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Events

• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1614 - Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the Estates-General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
• 1776 - American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island - On Lake Champlain 15 United States gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.
• 1809 - Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
• 1811 - Inventor John Stevens (inventor)' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
• 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
• 1862 - American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate States of America General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
• 1864 - Campina Grande , Brazil was established as a city.
• 1865 - Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
• 1890 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
• 1899 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
• 1906 - San Francisco, California public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
• 1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
• 1930 - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the Australian Football League premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
• 1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt receives letter from Einstein about atom bomb.
• 1941 - Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
• 1944 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
• 1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
• 1954 - First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
• 1957 The Orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket carrying Sputnik I was first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1958 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
• 1962 - Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
• 1967 - Afghanistan Heads of Government of Afghanistan Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons
• 1968 - Project Apollo: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
• 1975 - The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.
• 1982 - The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth.
• 1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first United States woman to perform a space walk.
• 1986 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reykjavik Summit in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
• 1987 - 1987 in gay rights attracts an estimated 200,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and the U.S. government's handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
• 1998 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40
• 2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
• 2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
• 2002 - A Myyrmanni bombing attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.

Births

• 1616 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
• 1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
• 1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
• 1672 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
• 1675 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
• 1738 - Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
• 1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
• 1786 - Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
• 1788 - Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
• 1814 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
• 1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881)
• 1821 - George Williams (YMCA), English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
• 1844 - Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
• 1865 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (d. 1926)
• 1871 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943)
• 1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
• 1881 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
• 1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1949)
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
• 1884 - Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1885 - Francois Mauriac, French author, Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1970)
• 1895 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
• 1897 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (d. 1982)
• 1899 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
• 1905 - Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
• 1918 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (d. 1998)
• 1919 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
• 1919 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
• 1925 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist
• 1926 - Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales
• 1926 - Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
• 1928 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1929 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
• 1930 - Sam Johnson, American politician
• 1930 - LaVell Edwards, American football coach
• 1932 - Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)
• 1936 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)
• 1937 - Sir Bobby Charlton, English footballer
• 1937 - R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
• 1939 - Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
• 1939 - Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician
• 1941 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1941 - Charles Shyer, American film director
• 1942 - Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
• 1943 - John Nettles, English actor
• 1944 - Mike Fiore, American baseball player
• 1946 - Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
• 1946 - Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer
• 1946 - Daryl Hall, American musician
• 1946 - Gary Mallaber, American musician (The Steve Miller Band)
• 1947 - Al Atkins, English musician
• 1947 - Lucas Papademos, Greek economist
• 1947 - Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist
• 1948 - Cecilia (Spanish singer), Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1951 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter
• 1953 - David Morse (actor), American actor
• 1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
• 1957 - Dawn French, Welsh comedian
• 1959 - Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver
• 1960 - Curt Ford, American baseball player
• 1961 - Neil Buchanan, English television presenter
• 1961 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
• 1961 - Steve Young (athlete), American football player
• 1962 - Nicola Bryant, English actress
• 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress
• 1963 - Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan
• 1964 - Michael J. Nelson, American actor
• 1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
• 1965 - Luke Perry, American actor
• 1966 - Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler
• 1967 - Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer
• 1967 - Artie Lange, American actor andcomedian
• 1967 - David Starr, American race car driver
• 1967 - Peter Senerchia, American professional wrestler and commentator
• 1968 - Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Jane Krakowski, American actress
• 1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
• 1970 - Chidi Ahanotu, American football player
• 1970 - Andy Marriott, English footballer
• 1970 - MC Lyte, American rapper
• 1970 - U-God, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
• 1970 - Constance Zimmer, American actress
• 1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)
• 1972 - Claudia Black, Australian actress
• 1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model
• 1973 - Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
• 1973 - Mike Smith (guitarist), American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit)
• 1973 - Dmitri Young, American baseball player
• 1973 - Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper
• 1974 - Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
• 1976 - Brent Bennett, American mercenary
• 1977 - Matthew Bomer, American actor
• 1977 - Desmond Mason, American basketball player
• 1977 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
• 1977 - Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
• 1978 - Carlos Alonso Kali, Angolan footballer
• 1979 - Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
• 1979 - Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown (band))
• 1980 - Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
• 1983 - William Sledd, American internet personality
• 1983 - Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
• 1984 - Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
• 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• 1987 - Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
• 1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer
• 1991 - Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer
• 1995 - Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Deaths

