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Up to 1900 
 660 BC – Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
 244 - mutinous soldiers in Zaitha, Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) murder Roman Emperor Gordian III.
 731 – Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
 824 – Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
 1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
 1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
 1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
 1790 – Society of Friends petitions United States Congress for abolition of slavery.
 1794 – First session of United States Senate open to the public.
 1808 – Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
 1809 – Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
 1810 – Napoléon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
 1814 – Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
 1837 – American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
 1855 - Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia is crowned.
 1858 – The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
 1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
 1873 – King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
 1889 – Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
1901  1950 
 1902 – Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
 1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
 1907 - Paddle steamer Larchmont sinks after colliding with a schooner in Rhode Island Sound, killing 140 people. 
 1908 – Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
 1916 – Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
 1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
 1928 – 1928 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
 1929 – Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
1941 – First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
 1943 – General Dwight D. Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
 1945 – Yalta Conference ends.
 1948 – John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.
1951  2000 
 1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
 1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
 1961 – Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
 1963 – The Beatles record 10 tracks for their first album, Please Please Me.
 1964 – At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
 1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
 1964 – The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
 1968 – Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
 1968 – Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City.
 1971 – US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1975 - Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of the Conservative Party. This will lead to her becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
 1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
 1981 – 100,000 gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
 1986 – Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
 1987 – Philippines constitution goes into effect.
 1990 – James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown.
 1990 – Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
 1991 – UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
 1992 – Art band The KLF subvert the United Kingdom's BRIT Awards.
1999 – Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet farthest from the sun. It had been the eighth farthest since 1979. It is downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.
From 2001 
 2001 - A Dutch programmer starts the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails through a trick photo of the tennis player.
 2006 - On a hunting trip near Corpus Christi, Texas, US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots and injures his friend, multimillionaire lawyer Harry Whittington.
 2008 – East Timor's President José Ramos-Horta is injured in a rebel attack. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dies in the attack.
 2011 – 2011 Egyptian protests: In the wake of anti-government protests, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak resigns.
 2012 - American singer and actress Whitney Houston is found dead in her hotel room in Los Angeles.
 2013 - Pope Benedict XVI announces that he is to resign as Pope on February 28, as the first Pope to resign in 598 years.
 2014 - At least 76 people are killed in a plane crash in northeastern Algeria.
 2014 - 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: The first Olympic women's Ski jumping competition takes place. The gold medal is won by Carina Vogt of Germany.
Births

