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1530 – Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia 1533-84  (d. 1584)

      born in Kolomenskoye, Russia

1561 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)

      born in Ghent, Belgium
1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest (d. 1709)

      confessor of Louis XIV of France, born in Forez, France
1662 – John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1724)

      President of Harvard

1664 Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1755)

1691 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)  (d. 1736)

      born in Florence, Italy
1707 – Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)
1719 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
1724 – George Stubbs, English animal painter (Horse Frightened by Lion) (d. 1806)

      born in Liverpool
1741 – Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (d. 1792)

      born in Bischofswerda, Germany
1744 – Johann Gottfried von Herder, German poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1803)

      born in Morąg, Poland
1758 – Franz Teyber, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1810)

      born in Vienna, Austria
1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (d. 1794)

      born in Decize, France
1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel, English admiral (d. 1853)
1786 – Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (1825-48)  (d. 1868)

      born in Strasbourg, France

1788 Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution),  (d. 1859)

      born in Harlingen, Friesland
1796 – James Lick, American California land baron, carpenter and piano builder (d. 1876)

      born in Stumpstown, Pennsylvania
1802 – Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet (d. 1850)
1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (d. 1880)

      Brazilian military leader, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1811 Joseph Dana Webster, American civil engineer  (d. 1876)

      Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hampton, New Hampshire

1812 Percival Drayton, American captain (Union Navy)  (d. 1865)

      born in Charleston, South Carolina
1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint (d. 1898)
      founded the Religious of the Assumption

1819 – Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American private detective and spy (d. 1884)

      born in Glasgow

1823 John Newton, American engineer and Major General (Union Army)  (d. 1895)

      born in Norfolk, Virginia

1825 Henry Warner Birge, American Brevet Major General (Union Army)  (d. 1888)

      born in Hartford, Connecticut

1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1909)

1836 – Bret Harte, American author and poet (Outcasts of Poker Flat)  (d. 1902)

      born in Albany, New York
1840 – George C. Magoun, American businessman (d. 1893)
1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician (d. 1917)
      Nobel Prize 1909,  born in Bern, Switzerland
1845 – Ludwig II, Mad king of Bavaria 1864-86 (d. 1886)

      born in Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Germany

1846 Judith Gautier, French poetess, novelist (Le Dragon Impérial)  (d. 1917)

      daughter of Theophile Gautier, born in Paris
1850 – Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist (d. 1935)
      Nobel Prize laureate

1851 Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the Netherlands  (d. 1884)

      born in Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, Netherlands

1860 George Fawcett, American actor (Intolerance)  (d. 1939)

      born in Alexandria, Virginia

1860 Henrietta Vinton Davis, African-American elocutionist, dramatist,

      impersonator, and public speaker, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1941)

1864:  Virchand Gandhi  [Indian Jain scholar and barrister] (d. 7 Aug 1901)
1867 – James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat (d. 1951)
      United States Ambassador to Germany, born in Geneseo, New York

1877 Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train)  (d. 1965)

      born in NYC, New York

1882 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland 1945-59  (d. 1966)
      born in Abbotstown

1887 Olav Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer,  (d. 1952)

      born in Stavanger, Norway
1889:  William Feather,  American publisher and author (d. 7 Jan 1981)
1891 – David Shimoni, Belarusian-Israeli poet and translator (d. 1956)

1891 Alberto Savinio [Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico] (d. 1952)

      Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), born in Athens 

1891 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, Basque priest, organist, and composer (d. 1928)

      born in Yurre, Viscaya, Spain 

1891 Samuel Gardner, American composer (d. 1984)

      born in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine

1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dental surgeon  (d. 1962)

      introduced fluoridation into water, born in Winstanley Park, Illinois

1896 Dick Ryan, American actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad)  (d. 1969)

      born in New Haven, Connecticut

1897 Jaroslav Řídký, Czech composer  (d. 1956)

      born in Reichenberg, Czech Republic
1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician and academic (d. 1975)
      born in Kassel, Germany
1899 – Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author (d. 1978)

1900 Mary Bruce, American tap dance teacher  (d. 1995)

      born in Chicago, Illinois
1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-British physician and research biochemist (d. 1981)
      Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953), born in Hildesheim, Germany

1901 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright and director (Tivoli)  (d. 1961)

      born in Ribe, Denmark
1902 – Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and educator (d. 1972)

      (Zeus & Elidco), born in Berlin, Germany
1903 – Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player (d. 1992)
      created the Elo rating system; born in Egyházaskesző, Hungary