• 1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
• 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
• 1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1424 - Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1370)
• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
• 1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
• 1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
• 1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
• 1779 - Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
• 1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
• 1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
• 1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
• 1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
• 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• 1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
• 1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 - Lluis Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
• 1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
• 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
• 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
• 1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
• 1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
• 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
• 1988 - Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
• 1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
• 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
• 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
• 1996 - Joe Morris (trade unionist), C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
• 1996 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 1998 - Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
• 2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
• 2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
• 2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
• 2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person (b. ?1880)
• 2007 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Meditrinalia is held in honor of Meditrina
• Calendar of Saints - memorial of the blessed Pope John XXIII; Saints Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus; Alexander Sauli;
• United States - National Coming Out Day
• United States - General Pulaski Memorial Day
• French Republican Calendar - Fruit press Day, twentieth day in the Vendémiaire
• Republic of Macedonia - National Liberation War of Macedonia

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
• 1614 - Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the Estates-General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
• 1776 - American Revolution: Battle of Valcour Island - On Lake Champlain 15 United States gunboats are defeated but give Patriot forces enough time to prepare defenses of New York City.
• 1809 - Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.
• 1811 - Inventor John Stevens (inventor)' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
• 1852 - The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
• 1862 - American Civil War: In the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, Confederate States of America General J.E.B. Stuart and his men loot Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, during a raid into the north.
• 1864 - Campina Grande , Brazil was established as a city.
• 1865 - Paul Bogle led hundreds of black men and women in a march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
• 1890 - In Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
• 1899 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
• 1906 - San Francisco, California public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
• 1910 - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
• 1930 - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the Australian Football League premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
• 1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt receives letter from Einstein about atom bomb.
• 1941 - Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Cape Esperance - On the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island.
• 1944 - Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R
• 1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however).
• 1954 - First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
• 1957 The Orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket carrying Sputnik I was first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1958 - Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up).
• 1962 - Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
• 1967 - Afghanistan Heads of Government of Afghanistan Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reasons
• 1968 - Project Apollo: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
• 1975 - The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.
• 1982 - The Mary Rose, a Tudor gunship which sunk on July 18 1545, is raised from the sea bed in the Solent Channel, near Portsmouth.
• 1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first United States woman to perform a space walk.
• 1986 - Cold War: U.S. President Ronald Reagan and USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reykjavik Summit in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.
• 1987 - 1987 in gay rights attracts an estimated 200,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and the U.S. government's handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
• 1998 - A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40
• 2000 - The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown.
• 2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
• 2002 - A Myyrmanni bombing attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven.

