 1865)
1916 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1924 – A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
1931 – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
1941 – Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (b. 1874)^[48]
1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
1957 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
1965 – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
1973 – Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
1981 – Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)^[49]
1983 – Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)
1983 – John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903)
1985 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)
1988 – Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928)
1993 – Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
1994 – Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906)
1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)
1999 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
2001 – Morris Graves, American painter and educator (b. 1910)
2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918)
2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)^[50]
2002 – George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
2002 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)^[51]
2003 – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)
2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912)
2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
2006 – Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927)
2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928)
2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901)
2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)
2011 – Dana Wynter, British actress (b. 1931)
2012 – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937)
2012 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916)
2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932)
2012 – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (b. 1950)
2013 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (b. 1935)
2013 – Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937)
2014 – Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926)
2015 – Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935)
2015 – Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942)
2017 – Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954)
2017 – Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953)

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

Bolesław III Wrymouth

1243

Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent

justiciar

1160

1306

Constantine Palaiologos

1309

Charles II of Naples

1316

Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

^[44]

Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola

1525

Frederick III, Elector of Saxony

Lord Deputy of Ireland

1601–1900[edit]

1671

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester

Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

1760

Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers

1766

Jean Astruc

1808

Pierre Jean George Cabanis

1821

Napoleon

^[45]

1827

Frederick Augustus I of Saxony

1833

Sophia Campbell

1855

Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet

1859

Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

August Wilhelm von Hofmann

1896

Silas Adams

1901–present[edit]

1901

Mariano Ignacio Prado

^[46]

^[47]

1931 – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899) / YEAR = 1931
1941 – Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (b. 1874)^[48] / YEAR = 1941
1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920) / YEAR = 1942
1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917) / YEAR = 1947
1957 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878) / YEAR = 1957
1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878) / YEAR = 1959
1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889) / YEAR = 1962
1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915) / YEAR = 1965
1965 – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893) / YEAR = 1965
1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887) / YEAR = 1971
1973 – Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948) / YEAR = 1973
1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897) / YEAR = 1977
1981 – Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)^[49] / YEAR = 1981
1983 – Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901) / YEAR = 1983
1983 – John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903) / YEAR = 1983
1985 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901) / YEAR = 1985
1988 – Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928) / YEAR = 1988
1993 – Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920) / YEAR = 1993
1994 – Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906) / YEAR = 1994
1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911) / YEAR = 1995
1999 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920) / YEAR = 1999
2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914) / YEAR = 2000
2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940) / YEAR = 2000
2001 – Morris Graves, American painter and educator (b. 1910) / YEAR = 2001
2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918) / YEAR = 2001
2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926) / YEAR = 2002
2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)^[50] / YEAR = 2002
2002 – George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916) / YEAR = 2002
2002 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)^[51] / YEAR = 2002
2003 – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964) / YEAR = 2003
2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912) / YEAR = 2003
2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919) / YEAR = 2006
2006 – Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925) / YEAR = 2006
2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927) / YEAR = 2007
2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917) / YEAR = 2008
2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928) / YEAR = 2008
2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910) / YEAR = 2010
2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951) / YEAR = 2010
2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901) / YEAR = 2011
2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924) / YEAR = 2011
2011 – Dana Wynter, British actress (b. 1931) / YEAR = 2011
2012 – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (b. 1950) / YEAR = 2012
2013 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (b. 1935) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937) / YEAR = 2013
2014 – Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926) / YEAR = 2014
2015 – Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935) / YEAR = 2015
2015 – Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942) / YEAR = 2015
2017 – Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954) / YEAR = 2017
2017 – Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953)

< / YEAR = 2017
Sending back... Births (150 years ago today): 1874 – Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1941)
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
^^^||

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HEADING = Events...

">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.^[1]
1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1541 – King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.
1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1594 – The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.^[2]

1601–1900[edit]

1659 – English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1757 – Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1757 – The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1801 – Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1857 – The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence.
1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

1901–present[edit]

1901 – The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper was published.^[3]^[4]
1906 – The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
1910 – George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
1915 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
1915 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora broke loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.^[5]
1916 – Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
1916 – Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
1933 – The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
1935 – New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.^[6]
1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.^[7]
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
1975 – During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut for the 60th anniversary commemorations of the Armenian genocide.
1976 – The 6.5 M_w  Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.
1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
1984 – One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
1988 – All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy.
1994 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
1998 – Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.^[8]
1999 – The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
2002 – Founding of SpaceX.^[9]
2010 – In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
2013 – Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.^[10]
2023 – The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.^[11]
2023 – Eight people are killed and seven injured in a mass shooting in Allen, Texas. The perpetrator is killed by a police officer.^[12]

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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

^[1]

English-language Bibles

falls to a Dutch and English force

^[2]

1601–1900[edit]

Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War

Christopher Smart

St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics

his six-year confinement

Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke

Spanish frigate El Gamo

1835

James Gordon Bennett, Sr.

New York Herald

1840

Penny Black

postage stamp

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

1857

East India Company

Bengal Native Infantry

sepoy

Mangal Pandey

War of Indian Independence

Battle of Chancellorsville

Army of the Potomac

Army of Northern Virginia

Lord Frederick Cavendish

Fenian

Phoenix Park, Dublin

United States Congress

Chinese Exclusion Act

1889

Eiffel Tower

Universal Exposition

1901–present[edit]

1901

Gorkhapatra,

Nepali

^[3]

^[4]

1906

Russian Constitution of 1906

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

SY Aurora

broke loose from its anchorage during a gale

^[5]

1916

Martyrs' Square, Beirut

Deutsche Studentenschaft

Magnus Hirschfeld

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

1935

New Deal

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Works Progress Administration

^[6]

Hindenburg

Lakehurst, New Jersey

1940

John Steinbeck

Pulitzer Prize

The Grapes of Wrath

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

stored-program computer

^[7]

Antony Armstrong-Jones

60th anniversary commemorations

Extreme

Hitler Diaries

^[8]

^[9]

^[10]

coronation of Charles III and Camilla

^[11]

^[12]

< / YEAR = 2023
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

973 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1024)^[13]
1464 – Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess (d. 1512)^[14]
1493 – Girolamo Seripando, Italian theologian and cardinal (d. 1563)
1501 – Marcellus II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1555)
1574 – Innocent X, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1655)
1580 – Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, French noble (d. 1637)

1601–1900[edit]

1635 – Johann Joachim Becher, German physician and alchemist (d. 1682)
1668 – Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (d. 1747)
1680 – Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French cellist and composer (d. 1755)
1713 – Charles Batteux, French philosopher and academic (d. 1780)
1714 – Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797)
1742 – Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist (d. 1809)
1758 – André Masséna, French general (d. 1817)
1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French politician (d. 1794)^[15]
1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
1769 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
1781 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (d. 1832)
1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
1800 – Roman Sanguszko, Polish general (d. 1881)
1827 – Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (d. 1891)
1836 – Max Eyth, German engineer and author (d. 1906)
1843 – Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist and academic (d. 1918)
1848 – Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist and academic (d. 1937)
1851 – Aristide Bruant, French singer and actor (d. 1925)
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1939)
1856 – Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (d. 1920)
1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1931)
1868 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (d. 1927)
1869 – Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (d. 1932)
1870 – Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet (d. 1914)
1872 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934)
1872 – Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general (d. 1922)
1879 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
1879 – Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (d. 1929)
1880 – Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
1883 – Alberto Collo, Italian actor (d. 1955)
1895 – Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (d. 1974)
1895 – Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (d. 1946)
1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
1896 – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1966)
1897 – Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (d. 1979)
1898 – Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (d. 1945)

1901–present[edit]

1902 – Harry Golden, Ukrainian-American journalist and author (d. 1981)
1902 – Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1903 – Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (d. 1977)
1904 – Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 1984)
1904 – Catherine Lacey, English actress (d. 1979)
1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
1905 – Philip N. Krasne, American lawyer and producer (d. 1999)
1906 – André Weil, French mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
1907 – Peter Barnes, Executed Irish Republican (d. 1940)^[16]
1907 – Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
1911 – Guy des Cars, French journalist and author (d. 1993)
1913 – Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989)
1913 – Stewart Granger, English-American actor (d. 1993)
1915 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1985)
1915 – Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)
1916 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1997)
1917 – Kal Mann, American songwriter (d. 2001)
1918 – Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates (d. 2004)
1919 – André Guelfi, French race car driver (d. 2016)
1920 – Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2004)
1920 – Marguerite Piazza, American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1921 – Erich Fried, Austrian-German author, poet, and translator (d. 1988)
1922 – Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, 7th Deputy Premier of Quebec (d. 1999)
1923 – Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1924 – Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
1924 – Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author (d. 2006)^[17]
1924 – Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992)
1926 – Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician, co-founded the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)
1929 – Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2023)
1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1929 – John Taylor, English bishop and theologian (d. 2016)
1931 – Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach
1931 – Louis Gambaccini, American government official (d. 2018)
1932 – Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist (d. 1994)
1932 – Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2020)
1934 – Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
1937 – Rubin Carter, American-Canadian boxer (d. 2014)
1938 – Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)
1939 – Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist (d. 2018)
1939 – Chet Allen, American child actor (d. 1984)
1942 – Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic
1943 – Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
1943 – Milton William Cooper, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 2001)
1943 – Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter (d. 2011)
1943 – James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator
1944 – Anton Furst, English-American production designer and art director (d. 1991)
1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer
1945 – Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author
1947 – Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (d. 2013)
1948 – Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 2013)
1950 – Jeffery Deaver, American journalist and author
1951 – Samuel Doe, Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (d. 1990)
1952 – Chiaki Mukai, Japanese physician and astronaut^[18]
1952 – Gerrit Zalm, Dutch economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1953 – Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (d. 1986)
1953 – Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1953 – Michelle Courchesne, Canadian urban planner and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
1953 – Ülle Rajasalu, Estonian politician
1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager^[19]
1954 – Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
1954 – Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs
1954 – Angela Hernández Nuñez, Dominican author and poet
1954 – Ain Lutsepp, Estonian actor and politician
1955 – Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh
1955 – Tom Bergeron, American television host
1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1956 – Lakis Lazopoulos, Greek actor and screenwriter
1956 – Cindy Lovell, American educator and writer
1956 – Roland Wieser, German race walker and coach
1958 – Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (d. 2014)
1959 – Andreas Busse, German runner
1959 – Charles Hendry, English politician
1960 – Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
1960 – Keith Dowding, English political scientist, philosopher, and academic
1960 – Roma Downey, Irish-American actress and producer
1960 – John Flansburgh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960 – Aleksei Lotman, Estonian biologist and politician
1960 – Anne Parillaud, French actress
1961 – Oleksandr Apaychev, Ukrainian decathlete and coach
1961 – George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman and philanthropist^[20]
1961 – Gina Riley, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, First Vice President of the European Commission
1962 – Tom Brake, English politician
1962 – Brad Izzard, Australian rugby league player
1963 – Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina
1965 – Leslie Hope, Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Worku Bikila, Ethiopian runner
1968 – Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player
1969 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1970 – Roland Kun, Nauruan politician
1970 – Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
1971 – Chris Shiflett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner
1974 – Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner
1974 – Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast
1975 – Alan Richardson, English cricketer and coach
1976 – Dean Chandler, English footballer
1976 – Iván de la Peña, Spanish footballer
1977 – Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
1977 – Marc Chouinard, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Mark Eaton, American ice hockey player and coach
1977 – Chantelle Newbery, Australian diver
1978 – John Abraham, American football player
1978 – Tony Estanguet, French slalom canoeist^[21]
1978 – Fredrick Federley, Swedish journalist and politician
1978 – Alexandr Fedorov, Russian bodybuilder
1979 – Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
1979 – Jan Erik Mikalsen, Norwegian composer
1979 – Jon Montgomery, Canadian skeleton racer and television host
1980 – Brooke Bennett, American swimmer
1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek professional basketball player
1980 – Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Matthew Whiley, English cricketer
1982 – Jason Witten, American football player^[22]
1983 – Dani Alves, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Ingrid Jonach, Australian author
1983 – Doron Perkins, American basketball player^[23]
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
1983 – Trinley Thaye Dorje, Tibetan religious leader, the 17th Karmapa Lama
1983 – Fredrik Sjöström, Swedish ice hockey player
1984 – Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian ice hockey player
1984 – Juan Pablo Carrizo, Argentinian footballer
1985 – Chris Paul, American basketball player
1986 – Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player
1987 – Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer
1987 – Meek Mill, American rapper
1987 – Adrienne Warren, American actress
1988 – Ryan Anderson, American basketball player^[24]
1988 – Dakota Kai, New Zealand professional wrestler
1989 – Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player
1989 – Cameron Heyward, American football player^[25]
1989 – Jesse Hughes, Canadian DJ and producer
1990 – José Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player
1992 – Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor
1992 – Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian professional basketball player^[26]
1993 – Gustavo Gómez, Paraguayan footballer
1993 – Naomi Scott, English actress^[27]
1994 – Mateo Kovačić, Austrian-Croatian footballer
1997 – Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer
2004 – Oakley Cannonier, English footballer^[28]
2006 – Aryan Simhadri, American actor^[29]
2019 – Prince Archie of Sussex^[30]

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

973

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

^[13]

1464

Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach

^[14]

1580 – Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, French noble (d. 1637)

1601–1900[edit]

1635

Johann Joachim Becher

Maximilien Robespierre

^[15]

1769

Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette

1781

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause

Henry Edward Armstrong

President of the Indian National Congress

Christian Morgenstern

Hendrik van Heuckelum

1880

Winifred Brunton

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1883

Alberto Collo

1895

Júlio César de Mello e Souza

Fidél Pálffy

Hungarian Minister of Agriculture

Rudolph Valentino

1896

Rolf Maximilian Sievert

1901–present[edit]