Before 1800
 1261 - Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (died 1312)
 1377 - King Ladislaus of Naples (died 1414)
 1380 – Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (died 1459)
 1466 – Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (died 1503)
 1535 – Pope Gregory XIV (died 1591)
 1568 – Honore d'Urfe, French writer (died 1625)
 1657 - Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle, French scientist and writer (died 1757)
 1715 - Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British collector of art and nature specimens (died 1785)
 1755 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer (died 1822)
 1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (died 1611)
 1776 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat and Head of State (died 1836)
 1780 – Karoline von Günderode, poet (died 1806)
 1800 – William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (died 1877)
1801 - 1900
 1802 – Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (died 1880)
 1812 – Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy) (died 1883)
 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, (died 1883)
 1813 – Otto Ludwig, German novelist, playwright, critic (died 1865)
 1819 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (died 1890)
 1821 – Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (died 1881)
 1830 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, musician (died 1913)
 1833 – Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1910)
 1839 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist, chemist (died 1903)
 1847 – Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (died 1931)
 1860 – Rachilde (Marguérite Vallette-Eymery), French writer (died 1953)
 1863 - John F. Fitzgerald, American politician (died 1950)
 1869 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (died 1939)
 1869 – Else Lasker-Schüler, lyricist, dramatist and narrator (died 1945)
1873 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (died 1938)
 1874 – Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book and fairy tale writer, (died 1953)
 1881 – Arthur Davidson, American businessman (d. 1950)
 1887 – John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
 1894 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (died 1974)
 1897 - Colgate W. Darden, Governor of Virginia (died 1981)
 1898 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist, peace activist (died 1964)
 1900 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (died 2002)
1901 - 1925
 1902 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (died 1971)
 1903 – Hans Redlich, composer (d. 1968)
 1904 – Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983)
 1904 - Clarence W. Meadows, Governor of West Virginia (died 1961)
 1908 – Vivian Fuchs, British geologist, explorer (died 1999)
 1908 - Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1992)
 1909 – Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer and actor (died 1959)
 1909 – Joseph Mankiewicz, director (died 1993)
 1911 – Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow (d. 1998)
 1912 – Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (died 1991)
 1912 – Rudolf Firkusny, Czech-American pianist (died 1994)
 1914 – Matt Dennis, American singer (died 2002)
 1914 – Menelaos Pallantios, composer
 1915 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, English writer (died 2011)
 1915 – Mervyn Levy, British artist, critic (died 1996)
 1915 – Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist
1916 – Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, California (died 1998)
 1916 – Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist, gerontologist
 1917 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (died 2007)
 1917 - Giuseppe Santis, Italian film director (died 1997)
 1919 – Gretchen Fraser, American slalom skier (died 1994)
 1919 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (died 1995)
 1919 - Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (died 1997)
 1919 – Eddie Robinson, college football coach.
 1920 – King Farouk I of Egypt (died 1965)
 1920 – Daniel Galouye, American science fiction writer (died 2006)
 1920 – Billy Halop, American actor (died 1976)
 1920 – Paul Peter Piech, artist (died 1996)
 1921 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (died 2006)
 1921 - Jacques Friedel, French physicist (died 2014)
 1921 - Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer (died 2013)
 1922 – Tudor Jarda, composer
 1923 – Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
 1924 – Mary Tregear, Chinese-British Oriental art historian (died 2010)
1924 - Budge Patty, American tennis player
 1925 – Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral (died 2003)
 1925 – Virginia E. Johnson, American doctor and sexologist (died 2013)
 1925 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
1926 - 1950 
 1926 – Paul Bocuse, French chef (died 2018)
 1926 – Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)
 1926 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (died 2010)
 1927 - Albano Harguindeguy, Argentine military (died 2012)
 1928 – Gotthilf Fischer, German choirmaster 
 1928 – Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
 1928 – Conrad Janis, American actor
 1929 - Albert Azaryan, Armenian gymnast
 1929 – Leonard Kastle, American composer (died 2011)
 1931 – Larry Merchant, American writer, boxing commentator
 1932 – Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist, professor
 1932 - Dennis Skinner, English politician
 1934 – Tina Louise, American singer, actress and writer
 1934 – Francesco Pennisi, composer
 1934 – Mary Quant, British fashion designer
 1934 – John Surtees, British race car driver (died 2017)
 1934 - Mel Carnahan, 51st Governor of Missouri
 1935 – Bent Lorentzen, composer
 1936 – Burt Reynolds, American actor
 1937 – Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist, playwright
1937 – Marilyn Butler, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
 1937 – Peter Lashley, West Indies cricketer
 1937 – Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
 1937 - Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor (died 2018)
 1938 – Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer (died 2018)
 1938 – Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
 1938 - Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian athlete
 1938 – Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and dictator (died 2017)
 1939 – Gerry Goffin, American lyricist (died 2014)
 1939 – Jane Yolen, American science fiction writer
 1940 – Bobby Picket, American musician (died 2007)
 1940 - Mick Staton, American politician (died 2014)
 1941 – Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician and songwriter
 1942 – Otis Clay, American gospel and R&B singer (died 2016)
 1943 – Iain Cameron, British brigadier
 1943 - Gerhard Glogowski, German politician
 1943 - Joselito, Spanish singer
 1943 - Serge Lama, French singer
 1944 – Buddhadev Dasgupta, Indian movie director
 1944 – Bert Greene, golfer
 1944 - Mike Oxley, American politician (died 2016)
1945 - Ralph Doubell, Australian athlete
 1945 - Burhan Ghalioun, French-Syrian professor of sociology
 1946 – Ian Porterfield, British footballer (died 2007)
 1947 – Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1947 - Derek Shulman, Scottish musician
 1948 - Chris Rush, American comedian, actor and writer
 1948 - Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (died 2014)
1951 - 1975
 1953 – Jeb Bush, American politician, former Governor of Florida
 1953 – Philip Anglim, American actor
 1954 - Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
 1955 - Anneli Jaatteenmaki, former Prime Minister of Finland
 1956 - Catherine Hickland, American actress and singer
 1959 - Bradley Cole, American actor
 1959 - Harold J. Greene, American general (died 2014)
 1959 - Deborah Meaden, British businesswoman
 1960 - Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and astronaut
 1960 - Momus, Scottish musician, writer and journalist
 1961 – Mary Docter, speed skater
 1961 – Carey Lowell, American actress
 1962 - Tammy Baldwin, American politician, United States Senator for Wisconsin
 1962 – Sheryl Crow, American musician
 1964 – Sarah Palin, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
 1964 - Adrian Hasler, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
 1964 - Ken Shamrock, American professional wrestler and martial artist
 1966 - Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, controversial French comedian
1969 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress
 1970 – Alistair Brown, English cricketer
