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Events

• 512 - A solar eclipse is The Chronicle of Ireland by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 - Sverre of Norway is crowned King of Norway.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1613 - The Globe Theatre#Shakespeare's Globe Theatres in London, England burns to the ground.
• 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Roundhead detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an England King on English soil.
• 1659 - The Russians, led by Aleksey Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukraine armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
• 1786 - Alexander Macdonell (bishop) and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
• 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens, Greece daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against George I of Greece. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
• 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
• 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
• 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Russian Empire.
• 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalism and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
• 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
• 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
• 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir for the first time.)
• 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 1996 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
• 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2006 - The Netherlands cabinet Second Balkenende cabinet resigned.
• 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detention camp in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2007 - 2007 London car bombs found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2007 - iPhone is relased to the public by Apple.
• 2007 - Japanese supergroup S.K.I.N. have their highly successful debut concert in Long Beach, California before an audience of 15,000.

Births

• 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
• 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
• 1858 - George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
• 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (d. 1929)
• 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d.1961)
• 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
• 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Emile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
• 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
• 1925 - Hale Smith, American composer and editor
• 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
• 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1930 - Robert Evans (film producer) - American film producer
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
• 1933 - Bob Shaw (baseball), baseball player
• 1933 - John Bradshaw (theologian), American theologian
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
• 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
• 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 - Kwame Ture, Black Panther member (d. 1998)
• 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
• 1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 - Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1947 - Richard Lewis (comedian), American comedian
• 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
• 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator of Duck Donald.
• 1952 - Joe Johnson (snooker player), English snooker player
• 1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, baseball player
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
• 1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 - Robert Forster (musician), Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
• 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
• 1958 - Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1960 - Evelyn King (singer), American singer
• 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, actress
• 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
• 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
• 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 - Jeff Burton, American racing driver
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1969 - Claude Béchard, Quebec politician
• 1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress
• 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton (snooker player), English snooker player
• 1972 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl (d. 1985)
• 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet
• 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
• 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules Football player
• 1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish Singer and Actor (d. 2007)
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1980 - James Courtney, Australian racing driver
• 1981 - Joe Johnson (basketball), American basketball player
• 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1982 - Andrea Butjko, Hungarian porn star
• 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
• 1986 - Austin Drage, English singer.
• 1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina Acress
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor

Deaths

• 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
• 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1509 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
• 1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
• 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
• 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
• 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
• 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
• 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
• 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1934 - Zaro Aga, 157 years ago.(b.1777)
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill (baseball), baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1960 - Frank Patrick (hockey), professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
• 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 - Henry King (director), American film director (b. 1886)
• 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
• 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Randy Walker (football coach), American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
• 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles - Independence Day.
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
• Malta - Culture of Malta#Mnarja

Liturgical feasts

• Saints Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers

External links

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

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Events

• 512 - A solar eclipse is The Chronicle of Ireland by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 - Sverre of Norway is crowned King of Norway.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1613 - The Globe Theatre#Shakespeare's Globe Theatres in London, England burns to the ground.
• 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Roundhead detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an England King on English soil.
• 1659 - The Russians, led by Aleksey Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukraine armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
• 1786 - Alexander Macdonell (bishop) and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
• 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
• 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens, Greece daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against George I of Greece. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
• 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
• 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
• 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Russian Empire.
• 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalism and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
• 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
• 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
• 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir for the first time.)
• 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 1996 - The Prince's Trust concert is held in Hyde Park, London, and is attended by 150,000 people. The Who headlines the event in their first performance since 1989.
• 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2006 - The Netherlands cabinet Second Balkenende cabinet resigned.
• 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detention camp in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2007 - 2007 London car bombs found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2007 - iPhone is relased to the public by Apple.
• 2007 - Japanese supergroup S.K.I.N. have their highly successful debut concert in Long Beach, California before an audience of 15,000.

Births

• 1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
• 1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
• 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
• 1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
• 1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
• 1858 - George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
• 1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (disputed) (d. 1986)
• 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
• 1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
• 1881 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (d. 1929)
• 1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
• 1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d.1961)
• 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
• 1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
• 1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
• 1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
• 1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Emile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
• 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
• 1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
• 1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
• 1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
• 1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
• 1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
• 1925 - Hale Smith, American composer and editor
• 1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
• 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
• 1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
• 1930 - Robert Evans (film producer) - American film producer
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
• 1933 - Bob Shaw (baseball), baseball player
• 1933 - John Bradshaw (theologian), American theologian
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
• 1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
• 1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
• 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
• 1941 - Kwame Ture, Black Panther member (d. 1998)
• 1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
• 1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
• 1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
• 1944 - Sean O'Malley, current Archbishop of Boston
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
• 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
• 1947 - Richard Lewis (comedian), American comedian
• 1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
• 1948 - Ian Paice, drummer (Deep Purple)
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, current mayor of Barcelona
• 1949 - Ann Veneman, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
• 1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator of Duck Donald.
• 1952 - Joe Johnson (snooker player), English snooker player
• 1953 - Colin Hay, guitarist and singer
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, baseball player
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt, Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
• 1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
• 1957 - Robert Forster (musician), Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
• 1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
• 1958 - Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
• 1960 - Evelyn King (singer), American singer
• 1961 - Kimberlin Brown, actress
• 1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
• 1961 - Sharon Lawrence, American actress
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
• 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
• 1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
• 1967 - Jeff Burton, American racing driver
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
• 1969 - Claude Béchard, Quebec politician
• 1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American adult actress
• 1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton (snooker player), English snooker player
• 1972 - Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl (d. 1985)
• 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• 1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist
• 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, poet
• 1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
• 1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• 1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules Football player
• 1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish Singer and Actor (d. 2007)
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
• 1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
• 1980 - James Courtney, Australian racing driver
• 1981 - Joe Johnson (basketball), American basketball player
• 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
• 1982 - Andrea Butjko, Hungarian porn star
• 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer (Danity Kane)
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
• 1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
• 1986 - Austin Drage, English singer.
• 1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina Acress
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor

Deaths

• 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
• 1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
• 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
• 1509 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
• 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
• 1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
• 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
• 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
• 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
• 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
• 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
• 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
• 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
• 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
• 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
• 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
• 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1934 - Zaro Aga, 157 years ago.(b.1777)
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill (baseball), baseball player (b. 1873)
• 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1960 - Frank Patrick (hockey), professional ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
• 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
• 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
• 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo politician (b. 1919)
• 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
• 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
• 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
• 1982 - Henry King (director), American film director (b. 1886)
• 1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1919)
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
• 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 - Randy Walker (football coach), American football coach (b. 1954)
• 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
• 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Seychelles - Independence Day.
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
• Malta - Culture of Malta#Mnarja

Liturgical feasts

• Saints Peter and Paul, i.e. the Apostles Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the diamond workers

External links

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

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