Toots Shor's Restaurant

^[16]

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Prime Minister of Fiji

Deputy Premier of Quebec

1924 – Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author (d. 2006)^[17] / YEAR = 1924
NEWS!! = 1924 – Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author (d. 2006)^[17]

1924 – Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992) / YEAR = 1924
NEWS!! = 1924 – Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992)

1926 – Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician, co-founded the Parti Québécois (d. 2006) / YEAR = 1926
1929 – Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1929
1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007) / YEAR = 1929
1929 – John Taylor, English bishop and theologian (d. 2016) / YEAR = 1929
1931 – Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach / YEAR = 1931
1931 – Louis Gambaccini, American government official (d. 2018) / YEAR = 1931
1932 – Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist (d. 1994) / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2020) / YEAR = 1932
1934 – Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician / YEAR = 1934
1937 – Rubin Carter, American-Canadian boxer (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1937
1938 – Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1938
1939 – Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist (d. 2018) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Chet Allen, American child actor (d. 1984) / YEAR = 1939
1942 – Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic / YEAR = 1942
1943 – Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction (d. 1977) / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Milton William Cooper, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 2001) / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter (d. 2011) / YEAR = 1943
1943 – James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator / YEAR = 1943
1944 – Anton Furst, English-American production designer and art director (d. 1991) / YEAR = 1944
1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player and coach / YEAR = 1944
1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1945
1947 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor / YEAR = 1947
1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author / YEAR = 1947
1947 – Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (d. 2013) / YEAR = 1947
1948 – Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 2013) / YEAR = 1948
1950 – Jeffery Deaver, American journalist and author / YEAR = 1950
1951 – Samuel Doe, Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (d. 1990) / YEAR = 1951
1952 – Chiaki Mukai, Japanese physician and astronaut^[18] / YEAR = 1952
1952 – Gerrit Zalm, Dutch economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands / YEAR = 1952
1953 – Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (d. 1986) / YEAR = 1953
1953 – Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom / YEAR = 1953
1953 – Michelle Courchesne, Canadian urban planner and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec / YEAR = 1953
1953 – Ülle Rajasalu, Estonian politician / YEAR = 1953
1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager^[19] / YEAR = 1953
1954 – Tom Abernethy, American basketball player / YEAR = 1954
1954 – Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician, 120th Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs / YEAR = 1954
1954 – Angela Hernández Nuñez, Dominican author and poet / YEAR = 1954
1954 – Ain Lutsepp, Estonian actor and politician / YEAR = 1954
1955 – Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh / YEAR = 1955
1955 – Tom Bergeron, American television host / YEAR = 1955
1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence / YEAR = 1955
1956 – Lakis Lazopoulos, Greek actor and screenwriter / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Cindy Lovell, American educator and writer / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Roland Wieser, German race walker and coach / YEAR = 1956
1958 – Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1958
1959 – Andreas Busse, German runner / YEAR = 1959
1959 – Charles Hendry, English politician / YEAR = 1959
1960 – Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Keith Dowding, English political scientist, philosopher, and academic / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Roma Downey, Irish-American actress and producer / YEAR = 1960
1960 – John Flansburgh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Aleksei Lotman, Estonian biologist and politician / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Anne Parillaud, French actress / YEAR = 1960
1961 – Oleksandr Apaychev, Ukrainian decathlete and coach / YEAR = 1961
1961 – George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman and philanthropist^[20] / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Gina Riley, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, First Vice President of the European Commission / YEAR = 1961
1962 – Tom Brake, English politician / YEAR = 1962
1962 – Brad Izzard, Australian rugby league player / YEAR = 1962
1963 – Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina / YEAR = 1963
1965 – Leslie Hope, Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1965
1968 – Worku Bikila, Ethiopian runner / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player / YEAR = 1968
1969 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer and manager / YEAR = 1969
1970 – Roland Kun, Nauruan politician / YEAR = 1970
1970 – Kavan Smith, Canadian actor / YEAR = 1970
1971 – Chris Shiflett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1971
1972 – Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1972
1972 – Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner / YEAR = 1972
1974 – Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner

1974 – Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast

1975 – Alan Richardson, English cricketer and coach / YEAR = 1975
1976 – Dean Chandler, English footballer / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Iván de la Peña, Spanish footballer / YEAR = 1976
1977 – Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Marc Chouinard, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Mark Eaton, American ice hockey player and coach / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Chantelle Newbery, Australian diver / YEAR = 1977
1978 – John Abraham, American football player / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Tony Estanguet, French slalom canoeist^[21] / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Fredrick Federley, Swedish journalist and politician / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Alexandr Fedorov, Russian bodybuilder / YEAR = 1978
1979 – Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Jan Erik Mikalsen, Norwegian composer / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Jon Montgomery, Canadian skeleton racer and television host / YEAR = 1979
1980 – Brooke Bennett, American swimmer / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek professional basketball player / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Matthew Whiley, English cricketer / YEAR = 1980
1982 – Jason Witten, American football player^[22] / YEAR = 1982
1983 – Dani Alves, Brazilian footballer / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Ingrid Jonach, Australian author / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Doron Perkins, American basketball player^[23] / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Trinley Thaye Dorje, Tibetan religious leader, the 17th Karmapa Lama / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Fredrik Sjöström, Swedish ice hockey player / YEAR = 1983
1984 – Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Juan Pablo Carrizo, Argentinian footballer / YEAR = 1984
1985 – Chris Paul, American basketball player / YEAR = 1985
1986 – Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player / YEAR = 1986
1987 – Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Meek Mill, American rapper / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Adrienne Warren, American actress / YEAR = 1987
1988 – Ryan Anderson, American basketball player^[24] / YEAR = 1988
1988 – Dakota Kai, New Zealand professional wrestler / YEAR = 1988
1989 – Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Cameron Heyward, American football player^[25] / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Jesse Hughes, Canadian DJ and producer / YEAR = 1989
1990 – José Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player / YEAR = 1990
1992 – Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1992
1992 – Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor / YEAR = 1992
1992 – Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian professional basketball player^[26] / YEAR = 1992
1993 – Gustavo Gómez, Paraguayan footballer / YEAR = 1993
1993 – Naomi Scott, English actress^[27] / YEAR = 1993
1994 – Mateo Kovačić, Austrian-Croatian footballer / YEAR = 1994
1997 – Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer / YEAR = 1997
2004 – Oakley Cannonier, English footballer^[28] / YEAR = 2004
2006 – Aryan Simhadri, American actor^[29] / YEAR = 2006
2019 – Prince Archie of Sussex^[30]

< / YEAR = 2019
HEADING = Deaths...
">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

698 – Eadberht, bishop of Lindisfarne
850 – Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (b. 808)
932 – Qian Liu, Chinese warlord and king (b. 852)
988 – Dirk II, count of Frisia and Holland
1002 – Ealdwulf, Archbishop of York, Abbot of Peterborough and Bishop of Worcester
1187 – Ruben III, Prince of Armenia (b. 1145)
1236 – Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler
1471 – Edmund Beaufort, English commander (b. 1438)
1471 – Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons
1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. 1415)
1483 – Queen Jeonghui, Korean regent (b. 1418)
1502 – James Tyrrell, English knight (b. 1450)
1527 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (b.1490)
1540 – Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar (b. 1492)
1596 – Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (b. 1535)

1601–1900[edit]

1631 – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library (b. 1570)
1638 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop and theologian (b. 1585)
1708 – François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623)
1757 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1683)
1757 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
1782 – Christine Kirch, German astronomer and academic (b. 1696)
1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
1867 – Socrates Nelson, American businessman and politician (b. 1814)^[31]
1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
1888 – Abraham Joseph Ash, American rabbi (b. c. 1813)^[32]

1901–present[edit]

1905 – Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
1907 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)^[33]
1919 – L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
1939 – Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1951 – Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
1959 – Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
1959 – Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
1963 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)
1963 – Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
1963 – Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)
1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)
1970 – Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)
1973 – Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
1975 – József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
1980 – María Luisa Bombal, Chilean writer (b. 1910)
1983 – Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
1983 – Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)
1984 – Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (b. 1904)
1984 – Bonner Pink, English politician (b. 1912)
1987 – William J. Casey, American politician, 13th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
1989 – Earl Blaik, American football player and coach (b. 1897)
1990 – Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1900)
1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer (b. 1901)
1993 – Ann Todd, English actress and producer (b. 1909)
1995 – Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)
2000 – Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (b. 1920)
2002 – Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1906)
2002 – Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1932)
2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician (b. 1948)
2002 – Bjørn Johansen, Norwegian saxophonist (b. 1940)
2003 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1927)
2004 – Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2004 – Philip Kapleau, American monk and educator (b. 1912)
2004 – Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (b. 1923)
2006 – Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
2006 – Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (b. 1958)
2007 – Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian physician and politician (b. 1938)
2007 – Curtis Harrington, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2009 – Kevin Grubb, American race car driver (b. 1978)
2010 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
2012 – James R. Browning, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918)
2012 – James Isaac, American director and producer (b. 1960)
2012 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1924)
2013 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
2013 – Severo Aparicio Quispe, Peruvian bishop (b. 1923)
2013 – Michelangelo Spensieri, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2014 – Wil Albeda, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs (b. 1925)
2014 – William H. Dana, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2014 – Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940)
2014 – Billy Harrell, American baseball player and scout (b. 1928)
2014 – Antony Hopkins, English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1921)
2014 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic (b. 1919)
2014 – Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (b. 1921)
2015 – Novera Ahmed, Bangladeshi sculptor (b. 1930)
2015 – Denise McCluggage, American race car driver and journalist (b. 1927)
2015 – Jim Wright, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)
2016 – Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1990)
2016 – Reg Grundy, Australian businessman (b. 1923)
2021 – Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1966)^[34]
2022 – George Pérez, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1954)^[35]

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

Abbot of Peterborough

Bishop of Worcester

1187

Ruben III, Prince of Armenia

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon

1601–1900[edit]

1631

Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington

Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin

1782

Christine Kirch

1840

Francisco de Paula Santander

President of the Republic of the New Granada

1859

Alexander von Humboldt

^[31]

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

1882

Thomas Henry Burke

Lord Frederick Cavendish

Chief Secretary for Ireland

1888

Abraham Joseph Ash

^[32]

1901–present[edit]

1905

Robert Herbert

Premier of Queensland

1907

Emanuele Luigi Galizia

^[33]

Director of Central Intelligence

Prime Minister of Italy

Severo Aparicio Quispe

Michelangelo Spensieri

2014

Wil Albeda

Dutch Minister of Social Affairs

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

^[34]

^[35]

< / YEAR = 2022
Sending back... Births (450 years ago today): 1574 – Innocent X, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1655)
Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014)
Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author (d. 2006)^[17]
Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992)
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast
^^^||

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_7

HEADING = Events...

">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.^[1]
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction.^[2] Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.^[3]
1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.^[4]
1544 – The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.^[5]

1601–1900[edit]

1625 – State funeral of James VI and I (1566-1625) is held at Westminster Abbey.^[6]
1664 – Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France's new Palace of Versailles.^[7]
1685 – Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces.
1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace.^[8]
1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.^[9]
1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
1765 – HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778.^[10]
1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses.^[11]
1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.^[12]
1832 – Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London.
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

1901–present[edit]

1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
1915 – The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.^[13]
1920 – Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1930 – The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
1931 – The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
1940 – World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1945 – World War II: Last German U-boat attack of the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.^[14]
1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1964 – Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.^[15]
1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
1991 – A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.^[16]
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 – Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
1994 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.^[17]
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.^[18]
1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 – Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
2002 – An EgyptAir Boeing 737-500 crashes on approach to Tunis–Carthage International Airport, killing 14 people.^[19]
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.^[20]

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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

351

Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus

^[1]

^[2]

Second Council of Lyon

Pope

^[3]

1274

Second Council of Lyon

Pope

^[3]

1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.^[4] / YEAR = 1487
1544 – The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.^[5]

1601–1900[edit]

^[6]

^[7]

^[8]

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville

^[9]

^[10]

Cult of the Supreme Being

National Convention

state religion

French First Republic

1798

French Revolutionary Wars

Îles Saint-Marcouf

repulsed with heavy losses

^[11]

^[12]

^[12]

1832 – Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London. / YEAR = 1832
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history. / YEAR = 1840
1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. / YEAR = 1846
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards. / YEAR = 1864
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. / YEAR = 1864
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.