 1971 - Damian Lewis, English actor
 1972 - Dennis McManaman, English footballer
 1972 - Kelly Slater, American surfer
 1973 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician
 1974 – D'Angelo, singer
 1974 - Nick Barmby, English footballer
 1974 – Alex Jones, American radio host
 1974 - Jaroslav Spacek, Czech ice hockey player
 1975 – Chuck Watanabe, American kayaker
From 1976 
 1977 - Mike Shinoda, American musician
 1979 – Brandy Norwood, American singer and actress
 1980 – Natasha Bobo, actress
 1980 – Mark Bresciano, Australian footballer
 1980 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor
 1981 – Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)
 1982 – Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
 1982 - Natalie Dormer, British actress
 1983 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
 1983 - Huang Shengyi, Chinese actress
 1984 - Maxime Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player
 1985 - Sarah Butler, American actress
 1987 - Lembi Vaher, Estonian pole vaulter
 1987 - Ebba Busch Thor, Swedish politician
 1988 - Junjun, Chinese-Japanese singer
 1990 - Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer
 1990 - Princess Ayah bint Al Faisal, of Jordan
 1990 - Go Ara, South Korean actress
 1990 - Q'orianka Kilcher, American actress
 1990 - Hwang Chan-sung, South Korean singer, rapper and actor
 1991 - Georgia May Foote, British actress
 1991 - Nikola Mirotic, Montenegrin-Spanish basketball player
1991 - Christofer Drew, American singer and composer
 1992 – Taylor Lautner, American actor
 1992 - Georgia Groome, British actress
 1993 - Ben McLemore, American basketball player
 1994 - Dominic Janes, American actor
 1996 - Jonathan Tah, German footballer
Before 1900
 55 - Britannicus, son of Claudius (b. 41)
 244 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor
 641 – Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium in 610–641 (born ca. 575)
 731 – Pope Gregory II
 821 – Saint Benedict of Aniane (born ca. 747)
 824 – Pope Paschal I
 1141 – Hugo of St. Victor, philosopher, theologian, mystic
 1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (born 1123)
 1503 – Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (born 1466)
 1543 – Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal
 1622 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
 1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (born 1552)
 1650 – René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596)
 1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638)
 1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal Emperor (born 1664)
 1762 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
 1763 – William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
 1795 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (born 1740)
 1797 – Antoine Dauvergne, composer (born 1713)
 1806 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer
1829 - Alexander Griboyedov, Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (born 1795)
 1841 – J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
 1848 - Thomas Cole, British-American painter (born 1801)
 1862 – Elizabeth Siddal, poet and artist (born 1829)
 1868 – Léon Foucault, French astronomer (born 1819)
 1870 – Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
 1871 – Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine, Luxembourg politician
 1879 – Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter (born 1808)
 1879 – Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch writer
 1882 – Gustav Schmidt, composer (born 1874)
 1892 – Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
 1894 – Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1901 - 2000
 1903 – Henryk Szulc, composer
 1907 – Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder
 1911 – Albert von Rothschild, baron, Austrian banker
 1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (born 1872)
 1918 - Taytou Betul, Empress of Ethiopia (born 1851)
 1922 – Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher
 1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (born 1854)
 1937 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and city planner (born 1876)
 1939 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (born 1874)
 1940 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish writer and Governor-General of Canada (born 1875)
 1942 - Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and independence activist (born 1884)
 1945 – Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (born 1891)
 1945 – J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter
 1948 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian movie director (born 1898)
 1958 - Ernest Jones, British neurologist and psychoanalyst (born 1879)
 1959 – Marshall Teague, race car driver (born 1922)
1960 – Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
 1960 - Victor Klemperer, German writer (born 1881)
 1961 – Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor, director
 1963 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist (born 1932)
 1968 – Howard Lindsay, playwright (born 1888)
 1970 – Emil Abranyi, composer
 1971 – Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director
 1972 – Jan Wils, architect (born 1891)
 1973 – Hans D Jensen, German physicist (born 1907)
 1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar (born 1931)
 1976 – Lee J Cobb, actor (born 1911)
 1976 – Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (born 1894)
 1977 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946–1948, 1958–1959) (born 1902)
 1977 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 5th President of Pakistan (born 1905)
 1978 – James B Conant, headmaster of Harvard University
 1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (born 1904)
 1982 – Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (born 1912)
 1982 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (born 1905)
1985 – Henry Hathaway American actor, director (born 1898)
 1985 – Ulysses Simpson Kay, composer
 1985 – Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer (born 1901)
 1986 – Frank Herbert, science fiction writer (born 1920)
 1989 – George O'Hanlon, American actor, director (born 1912)
 1991 – Oscar Nitzchke, German architect
 1993 - Robert W. Holley, American scientist (born 1922)
 1993 – George A Stephen, inventor
 1994 – Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (born 1946)
 1994 – Sorrell Brooke, actor
 1994 – William Conrad, actor
 1994 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (born 1924)
 1996 – Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1946)
 1996 – Cyril Poole, English cricket player
 1996 – Amelia Rosselli, poet
 2000 – Roger Vadim, French director (born 1928)
 2000 - Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (born 1917)
From 2001 
 2003 – Arndt Brause, Schlager singer
 2003 – Daniel Toscan du Plantier, movie producer
 2006 - Peter Benchley, American writer (born 1940)
 2008 – Tom Lantos, American politician (born 1928)
 2008 - Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel leader (born 1967)
 2010 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (born 1969)
 2010 – Irina Arkhipova, Russian singer (born 1925)
 2011 - Bo Carpelan, Finnish writer (born 1926)
 2011 – Bad News Brown, Canadian musician (born 1977)
 2012 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (born 1963)
 2014 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer (born 1924)
 2015 - Roger Hanin, French actor and director (born 1925)
 2015 - Bob Simon, American journalist (born 1941)
 2015 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player (born 1930)
 2015 - Anne Cuneo, Swiss journalist and writer (born 1936)
 2016 - Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler (born 1971)
 2017 - Chavo Guerrero Sr., American professional wrestler (born 1949)
2017 - Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (born 1990)
 2017 - Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (born 1947)
 2017 - Harvey Lichtenstein, American arts administrator (born 1929)
 2018 - Asma Jahangir, Pakistani lawyer (born 1952)
 2018 - Vic Damone, American singer and actor (born 1928)
 2018 - Jon D. Fox, American politician (born 1947)
 2018 - Jan Maxwell, American actress (born 1956)
 2018 - Nicholas Shehadie, Australian rugby player (born 1925)
Holidays and observances
 Catholicism – Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes
 World Day of the Sick
 Armed Forces Day (Liberia)
 Islamic Revolution's Victory Day (Iran)
 National Foundation Day (Japan)
 Youth Day (Cameroon)
 Inventors' Day (United States)