1905 Undine Smith Moore, African-American composer  (d. 1989)

      born in Jarratt, Virginia
1905 – Faustina Kowalska, Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic (d. 5 Oct 1938)
      aka Saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament

      "Secretary of Divine Mercy"; born in Głogowiec, Łęczyca County, Poland

1906 Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)  (d. 1986)

      born in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany

1906 Mollie Panter-Downes, British writer and columnist (The Shoreless Sea)  (d. 1997)

      born in London

1907 Desmond Flower, English publisher, born in London (d. 1997)

1908 Philip Coolidge, American actor

      (North by Northwest, North by Northwest, I Want to Live, Tingler)

      born in Concord, Massachusetts

1909 Arwel Hughes, Welsh composer, and conductor  (d. 1988)

      born in Rhosllannerchrugog, Wales

1910 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1993)

      (Dames; 42nd Street), born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor and producer (d. 1971)

1910 J. B. Charles [Willem H. Nagel], Dutch criminologist and writer  (d. 1983)

      born in Zwolle, Netherlands
1910 – George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1910 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 2012)

      (Nachtmusik, 1943, Night Shadow, 1945), born in Galesburg, Illinois

1911 Jacopo Napoli, Italian composer, born in Naples, Italy (d. 1994)
1911 – Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2013)

      (Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam War); born in Lệ Thủy District, Vietnam
      3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam

1912 – Erich Honecker, German politician (d. 1994)

      Head of State of East Germany 1971-89;  born in Neunkirchen

1913 – Don DeFore, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
1913 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (d. 1973)

      (Pogo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1913 Don DeFore, American actor; born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1993)

      (George-Hazel, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)

1914 Alexei Haieff, Russian-American composer (Princess Zondilda);  (d. 1994)

      born in Biagoveschensk, Siberia

1915 – Walter Trampler, American viola player and educator (d. 1997)

      (Beaux Arts Trio), born in Munich, Germany
1916 – Van Johnson, American actor and singer (d. 2008)

      (Brigadoon); born in Newport, Rhode Island
1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist (d. 2003)
      Nobel Prize 1954; born in Auburn, Alabama

1916 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 2000)

      flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

      born in Saga District, Japan
1917 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)

      (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor), born in Elberon, New Jersey
1917 – Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress and director (d. 2011)
1917 – Lou van Burg, Dutch-German singer and game show host (d. 1986)
1918 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)

      (New York Philharmonic, 1958-69; Israel Philharmonic; London Symphony)

      (West Side Story; Chichester Psalms), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts
1918 – Richard Greene, English composer and actor  (d. 1985)

      (The Adventures of Robin Hood), born in Plymouth, Devon, England
1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (d. 2010)

1919 – George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (d. 1998)
          45th Governor of Alabama; born in Clio, Alabama

1920 Jef Diederen, Dutch painter, born in Heerlen, Netherlands (d. 2009)

1920 Leonard Gaskin, American jazz bassist  (d. 2009)

      (Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis), born in New York City

1921 – Monty Hall, Canadian-American actor, singer, and game show host  (d. 2017)

      (Let's Make a Deal), born in Winnipeg Canada
1921 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (d. 1999)

      (Catholics, Doctor's Wife), born in Belfast, Ireland
1921 – Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1999)

      (Catholics, Doctor's Wife), born in Belfast, Ireland

1922 Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer, songwriter and programmer  (d. 1994)

      born in Hoogeveen, Netherlands

1922 Ivry Gitlis, Israeli classical violin virtuoso  (d. 2020)

      born in Haifa, Palestine Mandate

1923:  Dorothy Dunnett. Scottish novelist  (d. 9 Nov 1921)
1923 – Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)
1923 – Allyre Sirois, Canadian judge (d. 2012)

1925 – Thea Astley, Australian novelist and short-story writer (d. 2004)\

      born in Queensland, Australia

1925 – Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)

1928 – John "Kayo" Dottley, American football player
1928 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2004)

      born in Horace, Nebraska
1928 – Karl Korte, American composer and educator, born in Ossining, New York

1928 – Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist and engineer
          Nobel Prize laureate

1930 – Bruce Allpress, New Zealand actor
1930 – Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer  (d. 2020)

      (James Bond films; Indiana Jones), born in Edinburgh, Scotland

1930 – György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer (d. 2012)
1930 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian-American actor, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2003)

      (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - "Charlie"; Misery; 7th Heaven)
1930 – Crispin Tickell, English academic and diplomat