1901–present[edit]

U-20

^[13]

Democratic Republic of Georgia

Violent

New York Police Department

British House of Commons

Neville Chamberlain

Winston Churchill

1942

Battle of the Coral Sea

aircraft carrier

Imperial Japanese Navy

light aircraft carrier

unconditional surrender terms

^[14]

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Pacific Airlines Flight 773

Francisco Gonzales

Contra Costa County, California

^[15]

fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory

Sungai Buloh

^[16]

1992

Michigan

United States Constitution

27th Amendment

U.S. Congress

Space Shuttle program

Endeavour

The Scream

National Gallery of Norway

^[17]

^[18]

bombs the Chinese embassy

EgyptAir Boeing 737-500

Tunis–Carthage International Airport

^[19]

China Northern Airlines MD-82

^[20]

< / YEAR = 2004
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

Before 160 – Julia Maesa, Roman noblewoman (d. 224)^[21]
1488 – John III of the Palatinate, archbishop of Regensburg (d. 1538)
1530 – Louis, Prince of Condé (d. 1569)^[22]
1553 – Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (d. 1618)

1601–1900[edit]

1605 – Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (d. 1681)
1643 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (d. 1700)
1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772)
1701 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (d. 1759)^[23]
1711 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776)^[24]
1724 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797)
1740 – Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general (d. 1814)
1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher (d. 1793)^[25]
1751 – Stephen Badlam, American artisan and military officer (d. 1815)^[26]
1763 – Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (d. 1813)
1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
1774 – William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833)
1787 – Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (d. 1858)
1812 – Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (d. 1889)^[27]
1833 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897)^[28]
1836 – Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1926)
1837 – Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (d. 1893)
1845 – Mary Eliza Mahoney, American nurse and activist (d. 1926)
1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929)
1857 – William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
1860 – Tom Norman, English businessman (d. 1930)
1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)^[29]
1867 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
1875 – Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter (d. 1951)
1880 – Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (d. 1972)
1881 – George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954)
1882 – Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (d. 1960)
1885 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969)
1889 – Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (d. 1943)
1891 – Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982)
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1893 – Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985)
1896 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992)
1899 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (d. 1998)

1901–present[edit]

1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)^[30]
1903 – Jimmy Ball, Canadian sprinter (d. 1988)
1903 – Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (d. 1958)^[31]
1905 – Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (d. 1989)^[32]
1906 – Eric Krenz, American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1931)
1909 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (d. 1991)
1909 – Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino, Native American teacher (d. 2005) ^[33]
1911 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1911 – Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (d. 1993)
1912 – Pannalal Patel, Indian author (d. 1989)
1913 – John Spencer Hardy, American general (d. 2012)
1913 – Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (d. 2016)
1914 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat. British Ambassador to South Africa (d. 1996)
1916 – Huw Wheldon, Welsh-English broadcaster (d. 1986)
1916 – W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player and physician (d. 2013)
1917 – Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (d. 2013)
1917 – Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (d. 2020)
1917 – David Tomlinson, English actor (d. 2000)
1919 – Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
1920 – Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (d. 1985)
1921 – Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, English historian and academic (d. 2016)^[34]
1921 – Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (d. 1985)
1922 – Darren McGavin, American actor and director (d. 2006)
1922 – Joe O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist (d. 2007)
1923 – Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
1923 – Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter, disc jockey, and radio host (d. 2016)
1923 – Bülent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
1924 – Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
1925 – Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1929 – Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
1930 – Totie Fields, American comedian and author (d. 1978)
1930 – Babe Parilli, American football player and coach (d. 2017)
1930 – John Smith, Baron Kirkhill, English politician (d. 2023)
1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
1931 – Gene Wolfe, American author (d. 2019)
1932 – Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 1979)
1932 – Alan Cuthbert, English pharmacologist and academic (d. 2016)
1932 – Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (d. 2017)
1932 – Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (d. 1997)
1933 – Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
1935 – Avraham Heffner, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1935 – Michael Hopkins, English architect (d. 2023)
1936 – Robin Hanbury-Tenison, English explorer and author
1936 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman
1936 – Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer (d. 2014)
1937 – Eddie Clayton, English footballer^[35]
1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player and coach
1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
1939 – Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1939 – Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
1939 – Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer (d. 2010)
1939 – Clive Soley, Baron Soley, English politician
1940 – Angela Carter, English novelist and short story writer (d. 1992)
1940 – Dave Chambers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 – Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, English lawyer and judge
1943 – Terry Allen, American singer and painter
1943 – Harvey Andrews, English singer-songwriter and poet
1943 – John Bannon, Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia (d. 2015)
1943 – Peter Carey, Australian novelist and short story writer
1945 – Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 – Robin Strasser, American actress
1946 – Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress
1946 – Marv Hubbard, American football player (d. 2015)
1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer
1946 – Michael Rosen, English author and poet
1946 – Brian Turner, English chef and television host
1949 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (d. 1996)
1949 – Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor^[36]
1950 – John Dowling Coates, Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman
1950 – Randall "Tex" Cobb, American boxer and actor
1950 – Tim Russert, American television journalist and lawyer (d. 2008)
1953 – Pat McInally, American football player and coach
1953 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982)
1954 – Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist
1954 – Joanna Haigh, English meteorologist and physicist
1954 – Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Clément Gignac, Canadian politician
1955 – Axel Zwingenberger, German pianist and songwriter
1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch jurist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1956 – Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer
1956 – Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer^[37]
1956 – Jean Lapierre, Canadian talk show host and politician (d. 2016)
1956 – Calum MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician
1957 – Kristina M. Johnson, American business executive, engineer, academic, and government official
1958 – Mikhail Biryukov, Russian footballer and manager
1958 – Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist and academic
1958 – Anne Marie Rafferty, English nurse and academic
1959 – Michael E. Knight, American actor
1959 – Tony Sealy, English footballer and manager^[38]
1959 – Heiki Valk, Estonian archeologist and academic
1960 – Adam Bernstein, American director and screenwriter
1960 – Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic
1960 – Almudena Grandes, Spanish author
1961 – Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
1961 – Sue Black, Scottish anthropologist and academic
1961 – Ivar Must, Estonian composer and producer
1962 – Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach
1962 – Judith Donath, American computer scientist and academic
1964 – Ronnie Harmon, American football player
1964 – Denis Mandarino, Brazilian guitarist, composer, and painter
1964 – Leslie O'Neal, American football player
1965 – Reuben Davis, American football player
1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1999)
1965 – Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1965 – Huang Zhihong, Chinese shot putter
1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer
1967 – Adam Price, Danish chef and screenwriter
1967 – Joe Rice, American colonel and politician
1968 – Traci Lords, American actress and singer
1968 – Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport
1969 – Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter^[39]
1969 – Jun Falkenstein, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
1971 – Reidar Horghagen, Norwegian drummer
1971 – Dave Karpa, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Billy Moore, Australian rugby league player^[40]
1971 – Thomas Piketty, French economist^[41]
1972 – Peter Dubovský, Czech-Slovak footballer (d. 2000)
1972 – Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1973 – Kristian Lundin, Swedish songwriter and producer
1973 – Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
1974 – Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer^[42]
1974 – Ian Pearce, English footballer and assistant manager^[43]
1975 – Ashley Cowan, English cricketer
1976 – Calvin Booth, American basketball player^[44]
1976 – Berke Hatipoğlu, Turkish guitarist and songwriter
1976 – Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player^[45]
1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player^[46]
1976 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005)
1976 – Ayelet Shaked, former Israeli Minister of Justice
1977 – Elton Flatley, Australian rugby player
1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian guitarist, drummer, and songwriter
1978 – James Carter, American hurdler^[47]
1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player
1983 – Phionah Atuhebwe, Ugandan vaccinologist and immunization expert^[48]
1984 – Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler
1984 – Alex Smith, American football player^[49]
1985 – J Balvin, Colombian singer-songwriter and producer^[50]
1985 – Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league player
1985 – Drew Neitzel, American basketball player
1986 – Matt Helders, English drummer
1987 – Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian^[51]
1987 – Asami Konno, Japanese singer
1987 – Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007)
1987 – Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer^[52]
1987 – David Schlemko, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Eino Puri, Estonian footballer^[53]
1988 – Sander Puri, Estonian footballer^[54]
1989 – Earl Thomas, American football player^[55]
1992 – Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician^[56]
1993 – Will Ospreay, English wrestler^[57]
1993 – Ajla Tomljanovic, Australian tennis player^[58]
1995 – Seko Fofana, French born Ivorian international footballer^[59]
1997 – Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player^[60]^[61]
1998 – Maryna Piddubna, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer^[62]
1998 – Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player^[63]
1998 – MrBeast, American YouTuber^[64]
1999 – Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer^[65]
2004 – Ashlyn Krueger, American tennis player^[66]

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

160

Julia Maesa

^[21]

1488

John III of the Palatinate

1530

Louis, Prince of Condé

^[22]

1553

Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia

1601–1900[edit]

1605

Patriarch Nikon of Moscow

1643

Stephanus Van Cortlandt

Mayor of New York City

^[23]

^[24]

Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser

1724

Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser

1740 – Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general (d. 1814) / YEAR = 1740
1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher (d. 1793)^[25] / YEAR = 1748
1751 – Stephen Badlam, American artisan and military officer (d. 1815)^[26] / YEAR = 1751
1763 – Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (d. 1813) / YEAR = 1763
1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820) / YEAR = 1767
1774 – William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833) / YEAR = 1774
NEWS!! = 1774 – William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833)

1787 – Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (d. 1858) / YEAR = 1787
1812 – Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (d. 1889)^[27] / YEAR = 1812
1833 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897)^[28] / YEAR = 1833
1836 – Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1926) / YEAR = 1836
1837 – Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875) / YEAR = 1837
1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (d. 1893) / YEAR = 1840
1845 – Mary Eliza Mahoney, American nurse and activist (d. 1926) / YEAR = 1845
1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929) / YEAR = 1847
1857 – William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930) / YEAR = 1857
1860 – Tom Norman, English businessman (d. 1930) / YEAR = 1860
1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)^[29] / YEAR = 1861
1867 – Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925) / YEAR = 1867
1875 – Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter (d. 1951) / YEAR = 1875
1880 – Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (d. 1972) / YEAR = 1880
1881 – George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954) / YEAR = 1881
1882 – Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (d. 1960) / YEAR = 1882
1885 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969) / YEAR = 1885
1889 – Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (d. 1943) / YEAR = 1889
1891 – Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988) / YEAR = 1891
1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982) / YEAR = 1892
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980) / YEAR = 1892
1893 – Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1985) / YEAR = 1893
1896 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992) / YEAR = 1896
1899 – Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (d. 1998)

1901–present[edit]

^[30]

^[31]

^[32]

Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino

^[33]

British Ambassador to South Africa

First Lady of Argentina

1920

Rendra Karno

1921

Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs

^[34]

Prime Minister of Turkey

1925 – Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1925
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013) / YEAR = 1927
1929 – Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2011) / YEAR = 1929
1930 – Totie Fields, American comedian and author (d. 1978) / YEAR = 1930
1930 – Babe Parilli, American football player and coach (d. 2017) / YEAR = 1930
1930 – John Smith, Baron Kirkhill, English politician (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1930
1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007) / YEAR = 1931
1931 – Gene Wolfe, American author (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1931
1932 – Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 1979) / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Alan Cuthbert, English pharmacologist and academic (d. 2016) / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (d. 2017) / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (d. 1997) / YEAR = 1932
1933 – Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2002) / YEAR = 1933
1935 – Avraham Heffner, Israeli actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1935
1935 – Michael Hopkins, English architect (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1935
1936 – Robin Hanbury-Tenison, English explorer and author / YEAR = 1936
1936 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman / YEAR = 1936
1936 – Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1936
1937 – Eddie Clayton, English footballer^[35] / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player and coach / YEAR = 1937
1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2022) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer (d. 2010) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Clive Soley, Baron Soley, English politician / YEAR = 1939
1940 – Angela Carter, English novelist and short story writer (d. 1992) / YEAR = 1940
1940 – Dave Chambers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach / YEAR = 1940
1941 – Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, English lawyer and judge / YEAR = 1941
1943 – Terry Allen, American singer and painter / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Harvey Andrews, English singer-songwriter and poet / YEAR = 1943
1943 – John Bannon, Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Peter Carey, Australian novelist and short story writer / YEAR = 1943
1945 – Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Robin Strasser, American actress / YEAR = 1945
1946 – Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress / YEAR = 1946
1946 – Marv Hubbard, American football player (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1946
1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer / YEAR = 1946
1946 – Michael Rosen, English author and poet / YEAR = 1946
1946 – Brian Turner, English chef and television host / YEAR = 1946
1949 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (d. 1996) / YEAR = 1949
1949 – Deborah Butterfield, American sculptor^[36] / YEAR = 1949
1950 – John Dowling Coates, Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman / YEAR = 1950
1950 – Randall "Tex" Cobb, American boxer and actor / YEAR = 1950
1950 – Tim Russert, American television journalist and lawyer (d. 2008) / YEAR = 1950
1953 – Pat McInally, American football player and coach / YEAR = 1953
1953 – Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982) / YEAR = 1953
1954 – Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist / YEAR = 1954
1954 – Joanna Haigh, English meteorologist and physicist / YEAR = 1954
1954 – Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1954
1955 – Clément Gignac, Canadian politician / YEAR = 1955
1955 – Axel Zwingenberger, German pianist and songwriter / YEAR = 1955
1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch jurist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer^[37] / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Jean Lapierre, Canadian talk show host and politician (d. 2016) / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Calum MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician / YEAR = 1956
1957 – Kristina M. Johnson, American business executive, engineer, academic, and government official / YEAR = 1957
1958 – Mikhail Biryukov, Russian footballer and manager / YEAR = 1958
1958 – Mark G. Kuzyk, American physicist and academic / YEAR = 1958
1958 – Anne Marie Rafferty, English nurse and academic / YEAR = 1958
1959 – Michael E. Knight, American actor / YEAR = 1959
1959 – Tony Sealy, English footballer and manager^[38] / YEAR = 1959
1959 – Heiki Valk, Estonian archeologist and academic / YEAR = 1959
1960 – Adam Bernstein, American director and screenwriter / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Almudena Grandes, Spanish author / YEAR = 1960
1961 – Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Sue Black, Scottish anthropologist and academic / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Ivar Must, Estonian composer and producer / YEAR = 1961
1962 – Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach / YEAR = 1962
1962 – Judith Donath, American computer scientist and academic / YEAR = 1962
1964 – Ronnie Harmon, American football player / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Denis Mandarino, Brazilian guitarist, composer, and painter / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Leslie O'Neal, American football player / YEAR = 1964
1965 – Reuben Davis, American football player / YEAR = 1965
1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1999) / YEAR = 1965
1965 – Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer and manager / YEAR = 1965
1965 – Huang Zhihong, Chinese shot putter / YEAR = 1965
1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer / YEAR = 1967
1967 – Adam Price, Danish chef and screenwriter / YEAR = 1967
1967 – Joe Rice, American colonel and politician / YEAR = 1967
1968 – Traci Lords, American actress and singer / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport / YEAR = 1968
1969 – Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter^[39] / YEAR = 1969
1969 – Jun Falkenstein, American director, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1969
1969 – Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player / YEAR = 1969
1971 – Reidar Horghagen, Norwegian drummer / YEAR = 1971
1971 – Dave Karpa, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1971
1971 – Billy Moore, Australian rugby league player^[40] / YEAR = 1971
1971 – Thomas Piketty, French economist^[41] / YEAR = 1971
1972 – Peter Dubovský, Czech-Slovak footballer (d. 2000) / YEAR = 1972
1972 – Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist and wrestler / YEAR = 1972
1973 – Kristian Lundin, Swedish songwriter and producer / YEAR = 1973
1973 – Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist / YEAR = 1973
1974 – Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer^[42] / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer^[42]