Days of the year
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born British poet. He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. He also wrote plays and some important essays about literature.

Early life
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, then went to college in Harvard. He spent most of his adult life in London, England. He became a British citizen in 1928.

Career
One famous book of his was written for children and is called The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The songs in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats are based on poems in it. He also wrote "The Waste Land", a very mysterious, complicated poem that helped start a new style called Modernism. His friend, Ezra Pound, another Modern poet, helped him finish it. His poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and his play Murder in the Cathedral (about Thomas Becket) are also well known.
Personal life and death
He was married two times. He worked at a bank in England and later as the head editor of a famous publishing company in London that is now called Faber and Faber. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died of emphysema in London.

1888 births
1965 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
American Christians
American essayists
American literary critics
American playwrights
American poets
British Anglicans
British essayists
British Nobel Prize winners
British playwrights
British poets
Deaths from emphysema
Disease-related deaths in England
Harvard University alumni
Literary critics
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Order of Merit
Writers from St. Louis, Missouri
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a British composer and impresario of musical theatre. His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.

Career 
In 2018, Webber became one of fifteen people to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award.

During his career, he has produced 15 musicals (several have run at the West End and on Broadway for ten or more years). His lyricists have included: Tim Rice, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Richard Stilgoe, and Ben Elton. He wrote the music for two movies: Gumshoe and The Odessa File. He wrote a Latin requiem mass. He has won many awards for his work, most notably seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, and entered the House of Lords in 1997.
Personal life 
Lloyd Webber's second marriage was to the actress and singer Sarah Brightman. They divorced in 1990. Lloyd Webber's third and current wife is Madeleine Gurdon, a former three-day event horsewoman. His younger brother is cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. On 25 October 2009, it was reported that Webber had been diagnosed with the early stages of prostate cancer. He had an operation and has recovered.