Births

• 1616 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
• 1661 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
• 1671 - Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
• 1672 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
• 1675 - Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (d. 1729)
• 1738 - Arthur Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
• 1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (d. 1840)
• 1786 - Stevenson Archer, American Congressman (d. 1848)
• 1788 - Simon Sechter, Austrian music teacher (d. 1867)
• 1814 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe (d. 1888)
• 1815 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer (d. 1881)
• 1821 - George Williams (YMCA), English founder of the YMCA (d. 1905)
• 1844 - Henry Heinz, American food manufacturer (d. 1916)
• 1865 - Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (d. 1926)
• 1871 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian religious leader (d. 1943)
• 1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
• 1881 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
• 1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1949)
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)
• 1884 - Sig Ruman, German-American actor (d. 1967)
• 1885 - Francois Mauriac, French author, Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1970)
• 1895 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (d. 1982)
• 1897 - Nathan Twining, USAF general (d. 1982)
• 1899 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
• 1905 - Fred Trump, American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump (d. 1999)
• 1918 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (d. 1998)
• 1919 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
• 1919 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Mal Whitfield, American athlete
• 1925 - Elmore Leonard, American novelist
• 1926 - Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales
• 1926 - Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
• 1928 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver (d. 1957)
• 1929 - Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
• 1930 - Sam Johnson, American politician
• 1930 - LaVell Edwards, American football coach
• 1932 - Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)
• 1936 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)
• 1937 - Sir Bobby Charlton, English footballer
• 1937 - R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
• 1939 - Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
• 1939 - Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician
• 1941 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
• 1941 - Charles Shyer, American film director
• 1942 - Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
• 1943 - John Nettles, English actor
• 1944 - Mike Fiore, American baseball player
• 1946 - Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
• 1946 - Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer
• 1946 - Daryl Hall, American musician
• 1946 - Gary Mallaber, American musician (The Steve Miller Band)
• 1947 - Al Atkins, English musician
• 1947 - Lucas Papademos, Greek economist
• 1947 - Thomas Boswell, American sports columnist
• 1948 - Cecilia (Spanish singer), Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1951 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer/songwriter
• 1953 - David Morse (actor), American actor
• 1956 - Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of Paraguay
• 1957 - Dawn French, Welsh comedian
• 1959 - Wayne Gardner, Australian racing driver
• 1960 - Curt Ford, American baseball player
• 1961 - Neil Buchanan, English television presenter
• 1961 - Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
• 1961 - Steve Young (athlete), American football player
• 1962 - Nicola Bryant, English actress
• 1962 - Joan Cusack, American actress
• 1963 - Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan
• 1964 - Michael J. Nelson, American actor
• 1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
• 1965 - Luke Perry, American actor
• 1966 - Solofa Fatu, aka Rikishi, American professional wrestler
• 1967 - Tony Chimel, American professional wrestling announcer
• 1967 - Artie Lange, American actor andcomedian
• 1967 - David Starr, American race car driver
• 1967 - Peter Senerchia, American professional wrestler and commentator
• 1968 - Claude Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 - Jane Krakowski, American actress
• 1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
• 1970 - Chidi Ahanotu, American football player
• 1970 - Andy Marriott, English footballer
• 1970 - MC Lyte, American rapper
• 1970 - U-God, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
• 1970 - Constance Zimmer, American actress
• 1971 - Petra Haden, American musician (The Rentals)
• 1972 - Claudia Black, Australian actress
• 1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor/model
• 1973 - Steven Pressley, Scottish footballer
• 1973 - Mike Smith (guitarist), American guitarist (Snot, Limp Bizkit)
• 1973 - Dmitri Young, American baseball player
• 1973 - Niki Xanthou, Greek long jumper
• 1974 - Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1976 - Emily Deschanel, American actress
• 1976 - Brent Bennett, American mercenary
• 1977 - Matthew Bomer, American actor
• 1977 - Desmond Mason, American basketball player
• 1977 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian television journalist
• 1977 - Ty Wigginton, American baseball player
• 1978 - Carlos Alonso Kali, Angolan footballer
• 1979 - Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress
• 1979 - Andy Douglas, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan-born American musician (Cobra Starship, Midtown (band))
• 1980 - Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
• 1983 - William Sledd, American internet personality
• 1983 - Ruslan Ponomariov, Ukrainian chess player
• 1984 - Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
• 1984 - Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
• 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• 1987 - Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
• 1989 - Michelle Wie, American golfer
• 1991 - Chauncey Matthews, American Juniors singer
• 1995 - Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este

Deaths

• 1188 - Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France
• 1303 - Pope Boniface VIII
• 1347 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1282)
• 1424 - Jan Zizka, leader of the Hussites (b. 1370)
• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (b. 1484)
• 1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
• 1708 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651)
• 1721 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1636)
• 1725 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
• 1779 - Kazimierz Pułaski, Polish fighter for American independence (b. 1745)
• 1809 - Meriwether Lewis, American explorer (b. 1774)
• 1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (b. 1724)
• 1821 - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
• 1852 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
• 1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist (b. 1818)
• 1896 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• 1896 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1829)
• 1935 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 - Lluis Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
• 1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1961 - Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• 1963 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
• 1963 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915)
• 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1965 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884)
• 1971 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
• 1976 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
• 1977 - MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904)
• 1988 - Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
• 1991 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, American underground poet (suicide) (b. 1950)
• 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (b. 1927)
• 1996 - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
• 1996 - Joe Morris (trade unionist), C.C., LL.D., Canadian trade unionist (b. 1913)
• 1996 - Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• 1998 - Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2002 - Dina Pathak, Indian Actress (b. 1922)
• 2004 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (b. 1919)
• 2005 - Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
• 2005 - Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
• 2006 - Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
• 2006 - Benito Martínez, Cuban who claimed to be the oldest person (b. ?1880)
• 2007 - Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers (b. 1915)

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Meditrinalia is held in honor of Meditrina
• Calendar of Saints - memorial of the blessed Pope John XXIII; Saints Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus; Alexander Sauli;
• United States - National Coming Out Day
• United States - General Pulaski Memorial Day
• French Republican Calendar - Fruit press Day, twentieth day in the Vendémiaire
• Republic of Macedonia - National Liberation War of Macedonia

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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