1974 – Ian Pearce, English footballer and assistant manager^[43] / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Ian Pearce, English footballer and assistant manager^[43]

1975 – Ashley Cowan, English cricketer / YEAR = 1975
1976 – Calvin Booth, American basketball player^[44] / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Berke Hatipoğlu, Turkish guitarist and songwriter / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player^[45] / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player^[46] / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005) / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Ayelet Shaked, former Israeli Minister of Justice / YEAR = 1976
1977 – Elton Flatley, Australian rugby player / YEAR = 1977
1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian guitarist, drummer, and songwriter / YEAR = 1978
1978 – James Carter, American hurdler^[47] / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player / YEAR = 1978
1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player / YEAR = 1979
1983 – Phionah Atuhebwe, Ugandan vaccinologist and immunization expert^[48] / YEAR = 1983
1984 – Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Alex Smith, American football player^[49] / YEAR = 1984
1985 – J Balvin, Colombian singer-songwriter and producer^[50] / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league player / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Drew Neitzel, American basketball player / YEAR = 1985
1986 – Matt Helders, English drummer / YEAR = 1986
1987 – Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian^[51] / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Asami Konno, Japanese singer / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Michael Maidens, English footballer (d. 2007) / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer^[52] / YEAR = 1987
1987 – David Schlemko, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1987
1988 – Eino Puri, Estonian footballer^[53] / YEAR = 1988
1988 – Sander Puri, Estonian footballer^[54] / YEAR = 1988
1989 – Earl Thomas, American football player^[55] / YEAR = 1989
1992 – Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician^[56] / YEAR = 1992
1993 – Will Ospreay, English wrestler^[57] / YEAR = 1993
1993 – Ajla Tomljanovic, Australian tennis player^[58] / YEAR = 1993
1995 – Seko Fofana, French born Ivorian international footballer^[59] / YEAR = 1995
1997 – Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player^[60]^[61] / YEAR = 1997
1998 – Maryna Piddubna, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer^[62] / YEAR = 1998
1998 – Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player^[63] / YEAR = 1998
1998 – MrBeast, American YouTuber^[64] / YEAR = 1998
1999 – Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer^[65] / YEAR = 1999
2004 – Ashlyn Krueger, American tennis player^[66]

< / YEAR = 2004
HEADING = Deaths...
">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

721 – John of Beverley, bishop of York^[67]
833 – Ibn Hisham, Egyptian Muslim historian
973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912)
1014 – Bagrat III, 1st King of Georgia (b. 960)
1092 – Remigius de Fécamp, English monk and bishop
1166 – William I of Sicily
1202 – Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
1205 – Ladislaus III of Hungary (b. 1201)
1234 – Otto I, Duke of Merania (b. c. 1180)
1243 – Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel
1427 – Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English priest (b. 1352)
1494 – Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1471)
1523 – Franz von Sickingen, German knight (b. 1481)
1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (b. 1466)

1601–1900[edit]

1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (b. 1564)^[68]
1667 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (b. 1616)
1682 – Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
1685 – Bajo Pivljanin (b. 1630)
1718 – Mary of Modena (b. 1658)
1793 – Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
1800 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1737)^[69]
1815 – Jabez Bowen, American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1739)
1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774)
1868 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1872 – Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1876 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795)
1887 – C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious leader and theologian (b. 1811)
1896 – H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b. 1861)

1901–present[edit]

1902 – Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (b. 1818)
1917 – Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)^[70]
1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
1924 – Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
1925 – William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
1937 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
1938 – Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
1940 – George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
1942 – Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
1943 – Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
1946 – Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
1967 – Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (b. 1899)
1958 – Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)
1976 – Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (b. 1884)
1978 – Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
1986 – Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
1987 – Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
1987 – Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)
1990 – Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
1994 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
1995 – Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
1998 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
2001 – Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912)
2004 – Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956)
2005 – Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)
2005 – Peter Rodino, American captain and politician (b. 1909)
2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943)
2006 – Joan C. Edwards, American singer and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2007 – Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (b. 1958)
2007 – Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)
2007 – Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
2007 – Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (b. 1935)
2009 – David Mellor, English designer (b. 1930)
2009 – Danny Ozark, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
2011 – Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (b. 1957)
2011 – Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (b. 1929) ^[71]
2012 – Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (b. 1931)
2012 – Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1943)
2012 – Dennis E. Fitch, American captain and pilot (b. 1942)
2013 – Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948)
2013 – George Sauer, Jr., American football player (b. 1943)
2014 – Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (b. 1923)
2014 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943)
2014 – Dick Welteroth, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2015 – Frank DiPascali, American businessman (b. 1956)
2015 – John Dixon, Australian-American author and illustrator (b. 1929)
2023 – Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1930)^[72]

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

^[67]

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey

1205

Ladislaus III of Hungary

1234

Otto I, Duke of Merania

1243

Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel

1427

Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr

1601–1900[edit]

1617

David Fabricius

^[68]

1667

Johann Jakob Froberger

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne

Prime Minister of Great Britain

^[69]

1815

Jabez Bowen

Deputy Governor of Rhode Island

1825

Antonio Salieri

1840

Caspar David Friedrich

1868

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

William Buell Sprague

1901–present[edit]

^[70]

1925 – William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851) / YEAR = 1925
1937 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886) / YEAR = 1937
1938 – Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881) / YEAR = 1938
1940 – George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859) / YEAR = 1940
1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854) / YEAR = 1941
1942 – Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863) / YEAR = 1942
1943 – Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880) / YEAR = 1943
1946 – Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864) / YEAR = 1946
1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889) / YEAR = 1951
1967 – Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet (b. 1899) / YEAR = 1967
1958 – Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880) / YEAR = 1958
1976 – Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (b. 1884) / YEAR = 1976
1978 – Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915) / YEAR = 1978
1986 – Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915) / YEAR = 1986
1987 – Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930) / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941) / YEAR = 1987
1990 – Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932) / YEAR = 1990
1994 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909) / YEAR = 1994
1995 – Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910) / YEAR = 1995
1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) / YEAR = 1998
1998 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) / YEAR = 1998
2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909) / YEAR = 2000
2001 – Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912) / YEAR = 2001
2004 – Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956) / YEAR = 2004
2005 – Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971) / YEAR = 2005
2005 – Peter Rodino, American captain and politician (b. 1909) / YEAR = 2005
2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980) / YEAR = 2005
2006 – Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b. 1943) / YEAR = 2006
2006 – Joan C. Edwards, American singer and philanthropist (b. 1918) / YEAR = 2006
2007 – Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (b. 1958) / YEAR = 2007
2007 – Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977) / YEAR = 2007
2007 – Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1926) / YEAR = 2007
2007 – Yahweh ben Yahweh, American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (b. 1935) / YEAR = 2007
2009 – David Mellor, English designer (b. 1930) / YEAR = 2009
2009 – Danny Ozark, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1923) / YEAR = 2009
2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957) / YEAR = 2011
2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) / YEAR = 2011
2011 – Big George, English songwriter, producer, and radio host (b. 1957) / YEAR = 2011
2011 – Victor Nosach, Soviet historian (b. 1929) ^[71] / YEAR = 2011
2012 – Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (b. 1931) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1943) / YEAR = 2012
2012 – Dennis E. Fitch, American captain and pilot (b. 1942) / YEAR = 2012
2013 – Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948) / YEAR = 2013
2013 – George Sauer, Jr., American football player (b. 1943) / YEAR = 2013
2014 – Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (b. 1923) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943) / YEAR = 2014
2014 – Dick Welteroth, American baseball player (b. 1927) / YEAR = 2014
2015 – Frank DiPascali, American businessman (b. 1956) / YEAR = 2015
2015 – John Dixon, Australian-American author and illustrator (b. 1929) / YEAR = 2015
2023 – Aase Foss Abrahamsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1930)^[72]

< / YEAR = 2023
Sending back... Events (750 years ago today): 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope.^[3]
Events (200 years ago today): 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.^[12]
Births (300 years ago today): 1724 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797)
Births (250 years ago today): 1774 – William Bainbridge, American commodore (d. 1833)
Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer^[42]
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Ian Pearce, English footballer and assistant manager^[43]
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
^^^||

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HEADING = Events...

">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.^[1]
589 – Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo, marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church.^[2]
1360 – Treaty of Brétigny drafted between King Edward III of England and King John II of France (the Good).^[3]
1373 – Julian of Norwich, a Christian mystic and anchoress, experiences the deathbed visions described in her Revelations of Divine Love.^[4]
1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1450 – Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1516 – A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.
1541 – Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River^[5] (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519).^[6]

1601–1900[edit]

1608 – A newly nationalized silver mine in Scotland at Hilderston, West Lothian is re-opened by Bevis Bulmer.^[7]
1639 – William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island.^[8]
1758 – The Maratha Empire captures Peshawar from the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Peshawar. The Maratha Empire was extended to its farthest distance away from Pune that it ever reached, over 2,000 km (1,200 mi), almost to the borders of Afghanistan.
1788 – King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements.
1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1842 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
1846 – Mexican–American War: American forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.^[9]
1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.

1901–present[edit]

1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
1919 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
1921 – The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
1941 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
1942 – World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington.
1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1945 – World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect.
1945 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
1945 – The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1946 – Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn.
1950 – The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.^[10]
1957 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.^[11]
1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
1970 – The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.^[12]
1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1976 – The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.^[13]
1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
1984 – The USSR announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles, later joined by 14 other countries.^[14]
1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.^[15]
1987 – The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
1997 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
2019 – British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.^[16]^[17]
2021 – A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.^[18]

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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

453 BC

Spring and Autumn period

^[1]

Third Council of Toledo

^[2]

Edward III of England

^[3]

Revelations of Divine Love

^[4]

^[5]

Río de Espíritu Santo

Alonso Álvarez de Pineda

^[6]

1601–1900[edit]

1608

nationalized

Hilderston, West Lothian

Bevis Bulmer

^[7]

1639

William Coddington

Newport, Rhode Island

^[8]

Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne

Ferme générale

Greek War of Independence

Battle of Gravia Inn

1842

derails and catches fire

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

^[9]

Italian football league system

1899

Irish Literary Theatre

1901–present[edit]

Armistice of 11 November 1918

1921

Communist Party of Romania

1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. / YEAR = 1927
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement. / YEAR = 1933
1941 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby. / YEAR = 1941
1942 – World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula. / YEAR = 1942
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. / YEAR = 1942
1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. / YEAR = 1942
1945 – World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Berlin-Karlshorst comes into effect. / YEAR = 1945
1945 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre. / YEAR = 1945
1945 – The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia. / YEAR = 1945
1946 – Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. / YEAR = 1946
1950 – The Tollund Man was discovered in a peat bog near Silkeborg, Denmark.^[10] / YEAR = 1950
1957 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor.^[11] / YEAR = 1957
1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. / YEAR = 1963
1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. / YEAR = 1967
1970 – The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.^[12] / YEAR = 1970
1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. / YEAR = 1972
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. / YEAR = 1973
1976 – The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. / YEAR = 1976
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. / YEAR = 1978
1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.^[13] / YEAR = 1980
1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour. / YEAR = 1984
1984 – The USSR announces a boycott upon the Summer Olympics at Los Angeles, later joined by 14 other countries.^[14] / YEAR = 1984
1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.^[15] / YEAR = 1984
1987 – The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. / YEAR = 1987
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history". / YEAR = 1988
1997 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people. / YEAR = 1997
2019 – British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.^[16]^[17] / YEAR = 2019
2021 – A car bomb explodes in front of a school in Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 55 people and wounding over 150.^[18]

< / YEAR = 2021
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1326 – Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (d. 1360)^[19]
1427 – John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1470)
1460 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)
1492 – Andrea Alciato, Italian jurist and writer (d. 1550)
1508 – Charles Wriothesley, English Officer of Arms (d. 1562)
1521 – Peter Canisius, Dutch-Swiss priest and saint (d. 1597)
1551 – Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (d. 1603)
1587 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)

1601–1900[edit]

1622 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish politician (d. 1698)
1628 – Angelo Italia, Sicilian Jesuit and architect (d. 1700)
1629 – Niels Juel, Norwegian-Danish admiral (d. 1697)
1632 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and politician (d. 1706)
1639 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian artist (d. 1709)
1641 – Nicolaes Witsen, Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1717)
1653 – Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1734)
1670 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1726)
1698 – Henry Baker, English naturalist (d. 1774)
1720 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)
1735 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (d. 1811)
1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (d. 1794)
1745 – Carl Stamitz, German violinist and composer (d. 1801)
1753 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and rebel leader (d. 1811)
1786 – John Vianney, French priest and saint (d. 1859)
1815 – Edward Tompkins, American lawyer and politician (d. 1872)
1818 – Samuel Leonard Tilley, Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1896)
1821 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1885)
1824 – William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (d. 1860)
1825 – George Bruce Malleson, English-Indian colonel and author (d. 1898)
1828 – Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1828 – Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint (d. 1898)
1829 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (d. 1869)
1835 – Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (d. 1910)
1839 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian judge, author, and songwriter (d. 1920)
1842 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (d. 1909)
1846 – Oscar Hammerstein I, American businessman and composer (d. 1919)
1850 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1915)
1853 – Dan Brouthers, American baseball player and manager (d. 1932)
1856 – Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician (d. 1952)^[20]
1858 – Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (d. 1924)
1858 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (d. 1932)
1859 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)
1867 – Margarete Böhme, German novelist (d. 1939)
1876 – Ludvig Karsten, Norwegian painter (d. 1926)^[21]
1879 – Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (d. 1926)
1884 – Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)
1885 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1965)
1892 – Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat (d. 1981)
1893 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer (d. 1967)
1893 – Edd Roush, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
1893 – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (d. 1963)
1895 – James H. Kindelberger, American businessman (d. 1962)
1895 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (d. 1979)
1895 – Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (d. 1972)
1898 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (d. 1960)
1899 – Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality (d. 1959)
1899 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
1899 – Jacques Heim, French fashion designer (d. 1967)