Musicals

He has many musical plays, including:

 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967)
 Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
 Evita (1976)
 Cats (1981)
 Song and Dance (1982)
 Starlight Express (1984)
 Phantom of the Opera (1984): as an idea, (1985): Started development and 1st debut, (1986): as 2 pop singles early that year and in October 9th 1st public debut
 Aspects of Love (1989)
 Sunset Blvd. (1993)
 By Jeeves (1996), a rewritten 1974 show
 Whistle Down the Wind (1998)
 The Beautiful Game (2000)
 The Woman in White (2004)
 Love Never Dies (2010)

References
References 

1948 births
Living people
Academy Award winning composers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Emmy Award winners
English theatre directors
English composers
Golden Globe Award winning composers
Theatre producers
Grammy Award winners
Members of the House of Lords
People educated at Westminster School, London
Television personalities from London
Tony Award winners
Best Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters
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Events
Up to 1950 
 69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
 1147 - After a siege of four months crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
 1260 - The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
 1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
 1590 - John White, governor of the second Roanaoake Colony in present-day Virginia, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
 1648 – Peace of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years' War.
 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia.
 1812 – Battle of Maloyaroslavets in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
 1851 - William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting the planet Uranus.
1857 - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
 1861 – First transcontinental telegraph line in North America is completed, ending the Pony Express.
 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
 1902 - The Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, almost completely destroying the city of Quetzaltenango.
 1911 - Orville Wright remains in the air for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, in a Wright glider at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina.
 1912 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo ends in a Serbian victory.
 1917 – Battle of Caporetto started on the Austro-Italian front of World War I.
 1926 - Harry Houdini has his last performance in Detroit.
 1929 – "Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousted Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was then installed as "provisional president."
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to traffic, connecting New York and New Jersey.
 1931 - Al Capone is convicted of tax fraud.
 1935 – Italy invades Ethiopia.
 1943 - The Provisional Government of Free India formally declares war on the United Kingdom and United States.
 1944 – World War II: Zuikaku Japanese aircraft carrier is destroyed.
 1945 – Founding of the United Nations.
 1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of Earth from space.
 1947 – Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
 1949 - The cornerstone of the United Nations headquarters is laid in New York City.
1951  2000 
 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
 1955 – The body of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual, is found in the Mexico apartment of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers. Homicide is suspected, but never proven.
 1956 – Soviet Union invades Hungary
 1960 – An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, killing 165. Among the dead is field marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
 1963 - 129 miners are trapped underground in Lengede, Germany, being rescued successfully two weeks later.
 1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and became the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony).
 1964 - The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo end.
 1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile
 1973 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
1977 - The United States observes Veterans Day on the fourth Monday in October for the last time. From the following year, it is observed on November 11.
 1980 – Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union.
 1989 – Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison and a 500,000 USD fine for defrauding investors of US$3.7 million.
 1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team not to be based in the United States (they are based in Canada) to win the World Series.
 1995 - In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest.
 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
 1998 – Tropical Storm Mitch reached hurricane strength.
From 2001 
 2001 - Two lorries collide in the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland, leading to a fire that kills 11 people.
 2002 – Police arrested spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
 2003 – Concorde made its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.
 2004 - Arsenal FC's run of 49 games unbeaten is ended by Manchester United.
 2005 - Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida.
 2007 - Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
 2008 - "Black Friday" sees many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst single-day declines in their history.
 2019 - The remains of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco are removed from the Valley of the Fallen and reburied in a cemetery north of Madrid.

