1911 – Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba)
1913 – Yulian Grigor’yevich Kreyn, composer
1958 – Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. 1999)
1563 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1917 – Joseph Stone, lawyer
1961 – Dan Stuart, US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1961 – Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1918 – Ranga Sohoni, Indian cricketer (pace bowler of late 40′s avg 101)
1962 – Robert L Curbeam Jr, Baltimore Md, astronaut (STS 85, sk: 99)
1918 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac’s Sacrifice)
1703 – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1964 – Reggie Williams, NBA forward/guard (Denver Nuggets)
1966 – Greg Clark, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 – Michael Irvin, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1921 – Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1748 – William Shield, composer
1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1750 – Jean B G d’Ansse de Villoison, French classical (Apollonii Lexicon)
1968 – Marq Mellor, Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1929 – Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
1929 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1930 – Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1931 – Anthony Headges, composer
1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1815 – John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1932 – Walter Charles Marshall, scientist
1933 – Norbert Linke, composer
1824 – James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
1971 – Jose Mercedes, El Seybo Dom Rep, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1828 – Johann Gungl, composer
1836 – Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1840 – Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1843 – William F Sudds, composer
1972 – Brian Grant, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers, Sacramento Kings)
1850 – Daniel Brink Towner, composer
1852 – Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1853 – Arthur W Foote, Salem Mass, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1972 – Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1939 – Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire
1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal/archbishop of Munich
1974 – Brad Schumacher, US, 400m/800m freesytyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 – Hans Bond, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1943 – Billy Backus, American boxer
1874 – Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
1944 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1877 – Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
1879 – Walter Long, actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol)
1879 – Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1883 – Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
1976 – Adriana Serra-Zanetti, Modena Italy, tennis star (1995 Moscow semi)
1947 – Eddie Hodges, Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
1976 – Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial artist
1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
1948 – Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man’s Band)
1977 – Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1977 – Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1895 – Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player
1978 – Papoose, American rapper
1979 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
1951 – Rodney Hogg, cricketer (prolific Australian wicket-taker 1978-84)
1900 – Ludwig Donath, actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again)
1981 – Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
1953 – Russel D Feingold, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1904 – Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1905 – Gilroy Roberts, US chief engraver (1948-64)
1908 – Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
1908 – Sophie Stewart, Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1956 – Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
1988 – Bjarni Viarsson, Icelandic footballer
1957 – Mark E Smith, English rock vocalist (Fall-Fall in a Hole)
363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 – the Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premire performance at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 – Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1940 – Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman-Botosani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 – Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by “off the scale” gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1984 – 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 – The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
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