1931 – Hal Fishman, American journalist and actor (d. 2007)
1931 – Peter Gilmore, German-English actor (d. 2013)
1931 – Regis Philbin, American actor, singer, and television host  (d. 2020)

      (Joey Bishop Show; Live with Regis & Kathie Lee; Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?)

      born in The Bronx, New York

1932 Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russian cosmonaut  (d. 2005)

      born in Sadovoye, Russia
1933 – István Gaál, Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1933 – Patrick F. McManus, American journalist and author
1933 – Wayne Shorter, American saxophonist and composer
          (Miles Davis Quintet and Weather Report); born in Newark, New Jersey
1933 – Tom Skerritt, American actor and director

       (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama), born in Detroit, Michigan
1934 – Lise Bacon, Canadian politician
      Deputy Premier of Quebec; born in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Canada

1934 Valery F. Bykovsky, USSR cosmonaut

      born in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union
1934 – Eddie Ilarde, Filipino television host and politician

      born in Iriga, Philippines
1934:  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician  (d. 2017)

      de facto commander-in-chief of the Iranian military during the Iran-Iraq War
      4th president of Iran, 1989-1997; born in Bahreman, Persia

1934 John Stears, special effects expert (Dr No), born in Middlesex, England

1935 – Charles Wright, American poet and academic

      (Black Zodiac), born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee

1936 Max Beauvoir, Haiti Chief Voodoo Priest, born in Haiti (d. 2015)
1936:  Hugh Hudson, English film director
1937 – Virginia Euwer Wolff, American author
1938 – David Canary, American actor  (d. 2015)

      (Bonanza, All My Children), born in Elwood, Indiana
1938 – Frederick Forsyth, English author

      (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File), born in Ashford, Kent, England
1939 – John Badham, English-American actor, director, and producer

      (Dracula, Short Circuit), born in Luton, England
1939 – John Bardon, English actor (d. 2014)

1939 Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Issue Blum), born in Schiedam, Netherlands
1939 – Marshall Brickman, Brazilian-American director, producer, and screenwriter

1940 – José van Dam, Belgian operatic bass-baritone

      (Francois d'Assisif), born in Brussels, Belgium
1940 – Wilhelm von Homburg, German boxer and actor (d. 2004)

1941 Shirley Carter Burden, patrician, born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 1996)
1942 – Nathan Deal, American captain, lawyer, and politician

      U,S. Representative, D. Georgia
      82nd Governor of Georgia; born in Millen, Georgia

1942 Imogen Hassall, English actress  (d. 1980)

      (Countess of Cleavage-Carry on Loving), born in Surrey England
1942 – Howard Jacobson, English journalist and author

1942 Walter Williams, American rock vocalist

      (O'Jays - "Love Train"; Use Ta Be My Girl"), born in Canton, Ohio
1943 – Harry Manfredini, American film score composer
1944 – Conrad Black, Canadian historian and author
1944 – Jacques Demers, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician
1944 – Anthony Heald, American actor

      (Orphans; Silence of Lambs), born in New Rochelle, New York
1944 – Andrew Longmore, English lawyer and judge

1944 Pat Martino [Azzara], American jazz guitarist  (d. 2021)

      born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1944 Sherley Anne Williams, American poet and novelist

      (Dessa Rose), born in Bakersfield, California

1945:  Ron Barber, American politician
          U,S. Representative, D. AZ, 2012-2015
1945 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2011)

1945 – Hannah Louise Shearer, American screenwriter and producer

1945 Martha Veléz, American singer-songwriter, actress, and playwright

      ("Living Outside the Law") (Power of the Powerless), born in New York City

1946 – Rollie Fingers, American baseball player, born in Steubenville, Ohio
1946 – Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and author

      (Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose), born in Bayside, New York

1946 Larry LaRocco, American politician

      U,S. Representative, D. Idaho, born in Los Angeles, California
1946 – Charlie Sanders, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)

      born in Richlands, North Carolina
1947;  Paul Emsley, British artist
1947 – Michael Kaluta, American author and illustrator
1948 – Ledward Kaapana, American singer and guitarist
1948 – Nicholas A. Peppas, Greek chemist and biologist
1949 – Martin Amis, British novelist