Births
Up to 1900 
 51 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (died 96)
 1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish nobleman (died 1402)
 1503 - Isabella of Portugal (died 1578)
 1561 - Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (died 1586)
 1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (died 1723)
 1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (died 1749)
 1713 - Marie Fel, French opera singer (died 1794)
 1739 - Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, German composer (died 1807)
 1764 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (died 1839)
 1765 - James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian (died 1832)
 1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (died 1879)
 1796 - David Roberts, Scottish painter (died 1864)
 1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (died 1891)
 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, composer (died 1885)
 1814 - Rafael Carrera y Turcios, President of Guatemala (died 1865)
 1830 - Marianne North, English painter (died 1890)
1838 - Annie Edson Taylor, American adventuress (died 1921)
 1838 - Emil Frey, Swiss politician (died 1922)
 1844 - Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna (died 1910)
 1854 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (died 1907)
 1855 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (died 1912)
 1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer (died 1969)
 1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (died 1958)
 1879 - B. A. Rolfe, American musician, singer and movie producer (died 1956)
 1882 - Sybil Thorndike, British actress (died 1976)
 1885 - Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure (died 1975)
 1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (died 1917)
 1887 – Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain (died 1969)
 1891 – Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (died 1961)
 1893 - Kurt Huber, German psychology and musicology professor, resistance activist (died 1943)
 1896 - Jack Warner, English actor (died 1981)
1897 - John P. Buchanan, 28th Governor of Tennessee (died 1930)
 1898 - Peng Dehuai, Chinese general (died 1974)
 1899 - Ferhat Abbas, President of Algeria (died 1985)
1901  1925 
 1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress (died 1959)
 1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI chief (died 1960)
 1904 – Moss Hart, dramatist (died 1961)
 1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (died 1968)
 1909 – Bill Carr, American athlete (died 1966)
 1909 - Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, Welsh barrister and politician (died 1989)
 1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (died 1984)
 1915 – Bob Kane, cartoonist and creator of Batman (died 1998)
 1915 - Letitia Woods Brown, American researcher and historian (died 1976)
 1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (died 2008)
 1921 - R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist, illustrator and humorist (died 2015)
 1922 - Horst Stern, German science journalist, filmmaker and writer (died 2019)
 1923 - Robin Day, British political broadcaster and commentator (died 2000)
 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (died 2003)
 1925 - Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (died 2004)
 1925 - Emmett Chappelle, American scientist (died 2019)
1925 - Al Feldstein, American writer, editor and artist (died 2014)
 1925 - Willie Mabon, American singer-songwriterand pianist (died 1985)
 1925 - Ieng Sary, Cambodian Khmer Rouge politician (died 2013)
1926  1950 
 1926 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (died 2008)
 1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player (died 2017)
 1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner (died 1992)
 1927 - Gilles Bécaud, French singer (d. 2001)
 1929 - Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and author (died 2014)
 1929 – George Crumb, American composer
 1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (died 2004)
 1929 - Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (died 2013)
 1930 - Ahmad Shah Pahang, King of Malaysia
 1930 - Elaine Feinstein, English poet and novelist (died 2019)
 1930 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian mathematician, sociologist and politologist
 1930 – The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), rock and roll star (died 1959)
 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
 1931 - Ken Utsui, Japanese actor and director (died 2014)
 1932 - Ian Cathie, Australian politician (died 2017)
 1932 - Stephen Covey, American writer (died 2012)
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (died 2007)
 1932 - Adrian Mitchell, British writer (died 2008)
 1932 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist
 1933 - Reggie Kray, English criminal (died 2000)
 1933 - Ronnie Kray, English criminal (died 1995)
 1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
 1936 – Bill Wyman, British musician (the Rolling Stones)
 1936 - Jimmy Dawkins, American blues musician and singer
 1937 - Santo Farina, American musician and composer
 1938 - Odean Pope, American jazz saxophonist
 1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American Academy Award-winning actor
 1940 - Giacomo Bulgarelli, Italian footballer (died 2009)
 1940 - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015)
 1941 - Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese priest, 11th Archbishop of Tokyo
 1942 - Maggie Blye, American actress (died 2016)
 1943 - Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler
 1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach (died 2007)
 1944 – Ray Downs American novelist and country music singer
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf) (died 1993)
 1947 – Kevin Kline, American Academy Award-winning actor
 1948 - Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player
 1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American civil rights activist and Congressman from Maryland
 1948 - Barry Ryan, British musician
 1948 - Paul Ryan, British musician
 1949 - Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
 1950 - Steven Greenberg, American musician, songwriter and conductor
 1950 - Asa Hartford, Scottish footballer
 1950 - Gabriella Sica, Italian poet
1951  1975 
 1953 - Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player
 1953 - Christoph Daum, German footballer and coach
 1954 - Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
 1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician, 31st Governor of North Dakota
 1954 - Tom Mulcair, Canadian politician, former leader of the New Democratic Party
 1954 - Bradley Sherman, American politician
 1956 - Jeff Merkley, American politician
 1957 - Manuel Rivas, Spanish-Galician writer
 1959 - Dominique Baert, French politician
 1959 - Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician
 1960 - Christoph Schlingensief, German theatre director and writer (died 2010)