1901–present[edit]

1901 – Turkey Stearnes, American baseball player (d. 1979)^[22]
1902 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)^[23]
1903 – Fernandel, French actor and singer (d. 1971)
1903 – Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, British politician and educator (d. 1984)
1904 – John Snagge, English journalist (d. 1996)
1905 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1965)
1906 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1910 – George Male, English footballer (d. 1998)
1910 – Andrew E. Svenson, American author and publisher (d. 1975)
1910 – Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)^[24]
1911 – Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of The Interior (d. 1997)
1911 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1938)
1912 – George Woodcock, Canadian author and poet (d. 1995)
1913 – Bob Clampett, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1984)
1913 – Sid James, South African-English actor and singer (d. 1976)
1915 – John Archer, American actor (d. 1999)^[25]
1915 – Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (d. 2009)
1916 – João Havelange, Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman (d. 2016)
1916 – Chinmayananda Saraswati, Indian spiritual leader and educator (d. 1993)
1916 – Ramananda Sengupta, Indian cinematographer (d. 2017)
1917 – John Anderson, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (d. 2014)
1919 – Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)
1920 – Barbara Howard, Canadian sprinter and educator (d. 2017)^[26]
1920 – Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (d. 1991)
1920 – Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (d. 2003)
1920 – Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (d. 2000)
1922 – Mary Q. Steele, American naturalist and author (d. 1992)
1924 – S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic (d. 1989)
1925 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania (d. 2024)
1926 – David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host
1926 – David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019)
1926 – Don Rickles, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
1927 – Chumy Chúmez, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1927 – László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (d. 2015)
1928 – Robert Conley, American journalist (d. 2013)
1928 – Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (d. 2010)
1929 – Ethel D. Allen, American physician and politician (d. 1981)^[27]
1929 – John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d. 2019)^[28]
1929 – Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (d. 2017)
1929 – Claude Castonguay, Canadian banker and politician (d. 2020)
1929 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1930 – Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)
1930 – Doug Atkins, American football player (d. 2015)
1930 – René Maltête, French photographer and poet (d. 2000)
1930 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, and translator
1932 – Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican author and translator (d. 2007)
1932 – Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
1932 – Harry Wells, Australian rugby league player
1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, South African-English lawyer and judge
1934 – Maurice Norman, English footballer (d. 2022)^[29]
1934 – David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton, English soldier and politician (d. 2015)
1935 – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, Scottish politician
1935 – Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (d. 2018)
1935 – Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (d. 2020)
1936 – Kazuo Koike, Japanese author (d. 2019)
1936 – Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 2005)
1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian journalist, academic, and politician (d. 2020)
1937 – Mike Cuellar, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 2010)
1937 – Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
1937 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
1937 – Joe Louis Clark, American educator (d. 2020)^[30]
1938 – Javed Burki, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
1938 – Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1939 – Paul Drayton, American sprinter (d. 2010)
1939 – Keith Lincoln, American football player (d. 2019)^[31]
1940 – Peter Benchley, American author and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1940 – James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington, English businessman and academic
1940 – Irwin Cotler, Canadian lawyer and politician, 47th Canadian Minister of Justice
1940 – Emilio Delgado, Mexican-American actor (d. 2022)
1940 – Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1985)
1940 – Toni Tennille, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1940 – William B. Jordan, American art historian (d. 2018)^[32]
1941 – John Fred, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1941 – Bill Lockyer, American academic and politician, 30th Attorney General of California
1941 – James Traficant, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1942 – Martin Dobkin, Canadian doctor and politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga
1942 – Robin Hobbs, English cricketer
1942 – Norman Lamont, Scottish banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1942 – Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright
1942 – Terry Neill, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2022)
1943 – Pat Barker, English author
1943 – Johnny Greaves, Australian rugby league player
1943 – Jon Mark, English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2021)
1943 – Paul Samwell-Smith, English bass player and producer
1943 – Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)
1944 – Gary Glitter, English singer-songwriter
1944 – Bill Legend, English drummer
1945 – Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, Dutch jurist and politician (d. 2020)
1945 – Mike German, Baron German, Welsh educator and politician, Deputy First Minister for Wales
1945 – Janine Haines, Australian politician (d. 2004)
1945 – Keith Jarrett, American pianist and composer
1946 – André Boulerice, Canadian politician
1946 – Jonathan Dancy, English philosopher, author, and academic
1947 – H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 – Felicity Lott, English soprano
1947 – John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, Scottish historian and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1948 – Steve Braun, American baseball player and coach
1948 – Stephen Stohn, American-Canadian lawyer and producer
1949 – David Vines, Australian economist and academic
1950 – Robert Mugge, American director and producer
1950 – Lepo Sumera, Estonian composer and educator (d. 2000)
1951 – Philip Bailey, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
1951 – Mike D'Antoni, American basketball player and coach
1951 – Chris Frantz, American drummer and producer
1952 – Peter McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2022)^[33]
1953 – Billy Burnette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1953 – Alex Van Halen, Dutch-American drummer
1954 – Pam Arciero, American puppeteer and voice actress
1954 – David Keith, American actor and director
1954 – John Michael Talbot, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Stephen Furst, American actor and director (d. 2017)
1955 – Mladen Markač, Croatian general
1955 – Keith Osgood, English footballer^[34]
1956 – Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor and martial artist
1957 – Bill Cowher, American football player and coach
1957 – Rino Katase, Japanese actress
1957 – Gary Lunn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 6th Canadian Minister of Natural Resources
1958 – Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
1958 – Simone Kleinsma, Dutch actress and singer
1958 – Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury
1958 – Lovie Smith, American football player and coach
1959 – Ronnie Lott, American football player and sportscaster
1959 – David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland, English politician
1959 – Ikue Sakakibara, Japanese actress and singer
1960 – Franco Baresi, Italian footballer and coach
1960 – Eric Brittingham, American bass player
1961 – Bill de Blasio, American politician, 109th Mayor of New York City
1961 – Gert Kruys, Dutch footballer and manager
1961 – Vallo Reimaa, Estonian academic and politician
1961 – David Winning, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Natalia Molchanova, Russian diver (d. 2015)
1962 – David Sole, Scottish rugby player
1963 – Sylvain Cossette, Canadian singer-songwriter
1963 – Anthony Field, Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor
1963 – Michel Gondry, French director and screenwriter
1963 – Izabela Kloc, Polish politician
1963 – Aleksandr Kovalenko, Belarusian triple jumper
1963 – Rick Zombo, American ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Päivi Alafrantti, Finnish javelin thrower
1964 – Melissa Gilbert, American actress and director
1964 – Bobby Labonte, American race car driver
1964 – Nathalie Roy, Canadian lawyer and politician
1964 – Dave Rowntree, English drummer and animator
1964 – Metin Tekin, Turkish footballer, manager, and journalist
1966 – Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer and coach
1967 – Viviana Durante, Italian ballerina and actress
1967 – Angus Scott, British sports television presenter
1968 – Teet Kask, Estonian ballet dancer and choreographer
1968 – Mickaël Madar, French footballer^[35]
1968 – Nathalie Normandeau, Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
1968 – Johan Pehrson, Swedish lawyer and politician
1969 – Jonny Searle, English rower
1969 – Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna (d. 2024)
1969 – John Timu, New Zealand rugby player
1970 – Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer and coach
1970 – Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist^[36]
1970 – Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer and manager
1971 – Chuck Huber, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
1971 – Candice Night, American singer-songwriter
1972 – Darren Hayes, Australian singer-songwriter
1972 – Ray Whitney, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese author and illustrator
1973 – Jesús Arellano, Mexican footballer
1973 – Marcus Brigstocke, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1974 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer
1974 – Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
1975 – Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1975 – Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 – Gastón Mazzacane, Argentinian race car driver
1975 – Dmitri Ustritski, Estonian footballer
1976 – Gonçalo Abecasis, Portuguese-American biochemist and academic
1976 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Joe Bonamassa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Bad News Brown, Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor (d. 2011)
1977 – Theodoros Papaloukas, Greek basketball player
1977 – Kathrin Bringmann, German mathematician and academic
1978 – Lúcio, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Jang Woo-hyuk, South Korean rapper and dancer
1979 – Ole Morten Vågan, Norwegian bassist
1980 – Keyon Dooling, American basketball player
1980 – Panagiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player
1980 – Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-English publisher and philanthropist
1980 – Michelle McManus, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
1980 – Benny Yau, Hong Kong-Canadian actor and singer
1981 – Stephen Amell, Canadian actor^[37]
1981 – Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer
1981 – Tatyana Dektyareva, Russian hurdler
1981 – Björn Dixgård, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Manny Gamburyan, Armenian-American mixed martial artist
1981 – John Maine, American baseball player
1982 – Buakaw Banchamek, Thai kick-boxer
1982 – Christina Cole, English actress
1982 – Adrián González, American baseball player
1982 – Uğur Yıldırım, Turkish-Dutch footballer
1983 – Juan Martin Goity, Argentinian-German rugby player
1983 – Bershawn Jackson, American hurdler
1983 – Lawrence Vickers, American football player
1983 – Vicky McClure, English actress
1984 – David King, English figure skater
1985 – Tommaso Ciampa, American wrestler
1985 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian gymnast
1985 – Sarah Vaillancourt, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Usama Young, American football player
1986 – Pemra Özgen, Turkish tennis player
1986 – Galen Rupp, American runner
1986 – Garrett Temple, American basketball player^[38]
1986 – Marvell Wynne, American soccer player
1987 – Felix Jones, American football player
1987 – Aarne Nirk, Estonian hurdler
1987 – Mark Noble, English footballer
1987 – Kurt Tippett, Australian footballer
1988 – Tanel Kurbas, Estonian basketball player
1988 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1989 – Liam Bridcutt, English footballer
1989 – Lars Eller, Danish ice hockey player
1989 – Dinesh Patel, Indian baseball player
1990 – Iyo Sky, Japanese wrestler^[39]
1990 – Kemba Walker, American basketball player
1991 – Ethan Gage, Canadian soccer player
1991 – Valentijn Lietmeijer, Dutch basketball player
1991 – Anamaria Tămârjan, Romanian gymnast
1992 – Olivia Culpo, American model and actress^[40]
1992 – Kevin Hayes, American ice hockey player
1993 – Pat Cummins, Australian cricketer
1996 – 6ix9ine, American rapper^[41]
1998 – Johannes Eggestein, German professional footballer^[42]^[43]
1999 – Travis Ackerman, South African cricketer^[44]
2000 – Érik Lira, Mexican professional footballer^[45]
2001 – Jordyn Huitema, Canadian soccer player
2002 – Sivert Mannsverk, Norwegian professional footballer^[46]^[47]
2003 – Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1326

Joan I, Countess of Auvergne

^[19]

1427

John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester

1460

Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy

1601–1900[edit]

Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming

1639

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

1641

Nicolaes Witsen

1653

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

French Minister of Defence

1670

Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans

Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire

1698

Henry Baker

1720

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1735

Nathaniel Dance-Holland

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

Samuel Leonard Tilley

Premier of New Brunswick

1821

William Henry Vanderbilt

1825 – George Bruce Malleson, English-Indian colonel and author (d. 1898) / YEAR = 1825
1828 – Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910) / YEAR = 1828
1828 – Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint (d. 1898) / YEAR = 1828
1829 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (d. 1869) / YEAR = 1829
1835 – Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (d. 1910) / YEAR = 1835
1839 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Canadian judge, author, and songwriter (d. 1920) / YEAR = 1839
1842 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (d. 1909) / YEAR = 1842
1846 – Oscar Hammerstein I, American businessman and composer (d. 1919) / YEAR = 1846
1850 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1915) / YEAR = 1850
1853 – Dan Brouthers, American baseball player and manager (d. 1932) / YEAR = 1853
1856 – Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician (d. 1952)^[20] / YEAR = 1856
1858 – Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (d. 1924) / YEAR = 1858
1858 – J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (d. 1932) / YEAR = 1858
1859 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925) / YEAR = 1859
1867 – Margarete Böhme, German novelist (d. 1939) / YEAR = 1867
1876 – Ludvig Karsten, Norwegian painter (d. 1926)^[21] / YEAR = 1876
1879 – Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (d. 1926) / YEAR = 1879
1884 – Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972) / YEAR = 1884
1885 – Thomas B. Costain, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1965) / YEAR = 1885
1892 – Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and diplomat (d. 1981) / YEAR = 1892
1893 – Francis Ouimet, American golfer (d. 1967) / YEAR = 1893
1893 – Edd Roush, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988) / YEAR = 1893
1893 – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (d. 1963) / YEAR = 1893
1895 – James H. Kindelberger, American businessman (d. 1962) / YEAR = 1895
1895 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (d. 1979) / YEAR = 1895
1895 – Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (d. 1972) / YEAR = 1895
1898 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (d. 1960) / YEAR = 1898
1899 – Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality (d. 1959) / YEAR = 1899
1899 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992) / YEAR = 1899
1899 – Jacques Heim, French fashion designer (d. 1967)