      (London Fields; The Rachel Papers), born in Oxford, England

1949 – Ross Davidson, Scottish actor (d. 2006)
1949 – Rijkman Groenink, Dutch banker
1949 – Fariborz Lachini, Iranian-Canadian composer and producer

      born in Tehran, Iran

1949 Reinhold Mack, German audio engineer and record producer

      (Electric Light Orchestra) (Queen; Sparks), born in West Germany

1949 Henry Paul, American southern rock and county guitarist and singer

      (Outlaws - "Green Grass And High Tides"; Blackhawk),

      born in Kingston, New York
1949 – John Savage, American actor and producer

      (The Deer Hunter; Maria's Lovers: The Onion Fields),

      born in Old Bethpage, New York
1949 – Gene Simmons [Chaim Witz], Israeli-American rock guitarist

      (KISS, Rock and Roll All Nite), born in Tirat Carmel, Israel

1950 Willy Deville [William Paul Borsey Jr.], American rock vocalist  (d. 2009)

       and guitarist (Mink Deville), born in Stamford, Connecticut

1950 – Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky, Georgian son of Petre Gruzinsky
1950 – Charles Fambrough, American jazz bassist, composer, and producer (d. 2011)

      (Jazz Messengers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1951 – Rob Halford, English heavy metal singer-songwriter
          (Judas Priest, 2wo, Halford, and Fight) born in Sutton Coldfield, England

1951 – Bill Handel, Brazilian-American lawyer and radio host

1951 Ria Thielsch, Indo-Dutch singer (Luv)

      born in Manokwari, Netherlands New Guinea

1951 Bob Mayo, American session keyboardist

      (Peter Frampton), born in New York City (d. 2004)
1952 – Ann Abraham, English public servant
1952:  Lloyd Dorfman  [British businessman]
1952 – Geoff Downes, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
          (The Buggles, Yes, and Asia), born in Stockport, Cheshire, England

1952 – Vijayakanth, Tamil actor and politician, born in Thirumangalam, India

1954 – Elvis Costello [Declan Patrick McManus], English rock singer-songwriter,

      guitarist, and producer; (Allison; Watching The Detectives; The Other Side

      Of Summer), born in Paddington, London

1954 Marty Jourard, American keyboardist and vocalist

      (Motels - "Only the Lonely"), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1954 – Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, Scottish politician
      First Minister of Scotland

1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish rock guitarist (d. 2004)
      (Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd,
      and The Armoury Show)
1955 – Gerd Müller, German politician

1956 Matt Aitken, English songwriter and rocker 

      Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block), born in Coventry, England

1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor and director
1957 – Frank Serratore, American ice hockey player and coach

1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter

      (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands), born in Burbank, California
1958 – Sterling Harwood, American lawyer, author, and academic
1958 – Christian LeBlanc, American actor

      (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

1958 Saskia van Orly [Oerle], Dutch pop singer (Tambourine)

1959 – Ian Falconer, American author and illustrator
1959 – Steve Levy, American politician
1959 – Lane Smith, American author and illustrator
1959 – Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano

1960:  Susan Brooks, American politician
          U.S. Representative, R. IN, 2013-present
1960 – Ashley Crow, American actress

      (Heroes-Sandra Bennet), born in Birmingham, Alabama

1960:  Jonas Gahr Store, Norwegian politician

1960 – Georg Zellhofer, Austrian footballer and manager

1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

      (Achy Breaky Heart; Old Town Road), born in Flatwoods, Kentucky
1961 – Ally Walker, American actress, producer, director and screenwriter

1961 Joanne Whalley, actress (Scandal), born in Manchester, England

1962 – Māris Bružiks, Latvian triple jumper
1962 – Vivian Campbell, Irish heavy metal guitarist and singer-songwriter
      (Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Dio, Thin Lizzy, and Sweet Savage)

      born in Belfast, Ireland
1962 – Shahid Mahboob, Pakistani cricketer
1962:  Taslima Nasrin  [Bangladeshi author]
1962 – David Packer, American actor (Almost Heroes)

      born in Passaic, New Jersey

1962 Mazzi Rawd [Clifford Lewis], American heavy metal guitarist

      (Femme Fatale), and physicist
1962 – Michael Zorc, German footballer and manager

1963 James Backhouse, British artist
1963 – Miro Cerar, Slovenian lawyer and politician

      8th Prime Minister of Slovenia
1963 – Shock G, American rapper (Digital Underground)
1963 – Tiina Intelmann, Estonian diplomat
1963 – Christine McGlade, Canadian actress and producer

1964 Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
1964 – Maxim Kontsevich, Russian-American mathematician and academic

      born in Khimki, Russia
1964 – Vasilios Kotronias, Greek chess grandmaster, born in Athens, Greece