 1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, golf champion
 1960 - B.D. Wong, American actor
 1961 – Mary Bono Mack, member of the United States House of Representatives from California
 1962 - Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player
 1963 - John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
 1963 - Giselle Laronde, Trinidadian model
 1964 - Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer and composer
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate and owner of Chelsea FC
 1966 - Simon Danczuk, English politician
 1967 - Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
 1967 - Esther MacVey, English politician
 1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
 1971 - Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
 1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
 1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
 1975 - Juan Pablo Angel, Colombian footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
 1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadorean footballer
 1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician
 1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
 1980 - Casey Wilson, American comic actress
 1981 – Tila Nguyen, Vietnamese model
 1981 - Sebastian Bueno, Argentine footballer
 1982 - Fairuz Faury, Malaysian racing driver
 1983 - Mikkel Beckmann, Danish footballer
 1983 - V V Brown, English singer-songwriter
 1983 - Katie McGrath, Irish actress
 1984 - Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 1985 - Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (died 2014)
 1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
 1986 - Drake, Canadian actor, rapper and singer
 1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
 1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
 1988 - Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player
 1989 - Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
 1989 - PewDiePie, Swedish YouTube personality
 1989 - Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
 1990 - Ilkay Gundogan, German footballer
1994 - Krystal, American-Korean singer
 1997 - Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast
 1998 - Daya, American singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 996 – King Hugh Capet of France
 1260 - Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
 1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (b. 1320)
 1537 – Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
 1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1508)
 1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
 1604 - Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
 1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician and scientist (b. 1592)
 1672 – John Webb, architect
 1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
 1799 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
 1821 – Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
 1842 - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean political figure (b. 1778)
 1852 – Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
 1875 - Raffaele Carboni, Italian writer (b. 1817)
 1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (b. 1898)
1901  2000 
 1912 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
 1918 - Daniel Burley Woolfall, English FIFA President (b. 1852)
 1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
 1935 - Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
 1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
 1944 – Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
 1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (b. 1887)
 1948 – Franz Lehár, composer (b. 1870)
 1957 – Christian Dior, an influential French fashion designer (born 1905)
 1958 - George Edward Moore, British philosopher (b. 1873)
 1964 - Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
 1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
 1971 – Carl Ruggles, composer (b. 1876)
 1972 – Jackie Robinson, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1919)
 1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892)
 1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (born 1908)
 1981 - Edith Head, American costume designer (b. 1897)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1905)
 1989 - Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
 1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer, creator of the Star Trek series (b. 1921)
 1993 - Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
 1996 - Gladwyn Jebb, British politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
 1997 – Don Messick, voice actor (b. 1926)
 1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and politician (b. 1960)
From 2001 
 2001 - Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (b. 1938)
 2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
 2002 – Winton M. Blount, first United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet (b. 1921)
 2002 – Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
 2002 – Harry Hay, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder (b. 1912)
 2004 – James Cardinal Hickey, archbishop of Washington, D.C. (b. 1920)
 2005 – Rosa Parks, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1913)
 2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1927)
 2007 - Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
 2008 - Helmut Zilk, Austrian journalist and politician, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1927)
 2012 - Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
 2012 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
 2013 - Manna Dey, Indian playback singer (b. 1919)
 2013 - Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
 2014 - Kim Anderzon, Swedish actress (b. 1943)
 2014 - Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African athlete (b. 1980)
2014 - S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor (b. 1928)
 2014 - Lorenzo Albacete, Argentine priest (b. 1941)
 2015 - Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress (b. 1920)
 2016 - Bobby Vee, American singer (b. 1943)
 2016 - Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay (b. 1927)
 2017 - Ebrahim Ashtiani, Iranian footballer (b. 1941)
 2017 - Glenn Barr, Northern Irish politician (b. 1942)
 2017 - Inga Borg, Swedish author (b. 1925)
 2017 - Girija Devi, Indian singer (b. 1929)
 2017 - Fats Domino, American singer and pianist (b. 1928)
 2017 - I. V. Sasi, Indian film director (b. 1948)
 2018 - Carmen Alborch, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1947)
 2018 - Rudolf Gelbard, Austrian Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Anatoly Gladilin, Russian writer (b. 1935)
 2018 - Hip Hop Pantsula, South African rapper (b. 1980)
 2018 - Christine Stix-Hackl, Austrian jurist (b. 1957)
 2018 - Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 2019 - Walter Franco, Brazilian rock music singer, guitarist and composer (b. 1945)
Holidays 
 United Nations Day
 Independence Day in Zambia (1964)
 Maladay (Discordianism)
 Suez Day (Egypt)