1901–present[edit]

^[22]

^[23]

Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch

^[24]

Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman

Dutch Minister of The Interior

^[25]

Chinmayananda Saraswati

^[26]

1925 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania (d. 2024) / YEAR = 1925
1926 – David Attenborough, English environmentalist and television host / YEAR = 1926
1926 – David Hurst, German actor (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1926
1926 – Don Rickles, American comedian and actor (d. 2017) / YEAR = 1926
1927 – Chumy Chúmez, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2003) / YEAR = 1927
1927 – László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1927
1928 – Robert Conley, American journalist (d. 2013) / YEAR = 1928
1928 – Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (d. 2010) / YEAR = 1928
1929 – Ethel D. Allen, American physician and politician (d. 1981)^[27] / YEAR = 1929
1929 – John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d. 2019)^[28] / YEAR = 1929
1929 – Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (d. 2017) / YEAR = 1929
1929 – Claude Castonguay, Canadian banker and politician (d. 2020) / YEAR = 1929
1929 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2007) / YEAR = 1929
1930 – Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1930
1930 – Doug Atkins, American football player (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1930
1930 – René Maltête, French photographer and poet (d. 2000) / YEAR = 1930
1930 – Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, and translator / YEAR = 1930
1932 – Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican author and translator (d. 2007) / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Phyllida Law, Scottish actress / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Harry Wells, Australian rugby league player / YEAR = 1932
1934 – Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, South African-English lawyer and judge / YEAR = 1934
1934 – Maurice Norman, English footballer (d. 2022)^[29] / YEAR = 1934
1934 – David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton, English soldier and politician (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1934
1935 – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, Scottish politician / YEAR = 1935
1935 – Princess Elisabeth of Denmark (d. 2018) / YEAR = 1935
1935 – Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (d. 2020) / YEAR = 1935
1936 – Kazuo Koike, Japanese author (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1936
1936 – Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic (d. 2005) / YEAR = 1936
1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian journalist, academic, and politician (d. 2020) / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Mike Cuellar, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 2010) / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Joe Louis Clark, American educator (d. 2020)^[30] / YEAR = 1937
1938 – Javed Burki, Indian-Pakistani cricketer / YEAR = 1938
1938 – Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (d. 2012) / YEAR = 1938
1939 – Paul Drayton, American sprinter (d. 2010) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Keith Lincoln, American football player (d. 2019)^[31] / YEAR = 1939
1940 – Peter Benchley, American author and screenwriter (d. 2006) / YEAR = 1940
1940 – James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington, English businessman and academic / YEAR = 1940
1940 – Irwin Cotler, Canadian lawyer and politician, 47th Canadian Minister of Justice / YEAR = 1940
1940 – Emilio Delgado, Mexican-American actor (d. 2022) / YEAR = 1940
1940 – Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1985) / YEAR = 1940
1940 – Toni Tennille, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player / YEAR = 1940
1940 – William B. Jordan, American art historian (d. 2018)^[32] / YEAR = 1940
1941 – John Fred, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005) / YEAR = 1941
1941 – Bill Lockyer, American academic and politician, 30th Attorney General of California / YEAR = 1941
1941 – James Traficant, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1941
1942 – Martin Dobkin, Canadian doctor and politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga / YEAR = 1942
1942 – Robin Hobbs, English cricketer / YEAR = 1942
1942 – Norman Lamont, Scottish banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer / YEAR = 1942
1942 – Pierre Morency, Canadian poet and playwright / YEAR = 1942
1942 – Terry Neill, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2022) / YEAR = 1942
1943 – Pat Barker, English author / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Johnny Greaves, Australian rugby league player / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Jon Mark, English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2021) / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Paul Samwell-Smith, English bass player and producer / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972) / YEAR = 1943
1944 – Gary Glitter, English singer-songwriter / YEAR = 1944
1944 – Bill Legend, English drummer / YEAR = 1944
1945 – Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, Dutch jurist and politician (d. 2020) / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Mike German, Baron German, Welsh educator and politician, Deputy First Minister for Wales / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Janine Haines, Australian politician (d. 2004) / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Keith Jarrett, American pianist and composer / YEAR = 1945
1946 – André Boulerice, Canadian politician / YEAR = 1946
1946 – Jonathan Dancy, English philosopher, author, and academic / YEAR = 1946
1947 – H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate / YEAR = 1947
1947 – Felicity Lott, English soprano / YEAR = 1947
1947 – John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan, Scottish historian and politician, Secretary of State for Defence / YEAR = 1947
1948 – Steve Braun, American baseball player and coach / YEAR = 1948
1948 – Stephen Stohn, American-Canadian lawyer and producer / YEAR = 1948
1949 – David Vines, Australian economist and academic / YEAR = 1949
1950 – Robert Mugge, American director and producer / YEAR = 1950
1950 – Lepo Sumera, Estonian composer and educator (d. 2000) / YEAR = 1950
1951 – Philip Bailey, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor / YEAR = 1951
1951 – Mike D'Antoni, American basketball player and coach / YEAR = 1951
1951 – Chris Frantz, American drummer and producer / YEAR = 1951
1952 – Peter McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2022)^[33] / YEAR = 1952
1953 – Billy Burnette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor / YEAR = 1953
1953 – Alex Van Halen, Dutch-American drummer / YEAR = 1953
1954 – Pam Arciero, American puppeteer and voice actress / YEAR = 1954
1954 – David Keith, American actor and director / YEAR = 1954
1954 – John Michael Talbot, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1954
1955 – Stephen Furst, American actor and director (d. 2017) / YEAR = 1955
1955 – Mladen Markač, Croatian general / YEAR = 1955
1955 – Keith Osgood, English footballer^[34] / YEAR = 1955
1956 – Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor and martial artist / YEAR = 1956
1957 – Bill Cowher, American football player and coach / YEAR = 1957
1957 – Rino Katase, Japanese actress / YEAR = 1957
1957 – Gary Lunn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 6th Canadian Minister of Natural Resources / YEAR = 1957
1958 – Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1958
1958 – Simone Kleinsma, Dutch actress and singer / YEAR = 1958
1958 – Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury / YEAR = 1958
1958 – Lovie Smith, American football player and coach / YEAR = 1958
1959 – Ronnie Lott, American football player and sportscaster / YEAR = 1959
1959 – David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland, English politician / YEAR = 1959
1959 – Ikue Sakakibara, Japanese actress and singer / YEAR = 1959
1960 – Franco Baresi, Italian footballer and coach / YEAR = 1960
1960 – Eric Brittingham, American bass player / YEAR = 1960
1961 – Bill de Blasio, American politician, 109th Mayor of New York City / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Gert Kruys, Dutch footballer and manager / YEAR = 1961
1961 – Vallo Reimaa, Estonian academic and politician / YEAR = 1961
1961 – David Winning, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1961
1962 – Natalia Molchanova, Russian diver (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1962
1962 – David Sole, Scottish rugby player / YEAR = 1962
1963 – Sylvain Cossette, Canadian singer-songwriter / YEAR = 1963
1963 – Anthony Field, Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor / YEAR = 1963
1963 – Michel Gondry, French director and screenwriter / YEAR = 1963
1963 – Izabela Kloc, Polish politician / YEAR = 1963
1963 – Aleksandr Kovalenko, Belarusian triple jumper / YEAR = 1963
1963 – Rick Zombo, American ice hockey player and coach / YEAR = 1963
1964 – Päivi Alafrantti, Finnish javelin thrower / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Melissa Gilbert, American actress and director / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Bobby Labonte, American race car driver / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Nathalie Roy, Canadian lawyer and politician / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Dave Rowntree, English drummer and animator / YEAR = 1964
1964 – Metin Tekin, Turkish footballer, manager, and journalist / YEAR = 1964
1966 – Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer and coach / YEAR = 1966
1967 – Viviana Durante, Italian ballerina and actress / YEAR = 1967
1967 – Angus Scott, British sports television presenter / YEAR = 1967
1968 – Teet Kask, Estonian ballet dancer and choreographer / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Mickaël Madar, French footballer^[35] / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Nathalie Normandeau, Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Johan Pehrson, Swedish lawyer and politician / YEAR = 1968
1969 – Jonny Searle, English rower / YEAR = 1969
1969 – Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna (d. 2024) / YEAR = 1969
1969 – John Timu, New Zealand rugby player / YEAR = 1969
1970 – Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer and coach / YEAR = 1970
1970 – Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist^[36] / YEAR = 1970
1970 – Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer and manager / YEAR = 1970
1971 – Chuck Huber, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1971
1971 – Candice Night, American singer-songwriter / YEAR = 1971
1972 – Darren Hayes, Australian singer-songwriter / YEAR = 1972
1972 – Ray Whitney, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1972
1973 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese author and illustrator / YEAR = 1973
1973 – Jesús Arellano, Mexican footballer / YEAR = 1973
1973 – Marcus Brigstocke, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1973
1974 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer

1974 – Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001) / YEAR = 1974
NEWS!! = 1974 – Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)

1975 – Enrique Iglesias, Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor / YEAR = 1975
1975 – Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player / YEAR = 1975
1975 – Gastón Mazzacane, Argentinian race car driver / YEAR = 1975
1975 – Dmitri Ustritski, Estonian footballer / YEAR = 1975
1976 – Gonçalo Abecasis, Portuguese-American biochemist and academic / YEAR = 1976
1976 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1976
1977 – Joe Bonamassa, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Bad News Brown, Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor (d. 2011) / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Theodoros Papaloukas, Greek basketball player / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Kathrin Bringmann, German mathematician and academic / YEAR = 1977
1978 – Lúcio, Brazilian footballer / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Jang Woo-hyuk, South Korean rapper and dancer / YEAR = 1978
1979 – Ole Morten Vågan, Norwegian bassist / YEAR = 1979
1980 – Keyon Dooling, American basketball player / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Panagiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-English publisher and philanthropist / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Michelle McManus, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Benny Yau, Hong Kong-Canadian actor and singer / YEAR = 1980
1981 – Stephen Amell, Canadian actor^[37] / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Tatyana Dektyareva, Russian hurdler / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Björn Dixgård, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Manny Gamburyan, Armenian-American mixed martial artist / YEAR = 1981
1981 – John Maine, American baseball player / YEAR = 1981
1982 – Buakaw Banchamek, Thai kick-boxer / YEAR = 1982
1982 – Christina Cole, English actress / YEAR = 1982
1982 – Adrián González, American baseball player / YEAR = 1982
1982 – Uğur Yıldırım, Turkish-Dutch footballer / YEAR = 1982
1983 – Juan Martin Goity, Argentinian-German rugby player / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Bershawn Jackson, American hurdler / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Lawrence Vickers, American football player / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Vicky McClure, English actress / YEAR = 1983
1984 – David King, English figure skater / YEAR = 1984
1985 – Tommaso Ciampa, American wrestler / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian gymnast / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Sarah Vaillancourt, Canadian ice hockey player / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Usama Young, American football player / YEAR = 1985
1986 – Pemra Özgen, Turkish tennis player / YEAR = 1986
1986 – Galen Rupp, American runner / YEAR = 1986
1986 – Garrett Temple, American basketball player^[38] / YEAR = 1986
1986 – Marvell Wynne, American soccer player / YEAR = 1986
1987 – Felix Jones, American football player / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Aarne Nirk, Estonian hurdler / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Mark Noble, English footballer / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Kurt Tippett, Australian footballer / YEAR = 1987
1988 – Tanel Kurbas, Estonian basketball player / YEAR = 1988
1988 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1988
1989 – Liam Bridcutt, English footballer / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Lars Eller, Danish ice hockey player / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Dinesh Patel, Indian baseball player / YEAR = 1989
1990 – Iyo Sky, Japanese wrestler^[39] / YEAR = 1990
1990 – Kemba Walker, American basketball player / YEAR = 1990
1991 – Ethan Gage, Canadian soccer player / YEAR = 1991
1991 – Valentijn Lietmeijer, Dutch basketball player / YEAR = 1991
1991 – Anamaria Tămârjan, Romanian gymnast / YEAR = 1991
1992 – Olivia Culpo, American model and actress^[40] / YEAR = 1992
1992 – Kevin Hayes, American ice hockey player / YEAR = 1992
1993 – Pat Cummins, Australian cricketer / YEAR = 1993
1996 – 6ix9ine, American rapper^[41] / YEAR = 1996
1998 – Johannes Eggestein, German professional footballer^[42]^[43] / YEAR = 1998
1999 – Travis Ackerman, South African cricketer^[44] / YEAR = 1999
2000 – Érik Lira, Mexican professional footballer^[45] / YEAR = 2000
2001 – Jordyn Huitema, Canadian soccer player / YEAR = 2001
2002 – Sivert Mannsverk, Norwegian professional footballer^[46]^[47] / YEAR = 2002
2003 – Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

< / YEAR = 2003
HEADING = Deaths...
">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

535 – Pope John II^[48]
615 – Pope Boniface IV (b. 550)^[49]
685 – Pope Benedict II^[50]
997 – Tai Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 939)
1157 – Ahmed Sanjar, Seljuk sultan (b. 1086)
1192 – Ottokar IV, duke of Styria (b. 1163)
1220 – Richeza of Denmark, queen of Sweden
1278 – Duan Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1269)
1319 – Haakon V, king of Norway (b. 1270)
1473 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
1538 – Edward Foxe, English bishop and academic (b. 1496)
1551 – Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (b. 1520)

1601–1900[edit]