1964 Timothy Nicholson, journalist
1964 – Marti Noxon, American screenwriter and producer

      born in Los Angeles, California
1964 – Blair Underwood, American actor, director, and producer

      (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident), born in Tacoma, Washington

1964 – Joanne Whalley, English actress

1965 – Cornelius Bennett, American football player, born in Birmingham, Alabama
1965:  Andrew J. Feustel, American astronaut
1965 Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback, born in Columbus, Georgia
1965 – Mia Zapata, American singer-songwriter  (d. 1993)

      (The Gits), born in Louisville, Kentucky

1966 – Albert Belle, American baseball player, born in Shreveport, Louisiana

1966 Michael Cohen, American lawyer to Donald Trump

      born in Long Island, New York
1966 – Robert Maschio, American actor ("The Todd" in Scrubs)
1966 – Tracy-Ann Oberman, English actress and screenwriter
1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
      (Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion)

1967 – Nobuyuki Hiyama, Japanese voice actor
1967 – Tom Hollander, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1967:  Xavier Niel, French businessman
1967 – Jeff Tweedy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Wilco, Loose Fur, and Uncle Tupelo)
1968:  David Alan Basche, American actor

1968 – Michael David Cummings, aka Spider One, American singer-songwriter and producer
      (Powerman 5000), born in Haverhill, Massachusetts

1968 – Rafet El Roman [Yaşdut], Turkish pop singer-songwriter and guitarist

      Gençliğin Gözyaşı - The Tears of the Youth), born in at Uzunköprü. Turkey
1968 – Yuri Mitsui, Japanese actress, model, and race car driver
1968 – Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer-songwriter
      (Belle & Sebastian); born in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, Scotland
1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef, author, and television host

      born in Glen Falls, New York

1968 Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback
1968 – Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
      (The Mad Capsule Markets), born in Yokohama, Japan

1969 Mike Gisler, NFL corner

1969 Mike Jones, NFL defensive end

1969 – Cameron Mathison, Canadian actor

1969 – Rachel Shelley, English actress
1969 – Olga Konkova, Norwegian/Russian pianist
1969 – Steve Staley, American voice actor and singer
1969 – John Witt, American baseball player and actor

1970 – Doug Glanville, American baseball player and sportscaster
      born in Hackensack, New York
1970 – Robert Horry, American basketball player and sportscaster
1970 – Jo Dee Messina, American ountry singer-songwriter

      born in, in Framingham, Massachusetts
1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German supermodel, fashion designer,

      and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, born in Rheinberg, West Germany

1970 – Helena Seger, Swedish model and actress
1971 Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host

1972 Tony Dumas, NBA guard
1972 – Marvin Harrison, American football player

1972 Marlo Perry, NFL linebacker
1972:  Raul Ruiz, Mexican American medical doctor and politician
          U.S. Representative, D. CA, 2012-present
1972 – Bryan Stoltenberg, American football player (d. 2013)
1972:  Joe Wright  [English director]

1973 – Fatih Akın, Turkish-German film director, producer, and screenwriter
1973:  Ben Falcone  [American actor and filmmaker]

1974 Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle

1974 Dave Luza, Dutch comedian
1974 – Eric Millegan, American actor
1974 – Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player

1975 Molly Tuter, WNBA guard

1976 – Jensen Atwood, American actor
1976 – Damon Jones, American basketball player
1976 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish-American actor

      (True Blood, Big Little Lies), born in Stockholm, Sweden
1977 – Masumi Asano, Japanese voice actress
1977 – Sophie Cadieux, Canadian actress

1977 – Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani murderer
1977 – Jonathan Togo, American actor

      (CSI: Miami), born in Rockland, Massachusetts

1978 – Kel Mitchell, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1979 – Philipp Mißfelder, German historian and politician (d. 2015)
1979 – Deanna Nolan, American basketball player
1979 – Masato Wada, Japanese actor and singer (D-Boys)

1980 – Neal Musser, American baseball player

1981 – Rachel Bilson, American actress

1981 Bobby Berk, American interior designer and TV personality

      (Queer Eye), born in Houston, Texas
1981 – Clare Oliver, Australian cancer activist (d. 2007)

1983 Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant

1983 James Righton, British rock musician (Klaxons)

      born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
1986 – Rona Nishliu, Kosovo-Albanian singer-songwriter

1987 – Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
1987 – Blake Lively, American actress