Days of the year
Bob Kane (October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American cartoonist. He is best known for creating the superhero Batman with Bill Finger.

References

Writers from New York City
American cartoonists
American comics artists
American comics writers
American entertainers
DC Comics
Batman
1915 births
1998 deaths
Comic book 
Batman was first named "Bat-Man" by Kane. Batman made its first appearance in 1939 in Detective Comics No. 27. He was the second DC superhero to be created. The first was Superman. Batman's origin story is that as a young child, Bruce Wayne saw a robber named Joe Chill murder his mother and father after the family left a theatre. Bruce decided that he did not want that kind of violence to happen to anyone else and wanted to avenge his parents' death. He then dedicated his life to protect his city, Gotham City. Wayne learned many different ways to fight as he grew up. As an adult, Wayne used a costume to scare criminals so that there would be less crime in Gotham City. He called himself Batman.

Batman's tools
Batman's tools 

Batman uses many different tools to help fight crime, these may vary based on the different iterations of batman. Notable examples include his car which he calls "the Batmobile", a motorcycle called the "Bat-Cycle", and has a special belt full of tools called a "utility belt" and most notably bat-shaped boomerangs called "Bat-A-Rangs." He also has radio signals in his bat ears and can shoot them out to his enemy. He also has tasers built in his suit, shocking his foes. In the movie "Batman & Robin" he has ice skates. He also has a kryptonite ring and a kryptonite launcher. He even has a power suit and a Bat-Saber(His version of a lightsaber).
Batman is often helped from other people in Gotham. Batman and his some of his various allies are often referred to as the Bat Family. Some of these people also put on costumes and become superheroes when they help him. Some of the notable people who help him are his sidekick, Robin (Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Damian Wayne, and briefly Stephanie Brown), his butler Alfred Pennyworth, police commissioner James Gordon, Wayne Enterprises CEO and president Lucius Fox, and Gordon's daughter Barbara Gordon. Barbara Gordon became a superhero named Batgirl (and later used the name Oracle). Commissioner Gordon uses a Bat-Signal which shines a light into the sky with a shadow in the shape of a bat on when he needs Batman's assistance. Batman is often, but not always, shown being friends with Superman. He is often shown as a friend of Wonder Woman. Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are often referred to as the "Trinity"
. Batman is a part of many superhero teams that fight against evil, most notably the Justice League or JL for short, and Justice League Dark or JLD.
Enemies 
Some of the villains that Batman fights, called his Rogues Gallery are the Joker, Penguin, Ra's al Ghul, Scarecrow, Talia al Ghul, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Bane, Riddler, Two-Face, and Clayface. Because of the way Batman deals with criminals, he may occasionally be seen as an enemy police. Once his tactics were stolen and used against some of the members of the Justice League.
Television 
In the 1960s, a live-action television series was made of Batman and it was called Batman. In Batman, Adam West was the actor who was Batman and Burt Ward was the actor who was Robin. There are also many of cartoons with Batman as a character. These include, but are not limited to Superfriends, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and Justice League. There are other cartoons and programs where Batman is a character but he is not the most important part of the story, such as "Birds of Prey". This was a live-action series that is about Batman's daughter, the Huntress. The newest show is Beware the Batman.

Movies
Movies 

 1940s movie serials by Lewis Wilson and Robert Lowery.
 1966 Batman, based on the TV series, and starring Adam West.
 1989-2023 Tim Burton's film series
 1989 Batman by Michael Keaton
 1992 Batman Returns by Michael Keaton
 2023 The Flash by Michael Keaton
 1995-1997Joel Schumacher's duology 
 1995 Batman Forever by Val Kilmer.
 1997 Batman & Robin by George Clooney.
 2023 The Flash by George Clooney.
 2005–2012 The Dark Knight Trilogy by Christian Bale
 2005 Batman Begins
 2008 The Dark Knight
 2012 The Dark Knight Rises
 2014–2019 The Lego Movies by Will Arnett
 2014 The Lego Movie
 2017 The Lego Batman Movie
 2019 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
 2016–2023 DC Extended Universe Movies by Ben Affleck
 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
 2016 Suicide Squad
 2017 Justice League
 2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League
 2023 The Flash 
 2022–present The Batman Movies by Robert Pattinson
 2022 The Batman
 2022 DC League of Super-Pets by Keanu Reeves

References
References

 
DC Comics adapted into movies
Fictional characters introduced in 1939
Fictional orphans
Justice League
DC Comics superheroes