1668 – Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nun and saint (b. 1632)
1766 – Samuel Chandler, English minister and author (b. 1693)
1773 – Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egyptian sultan (b. 1728)
1781 – Richard Jago, English priest and poet (b. 1715)
1782 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1785 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1719)
1785 – Pietro Longhi, Italian painter (b. 1701)
1788 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1723)
1794 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (b. 1743)
1819 – Kamehameha I, king of the Hawaiian Islands (b. 1738)
1822 – John Stark, American general (b. 1728)^[51]
1828 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (b. 1781)
1837 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police (b. 1770)
1842 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French admiral and explorer (b. 1790)
1853 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1785)
1880 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
1891 – John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1816)
1893 – Manuel González Flores, Mexican general and president, 1880–1884 (b. 1833)^[52]

1901–present[edit]

1903 – Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1848)
1907 – Edmund G. Ross, American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory (b. 1826)
1925 – John Beresford, Irish polo player (b. 1847)
1936 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
1941 – Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1859)
1941 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
1942 – Nikolai Reek, Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1890)
1943 – Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (b. 1919)
1944 – Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (b. 1882)
1945 – Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)
1945 – Julius Hirsch, German footballer (b. 1892)^[53]^[54]
1945 – Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (b. 1900)
1945 – Bernhard Rust, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883)
1945 – Josef Terboven, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1898)
1947 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)
1948 – U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)
1950 – Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)
1952 – William Fox, Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)
1959 – John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
1965 – Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
1969 – Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1892)
1972 – Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (b. 1880)
1972 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
1975 – Avery Brundage, American businessman and art collector (b. 1887)
1980 – Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)
1981 – Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
1982 – Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
1982 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
1983 – John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
1984 – Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)
1984 – Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
1985 – Robert Halperin, American yachtsman (b. 1908)^[55]
1985 – Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
1985 – Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (b. 1918)
1985 – Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
1986 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and author (b. 1922)
1987 – Doris Stokes, English psychic and author (b. 1920)
1988 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)^[56]
1990 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer and educator (b. 1924)
1991 – Jean Langlais, French pianist and composer (b. 1907)
1991 – Rudolf Serkin, Czech-Austrian pianist and educator (b. 1903)
1992 – Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (b. 1933)
1993 – Avram Davidson, American soldier and author (b. 1923)
1994 – George Peppard, American actor and producer (b. 1928)
1995 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
1996 – Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937)
1996 – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)
1996 – Larry Levis, American poet, author, and critic (b. 1946)
1996 – Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
1998 – Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler (b. 1915)
1998 – Charles Rebozo, American banker and businessman (b. 1912)
1999 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1999 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931)
1999 – Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
1999 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator (b. 1904)
2000 – Pita Amor, Mexican poet and author (b. 1918)
2000 – Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
2000 – Henry Nicols, American activist (b. 1973)
2003 – Elvira Pagã, Brazilian vedette, singer, and artist (b. 1920)
2005 – Jean Carrière, French author (b. 1928)
2005 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1981)
2006 – Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer and author (b. 1938)
2007 – Philip R. Craig, American author and poet (b. 1933)
2007 – Carson Whitsett, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (b. 1945)
2008 – Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1918)
2008 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982)
2009 – Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2009 – Bud Shrake, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
2011 – Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (b. 1948)
2012 – Everett Lilly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
2012 – Jerry McMorris, American businessman (b. 1941)
2012 – Stacy Robinson, American football player (b. 1962)
2012 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
2012 – Ampon Tangnoppakul, Thai criminal (b. 1948)
2012 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator (b. 1911)
2013 – Jeanne Cooper, American actress (b. 1928)
2013 – Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013 – Juan José Muñoz, Argentinian businessman (b. 1950)
2013 – Hugh J. Silverman, American philosopher and theorist (b. 1945)
2013 – Ken Whaley, Austrian-English bass player (b. 1946)
2014 – Roger L. Easton, American scientist, co-invented the GPS (b. 1921)
2014 – Nancy Malone, American actress, director, and producer (b. 1935)
2014 – Yago Lamela, Spanish long jumper (b. 1977)
2014 – Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer (b. 1939)
2014 – R. Douglas Stuart Jr., American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Norway (b. 1916)
2014 – Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (b. 1936)
2015 – Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (b. 1943)
2015 – Mwepu Ilunga, Congolese footballer (b. 1949)
2015 – Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (b. 1932)
2015 – Juan Schwanner, Hungarian-Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1921)
2015 – Atanas Semerdzhiev, Bulgarian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Bulgaria (b. 1924)
2016 – Tom M. Apostol, American analytic number theorist (b. 1923)
2016 – William Schallert, American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (b. 1922)
2018 – Big Bully Busick, American professional wrestler (b. 1954)^[57]
2018 – Anne V. Coates, British film editor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Elephant Man, Erin Brockovich), Oscar winner (1963) (b. 1925)^[58]
2019 – Sprent Dabwido, President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013 (b. 1972)^[59]
2021 – Helmut Jahn, German-American architect (b. 1940)^[60]
2022 – Robert Gillmor, British wildlife artist and illustrator (b. 1936)^[61]
2022 – Dennis Waterman, English actor and singer (b. 1948)^[62]

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

^[48]

^[49]

^[50]

John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

1601–1900[edit]

1668

Catherine of St. Augustine

Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal

Prime Minister of Portugal

1785

Étienne François, duc de Choiseul

Prime Minister of France

Pietro Longhi

1788

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

^[51]

Russian Minister of Police

1842

Jules Dumont d'Urville

1853

Jan Roothaan

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

Premier of New South Wales

1893

Manuel González Flores

^[52]

1901–present[edit]

Governor of New Mexico Territory

Estonian Minister of War

1943

Mordechai Anielewicz

1944

Themistoklis Diakidis

1945

Frank Bourne

Battle of Rorke's Drift

Julius Hirsch

^[53]

^[54]

Harry Gordon Selfridge

Selfridges

1948

U Saw

Prime Minister of Burma

Beatrice Helen Worsley

Chief of the General Staff

Reader's Digest

^[55]

^[56]

Luis Miguel Dominguín

R. Douglas Stuart Jr.

United States Ambassador to Norway

Vice President of Bulgaria

^[57]

Lawrence of Arabia

The Elephant Man

Erin Brockovich

^[58]

^[59]

^[60]

^[61]

^[62]

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Sending back... Events (100 years ago today): 1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
Births (200 years ago today): 1824 – William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (d. 1860)
Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic (d. 1989)
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer
Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_9

HEADING = Events...

">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.^[1]
1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1540 – Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.

1601–1900[edit]

1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.^[2]
1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1864 – Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1865 – American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
1865 – American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
1873 – Der Krach: The Vienna stock exchange crash heralds the Long Depression.^[3]
1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania.

1901–present[edit]

1901 – Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1918 – World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1927 – The Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, officially opens.^[4]
1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1950 – Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 – In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 – In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 – LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1988 – New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.^[4]
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1992 – Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2001 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.^[5]
2018 – The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
2020 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.^[6]
2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.^[7]

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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

328

Athanasius

Patriarch of Alexandria

^[1]

1601–1900[edit]

^[2]

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Gainesville, Alabama

President Andrew Johnson

proclamation ending belligerent rights

1873

Der Krach

Vienna stock exchange

^[3]

1901–present[edit]

Second Battle of Artois

Old Parliament House, Canberra

^[4]

U-110

The Holocaust in Ukraine

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Umberto II

1948

Czechoslovakia

Ninth-of-May Constitution

Food and Drug Administration

oral contraceptive pill

1969

Carlos Lamarca

military dictatorship

United States House Committee on the Judiciary

United States House Committee on the Judiciary

impeachment

Richard Nixon

1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran. / YEAR = 1979
1980 – In Florida, United States, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die. / YEAR = 1980
1980 – In Norco, California, United States, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase. / YEAR = 1980
1987 – LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board. / YEAR = 1987
1988 – New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.^[4] / YEAR = 1988
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. / YEAR = 1992
1992 – Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada. / YEAR = 1992
2001 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee. / YEAR = 2001
2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.^[5] / YEAR = 2002
2018 – The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election. / YEAR = 2018
2020 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.^[6] / YEAR = 2020
2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy expediting American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.^[7]

< / YEAR = 2022
HEADING = Births...
">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (d. 1199)
1151 – al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (d. 1171)^[8]
1540 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)^[9]
1555 – Jerónima de la Asunción, Spanish Catholic nun and founder of the first monastery in Manila (d. 1630)^[10]
1594 – Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1662)

1601–1900[edit]

1617 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655)
1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (probable;^[11] d. 1816)
1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1818)^[12]
1763 – János Batsányi, Hungarian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1845)
1800 – John Brown, American activist (d. 1859)
1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)
1814 – John Brougham, Irish-American actor and playwright (d. 1880)
1823 – Frederick Weld, English-New Zealand politician, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist and author (d. 1896)
1825 – James Collinson, Victorian painter (d. 1881)
1836 – Ferdinand Monoyer, French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912)
1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)
1845 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913)
1850 – Edward Weston, English-American chemist (d. 1936)
1855 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch composer (d. 1932)
1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (d. 1937)
1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian economist and politician (d. 1915)
1870 – Harry Vardon, British golfer (d. 1937)
1873 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939)
1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic (d. 1955)
1884 – Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (d. 1917)
1885 – Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (d. 1977)^[13]
1888 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (d. 1918)
1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (d. 1964)
1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1989)
1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947)
1894 – Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (d. 1976)^[14]
1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
1895 – Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1896 – Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator (d. 1972)
1900 – Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992)^[15]

1901–present[edit]

1904 – Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1988)
1905 – Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (d. 1998)^[16]
1906 – Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (d. 1988)
1907 – Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1978)
1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and author (d. 1976)
1907 – Baldur von Schirach, German politician (d. 1974)
1909 – Don Messer, Canadian violinist (d. 1973)
1909 – Gordon Bunshaft, American architect, designed the Solow Building (d. 1990)
1911 – Harry Simeone, American music arranger, conductor, and composer (d. 2005)
1912 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)
1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian-German soldier and author (d. 1943)
1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
1914 – Patricia Swift Blalock, American librarian (d.2011)^[17]
1914 – Denham Fouts, American prostitute (d. 1948)
1914 – Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat (d. 2016)
1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor and director (d. 2005)
1914 – Hank Snow, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1916 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
1917 – Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek soldier and educator (d. 2011)
1918 – Orville Freeman, American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)
1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist, media personality and one-time game show host (d. 2012)
1919 – Clifford Chadderton, Canadian soldier and journalist (d. 2013)^[18]
1920 – William Tenn, English-American author and academic (d. 2010)^[19]
1920 – Richard Adams, English novelist (d. 2016)
1921 – Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist (d. 2016)
1921 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic (d. 2004)
1923 – Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (d. 2008)
1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
1926 – John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author (d. 2002)
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter (d. 2016)
1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010)
1931 – Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
1932 – Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)^[20]
1934 – Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (d. 2018)
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
1936 – Terry Downes, British boxer and former world middle-weight champion (d. 2017)
1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023)
1937 – Sonny Curtis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
1937 – Dave Prater, American singer (d. 1988)
1938 – Carroll Cole, American serial killer (d. 1985)^[21]
1938 – Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor (d. 2023)
1939 – Ralph Boston, American long jumper (d. 2023)
1939 – Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
1939 – Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer (d. 2023)
1939 – Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone
1939 – John Ogbu, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor (d. 2003)
1940 – James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1941 – Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter
1941 – Danny Rapp, American musician (d. 1983)
1942 – John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Vince Cable, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish historian and journalist (d. 2009)
1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
1944 – Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2015)
1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager
1945 – Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
1947 – Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (d. 2019)
1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
1948 – John Mahaffey, American golfer
1948 – Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist and author
1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host
1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1949 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat, 17th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (d. 2013)
1951 – Alley Mills, American actress
1951 – Joy Harjo, American poet, musician, playwright and author, 23rd United States Poet Laureate^[22]
1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
1955 – Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (d. 2012)
1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano and actress
1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer
1956 – Jana Wendt, Australian television host
1958 – Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer
1959 – Andrew Jones, New Zealand cricketer
1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
1961 – Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – John Corbett, American actor
1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter
1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter
1963 – Joe Cirella, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese race car driver and sportscaster
1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1966 – Mark Tinordi, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968 – Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
1968 – Graham Harman, American philosopher and academic
1968 – Ruth Kelly, British economist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French sprinter^[23]
1968 – Neil Ruddock, English international footballer and television personality^[24]
1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player
1970 – Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer^[25]
1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor
1971 – Jason Lee, English footballer and manager
1971 – Dan Chiasson, American poet and critic
1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer
1973 – Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner
1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter
1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1975 – Brian Deegan, American motocross rider
1977 – Averno, Mexican wrestler
1977 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
1977 – Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist
1978 – Leandro Cufré, Argentinian footballer
1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player^[26]
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
1979 – Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, motivational speaker, and music producer
1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater
1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver
1980 – Jo Hyun-jae, South Korean actor
1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player
1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
1983 – Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer
1983 – Alan Campbell, British sculler
1983 – Christos Marangos, Cypriot footballer
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player
1984 – Chase Headley, American baseball player
1985 – Jake Long, American football player
1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player
1987 – Kevin Gameiro, French footballer
1988 – J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian racing driver
1989 – Ellen White, English footballer
1989 – Daniel Rosenfeld, German musician^[27]
1991 – Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka
1992 – Dan Burn, English footballer^[28]
1995 – Tommy Edman, American baseball player^[29]
1996 – Grace Reid, Scottish diver^[30]
2000 – Trey Lance, American football player^[31]

<">Births[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

^[8]

^[9]

Jerónima de la Asunción

^[10]

1594

Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

1601–1900[edit]

1617

Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege

^[11]