      (Gossip Girl), born in Los Angeles, California
1987 – Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Logan Morrison, American baseball player
1987 – Luka Šulić, Slovenian-Croatian cellist (2Cellos)
1987 – Justin Upton, American baseball player
1987 – Liu Yifei, Chinese-American actress and singer

      born in Wuhan, China 

1988 – Alexandra Burke, English singer-songwriter and actress

      (The X Factor winner 2008), born in London, England
1988 – Raymond Quinn, English actor, singer, and dancer

      born in Knowsley Village, Merseyside, England
1989 – Keegan Joyce, Australian actor
1989 – Amber Le Bon, English model

1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress
          (Berryz Kobo, Aa!, and Buono!) born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

1992 – Alex Roots, English singer

1994 – Josh Flitter, American actor (Air Buddies movies)

      born in Ridgewood, New Jersey

1997 – Holly Gibbs, English actor

1998 – Abraham Mateo, Spanish singer and actor
1998 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer
      (The Gospel; Daddy's Little Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia

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Weddings

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Notable

1749 British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England

1870 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32)

      at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland

1885 "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)

1925 Suffragette Kate Sheppard (78) weds printer and author William Sidney Lovell-Smith (72)

      in Christchurch, New Zealand

1928 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna

1941 Jazz musician Billie Holiday (26) weds trombonist Jimmy Monroe; divorced 1947

1955 "Dracula" actor Bela Lugosi (72) weds Hope Lininger (36)

1962 Future US General Colin Powell (25) weds audiologist Alma Johnson (24)

       at the First Congregational Church in Birmingham, Alabama

1968 "The Outlaw" actress Jane Russell (47) weds actor Roger Barrett (47)

      at the Community Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California

2000 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actor Patrick Stewart (60)

      weds film producer Wendy Neuss (39) in Los Angeles

2001 Crown Prince Haakon of Norway (28), eldest son of King Harald V

      weds commoner Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby (28) at Oslo Cathedral in Norway

2002 "Baywatch" actress Yasmine Bleeth (34) weds strip club owner Paul Cerrito

      at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California

2005 Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (33)

      weds Princess Anita van Eijk (25) on a civil ceremony at the Het Loo Palace

      in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

2007 Dallas Stars hockey player Mike Modano (37)

      weds "Dancing with the Stars" season 3 alumna Willa Ford (26) in Athens, Texas

2010 Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (40) weds Tatiana Blatnik (29)

      at the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas on Spetses Island in Greece

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Deaths

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79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman commander and philosopher (b. 23)
383 – Gratian (Flavius Gratianus), Emperor of Rome 375-383, murdered at 25 (b. 359)

471 Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 458)

882 Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19
1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)
1270 – Louis IX (Saint Louis), King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56  (b. 1214)
1282 – Thomas de Cantilupe, English bishop and saint (b. 1218)

1330 Sir James Douglas, Scottish soldier (b. 1286)

1346 Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle

1482 – Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI of England, dies at 52 (b. 1429)

1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral and politician (b. 1473)
      Lord High Treasurer

1556 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54

1580 Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies

1632 – Thomas Dekker, English playwright (b. 1572)

1649 Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36
1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh admiral and politician (b. 1635)

      pirate and privateer who raided Spanish settlements and shipping
      Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica
1699 – Christian V, King of Denmark and Norway, dies at 53  (b. 1646)
1711 – Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician (b. 1656)
      Secretary of State for the Southern Department
1742 – José António Carlos de Seixas, Portuguese organist and composer (b. 1704)

1773 Franz Nikolaus Novotny, Austrian composer, dies at 29
1774 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (b. 1714)

1776 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1711)

      (A Treatise of Human Nature), dies of abdominal cancer at 65

1789 Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies

1791 Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies

1792 Jacques Cazotte, French writer (b. 1719)

1794 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau (b. 1727)
          Belgian-Austrian diplomat
1798 – Mikiel'Ang Grima, Maltese surgeon (b. 1729)
1819 – James Watt, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1736)
1822 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)

1835 Ann Rutledge, said to be Abraham Lincoln's true love, dies at 22

1840 Karl Leberecht Immermann, German writer, dies at 44

1842 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian French composer, dies at 80

1846 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller and naturalist, dies at 73

1867 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)

      discovered electromagnetic induction, invented 1st electric motor, dies at 75

1868 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60

1868 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62

1882 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)

1885 Reuben Fenton, American merchant and politician

      22nd Governor of New York, dies at 66

1886 – Zinovios Valvis, Greek politician
          35th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1791)

1900 Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese diplomat and politician, dies of a brain hemorrhage at 59

      2nd Prime Minister of Japan, 1888-1889; President of the Privy Council, 1894-90
1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist, philosopher, and critic (b. 1844)

      Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return), dies of a stroke due to syphilis at 55

1904 William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)
1904 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (b. 1836)
1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist (b. 1852)
          discovered radioactivity; Nobel Prize 1903

1908 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78
1921 – Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
1924 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
1925 – Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf  (b. 1852)

      Austro-Hungarian field marshal, dies at 72

1936 Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
1938 – Aleksandr Kuprin, Russian pilot, explorer, and author (Jama), dies at 67 (b. 1870)
1939 – Charles "Babe" Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)

      drowns in Lake Huron at 35
1940 – Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (b. 1874)

1942 Panayot Pipkov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 70

1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded

1942 – Prince George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent, (b. 1902)

      and RAF officer, dies in battle at 39

1943 Johan Petter Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist

      (modern adjustable spanner), dies at 86

1944 Krijn van den Helm, Dutch resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death

1944 Musa Cälil, Russian-Soviet Tatar poet (The Moabit Notebooks),

      and resistance fighter, executed by guillotine in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin at 38

1945 – John Birch, Indian-American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)

1945 Willis Augustus Lee, American World War II admiral (Guadalcanal)

      dies of a heart attack at 57 while ferrying to his flagship USS Wyoming off the coast of Maine

1947 Clark Wissler, American anthropologist (American Indian), dies at 76

1956 – Alfred Kinsey, American biologist, academic, entomologist and sexologist

      (Kinsey Report), dies from a heart ailment and pneumonia at 62  (b. 1894)

1957 Leo Perutz, Austrian writer and mathematician, dies at 74

1965 – Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, American baseball player and physician (b. 1879)

      subject of "Field of Dreams" film, dies at 88

1967 – Stanley Bruce, Australian lawyer and politician (b. 1883)
      8th Prime Minister of Australia
1967 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-American actor (Good Earth) and singer (b. 1895)

      dies after lengthy illness at 71
1967 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American commander, politician, and activist (b. 1918)
      founded the American Nazi Party, assassinated

1968 John George [Tufei Fatella], Syrian actor, dies from emphysema at 70

      (Black Orchids, Don Juan, Adventures of Fu Manchu)

1970 – Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer
      designed the Tokyo Tower (b. 1886)
1971 – Ted Lewis, American entertainer, bandleader and musician

      (Is Everybody Happy?), dies of lung failure at 81 (b. 1890)

1972 Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71

1972 Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80

1973 – Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician (b. 1875)
      Prime Minister of Hungary

1975 Frans van Amelsvoort, Dutch choir conductor, dies at 75

1975 John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67

1976 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (b. 1900)
      Nobel Prize 1974
1977 – Károly Kós, Hungarian architect, ethnologist, and politician (b. 1883)
1979 – Stan Kenton, American musician, jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1911)
1980 – Gower Champion, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and theater director (b. 1919)

      (42nd Street; Showboat; Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies of blood cancer at 61
1981 – Nassos Kedrakas, Greek actor (b. 1915)

1982 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27
1984 – Truman Capote, American author and playwright (b. 1924)
      (Breakfast At Tiffany's; In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59
1984 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1899)
1985 – Samantha Smith, American peace activist and actress  (b. 1972)

      (invited to the Soviet Union during Cold War), dies in plane at 13

1986 Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51

1988 Price Daniel, American politician

      38th Governor of Texas, dies at 77

1988 – Art Rooney, American businessman (b. 1901)
          founded the Pittsburgh Steelers

1989 Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
1990 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1903)

1991 Don Nute, American actor, dies of AIDS at 56

1991 Niven Busch, American screenwriter (Duel in the Sun), dies at 88

1991 Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide

1992 Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65

1992 Frederick O'Neal, American actor, theatre producer and television director

      (Pinky, Car 54 Where Are You), dies from natural causes at 86

1992 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78

1993 Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26

1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52

1995 John Brunner, Britsih sci-fi author (100th Millennium), dies at 60

1995 R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41

1995 – Doug Stegmeyer, American bass player and producer (b. 1951)

      (Billy Joel Band, 1976-87), dies of a self-inflicted gun wound at 43

1996 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58

1996 Erskine Childers, Irish writer and United Nations civil servant official, dies at 67

1996 Sylvia Fisher, Australian operatic soprano (Albert Herring Opera), dies at 86

1997 Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies

1997 James Dewar, journalist/documentary filmmaker, dies at 70

1997 Robert Pinget, French novelist (The Interrogation) and playwright, dies at 78

1997 – Camilla Spira, German actress (b. 1906)
1998 – Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American jurist (b. 1907)