^[12]

Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood

Prime Minister of New Zealand

1824

Jacob ben Moses Bachrach

1824

Jacob ben Moses Bachrach

1825 – James Collinson, Victorian painter (d. 1881) / YEAR = 1825
1836 – Ferdinand Monoyer, French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912) / YEAR = 1836
1837 – Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895) / YEAR = 1837
1845 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913) / YEAR = 1845
1850 – Edward Weston, English-American chemist (d. 1936) / YEAR = 1850
1855 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch composer (d. 1932) / YEAR = 1855
1860 – J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (d. 1937) / YEAR = 1860
1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian economist and politician (d. 1915) / YEAR = 1866
1870 – Harry Vardon, British golfer (d. 1937) / YEAR = 1870
1873 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933) / YEAR = 1873
1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939) / YEAR = 1874
NEWS!! = 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939)

1882 – George Barker, American painter (d. 1965) / YEAR = 1882
1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967) / YEAR = 1882
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic (d. 1955) / YEAR = 1883
1884 – Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (d. 1917) / YEAR = 1884
1885 – Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (d. 1977)^[13] / YEAR = 1885
1888 – Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (d. 1918) / YEAR = 1888
1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (d. 1964) / YEAR = 1888
1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1989) / YEAR = 1892
1893 – William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947) / YEAR = 1893
1894 – Benjamin Graham, British-American economist, professor, and investor (d. 1976)^[14] / YEAR = 1894
1895 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963) / YEAR = 1895
1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961) / YEAR = 1895
1895 – Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989) / YEAR = 1895
1896 – Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator (d. 1972) / YEAR = 1896
1900 – Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992)^[15]

1901–present[edit]

^[16]

Patricia Swift Blalock

^[17]

Moisis Michail Bourlas

Orville Freeman

United States Secretary of Agriculture

^[18]

^[19]

1926 – John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author (d. 2002) / YEAR = 1926
1927 – Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1927
1928 – Ralph Goings, American painter (d. 2016) / YEAR = 1928
1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995) / YEAR = 1928
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012) / YEAR = 1928
1930 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001) / YEAR = 1930
1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010) / YEAR = 1930
1931 – Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut / YEAR = 1931
1932 – Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999) / YEAR = 1932
1932 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)^[20] / YEAR = 1932
1934 – Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist / YEAR = 1934
1935 – Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (d. 2018) / YEAR = 1935
1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988) / YEAR = 1935
1936 – Terry Downes, British boxer and former world middle-weight champion (d. 2017) / YEAR = 1936
1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1936
1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1936
1937 – Sonny Curtis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum / YEAR = 1937
1937 – Dave Prater, American singer (d. 1988) / YEAR = 1937
1938 – Carroll Cole, American serial killer (d. 1985)^[21] / YEAR = 1938
1938 – Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1938
1939 – Ralph Boston, American long jumper (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer (d. 2023) / YEAR = 1939
1939 – Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone / YEAR = 1939
1939 – John Ogbu, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor (d. 2003) / YEAR = 1939
1940 – James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter / YEAR = 1940
1941 – Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter / YEAR = 1941
1941 – Danny Rapp, American musician (d. 1983) / YEAR = 1941
1942 – John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General / YEAR = 1942
1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1942
1943 – Vince Cable, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish historian and journalist (d. 2009) / YEAR = 1943
1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1943
1944 – Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1944
1945 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2015) / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager / YEAR = 1945
1945 – Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer / YEAR = 1945
1946 – Candice Bergen, American actress and producer / YEAR = 1946
1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (d. 2002) / YEAR = 1946
1947 – Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (d. 2019) / YEAR = 1947
1948 – Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic / YEAR = 1948
1948 – John Mahaffey, American golfer / YEAR = 1948
1948 – Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist and author / YEAR = 1948
1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host / YEAR = 1948
1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist / YEAR = 1949
1949 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat, 17th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (d. 2013) / YEAR = 1949
1951 – Alley Mills, American actress / YEAR = 1951
1951 – Joy Harjo, American poet, musician, playwright and author, 23rd United States Poet Laureate^[22] / YEAR = 1951
1953 – Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper / YEAR = 1953
1955 – Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (d. 2012) / YEAR = 1955
1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano and actress / YEAR = 1955
1956 – Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer / YEAR = 1956
1956 – Jana Wendt, Australian television host / YEAR = 1956
1958 – Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer / YEAR = 1958
1959 – Andrew Jones, New Zealand cricketer / YEAR = 1959
1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014) / YEAR = 1960
1961 – Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1961
1961 – John Corbett, American actor / YEAR = 1961
1962 – Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter / YEAR = 1962
1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter / YEAR = 1962
1963 – Joe Cirella, Canadian ice hockey player and coach / YEAR = 1963
1965 – Ken Nomura, Japanese race car driver and sportscaster / YEAR = 1965
1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player and manager / YEAR = 1965
1966 – Mark Tinordi, Canadian ice hockey player and coach / YEAR = 1966
1968 – Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Graham Harman, American philosopher and academic / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Ruth Kelly, British economist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French sprinter^[23] / YEAR = 1968
1968 – Neil Ruddock, English international footballer and television personality^[24] / YEAR = 1968
1970 – Doug Christie, American basketball player / YEAR = 1970
1970 – Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer^[25] / YEAR = 1970
1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor / YEAR = 1970
1971 – Jason Lee, English footballer and manager / YEAR = 1971
1971 – Dan Chiasson, American poet and critic / YEAR = 1971
1972 – Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer / YEAR = 1972
1973 – Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner / YEAR = 1973
1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter / YEAR = 1973
1975 – Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress / YEAR = 1975
1975 – Brian Deegan, American motocross rider / YEAR = 1975
1977 – Averno, Mexican wrestler / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer / YEAR = 1977
1977 – Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist / YEAR = 1977
1978 – Leandro Cufré, Argentinian footballer / YEAR = 1978
1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player^[26] / YEAR = 1978
1979 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress / YEAR = 1979
1979 – Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, motivational speaker, and music producer / YEAR = 1979
1980 – Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver / YEAR = 1980
1980 – Jo Hyun-jae, South Korean actor / YEAR = 1980
1981 – Bill Murphy, American baseball player / YEAR = 1981
1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer / YEAR = 1981
1983 – Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Alan Campbell, British sculler / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Christos Marangos, Cypriot footballer / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player / YEAR = 1983
1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer / YEAR = 1983
1984 – Prince Fielder, American baseball player / YEAR = 1984
1984 – Chase Headley, American baseball player / YEAR = 1984
1985 – Jake Long, American football player / YEAR = 1985
1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer / YEAR = 1985
1987 – Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player / YEAR = 1987
1987 – Kevin Gameiro, French footballer / YEAR = 1987
1988 – J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian racing driver / YEAR = 1988
1989 – Ellen White, English footballer / YEAR = 1989
1989 – Daniel Rosenfeld, German musician^[27] / YEAR = 1989
1991 – Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka / YEAR = 1991
1992 – Dan Burn, English footballer^[28] / YEAR = 1992
1995 – Tommy Edman, American baseball player^[29] / YEAR = 1995
1996 – Grace Reid, Scottish diver^[30] / YEAR = 1996
2000 – Trey Lance, American football player^[31]

< / YEAR = 2000
HEADING = Deaths...
">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

480 – Julius Nepos, Western Roman Emperor^[32]
729 – Osric, king of Northumbria
893 – Shi Pu, warlord of the Tang Dynasty
909 – Adalgar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
934 – Wang Sitong, Chinese general and governor (b. 892)
1280 – Magnus VI of Norway
1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
1329 – John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells
1443 – Niccolò Albergati, Italian Cardinal and diplomat (b. 1373)
1446 – Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)
1590 – Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)

1601–1900[edit]

1657 – William Bradford, English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)
1736 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese judge and politician (b. 1658)
1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish field marshal and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1673)
1760 – Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop and saint (b. 1700)
1789 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (b. 1715)
1790 – William Clingan, American politician (b. 1721)
1791 – Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
1805 – Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)
1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
1850 – Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
1861 – Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)^[33]
1864 – John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
1889 – William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)

1901–present[edit]

1906 – Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
1911 – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American abolitionist (b. 1823)^[34]
1914 – C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
1915 – François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
1915 – Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
1918 – George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1933 – John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
1935 – Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
1938 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
1942 – Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
1944 – Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)
1949 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
1957 – Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
1957 – Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)
1959 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)
1965 – Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
1968 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
1968 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)
1968 – Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)^[35]
1970 – Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)
1976 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
1977 – James Jones, American novelist (b. 1921)
1978 – Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)
1978 – Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
1979 – Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (b. 1918)
1980 – Kate Molale, South African activist (b. 1928)
1981 – Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)
1981 – Rolf Just Nilsen, Norwegian singer and actor (b. 1931)^[36]
1983 – Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)
1985 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1915)
1986 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
1987 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1989 – Keith Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)^[37]
1993 – Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)
1994 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)
1997 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)
1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
1998 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
1998 – Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
2003 – Russell B. Long, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)
2004 – Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2004 – Brenda Fassie, South African singer (b. 1964)
2007 – Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
2008 – Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1929)
2008 – Baptiste Manzini, American football player (b. 1920)
2008 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)
2008 – Pascal Sevran, French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)
2009 – Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2010 – Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and activist (b. 1917)
2010 – Otakar Motejl, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2011 – Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
2012 – Bertram Cohler, American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (b. 1938)
2012 – Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (b. 1928)
2013 – Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2013 – George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
2013 – Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)
2013 – Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)
2014 – Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1938)
2014 – Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
2014 – Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935)
2014 – Mary Stewart, British author and poet (b. 1916)^[38]
2015 – Edward W. Estlow, American football player and journalist (b. 1920)
2015 – Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
2015 – Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)
2017 – Robert Miles, a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ (b. 1969)
2018 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor (b. 1938)
2019 – Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (1943) ^[39]
2020 – Little Richard, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1932)
2022 – John Leo, American a writer and journalist (b. 1935)^[40]
2022 – Rieko Kodama, Japanese game developer (b. 1963)^[41]

<">Deaths[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

480

Julius Nepos

Western Roman Emperor

^[32]

Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy

1601–1900[edit]

1657

William Bradford

Governor of Plymouth Colony

1707

Dieterich Buxtehude

1736

Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real

1745

Tomaso Antonio Vitali

1747

John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair

British Ambassador to France

1760

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

1789

Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

^[33]

1901–present[edit]

1906

Oscar von Gebhardt

1911

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

^[34]

Albert Abraham Michelson

Louis II, Prince of Monaco

1950

Esteban Terradas i Illa

Chancellor of Austria

1968

Mercedes de Acosta

Harold Gray

Little Orphan Annie

^[35]

Prime Minister of Italy

^[36]

^[37]

President of the Chechen Republic

Prime Minister of the Cook Islands

Vidal Sassoon

2013

Ramón Blanco Rodríguez

George M. Leader

Governor of Pennsylvania

Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh

^[38]

^[39]

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Sending back... Events (50 years ago today): 1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
Births (200 years ago today): 1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist and author (d. 1896)
Births (150 years ago today): 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939)
Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
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">Events[edit]

Pre-1600[edit]

28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.^[1]
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.^[2]
1294 – Temür, Khagan of the Mongols, is enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty.^[3]
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.^[4]
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.^[5]
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.^[6]

1601–1900[edit]

1688 – King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.^[7]
1713 – Great Northern War: The Russian Navy led by Admiral Fyodor Apraksin land both at Katajanokka ja Hietalahti during the Battle of Helsinki.^[8]
1768 – Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.^[9]
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.^[10]
1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.^[11]
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.^[12]
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.^[13]
1796 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.^[14]
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.^[15]
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.^[16]
1833 – A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.^[17]
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.^[18]
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.^[19]
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.^[20]
1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.^[21]
1869 – The First transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike.^[22]
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.^[23]
1876 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.^[24]
1881 – Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.^[25]
1899 – Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.^[26]^[27]

1901–present[edit]

1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.^[28]
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.^[29]
1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.^[30]
1922 – The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.^[31]
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.^[32]
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.^[33]
1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.^[34]
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. On the same day, Germany invades France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.^[35] Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.^[36]
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.^[37]
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.^[38]
1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.^[39]
1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.^[40]
1961 – Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78.^[41]
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.^[42]
1967 – The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.^[43]
1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.^[44]
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.^[45]
1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.^[46]
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.^[47]
1996 – A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.^[48]
1997 – The 7.3 M_w Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.^[49]
2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.^[50]
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 20 m from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.^[51]
2012 – The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.^[52]
2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.^[53]
2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.^[54]^[55]^[56]
2022 – Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.^[57]

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Pre-1600[edit]

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^[2]

^[3]

^[4]

Las Tortugas

^[5]

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1601–1900[edit]

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^[8]

The North Briton

^[9]

Parliament of Great Britain

Tea Act

British East India Company

^[10]

^[11]

^[11]

1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.^[12] / YEAR = 1775
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.^[13] / YEAR = 1775
1796 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.^[14] / YEAR = 1796
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.^[15] / YEAR = 1801
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.^[16] / YEAR = 1824
NEWS!! = 1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.^[16]

1833 – A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.^[17] / YEAR = 1833
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.^[18] / YEAR = 1837
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.^[19] / YEAR = 1849
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.^[20] / YEAR = 1857
1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.^[21] / YEAR = 1865
1869 – The First transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike.^[22] / YEAR = 1869
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.^[23] / YEAR = 1872
1876 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.^[24] / YEAR = 1876
1881 – Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.^[25] / YEAR = 1881
1899 – Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.^[26]^[27]

1901–present[edit]

1904

Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG

Audi

^[28]

1908

Mother's Day

Grafton, West Virginia

^[29]

^[30]

^[31]

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

^[32]

1924

J. Edgar Hoover