      Supreme Court justice 1972-87, dies at 90
1999 – Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1956)
          (Naked Eyes and Climie Fisher)
2000 – Carl Barks, American author and illustrator (b. 1901)

      (creator of Scrooge McDuck), dies at 99
2000 – Frederick C. Bock, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
2000 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer, arranger, music producer, keyboardist (b. 1937)
          (Rolling Stones; Neil Young, The Wrecking Crew, and Crazy Horse)

2000 – Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1955)
          (The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule)
2001 – Aaliyah Dana Haughton, American singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1979)

      dies in a plane crash in the Bahamas at 22
2001 – Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2001 – Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)

2002 – Giannis Gionakis, Greek actor (b. 1922)
2002 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian author and poet (b. 1923)

2002 William Warfield, American concert bass-baritone singer and actor

      (Show Boat), dies from neck injuries suffered in a fall at 82
2003 – Tom Feelings, American author and illustrator (b. 1933)

2004 Helen Copley, American newspaper publisher

      (The San Diego Union-Tribune), dies at 81
2005 – Peter Glotz, Czech-German politician (b. 1939)
2005 Terence Morgan, British actor, dies of a heart attack at 83

      (Sir Francis Drake, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb)
2006 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
          2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago
2007 – Benjamin Aaron, American lawyer and scholar (b. 1915)
2008 – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (b. 1964)

2008 – Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer and photographer (b. 1959)

2008 John Thoday, British geneticist, dies at 91

      dies of heart failure at 44

2008 Josef Tal, Israel composer (Israeli art music), dies at 97

2008 Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Finnish composer

      (The Whole World Will Lament; Kwaidan-balladit), dies at 64

2009 Robert Heppener, Dutch composer

      (Hymns & Conversations for 28 Harps; Memento), dies at 84

2009 – Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)

      US Senator (D)-Massachusetts, 1962- 2009,  dies of brain cancer at 77
2009 – Mandé Sidibé, Malian politician (b. 1940)
      Prime Minister of Mali
2010 – Esther Earl, American blogger and activist (b. 1994)
2012 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)

      dies from heart surgery complications at 82
2012 – Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, Croatian archeologist and museologist (b. 1944)
2012 – Roberto González Barrera, Mexican businessman (b. 1930)
2012 – Donald Gorrie, Scottish politician (b. 1933)
2012 – Angkarn Kalayanapong, Thai poet and painter (b. 1926)
2012 – Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (b. 1972)
2013 – Ciril Bergles, Slovene poet and translator (b. 1934)
2013 – António Borges, Portuguese economist and banker (b. 1949)
2013 – William Froug, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
2013 – Liu Fuzhi, Chinese politician (b. 1917)
      3rd Minister of Justice for China
2013 – Raghunath Panigrahi, Indian singer (b. 1932)
2014 – William Greaves, American director and producer (b. 1926)
2014 – Marcel Masse, Canadian politician (b. 1936)
      29th Canadian Minister of National Defence
2014 – Uziah Thompson, Jamaican-American drummer (b. 1936)
      (The Revolutionaries and Black Uhuru)
2014 – Enrique Zileri, Peruvian publisher (b. 1931)
2015:  Frank E. Peterson Jr., American Marine Corps general (b. 2 Mar 1932)
      1st African American Marine aviator & General, dies at 83

2016 Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer, dies at 86

2016 James Cronin, American nuclear physicist

      (Physics Nobel Prize, 1980), dies at 84

2016 Marvin Kaplan, American character and voice actor

      (Top Cat - "Choo Choo"; Alice - "Henry"), dies at 89

2016 Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer

      (Miles Davis, John Coltrane), dies at 91

2017 Enzo Dara, Italian operatic basso buffo, and author, dies at 78

      (The Barber of Seville - "Don Bartolo")

2018 John McCain, American war hero and politician, dies of brain cancer at 81

      US Senator (R)-Arizona, 1983-2018,

      Republican Presidential nominee 2008

2019 Pál Benkő, Hungarian-American chess player, author (Grandmaster; record 8 US Open Championships), dies at 91

2019 Vince Naimoli, American businessman and MLB team owner

      (Tampa Bay Devil Rays), dies of progressive supranuclear palsy at 81

2022 Joey DeFrancesco, American jazz Hammond organist, dies at 51

2022 Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey coach and center, dies at 89

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